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Person Education
DFW Usability Professionals Association
When?
Tuesday, March 23, 2010 @ 6:00pm
Where?
Cohabitat
2517 Thomas Street
Dallas, TX 75201
What?
Designing a multimodal application is not just adding speech to a website or adding a GUI to an automated phone system. When creating a multimodal interaction, several multimodal-specific aspects of design need to be considered. These include user modality preference, conflicting mental models, variable usage environments, and technology limitations. Julie Underdahl and Catherine Zhu will explore the challenges even an experienced GUI or VUI designer faces when attempting to design an effective, user-friendly multimodal application.
Who?
Julie Underdahl is a Senior User Interface Design Engineer at Convergys. She has over 6 years of experience implementing and usability testing voice user interfaces. Her experience includes a wide range of speech applications across many different industries. She works closely with clients and their customers to deliver custom, user-centered applications, including recent design and testing of multimodal interfaces. Julie has a BA in both Spanish and Biology and MA in Linguistics from the University of North Texas.
Catherine Zhu is currently a Senior Consultant with Avaya Professional Services. As a member of the Global Speech Engineering team, she has worked closely with clients and their customers to create a number of custom speech applications leading clients through the entire design process including requirements gathering, data analysis, call flow design, prompt writing, grammar development, voice talent coaching, usability testing, and tuning. She holds an MS in Applied Cognition and Neuroscience with a specialization in Speech Technology from the University of Texas at Dallas and a BS in Cognitive Science with a concentration in Linguistics from Rice University. Catherine continually strives to be an advocate for the user leveraging her education and experience in user-centered design.
DFW Usability Professionals Association
Design Challenges in Multimodal Interactions - Julie Underdahl is a Senior User Interface Design Engineer at Convergys. She has over 6 years of experience implementing and usability testing voice user interfaces. Her experience includes a wide range of speech applications across many different industries. She works closely with clients and their customers to deliver custom, user-centered applications, including recent design and testing of multimodal interfaces. Julie has a BA in both Spanish and Biology and MA in Linguistics from the University of North Texas.
Catherine Zhu is currently a Senior Consultant with Avaya Professional Services. As a member of the Global Speech Engineering team, she has worked closely with clients and their customers to create a number of custom speech applications leading clients through the entire design process including requirements gathering, data analysis, call flow design, prompt writing, grammar development, voice talent coaching, usability testing, and tuning. She holds an MS in Applied Cognition and Neuroscience with a specialization in Speech Technology from the University of Texas at Dallas and a BS in Cognitive Science with a concentration in Linguistics from Rice University. Catherine continually strives to be an advocate for the user leveraging her education and experience in user-centered design.
$5 unless your 2010 dues are paid ($20 for professionals, $10 for students)
http://dfw-upa.org/2010/03/march-23rd-monthly-meeting-design-challenges-...
Social Media Club
6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
$20
Moroch Partners
3625 N. Hall Street Suite 1100
Dallas, Texas 75219 US
LevelTen will attend the Social Media Club Dallas - November 19th, 2009
About the Speaker
Tim Walker @twalk
Social Media Manager
Hoovers, Inc.
Tim Walker is the point person for social media at Hoover’s, Inc. He came to the job after several years as an electronics industry analyst in Hoover’s editorial department, and with an even longer history in online communities, reaching back to his days as the moderator of an international listserv with thousands of members. Besides writing the Hoover’s Business Insight Zone blog, Tim has provided business commentary for many other venues, including CNBC, XM Radio, BusinessWeek.com, and several magazines.
He is a graduate of the University of Texas and the University of St. Andrews, and is partway through a Ph.D. in U.S. history at Texas. Tim lives in Austin with his wife and children.
Where:
Moroch Partners
3625 N. Hall Street
Suite 1100
Dallas, 75219
Post Event Tweetup at 8:30 at Bengal Coast
Moroch Partners
Location
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Dallas, TX January 15, 2009 -- Criminal defense attorney, Mathew Arnold contracted the services of LevelTen Interactive this month to formulate and execute an ongoing Internet marketing plan to increase his current website’s online presence, search engine lead generation, and increase conversion rates.
