David Attwater Senior Scientist Enterprise Integration Group
David has over 17 years of experience of speech and touch-tone user interface design and test.  David has a specific focus on customer usability testing and is an acknowledged expert in the design and test of natural language solutions for customer service, including digital assistants.

Sunday, April 26, 2020

1:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.

STKU-2: Conversational Design

Sunday, April 28, 2019

1:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.

STKU-2: Principles of Conversational Design

Tuesday, April 30, 2019

8:00 a.m. - 8:45 a.m.

SD202: Knowledge Café: Meet the Consultants

Sunday, April 8, 2018

1:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.

STKU-3: Designing Natural Language Home Assistants Using Amazon Alexa

Monday, April 9, 2018

10:45 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.

C101: Advanced User Interfaces for Smart Assistants

Tuesday, April 10, 2018

8:00 a.m. - 8:45 a.m.

SD202: Tuesday Knowledge Café

Wednesday, April 11, 2018

8:00 a.m. - 8:45 a.m.

SD301: Is It Time to Throw Our IVR in the Trash Can?

Wednesday, April 26, 2017

8:00 a.m. - 8:45 a.m.

SD302: A Hike on the Slopes of Uncanny Valley

1:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.

STKU-4: Using a Data-Driven Approach to Design, Build, & Tune Spoken Dialogue Systems

Monday, April 24, 2017

10:15 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.

D101: PANEL: Can You Trust Them?

Thursday, May 26, 2016

1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

STKU-7: Designing for Spoken Natural Language Understanding & Dialogue

Tuesday, May 24, 2016

8:00 a.m. - 8:45 a.m.

SD202: Are Mobile Apps Making IVRs Extinct?

1:45 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.

C203: Keeping a Mature Natural Language Solution Business Relevant

Thursday, August 20, 2015

9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

STKU-6: Best Practices for Natural Language Design

Monday, August 17, 2015

8:00 a.m. - 8:45 a.m.

SD104: Documenting Natural Language Speech Solutions

Tuesday, August 18, 2015

4:15 p.m. - 5:15 p.m.

C205: Speech Enables Natural Language and Machine Translation

Wednesday, August 20, 2014

10:45 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.

B301: PANEL: Cross-Cultural Usability Testing

Wednesday, August 21, 2013

10:45 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.	A301: Making Natural Speech Systems Deliver Business Value
2:45 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.	A304: PANEL: Will Natural Language Deliver on Its Promises? nl

Tuesday, August 9, 2011

10:45 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.

A201: The Role of Speech in Smartphones

Wednesday, 25 May 2011

4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

A105: Biometrics

Monday, August 2, 2010

11:15 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

A102: Is Natural Language Right for You?

Wednesday, August 4, 2010

2:45 p.m. - 3:45 p.m.

B304: Solve My VUI Problem!

Tuesday, August 3, 2010

2:45 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.

D204: Multimodal Systems for Seniors

Wednesday, 26 May 2010

2:45 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.

B104: Developing Multilingual Applications

Tuesday, 25 May 2010

10:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.

W2: Designing with Usability in Mind

Thursday, 27 May 2010

11:30 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.

B202: Panel: The Ultimate VUI Q&A

Wednesday, August 26 2009

10:45 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.

C301: VUI Considerations for Speaker Verification

Monday, August 24 2009

4:15 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.	D106: Security
10:15 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.	D101: Panel: How to Make Speaker Verification Applications Good for Business

Wednesday, August 20

1:45 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.

B303: Happy Together? Speech & Touchtone