1. AVIxD Annual Meeting 2017
#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.  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

7. Committee Reports

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!

15. Time To Join!
Taking memberships today!