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Core competency skills for technical communicators 技术沟通的核心能力技能
2008 IEEE International Professional Communication Conference Pub Date : 2008-07-13 DOI: 10.1109/IPCC.2008.4610199
D. Cunningham
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引用次数: 4
Usability of consumer-related information sources for design improvement 消费者相关信息源的可用性，用于设计改进
2008 IEEE International Professional Communication Conference Pub Date : 2008-07-13 DOI: 10.1109/IPCC.2008.4610244
G. Thiruvenkadam, A. Brombacher, Y. Lu, E. den Ouden
{"title":"Usability of consumer-related information sources for design improvement","authors":"G. Thiruvenkadam, A. Brombacher, Y. Lu, E. den Ouden","doi":"10.1109/IPCC.2008.4610244","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IPCC.2008.4610244","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we report the findings of a study intended to assess the usability of consumer related information sources in order to improve the design processes of innovative electronic products. Specifically, an evaluation is done of the quality and content of information that would help product development teams understand the interaction between the consumer, product and its environment as well as of the effect of this interaction upon consumer satisfaction with products.","PeriodicalId":131068,"journal":{"name":"2008 IEEE International Professional Communication Conference","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121651117","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 4
Communication problems in the modern Japanese workplace: An exploratory investigation of employee opinions 现代日本职场中的沟通问题:对员工意见的探索性调查
2008 IEEE International Professional Communication Conference Pub Date : 2008-07-13 DOI: 10.1109/IPCC.2008.4610246
K. Yamauchi, T. Orr
{"title":"Communication problems in the modern Japanese workplace: An exploratory investigation of employee opinions","authors":"K. Yamauchi, T. Orr","doi":"10.1109/IPCC.2008.4610246","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IPCC.2008.4610246","url":null,"abstract":"Communication problems in the modern Japanese workplace are growing increasingly serious and complex, threatening both health and prosperity. Public commentary on these problems by journalists and big-name CEOs frequently appears in the press, but systematic investigations of the problems and their causes occur far less frequently, thus making it difficult to discover how these problems might be solved. This paper addresses this shortage of research by disseminating the findings of one small exploratory investigation of communication problems in the modern Japanese workplace, based on online and face-to-face communication with 20 Japanese employees in 20 different workplace contexts, who experience modern communication problems firsthand. Findings from this investigation suggest where pre-employment training at Japanese universities might be improved as well as where further research might be effectively targeted.","PeriodicalId":131068,"journal":{"name":"2008 IEEE International Professional Communication Conference","volume":"59 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126276400","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 0
Examining the special english lessons class: An extra-curricular program to enhance english communication skills for undergraduate engineering students at the University of Tokyo 专为东京大学工科本科学生开设的提高英语沟通能力的课外课程
2008 IEEE International Professional Communication Conference Pub Date : 2008-07-13 DOI: 10.1109/IPCC.2008.4610224
K. Morimura, Y. Ono
{"title":"Examining the special english lessons class: An extra-curricular program to enhance english communication skills for undergraduate engineering students at the University of Tokyo","authors":"K. Morimura, Y. Ono","doi":"10.1109/IPCC.2008.4610224","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IPCC.2008.4610224","url":null,"abstract":"The Global Ware Project (GWP) of the Center for Innovation in Engineering Education (CIEE) in the University of Tokyopsilas School of Engineering provides a ldquoSpecial English Lessonrdquo program for engineering undergraduate students. The purpose of this program is to help those students improve their English language skills and enhance their international communication abilities. To conduct this program, GWP faculty invited instructors from other English language programs to conduct a series of special after-hours classes in English. Over time, the number of students participating in this program grew until enrollment reached over 380 in 2007. This highly successful program is an effective way of teaching English when a facility doesn't have enough teachers or funds to provide a solid education for large numbers of students. This program does not outsource lectures to English language schools; rather it is a collaborative program between those English schools and GWP, with the GWP supervising the classes.","PeriodicalId":131068,"journal":{"name":"2008 IEEE International Professional Communication Conference","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131224040","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 4
A DITA case study: Service learning, software documentation, and redesign DITA案例研究:服务学习、软件文档和重新设计
2008 IEEE International Professional Communication Conference Pub Date : 2008-07-13 DOI: 10.1109/IPCC.2008.4610201
D. A. Edgell
{"title":"A DITA case study: Service learning, software documentation, and redesign","authors":"D. A. Edgell","doi":"10.1109/IPCC.2008.4610201","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IPCC.2008.4610201","url":null,"abstract":"As a service-learning project in a graduate level technical communication class on technical manuals, Dr. Brian Still found an open-source software developer in Germany who needed documentation for his application. The class looked at various approaches to fulfilling the developerpsilas needs including wikis, Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA), XML, usability testing, and software mapping. This paper touches on the successes and challenges of the project and examines the potential for using DITA as a solution for reconstructing existing documentation.","PeriodicalId":131068,"journal":{"name":"2008 IEEE International Professional Communication Conference","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133829255","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 3
The information structure of engineering proposals: Suggesting a taxonomy of information components for competitive proposals and a potential metric for information content 工程提案的信息结构:建议竞争性提案的信息组件分类和信息内容的潜在度量
2008 IEEE International Professional Communication Conference Pub Date : 2008-07-13 DOI: 10.1109/IPCC.2008.4610240
H. Sales
{"title":"The information structure of engineering proposals: Suggesting a taxonomy of information components for competitive proposals and a potential metric for information content","authors":"H. Sales","doi":"10.1109/IPCC.2008.4610240","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IPCC.2008.4610240","url":null,"abstract":"The paper reports on the results of an ancillary study, arising out of a PhD research project about aerospace engineerspsila language in the workplace. The analysis shows that information in engineering proposals could be accounted for by a set of 39 discrete information types, called dasiaproposal componentspsila (PCs), belonging to four mutually-exclusive information categories. These are centred on the following foci: product (or solution); company, including engineering personnel; customer (and product) support; meta-discourse. This study suggests how data derived from analysing patterns of information structure may help engineers to evaluate past proposals, both successful and unsuccessful, with a view to improving future proposal documents.","PeriodicalId":131068,"journal":{"name":"2008 IEEE International Professional Communication Conference","volume":"33 4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130439650","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 3
Communication in oral presentation: A Malaysian experience 口头陈述中的沟通:马来西亚的经验
2008 IEEE International Professional Communication Conference Pub Date : 2008-07-13 DOI: 10.1109/IPCC.2008.4610248
Y. Mariana
{"title":"Communication in oral presentation: A Malaysian experience","authors":"Y. Mariana","doi":"10.1109/IPCC.2008.4610248","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IPCC.2008.4610248","url":null,"abstract":"This on-going study analyses Malaysian engineering studentspsila oral presentations in relation to communication competencies during their 20 to 25-week Industrial Training Program. Students from four engineering faculties of two universities in Malaysia participated in this study. They were located at various industries sites in four states. The study adopts a blended approach of engineering oral presentation genre and a competency model in analyzing the data. Six main components, three from each approach are dealt with, namely introduction, body, conclusion and knowledge, skill and motivation respectively. The videotaped presentations and recorded interviews were transcribed and used to depict the actual performance. Based on the competencies that arise from the analysis, this study unfolds studentspsila difficulties in communication and presentation skills. This set of skills is critical in determining a graduatepsilas success or failure.","PeriodicalId":131068,"journal":{"name":"2008 IEEE International Professional Communication Conference","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116550495","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 7
Internet-mediated research: Affordances, technology, lessons learned 互联网中介研究:能力、技术、经验教训
2008 IEEE International Professional Communication Conference Pub Date : 2008-07-13 DOI: 10.1109/IPCC.2008.4610208
Keith Hopper
{"title":"Internet-mediated research: Affordances, technology, lessons learned","authors":"Keith Hopper","doi":"10.1109/IPCC.2008.4610208","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IPCC.2008.4610208","url":null,"abstract":"Survey and qualitative research conducted online is an exciting new focus in technical communication. This paper reports technical aspects of and lessons learned from online mixed survey and qualitative studies of a large U.S. medical field. Potentially faster to design and deploy than traditional approaches, online research is constrained by the same underlying research principles and conventions. There are abundant commercial vendors of online research technology, and these offer a variety of important advantages compared to traditional, print-based approaches. The technical and logistical limitations of online research may offset the anticipated advantages. Online researchers should see to aesthetics and usability in survey instruments, and take steps to improve participant response rates. Online research facilitates collection of rich qualitative data, but the frequent need for anonymity makes probing of respondents problematic.","PeriodicalId":131068,"journal":{"name":"2008 IEEE International Professional Communication Conference","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114713785","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 0
Learning about users when you can’t go there: Remote attended usability studies 当你不能去那里的时候了解用户:远程参与的可用性研究
2008 IEEE International Professional Communication Conference Pub Date : 2008-07-13 DOI: 10.1109/IPCC.2008.4610237
S. Rosenbaum, L. Kantner
{"title":"Learning about users when you can’t go there: Remote attended usability studies","authors":"S. Rosenbaum, L. Kantner","doi":"10.1109/IPCC.2008.4610237","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IPCC.2008.4610237","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes a method for conducting usability test sessions remotely, when the user researcher is in a different location from the participants, and observers from the product team can watch from different geographic locations. This remote attended usability methodology (also called the remote synchronous method) is distinguished from automated user data collection, which is more suitable for quantitative research. Two case histories describe studies of nonprofit and commercial websites, with details about facilitating the user sessions that characterize the remote methodology. The paper concludes with a summary of the strengths and weaknesses of remote attended usability studies. Keywords: usability, user experience, user research, remote usability testing.","PeriodicalId":131068,"journal":{"name":"2008 IEEE International Professional Communication Conference","volume":"62 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124732378","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 3
A language for visuals: Design, purpose, usability 视觉语言:设计、目的、可用性
2008 IEEE International Professional Communication Conference Pub Date : 2008-07-13 DOI: 10.1109/IPCC.2008.4610192
N. Amare, A. Manning
{"title":"A language for visuals: Design, purpose, usability","authors":"N. Amare, A. Manning","doi":"10.1109/IPCC.2008.4610192","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IPCC.2008.4610192","url":null,"abstract":"Information economy, indeed any economy, requires some common medium of exchange. We therefore seek clarity and commonality in the vocabulary of visual language. Visual vocabularies have of course been proposed by others, but we can demonstrate that, so far, they possess an artificiality effectively preventing widespread adoption. Therefore, what we propose is a comprehensive language for visuals that is derived from terms and concepts already extant in the visual rhetoric literature, but with a novel, unifying organization which, we will demonstrate, is organically grammatical in the precise sense of the word. Our goal is not to silence other language scholars who interpret visuals in their own ways but rather to offer up a safe space where, theories and ideologies and egos aside, we can collectively name what we collectively experience in visual information, then as technical communicators read and create visuals with a fuller understanding of how visuals work in relation to and separate from textual interpretation.","PeriodicalId":131068,"journal":{"name":"2008 IEEE International Professional Communication Conference","volume":"57 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122969909","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 11
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