ProComm 2021 Schedule
ProComm 2021 will take place virtually October 22-23, 2021. Conference time is 8:00 am – 2 pm Eastern Daylight Time.
Attendees and presenters may find connection information on the conference Event Page.
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| Friday, October 22 | ||
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| 8:00 | Welcome and Spotlight. Ann Hill Duin and Isabel Pedersen, “Working Alongside Non-human Agents” | |
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| 9:00 | Karen Gulbrandsen, “Usability, UX, and Professional Communication: Revising a Graduate-Level Course to Integrate More of Rhetoric” | Adam Hefty, “Online Critical Thinking Pedagogy in an ‘Engineering-Heavy’ Humanities Classroom in Saudi Arabia” |
| Deborah Galley, “Advancing oral communication through TED talk presentations” | Nancy Barr, “Breaking out of the lecture rut: Using Zoom to build classroom connections” | |
| 10:00 | Jay Gordon, “Four ways of looking at the history of information design: A brief guide” | Tzipora Rakedzon, Orit Rabkin and Sarah Lurie, “Café and support: Overcoming writer’s isolation during COVID-19 and beyond” |
| Darina Slattery, “Universal Design for Learning in Blended and Fully Online Courses” | Ilamparithi Thirumarai Chelvan, Monika Smith and Sajib Ghosh, “Review and Reflect: Using Checklists to Improve Students’ Lab Reports” |
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11:00 | Spotlight: Technical Communication Research: Trends and Opportunities, George Hayhoe, Miriam Williams, Derek Ross |
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| 12:00 | Lin Dong and Xiaozhen Liu, “Translation, Localization, or Creation? The Stories Behind Developing Style Guides for Chinese Technical Documents” | Aimee Roundtree, “Grant-writing in Technical Communication: A Content Analysis and Survey Study” |
| Laura Patterson, “Engineering students’ empathy development through service learning: Examining individual student experiences in a case study” | ||
| Saturday, October 23 | |||
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| 8:00 | Welcome and Spotlight Panel: Strategies for Building Communities and Engagement, Aravindhan Anbazhagan |
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| Morgan Banville and Jason Sugg, “Challenging Surveillance: Linguistic Justice in the College Classroom” |
Nasim Mansuri, “Best Practices for Adapting Manufacturing Documentation” | ||
| Graeme Webb, Alon Eisenstein, Laura Patterson and Jannik Eikenaar, “Introducing Engineering Students to Communication Practices for Engagement with Indigenous Communities” |
Crista Mohammed and Ruqayyah Baksh, “Communication Instruction in Select UK Electrical Engineering Undergraduate Curricula” |
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| 10:00 | Jessica Campbell, “Towards a pluralistic, dynamic definition of usability” | Joseph Jeyaraj, “Dynamic Narratives and Comprehensive Situational Awareness: Minimal Protocols for Managing Complex Data” | |
| Suzan Flanagan and Guiseppe Getto, “What UXers Do and Earn: Findings from an Exploratory Survey of UX Professionals” |
Lillian Campbell, Shion Guha and Amrita George, “Practitioner Attitudes towards an Early Warning System: From Professional Distraction to Relational Support” |
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| Jack Labriola and Kylie Jacobsen, “Building Hyflex UX ‘Lab Spaces’ for Developing Student Research Toolkits” |
Yvonne Cleary, Zandi Bousa and Conor Talty, “Comparative analysis of public health information about Covid-19 for care home residents” |
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| 11:00 | Yvonne Cleary, “Developing collaborative and topic-based writing competencies using a wiki” |
Danielle Feldman Karr, “Enacting an Ethic of Care by Engaging the Audience as Co-Creators in Technical and Professional Communications” |
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| Prashant Rajan, “Brewing community on Whatsapp: Tactics of online collaboration among amateur and professional brewers in India” |
Michael Madson, “‘Green’ big data: Building a topic model of public comments on cannabis” |
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| Sarah Gunning, “Post-secondary students’ use of GroupMe messaging app: A visual ethnography over four science courses” |
Scott Weedon and Charlie Rioux, “Science and Technical Communication for Knowledge Translation” |
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| 12:00 | Spotlight Session: Use the Active Voice: Confronting Technical/Engineering Communication’s Role in Social Justice, Traci Nathans-Kelly |
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