Notes from the Field: Some thoughts on audience and context in software development and user assistance By Rob Pierce Many aspects of technical writing, usability, and design continue to rapidly evolve for software development companies. While there will always be theories
Upcoming Conferences
SIGDOC 2011 ACM SIGDOC, with its emphasis on communication and information, and its strong links to information science, design studies, and cognitive and computer science, aims to continue expanding its creative interactions and energies in Europe. Conference Details: http://www.sigdoc.org/2011/ SIGDOC
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Notes from the SIGDOC Chair Brad Mehlenbacher Dear SIGDOC Members, The Program and Schedule for the ACM SIGDOC 2011 conference being held in Pisa, Italy, this upcoming October 3rd to 5th, 2011, is ready and online (http://www.sigdoc.org/2011/). Our conference program
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New resources page for SIGDOC conference chairs There’s a new link on the SIGDOC conferences page (http://www.sigdoc.org/conference/) to a new page that provides information and links to resources for conference chairs:http://www.sigdoc.org/conference/resources.html Please check it out and provide feedback. We hope
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Designing communication for a system of systems By Rob Pierce | IBM Corporation The system of systems provides a challenging and interesting area in the design, development, and delivery of technical communication. Systems can be extremely complex, and contain many
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SIGDOC 2012 30th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication October 4-7, 2012 Seattle, Washington Conference Details: http://www.sigdoc.org/2012/ SIGDOC 2013 31st ACM International Conference on Design of Communication Date to be announced Kyoto, Japan SIGDOC European chapter A new chapter event
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Notes from the SIGDOC Chair Brad Mehlenbacher Dear SIGDOC Members, Dear ACM SIGDOC Members, Happy holidays all! I wanted to take a moment to update you all on our recent conference in Pisa, Italy, to briefly recap our last four
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Welcome to the new SIGDOC site! SIGDOC is the Association for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group (SIG) on the Design of Communication (DOC). Until 2003, SIGDOC focused on documentation for hardware and software. With the shift in focus from systems