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Research Article used was “What Does It Really Mean to Delight Users?” by Karah Salaets.
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Project Overview
The project overview was centered on one picking up a UI/UX Research Article and delivering an awesome presentation on the article content. The article I picked was titled "What Does It Really Mean to Delight Users?" by Karah Salaets. Her article identifies the purpose for User Interface and User Experience Designers to design applications that delight users. To accomplish this objective, Karah Salaets in her article specifies three steps to follow.
My Contributions
I gave a presentation on this remarkable UI/UX research article by Karah Salaets to my fellow course mates on the need to design to delight users. I also gave a relation of her article content to my in-class Human-Computer Interaction concepts and the relevance of her research in the UI/UX field.
In brief, Karah Salaets expresses the idea about how User Experience as a field is fast growing hence gaining industry awareness and acceptance across domains. Hence she also stresses the idea that this awareness calls for the urgent need for UX designers to embrace the term "delight" when it comes to designing interfaces for users. This is because as User Experience defines the idea of designing to fit the experience of the user, delight which according to her is "the act of guiding designs" would help UX designers to effectively design to fit user experience. She illustrates three steps to identify delight in context. The next section illustrates them.
Brief Content of Article
"What Does It Really Mean to Delight Users?"
By Karah Salaets
According to Karah Salaets, to better have a great idea about users' experience to help you know how to design to fit the user, you have to observe "delight" to guide you to effectively know your users. Below are the steps she defines to help achieve them:

Step 1: Identify Key Moments or Interactions that generate anxiety or confusion. This step according to her explains you as a UX designer identifying or anticipating areas where users may have issues with or are stressed about when going about a task. Hence having identified them, try to design interventions to assist users either by introducing a better approach they can use throughout their user journey to make their interaction now easier.

‍Step 2: Analyze Comparable Experiences. This next step according to her depicts UX designers identifying some user experiences that are capable of compelling users to avoid interactions with a design and analyzing such experiences to avoid them in your designs. For example, if you are designing a form for users to fill out their details, try to use plain language, and understandable options so users feel at ease interacting with the application.

Step 3: Design to Delight. With Step 1 and Step 2 observed, Karah explains how one can design to delight because users are not Prepared(understanding the task to be completed when they view your design), Competent(Having a simplified design to help them in interaction) and lastly Confident(by following UX design conventions).
Identifying Delight in Context
By Karah Salaets
1. Karah's article stresses the idea that Users in the field of User Experience are of very high importance hence the need to make one design delight them. In-class HCI content also defines the User-Centered/Human-Centered Approach to Design as a vibrant approach to Human-Computer Interaction. Hence her theory and my in-class HCI content resonate well.

2. According to Karah, the first step in identifying delight is to Identify Key Moments or Interactions that generate anxiety or confusion. This defines looking out for areas in users' tasks that introduces the problem they face. In H.C.I, looking out for users' existing tasks helps to know users' current state to help you as a UI/UX designer know how to assist users to address their problems. This is another relation as well.
How this Article was related to In-Class Content

Computer Science Research Seminar

The Importance of Human Speech Data: Recognizing Human Input Speech in Speech-to-text Systems
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Project Overview
The increased availability of Speech-to-Text systems today has led to its utilization in various sectors. This project highlights the relevance and importance of human speech in today's Speech-to-Text Systems. This research highlights how Speech-to-Text systems are highly recognized for their functionality but little attention is given to recognizing how the introduction of the human speech made this technology possible. Some Speech-To-Text Systems were discussed to understand the importance of human speech in the success of these systems.
My Contributions
My contribution to this project was recognizing human speech in Speech-to-Text Systems such as the Interactive Voice Response (IVR) System and the Speech2Health System and indicating how relevant it is for human speech input to be provided before these Speech-to-Text Systems become operational.

Other contributions include an educational insight into the Evolution of Natural Language Processing by looking at the activities of ELIZA, a Chatbot created between 1964 and 1966. Insights were also provided into how we have transitioned with regards to Natural Language Processing from ELIZA to this present day by looking at some advancements in the Social, Technological, Educational, and Health sectors.
Research Paper can be found in the pasted link beneath the Research Project Title.
"The Importance of Human Speech Data: Recognizing Human Input Speech in Speech-to-text Systems"
By Karah Salaets

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