ACM SIGDOC, with its emphasis on communication and information, and its strong links to library and information science, design studies, and cognitive and computer science will be soliciting research papers, workshop proposals, experience reports, and posters are invited that emphasize the following thematic challenges:

• What do we mean by disciplinarity, intradisciplinarity, interdisciplinary, cross-disciplinary, multidisciplinary? Why do we maintain that this is a strength of ACM SIGDOC? How can your unique expertise or design experience contribute to a compelling future for the developing discipline of communication design?
• What do you see as the role of disciplinary expertise in problem solving, innovation, communication design and business process design, knowledge creation and management for the 21st century?
• What new economic realities and geopolitical issues do you see for communication designers?
• In preparing the next generation of communication designers, what abilities, attributes, prior knowledge and backgrounds, tasks and activities, competencies and contexts do you see as central?
• How would you describe the state of the field, based on past reflections and historically significant developments, accelerated environments and artifacts, or unrealized potentials?
• What emerging studies can you share on personalization, mediation, work and genre ecologies and activities, technical and educational opportunities and the challenges of sustainability and sharing?

Conference Website: http://www.sigdoc.org/2009/