SIGDOC is the Special Interest Group on Design of Communication of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), an international learned society for computing. ACM SIGDOC was founded in 1975 by Joseph "Joe" T. Rigo.[1]
SIGDOC’s mission is to advance the state of knowledge, encourage the research, and support the interdisciplinary practice of the design of communication.
SIGDOC emphasizes the following areas of special interest to its members:
The mission of SIGDOC includes:
SIGDOC sponsors a number of awards as a means of recognizing outstanding contributions to the field. Awards are presented at the annual SIGDOC conference.
The Rigo Award is presented to an individual for a lifetime of significant work in the design of communication. Rigo Awards are given every other year, during even-numbered years. This award is named after Joseph Rigo, the founder of SIGDOC.[3]
Previous winners include the following:
The Diana Award is given every other year, during odd-numbered years, to an organization which has collectively made an impact on the field. This award is named after Diana Patterson, a past chair for SIGDOC.
Previous winners include the following:
| Year | Name | Title | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Sweta Baniya[10] | Exploring Risk and Crisis Communication Practices of Transnational Feminists in Ensuring Equity and Justice During COVID-19 | |
| 2020 | Avery Edenfield | Queer Becomings: The Ethics, Rhetoric, and Materiality of Care in Trans Networks | |
| 2019 | Stephen Carradini | Social Media Article Visualizer Project | |
| 2019 | Rob Grace and Jason Tham | Ideals and Realities: Exploring Usability in Born-Digital Scholarship | |
| 2018 | Eda Ozyesilpinar and Victor Del Hierro[11] | Participatory Communication Design of Mapping Borderlands: Decolonizing Cartographic Information Design and Creating a Participatory Mapping Interface | |
| 2018 | Kristin Bivens and Candice A. Welhausen | Improving the Design of Visual Risk Communication through a Content Analysis of a Crowdsourced Public Health App’s Existing User Comments | |
| 2017 | Laura Gonzalez | Designing a Multilingual User Experience Research Center to Support Language Accessibility in a Binational Community | |
| 2017 | Daniel Richards and Sonia Stephens | Story Mapping and Sea Level Rise: Bringing a Global Risk Home |
The winner of the Student Competition is provided with subsidized participation in the SIGDOC conference, and the opportunity to publish and present their work.
| Year | Type | Place | Name | School | Title | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Graduate | 1 | Ian Stark[12] | Texas Tech University | Neuro-Positionality in User-Centered Design: TheCase of Student Disability Services | |
| 2021 | Graduate | 2 | Jiaxin Zhang | Texas Tech University | Designed for Equitable Learning: A Study of UCD and Liquid Syllabus in an Online Synchronous Course | |
| 2021 | Graduate | 3 | Yingying Tang | Auburn University | A Robot Wrote This?:Readers’ Perceptions of Automated Technical Writing | |
| 2021 | Undergraduate | 1 | Hannah Goodsell[13] | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | A Jersey for Helmutt: How Video Games Communicate Information | |
| 2021 | Undergraduate | 2 | Kylie Call | Virginia Tech | Strategies for International Communication Design | |
| 2021 | Undergraduate | 3 | Koyo Nakamura, Han Feng, Sebastian Priss, and Hannah Mei | University of Washington | Designing to Support Bedtime Reflection | |
| 2020 | Graduate | 1 | Danielle Stambler[14] | University of Minnesota | “Eating Right” and User Experience with an Employee Wellness Program | |
| 2020 | Graduate | 2 | Sarah Fadem | Rutgers University | Designing a Decision Aid for Patients Considering Bone Marrow Transplant | |
| 2020 | Graduate | 3 | Nicole Lowman | University at Buffalo | Advising the Buffalo Police Advisory Board: Toward a More Usable Technology | |
| 2020 | Undergraduate | 1 | Sanjana Ponnada | Arizona State University | Improving user experience and accessibility of CDC’s COVID-19 symptoms self-checker with better design practices | |
| 2020 | Undergraduate | 2 | Rita Flanagan | University of Pittsburgh | Principles of Technical and Public Communication as a Provisional Framework for Undergraduate Researchers Writing with and About Indigenous Peoples | |
| 2020 | Undergraduate | 3 | Kenyan Burnham | Texas Tech | Instructor Roles in Higher Education During the COVID-19 Pandemic | |
| 2019 | Graduate | 1 | Nupoor Ranade[15] | North Carolina State University | Conditional Usability Testing for UX Optimization | |
| 2019 | Graduate | 2 | Yeqing Kong | North Carolina State University | Artificial Intelligence in News Photographs: A Cross-Cultural Visual Content Analysis | |
| 2019 | Graduate | 3 | Angela Glotfelter | Miami University, Ohio | Algorithmic Circulation: The Impact of Algorithms on Content Strategy and Management Practices | |
| 2019 | Undergraduate | 1 | Nicholas Hennigan | University of Milwaukee, Wisconsin | Optimizing Design Thinking: Theatrical Improv’s Affect on Creativity Within Groups | |
| 2019 | Undergraduate | 2 | Andrea Ausmus | Arizona State University | Food (In)Security Interface | |
| 2018 | Graduate | 1 | David Mueller[16] | North Carolina State University | Actions and Strategies: A Verbal Data Analysis of Phishing Emails. | |
| 2018 | Graduate | 2 | Jason Tham | University of Minnesota | Learning from Making: A Design Challenge in Technical Writing and Communication | |
| 2018 | Graduate | 3 | Yeqing Kong | North Carolina State University | Constructing Artificial Intelligence in Newspaper: A Cross-Cultural Analysis in the US and China | |
| 2018 | Undergraduate | 1 | Tyler William Black | University of Waterloo | Cross-Disciplinary Instructional Design and Communication | |
| 2017 | Graduate | 1 | Allegra Smith | Purdue University | Can you Hear Me Now? Revaluing Listening's Role in User Research Practice. | |
| 2017 | Graduate | 2 | Jennifer Pierre | University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) | Examining Wrong Planet: An analysis of design characteristics for computer-mediated-communication among individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder | |
| 2017 | Graduate | 3 | John Fallon | UMass Amherst | Linking Heterogeneous Datasets for Visualization and Situational Awareness | |
| 2017 | Undergraduate | 1 | Jenny Yao and Hannah Wei | MIT | Creating Better-Informed Consumers and Reducing Dark Pattern Tendencies Through Improved Terms of Service Solutions | |
| 2017 | Undergraduate | 2 | Megan Smith | Purdue University | A Pinch of Salt. A Hint of Disaster | |
| 2017 | Undergraduate | 3 | Alexis Scott | Georgia Institute of Technology | The "Continuous Course Lab" in the Tech Comm Classroom | |
| 2016 | Graduate | 1 | Chris Lindgren | Understanding Big Data Processing as Designing Provisional Texts | ||
| 2016 | Undergraduate | 1 | Erin Campbell | Participatory Museums: The User Experience of Creative Agents | ||
| 2016 | Graduate | 2 | Arthur Berger | Commercial Proposal Collaborative Writing Practices | ||
| 2016 | Undergraduate | 2 | Leslie Simms | University of Central Florida [17] | Balancing the Equation of Undergraduate Research: The Importance of Reading, Learning, and Presentation Stability in the Success of STEM Laboratories | |
| 2016 | Graduate | 3 | John Sherrill | Teaching Documentation Through 3D Printing and Instructables | ||
| 2016 | Undergraduate | 3 | Tommy Truong and Eric Martin | Virtual Reality in Pedagogy |
SIGDOC - ACM International Conference on Design of Communication.
| Year | Date | Nr | Host Institution | City | Country | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SIGDOC 2021 | Oct 5-9 | 36 | Arizona State University | Hybrid Virtual-Hub Event | United States | [18] |
| SIGDOC 2020 | Oct 5-9 | 36 | University of North Texas | Virtual Event | United States | [19] |
| SIGDOC 2019 | Oct 4-6 | 37 | Portland State University | Portland, Oregon | United States | |
| SIGDOC 2018 | Aug 3-5 | 36 | Milwaukee School of Engineering (MSOE) | Milwaukee, Wisconsin | United States | [20] |
| SIGDOC 2017 | Aug 11-13 | 35 | Dalhousie University | Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada | Canada | [21] |
| SIGDOC 2016 | Sept 23-24 | 34 | Washington, D.C. | United States | ||
| SIGDOC 2015 | July 15–17 | 33 | University of Limerick | Limerick, Ireland | Ireland | |
| SIGDOC 2014 | Sept 27-28 | 32 | Colorado Springs, Colorado | United States | ||
| SIGDOC 2013 | Sept 30-Oct 1 | 31 | East Carolina University | Greenville, North Carolina[22] | United States | |
| SIGDOC 2012 | Oct 3-5 | 30 | University of Washington | Seattle, Washington[23] | United States | |
| SIGDOC 2011 | Oct 3-5 | 29 | Pisa, Tuscany | Italy | [24] | |
| SIGDOC 2010 | Sep 26-29 | 28 | Sao Carlos | Brazil | ||
| SIGDOC 2009 | Oct 5-7 | 27 | Indiana University | Bloomington, Indiana | United States | |
| SIGDOC 2008 | Sep 22-24 | 26 | ISCTE | Lisbon | Portugal | [25] |
| SIGDOC 2007 | Oct 22-24 | 25 | University of Texas - El Paso | El Paso, Texas | United States | |
| SIGDOC 2006 | Oct 18-20 | 24 | Coastal Carolina University | Myrtle Beach, South Carolina | United States | |
| SIGDOC 2005 | Sep 21-23 | 23 | Coventry, England | United Kingdom | ||
| SIGDOC 2004 | Oct 10-13 | 22 | University of Memphis | Memphis, Tennessee | United States | |
| SIGDOC 2003 | Oct 12-15 | 21 | San Francisco, California | United States | ||
| SIGDOC 2002 | Oct 20-23 | 20 | Toronto, Ontario | Canada | ||
| SIGDOC 2001 | Oct 21-24 | 19 | Santa Fe, New Mexico | United States | ||
| SIGDOC 2000 | Sep 24-27 | 18 | Boston, Massachusetts | United States | held with IEEE IPCC. | |
| SIGDOC 1999 | Sep 12-14 | 17 | New Orleans, Louisiana | United States | ||
| 2021 | Andy Mara | Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona, United States | ||
| 2020 | Stacey Pigg | North Carolina State University | Raleigh, North Carolina, United States | ||
| 2019 | Julie Staggers | Washington State University | Pullman, Washington, United States | [26] | |
| 2019 | Sarah Read | Portland State University | Portland, Oregon, United States | ||
| 2019 | Lars Soderlund | Western Oregon University | Monmouth, Oregon, United States | ||
| 2018 | Tammy Rice-Bailey | Milwaukee School of Engineering | Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States | ||
| 2018 | Nadya Shalamova | Milwaukee School of Engineering | Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States | ||
| 2017 | Rebekka Andersen | University of California, Davis | Davis, California, United States | ||
| 2016 | Douglas Walls | North Carolina State University | Raleigh, North Carolina, United States | [27] | |
| 2016 | Michael Trice | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States | ||
| 2015 | Kathie Gossett | Iowa State University (ISU) | Ames, Iowa, United States | [28] | |
| 2014 | Kathie Gossett | Iowa State University (ISU) | Ames, Iowa, United States | [29] | |
| 2013 | Michael Albers | East Carolina University | Greenville, North Carolina, United States | [30] | |
| 2012 | Mark Zachry | University of Washington | Seattle, Washington, United States |
SIGDOC's former chairs include: