Assistant Professor, Computer Science
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA
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Email: sharifas [at] illinois [dot] edu
2021
‘Unmochon’: A Tool to Combat Online Sexual Harassment over Facebook Messenger
Sharifa Sultana, Mitrasree Deb, Ananya Bhattacharjee, Shaid Hasan, SM Raihanul Alam, Trishna Chakraborty, Prianka Roy, Samira Fairuz Ahmed, Aparna Moitra, M Ashraful Amin, A.K.M. Najmul Islam, and Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed
[CHI 2021]
[Best Paper Honorable Mention Award, top 5% of all submissions]
Chasing Luck: Data-driven Prediction, Faith, Hunch, and Cultural Norms in Rural Betting Practices
Sharifa Sultana, Md Mobaydul Haque Mozumder, and Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed
[CHI 2021]
Dissemination, Situated Fact-checking, and Social Effects of Misinformation among Rural Bangladeshi Villagers during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Sharifa Sultana and Susan R. Fussell
[CSCW 2021]
[Diversity and Inclusion Recognition, top 13 of 4000 submissions (less than 0.33%)]
[pdf] [presentation]
Seeing in Context: Traditional Visual Communication Practices in Rural Bangladesh
Sharifa Sultana, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, and Jeffrey M. Rzeszotarski
[CSCW 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, SM Raihanul Alam, Khandaker Reaz, Zinnat Sultana, and Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed
[COMPASS 2021]
‘Oshudh Poro’: A Mobile-Phone Application to Support Low-literate Rural Bangladeshi People’s Personal Medication Management
Shaid Hasan, SM Raihanul Alam, Sharifa Sultana, and Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed
[COMPASS 2021]
2020
Parareligious-HCI: Designing for ‘Alternative’ Rationality in Rural Wellbeing in Bangladesh
Sharifa Sultana, Zinnat Sultana, and Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed
[CHI 2020/alt.CHI]
[pdf]
Faith in Wellbeing-HCI: A Study on Islamic-Parareligious Practices in Bangladeshi Rural Wellbeing
Sharifa Sultana, Tanjina Tamanna, Rokeya Akter, Zinnat Sultana, and Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed
[Islamic-HCI Workshop in CHI 2020]
[pdf]
Fighting Coronavirus with Faith: Religious and Parareligious Responses to COVID-19 in Bangladesh
Sharifa Sultana, AKM Najmul Islam, and Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed
[ACM Interactions 2020]
[pdf]
Understanding the Sensibility of Social Media Use and Privacy with Bangladeshi Facebook Group Users
Sharifa Sultana, Pratyasha Saha, Shaid Hasan, SM Raihanul Alam, Rokeya Akter, Md Mirajul Islam, Raihan Islam Arnob, Mahdi Nasrullah Al-Ameen, and Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed
[COMPASS 2020]
[pdf]
2019
Witchcraft and HCI: Morality, Modernity, and Postcolonial Computing in Rural Bangladesh
Sharifa Sultana and Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed
[CHI 2019]
[pdf]
“Parar-daktar Understands My Problems Better”: Disentangling the Challenges to Designing Better Access to Healthcare in Rural Bangladesh
Sharifa Sultana, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, and Susan R. Fussell
[CSCW 2019]
[pdf]
‘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, SM Raihanul Alam, and Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed
[ICTD 2019]
[pdf]
Understanding Wellbeing Practice in Rural Bangladesh
Sharifa Sultana, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, and Susan R. Fussell
[pdf]
Studying Wellbeing of Low-income Population in the Global South
Sharifa Sultana, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, and Susan R. Fussell
[CHI 2019 Workshop on CHInclusion]
Wellbeing Practices of the Marginalized Population in Rural Bangladesh
Sharifa Sultana, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, and Susan R. Fussell
[CSCW 2019 Workshop on Social Technologies for Digital Wellbeing Among Marginalized Communities]
[pdf]
2018
Design within a patriarchal society: Opportunities and Challenges in Designing for Rural Women in Bangladesh
Sharifa Sultana, Francois Guimbreti`ere, Phoebe Sengers, and Nicola Dell
[CHI 2018]
[Best Paper Award, top 1% of all submissions]
[pdf]
2017
Investigating the Relationship between Gender, Social and Cultural Barriers, and Mental Health in Rural Bangladesh
Sharifa Sultana, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, and Nicola Dell
[pdf]
2015
Emotion Recognition Based on EMD-Wavelet Analysis of Speech Signals
Celia Shahnaz, Sharifa Sultana, Shaikh Anowarul Fattah, RH Md Rafi, Istak Ahmmed, W-P. Zhu, and M. Omair Ahmad
[DSP 2015]
[pdf]
2014
Speech Emotion Recognition Based on Entropy of Enhanced Wavelet Coefficients
Sharifa Sultana, Celia Shahnaz, Shaikh Anowarul Fattah, RH Md Rafi, Istak Ahmmed, W-P. Zhu, and M. Omair Ahmad
[ISCAS 2014]
[pdf]
A Feature Extraction Scheme Based on Enhanced Wavelet Coefficients for Speech Emotion Recognition
Celia Shahnaz and Sharifa Sultana
[MWSCAS 2014]
[pdf]
A Hierarchical Approach of Speech Emotion Recognition Based on Entropy of Enhanced Wavelet Coefficients
Sharifa Sultana and Celia Shahnaz
[ICEEICT 2014]
[pdf]
A Non-hierarchical Approach of Speech Emotion Recognition Based on Enhanced Wavelet Coefficients and K-means Clustering
Sharifa Sultana and Celia Shahnaz
[ICIEV 2014]
[pdf]