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Leigh Clark

PhD

Senior UX Researcher

Leigh has 10 years’ experience in user research with emerging technologies. He has a leading expertise in voice and text systems and is co-founder of the ACM Conversational User Interfaces (CUI) conference series. Leigh has published extensively and organised conferences and workshops in this area. His recent work examines how to design voice interfaces to make them more inclusive. As an industry advisor to the Open Voice Network, he continues to work with global researchers to design ethical voice interface guidelines. Leigh holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Nottingham and is a Visiting Lecturer at University College Dublin.

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Something unique about you summed up in one sentence:

My first time on a plane was a 13-hour direct flight to Tokyo – it was not fun.

Your favorite city in the world is...and why?

York, UK. It’s a city full of history, amazing architecture, and home to some fantastic pubs. Best of all, you can see most of it in one day.

In your spare time (or if you had spare time), you would absolutely do this:

Keep working on that 200kg dead-lift goal. Any day now.

Your ultimate celebrity dinner party guest list would include...

Roisin Conaty, Greg Davies, Bob Mortimer, Miriam Margolyes

You cannot start the day without doing this...

Listening to music – and this is true for most of the day.

What would be your most valuable zombie apocalypse skill?

I’ve seen Zombieland about 10 times, so I know what the deal is.

Favorite TV show:

I’d love to say The Wire, but it’s definitely The Simpsons (Golden Era). Those episodes are burned into my brain.

Share an interesting fact:

I make fantastic curries – Indian, Pakistani, Thai you name it. I haven’t yet verified their authenticity but take it from me for the time being.

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When it comes to voice print UX, what is our role as researchers?

Oct 30, 2018

During a recent study, we asked participants how long they thought they would have to speak in order for their voice to be uniquely recognized (i.e., voice print). While their estimates varied widely - from 30 seconds to 30 minutes - most people said about three to...

UX principles for robot design: Have we begun to baseline?

Oct 5, 2018

As the robotics industry continues to find its way into our lives, we can begin to identify UX design principles to apply to this tech to increase the acceptance of robots and improve the human-robot interaction experience.

AI benefits from GPU, not CPU advancements

Sep 21, 2018

A quick follow-up to our blog posts about AI… The name of the game is no longer Moore's Law where we see processors getting exponentially faster. AI technology is driven not by computing processes of the past, but from an evolution beyond central processing unit (CPU)...