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2025

  • Residual Mobilities and Religious Practices: Exploring the Experiences of the Hindu Migrants in Canada

Ananya Bhattacharjee, Mohammad Rashidujjaman Rifat, Dipto Das, S M Taiabul Haque, and Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed

CSCW 2025

  • On the Reliability of Large Language Models to Misinformed and Demographically-Informed Prompts

Toluwani Aremu, Oluwakemi Akinwehinmi, Chukwuemeka Nwagu, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, Rita Orji, Pedro Arnau Del Amo, Abdulmotaleb El Saddik

AI Magazine

2024

  • Computing and the Stigmatized: Trust, Surveillance, and Space Politics with the Sex Workers in Bangladesh

Pratyasha Saha, Nadira Nadira Nowsher, Ayien Utshob Baidya, Nusrat Jahan Mim, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, S M Taiabul Haque

CHI 2024

Best Paper Award!

  • Understanding the Role of Large Language Models in Personalizing and Scaffolding Strategies to Combat Academic Procrastination 

Ananya Bhattacharjee, Yuchen Zeng, Sarah Yi Xu, Dana Kulzhabayeva, Minyi Ma, Rachel Kornfield, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, Alex Mariakakis, Mary P Czerwinski, Anastasia Kuzminykh, Michael Liut, Joseph Jay Williams

CHI 2024

Best Paper Honorable Mention Award!

  • Politics of the Past: Understanding the Role of Memory, Postmemory, and Remembrance in Navigating the History of Migrant Families

Nabila Chowdhury, Natasha Shokri, Cibeles Herrera Valera, Azhagu Meena SP, Carolina Reyes Marquez, Mohammad Rashidujjaman Rifat, Marisol Wong-Villacres, Cosmin Munteanu, Negin Dahya, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed

CHI 2024

  • In-Between Visuals and Visible: The Impacts of Text-to-Image Generative AI Tools on Digital Image-making Practices [PDF]

Nusrat Jahan Mim, Dipannita Nandi, Sadaf Sumyia Khan, Arundhuti Dey, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed

CHI 2024

  • Cohabitant: The Design, Implementation, and Evaluation of a Virtual Reality Application for Interfaith Learning and Empathy Building

Mohammad Rashidujjaman Rifat, Reem Ayad, Ashratuz Zavin Asha, Bingjian Huang, Selin Okman, Dina Sabie, Hasan Shahid Ferdous, Robert Soden, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed

CHI 2024

  • Towards a Non-Ideal Methodological Framework for Responsible ML

Ramaravind Kommiya Mothilal, Shion Guha, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed

CHI 2024

  • Hearing Community Voices in HCI4D: Establishing Safe Places to Co-Create Counter-Collective Narratives with Women Farmers in Bangladesh

Manika Saha, Stephen Lindsay, Jessica L Watterson, Tom Bartindale, Delvin Varghese, Mallika Saha, Gillian C. Oliver, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, Patrick Olivier

CHI 2024

  • The Politics of Fear and the Experience of Bangladeshi Religious Minority Communities Using Social Media Platforms 

Mohammad Rashidujjaman Rifat*, Dipto Das*, Arpon Poddar, Mahiratul Jannat, Robert Soden, Bryan Semaan, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed 

CSCW 2024

  • Data, Annotation, and Meaning-Making: The Politics of Categorization in Annotating a Dataset of Faith-based Communal Violence

Mohammad Rashidujjaman Rifat, Abdullah Hasan Safir, Sourav Saha, Jahedul Alam Junaed, Maryam Saleki, Mohammad Ruhul Amin, and Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed 

FaccT 2024

  • A Civics-oriented Approach to Understanding Intersectionally Marginalized Users' Experience with Hate Speech Online

Achhiya Sultana, Dipto Das, Saadia Binte Alam, Mohammad Shidujaman, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed 

ICTD 2024

  • The Ancient Elephant in the Room: Stigma, Gender Norms, and Cultural Barriers in Reproductive Care in Bangladesh

Hafsah Mahzabin Chowdhury,  Mizanur Rahman, Rokeya Akter, Zinnat Sultana, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, Sharifa Sultana 

ICTD 2024

  • mCARE: Integrating Mobile Phones, Caregivers, and Health Practitioners to Provide Regular Monitoring and Care for the Children with ASD in Bangladesh

Md M Haque, Md Ishrak Islam, Masud Rabbani, Dipranjan Das, Amy Schwichtenberg, Naveen Bansal, Tanjir Rashid Soron , Shahana Parvee , Shaheen Akhter, Azima Begum, Shah A Patwary, Austin Schmidt, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, and Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed 

Pervasive Health 2024

 

 

2023

  • Be Our Guest: Intercultural Heritage Exchange through Augmented Reality (AR)

Dina Sabie, Hala Sheta, Hasan Ferdous, Vannie Kopalakrishnan, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed

CHI 2023

  • Communicating Consequences: Visual Narratives, Abstraction, and Polysemy in Rural Bangladesh

Sharifa Sultana, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, Jeffrey M Rzeszotarski

CHI 2023

  • User Perceptions and Experiences of Targeted Ads on Social Media Platforms: Learning from Bangladesh
    and India

Tanusree Sharma, Smirity Kaushik, Yaman Yu, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed
CHI 2023

  • Community Voice as Data: Affordances of Participatory Videos for International Program Development

Manika Saha, Tom Bartindale, Delvin Varghese, Stephen Lindsay , Dan Richardson, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, Patrick Olivier
CHI 2023

  • A Matter of Time: Anticipation Work and Digital Temporalities in Refugee Humanitarian Assistance in Turkey

Cansu Ekmekcioglu, Priyank Chandra, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed
CSCW 2023

  • Combating Islamophobia: Compromise, Community, and Harmony in Mitigating Harmful Online Content

Mohammad Rashidujjaman Rifat, Ashratuz Zavin Asha, Shivesh Singh Jadon, Xinyi Yan, Shion Guha, and Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed

ACM Transactions on Social Computing (TSC)

  • “What‘s the Point of Having this Conversation?”: From a Telephone Crisis Helpline in Bangladesh to the Decolonization of Mental Health Services

Ananya Bhattacharjee, Sharifa Sultana, Mohammad Ruhul Amin, Yeshim Iqbal, Syed Ishtiaque
Ahmed

COMPASS 2023

  • A First Look into Software Security Practices in Bangladesh

Ankit Shreshtha, Tanusree Sharma, Pratyasha Saha, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, Mahdi Nasrullah
Al-Ameen

COMPASS 2023

2022

  • Putting The Waz on the Social Media:  Infrastructuring Online Islamic Counterpublic through Digital Sermons in Bangladesh

Mohammad Rashidujjaman Rifat, Hasan Mahmud Prottoy, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed

CHI 2022

  • ShishuShurokkha: A Transformative Justice Approach for Combating Child Sexual Abuse in Bangladesh

Sharifa Sultana,  Sadia Tasnuva Pritha,  Rahnuma Tasnim,  Anik Das,  Rokeya Akter,  Shaid Hasan, S.M. Raihanul Alam, Muhammad Ashad Kabir, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed

CHI 2022

  • "Kabootar": Towards Informal, Trustworthy, and Community-Based FinTech for Marginalized Immigrants

Yasaman Rohanifar, Sharifa Sultana, Shaid Hasan, Priyank Chandra, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed

CSCW 2022

  • Situating Public Speaking: The Politics and Poetics of the Digital Islamic Sermons in Bangladesh

Mohammad Rashidujjaman Rifat, Mohammad Ruhul Amin, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed

CSCW 2022

  • AI and Disaster Risk: A Practitioner Perspective

Aparna Moitra, Robert Soden, Manveer Kalirai, Dennis Wagenaar, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed

CSCW 2022

  • Imagined Online Communities: Communionship, Sovereignty, and Inclusiveness in Bangladeshi Facebook Groups

Sharifa Sultana, Pratyasha Saha, Shaid Hasan, S.M. Raihanul Alam, Rokeya Akter, Md Mirajul Islam, Raihan Islam Arnob, A.K.M. Najmul Islam, Mahdi Nasrullah Al-Ameen, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed

CSCW 2022

  • Towards Sustainable ICTD in Bangladesh: Understanding the Program and Policy Landscape and its Implications for CSCW and HCI

Manika Saha, Delvin Varghese, Tom Bartindale, Shakuntala Haraksingh Thilsted, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, Patrick Olivier

CSCW 2022

  • Critically Engaging with Embedded Values through Constrained Technology Design

Dan Richardson, Bronwyn J. Cumbo, Tom Bartindale,Delvin Varghese, Manika Saha, Pratyasha Saha, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, Gillian C. Oliver, Patrick Olivier

DIS 2022

  • Understanding the Strategies and Practices of Facebook Microcelebrities in the Global South

Dipto Das, A.K.M. Najmul Islam, S M Taiabul Haque, Jukka Vuorinen, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed

ICTD 2022

  • Toleration Factors: The Expectations of Decorum, Civility, and Certainty on Rural Social Media

Sharifa Sultana, Rokeya Akter, Zinnat Sultana, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed

ICTD 2022

  • Connecting Mental Health with Sustainable Development Goals: Insights from Call Data of a Telephone Crisis Helpline in Bangladesh

Ananya Bhattacharjee, Mohammad Ruhul Amin, Yeshim Iqbal, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed

ICTD 2022

  • Commissioning Development: Grantmaking, Community Voices, and their Implications for ICTD

Manika Saha, Tom Bartindale, Sharifa Sultana, Gillian Oliver, Dan Richardson, Shakuntala Haraksingh Thilsted, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, Patrick Olivier

ICTD 2022

  • A Decade of International Migration Research in HCI: Overview, Challenges, Ethics, Impact, and Future Directions

Dina Sabie, Cansu Ekmekcioglu, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed

ACM ToCHI 2022

  • Personality-targeted persuasive gamified systems: exploring the impact of application domain on the effectiveness of behaviour change strategies

Chinenye Ndulue, Oladapo Oyebode, Ravishankar Subramani Iyer, Anirudh Ganesh, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, Rita Orji

Springer Nature 2022

  • What Influences Algorithmic Decision-Making? A Systematic Literature Review on Algorithm Aversion

Hasan Mahmud, , AKM Najmul Islam, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed,  Kari Smolander

Technological Forecasting & Social Change. 2022

  • A Mobile Health Application for Monitoring the Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder: ASD Monitoring by mHealth

Masud Rabbani, Muniru l M. Haque, Dipranjan Das Dipal, Md Ishrak Islam Zarif, Anik Iqbal, Shaheen Akhter, Shahana Parveen, Mohammad Rasel, Tanjir Rashid Soron, Naveen Bansal, Amy Schwichtenberg, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed

Book Chapter in AI Applications for Disease Diagnosis and Treatment, IGI Global, 2022

  • Ethical Dilemmas: Reflections on Designing Pictorial Consent Forms from a Fieldwork

Manika Saha, Tom Bartindale, Sharifa Sultana, Gillian Oliver, Shakuntala Haraksingh Thilsted, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed and Patrick Olivier

ECSCW 2022 Pictorial

2021

  • ‘Unmochon’: A Tool to Combat Online Sexual Harassment over Facebook Messenger [PDF]

Sharifa Sultana, Mitrasree Deb, Ananya Bhattacharjee, Shaid Hasan, S.M.Raihanul Alam, Trishna Chakraborty, Prianka Roy, Samira Fairuz Ahmed, Aparna Moitra, M Ashraful Amin, Najmul Islam, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed

CHI 2021

Best Paper Honorable Mention Award

  • Chasing Luck: Use of Statistical Probability, Faith, Hunch, and Cultural Norms in Rural Betting Practices [PDF]

Sharifa Sultana, MD. Mobaydul Haque Mozumder, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed

CHI 2021 

  • Money Whispers: Informality, International Politics, and Immigration in Transnational Finance

Yasaman Rohanifar, Priyank Chandra, Md. Ataur Rahman, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed

CHI 2021

  • Exploring the Tensions between the Owners and the Drivers of Uber Cars in Urban Bangladesh

S M Taiabul Haque, Rayhan Rashed, Mehrab Bin Morshed, Naeemul Hassan, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed

CSCW 2021

  • Parsing the 'Me' in #MeToo: Sexual Harassment, Social Media, and Justice Infrastructures [PDF]

Aparna Moitra, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, Priyank Chandra

CSCW 2021

  • Measurements of Device and App Usage in Google Play Store Search Optimization Campaigns

Nestor Hernandez, Ruben Recabarren, Bogdan Carbunar, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed

IMC 2021

  • Purdah, Amanah, and Gheebat: Understanding Privacy in Bangladeshi "pious” Muslim Communities 

Mohammad Rashidujjaman Rifat, Mahiratul Jannat, Mahdi Nasrullah Al-Ameen, S M Taiabul Haque, Muhammad Ashad Kabir,  Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed

COMPASS 2021

  • Privacy during Pandemic: A Global View of Privacy Practices around COVID-19 Apps 

Tanusree Sharma, Md. Mirajul Islam, Anupam Das, S. M. Taiabul Haque,  Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed

COMPASS 2021

  • Opaque Obstacles: The Role of Stigma, Rumor, and Superstition in Limiting Women’s Access to Computing in Rural Bangladesh 

Sharifa Sultana, Ilan Mandel, Shaid Hasan, S.M. Raihanul Alam, Khandaker Reaz, Zinnat Sultana, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed

COMPASS 2021

  • Pandemic, Repair, and Resilience: Coping with Technology Breakdown during COVID-19 

Rayhan Rashed, Mohammad Rashidujjaman Rifat, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed

COMPASS 2021

  • A Fair and Ethical Healthcare Artificial Intelligence System for Monitoring Driver Behavior and Preventing Road Accidents

Soraia Oueida, Soaad Qahhār Hossain, Yehia Kotb, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed

FTC 2021

  • An mCARE study on patterns of risk and resilience for children with ASD in Bangladesh 

Masud Rabbani, Munirul M Haque, Dipranjan Das Dipal, Md Ishrak Islam Zarif, Anik Iqbal, Amy Schwichtenberg, Naveen Bansal, Tanjir Rashid Soron, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed

Scientific Reports 2021

  • Understanding The Social Determinants Of Mental Health Of The Undergraduate Students In Bangladesh: Interview Study 

Ananya Bhattacharjee, S M Taiabul Haque, Abdul Hady, S.M. Raihanul Alam, Mashfiqui Rabbi, Muhammad Ashad Kabir, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed

JMIR Formative Research 2021

  • Informing Developmental Milestone Achievement for Children With Autism: Machine Learning Approach

Munirul M. Haque, Masud Rabbani, Dipranjan Das Dipal, Md Ishrak Islam Zarif, Anik Iqbal, Amy Schwichtenberg, Naveen Bansal, Tanjir Rashid Soron, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed

JMIR Medical Informatics 2021

  • Mobile-Based Care for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) for Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs)

Munirul M Haque, Masud Rabbani, Dipranjan Das Dipal, Md Ishrak Islam Zarif, Anik Iqbal, Shaheen Akhter, Shahana Parveen, Mohammad Rasel, Golam Rabbani, Faruq Alam, Tanjir Rashid Soron, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed 

Journal of Psychiatry and Brain Science 2021

  • Mental Health and Sensing

Abdul Kawsar Tushar, Muhammad Ashad Kabir, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed

Chapter in Signal Processing Techniques for Computational Health Informatics

  • Negotiating Intersectional Non-Normative Queer Identities in India

Aparna Moitra, Megh Marathe, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, Priyank Chandra

CHI 2021 Extended Abstract (companion proceedings)

  • Designing with the internally displaced slum dwellers in Bangladesh

Abdullah Hasan Safir, Nusrat Jahan Mim, SM Taiabul Haque, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed

ACM Interactions 2021

  • Fighting Coronavirus with Faith: Religious and Parareligious Responses to Covid-19 in Rural Bangladesh

Sharifa Sultana, AKM Najmul Islam, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed

ACM Interactions 2021

2020

  • Memory through Design: Supporting Cultural Identity for Immigrants through a Paper-Based Home Drafting Tool. [PDF]

Dina Sabie, Samar Sabie, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed

CHI 2020 

Best Paper Honorable Mention Award

  • Others' Images: Online Social Media, Architectural Improvisations, and Spatial Marginalization in Bangladesh. [PDF]

Nusrat Jahan Mim, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed

CHI 2020

Best Paper Honorable Mention Award

  • Money Whispers: Informality, International Politics, and Immigration in Transnational Finance

Yasaman Rohanifar, Priyank Chandra, Md. Ataur Rahman, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed

CHI 2020

*Publication deferred to CHI 2021 

  • Religion and Sustainability: Lessons of Sustainable Computing from Islamic Religious Communities. [PDF]

Mohammad Rashidujjaman Rifat, Toha Tariq, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed

CSCW 2020

  • Combating Misinformation in Bangladesh: Roles and Responsibilities as Perceived by Journalists, Fact-checkers, and Users

Md Mahfuzul Haque, Mohammad Yousuf, Ahmed Shatil Alam, Pratyasha Saha, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, Naeemul Hassan

CSCW 2020

  • Seeing in Context: Traditional Visual Communication Practices in Rural Bangladesh

Sharifa Sultana, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, Jeffrey M Rzeszotarski

CSCW 2020

  • Infrastructuring Hope: Solidarity, Leadership, Negotiation, and ICT among the Rohingya Refugees in Bangladesh

Faheem Hussain, Abdullah Hasan Safir, Dina Sabie, Zulkarin Jahangir, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed

ICTD 2020

  • Privacy Vulnerabilities in Public Digital Service Centers in Dhaka, Bangladesh

S M Taiabul Haque, Md. Romael Haque, Swapnil Nandy, Priyank Chandra, Mahdi Nasrullah Al-Ameen, Shion Guha, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed

ICTD 2020

  • "We Need More Power to Stand Up'': Designing to Combat Stigmatization of the Caregivers of Children with Autism in Urban Bangladesh

Abdul Kawsar Tushar, Iffat Jahan Antara, Dipto Das, Priyank Chandra, Tanjir Rashid Soron, Md Munirul Haque, Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed

ICTD 2020

  • Understanding the Challenges for Bangladeshi Women to Participate in #MeToo Movement. [PDF]

Aparna Moitra, Naeemul Hassan, Manash Kumar Mandal, Mansurul Bhuiyan, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed

GROUP 2020 

  • Towards Automated Sexual Violence Report Tracking

Naeemul Hassan, Amrit Poudel, Jason Hale, Claire Hubacek, Khandakar Tasnim Huq, Shubhra Kanti Karmaker Santu, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed

ICWSM 2020 

  • "We Don’t Give a Second Thought Before Providing Our Information": Understanding Users’ Perceptions of Information Collection by Apps in Urban Bangladesh

Mahdi Nasrullah Al-Ameen, Tanjina Tamanna, Swapnil Nandy, M A Manazir Ahsan, Priyank Chandra, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed

COMPASS 2020

  • Computer Vision Applications and their Ethical Risks in the Global South

Charles-Olivier Dufresne Camaro, Fanny Chevalier, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed

GI 2020

  • How Well Does Undergraduate Education Prepare Software Engineers? Perspectives of Practitioners in Bangladesh

Ishtiaque Hussain, Ahmed Shamim Hasan, Rafed Muhammad Yasir, Ahmedul Kabir, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed

CSEE&T 2020

  • Ethical Analysis on the Application of Neurotechnology for Human Augmentation in Physicians and Surgeons

Soaad Q. Hossain, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed

FTC 2020

  • Towards Developing A Mobile-Based Care for Children with ASD (mCARE) in Low and Middle income Countries (LMICs) like Bangladesh

Munirul M. Haque, Dipranjan Das Dipal, Masud Rabbani, Md Ishrak Islam Zarif, Anik Iqbal,
Shaheen Akhter, Shahana Parveen, Mohammad Rasel, Basana Rani Muhuri, Tanjir Soron, Syed
Ishtiaque Ahmed, Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed

COMPSAC 2020 

  • The Hidden Risks of E-Waste: Perspectives from Environmental Engineering, Epidemiology, Environmental Health, and Human-Computer Interaction. [PDF]

Nirupam Aich, Katarzyna Kordas, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, Tara Sabo-Attwood

Chapter in "Transforming Global Health", Springer 2020

  • Measuring exposure of e-waste dismantlers in Dhaka Bangladesh to organophosphate esters and halogenated flame retardants using silicone wristbands and T-shirts. [PDF]

Yan Wang, Andrea Peris, Mohammad Rashidujjaman Rifat, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, Nirupam Aich, Linh V. Nguyen, Jakub Urík, Ethel Eljarrat, Branislav Vrana, Liisa M. Jantunen, Miriam L. Diamond

Science of the Total Environment, Elsevier, 2020

  • Critical Requirements Engineering in Practice. [PDF]

Leticia Duboc, Curtis McCord, Christoph Becker, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed

IEEE Software 2020

  • Exploring How International Graduate Students in the US Seek Support. [PDF]

Tamanna Motahar, Mahmood Jasim, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, Narges Mahyar

Late-Breaking Work CHI 2020 (companion proceedings)

  • Parareligious-HCI: Designing for 'Alternative' Rationality in Rural Wellbeing in Bangladesh. [PDF]

Sharifa Sultana, Zinnat Sultana, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed

alt. CHI 2020 (companion proceedings)

  • The ‘Imagined Communities’ Online: Understanding the Sensibility of Solidarity, Sovereignty, and Connectedness with Bangladeshi Facebook Groups. 

Sharifa Sultana, Shaid Hasan, Pratyasha Saha, Rokeya Akter, S.M. Raihanul Alam, Raihan Islam
Arnob, Md. Mirajul Islam, Mahdi Nasrullah Al-Ameen, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed

COMPASS 2020 (short paper)

2019

  • The Breaking Hand: Knowledge, Care, and Sufferings of the Hand of an Electronic Waste Worker in Bangladesh

Mohammad Rashidujjaman Rifat, Hasan Mahmud Prottoy, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed

CHI 2019 

Best Paper Honorable Mention Award

  • "Everyone Has Some Personal Stuff”: Designing to Support Digital Privacy with Shared Mobile Phone Use in Bangladesh 

Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, Md. Romael Haque, Irtaza Haider, Jay Chen, Nicola Dell

CHI 2019

  • Witchcraft and HCI: Morality, Modernity, and Postcolonial Computing in Rural Bangladesh 

Sharifa Sultana, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed

CHI 2019 ​

  • Of Ulti, ‘Hajano’, and “Matachetar otanetak datam”: Exploring Local Practices of Exchanging Confidential and Sensitive Information in Urban Bangladesh 

S M Taiabul Haque, Pratyasha Saha, Muhammad Sajidur Rahman, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed

CSCW 2019 ​

  • “Parar-daktar Understands My Problems Better”: Disentangling the Challenges to Designing Better Access to Healthcare in Rural Bangladesh 

Sharifa Sultana, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, Susan Fussell

CSCW 2019

  • Trust and Technology Repair Infrastructures in the Remote Rural Philippines: Navigating Urban-Rural Seams 

Esther Jang, Philip Garrison, Mary Claire Barela, Ronel Vincent Vistal, Thessa Cunanan, Philip Martinez, Mia Perez, Matthew William Johnson, Andoy Evangelista, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, Josephine Dionisio, Kurtis Heimerl

CSCW 2019

Diversity and Inclusion Award

  • "My cousin bought the phone for me. I never go to mobile shops”: The Role of Family in Women’s Technological Inclusion in Islamic Culture 

Samia Ibtasam, Lubna Razaq, Maryam Ayub, Jennifer R Webster, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, Richard Anderson

CSCW 2019

  • The Art and Craft of Fraudulent App Promotion in Google Play

Mizanur Rahman, Nestor Hernandez, Ruben Recabarren, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, Bogdan Carbunar

CCS 2019

  • Online Sexual Harassment over Anonymous Social Media in Bangladesh

Fayika Farhat Nova, Shion Guha, Md. Rashidujjaman Rifat, Pratyasha Saha, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, Shion Guha

ICTD 2019

  • Exile Within Borders: Understanding the Limits of the Internally Displaced People (IDPs) in Iraq 

Dina Sabie, Samar Sabie, Cansu Ekmekcioglu Dedeoglu, Yasaman Rohanifar, Fatma Hashim, Steve Easterbrook, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed

LIMITS 2019 

  • Moving into a Technology Land: Exploring the Challenges of the Refugees in Canada in Accessing its Computerized Infrastructures

Dina Sabie, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed

COMPASS 2019

  • Can Women Break the Glass Ceiling?: An Analysis of #MeToo Hashtagged Posts on Twitter 

Naeemul Hassan, Manash Kumar Mandal, Mansurul Bhuiyan, Aparna Moitra, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed

ASONAM 2019 

  • Health risk assessment of heavy metals in E-waste recycling shops in Dhaka, Bangladesh 

Marfua Mowla, Ehsanur Rahman, Hasan Mahmud Prottoy, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, Nirupam Aich, Nafisa Islam

iCERP 2019 

  • Silencing the Minority through Domination in Social Media Platform: Impact on the Pluralistic Bangladeshi Society 

Arpeeta Shams Mizan, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed

ELCOP Yearbook of Human Rights

  • Nonparticipation of Bangladeshi women in# MeToo movement

Naeemul Hassan, Manas Kumar Mandal, Mansulurl Alam Bhuiyan, Aparna Moitra, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed

ICTD 2019 (poster/ short paper)

 

  • Shada Baksho: a hardware device to explore the fears of using mobile phones among the rural women of Bangladesh

Sharifa Sultana, Shaid Hasan, Khandaker Reaz Mahmud, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed

ICTD 2019 (poster/short paper) 

  • Ambivalence: Simultaneous Tactile Experiences of Using and Recycling Smartphones

Yasaman Rohanifar, Mohammad Rashidujjaman Rifat, Nusrat Jahan Mim, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed

DIS 2019 (Demo)

2018

  • Designing for Voice: The Challenges of Access, Autonomy, and Accountability 

Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed 

Ph.D. Thesis, Cornell University.

  • Digital Privacy Challenges with Shared Mobile Phone Use in Bangladesh

Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, Md. Romael Hoque, Jay Chen, Nicola Dell

CSCW 2017/18

  • Making or Making Do?  Challenging the Mythologies of Making and Hacking

Morgan G. Ames, Silvia Lindtner, Shaowen Bardzell, Jeffrey Bardzell, Lilly Nguyen, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, Nusrat Jahan, Steven J. Jackson, Paul Dourish

Journal of Peer Production, Vol.  12, 2018.

  • , Confronting Autism in Urban Bangladesh: Unpacking Infrastructural and Cultural Challenges

Upol Ehsan, Nazmus Sakib, Md Munirul Haque, Tanjir Soron, Devansh Saxena, Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed, Amy Schwichtenberg, Golam Rabbani, Shaheen Akter, Faruq Alam, Azima Begum, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed

EAI Transactions on Pervasive Health and Technology. Vol. 4(14), 2018

2017

  • Privacy, Security, and Surveillance in the Global South: A Study of Biometric Mobile SIM Registration in Bangladesh

Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, Md. Romael Hoque, Shion Guha, Md. Rashidujjaman Rifat, Nicola Dell

CHI 2017

 

  • Market Practices and the Bazaar: Technology Consumption in Informal ICT Markets in the Global South 

Priyank Chandra, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, Joyojeet Pal

CHI 2017​

  • When the internet goes down in Bangladesh 

Mehrab Bin Morshed, Michaelanne Dye, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, Neha Kumar

CSCW 2017

  • Working with Women in ICTD 

Jasmine Hentschel, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, Faheem Hussain, Nova Ahmed, Neha Kumar

ICTD 2017 (note)

  • Privacy Vulnerabilities in the Practices of Repairing Broken Digital Artifacts in Bangladesh 

Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, Shion Guha, Mohammad Rashidujjaman Rifat, Faysal Hossain Shezan, Nicola Dell

ITID 2017

2016

  • Peer-to-peer in the workplace: A view from the road

Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, Nicola Bidwell, Himanshu Zade, Srihari Muralidhar, Anupama Dhareshwar, Baneen Karachiwala, Cedrick Tandong, Jacki O'Neill

CHI 2016

Best Paper Honorable Mention Award

 

  • Values in Repair

Lara Houston, Steven J. Jackson, Daniela Rosner, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, Meg Young, Laewoo Kang

CHI 2016​​

  • Privacy in Repair: An Analysis of the Privacy Challenges Surrounding Broken Digital Artifacts in Bangladesh

Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, Shion Guha, Md. Rashidujjaman Rifat, Md. Foysal Hossain, Nicola Dell

ICTD 2016

Best of ICTD 2016 Papers

  • In search of missing pieces: A re-examination of trends in ICTD research

Meghana Marathe, Priyank Chandra, Vaishnav Kameswaran, Tsuyoshi Kano, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed

ICTD 2016 (short paper)​

  • Computing beyond Gender-Imposed Limits

Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, Nova Ahmed, Faheem Hussain, and Neha Kumar

LIMITS 2016

2015

  • Residual Mobilities: Infrastructural Displacement and Post-Colonial Computing in Bangladesh 

Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, Nusrat Jahan Mim, Steven J. Jackson

CHI 2015

  • Learning to Fix: Knowledge, Collaboration and Mobile Phone Repair in Dhaka, Bangladesh

Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, Steven J. Jackson, Md. Rashidujjaman Rifat

ICTD 2015

  • Suhrid: A Collaborative Mobile Phone Interface for Low Literate People

Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, Maruf Zaber, Mehrab Bin Morshed, Habibullah Bin Ismail, Dan Cosley, Steven J. Jackson

DEV 2015

2014

  • Protibadi: A Platform for Fighting Sexual Harassment in Urban Bangladesh

Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, Steven J. Jackson, Nova Ahmed, Hasan Shahid Ferdous, Md. Rashidujjaman Rifat, A.S.M. Rizvi, Shamir Ahmed, Rifat Sabbir Mansur

CHI 2014

  • Learning, Innovation, and Sustainability among Mobile Phone Repairers in Dhaka, Bangladesh

Steven J. Jackson, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, Md. Rashidujjaman Rifat

DIS 2014

  • Privacy Concerns in Repairing

Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, Shion Guha, Md. Rashidujjaman Rifat

SOUPS 2014 (poster)

  • Sensing Stress Network for Social Coping

Mashfiqui Rabbi, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed

CSCW 2014 (poster)

  • Sex and the ICT

Tasmin Chowdhury, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed

Workshop on Women Empowerment through ICT

2013

  • Ecologies of Use and Design: Individual and Social Uses of Mobile Phones Within Low-Literate Rickshaw-Puller Communities in Urban Bangladesh

Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, Steven J. Jackson, Maruf Zaber, Mehrab Bin Morshed, Habibullah Bin Ismail, Sharmin Afrose

DEV 2013​

  • Following Bibliometric Footprints: The ACM Digital Library and the Evolution of Computer Science

Shion Guha, Stephanie Steinhardt,Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, Carl Lagoze

JCDL 2013

  • Toward a Time-sensitive Mesoscopic Analysis of Co-Author Networks: A Case Study of Two Research Specialties

Theresa Velden, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, Scott Allen Cambo, Carl Lagoze

ISSI 2013

  • Toward a Mesoscopic Analysis of the Temporal Evolution of Scientific Collaboration Networks

Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, Scott Allen Cambo, Carl Lagoze, Theresa Velden

iConference 2013 (short paper)

  • Types of Autistic Children Identification and Implementation in e-Learning Software

Ishrat Ahmed, Samiha Samrose, Anika Anwar, Hasan Shahid Ferdous, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, and Md. Md Mustafizur Rahman

IEEE Workshop on Human and technology (WHAT), 2013.

  • Usage of the Memory of Mobile Phones by Illiterate People

Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, Maruf Zaber, Shion Guha

DEV 2013 (poster)

  • Design implication for a customized smartphone file explorer from user feedback

Sabirat Rubya, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed

DEV 2013 (poster)

2012

  • Distance matters: an exploratory analysis of the linguistic features of Flickr photo tag metadata in relation to impression management

Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, Shion Guha

SIGMOD DBSocial 2012

  • The State of Open- StreetMap in Bangladesh

Sohaila Binte Ridwan, Hasan Shahid Ferdous, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed

Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 7546, 2012

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  • VizResearch: Linking the knowledge of people and the people with knowledge

Sarah Masud, Monjura Afrin, Farhana Murtaza Choudhury, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed

Procedia Computer Science

2011

  • A-Class: Intelligent Classroom Software for the Autistic Children

Md. Ridwanur Rahman, Proteek Chandan Roy, Shujon Naha, Ishrat Ahmed, Samiha Samrose, Md. Mizanur Rahman, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed

ISCI 2011

  • A computer game based approach for increasing fluency in the speech of the autistic children

Anika Anwar, Md Mustafizur Rahman, SM Ferdous, Samiul Alam Anik, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed

IEEE ICALT 2011

  • Speech Development of Autistic Children by Interactive Computer Games

Md. Mustafizur Rahman, S. M. Ferdous, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, Anika Anwar,

Journal of Interactive Technology and Smart Education (ITSE)

  • Cutting a cornered convex polyhedron out of a sphere

Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, Masud Hasan, Md. Ariful Islam

Graphs and Combinatorics

  • Toward a Robust Trust Model for Ensuring Security and Privacy in VANETs

Une Thoing Rosi, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed

In “Security of Self-Organizing Networks: MANET, WSN, WMN, VANET”, CRC Press 2011.

  • Birth Record Communicator: A Pathway to Automated Health Data Acquisition System

Ali S Sabbir, M Omar Rahman, Khosru M. Salim, Raihan Bin Rafique, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, Md Hasanuzzaman Bhuiyan, Md. Mustafizur Rahman, Hasan Shahid Ferdous

WISH 2011

  • Smart Blood Query: A Novel Mobile Phone Based Privacy-Aware Blood Donor Recruitment and Management System for Developing Regions

Sajidur Rahman, Khondoker Asif Akter, Shakil Hossain, Anjon Basak, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed

IEEE DMWPC 2011

  • The state of OpenStreetMap in Bangladesh

Sohaila Binte Ridwan, Hasan Shahid Ferdous, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed

HCIToCH 2011

  • Toward a mobile phone based solution for microcredit in rural Bangladesh

Masum Ahmed, AKM Fahad Aziz, Raj Narayan Saha, Susmita Das, Laila Sharmin, Hasan Shahid Ferdous, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed

IEEE SCOReD 2011

  • Developing the concept of money by interactive computer games for autistic children

Arshia Zernab Hassan, Bushra Tasnim Zahed, Fatema Tuz Zohora, Johra Muhammad Moosa, Tasmiha Salam, Md Mustafizur Rahman, Hasan Shahid Ferdous, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed

IEEE ISM 2011

  • OpenStreetMap for the disaster management in Bangladesh

Sufian Latif, KM Rakibul Islam, Md Monjurul Islam Khan, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed

IEEE ICOS 2011

2010

  • Vindictive Voronoi Games and Stabbing Delaunay Circles

Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, Masud Hasan, Awalin Sopan

 ISVD 2010​

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  • Cutting a cornered convex polygon out of a circle

Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, Md. Ariful Islam, Masud Hasan

Journal of Computers

  • Cutting a convex polyhedron out of a sphere 

Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, Md. Ariful Islam, Masud Hasan

WALCOM 2010

  • On finding a better position of a convex polygon inside a circle to minimize the cutting cost

Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, Md. Mansurul Alam Bhuiyan, Masud Hasan, Ishita Kamal Khan

WALCOM 2010

2009

  • Algorithms in Computational Geometry

Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed

Bachelor Thesis 2009

  • An Efficient System for Searching Frequently Lost Objects Using Binary Detection Sensor

Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed

ASME ICACTE 2009

  • Searching for the Centers of Spheres and Ellipsoids

Md Hasanuzzaman Bhuiyan, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed

IEEE ACT 2009

  • Policy Requirements to Ensure Security in Enterprise Grid Security Systems

Md Hasanuzzaman Bhuiyan, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed

IEEE CSA 2009

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  • Cutting a convex polyhedron out of a sphere

Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, Md. Ariful Islam, Masud Hasan

2008

  • Cutting a cornered convex polygon out of a circle

Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, Md Ariful Islam, Masud Hasan

 ICCIT 2008

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