Emma Khare, UX Researcher · 2026
Bridging the people who build AI
and the people who live with it.
UX Researcher · Conversational AI & Consumer Hardware · Currently at Apple · San Jose, CA, open to roles
I'm Emma, a UX researcher trained in linguistics and anthropology.
My path started with reawakening myaamiaataweenki, my tribe's language, once declared extinct and rebuilt from archives. That work taught me how much people carry in the words they use, and I bring the same ear to conversational-AI research at Apple: hearing what people actually mean, not just what they say.
Survey design, moderation, and synthesis; ethnography, NLP, and IRB-compliant fieldwork, with care for the details that make research trustworthy.
Selected work · 2021, 2026
Research, end to end.
Story · Language revitalization
Myaamiaataweenki was never dead. Only asleep.
I'm a member of the myaamia people, the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma. The story of how our language was reawakened, and what it means to preserve data in the age of AI.
Read the story →Breathing new life into language.
What I bring
A research practice, not a deliverable.
Methods
Generative & evaluative research, ethnography, diary studies, usability testing, interviews, surveys, IRB compliance.
Synthesis
Personas, journey maps, opportunity matrices, mixed-methods evaluation frameworks, stakeholder readouts.
Domains
Conversational AI, consumer hardware, wearables & health, K-12 education, language preservation.
Stack
UserTesting, Python (NLTK, NRCLex, WordNet), Qualitative coding, Excel, Google Sheets.