IPCC 2008

Montréal, Canada
July 13 – 16, 2008

Stephanie Rosenbaum and Laurie Kantner,"Learning About Users When You Can't Go There: Remote Attended Usability Studies."

IPCC 2008 focuses on the theme of "Opening the Information Economy." The idea is that we are all a part of the information economy, and by participating in it, we both shape and are shaped by the information economy and its practices. As communication is at the heart of success within this economy, the conference will explore certain communication-based aspects of the information economy.

These aspects include:

Information design, usability, and accessibility

Virtual teams, online collaboration, and distributed models of work

Cross-cultural communication, globalization, outsourcing, translation, and localization

Legal policies and social issues related to the information economy

Media selection and multimodality

The role of and perspectives on teaching and training within the information economy

Content management, open source software, single sourcing, and XML

Establishing and assessing the value of knowledge work and knowledge products

IPCC is sponsored by the IEEE Professional Communication Society, an IEEE society dedicated to understanding and promoting effective communication in engineering, scientific, and technical environments.