AVIxD's annual meeting at SpeechTEK 2018.

1. AVIxD
Annual Meeting 2018
#SpeechTEK @avixd

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. Committee Reports

7.  Workshop
 Wiki
 Publications
 Brown Bag
 Treasurer
 Website
Committees

8. Workshop / Wiki
2016 began focus on developing Wiki to include
guidelines for conversational user interfaces in
other contexts
 2017 onsite (part 2 of Wiki) cancelled
 Virtual / online workshop under consideration
 Would you be interested?
 Topic, areas of interest?
 Wikispaces is going out of business
 Wiki is currently being migrated to our own
server

9. Publications
 Need participation:
 Please send your articles
 We are also seeking people to review papers
◦ Mark Smolensky ms6134@att.com or Contact@avixd.org

10. Our website is avixd.org
 Journal
 Wiki link
 Job postings
 News and Events
 Twitter, LinkedIn and Yahoo Groups links
 Brown Bag Presentations
Website

11.  Current Balance: $5809.68.80
 Spending in 2017/2018: $523.07
 Current membership numbers
◦ 59 full members
◦ 467 members on LinkedIn
 Membership group rates available, Silver,
Gold, and Platinum.
Treasurer: Amy Goodwin

12. Three presentations in 2017
 Voice Design and Social Robotics
 Hanging out with Alexa
 Parlay your VUI Experience into ChatBot Design
For 2018: We need presenters!
 TOPICS: Your choice
◦ 45 minute – could be a small topic!
Brown Bag

13. What’s Next? Get Involved!

14. General
Membership
Involved
Membership
Board
What’s Next? Get Involved!
 Looking for people to help us fill this pipeline!
 Discussion:
 Growing the organization: How do we get more
people involved at all levels?
 What projects should we be doing to facilitate
this?
 Who here today is willing to help in this effort?

15. General
Membership
Involved
Membership
Board
What’s Next? Get Involved!
 AVIXD Virtual Membership Summit
 Date: Friday, May 4th, Noon Central
 Topics:
 Growing membership!
 Projects!
 RSVP: info@avixd.org