Conversational Design Portfolio
I create conversational agents. With more than 10 years of experience designing and building dialogue systems, and a background in linguistics, I’m particularly interested in the impact of conversational interfaces on accessibility.
You can check out the high level information on some of my past projects below, or download my entire portfolio to learn more.
Radar Pace is smart eyewear with conversational coaching for running and cycling that comes from a partnership between Oakley and Intel. It launched in October 2016 in English, Spanish, French, Italian, and German. I lead the conversation design for Radar Pace, as well as contributing to the development of the NLU and template generation.
Watch a demo here.
I'm the Director of Conversational Experience at Civitas, building Sam: a conversational AI-powered digital assistant that answers FAQS for police agencies. It transforms policing by making non-emergency services more available, accessible and approachable. Sam is currently in live beta on the websites of four partner police departments.
Lead Conversational Experience Designer for a retail pharmacy IVR (interactive voice response phone system). I joined the team at the skeletal design phase and shepherded it to go-live in May 2019. Key responsibilities included: completing the full design, creating the technical design, managing localization, prompt recordings, and building a positive client relationship.
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Lead Conversation Designer and Dialog Engineer on an R&D prototype of an embodied virtual agent, in the form of a kiosk, that was capable of single- and multi-party dialog. Key responsibilities included: designing all interactions, collecting data, creating the intent model and implementing all behavior in C#.
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Consulted on the conversational experiences with a client with multiple existing chatbots. Made a suite of detailed recommendations to adjust prompting to decrease drop-off rates and improve flows to be more natural and conversational.
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Conversational Experience Designer for a banking IVR (interactive voice response phone system). I joined during the requirements phase and saw it through the first two phases of development. Key responsibilities included: creating the persona, designing the balance and transaction modules, prompt recordings, and customer education.
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Reach out to me at gwen.christian@gmail.com to get started!