Usable Content in a Post-Document World

Author

Geisler, Cheryl ; Novak, Matt ; Bennett, Audrey ; Voorhees, Carla ; Search, Patricia ; Booth, Paul ; Zappen, James P. ; Kenkel, Bridgette ; Isbister, Katherine ; Watt, James ; Chess, Shira ; Shaffer, Naoh ; Young, Barry ; Grice, Roger ; Krull, Bob ; Sharp

Author_Institution

Rensselaer Polytech. Inst., Troy, NY

fYear

2006

Firstpage

106

Lastpage

119

Abstract

The Usable Content Project aims to develop a set of useful paradigms for the analysis, design, and testing of usable content in a post-document world. In planning work supported by the STC, we have brought together a multidisciplinary team of Rensselaer faculty and students to explore a variety of post-document exemplars and develop an over-arching framework for what makes them usable. Our suggestion is that post-documents move users from control through identity and toward community, using a process clearly different from traditional documents. As a consequence, traditional metrics of usability - efficiency, accuracy, and satisfaction - are no longer adequate for post-documents

Keywords

document handling; professional communication; Usable Content Project; multidisciplinary team; over-arching framework; post-document world; technical communication; Computer aided instruction; Diseases; Failure analysis; Graphics; Path planning; Professional communication; Societies; Testing; Usability; Writing; documents; post-documents; usability;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

International Professional Communication Conference, 2006 IEEE

Conference_Location

Saratoga Springs, NY

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9777-0

Electronic_ISBN

0-7803-9778-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IPCC.2006.320370

Filename

4114142