{"title":"Q&A: Published Advice vs. Real-World Difficulties","authors":"L. Anthony, A. Yamazaki, D. Turk, T. Orr","doi":"10.1109/IPCC.2006.320371","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IPCC.2006.320371","url":null,"abstract":"In order to assess how real-world problems in the Q&A segments of international conference presentations are being addressed in English and Japanese self-help guides, the advice given in fifteen English and seven Japanese books were compared with actual difficulties identified in nine transcribed conference presentations. Results show that the English self-help guides virtually ignore the language difficulties encountered by non-native speakers. The Japanese self-help guides, on the other hand, almost completely ignore strategies for a successful Q&A session, instead focusing on set phrases and sentences that appear to have limited value in real-world settings. Recommendations for more appropriate instructions are then provided","PeriodicalId":278035,"journal":{"name":"2006 IEEE International Professional Communication Conference","volume":"78 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130864804","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":"Considering the Adequacies and Inadequacies of Safety Icons","authors":"R. Burnett","doi":"10.1109/IPCC.2006.320359","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IPCC.2006.320359","url":null,"abstract":"Safety icons need to be more recognizable. Even though safety icons are becoming more consistent due to harmonization, they are not always recognized, which contributes to customer and worker dissatisfaction; customer and worker fatality, illness, and injury; material and equipment damage; and/or loss of corporate reputation. A pilot study in which readers/users identified decontextualized safety icons enabled an analysis that spotlights adequacies and inadequacies. The results may influence icon design in ways that improve audience compliance with warnings about safety","PeriodicalId":278035,"journal":{"name":"2006 IEEE International Professional Communication Conference","volume":"103 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115162996","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":"Introduction to Metadata","authors":"N. Perlin","doi":"10.1109/IPCC.2006.320378","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IPCC.2006.320378","url":null,"abstract":"\"Metadata\" has existed for years but is still not clearly understood and often unused. But given technical communication's direction, metadata's importance is growing. Metadata is easy to define. (The complexity lies in the details and implementation.) The simplest type of metadata is the once common pull-out card drawers in libraries. Need a call number for the novel Ringworld? Pull out the R title card drawer, find \"Ringworld\", and note its number. Can't remember the book's name but you know Larry Niven wrote it... pull out the N author card drawer, find ''Niven, Larry\", and note the number. The cards, now replaced by online versions, contain information - book name, author name, etc. - that help us find information - in this case, a book. That's the gist of metadata - information that helps us find, process, or manage other information. This paper summarizes metadata. The conference presentation will go into more detail","PeriodicalId":278035,"journal":{"name":"2006 IEEE International Professional Communication Conference","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126057959","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":"Learning Styles Data and Designing Multimedia for Engineers","authors":"Patricia Kirkham, D. Farkas, M. Lidstrom","doi":"10.1109/IPCC.2006.320390","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IPCC.2006.320390","url":null,"abstract":"During the development of the multimedia learning environment Biology for Engineers, learning styles data from the Myers-Briggs type indicator (MBTI) and the Felder/Soloman index of learning styles (ILS) was obtained from over 150 engineering students at the University of Washington and compared with a pool of existing data from six earlier studies. Although there are discrepancies, the UW data broadly corresponds with the data from the combined pool. L-styles data, despite significant limitations, can contribute to the multimedia design process when viewed as a kind of customer survey of user preferences and a heuristic for considering various design alternatives. Future designers can either utilize the data presented in this study or test their own users","PeriodicalId":278035,"journal":{"name":"2006 IEEE International Professional Communication Conference","volume":"16 1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124293687","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":"Illustrations for Procedural Instructions for Non-Rectilinear Objects","authors":"R. Krull, J. Evans","doi":"10.1109/IPCC.2006.320358","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IPCC.2006.320358","url":null,"abstract":"Illustrations of non-rectilinear objects produce challenges to users. Two studies of test-subjects' tying knots in ropes revealed difficulties in users' discerning the orientation and relative position of illustrated objects, and the required direction of actions","PeriodicalId":278035,"journal":{"name":"2006 IEEE International Professional Communication Conference","volume":"53 3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131670739","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}
A. L. Bartell, S. Lappenbusch, R. Kemp, M. Haselkorn
{"title":"Improving Humanitarian Relief Information and Communication Systems through Research","authors":"A. L. Bartell, S. Lappenbusch, R. Kemp, M. Haselkorn","doi":"10.1109/IPCC.2006.320379","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IPCC.2006.320379","url":null,"abstract":"This paper introduces and discusses issues related to research, development and application of information and communication systems (ICS) to the effectiveness of humanitarian relief efforts. The conference panel not only addresses these issues, but also presents results from an NSF-sponsored, multidisciplinary workshop held in Nairobi, Kenya in June 2006 on this topic","PeriodicalId":278035,"journal":{"name":"2006 IEEE International Professional Communication Conference","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115870312","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}
C. Geisler, M. Novak, A. Bennett, C. Voorhees, P. Search, P. Booth, J.P. Zappen, B. Kenkel, K. Isbister, J. Watt, S. Chess, N. Shaffer, B. Young, R. Grice, B. Krull, M. Sharp, M. McCoy
{"title":"Usable Content in a Post-Document World","authors":"C. Geisler, M. Novak, A. Bennett, C. Voorhees, P. Search, P. Booth, J.P. Zappen, B. Kenkel, K. Isbister, J. Watt, S. Chess, N. Shaffer, B. Young, R. Grice, B. Krull, M. Sharp, M. McCoy","doi":"10.1109/IPCC.2006.320370","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IPCC.2006.320370","url":null,"abstract":"The Usable Content Project aims to develop a set of useful paradigms for the analysis, design, and testing of usable content in a post-document world. In planning work supported by the STC, we have brought together a multidisciplinary team of Rensselaer faculty and students to explore a variety of post-document exemplars and develop an over-arching framework for what makes them usable. Our suggestion is that post-documents move users from control through identity and toward community, using a process clearly different from traditional documents. As a consequence, traditional metrics of usability - efficiency, accuracy, and satisfaction - are no longer adequate for post-documents","PeriodicalId":278035,"journal":{"name":"2006 IEEE International Professional Communication Conference","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116858387","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":"Electronic Portfolios: Making Their Presence Known","authors":"S. Codone","doi":"10.1109/IPCC.2006.320375","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IPCC.2006.320375","url":null,"abstract":"An electronic portfolio is a gathering of materials by students that are suitable for online delivery and typically delivered through a Web site. In a higher education environment, these materials can include course assignments, personal expressions of creativity, resumes, and other documents that may shed light on the skills of the designer. The creation of electronic portfolios by students allows them to express their learning in a very different way than in the classroom environment. Students must creatively design an online environment customized to their personal styles and interests. Doing this requires a level of communication and expression that is often deeper and more complex than what typically occurs in a classroom","PeriodicalId":278035,"journal":{"name":"2006 IEEE International Professional Communication Conference","volume":"77 3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126037844","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":"Back to the Future: A Usability Model of Hypertext Based on the Semiotics of C.S. Peirce","authors":"N. Amare, A. Manning","doi":"10.1109/IPCC.2006.320388","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IPCC.2006.320388","url":null,"abstract":"Though C.S. Peirce's triads of sign-object-interpretant and icon-index-symbol are often cited in passing, few are aware that Peirce (circa 1900) expanded these triads to describe ten categories of sign (three kinds of icon, four kinds of index, and three kinds of symbol). We show how Peirce's ten sign types correspond to ten distinct types of visuals common in 21st-century discourse, i.e. hypertext, and how a Peircean understanding of each visual type leads to principles of effective visual design, on the Web or in other forms of hypertext","PeriodicalId":278035,"journal":{"name":"2006 IEEE International Professional Communication Conference","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131379172","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":"Windows User Interfaces and Web User Interfaces: Convergence and Confusion in Online Experiences","authors":"L. Potts","doi":"10.1109/IPCC.2006.320352","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IPCC.2006.320352","url":null,"abstract":"This paper discusses a case study underlining the differences between Windows and Web interfaces currently being implemented online. Findings are reported from a recent examination of DotNetNuke, a Web portal system based on Microsoft technologies","PeriodicalId":278035,"journal":{"name":"2006 IEEE International Professional Communication Conference","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114605530","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}