Claire Lauer

Rajan, B, Carradini, S, and Lauer, C. (2024). The Arizona water chatbot: Helping residents navigate a water uncertain future one response at a time. Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Honolulu, HI. ACM.

Lauer, C. & Sanchez, C. (2023). What eye tracking can show us about how people are influenced by deceptive tactics in line graphs. IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication 66.3, 220-235.  DOI: 10.1109/TPC.2023.3290948.

Carradini, S., Lauer, C., and Nystrom, E. (2023). The potentials and pitfalls of computer visioning and machine learning methods for communication researchers. Proceedings of the 41st ACM International Conference on the Design of Communication, Orlando, FL. ACM.

Lauer, C. & O'Brien,* S. (2020). How people are influenced by deceptive tactics in everyday charts and graphs. IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication 63.4, 327-340. 

*This article was awarded the 2020 Rudolph J. Joenk, Jr. Best Paper award for IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication

Lauer, C. (2020) Implementing a transactional design model to ensure the mindful development of public-facing science communication projects. Communication Design Quarterly 8.3, 4-15.  

Brumberger, E. & Lauer, C. (2020). A day in the life: Personas of professional communicators at work. Journal of Technical Writing and Communication 50.3, 308-335.

Lauer, C. & Brumberger, E.  (2019).  Redefining writing for the responsive workplace.  College Composition and Communication 70.4, 634-663.

Lauer, C. (2019). Cultivating mindfulness in the user experience of science communication. Proceedings of the 37th ACM International Conference on the Design of Communication, Portland, OR. ACM.

Lauer, C., Brumberger, E., & Beveridge, A. (2018).  Hand collecting and coding versus data-driven methods in technical and professional communication research. IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication 61.4, 389-408.

O’Brien*, S. & Lauer, C. (2018). Testing the susceptibility of users to deceptive data visualizations when paired with explanatory text. Proceedings of the 36th ACM International Conference on the Design of Communication, Milwaukee, WI. ACM. *Graduate student

Lauer, C. & Brumberger, E. (2017). Content Development as multimodal editing in the web 2.0 workplace.  Proceedings of the 35th ACM International Conference on the Design of Communication. ACM. 1-9. 

Brumberger, E. & Lauer, C. (2017).  International faces of technical communication: An analysis of job postings in three markets.  Technical Communication 64.4, 310-327. 

Lauer, C. & Brumberger, Eva. (2016).  Technical communication as user experience in a broadening industry landscape.  Technical Communication 63.3, 248-264. 

*This article was nominated for the 2018 CCCC award for best article in scientific and technical communication

Lauer, C. (2015).  High tech invention: Examining the relationship between idea generation and technology in the document design process. Journal of Business and Technical Communication 29.4: 367-402.

*This article was nominated for the 2017 CCCC award for best article in scientific and technical communication

Brumberger, E., & Lauer, C. (2015). The evolution of technical communication: An analysis of industry job postings.  Technical Communication 62.4, 224-243. 

*This article was nominated for the 2016 CCCC award for best article in scientific and technical communication

Lauer, C. (2014) ‘Expertise with multi/modal/new/visual/digital media technologies desired’:  Tracing composition’s evolving concept of textual production through an analysis of the past twenty years of MLA Job Information List advertisements. Computers and Composition 34, 60-75.

*This article was awarded the 2014 Ellen Nold Award for best article in computers and composition studies. 

Blythe, S., Lauer, C. & Curran, P. (2014). Professional & technical communication in a Web 2.0 world: A report on a nationwide survey. Technical Communication Quarterly 23,  265-287.

Lauer, C., McCloud, M., and Blythe, S. (2013). Online survey design: A Janus-faced approach. Written Communication 30, 330-357.

Lauer, C.  (2013) Technology and technical and professional communication through the lens of the MLA Job Information List 1990-2011. Programmatic Perspectives, 5. 4-33.

Lauer, C. (2013). Teaching visual communication online: Methods for a changing classroom. Designing Texts: Teaching Visual Communication. Eva Brumberger and Kathryn Norcut (Eds). New York: Baywood P.  117-142.

Lauer, C. (2013). Examining the effect of reflective assessment on the quality of visual design.  Technical Communication Quarterly 22. 172-190.

Brumberger, E., Lauer, C., Northcut, K. (2013).  Technological literacy in the visual communication classroom: Reconciling principles and practice for the whole communicator.  Programmatic Perspectives 5.2, 171-196.  Available at: http://www.cptsc.org/pp/vol5-2/brumbergeretal.pdf.  

Lauer, C. (2012).  What's in a Name?: The Anatomy of defining new/multi/modal/digital/media texts.  Kairos 17.1. Available at: http://kairos.technorhetoric.net/17.1/inventio/lauer/index.html

Lauer, C. & Sanchez, C. (2011). Visuospatial thinking in the professional writing classroom. Journal of Business and Technical Communication 25, 184-218.   *This article was nominated for the 2013 CCCC award for best article in scientific and technical communication

Lauer, C. (2009).  Contending with terms: Multimodal and multimedia in the academic and public sphere.  Computers and Composition 26.

Lauer, C. (2009).  Constructing the self in/as thirdspace: New potentials for identity construction in the composition classroom. Composition Studies 37.2.