Publications

Books

Wright, David & Reardon, Daniel.(2021). Power to the Players: The Digital Role-Playing

Game and Technical Communication. A Profile of BioWare, Bethesda, and CD Projekt Red. Bloomsbury: London.

Edited Collections

Wright, David (Ed.) Communication Practices in Engineering, Manufacturing,

and Research for Food and Water Safety. New York: Wiley-IEEE Press, 2015.

Wright, David, Reardon, Dan & Malone, Edward (2019). Special Issue on Transmedia. Technical

Communication 66(3).

Book Chapters

Wright, David (2015). Cowboys and Computers: Communicating National Animal

Identification in the Beef Industry. In D. Wright, & Traci Nathans-Kelly (Eds.), Communication Practices in Engineering, Manufacturing, and Research for Food and Water Safety, 1-60.

Publications

Wright, D., Shank, D.B. (2023). The Usability of an Integrated Smart Home: A Usability Study of a

Laboratory-Based Google Smart Home. Communication Design Quarterly. Forthcoming.

Wright, D. (2023) Perspectives on Usability Testing with IoT Devices in Technical Communication Courses

Technical Communication Quarterly, DOI: 10.1080/10572252.2023.2194345

Wright, D. (2022). Rejecting and restricting smart home technology (2022). Proceeding of the IEEE

Professional Communication Society Conference, 2022, 352-357.

Shank, D., Wright, D., Nasrin, S. & White, M. (2022) Discontinuance and Restricted

Acceptance to Reduce Worry after Unwanted Incidents with Smart Home Technology, International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction, 1-14. DOI: 10.1080/10447318.2022.2085406

Wright, D., Shank, D. B., & Yarbrough, T. (2022). Outcomes of training in smart home technology

adoption: a living laboratory study. Communication Design Quarterly Review, 9(3), 14-26.

Daniel B. Shank, David Wright, Rohan Lulham & Clementine Thurgood (2020) Knowledge, Perceived

Benefits, Adoption, and Use of Smart Home Products. International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction, 37(10), 922-937. DOI: 10.1080/10447318.2020.1857135

Wright, D. (2019). Sounding Off: Toward a rhetoric of sound in technical communication. Technical

Communication 66(4), 362-374.

Wright, D., Reardon, D., & Malone, E. (Eds.) (2019). Transmedia, participatory culture and digital

creation [Special issue]. Technical Communication 66(3).

Wright, D. & Shank, D. B. (2019). Technology Diffusion and Smart Living: A

living laboratory approach. Journal of Technical Writing and Communication (50) 1, 56-90.

Malone, E. A. & Wright, D. (2017). To Promote That Demand”: Toward a

history of the marketing white paper as a genre. Journal of Technical and Business Communication, 32(1), 3-37.

Reardon, Daniel, Wright, David & Malone, Edward A. (2017). Quest for the Happy

Ending to Mass Effect 3: The challenges of co-creation with consumers in a post-Certeauian age. Technical Communication Quarterly. 26(1), 42-58.

Wright, D. (2013). Communication and cultural change in university

technology transfer. Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, 43 (1), 79-101.

Wright, David (2012). Redesigning informed consent tools for specific

research. Technical Communication Quarterly, 21(2), 145-167.

Malone, E. (2012). The role of historical study in technical

communication curricula. Programmatic Perspectives, 4(1), 44-87.

Wright, M. D. & Malone, E. (2011). A history of the future:

prognostication in technical communication. Technical Communication Quarterly, 20(4), 443-480.

Wright, M. D. (2008). Implicature, pragmatics, and documentation: A

comparative study. Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, 38(1), 27-51.