T19: Intuitive Conversational User Interfaces (USABLEBOTS)

Thursday, 30 June 2022, 10:00 – 14:00 CEST (Central European Summer Time - Gothenburg, Sweden)
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Kyoko Sugisaki (short bio)

University Zurich, Switzerland

 

Andreas Bleiker (short bio)

yasashii llc, Switzerland

 

Objectives:

Conversational User Interfaces (CUI) have become very popular in recent years. Even though CUIs have been studied for more than 50 years, it is not fully understood what makes them feel natural, intuitive and usable. As a result, their design and evaluation poses major challenges in practice, and most of the existing solutions in industries fail to become adopted by users and are rapidly abandoned by the providers.

 

Content and benefits:

An introduction to conversation analysis, prototyping and evaluation of CUIs through a mix of theory, sharing best-practices and hands-on exercises. We cover:

  • state-of-the-art of CUIs
  • typology of use cases and CUIs
  • Uniqueness of CUIs as a form of HCI
  • Challenges & opportunities for CUIs
  • relevant linguistic principles for a natural and efficient conversation
  • 50+ checkpoints to apply in design and evaluation

 

Target Audience:

Our tutorial is for anyone who wants to learn about what is really required to make a CUI successful with users and wants to understand the linguistic foundations behind a good conversation/dialog. We address academics and practitioners from technology and UX backgrounds and offer a mix between business, technology and user perspectives. As this is a multidisciplinary tutorial (HCI, language technology and study), it is suitable for beginners as well as advanced participants in the field of CUI and will help people to bridge the gaps between the disciplines.

 

Additional Platform to be used:

We will use mural.co or miro.com for some of the exercises. Participants are not required to have any account, but can join as guests.

 

List of materials or devices required by the participants:

Participants are invited to bring their favorite chatbots or conversational user interfaces (if any).

Bio Sketches of Presenters:

Andreas Bleiker is founder and owner of yasashii llc and works in the UX field since almost 20 years. He trained professionals across the globe on human-centered design. Next to consulting, he engages in standardisation, mentoring and education, e.g. teaching media design & usability at technical colleges. https://yasashii.ch

Kyoko Sugisaki has a PhD in computational linguistics and is a post doc researcher in linguistics. She is teaching and researching in the field of linguistics, NLP, and AI since 2008. https://sugisaki.ch

https://usablebots.tech