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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear Colleagues,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We’re pleased to announce the first keynote at the SIGDOC 2021 conference:
<i>Progress, Promise, and Perils in User Experience: A Midterm Report Card</i> by Russell J. Branaghan.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Dr. Branaghan is President of Research Collective, a Human Factors and User Experience (UX) consulting firm and laboratory in Tempe, AZ, and Professor Emeritus of Human Systems Engineering and UX at Arizona State University (ASU). In his
keynote, Dr. Branaghan will discuss the transdisciplinary roots of UX in the 1982 ACM SIGCHI (Computer-Human Interaction) conference, the progress that UX has made in the past four decades, and changes we need to make to achieve our potential. More information
about <a href="https://sigdoc.acm.org/conference/2021/keynote-by-russell-j-branaghan/">
Dr. Branaghan’s keynote</a> can be found on the SIGDOC 2021 website. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/sigdoc.acm.org/conference/2021/registration/__;!!FjuHKAHQs5udqho!ZApTRPPzcpeHvei7-orTjL6WskCiveZiDIh4jMKsCJBhTkwZghcCsVWUhfZ6VCI$">Registration</a> for SIGDOC 2021 is now open. We’re looking forward
to seeing you at the conference on October 12-14! <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Best,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Luke Thominet<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">SIGDOC Communications Manager<o:p></o:p></p>
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