Alexander Slotkin
ABSTRACT
Recent calls to incorporate cultural approaches to technical communication research offers new avenues for imagining where technical communication and user experience emerge. Taking up these calls, this case study explores how elements of documentation design in a Jewish cemetery function as cultural interfaces and why socially informed design benefits users by highlighting technical documentation's role in fostering community.
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