Drive-thru voice assistant
A conversation design: confirmation, repair and barge-in.
My role Team of 3. My 100% sections: Introduction; Products and Specifications; Deployment Location; Selecting an ASR Engine (vocabulary, barge-in, timeouts, unclear and invalid input handling); File Formatting. Shared 50/50: Operational Challenges; Interaction Scenarios.
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What needed solving.
The report names order-taking as the drive-thru bottleneck at peak times — stronger in Makkah during Hajj and Umrah. No data or citations back this, so it stands as a premise.
How I approached it.
Three decisions carry the conversation. Confirmation gets stricter as the chance of error grows: implicit for routine adds, explicit before payment. Each kind of breakdown — unclear or invalid input — gets its own repair. Barge-in and three timeouts decide who holds the turn.
Planned, not run.
No completed test results.
What this one leaves behind.
A 22-page specification with internal tensions the case study keeps rather than hides: touch is ruled out yet offered, Arabic support is cited yet every script is in English, and payment moves between the window and the kiosk.
What I took from it.
- reflection
A short reflection from Wejdan — to be written.
A team project; individual contributions as noted above.