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The editorial role in developing an online user interface
As the quality of online systems escalates as a marketing issue, the Editor becomes proportionately more important to the development of a usable and consistent user interface. Editors are vital to the development of a quality user interface for any ...
HELPing writer and product team communication through online document design
As technology advances, software companies must reevaluate and adapt their policies toward product development. The specific product addressed in this paper is an Asset/Liability Management System (ALMS) for the financial industry. The project involves ...
How do writers view usability information? A case study of a developing documentation writer
As Dieli (1989) notes, writers sometimes have trouble focusing their concerns into questions that usability groups can test. As teachers of future documentation writers, we have observed that writers also have trouble turning the results of those ...
The role of indexing in technical communication
The success of a technical document depends heavily on the index. The task of indexing a technical document often cannot begin until insufficient time remains to do a good job. However, for many users of the document, a good index is mandatory to its ...
How usability testing can aid the development of online documentation
Over the past five years, usability testing has become a more accepted part of the software development process as writers, managers, and programmers recognize the need for evaluating their products from the user's point of view. As the application of ...
Putting a local information system online using pre-packaged software
Many small organizations have the need for information storage and retrieval systems which they dream of putting on-line for ease of access. Such a project designed with modest equipment and pre-packaged software can achieve three important objectives:
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User-centeredness, situatedness, and designing the media of computer documentation
User-centeredness has become a concept of much interest in a number of fields. Systems engineering, architecture, usability research and computer documentation, to name a few, are all areas of study which have, to one degree or another, adopted the ...
Documentation design based upon intuitive feature taxonomy and use logging
Although the quality of documentation of office automation software has increased significantly in the past few years, current offerings are not without problems. Those difficulties which have to do with the design and organization of the documentation ...
Usability and hardcopy manuals: evaluating research designs and methods
For the past decade, testing the usability of print software manuals has become a mature area of study, characterized by a wide range of qualitative and quantitative methods. Some of the most common methods include field observations, surveys, ...
Artificial neural networks as cognitive tools for professional writing
Computers are cognitive tools — they extend the capabilities of the human mind. Paper and pencil are also cognitive tools — they enhance human memory by acting as a permanent record, and they mediate the formation of thought by serving as a scratchpad ...
A stepwise approach to developing software documentation
Published documentation development processes clearly explain how to break up the process into parts and which parts to do when. What they do not explain is how to merge documentation and software development so that documentation rework and catch-up ...
Documenting the software development process
The Software Engineering Process Group (SEPG) at the Data Systems Division of Litton Systems, Inc., was given the task of documenting the software development process used within the division. This paper describes how the SEPG at Litton accomplished ...
The mythical task
We confront a time in society when phrases such as “information anxiety” have become cliches. As documentation developers, we have a mission to sort information into structures that help users perform their work on computers. Task-based documentation ...
An interactive source commenter for Prolog programs
Prolog meta-circular interpreters, i.e., interpreters for Prolog written in Prolog, perform at least two operations on an object program - they parse it and execute its instructions. There is a useful variant of the meta-circular interpreter, the meta-...
Playing detective with full text searching software
Searching large text databases often resembles detective work. We explored this notion with an experiment in which subjects used powerful full text searching software to solve problems about the Arthur Conan Doyle story The Hound of the Baskervilles. ...
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- Proceedings of the 8th annual international conference on Systems documentation
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Acceptance Rates
Year | Submitted | Accepted | Rate |
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SIGDOC '19 | 105 | 85 | 81% |
SIGDOC '18 | 65 | 44 | 68% |
SIGDOC '17 | 77 | 61 | 79% |
SIGDOC '16 | 102 | 36 | 35% |
SIGDOC '15 | 82 | 49 | 60% |
SIGDOC '14 | 38 | 23 | 61% |
SIGDOC '13 | 38 | 21 | 55% |
SIGDOC '11 | 75 | 36 | 48% |
Overall | 582 | 355 | 61% |