Dr Halcyon Lawrence Obituary-Death News; Assistant Professor Of Technical Communication at Towson Un

May 2024 · 2 minute read

Dr Halcyon Lawrence Obituary-Death News; Assistant Professor Of Technical Communication at Towson University Passes Away

Sadly, Dr. Halcyon Lawrence, an associate professor of technical communication at Towson University and a resident of Towson, Maryland, went away. “With tremendous sadness and heavy hearts, we write to let you know that Halcyon Lawrence passed away on the night of October 29th,” the SIGDOC Forum revealed her death on social media.

Dr. Halcyon Lawrence was an assistant professor of technical communication at Towson University in Maryland. Dr. Lawrence has twenty years of experience as a usability practitioner, writer, and technical trainer.

Her work focuses on speech interaction design, particularly for underrepresented user groups, for voice technology and speech intelligibility.

She has an agreement with MIT Press to have a piece published in the edited anthology Your Computer is on Fire in 2019 under the title “Siri Disciplines.” Dr. Lawrence teaches a variety of disciplines, including professional writing, technical communication, and information design.

She also holds an M.Sc. in information design and technical communication and a Ph.D. in technical communication from the Illinois Institute of Technology.

She was passionate about training, had a long experience of teaching in higher education, and had facilitated communication seminars for several US and Trinidadian institutions. She was a staunch advocate of user-centered design, believing that the user should be at the centre of all content creation and product development.

She worked as a UX researcher at the IIT Usability Testing and Evaluation Centre, a Brittain Fellow at the Georgia Institute of Technology, a visiting assistant professor at the Illinois Institute of Technology, and a research assistant in technical communication at the Illinois Institute of Technology.

In the SIGDOC community, Halcyon was a well-liked leader who was well-known for her warmth, friendliness, generosity, and unshakable dedication.

Dr. Halcyon graduated with a B.Sc. in management and sociology from the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, as well as an M.Sc. in international relations. Technical writing, information design, user-centered design, and speech interface design were among her specialties.

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