Designing the user interface: strategies for effective human-computer interaction
Designing the user interface: strategies for effective human-computer interaction
Chairman's corner with candidates required SIGDOC '88: a commentary on half the sessions
ACM SIGDOC Asterisk Journal of Computer Documentation
ACM Journal of Computer Documentation (JCD)
ACM Journal of Computer Documentation (JCD)
ACM Journal of Computer Documentation (JCD)
ACM Journal of Computer Documentation (JCD)
Online Help: Design and Evaluation
Online Help: Design and Evaluation
Experiences with hipo and other documentation techniques(Tutorial and Panel Discussion)
ACM '75 Proceedings of the 1975 annual conference
ACM SIGDOC Asterisk Journal of Computer Documentation
ACM SIGDOC Asterisk Journal of Computer Documentation
Proposal for a program support facility
ACM SIGDOC Asterisk Journal of Computer Documentation
Communication design and theories of learning
Proceedings of the 26th annual ACM international conference on Design of communication
Instruction and Technology: Designs for Everyday Learning
Instruction and Technology: Designs for Everyday Learning
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
Adapting grounded theory to construct a taxonomy of affect in collaborative online chat
Proceedings of the 30th ACM international conference on Design of communication
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This paper provides an abbreviated history of the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group for the Design of Communication (ACM SIGDOC). The ACM SIGDOC has a relatively short history as special interest groups go (1975 to the present), but not in terms of the brief history and explosive growth of computer science, interface design, and the design of systems that support computer users. Indeed, interest in forming a special group focusing on systems documentation began to develop in the early 1970s. At the time, few technical writers (or few computer professionals who recognized themselves as technical writers) existed. Most systems documentation was being developed for military applications and large mainframe computer systems (such as those developed by IBM Corporation). Similar to the history of ACM SIGDOC, the field of communication design has burgeoned while simultaneously allowing increased fragmentation and distributed research initiatives across other developing fields.