Sunday, March 3rd, 2024
Dinner (7:00pm-8:30pm) with all attendees at Osaka Ramen and Sushi
4300 Monarch Way, Norfolk, VA 23508
Monday, March 4th, 2024
8:30am—3:45pm | Webb University Center, Newport News/Hampton Rooms
| Time | Session A: On the Nature of Complexity |
| 8:30am—9:45am | How Many Layers to Grasp Complex Information? Michael Albers, East Carolina University (retired) |
| Incorporating Lived Experience Research into Technical and Professional Communication Research Sonia Stephens, University of Central Florida Sarah Singer, University of Central Florida | |
| How to Identify Recurrent Conflicts and Issues during Quantitative Work with a Stasis Network Methodology Chris Lindgren, Virginia Tech | |
| Break | |
| Session B: Applying Methods for Actionable Social Justice Research | |
| 10:00am—11:30am | A Corpus Analysis Approach: Tracking Language around Incarceration Jessica Remcheck, University of Minnesota |
| Computational Social Media Data Stuart Deets, University of Minnesota | |
| Climate Literacy Through Storytelling Rebecca Felter, University of Minnesota | |
| Visualizing Complex Data–Broadband Kathleen Bolander, University of Minnesota | |
| 11:35am—12:20pm | KEYNOTE Hype and Health AI: Methodological Challenges and Interventional Possibilities S. Scott Graham, University of Texas at Austin |
| 12:20pm—1:00pm | Lunch (provided) |
| Session C: Health and Medical Communication Track, Part I | |
| 1:00pm—2:15pm | An Examination of the Design History and Use of Training Manikins in Medicine and Nursing Liz Hutter, University of Dayton |
| Using Sensitizing Metaphors and Assemblage Mapping as a Tool for Fostering Cooperation in Response to Complex Problems Michelle McMullin, NC State University | |
| Urgency Rhetorics in Pandemic Communication Research Julie Gerdes, Virginia Tech | |
| Break | |
| Session D: Health and Medical Communication Track, Part II | |
| 2:30pm—3:45pm | Hidden Usability: The Role of UX and UXD Principles in Biomedical Writing Guidelines Lisa DeTora, Hofstra University |
| Spatial Rhetorics for Exercise-Associated Collapse Brenton Faber, Worcester Polytechnic Institute | |
| What Does TPC Mean by Data? Lisa Melonçon, University of South Florida |
Tuesday, March 5th, 2024
8:00am—3:30pm | Webb University Center, Newport News/Hampton Rooms
| Time | Session E: Posters |
| 8:00am—8:30am | UCD/UX Interventions in Climate Catastrophe: A Living Environmental Economy Theater David Robledo, Old Dominion University Rhetorics of Pre-Participation Examinations for Collegiate Athletics Hannah Ballowe, Virginia Tech |
| Session F: Organizational Case Studies | |
| 8:30am—9:45am | Indigenous Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Values in Canadian Engineering Codes of Ethics Russell Kirkscey, Penn State Harrisburg Julie Vale, University of Guelph Jennifer Howcroft, University of Waterloo |
| Addressing the Complexity of the Mundane: Studying and Scoping the Performance Review Genre Joanna Schreiber, Georgia Southern University | |
| The Spectacle of Spotify: A UX Cautionary Case Study Joseph Williams, Louisiana Tech | |
| Break | |
| 9:50am—10:35am | KEYNOTE: When Storytelling Fails Dr. Meredith Singleton, Story Arc Learning |
| Break | |
| Session G: Visualization | |
| 10:45am—12:00pm | Accessible Abstracts: Re-considering Publishers’ Focus on Plain-Language, Graphic, and Video Summaries Kira Dreher, Carnegie Mellon University, Qatar Campus |
| Processing Infographics with Verbal and Visual Representation of Data: The Impact of Cognitive Variances Kristine Zlatkovic, Northwestern University Pavlo Antonenko, University of Florida Do Hyong (Ryan) Koh, University of Florida Andrea Ramirez-Salgado, University of Florida | |
| Composing with Generative AI on Digital Advertising Platforms Daniel Hocutt, University of Richmond | |
| 12:00pm—12:30pm | Lunch (provided) |
| Session H: Teaching Responsible AI, Part I | |
| 12:30pm—1:45pm | Responsible AI and Medicine Chenxing Xie, NC State University |
| Responsible AI and Hiring Practices Manushri Pandya, NC State University | |
| Responsible AI and Finance Jinzhe Qiao, NC State University | |
| Break | |
| Session I: Teaching Responsible AI, Part II | |
| 2:00pm—3:15pm | Rhetorical Prompt Engineering for Complex Decision Making when Using Generative AI Nupoor Ranade, George Mason University |
| Teaching AI in a Cultural Context to Humanities and STEM Students Michael Klein, James Madison University | |
| New Horizons in Teaching Artificial Intelligence to Students from All Majors Philip L. Frana, James Madison University | |
| 3:15pm—3:30pm | Concluding Remarks / SCCI 2025 Announcement |
15th Annual Symposium on Communicating Complex Information 