Conversation Design Institute was founded in 2018 by Hans van Dam and Olaf Igesz. They believed that recognizing, developing, and promoting the role of the conversation designer was crucial to advancing trust and communication between humans and AI Assistants.
The CDI Foundation is a non-profit organisation dedicated to developing and promoting design standards for conversational AI Assistants. We do this through research, education and industry development.
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Peter Thomas, director of FORWARD at RMIT University, and Helen Babb-Delia, CEO of Yes Get It, will lead a workshop exploring key issues in conversati…
Developing Voice Worthy of User Trust
Explore key considerations for developing voice experiences that users can trust with Oita Coleman, Jon Stine, and Jasper Klimbie from OVN.
Ethics: 4 Scenarios for the Future of Voice
Ethics: Data, a Guide to Humans
Data is important, but data without empathy is useless. In this session we will learn about how cognitive empathy is a learnable core skill that makes…
Ethics: Intro to CXD Ethics
Cami Rincon from the Alan Turing Institute introduces the Conversation Design Institute’s new AI ethics course, exploring how to integrate fairness, a…
Ethics: What Does it Mean to be Conversational
This talk rethinks 'conversational' by exploring connections between conversation analysis and design. With 50 years of research on social interaction…
Soft Skills
Data is important, but data without empathy is useless. In this session we will learn about how cognitive empathy is a learnable core skill that makes…
The Future of Human and Virtual Collaboration
A 3-5 year view of how virtual assitants will become ubiquitous and part of how we manage our personal lives. For that to come about we explore what n…
Workshop: Diversifying Intent Training Data
Many chatbots to this day, are still linguistically biased. To combat this, we must diversify the linguistic data we use to train our bots. In this ta…