Title :
Moving upstream in the design process: new frontiers for technical communicators
Author_Institution :
Fischer-Rosemount Syst. Inc., Austin, TX, USA
fDate :
28 Sep-1 Oct 1994
Abstract :
Early involvement with product design teams forces technical communicators to reflect on their roles in the design of usable products and requires a new perspective about peripheral user documentation. The paper addresses the link between software design and documentation and considers these questions: what new roles are available to technical communicators? How can technical communicators be more effective on design teams? How are product design and documentation affected by human factors?
Keywords :
human factors; system documentation; technical presentation; design teams; human factors; peripheral user documentation; product design; product design teams; software design; technical communicators; usable products; Documentation; Human factors; Job design; Process design; Product design; Software design; Software prototyping; Software testing; System testing; Usability;
Conference_Titel :
Professional Communication Conference, 1994. IPCC '94 Proceedings. Scaling New Heights in Technical Communication., International
Conference_Location :
Banff, Alta.
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-1936-2
DOI :
10.1109/IPCC.1994.347517
