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Volume 3 Issue 3 May 2015 Communication Design Quarterly Published by the Association for ComputingVolume Machinery 1 Issue 1 Special Interest Group for Design of CommunicationJanuary 2012 ISSN: 2166-1642 Editorial .................................................................................................................................................................... 3 Notes from the Chair .............................................................................................................................................4 Column: Aspects of Access: Considerations for Creating Health and Medical Content for International Audiences ............................................................................................................................ 7 Evaluating The Relevance of eBooks to Corporate Communication .........................................................12 Testing the Waters: Local Users, Sea Level Rise, and the Productive Usability of Interactive Geovisualization .20 Personalized Presentation Builder for Persuasive Communication ...........................................................25 Problem Solving in User Networks: Complex Communication Issues and Item-to-Item Collaborative Filtering ......................................................................................................................................33 Communication and Exchange Between Information Visualization and Industrial Design ..................40 A UX Workfl ow for Building Awesome Application .......................................................................................49 Strategy First, Execution Second: Teaching Design Strategy in Technical Communication .................53 Understanding Digital Badges through Feedback, Reward, and Narrative: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Building Better Badges in Social Environments ................................................................56 Communication Design Quarterly ACM SIGDOC (Special Interest Group Design of Communication) seeks to be the premier information source for industry, management, and academia in the multidisciplinary field of the design and communication of information. It contains a mix of peer‐reviewed articles, columns, experience reports, and brief summaries of interesting research results. Communication Design Quarterly (CDQ) is archived in the ACM Digital Library. We invite you to contribute in any of the following areas: Peer‐reviewed articles. Articles that cross discipline boundaries as they focus on the effective and efficient methods of designing and communicating information; disciplines will include technical communication, information design, information architecture, interaction design, and human‐computer interaction. Experience reports. Experience reports present project‐ or workplace‐focused summaries of important technologies, techniques, or product processes. Interesting research results. Short reports on interesting research or usability results that lack the rigor for a full article. For example, pilot studies, graduate student projects, or corporate usability studies where full details can’t be released. We are also interested in proposals for guest editing special issues. As a guest editor, you would be responsible for providing two peer reviewed articles on a specific topic and, potentially, coordinating with the column editors so their columns can complement the issue’s theme. By submitting your article for distribution in this Special Interest Group publication, you hereby grant to ACM the following non‐exclusive, perpetual, worldwide rights: To publish in print on condition of acceptance by the editor To digitize and post your article in the electronic version of this publication To include the article in the ACM Digital Library and in Digital Library related Services To allow users to make a personal copy of the article for noncommercial, educational, or research purposes As a contributing author, you retain copyright to your article and ACM will refer requests for republication directly to you. Therefore, ACM is asking all authors to include their contact information in their submissions. Opinions expressed in articles and letters are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily express the opinions of the ACM or SIGDOC. Author(s) should be contacted for reprint authorization. Information about joining SIGDOC is available at http://sigdoc.acm.org/join/. CDQ Editors Managing Editor Michael J. Albers ([email protected]) Developmental Editor Kirk St. Amant ([email protected]) Book Review Editor Guiseppe Getto ([email protected]) 2 Communication Design Quarterly 3.3 May 2015 CDQ editorial Michael J. Albers Managing Editor: Communication Design Quarterly [email protected] Welcome to Communication Design Quarterly issue 3.3. Be sure to read the Chair Notes, where Liza Potts (the SIGDOC chair) provides details about the SIGDOC conference and what to expect when you get to Ireland. This issue contains the proceedings of the 4th Annual Symposium on Communicating Complex Information (SCCI) that was held at East Carolina University on February 23 and 24. We had a minor snow storm that cancelled people’s flights home, but other than that the symposium was a great success. For details about next year, see http://workshop.design4complexity.com/SCCI‐home.php The eight articles cover a range of topics all related to the issue of how to communicate complex information and the inherently complex nature of the communication task itself. There is also a column by Kirk St. Amant which looks at creating health content for international audiences. This is a follow up to his commentary in the last issue of CDQ. Hope you enjoy this issue and thanks for reading Communication Design Quarterly. Communication Design Quarterly 3.3 May 2015 3 Notes from the Chair Liza Potts SIGDOC chair [email protected] Conference Updates! This month’s Chair notes will share more details about our upcoming conference in Limerick. You’ve just submitted your papers, and our program committee will get feedback to you soon. Banquet This year’s banquet will be a Traditional Irish Night Banquet at Dolan’s in Limerick. Our banquet will include a three‐course meal, traditional Irish music, and Irish dance instruction for anyone interested. The food and performance is appropriate for audiences of all ages. The registration includes the cost of the banquet for each attendee; extra tickets can be purchased when you register for the conference. Check out this video to learn about the Dolan’s experience: https://youtu.be/JRxqnbArmkU. Sláinte! Workshop on User Experience and Social Justice I am pleased to announce that Douglas Walls and Danielle Ridenour will be leading our workshop session. This year’s workshop is focused on the important and timely topic of user experience and social justice. Here’s what Doug told us about his workshop: “As communication and information design move toward social justice issues, articulating the problem spaces of social justice work becomes key for sustained disciplinary growth. In an attempt to articulate these issues for designers of communication and information interested in social justice issues, this audience‐ involved workshop will engage in affinity mapping protocol. Affinity diagramming is a useful tool to finding the relationships between ideas and making sense of large and diverse concerns. 4 Communication Design Quarterly 3.3 May 2015 Workshop members will walk away with a better sense of problem articulation for social justice and UX work.” You can sign up for this fantastic opportunity when registering for the conference. We’ll see you there! Ignite Talks Ignite Talks will be featured again this year. We plan on spreading them out throughout the day. That will help us keep the dynamic, awesome energy of these talks fueling us throughout the day. This year’s ignite speakers include rising early career scholars and established experts. Check out our website for details. Research Network The research network at SIGDOC 2015 will host roundtable discussions allowing conference participants a chance to share their research‐in‐progress in a supportive setting with colleagues from academia and industry who share their similar interests. The network will take place from 9 am to noon on July 16, 2015 during the first day of the conference in Limerick, Ireland. We invite proposals to discuss research at any stage of completion—from conceptualization to publication—and the network is open to all registered conference participants. The research network can help scholars plan their next research project, provide insight on methods and strategies, work through stalled projects, envision avenues for publication, and network with other researchers in the interdisciplinary fields that comprise communication design. The call for proposals will be posted soon, and proposals will be due June 1. Participants will be grouped into discussion roundtables just prior to the network session in July. Family-Friendly Conference Welcome to our family‐friendly conference! I will be bringing my daughter, and I encourage you to enjoy an extended holiday with your family in Ireland. We have sought out venues, events, and lodging that would accommodate and welcome our families. Please take a look at this page for more details: http://sigdoc.acm.org/conference/2015/family‐friendly‐conference/. Communication Design Quarterly 3.3 May 2015 5 Schedule The schedule is live on our conference website, and the program will be released soon: http://sigdoc.acm.org/conference/2015/attending‐sigdoc‐2015/.