Proceedings from and future plans for the Symposium for Communicating Complex Information (SCCI)

Communication Design Quarterly Jun 2018

Proceedings from and future plans for the Symposium for Communicating Complex Information (SCCI)

Daniel Richards

Abstract

This special issue contains proceedings from the 6 th Annual Symposium on Communicating Complex Information (SCCI), which ran from February 27 th through 28 th 2017 at East Carolina University in Greenville, NC. The program chair was Michael Albers, who, as usual at SCCI, did a fantastic job at collecting and curating two days of stimulating conversations generated by speakers from a broad range of fields---rhetoric, technical communication, medical and regulatory writing, user experience, information science, and design---and a broad range or institutions and workspaces, including Duke's Network Analysis Center, The Medical University of South Carolina, Mälardalen University in Sweden, and Michigan State University, to name just a few. The keynote---titled "Faulty by Design: A Psychological Examination of User Decision-Making"---was given by Bill Gribbons, director of Bentley University's Graduate User Experience Program. Overall, the diversity and depth of the scholars and their research combined with the single-room presentation space facilitated conversation and networking in ways not typically found at other conferences.

Journal: Communication Design Quarterly
Published: 2018-06-04
DOI: 10.1145/3230970.3230971
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Topics: multimodality technical communication