2. Our Mission …
Community
Discovering and defining together what it means to
be voice interaction and experience designers.
Information
Sharing information: career knowledge, news,
resources, and opportunities for professional growth.
Awareness
Eliminating apathy and antipathy toward the need
for good design of automated voice services.
About AVIxD
3. Our Mission …
Advocacy
Advocating for the general public who use our
applications and products and for good design in
general.
Education
Providing educational knowledge to companies and the
public about automated voice services.
Research
Spurring and conducting valid and meaningful
research into voice interaction and experience
design techniques.
About AVIxD
4. AVIxD Committees / Working Groups
You do not have to be a board member to lead
and/or join a committee or working group!
Working groups are intended to address specific
projects, topics, and activities of interest, such as
designing for multi-lingual use; multi-modal voice
interactions; or fostering collaboration between the
research community and industry.
New groups: discuss with the board
It’s in the bylaws!
Get Involved!
5. AVIxD Committees / Working Groups
Virtual Brown Bag
Publications / Journal
VUI Design Standards - Best Practices Wiki
Annual Workshop and White Paper
Digital Media (Web)
Marketing and Outreach
About AVIxD
6. Bylaws were amended to move the official election
deadline date to March
Previous date was in August; summer break meant the
election was often dropped
Organizational Report
8. 2016 focused on developing Wiki to include
guidelines for conversational user interfaces in
other contexts
2017 onsite (part 2 of this topic) cancelled
Virtual / online workshop under consideration
Would you be interested?
Topic, areas of interest?
Workshop / Wiki
9. Publications
2016 Issues:
April
Standardized Questionnaires for Voice Interaction Design
Using Total Effort to Optimize the Delivery of Customer Service
Fall
Editorial: Advancing Voice Interaction Design – Susan Hura, SpeechUsability,
LLC
Designing and Developing Solutions for Automated Name Capture – Dmitry
Sityaev, Genesys
Documenting Voice’s Role in the Customer Journey
Please send your article!
Mark Smolensky ms6134@att.com or Contact@avixd.org
10. Previous events:
Standardized Questionnaires for Voice Interaction Design
A/B Testing with User Feedback
Measuring Customer Effort.
What’s important?
What do you want to learn?
Would you like to volunteer?
Was there a presentation here at SpeechTEK you’d like to dig
deeper on?
Was there a presentation here you couldn’t make that you would
like us to showcase?
Brown Bag
11. Our website is avixd.org
Journal
Wiki link
Job postings
News and Events
Twitter, LinkedIn and Yahoo Groups links
Brown Bag Presentations
Website
12. Current Balance: $4672.80
Spending in 2017: $129.95
Current membership numbers
47 full members
372 members on LinkedIN
Membership group rates available, Silver,
Gold, and Platinum.
Treasurer: Amy Goodwin
13. Non-Profit Status
Hired Harbor Compliance to help bring us back
into compliance
Filing back taxes with Comptroller’s office of the
State of Texas
Treasurer’s Report: Amy Goodwin
14. Submissions for Brown Bags?
Virtual Workshop 2017?
Let’s discuss?
What’s Next? Get Involved!