Computers and Composition

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March 2026

  1. From vision to insight: Enhancing students’ user-centered design skills with eye-tracking technology and usability tests
    doi:10.1016/j.compcom.2025.102975
  2. Accessibility in virtual reality: A multimodal user experience framework for considering hardware, embodied, and spatial access
    doi:10.1016/j.compcom.2025.102971
  3. Building narrative layers in virtual reality via multimodal user experience
    Abstract

    People working at the intersection of composition and user experience often serve as the connective material that binds content to use. In merging fundamental skills of both in multimodal UX, practitioners position themselves as essential mediators connecting technical information, storytelling, and technologies that carry impactful messages across disciplines, audiences, and contexts. Building on previous work that advocates for the power of narrative in AR/VR storytelling, we demonstrate how combining the composing strategy of narrative layering with user testing can guide the creation of inclusive, community-centered VR experiences. To illustrate the power of this capacity, we ground our analysis in the design of a Virtual Reality experience about advanced water purification, outlining a method for how narrative layering and UX testing can be woven together to address a variety of perspectives through interdisciplinary, layered storytelling. In doing so, we argue that multimodal UX is most powerful when it blends the needs of a range of audiences to build stories that communicate complex information in an inclusive and engaging way.

    doi:10.1016/j.compcom.2025.102961

December 2020

  1. Reading Born-Digital Scholarship: A Study of Webtext User Experience
    doi:10.1016/j.compcom.2020.102601

March 2020

  1. The Story/Test/Story Method: A Combined Approach to Usability Testing and Contextual Inquiry
    doi:10.1016/j.compcom.2020.102548

September 2018

  1. Integrating Usability Testing with Digital Rhetoric in OWI
    doi:10.1016/j.compcom.2018.05.009
  2. Co-Editors’ Welcome to the Special issue on Usability and User-Centered Design
    doi:10.1016/j.compcom.2018.09.001
  3. Contextualizing Cyber Compositions for Cultures: A Usability-Based Approach to Composing Online for International Audiences
    doi:10.1016/j.compcom.2018.05.007

December 2014

  1. The Writing Pal Intelligent Tutoring System: Usability Testing and Development
    doi:10.1016/j.compcom.2014.09.002

September 2013

  1. Intentional Bias: An Empirical Study of Interpellative User Experiences on University Donor Websites
    doi:10.1016/j.compcom.2013.07.004

March 2011

  1. Using I, Robot in the Technical Writing Classroom: Developing a Critical Technological Awareness
    doi:10.1016/j.compcom.2010.12.001
  2. The Need For Rules: Determining the Usability of Adding Audio to the MOO
    doi:10.1016/j.compcom.2010.12.003

June 2009

  1. Usability Research in the Writing Lab: Sustaining Discourse and Pedagogy
    doi:10.1016/j.compcom.2008.10.001

January 2006

  1. Determining effective distance learning designs through usability testing
    doi:10.1016/j.compcom.2005.12.002

January 1997

  1. Rhetoric by design: Using web development projects in the technical communication classroom
    doi:10.1016/s8755-4615(97)90008-6
  2. Technical communication, copyright, and the shrinking public domain
    doi:10.1016/s8755-4615(97)90004-9

January 1996

  1. Computer-assisted illustration and instructional documents in technical writing classes
    doi:10.1016/s8755-4615(96)90034-1

January 1995

  1. Journal of technical writing and communication
    doi:10.1016/8755-4615(95)90027-6

April 1992

  1. Science-literature inquiry as pedagogical practice: Technical writing, hypertext, and a few theories, Part II
    doi:10.1016/s8755-4615(05)80018-0
  2. Science-literature inquiry as pedagogical practice: Technical writing, hypertext, and a few theories, Part I
    doi:10.1016/s8755-4615(05)80017-9

November 1990

  1. Some effects of the macintosh on technical writing assignments
    doi:10.1016/s8755-4615(05)80008-8

April 1988

  1. Team planning a computerized technical writing course
    doi:10.1016/8755-4615(88)80004-5
  2. Word processing in the business and technical writing classroom
    doi:10.1016/8755-4615(88)80006-9