Title :
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
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;
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
DOI :
10.1109/IPCC.2006.320370
