Landscape of Conversation Design
Channel: BayCHI, San Francisco Bay Area ACM SIGCHI
Date: 11/05/2022

https://baychi.org/calendar/20220510/

In the past six years, Joseph Tyler has made the transition from academia to industry with a focus on Conversation Design. His career story illustrates:

- How many aspects of the product one person might touch in a start-up
- How different backgrounds contribute to the team and the product

The relatively new field of conversation design is multi-faceted, fast-paced, and growing rapidly. Related technologies like speech recognition, natural language processing, and text-to-speech continue to improve, as well as the tools for conversation design itself. More recently, Joseph Tyler gave himself a career break and stepped away from the computer.

Joseph will share with us how he:

- Moved from academic linguistics into technology-related work
- Got acquainted with startup life
- Created a product (a symptom checker) using a conversation design approach
- Worked on other health/wellness tools with different team configurations, and additional learnings
- Sees the landscape for conversation design at this time and in the near future

At some points along the way, Joseph will help us understand why he gave himself a break, what he learned, and what’s changed about how he is looking for his next opportunity.

Joseph Tyler, Tyler Consulting, LLC, designs, builds, and delivers multi-modal conversational interactions for mobile, web and chat interfaces. This includes dialogue design, NLP, content strategy, analytics and dashboard design, voice/VUI/speech, and managing translation and localization. He writes a lot of SQL, build dashboards, and builds out conversation platform capabilities. Previously, as an academic linguist, he researched speech and conversation/discourse, and taught college linguistics and English composition.

Find Joseph Tyler On Notion On Twitter: @CollidingWords