{"title":"International Negotiation from Japanese Perspectives","authors":"K. Yamauchi, T. Orr","doi":"10.1109/IPCC.2007.4464042","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IPCC.2007.4464042","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a brief survey of current perspectives in Japan on international negotiation held by Japanese professionals who publish books and offer professional training materials on the topic. It then briefly critiques these views and identifies problematic instruction that may actually hinder successful international negotiation rather than facilitate it.","PeriodicalId":348807,"journal":{"name":"2007 IEEE International Professional Communication Conference","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127662578","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":"International Negotiation in the Field of Information Technology: A Survey of Critical Concerns","authors":"T. Orr, Y. Ono, K. Morimura","doi":"10.1109/IPCC.2007.4464090","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IPCC.2007.4464090","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents findings from a brief survey of paper and electronic publications relative to international negotiation in the field of information technology (IT). The aim of the project was to identify critical concerns that ought to be addressed in specialized training for university students planning to enter the field of IT, which can enable them to participate effectively in decision making at all levels of IT employment with colleagues and clients of all nationalities and backgrounds.","PeriodicalId":348807,"journal":{"name":"2007 IEEE International Professional Communication Conference","volume":"78 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134316135","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":"Beyond Usability: Habitability","authors":"P. Bernick, P. LaRoche","doi":"10.1109/IPCC.2007.4464095","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IPCC.2007.4464095","url":null,"abstract":"Usability is a term that, for many, describes an ideal for tool development. For all their good intentions, however, developers and usability experts still produce solutions that fail to generate the results they and others expect. Usability as a concept has come to mean something other than what early adopters of that term may have intended. This paper describes inherent weaknesses in current usability models and introduces the notion of habitability as a way to help us understand, describe and solve problems.","PeriodicalId":348807,"journal":{"name":"2007 IEEE International Professional Communication Conference","volume":"124 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115090672","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 Spaces, Different Roles, Different Faces: The Importance of Gestures for Task-Oriented Communication & Performance in Virtual Environments","authors":"Gustav Verhulsdonck","doi":"10.1109/IPCC.2007.4464101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IPCC.2007.4464101","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":348807,"journal":{"name":"2007 IEEE International Professional Communication Conference","volume":"89 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117317358","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":"Paragraphs or Lists? The Effects of Text Structure on Web Sites","authors":"J. Karreman, N. Loorbach","doi":"10.1109/IPCC.2007.4464091","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IPCC.2007.4464091","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes a study that we conducted to investigate the effects of the visual text structure on Web sites on the users' browsing behavior and on their appreciation for the Web site. It has been known for a long time that the visual structure of a text has considerable effects on reading behavior, but surprisingly little research has been done to define guidelines for the structure of texts on Web sites. We compared two versions of a Web site, one version contained text structured using paragraphs, the other version contained mainly text structured as numbered lists. Over 300 participants browsed one version of the site, and answered a survey about the content of the Web site and about their appreciation for the site. The results show that participants who used a Web site with text structured as lists performed better than participants who used a Web site with text structured using paragraphs: they visited more Web pages and they appreciated the site better.","PeriodicalId":348807,"journal":{"name":"2007 IEEE International Professional Communication Conference","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127174639","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":"Testing the usability of a personalized system: comparing the use of interviews, questionnaires and thinking-aloud","authors":"L. van Velsen, T. van der Geest, R. Klaassen","doi":"10.1109/IPCC.2007.4464043","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IPCC.2007.4464043","url":null,"abstract":"Personalized systems present each user with tailored content or output. Testing the usability of such a system must take some specific usability issues and the suitability of the personalized output into account. In this study, we evaluated a personalized search engine to compare the use of interviews, questionnaires and concurrent thinking- aloud to this avail. The interview and the questionnaire are the best methods to elicit comments on usability issues. Concurrent thinking-aloud turned out to be the best method to elicit comments on the perceived relevance of search results. When testing the usability of a personalized system it is wise to use a combination of concurrent thinking-aloud and the interview or the questionnaire.","PeriodicalId":348807,"journal":{"name":"2007 IEEE International Professional Communication Conference","volume":"310 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122782216","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":"Engineering the Future of Human Communicators: Working Outside of the Documentation Box - Another Way","authors":"Judith Herr","doi":"10.1109/IPCC.2007.4464102","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IPCC.2007.4464102","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":348807,"journal":{"name":"2007 IEEE International Professional Communication Conference","volume":"97 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132936679","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":"Field Usability Testing: Method, Not Compromise","authors":"S. Rosenbaum, L. Kantner","doi":"10.1109/IPCC.2007.4464060","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IPCC.2007.4464060","url":null,"abstract":"This paper discusses a user research method the authors have refined over several years: field usability testing. Field usability testing combines techniques from traditional laboratory usability testing and condensed contextual inquiry, itself an adaptation of traditional contextual inquiry methods. The authors describe two approaches or models of field usability testing: ethnographic and structured. Three case histories illustrate the method, giving examples of the ethnographic model and the structured model.","PeriodicalId":348807,"journal":{"name":"2007 IEEE International Professional Communication Conference","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133862395","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":"Improving Reading with QuikScan: Introduction and Experimental Validation","authors":"Quan Zhou, D. Farkas","doi":"10.1109/IPCC.2007.4464075","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IPCC.2007.4464075","url":null,"abstract":"QuikScan is an innovative enhancement to conventional document formatting that employs within- document summaries formatted as numbered list items. QuikScan enables readers to read summaries instead of the detailed content, use the summaries as previews, thereby increasing retention, and use the summaries to quickly find more detailed information in the body of the document. In an empirical study, 38 students at the University of Washington read either a QuikScan or control version of a document dealing with international trade and answered test questions. The QuikScan document showed 13% better comprehension. In a follow- up study measuring retention, results approached significance. When surveyed, users of the QuikScan document indicated that QuikScan improved their reading.","PeriodicalId":348807,"journal":{"name":"2007 IEEE International Professional Communication Conference","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115009572","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":"Technical Communication and Consulting: The Flat World Alignment Paradigm, or Why Technical Communication Consultants Have Nothing to Fear from Offshoring","authors":"Debbie Davy","doi":"10.1109/IPCC.2007.4464051","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IPCC.2007.4464051","url":null,"abstract":"In support of the IEEE Professional Communication Society's 50th anniversary conference, this paper suggests ways in which the technical communication profession can ensure its sustainability throughout the next 50 years of business evolution. This paper seeks to present a compelling argument directed at conventionally-employed technical communicators that a paradigm shift towards consulting employment is in their best interest - and in the technical communication profession's best interest. Because of exposure to many and varied companies and methodologies, technical communication consultants tend to have more wide-ranging and current skills that they can offer to companies over their peers who work in conventional employment arrangements. For this argument, this paper will look at how technical communicator consultants can make significant contributions to business by comparing the attributes of technical communication consultants to the attributes of the untouchables defined and discussed in The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century, the maverick analysis of the globalization phenomenon by Thomas L. Friedman.","PeriodicalId":348807,"journal":{"name":"2007 IEEE International Professional Communication Conference","volume":"2014 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128565430","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}