Proceedings of the 33rd Annual International Conference on the Design of Communication最新文献

{"title":"Interactive data visualization for risk assessment: can there be too much user agency?","authors":"S. Stephens","doi":"10.1145/2775441.2775446","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2775441.2775446","url":null,"abstract":"Audiences using interactive data visualizations can experience varying levels of agency as they employ these tools to select scenarios and explore data. While a high level of user agency is often framed in positive terms, this poster presentation argues that too much user agency may be detrimental in certain situations. It focuses on interactive visualizations that display risks associated with sea-level rise (SLR). In these tools, designer constraints on the range of SLR and strong authorial messaging can reduce user agency, but may better inform understanding and decision-making by users.","PeriodicalId":340459,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 33rd Annual International Conference on the Design of Communication","volume":"51 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127531944","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":"Digital badges for deliberate practice: designing effective badging systems for interactive communication scenarios","authors":"Joseph R. Fanfarelli, R. McDaniel","doi":"10.1145/2775441.2775454","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2775441.2775454","url":null,"abstract":"This paper investigates the role of digital badging in technical and professional communication for supporting deliberate practice, or practice that is done with intent to improve a skill or ability. The focus is on deliberate practice as it relates to information design and writing within interactive environments. Deliberate practice is deconstructed into its required components with connections established between these components, badges, and best practices in the literature. Relevant theories are discussed and examples are used to demonstrate strategies for implementing badging systems for deliberate practice within technical and professional environments. The takeaway from this paper is that digital badging systems present opportunities to foster deliberate practice. This practice can then improve a variety of skills and abilities within complex environments, both for improving design and better training end users. Our paper synthesizes findings from the literature to suggest a number of best practices for designing opportunities for useful deliberate practice using digital badges.","PeriodicalId":340459,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 33rd Annual International Conference on the Design of Communication","volume":"325 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116438989","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":"Participating in project management experiences in the workplace","authors":"Benjamin Lauren","doi":"10.1145/2775441.2775473","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2775441.2775473","url":null,"abstract":"This experience report demonstrates how a multinational software company attempted to train employees with a new project management software platform through the use of play. The report begins by briefly reviewing recent research on the role of play in workplace training. Second, the report explains how the company used play to train employees in a new project management platform. Third, the report describes a stalemate between some employees and management about using the new software and details how the confusion disrupted in the team's workflow. Last, the report reflects on ways a participatory dialogue can be used to make play a viable form of workplace training.","PeriodicalId":340459,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 33rd Annual International Conference on the Design of Communication","volume":"40 23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128477760","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 impact of the interface: responding to student writing in CMS's","authors":"M. Post","doi":"10.1145/2775441.2775497","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2775441.2775497","url":null,"abstract":"This paper discusses the use of course management systems to grade student writing.","PeriodicalId":340459,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 33rd Annual International Conference on the Design of Communication","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125563977","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 do entrepreneurs hone their pitches?: analyzing how pitch presentations develop in a technology commercialization competition","authors":"C. Spinuzzi, Gregory P. Pogue, Scott Nelson, K. S. Thomson, Francesca Lorenzini, Rosemary A. French, Sidney D. Burback, Joel Momberger","doi":"10.1145/2775441.2775455","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2775441.2775455","url":null,"abstract":"Technology innovators must pitch their technology and its business value to potential buyers, partners, and distributors: to make claims that will create interest in the appropriate audiences and offer evidence that those audiences recognize as credible and applicable. Such pitches typically involve a spoken presentation and a slide deck, both of which must persuade stakeholders. The pitch represents a rhetorically complex argument backed by many interconnected genres. We examine how innovators in an entrepreneurship development program, structured as a competition, developed pitches in response to feedback. We examine pitch changes in terms of overall structure, individual claims and evidence, and engagement tactics. Our findings suggest that presenters found this task of adjusting their pitches to be difficult, partly because the training program's current feedback does not separate out these different aspects. We recommend developing a heuristic to better structure arguments.","PeriodicalId":340459,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 33rd Annual International Conference on the Design of Communication","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122211984","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":"Thinking tools for moving across boundaries","authors":"S. Perrault, Susan Verba, Sumayyah Ahmed, Prerna Dudani, Yohei Kato","doi":"10.1145/2775441.2775485","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2775441.2775485","url":null,"abstract":"An interdisciplinary team (from Design, Community Development, Computer Science, and Rhetoric & Writing) created an interactive, updateable timeline showing the Evolution of Participatory Practices (EPP) in five disciplines over 50 years; the team members also documented and reflected on their own participatory practices. This Experience Report describes how the EPP timeline was created and what the team learned about interdisciplinary work in the process. It offers insights that may help other interdisciplinary groups overcome communication differences ranging from the simple (different vocabularies), to the complex (different definitions of shared terms), to the nearly invisible (the powerful, tacit epistemological assumptions underlying each discipline) by conceptualizing the work process in terms of an interdisciplinary rationality island and seeing the timeline as a boundary object. It also describes how making the process itself an object of study ensured that the reflective work necessary to effective teamwork got done.","PeriodicalId":340459,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 33rd Annual International Conference on the Design of Communication","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130138472","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 obese body as interface: fat studies, medical data, and infographics","authors":"M. Moeller","doi":"10.1145/2775441.2775469","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2775441.2775469","url":null,"abstract":"In a recent issue of CDQ, Aparicio and Costa (2014) present a discussion of the long history of data visualization, articulating that data visualization is, again, gaining in popularity and attention. Included in this discussion of data visualization is a subset of data visualization--infographics. Such inclusion is apt, considering that Blythe, Lauer, and Curran (2014) found that infographics are one of the top 10 genres in which alumni of technical communication programs reported that they generate on the job site and within their own lives. With regard to the importance of and renewed interest in data visualization (and by extension infographics), in this article I call attention to a specific use of the infographic---as a form of data visualization from health-related organizations of medical and statistical data regarding obesity. Through analysis of obesity infographics, I argue that infographics about medical data can (and do) feminize the \"obese\" body and claims the female body as an efficient instrument of normalization and cultural management. To do so, I rhetorically analyze obesity infographics to illustrate that the infographic genre's goals---to simplify, clarify, and deliver complex information in a visually compelling manner---can exercise problematic commitments to expediency and illustrate problematic notions of exigence [Katz, 1992; Ward, 2010; Dragga & Voss 2001]. Such commitments, encourage misreadings of medical data and, by extension, the infographics that convey data regarding body categorizations and notions of health. By obfuscating how infographics potentially drive simplification of terms that reify the narrow frames with which we understand \"obesity\" and \"obese\" bodies, I argue that such visual representations of data can also serve a metonymic function for ever-narrowing cultural conceptualizations of obesity-as-detriment and obesity-as-bodily-fault. Further, I argue that such problematic use infographics can reduce the complexities of the body and definitions of the body, especially of the \"obese\" body and definitions of \"obesity,\" with the effect of potentially pathologizing, managing and normalizing information and bodies under the guise of promoting \"health\" and \"healthy living.\" Interfacing with medical data in this way, in other words, can be both understandable and yet highly problematic; this article illustrates how and why.","PeriodicalId":340459,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 33rd Annual International Conference on the Design of Communication","volume":"153 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124271147","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":"Portable pedagogy: how interaction design made us better teachers","authors":"Laura Gonzales, Rebecca Zantjer, Howard Fooksman","doi":"10.1145/2775441.2775490","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2775441.2775490","url":null,"abstract":"This presentation discusses findings from research conducted with students, faculty, and other university stakeholders around the user experience of assignment writing sheets. We demonstrate how the pedagogical and theoretical takeaways from this research have been translated into personas, conceptual models, and interactive mockups for PromptMe--- a web application that prompts data-driven conversations between instructors and students regarding expectations in assignment sheets. At SIGDOC, we will share our designs, discuss how we see pedagogy reflected in Prompt Me, and highlight the value of designing technologies as a learning strategy. This conversation will spark ideas for enacting democratic teaching through interaction design.","PeriodicalId":340459,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 33rd Annual International Conference on the Design of Communication","volume":"103 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124821997","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":"Addressing sociotechnical gaps in the design and deployment of digital resources in rural Kenya","authors":"J. Abdelnour-Nocera, S. Camara","doi":"10.1145/2775441.2775459","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2775441.2775459","url":null,"abstract":"We argue that designing any aspect of information technology requires an understanding of sociotechnical gaps. These gaps are inherent issues deriving from the difference between what is required socially, or culturally, and what can be done technically. In the context of a British-Kenyan project, we introduce an approach for addressing sociotechnical gaps in the design and deployment of digital resources in resource-constrained and culturally different environments. We illustrate how despite having an online, asynchronous tool to visualise sociotechnical gaps among different stakeholders in a design team, we had to complement it with a pen and paper design metaphor elucidation exercise to elicit and visualise locally meaningful user interface elements.","PeriodicalId":340459,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 33rd Annual International Conference on the Design of Communication","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122503843","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":"Dispelling myths, motivating action: rhetorical complexities and information challenges in the heart healthy advocacy website, go red for women","authors":"A. Larkin","doi":"10.1145/2775441.2775467","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2775441.2775467","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, the design challenges inherent in achieving Kenneth Burke's consubstantiality---shared identification between people and/or organizations achieved through the practice of rhetoric---is explored in the branded heart health awareness and advocacy website of the Go Red for Women Movement. Nelson et al identify a two-stage process for health communication: an awareness stage which pushes messages for an audience to contemplate often via television and social media, and a pull phase where the audience pulls health information from mediated sources such as a website. A consubstantial site has effective navigation, design and content. The American Medical Association's guidelines for health information (HI) sites urges the inclusion of a robust search engine, FAQs, a site map and accessibility statement and text accessible to a wide audience (i.e. sixth grade reading level) which when adopted further consubstantiality. From a semiotics perspective, the modality and salience of photographs that accompany text on an HI site are also vital to enhance inclusivity and consubstantiality, as is promotional graphics such as the logo. Information designers need to resist branding demands which often sacrifice above-the-fold space to photographs without high information value. In this instance, without culturally relevant photographs and images, the HI site remains stuck in a push phase with HI seekers being contemplators of rather than actors in their own heart health. By practicing consubstantiality, information designers can help HI seekers become engaged actors.","PeriodicalId":340459,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 33rd Annual International Conference on the Design of Communication","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125094217","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}