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Wolf Paulus: The Engineering of Emotion

In our October Brown Bag, Wolf Paulus speaks to us about designing personalized customer experiences through emotions analytics. Registration is free for all interested through Eventbrite. Tuesday, October 29 at 12 PM – 1 PM CDT Register For This Event Not only what, but how, a virtual assistant speaks will determine its success. We need […]

Bruce Balentine: Discoverability in Spoken User Interfaces

In our September Brown Bag, perennial favorite Bruce Balentine, Chief Scientist Emeritus, Enterprise Integration Group, speaks to us about “Discoverability in Spoken User Interfaces”. Registration is free for all interested through Eventbrite. Tuesday, September 10 at 12 PM – 1 PM CDT Register For This Event Non-trivial user interfaces—those that require multiple turns to accomplish […]

2019 Board Election Results

We’re pleased to announce that Kristie Goss (Concentrix), Shelley Moore (Verizon), Mark Smolensky (AT&T), and Helen Vanscoy (PTP) will be returning to the board, and we welcome our newest members Dawn Harpster (PTP) and Leslie Walker (Concentrix). These members will serve a two-year term.

2019 Board Elections

The board of the Association for Conversational Interaction Design (ACIxD) is preparing for the annual election of new board members. Five seats are up for re-election. The current members whose terms are complete are; Helen Vanscoy (PTP), Mark Smolensky (AT&T), Deborah Rapsinski, Kristie Goss (Concentrix), and Shelley Moore (Verizon). Members who have a year left […]

Brown Bags!

Hello Everyone, Brown Bags are back and we have several lined up.  We hope you can join us! ________________________________________________________ Tue, October 09, 2018  12:00 AM – 1:00 PM CDT Modeling Conversation for Chatbots with Mike McTear The major intelligent agent platforms have converged on terminology involving intent identification and entity extraction, yet use different conversational […]