The quest to understand the nuances of professional communication using computational tools have continued since, and many researchers in our field have embraced the new interdisciplinary approach now known as data science. Our quick... more
The quest to understand the nuances of professional communication using computational tools have continued since, and many researchers in our field have embraced the new interdisciplinary approach now known as data science. Our quick metadata search on the journals and conference proceedings in technical and professional communication (TPC) revealed an increasing number of articles associated with terms commonly used in data science (e.g., big data, content analysis, text mining, sentiment analysis, topic modeling, network analysis) originating from numerous disciplines (e.g., corpus linguistics, computational linguistics, artificial intelligence, statistics, business analytics). Yet, the field of TPC is just beginning to embrace the power of data-driven approaches. This special issue extends Orr’s work by taking a snapshot of current work in data-driven approaches to the study of TPC.
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This panel presents three technology-enhanced learning environments—DocuScope Classroom, OnTopic, and DiaGrammar—which are designed to help students notice and reflect on composition decisions in their writing and become more self-aware... more
This panel presents three technology-enhanced learning environments—DocuScope Classroom, OnTopic, and DiaGrammar—which are designed to help students notice and reflect on composition decisions in their writing and become more self-aware and reflective writers. Preliminary classroom experiences with the learning environments are discussed.
Writing tasks require countless composing decisions that are typically beyond the conscious grasp of writers. Much of the skill of being ―text-aware‖ inheres in understanding that texts produced from classroom assignments are not just... more
Writing tasks require countless composing decisions that are typically beyond the conscious grasp of writers. Much of the skill of being ―text-aware‖ inheres in understanding that texts produced from classroom assignments are not just composed of words and sentences but of highly structured and often highly predictive composing decisions. However, the decision-making underlying writing is an extremely abstract idea that is hard to make tangible for students. Although a significant number of pedagogical approaches have been investigated in the past three decades, the means to help students acquire more tangible understanding and control of their composing decisions has not been addressed. We propose to address this gap by developing a corpus-based learning tool to help students notice and reflect on composition decisions in their writing and to become resultantly more selfaware and reflective writers. This approach builds on an existing corpus-based text analysis tool called DocuScop...
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This paper presents an experimental intelligent map systemGeoSpacewhich allows information seekers to explore complex spaces of geographic information using dialogue- like interaction. GeoSpace progressively and selectively provides... more
This paper presents an experimental intelligent map systemGeoSpacewhich allows information seekers to explore complex spaces of geographic information using dialogue- like interaction. GeoSpace progressively and selectively provides information as an infor mation seeker enters queries while visually maintaining the larger context. Domain knowledge is represented in a form of information presentation plan modules, and an acti vation spreading network technique
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... Detecting Collaborations in Text. Autores: David Kaufer, Pantelis Vlachos, Jeff Collins, Brian Butler, Suguru Ishizaki; Localización: Computers and the humanities: Official journal of the Association for Computers and the Humanities,... more
... Detecting Collaborations in Text. Autores: David Kaufer, Pantelis Vlachos, Jeff Collins, Brian Butler, Suguru Ishizaki; Localización: Computers and the humanities: Official journal of the Association for Computers and the Humanities, ISSN 0010-4817, Vol. 38, Nº 1, 2004 , págs. ...
A computer-based design critiquing system analyzes a proposed solution and offers critiques (Robbins 1998). Critiques help designers identify problems as well as opportunities to improve their designs. Compared with human critics,... more
A computer-based design critiquing system analyzes a proposed solution and offers critiques (Robbins 1998). Critiques help designers identify problems as well as opportunities to improve their designs. Compared with human critics, todayÃs computer-based critiquing systems deliver feedback in quite restricted manner. Most systems provide only negative evaluations in text; whereas studio teachers critique by interpreting the studentÃs design, introducing new
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ABSTRACT This research has been motivated by the lack of models and languages in the visual design field that are able to address design solutions, which continuously adapt in response to the dynamic changes both in the information itself... more
ABSTRACT This research has been motivated by the lack of models and languages in the visual design field that are able to address design solutions, which continuously adapt in response to the dynamic changes both in the information itself and in the goals or intentions of the information recipient. This paper postulates a muhiagent model of dynamic design--a theoretical framework of design that provides a model with which the visual designer can think during the course of designing. The model employs a decentralized model of design as a premise, and borrows its conceptual model from the improvisational performance, such as dance and music, and bases its theoretical and technical framework on the field of multiagent systems. A design solution is considered an emergent behavior of a collection of active design agents, or performers, each of which is responsible for presenting a particular segment of information. The graphical behaviors of design agents are described by their dynamic activities--rather than by the traditional method of fixed attributes. The model is illustrated with two design projects, Dynamic News Display System and E-Mail Display, both of which were implemented using a multiagent design simulation system, perform, along with an agent description language, persona.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Program in Media Arts & Sciences, 1996. Includes bibliographical references (p. 129-132). Suguru Ishizaki. Ph.D.
The color you perceive in a typical color palette is always different from the color you perceive when it is used in your color document because of simultaneous color contrast effect—a phenomenon in which humans perceive the same physical... more
The color you perceive in a typical color palette is always different from the color you perceive when it is used in your color document because of simultaneous color contrast effect—a phenomenon in which humans perceive the same physical color differently against different background. The effect is particularly problematic in the visual design of information graphics, in terms of its
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This paper introduces research in kinetic typography, a new method of displaying text that takes advantage of the dynamic nature of digital media. We suggest a preliminary set of design issues by which kinetic typography may be understood... more
This paper introduces research in kinetic typography, a new method of displaying text that takes advantage of the dynamic nature of digital media. We suggest a preliminary set of design issues by which kinetic typography may be understood and used.
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This chapter reports on a research program that investigates language and text from a rhetorical point of view. By rhetorical, we mean an approach that features the relationship between the speaker and the audience or between the writer... more
This chapter reports on a research program that investigates language and text from a rhetorical point of view. By rhetorical, we mean an approach that features the relationship between the speaker and the audience or between the writer and the reader. ...
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ABSTRACT This paper presents a reactive interface display which allows information seekers to explore complex information spaces. We have adopted information seeking dialogue as a fundamental model of interaction and implemented a... more
ABSTRACT This paper presents a reactive interface display which allows information seekers to explore complex information spaces. We have adopted information seeking dialogue as a fundamental model of interaction and implemented a prototype system in the mapping domain - GeoSpace - which progressively provides information upon a user's input queries. Domain knowledge is represented in a form of information presentation plan modules, and an activation spreading network technique is used to determine the relevance of information. The reactive nature of the activation spreading network, combined with visual design techniques, such as typography, color and transparency enables the system to support the information seeker in exploring the complex information space. The system also incorporates a simple learning mechanism which enables the system to adapt the display to a particular user's preferences. GeoSpace allows users to rapidly identify information in a dense display and it can guide a user's attention in a fluid manner while preserving overall context.
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Computer-Aided Rhetorical Analysis (9781609607418): Suguru Ishizaki, David Kaufer: Book Chapters.
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While service-oriented businesses have been around for a long time, service design as a discipline of design has emerged recently. This paper situates technical and professional communication in the area of service design. A brief history... more
While service-oriented businesses have been around for a long time, service design as a discipline of design has emerged recently. This paper situates technical and professional communication in the area of service design. A brief history of service design is presented, and a framework for understanding communication as an integral part of service is proposed. The paper suggests that service
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We review Perelman and Olbrechts-Tyteca's original formulation of presence as a technique of argument associated primarily with the selection of individual rhetorical elements, and the recent extension of the notion by Gross and... more
We review Perelman and Olbrechts-Tyteca's original formulation of presence as a technique of argument associated primarily with the selection of individual rhetorical elements, and the recent extension of the notion by Gross and Dearin, where presence is understood as a ...
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... However, I hope designers of other disciplines, such as product design and architecture, will find ... Design problems in digital communication demand new types of design solutions, as well as new ... fixed nature of the traditional... more
... However, I hope designers of other disciplines, such as product design and architecture, will find ... Design problems in digital communication demand new types of design solutions, as well as new ... fixed nature of the traditional design into a more continuous and responsive one, it ...
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This article introduces an IText system the authors built to enhance student practice in language awareness within commonly taught written genres (e.g., self-portraits, profiles, scenic writing, narratives, instructions, and arguments).... more
This article introduces an IText system the authors built to enhance student practice in language awareness within commonly taught written genres (e.g., self-portraits, profiles, scenic writing, narratives, instructions, and arguments). The system provides text visualization and analysis that seek to increase students’ sensitivity to the rhetorical and whole-text implications of the small runs of language they read and write. The authors describe the way the system can create possibilities for classroom discourse and discussion about student writing that seem harder to reproduce in traditional writing classrooms. They also describe the limitations of the current system for wide-scale use and its future prospects.
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AbstractCorpus studies are revolutionizing the study of language practice, including professional communication, by substituting actual examples of practice for prescriptive intuition. Corpora are often put together by researchers who... more
AbstractCorpus studies are revolutionizing the study of language practice, including professional communication, by substituting actual examples of practice for prescriptive intuition. Corpora are often put together by researchers who exert much care in what goes into a corpus. Yet ...
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ABSTRACT While researchers and instructors of technical and professional communication have embraced the importance of visual communication skills in recent years, little systematic effort has been made to develop assessment instruments... more
ABSTRACT While researchers and instructors of technical and professional communication have embraced the importance of visual communication skills in recent years, little systematic effort has been made to develop assessment instruments that measure visual design skills. This paper presents a project that examines timed tests as a means of measuring a student's ability to solve design problems. The process and rationale for the test designs and the results of a series of empirical studies are discussed. The results of the studies suggest that timed tests can be a viable complement to the project-oriented assessment approach suggested by prior studies.
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ABSTRACT While critiquing is generally recognized as an essential pedagogical tool in architecture design studios, no systematic attempt has been made to develop a descriptive theory that can account for the complexity of critiquing.... more
ABSTRACT While critiquing is generally recognized as an essential pedagogical tool in architecture design studios, no systematic attempt has been made to develop a descriptive theory that can account for the complexity of critiquing. Various studies exist that describe the design studio, but many of these provide fragmentary descriptions of critiquing. In this paper, through a review of publications that are concerned with the architecture design studio as well as other areas of design, we identify a basic set of factors that enable us to articulate the variables that affect the practice of critiquing in design studios. Based on these factors, we then propose a conceptual framework that allows studio instructors to systematically plan and examine their critiquing practice.
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This article introduces an IText system the authors built to enhance student practice in language awareness within commonly taught written genres (e.g., self-portraits, profiles, scenic writing, narratives, instructions, and arguments).... more
This article introduces an IText system the authors built to enhance student practice in language awareness within commonly taught written genres (e.g., self-portraits, profiles, scenic writing, narratives, instructions, and arguments). The system provides text visualization and analysis that seek to increase students’ sensitivity to the rhetorical and whole-text implications of the small runs of language they read and write. The authors describe the way the system can create possibilities for classroom discourse and discussion about student writing that seem harder to reproduce in traditional writing classrooms. They also describe the limitations of the current system for wide-scale use and its future prospects.
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We review Perelman and Olbrechts-Tyteca's original formulation of presence as a technique of argument associated primarily with the selection of individual rhetorical elements, and the recent extension of the notion by Gross and... more
We review Perelman and Olbrechts-Tyteca's original formulation of presence as a technique of argument associated primarily with the selection of individual rhetorical elements, and the recent extension of the notion by Gross and Dearin, where presence is understood as a ...
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This paper introduces research in kinetic typography, a new method of displaying text that takes advantage of the dynamic nature of digital media. We suggest a preliminary set of design issues by which kinetic typography may be understood... more
This paper introduces research in kinetic typography, a new method of displaying text that takes advantage of the dynamic nature of digital media. We suggest a preliminary set of design issues by which kinetic typography may be understood and used.
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ABSTRACT While researchers and instructors of technical and professional communication have embraced the importance of visual communication skills in recent years, little systematic effort has been made to develop assessment instruments... more
ABSTRACT While researchers and instructors of technical and professional communication have embraced the importance of visual communication skills in recent years, little systematic effort has been made to develop assessment instruments that measure visual design skills. This paper presents a project that examines timed tests as a means of measuring a student's ability to solve design problems. The process and rationale for the test designs and the results of a series of empirical studies are discussed. The results of the studies suggest that timed tests can be a viable complement to the project-oriented assessment approach suggested by prior studies.
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ABSTRACT At Carnegie Mellon University, collaborators in engineering, English, and design are piloting a novel method for integrating writing instruction, assessment, and feedback in the context of a junior-level Civil and Environmental... more
ABSTRACT At Carnegie Mellon University, collaborators in engineering, English, and design are piloting a novel method for integrating writing instruction, assessment, and feedback in the context of a junior-level Civil and Environmental Engineering course. Specifically, we developed a series of technical communication modules, which couple short instructional videos with interactive assessment activities, accessible via students' computers or smartphones. The modules supplement rather than supplant the course's embedded writing instructor, and are presented to the students as just-in-time, self-study aids to their drafting and revision processes for major assignments. Through this combined approach, we aim to explore the strengths and limitations of integrated, digital/human writing instruction techniques for engineering classrooms. In this paper, we discuss the instructional design of the online learning environment, the technological affordances the environment supports, and the research questions it generates as a dynamic data collection method.