SIGDOC - SIGDOC Awards

SIGDOC Awards

SIGDOC sponsors a number of awards as a means of recognizing outstanding contributions to the field. Awards are presented at the SIGDOC conference:

• The Rigo Award is presented to an individual for a lifetime of significant work in the design of communication. Rigo Awards are given every other year, during even-numbered years. Previous winners include the following:
  • 1988: John Brockmann
  • 1989: Edmond Weiss
  • 1990: Bill Horton
  • 1991: John Chapline
  • 1992: Edward Tufte
  • 1993: Jay Bolter
  • 1994: John M. Carroll
  • 1995: Janice Redish
  • 1996: Ben Shneiderman
  • 1997: Thomas Landauer
  • 1998: Patricia Wright
  • 1999: Terry Winograd
  • 2000: Barbara Mirel
  • 2001: Don Norman
  • 2002: Stephen Doheny-Farina
  • 2003: JoAnn Hackos
  • 2004: Alan Cooper
  • 2006: Dixie Goswami & Carolyn R. Miller
  • 2008: Susanne Bødker & Pelle Ehn
  • 2010: Cecilia Baranauskas & Clarisse de Souza

• The Diana Award is given every other year, during odd-numbered years, to an organization which has collectively made an impact on the field. Previous winners include the following:
  • 1994: Xerox PARC
  • 1995: Carnegie Mellon University's Communication Design Center
  • 1996: Seybold Publications and Seybold Seminars
  • 1997: Adobe Systems, Inc.
  • 1998: Netscape Communications Corp.
  • 1999: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
  • 2000: MIT Press
  • 2001: Information Mapping, Inc.
  • 2002: World Wide Web Consortium
  • 2003: IBM
  • 2004: The Society for Technical Communication (STC)
  • 2005: The British Computer Society (BCS)
  • 2007: University of Washington's Laboratory for Usability Testing and Evaluaton (LUTE)
  • 2009: Apple
  • 2011: SAP

• The winner of the Graduate Student Competition is provided with subsidized participation in the SIGDOC conference, and the opportunity to publish and present their work.