Review the schedule in the official program [PDF] or on this page below. Times are Eastern Standard Time [United States].
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Thursday, October 6th
Workshops, Thursday, October 6th, 8:30-11:00
Design Coalitions: Mapping Participatory Design Work in PTC
Room: MARTHA’S VINEYARD A
URL to view captions: https://www.streamtext.net/player?event=MCDHH-8417-1
- Rachel Atherton and Alisha Karabinus
W2: Grant Writing: A Heuristic for Ethical Collaboration
Room: MARTHA’S VINEYARD B
URL to view captions: https://www.streamtext.net/player?event=MCDHH-8417-2
- Hadi Banat, Anuj Gupta, Michelle McMullin, Ola Swatek, Bradley Dilger and Shelton Weech
W3: The Pedagogy of User Experience: Designing UX Assignments within a Community of Practice
Room: CHATHAM
URL to view captions: https://www.streamtext.net/player?event=MCDHH-8417-3
- Emma Rose and Heather Noel Turner
Keynote Lunch, Thursday, October 6th, 11:15-12:50
Room: CAPE COD
Keynote Address by Miriam Williams – “The Gun Crisis: Where we are, how it happened, what next?” [PDF]
URL to view captions: https://www.streamtext.net/player?event=MCDHH-8417
Session A, Thursday, October 6th, 1:00-2:00
A1 Curriculum Development and Design
Room: MARTHA’S VINEYARD A
- Eva Brumberger, “Re-thinking the Role of the Visual in Professional Communication: The Case for a Liberal Arts Core”
- Joe Welinske, “Education and Training for UX Writing”
- Katie Walkup, Shahabedin Sagheb and Robert Smith, “Coalitional Curricular Design: Industry-Academic Co-creation of Technical Communication Modules”
A2 UX and Accessing Information about COVID-19 Vaccines
Room: MARTHA’S VINEYARD B
- Katlynne Davis, Danielle Mollie Stambler and Samantha Cosgrove, “Social Media and User Advocacy: Lessons Learned from COVID-19 Vaccine Hunters”
A3 Technical Communication within Gaming
Room: CHATHAM
- Kasen Christensen, “Cool and Useful: TTRPG Tables as Aesthetic Technical Communication”
- Megan McKittrick, ”Climate Change Games as Boundary Objects: Moving toward Dialogic Communication in Stakeholder Engagement”
- Cody Reimer, “Medium-Weight Euro Crunch: Technical Communication in the Hobbyist Board Game ‘Distilled’”
Poster Session, 1:30-5:00pm
Room: NANTUCKET
Session B, Thursday, October 6th, 2:10-3:10pm
B1 Pedagogy: Strategies for teaching online
Room: MARTHA’S VINEYARD A
- Kailey Collins, Margaret Hsiao, Wesley Mathis and Hannah Stevens, “Constructing the Online Classroom Amid a Pandemic: Advocating for Students Through User-Centered Design”
- Emily Johnson, “Miro, Miro: Student Perceptions of a Visual Discussion Board”
- Chris Lam, “Are You Assigning the Right “Kinds” of Group Projects?: Examining How Project Tasks Influence Project Outcomes”
B2 Community-Focused Research
Room: MARTHA’S VINEYARD B
- Tristin Hooker, Vanessa Lopez, Maclain Scott, Andrew Booth, Drake Gossi, Nigel O’Hearn and Clay Spinuzzi, “Origin Stories: How Stories of Founding in Small Texas Communities Reflect Current Relations”
- Beth Shirley, Allison Wynhoff Olsen and Will Fassbender, “Utilizing Technical Communication Research and Design Strategies for Community Building in an Online Master’s Program”
B3 Workplace and Career-Focused
Room: CHATHAM
- Patrick Thomas and Jacob Cress, “Developing Workplace-Ready Engineers: New Engineers’ Experiences Learning Workplace Communication Competencies”
- Ashley Hardin, “Maintaining Momentum in Your Technical Communication Career During a Leave of Absence”
- Suzan Flanagan, Guiseppe Getto and Sheryl Ruszkiewicz, “What Content Strategists Do and Earn: Findings from an Exploratory Survey of Content Strategy Professionals”
Session C, Thursday, October 6th, 3:20-4:20pm
C1 Pedagogy and UX
Room: MARTHA’S VINEYARD A
- Emma Rose, Craig MacDonald and Cynthia Putnam “Teaching Design Systems: A Scalable Model for the UX Classroom”
- Manushri Pandya and Stacey Pigg, “Learners as Users: Understanding Learner Experiences with Privacy Policy Pages”
C2 Addressing Equity and Justice in Infrastructural Rhetoric
Room: MARTHA’S VINEYARD B
- Jonathan Adams, Raymond Rosas, Gabriel Aguilar and Ashley Rea, “Infrastructures of Inequity: Discussions of Equity and Justice through the Lens of Infrastructural Rhetoric”
C3 Ethics and Accessibility
Room: CHATHAM
- Rachel Bryson and Sam Clem, “Cultivating Ethics in the Peer Review Process”
- Michael Madson, “(Re)assessing the Design of Dispensary Age Gates: What I Learned by Mystery Shopping for Marijuana Online”
- Brian Le Lay and Dan Card, “Toward an Access-Oriented Field: Reciprocity as a Guiding Principle for Capacity-Building in Technical Communication”
Session D, Thursday, October 6th, 4:30-5:30
D1 Conducting Research
Room: MARTHA’S VINEYARD A
- Mckinley Green, Nupoor Ranade and Yeqing Kong, “Revising Research Methodologies: Challenges of Handling Precarious Data”
- Aimee Roundtree, “Visualizing Confidence Intervals: An Integrative Review”
- Joseph Forte, “Drastic Times: Reassessing Numeracy’s Role in the Study of Writing”
- Rina Kagawa, Masaki Matsubara, Rei Miyata, Takuya Matsuzaki, Yukino Baba and Yoko Yamakata, “A User-Centered Method to Develop Document Structures for Lay Readers’ Decision-Making”
D2 Communicating with Digital Interfaces
Room: MARTHA’S VINEYARD B
- Chen Chen and Xiaobo Wang, “Reporting Violations on Weibo and Twitter: A Comparative Critical Interface Analysis”
- Laura Roberts and Mai Nou Xiong-Gum, “Visualizing Civic Media: Mapping Contributions to the “2022 Russian Invasion of Ukraine” Wikipedia Page”
- Daniel Liddle, YoonJi Kim, Elena Kalodner-Martin, Victoria Braegger, Allison Durazzi and Jacob Richter, “Channeling Experience: Reflections on Developing a Technical Communication Youtube Channel”
- Megan Bronson, “Assessing the California Fire Hazard Severity Zones Map: A Critical Look at the Efficacy of CAL FIRE Prevention Mapping Systems”
D3 Data Viz
Room: CHATHAM
- Stephen Carradini and Barbara Carradini, “A Data Visualization Tool for Reassessing Interdisciplinary Citation for Design of Communication”
- Xing Huang, “Data Visualization Design Strategies for Promoting Exercise Motivation in Self-Tracking Applications”
- Priyanka Ganguly, “Cultural-Contextual Usable Actionable Dashboards (CCUAD): Transnational Actionable Maternal Health Data Visualizations”
- Adam Strantz, “Data as “Brickolage”: Teaching Data Visualization Design with LEGO”
Ignite Talks, Thursday, October 6th 7:00-9:00pm
Off-site Location: MIT Stats Building, Room 32-141
Travel time ~10 minutes by MBTA Red Line.
Friday, October 7th
Session E, Friday, October 7th, 9:00-10:00
E1 Social Justice and The Graduate School Experience
Room: MARTHA’S VINEYARD A
- Kathryn Swacha, “Social Justice and the TPC Internship: The Internship Fellowship Program”
- Jamal-Jared Alexander, Hannah Stevens and Rebecca Walton, “Diversifying Knowledge: Presenting and Applying a Framework for Inclusive Graduate Program Websites”
- Sam Clem and Beth Buyserie, “Participatory Communication: Collaborative Approaches to Well-being in Graduate Instructor Development Programs”
Session F, Friday, October 7th, 10:15-11:15
F1 Risk and Crisis Communication
Room: MARTHA’S VINEYARD A
- Sweta Baniya and Liza Potts, “Experts, Knowledge Making, and Disaster Across Digital Platforms”
- Sonia Stephens and Amanda Altamirano, “Supporting Community Resilience to Environmental Hazards through User-Centered Design”
- Joseph Williams, “Readying for Risk: Exploring Safety Initiative Effectiveness”
- Ehren Pflugfelder, “Technical Communication and Geoengineering Standards; the Case of ISO 14082”
F2 Storytelling
Room: MARTHA’S VINEYARD B
- Tatyana Claytor, “The Meeting Has Been Ended by the Host: How the Film Host Uses Zoom as a Story Telling Medium that Challenges Concepts of Presence, Identity, and Connection”
- Eric York, Lisa Propst, Rebecca Pelky, Jennifer L. Ball, Alex Lee and Phillip White-Cree, “Stories from the Circle: Extended Reality (XR), Posthumanism, and Decolonizing the Design of Communication”
- John Timothy Sherrill, “Mapping Storytelling on Etsy.com as Hyper-differentiation Strategy”
Keynote Lunch, Friday, October 7, 11:15am-1:15pm
Room: CAPE COD
URL to view captions: https://www.streamtext.net/player?event=MCDHH-8417
SRC Final Round, 1:30pm-2:30pm
Room: CAPE COD
Session G, Friday, October 7th, 1:30-2:30
G1 Workplace Genres
Room: MARTHA’S VINEYARD A
- Luke Thominet and Susan Eggly, “Spoken Plain Language Strategies in Patient-Physician Discussions of Cancer Clinical Trials”
- Mason Pellegrini, “Reevaluating the Centrality of the Business Pitch: The Genre Ecology of Microenterprise Entrepreneurship”
- Matthew Homer, “Towards Boundary Genres in Technical Communication”
G2 Social Justice and Empowerment
Room: MARTHA’S VINEYARD B
- Liz Lane, “Studying Design Processes of Practitioners’ Iterative Design and Social Justice Pursuits”
- Derek Ross and Kayleigh Pears, “Zines as Empowerment”
- Leah Corinne Jones, “Conceptual Models of Twitter Connectors: A Case Study of #Striketober”
G3 Society, Community, Social
Room: CHATHAM
- Josephine Walwema, “Revisiting the Social Contract in the Age of a Global Pandemic”
- Michael T. MacDonald, “Communicating Global Governmentality: Human Rights Discourse and the United Nations Global Compact”
- Andreas Karatsolis and Alexia Charoupa, “Lessons from a Pandemic: Moving Audiences into Action Through the Kinetic Power of Invented Ethos”
Session H, Friday, October 7th, 2:40-3:40
H1 Transdisciplinary and UX: Building Community Partnerships and Coalitions
Room: MARTHA’S VINEYARD A
- Nupoor Ranade, Isidore Dorpenyo and YoonJi Kim, “Cross-disciplinary Actions and Stakeholder Collaborations in Classroom Learning”
H2 UX Design
Room: MARTHA’S VINEYARD B
- Andrew Mara, “Mapping Agency Differences Between UX Scenarios, Use Cases, and Task Analyses in Conservation Interface Research”
- Gustav Verhulsdonck, “Exploring AI-Driven UX Practices: Process and Task Mining Analytics for TPC and UX”
- Emma Rose and Heather Turner, “The Durability of Usability in the UX Classroom”
H3 Health Communication Research
Room: CHATHAM
- Charlie Rioux, Scott Weedon, Anna L. MacKinnon, Dana Watts, Marlee R. Salisbury, Lara Penner-Goeke, Kaeley M. Simpson, Jen Harrington, Lianne M. Tomfohr-Madsen and Leslie E. Roos, “Translating the Knowledge Gap Between Researchers and Communication Designers for Improved mHealth Research”
- Jessica Campbell, “Designing Socially Responsible Health Communications for Alaska Native People Using Mixed-methods”
- Danyela Fonseca, “Re-Assessing Empathy: Designing an Open-Source Assessment of Pre-Health Professional Student Empathy”
Session I, Friday, October 7th, 3:50-4:50
I1 Health Communication Practices
Room: MARTHA’S VINEYARD A
- Morgan Banville and Elena Kalodner-Martin, “Quantifiable Bodies: The Influence of Biometric Technologies in Patient Consent”
- Lisa DeTora, “To LEAN or Not to LEAN: Notes from the World of Biomedical Documentation”
- Timothy J. Elliott, “A Medical Architecture Photo Shoot: Using Images and Words to Showcase Design and Use”
- Asmita Ghimire, “The Woman’s Reasoning and Subjectivity: Examining Wearable Reasoners from a Critical Feminist Perspective”
I2 AI, Robots, Machines Helping Us Do Stuff
Room: MARTHA’S VINEYARD B
- Claire Lauer and Christopher Sanchez, “Using Eyetracking to Understand How People Process Deceptive Tactics and Titles in Everyday Charts and Graphs”
- James Philips and Nasseh Tabrizi, “Bibliographic Reference Classification in Historiographic Documents using Supervised Machine Learning and Grammatical Features”
- Jordan Frith and Kailan Sindelar, “From Microverses to the Supposed Metaverse: Design Insights and Visions of a VR Future”
I3 UX Content Strategies
Room: CHATHAM
- Abigail Bakke, Mary Kramer and Michelle Nguyen, “An Online Tool for Quitting Vaping: UX Insights from College Students”
- Quan Zhou, “More than Just a Bill: How to Nudge Users in Utility Bills”
- Sarah Barnes, “Tactics Marketers Can Use to Communicate and Collaborate More Effectively and Efficiently with Subject Matter Experts”
Friday Evening Social Event, 7:00-8:00pm
Meeting Outside Hotel for Washington Street Trot
Saturday, October 8
Business Meeting and Breakfast, SIGDOC Board, 9:00-11:00