1. Went to OLLI to carry out a usability study with Prime III.   The study was done to for the continuous enhancement of the Prime III system and to also continue a previous graduate student research in reference to where people touch touch-screens.  As always, when we carry out a feasibility study, the key is to get feedback from the users.  One of the main things that was being observed is to see if they participants touch the words on the button or if they just touch the button in general.  
2. I met with the Prime III group on Tuesday and each person gave updates regarding the progress of their particular tasks/project.  My main response was that, from the analysis of the data that was received from AIDB this year, it suggested that many persons liked the Prime III electronic voting system and thought that it was new and innovative technology.  The only negative comment was that, some did not like the mechanical voice that was used in Prime III and would prefer a more friendly or human voice.  However my mentor Dr. Gilbert explained to me that even though some may not like the mechanical voice, they can understand it.  We would not want users of the Prime III system ever thinking that they may be possibly interacting with a human being and not the Prime III interface.  
3. I also met with my advisor for my weekly meeting, and the main thing that we discussed and worked on were the progress report which he had to do, and I also had to work on the progress report that I had to do.
4. I started research on OCR.

1. My main task for the seventh week of my internship was to research Optical Character Recognition (OCR).  The results from my research proved that there are current versions of Java libraries for OCR.  However, the main issue with OCR although it would be an excellent advantage for Prime III is that its accuracy level is very low.  There is no room for error when one is referring to Prime III, and essentially an electronic voting system in general.
2. In addition to doing detailed research about Optical Character Recognition I also updated my website as I do every week.

1. In reference to the eight week of my research experience, for half of the week I continued my detailed research about OCR and for the other half I went to the African American Researches in Computing Sciences (AARCS) conference at Microsoft Research in Seattle, Washington.  The AARCS conference is aimed to broaden the involvement of African Americans at the levels of Tenure track faculty and research scientist in the computing sciences.   Essentially the AARCS conference is targeted to give information to African Americans about research, graduate school and the reason why it is critical.   
2. For me, going to Seattle, Washington at Microsoft Research was the best part of my experience.  I finally got the opportunity to go to Microsoft, which has been my dream from ever since and the best part of it is that I made some excellent contacts for the future.  
3. I also updated my website as I normally do on a weekly basis.  

1. The final week of my research experience was very stressful for me.  I completed my research on OCR and essentially my research project.  I then had to write a technical paper on my entire research experience which is available of the home page of this website.  
2. I had to fully update my entire website with all I had done this summer with regards to my DREU experience and I also added a couple more connected pages with additional information about my research experience.  
3. In addition to everything that I had to do relating to my research, there were numerous task that I had to do that were not directly related to my research such as pay for the housing, return ID cards, keys and many other related task which all took a lot longer than I anticipated.
4. In spite of all that I had to do, I do not know how I did it, but I certainly got it all done.
5. I also had to meet with my mentor on two separate occasions throughout the week and I also had to do an exit survey for the DREU program.