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Voice User Interface Design Consultant (contract position) Position ID: AXG-1150 Location: Will work remotely and on-site / no relocation required. Travel as...
Arnold Garlick
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Nov 1, 2007
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agree on dr phils points..net promoter uses a 1-10 scale..anyone have expereimce trying this out? 1-10 cannot really transfer to 1-5 (even-odd). ... to ... ...
Jim Milroy
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Nov 7, 2007
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I have deployed systems with both 1-10 and 1-5. Bottom line (my opinion) is that they are totally subjective. I prefer the yes/no questions personally--...
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Nov 7, 2007
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Vicki: Your "unscientific usability studies" track well with our experience. It's easy for customers to get confused on a phone survey, and the fewer and...
Peter Leppik
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Nov 7, 2007
10:26 pm
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Vicki and Peter: I agree. I've had the most success with brisk yes-no questions. They're easy to answer and -- unless the design allows users to get lost in...
bruce.balentine
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Nov 7, 2007
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Vicki and Peter: I agree. I've had the most success with brisk yes-no questions. They're easy to answer and -- unless the design allows users to get lost in...
bruce.balentine
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Nov 7, 2007
10:36 pm
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Well put. I still prefer the yes/no approach to avoid confusion. I have designed most of the surveys that way and get good responses, which is what it is all...
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Nov 7, 2007
10:39 pm
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Actually, I prefer to use live interviewers, which I've found gives a higher response rate, better data, more flexibility, and leaves a much more positive...
Peter Leppik
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Nov 7, 2007
10:56 pm
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Peter: Did you see Nava's article on focus groups in SpeechTEK mag? You and I spoke about focus groups, you'll recall that I'm skeptical -- focus groups tend...
bruce.balentine
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Nov 7, 2007
11:50 pm
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The VoiceXML Forum is planning a new activity to develop standards for improving the usability of voice applications. Too many applications are poorly...
krehor
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Nov 8, 2007
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1109
Bruce: A focus group is entirely different from a survey administered by a live interviewer. And just so there's no confusion, by "live" I mean "alive" (as...
Peter Leppik
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Nov 8, 2007
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Ken: I think it is a very good idea to start with metrics, as establishing standards depends first and foremost on goal setting (and the subsequent...
bruce.balentine
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Nov 8, 2007
2:17 pm
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Thanks, Peter, that all makes sense. BB ... a ... mean ... get a ... to ... it's ... The ... really ... introducing ... improve," ... to ... more ... and ... ...
bruce.balentine
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Nov 8, 2007
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I actually did a formal usability study based just around a voice-enabled survey using Likert questions. We tested 1-5, as opposed to 1-10, and we tested it...
Crispin Reedy
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Nov 9, 2007
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Hi Marceline. Some other comments in addition to the excellent comments posted so far: Based on academic research by Lucy Suchman, Norbert Schwarz, Bob Groves,...
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Nov 9, 2007
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I like your answer, Jon. Coming from an academic background in Psychology where we spent a lot of time at post-graduate level on developing sound research ...
markleewebb
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Nov 12, 2007
11:33 pm
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...........and that say things that patently contradict their own behaviors in usability testing with just the facilitator and subject, too - not just a focus...
markleewebb
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Nov 13, 2007
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Can anyone suggest an approach for detecting profanity in voicemail? We would like to be able to provide an option for customers to have messages containing...
David
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Nov 16, 2007
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Okay, now I'm intrigued.... Whose voicemail box gets so much profanity that you feel the need to deploy sophisticated speech recognition technology plus labor-...
Peter Leppik
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Nov 16, 2007
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... Good point. Clearly cost is a factor, and, as you noted, the value is not so great that we can afford a labor-intensive solution. It might not be so bad,...
David
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Nov 16, 2007
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... beats diving into the sewers and "stroking" male turkeys for artificial insemination (both real jobs, as seen on TV!) diego...
Diego Montefusco
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Nov 16, 2007
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from sbasson@... ... You are cordially invited to participate in the AVIOS-NY/NJ/CT Chapter We have gotten word of availability of space and a sponsor...
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Nov 25, 2007
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Ken: I'm going to give a talk on December 3 to the AVIOS group in Melbourne, Australia. I'm thinking about talking about user interface standards as per your...
bruce.balentine
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Nov 25, 2007
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My company is engaged in developing natural dialog behaviours in voice services in Europe for both some business customers and our own end-users. We have...
philippe.bretier
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Nov 26, 2007
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Bruce, You might be interested in a Note published by the W3C Multimodal Interaction Working Group on "Common sense suggestions for developing multimodal user...
deborahdahl
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Nov 26, 2007
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Debbie: Thanks, this is great -- just what I was looking for. I like the four general principles, they are reminiscent of ISO 9241 (Effective, Efficent,...
bruce.balentine
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Nov 26, 2007
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I know I'm late in on the discussion (just catching up), but I had a good guffaw at "I'm sorry, it's not you, it's me." - I can't believe they actually had...
Nandini Stocker
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Nov 26, 2007
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That was my favorite part! Give me a break, it sounded like a joke. I couldn't believe it. It's like in the article on 11 Guidelines for VUI in the latest...
Simonie Wilson
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Nov 27, 2007
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... I'm curious to know what people think about this. After reading Deborah Tannen's books on gender differences in communication styles, I came to realize...
Sarah Wayland
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Nov 27, 2007
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I definitely think you have to balance this with what other prompts in the same app are saying. I know that systems that sound overly apologetic annoy me, but...
Helen VanScoy
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