Conference Features
Weather in El Paso in late October is normally sunny and dry, with highs in the 60’s. Evenings will be cool.
Registration for SIGDOC 2007 includes three breakfasts, two lunches, all snack breaks, and Tuesday’s night’s banquet at Ardovino’s Desert Crossing. The only meal for which you will be on your own is Monday night’s dinner. The conference Web page on Practical Information has a dining guide that lists many of the many restaurants near the hotel.
The SIGDOC 2007 banquet, included in your registration, will be at Ardovino’s Desert Crossing, in New Mexico. Coach service from the conference hotel will be provided. Ardovino’s Desert Crossing is the last outpost of the U.S., right on the lower slopes of Mount Christo Rey, which separates the United States from Mexico. The brother and sister team of Robert and Marina Ardovino renovated the original buildings once known as "Ardovino's Roadside Inn," transforming an old ranch house and barn into a swank new restaurant and banquet facility. Built in the early 1900’s, the Ranch House, now the setting of the Restaurant and Mecca Lounge, was homesteaded by Eileen Berg. An accompanying stone water tower and windmill provided water to the ranch and the surrounding grounds.
The banquet will feature Judith Ramey, who will accept SIGDOC’s Diana Award on behalf of The University of Washington's Laboratory for Usability Testing and Evaluation (LUTE). Every two years SIGDOC presents the Diana Award to an organization, institution or business for its long-term contribution to the field of communication design. This year, the Diana Award is presented to LUTE in recognition of:
- the balancing of its research, educational, and corporate partnership missions
- its publication history
- its history of producing graduate-level TC research as well as faculty research
