Leigh has 10 year's experience in conducting user research with emerging technologies. He has conducted work on making conversational interfaces more trustworthy and ethical, improving voice interfaces for people who stammer, and developing appropriate design guidelines for these technologies.

Martin Porcheron's PhD and academic work previously focused on the design and use of conversational technology in settings where there are multiple users. Martin uses conversation analysis in his design. Additionally, Martin is a founding member of the ACM Conversational User Interfaces (CUI) conference Steering Committee.