AVIxD Annual Meeting 2015

August 17, 2015

#SpeechTEK @avixd

Our Mission … Create a voice interaction design community Advocate for good design Provide access to professional resources

About AVIxD

In 2014, the board voted to give paying members given a free year of membership for 2015 Due to a lull in activity

2015 has been very active! Time to join or renew!

2015: Your Membership

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 (new!)

About AVIxD

Committee Reports

Named new journal "Voice Interaction Design" Established editorial board (M. Smolensky, B. Balentine, J.

Lewis, S. Hura) Developed initial guidelines for submission Created journal article template Solicited submissions from voice interaction design

community (e.g., LinkedIn, VUIDs) Authors have responded with proposals and submissions The first issue is planned for publication in October We're working on establishing a pipeline for subsequent

issues Send in your articles!

Publications: Jim Lewis

Major progress! Check us out at videsign.wikispaces.com

Wiki: Kristie Goss

March: Practical VUI Lessons from Open Speech Deployments - David Attwater, Caroline Collins

May: Ubiquitous Voice – Lisa Falkson July: A Case for Natural Language – David Claiborne September: Post SpeechTEK Roundtable Discussion November: Microsoft LUIS – Jason Williams Want to speak? Know a good speaker? Let us know!

Mark Smolensky, Amy Goodwin, Crispin Reedy

Brown Bag: Crispin Reedy

New website

Website: Amy Goodwin

Spending in 2015 Website Promotions

Reorganization of accounts

Treasurer’s Report: Amy Goodwin

Established in June of this year Communicating news about AVIxD & SpeechTEK

events through current AVIxD channels: Email, Twitter, LinkedIn and Yahoo VUIds group

Conducted a survey of board members to better understand expectations about what AVIxD is – and what we’d like it to be

Coordination with Digital (web), Brown Bag, Workshop and Journal committees

Created a committee charter – under review with the board

Marketing and Outreach: Carrie Claiborne

Going forward: Survey general membership Continue regular & timely communications about

AVIxD Strategizing on ways to increase the value of paid

membership Other ideas: New communication channels, chats,

newsletter, local events?

Marketing and Outreach: Carrie Claiborne

2014 White Paper Topic: Documenting Voice’s Role in The Customer

Journey Available now on the website

2015 Workshop Topic: UX Methods and Best Practices for Attaining

the Effortless Customer Experience

Workshop: Mark Smolensky / Deborah Rapinski

Grow content (Journal, Brown Bags) Additional publicity / outreach Grow membership

What’s Next?

Get Involved!

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

Get Involved!

Time To Join!