Assistant Professor, Computer Science
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA
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Email: sharifas [at] illinois [dot] edu
Note that like many other branches of Computer Science, conferences are usually more prestigious and competitive venues than the journals in HCI and related subfields. These conferences are double-blinded, peer-reviewed, archived, well-referenced, and extremely selective. The top two conferences in HCI are CHI and CSCW. In the ICTD field, the top conferences are ICTD and COMPASS.
2024
Understanding Environmental Sustainability and Information Sharing Practices in Global South Fish Farming
Sharifa Sultana, Rokeya Akter, Zinnat Sultana, Salim Reza, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, and Jeffrey M. Rzeszotarski
[CHI 2024, in Late Breaking work]
[pdf] [video presentation]
2023
Communicating Consequences: Visual Narratives, Abstraction, and Polysemy in Rural Bangladesh
Sharifa Sultana, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, and Jeffrey M. Rzeszotarski
[CHI 2023]
[pdf] [video presentation]
Collective Experiences in the Datafied Society
Abdullah Hasan Safir, Sharifa Sultana, Mohammad Rashidujjaman Rifat, and Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed
[3rd Data Justice Conference]
Many Worlds of Ethics: Ethical Pluralism in CSCW
Mohammad Rashidujjaman Rifat, Ayesha Bhimdiwala, Ananya Bhattacharjee, Amna Batool, Dipto Das, Nusrat Jahan Mim, Abdullah Hasan Safir, Sharifa Sultana, Taslima Akter, C Estelle Smith, Bryan Semaan, Shaimaa Lazem, Robert Soden, Michael Muller, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed
[CSCW 2023 workshop, in extended abstract]
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, SM Raihanul Alam, Muhammad Ashad Kabir, and Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed
[CHI 2022]
Imagined Online Communities: Communionship, Sovereignty, and Inclusiveness in Bangladeshi Facebook Groups
Sharifa Sultana, Pratyasha Saha, Shaid Hasan, S.M. Raihanul Alam, Md Mirajul Islam, Raihan Islam Arnob, A.K.M. Najmul Islam, Mahdi Nasrullah Al-Ameen, and Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed
[CSCW 2022]
'Kabootar': Towards Informal, Trustworthy, and Community-Based FinTech for Marginalized Immigrants.
Yasaman Rohanifar, Sharifa Sultana, Shaid Hasan, Priyank Chandra, and Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed
[CSCW 2022]
[pdf]
Toleration Factors: The Expectations of Decorum, Civility, and Certainty on Rural Social Media.
Sharifa Sultana, Rokeya Akter, Zinnat Sultana, and Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed
[ICTD 2022]
[pdf]
Commissioning Development: Grantmaking, Community Voices, and their Implications for ICTD.
Manika Saha, Tom Bartindale, Sharifa Sultana, Gillian Oliver, Dan Richardson, Shakuntala H. Thilsted, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, and Patrick Olivier
[ICTD 2022]
[pdf]
The Role of Intermediaries, Terrorist Assemblage, and Re-skilling in the Adoption of Cashless Transaction Systems in Bangladesh.
Yasaman Rohanifar, Sharifa Sultana, Swapnil Nandy, Pratyasha Saha, Md. Jonayed Hossain Chowdhury, Mahdi Nasrullah Al-Ameen, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed
[COMPASS 2022]
[pdf]
Narrative Datasets through the Lenses of NLP and HCI
Sharifa Sultana, Renwen Zhang, Hajin Lim, and Maria Antoniak
2nd HCI+NLP workshop: Bridging Human-Computer Interaction and Natural Language Processing
[NAACL 2022]
[pdf]
Fieldwork Reflections on Pictorial Consent
Manika Saha, Tom Bartindale, Sharifa Sultana, Gillian Oliver, Shakuntala Haraksingh, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, Patrick Olivier
[ECSCW 2022]
[pdf]
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] [video 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]
Human Computation and Crowdsourcing for Earth
Yasaman Rohanifar, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, Sharifa Sultana, Prateek Chanda, and Malay Bhattacharyya
[HCOMP 2021]
[Blue Sky Best Paper Award]
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]