ProComm 2020 Conference Schedule
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Day One, Monday July 20th |
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| Start | End | Session ID | Title |
| 9:00 | 9:45 | Keynote | Dr. Carol Barnum: All Aboard for Content Strategy – Live |
| Dr. Barnum brings years of experience in teaching, research, and business consulting. She co-founded UX Firm, based in Atlanta, GA. UX Firm is a usability consulting company engaged in usability testing and many other types of UX research with clients world-wide. She also was Director and Co-Founder of The Usability Center @ Southern Polytechnic, working with clients on a host of projects and platforms for two decades. | |||
| 10:00 | 10:45 | Session 1 | Academic and Industry Perspectives – SimuLive |
| Brian Traynor, Glenn Ruhl and Ben Kunz “Merging Territories, Part III: Reaching Maturity and Responding to Change” | |||
| Yvonne Cleary and Marie McCullagh “Technical Communication in the United Kingdom: The Academic and Professional Contexts” | |||
| Session 2 | Global Considerations – SimuLive | ||
| Kathryn Northcut, Clair Kueny, Alanna Krolikowski, Kaidi Yang and Rainer Glaser “Transnational Science Publication Ethics Training Using Scenarios” | |||
| Jonathan Arnett, Laura Palmer, and Katherine Taylor “Kindly Requested Is Your Rapt Attention: Embedded Support for ESL Students in Technical Writing Classes” | |||
| Kristinn Andersen, Helgi Thorbergsson, Saemundur Thorsteinsson and Karl Gudmundsson “The Small Languages in the Large World of Technology” | |||
| 11:00 | 11:45 | Session 3 | Biases and Beliefs – SimuLive |
| Kristin Bennett “Interrogating Normalizing Pedagogies, Policies, and Practices in Technical and Professional Communication through Disability Studies” | |||
| Quan Zhou “Cognitive Biases in Technical Communication” | |||
| Scott Weedon “The Role of Taste in the Belief in Pseudoscience” | |||
| Session 4 | Science, Engineering, and Mathematics – SimuLive (NOTE: Extended session. It will conclude at 11:59 EDT.) | ||
| Michael McCarthy “Teaching Metaphors to Scientists: A Mixed Methods Approach” | |||
| Suzanne Lane “‘Here We Show’: Teaching Engineering Students to Reason With an Audience” | |||
| Kathleen Hardesty and Craig Hardesty “Math Matters in Communication: Manipulation and Misrepresentation in Data Displays” | |||
| Laura Patterson “Engineering Students’ Empathy Development Through Service Learning: Qualitative Results in a Technical Communication Course” | |||
| 12:00 | 12:45 | LunchNet1 | Zoom With the PCS Board of Governors (recommended for attendees with 0-3 years of experience with PCS) – Live |
| LunchNet2 | Zoom About Careers and Career Advice (recommended for attendees with 4+ years of experience with PCS) – Live | ||
| 13:00 | 13:45 | Lufkin Winner | Rhetoric of Public Crisis: Constructing Communication Network in Transcultural Contexts – SimuLive |
| Lin Dong presents this year’s James M. Lufkin Award-winning paper (best conference paper) | |||
| 14:00 | 14:45 | Session 5 | The Feedback and Editing Process – SimuLive |
| Alena Kasparkova and Kamila Etchegoyen Rosolova “A Geocaching Game ‘Meet Your Editor’ as a Teaser for Writing Courses” | |||
| Sara Doan “Digging, Displaying, and Translating: Content-Centric Feedback, Powered by Metaphors” | |||
| Session 6 | The Future Starts Today – SimuLive | ||
| Yumeng Yang, Joyce Karreman and Menno de Jong “Comparing the Effects of Paper and Mobile Augmented Reality Instructions to Guide Assembly Tasks” | |||
| Thomas Burns “Practical Considerations for the Remediation of 3DCAD into Visual Technical Communication” | |||
| Rob Grace and Jess Kropczynski “Communicating Next-Generation 911 With Local 911 Professionals: Preliminary Recommendations” | |||
| 15:00 | 15:45 | Session 7 | User Experience – SimuLive |
| Guiseppe Getto, Jack Labriola, and Suzan Flanagan “The State of Mobile UX: Best Practices from Industry and Academia” | |||
| Danielle Stambler “What Is ‘Eating Right’ at Work? User Experience With an Employee Wellness Program” | |||
| Kylie M. Jacobsen “Adding the Humanities into Math Curriculum Development: A UX Study on Reading and Writing Mathematical Arguments” | |||
| Session 8 | Writing – SimuLive | ||
| Shelley Thomas “Using iPads in Technical Editing: An Untapped Resource” | |||
| Crista Mohammed and Cathy-Ann Radix “Creating Rhetorical Complexity: Using Popular Science Articles to Teach Abstract Writing” | |||
| Suguru Ishizaki and David Kaufer “Scalable Writing Pedagogy for Strengthening Cohesion With Interactive Visualization” | |||
| 16:00 | 16:30 | The Hallway | Debrief and Chat Time – Live |
| 19:00 | 20:00 | Social Hour | Informal Drop-In Social Hour – Live |
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Day Two, Tuesday July 21st |
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| Start | End | SessionID | Title |
| 9:00 | 9:45 | Panel 1 | Technical Communication in China – SimuLive |
| Zhijun Gao, Keyu Ming, Jingsong Yu, Fan Li, and Yuxin Gao | |||
| Panel 2 | Understanding Generational Factors in the Workplace: Current Considerations for Telework Practices and the Digital Native – SimuLive | ||
| Courtney Crooks, Jerri Lynn Hogg, Kerri Lemoi, Monica Robbins, Jay Grant, and Sophia Martin | |||
| Panel 3 | Creating Value for STEAM Students: Incorporating Experiential Learning Into Engineering and Technical Communication Classes Through Community Engagement – Live |
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| Tammy Rice-Bailey, Deanna Leitzke, and Tyra Hildebrand | |||
| 10:00 | 10:45 | Roundtable 1 | Extended Abstract Roundtable With a Training and Accessibility Focus– SimuLive |
| Katie Homar “STEAM Communication in the ‘Third Space’: Perspectives From a Graduate Professional Development Program” | |||
| Manako Yabe “Action Research and Accessibility in Technical Communication” (NOTE: This presentation intentionally has no audio.) | |||
| Nupoor Ranade and Yeqing Kong “Custom OR Off-the-Shelf Software: Making the Right Choice for Corpus Analysis” | |||
| Roundtable 2 | Extended Abstract Roundtable With a Retrospective Focus – SimuLive | ||
| Kira Dreher “Plain Language in the Sciences: A Qualitative Meta-Analysis of Research” | |||
| Saul Carliner and Margaret Driscoll “Everything Old Is New Again” | |||
| 11:00 | 11:45 | Roundtable 3 | Extended Abstract Roundtable With an Applied Communication Focus – SimuLive |
| Sara Raffel and Sonia Stephens “How Hurricane Visualization Tools Affect the Public’s Perception of Risk and Preparedness” | |||
| Michelle Sidler, Susan Youngblood, and Natalie Butts-Ball “Technical Communication and Rural Home Affordability: Style Guides as STEAM Documents” | |||
| Michelle Cowan “Tactical Translation: Solutions to Problems With Component-Based Content Management” | |||
| Roundtable 4 | Extended Abstract Roundtable With a Teaching Focus – SimuLive | ||
| Yeqing Kong “What to Expect When You Are Learning Data Visualization: A Textual Analysis of Course Syllabi” | |||
| Jamie May “Science Fiction and Social Justice: Teaching Students to Consider Ethics, Sustainability, and Diversity Issues” | |||
| Jordan Smith “Using Empirical Data to Inform Technical-Editing Pedagogies” | |||
| 12:00 | 12:45 | LunchNet3 | Zoom About Academic Work– Live |
| LunchNet4 | Zoom About Professional Work – Live | ||
| 13:00 | 14:45 | Workshop 1 | CANCELED Power Writing for Today’s Tech Students – Live |
| Natalie Canavor “Power Writing for Today’s Tech Students” | |||
| Workshop 2 | Transforming Your Conference Paper Into an Article for the IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication – Live | ||
| George Hayhoe, Rebekka Andersen, Craig Baehr, Pam Estes Brewer, and Aimee Kendall Roundtree “Transforming Your Conference Paper Into an Article for the IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication” | |||
| Workshop 3 | Getting Started With Open Source Documentation: Choosing a Project and Applying Effective User Stories – Live | ||
| Ashley Hardin and Kathryn Alexander “Getting Started With Open Source Documentation: Choosing a Project and Applying Effective User Stories” | |||
| 15:00 | 15:45 | Awards | Awards Presentations and Addresses – Live |
| George Hayhoe — The Alfred N. Goldsmith Award for Outstanding Achievement in Engineering Communication Award | |||
| Brian Traynor — The Emily K. Schlesinger Award for Outstanding Service to the Professional Communication Society | |||
| Ahmad Alaiad, Yazan Alnsour, and Mohammad Alsharo, authors of “Virtual Teams: Thematic Taxonomy, Constructs Model, and Future Research Directions,” which appeared in the September 2019 issue of the Transactions — The Rudolph J. Joenk, Jr. Award for Best Paper in the IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication | |||
| Kelli Cargile-Cook — The Ronald S. Blicq Award for Distinction in Technical Communication Education | |||
| Lin Dong, author of “Rhetoric of Public Crisis: Constructing Communication Networks in Transcultural Digital Contexts” — James M. Lufkin Award for Best Conference Paper | |||
| Danielle Stambler, author of “What Is ‘Eating Right’ at Work? User Experiences With an Employee Wellness Program” — The Hayhoe Fellow Award | |||
| 16:00 | 16:30 | The Hallway | Debrief and Chat Time – Live |