{"title":"Technical translation for multiple-language support","authors":"A. L. Fox, D. Swain","doi":"10.1109/IPCC.1989.102122","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IPCC.1989.102122","url":null,"abstract":"Describes a technical translation process used to produce software products for an international market. The products' user interfaces were changed to support multiple languages. The products, Expert System Environment and Expert System Consultation Environment, allow users to create and consult knowledge bases or expert systems in Canadian French, French, German, Japanese (Kanji), Spanish, and Swedish, in addition to English. Expert System Environment automatically switches the national language for the user interface when a knowledge base in a different language is loaded, thus providing multiple-language support in one product.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":259373,"journal":{"name":"International Professional Communication Conference 'Communicating to the World.',","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1989-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116646886","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}
{"title":"Communicating technology to the public via educational TV","authors":"K. Cronin","doi":"10.1109/IPCC.1989.102131","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IPCC.1989.102131","url":null,"abstract":"Many writers who have concentrated on technical writing for publication may be asked to become involved with other communication technologies. Information is given to help prepare such writers for more knowledgeable involvement in television production, especially in the creation of TV programming for the general public using videotaped interviews with experts.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":259373,"journal":{"name":"International Professional Communication Conference 'Communicating to the World.',","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1989-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117187194","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}
{"title":"Planning a desktop publishing office: a purchasing guide for managers","authors":"Nancy E. Davis, Stephanie S. Babbitt","doi":"10.1109/IPCC.1989.102121","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IPCC.1989.102121","url":null,"abstract":"Managers need to consider personnel issues as well as cost/benefit factors when choosing (or not choosing) desktop publishing. This paper is based on research done in setting up a desktop publishing office and on the problems-and satisfactions-connected with equipment and software, as well as some of the staff concerns encountered. The authors try to help the readers decide if desktop publishing is the right technology for their needs and, if it is, to give them some basic guidelines for evaluating equipment choices. The reader should assess his or her needs, the staff's capabilities and interest, equipment constraints, time and money, as well as some intangible costs and benefits. Next the authors review hardware and software choices. They discuss MS-DOS and Macintosh computers, PostScript and non-PostScript printers, ways to connect computers to each other and to the printer(s), and scanners. They also suggest some features to look for when choosing software for page layout, word processing, graphics, and crash recovery.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":259373,"journal":{"name":"International Professional Communication Conference 'Communicating to the World.',","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1989-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114493561","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}
{"title":"Drafting, editing, and producing IR&D reports in a desktop publishing environment","authors":"A. Nauda","doi":"10.1109/IPCC.1989.102142","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IPCC.1989.102142","url":null,"abstract":"The author describes a process for timely development of reports of independent research and development (IR&D) projects. A review is given of Department of Defense reporting requirements. The advantages of holding a kickoff workshop for principal investigators are presented. Key considerations are discussed for drafting, editing, and producing IR&D reports using personal computers, resulting in more timely communication and professional-looking documents.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":259373,"journal":{"name":"International Professional Communication Conference 'Communicating to the World.',","volume":"67 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1989-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129535263","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}
{"title":"From big bang to hypermedia. Workshop on organizing information in the universe in general and online documents in particular","authors":"W. Horton","doi":"10.1109/IPCC.1989.102116","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IPCC.1989.102116","url":null,"abstract":"Provides a designer's guide to selecting and expressing organization. The roles or organization in nature, art, science and engineering are examined to identify common, effective structures such as grids, trees and webs. It is shown how these structures can be applied to make online documents more comprehensible and efficient. The author provides tables that list common organizational structures.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":259373,"journal":{"name":"International Professional Communication Conference 'Communicating to the World.',","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1989-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120960129","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}
{"title":"Working with users to design online documentation","authors":"J. Ramey","doi":"10.1109/IPCC.1989.102090","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IPCC.1989.102090","url":null,"abstract":"The author describes work conducted to define, through user input, an online documentation system for a computer operating system. She describes the methods used (1) to gather input from users regarding online documentation and (2) to evaluate the success of a prototype designed in response to the needs they articulated. She then reports on the successes and limitations of this approach to incorporating user input into a design process, and discusses the relationship between the analytical and the creative activities in user-centered design.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":259373,"journal":{"name":"International Professional Communication Conference 'Communicating to the World.',","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1989-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122240437","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}
{"title":"Speaking is hard work","authors":"R. Joenk","doi":"10.1109/IPCC.1989.102105","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IPCC.1989.102105","url":null,"abstract":"A collection of minilessons about ambiguity cliches, gobbledygook, idioms, jargon, and slang, showing the consequences of poor communication.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":259373,"journal":{"name":"International Professional Communication Conference 'Communicating to the World.',","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1989-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127910278","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}
{"title":"How technical writers write: a survey of strategies and attitudes","authors":"P. Green, T. Brooks","doi":"10.1109/IPCC.1989.102097","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IPCC.1989.102097","url":null,"abstract":"To investigate a number of questions connected with how technical writers write, the authors conducted a survey of professional technical writers. The questions asked include the following: Will the same strategies and attitudes that will produce, for example, a good term paper produce a good technical manual? Is advice to the academic writer applicable to the writer in the industrial forum? Results indicate that most of the respondents feel they use powerful strategies rather than weak.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":259373,"journal":{"name":"International Professional Communication Conference 'Communicating to the World.',","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1989-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131013848","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}
{"title":"Icons-communication tool or decorative art?","authors":"P. R. Seesing","doi":"10.1109/IPCC.1989.102120","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IPCC.1989.102120","url":null,"abstract":"The author argues that icons are currently overused and inappropriately used to such an extent that they have lost most of their value as a communication tool and exist now mainly as decorative trappings. He further contends that a return to using phrases in addition to or instead of icons would represent a step forward with respect to simplifying complicated user interfaces.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":259373,"journal":{"name":"International Professional Communication Conference 'Communicating to the World.',","volume":"335 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1989-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115879917","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}
{"title":"The existential pleasures of technical communication: personal reflections on a profession","authors":"R. Grice","doi":"10.1109/IPCC.1989.102093","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IPCC.1989.102093","url":null,"abstract":"The author examines technical communication and technical communicators in much the same way as S.C. Florman (1976) examined engineering and engineers. The conclusion reached is very much the same as the one Florman reached: that there can be great pleasure in working as a professional technical communicator and, despite flaws and criticism, the work of technical communicators has a positive impact on the way we live and work. To realize their true potential as professionals, technical communicators need to reflect on their work, their goals, and their sense of what it means to be a technical communicator in the last quarter (or the last tenth) of this century.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":259373,"journal":{"name":"International Professional Communication Conference 'Communicating to the World.',","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1989-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122156889","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}