Vishesh Sharma

About

Please write to me at reachvishesh21@gmail.com Over the years, I have refined my workflow, which involves identifying system capability (AI complexity) as I ideate and prototype, ensuring a user-centered approach. Furthermore, I have worked on augmenting speech therapy via 3D avatars grounded in NLP and ASR, resulting in the union of conversational user interfaces and human-centered AI. Lastly, I have designed spatial experiences to promote local history in downtown Indianapolis. My experience in software development makes me an effective inter-department communicator. While pursuing a Master's in Human-Computer Interaction, I focused on cognitive neuroscience and behavioral psychology, which furthered my knowledge of AI perception and how to design for it. Additionally, my bachelor's in manufacturing engineering with a focus on human factors enables me to create accessible, intuitive, and visually appealing solutions. Moreover, I pursued my research interests encompassing human-AI interactions, phonetics, and motor-speech disorders.

Experience

• Senior Product Designer | Human–AI Collaborator · NIOV LABS06-01-2025

  - Designed AI interaction prompts and 4 scenarios for a zero-to-one product, collaborating with AI engineers to create human-AI collaboration. - Established over 417 tokens for a design system library to ensure scalability and consistency for multimodal conversational AI interactions. - Created evaluation frameworks for AI conversation, improving human-AI communication by breaking down interaction patterns and data silos.

• Product Designer | Tangible Experiences · Johnson Controls08-01-2024 – 06-01-2025

  - Managed the design of key remote door access features--alerts, activity tracking, and visitor management, augmenting the experience for 200 employees, after drawing insights from 14 user interviews and 3 field visits. - Incorporated customized gesture recognition based on hierarchy, improving usability and employee autonomy, helping the team potentially increase the market size of Johnson Controls by 20 percent. - Came up with digital access cards reducing the dependency on physical cards, overcoming problems like risk of loss and wear and tear through regular use, and aligning the solution with sustainable development practices.

• Lead UX Researcher | Trustworthy AI · Comet Lab (Convergent Media and Exploratory Technologies Lab)01-01-2024 – 05-01-2025

  I am working with Professor Robert Comer to understand human perception of complex AI models based on system capability and evolving complexity. - Directed over 10 interviews with professionals in AI and HCI to understand the cognitive load of human-AI interactions, based on a protocol focused on task load analysis and user experience questionnaire to quantify the thinking load and user perception respectively. - Coordinated the development of COMET Lab’s AI guidelines helping 110 lab members attain coherence between human expectations and AI capabilities, by identifying emerging themes like trust, transparency, and user autonomy via open-coding and thematic analysis. - Developed voice-enabled interfaces to improve accessibility for users with reduced ability, by implementing text-to-speech functionality and fine-tuning existing models, achieving an accuracy of 97 percent.

• Graduate Research Assistant | Spatial Design · Indiana University Indianapolis08-01-2023 – 05-01-2025

  Building spatial interactions to promote local discovery of the historical sites in Indianapolis, under the mentorship of Prof. Zebulun Maxwell Wood. - Conducted cognitive walkthroughs and user interviews to identify environment variables like noise, traffic, safety, and collective stigma as the components of hesitance while adopting augmented reality. - Improved historical monument exploration time by 150 percent in Downtown Indianapolis helping tourists and students realize the significance of historical developments, by designing spatial experiences for social games in Unity. - Led sessions on thematic analysis and axial coding, mentoring junior designers on the fundamentals. Resolving any code conflict along the way.

• Lead Designer | AI Agent Behavior · IIIT Hyderabad08-01-2022 – 06-01-2023

  Defined AI complexity frameworks for the interface design of cooperative social games with a non-zero-sum framework, to understand human-AI collaboration under limited visibility or when players are geographically separated. - Boosted user retention by 400 percent making the game accessible to a wider user base, by implementing responsive design systems. - Achieved 100-plus concurrent gaming sessions, optimizing data collection efficiency through effective player matching between sessions. - Defined AI complexity which translated into building trust and increasing engagement between the user base and AI agents, reflected the same when creating over 120 responsive screens. - Decreased design turnaround time by 40 percent which enhanced effective working hours to an additional 8 hours per week, through the implementation of a design system library in Figma, opening up more time to tackle novel problems, brainstorming, and prototyping.

Education

• Indiana University IndianapolisMaster of Science - MS, Human Computer Interaction
• BITS Pilani, Hyderabad CampusBachelor of Engineering - BE, Manufacturing Engineering
• Christ Church Boys' Senior Secondary SchoolHigh School Diploma, Math and Science

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