DFW-UPA

Talk to the Hand Wrap Up

October 27, 2010

Participants in DFW-UPA’s October monthly meeting were treated to an update on interactive voice recognition (IVR) by Phillip Hunter, senior user experience designer at Microsoft. A lot of companies are now jumping on the speech and IVR bandwagon, such as Google, Microsoft, Apple, and others. Why speech? Not only is speech adaptable and faster, recent [...]

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Oct 19th – Monthly Meeting (Phillip Hunter and Speech Recognition)

October 13, 2010

Speech recognition is mostly known for use in desktop dictation and interactive voice response applications. While there’s been some exploration into other areas, such growth is still early-stage. Recently, though, multiple companies have begun looking at the mobile phone as an area of promise for apps that can make use of speech recognition. Of course, [...]

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Innovation Wrap Up

September 13, 2010

For our September 21st monthly meeting, DFW-UPA’s members and future members gathered at imc2’s offices in North Dallas to hear Adam Polansky discuss ideas and innovation. Adam is a usability delivery manager for Travelocity. One of the main points he made was that having good ideas are not good enough–an idea must not only be [...]

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Sep 21 – Monthly Meeting (Adam Polansky and Innovation)

September 13, 2010

We’ve all heard the saying “Good ideas can come from anywhere”. Just about everyone has probably had at least one good idea in their life-time. When you believe you’re on to something, it’s can be frustrating trying to gain traction in the face of obstacles that can be technical, political, financial or organizational. Adam Polansky [...]

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2010 Conference Redux Wrap Up

August 28, 2010

The conference redux worked out well at Microsoft. A big thanks to Taylor Cowen for working to schedule the room for us. The faculty was professional and hospitable (there were 2 other user groups meeting that night). Lorie Whitaker gave us insight on UPA International in Munich where she explored the question of doing professional [...]

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Aug 24 – Conference Redux @ Microsoft

August 19, 2010

For those of you who were too busy to break away for the conferences that were held this year, DFW-UPA is hosting its annual conference redux session at Microsoft in Las Colinas. The session will be an informal meeting to go over the big take aways from everyone’s experiences at IA Summit, UPA International, and [...]

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