Emphasizing technical communication as the intersection of STEM and humanities

Abstract

As a multidisciplinary field, technical communication is an ideal profession and disciplinary hub within the university for those who wish to bridge engineering with humanities. More specifically, the areas of technical communication represented by SIGDOC are particularly well-suited to house the best work of those seeking better humanities and STEM interactions, especially those concerned with information and interface design; the design of human-computer interaction; data presentation and interaction; workflow analysis and tools; user experience; and participatory design. Indeed the space occupied by us in SIGDOC stands poised for growth. It is here in our concern for an increasingly more intensive pursuit toward better designs for communication that I argue we can bridge production and use; design and uptake; utility and critique.