HCI Lab | University of Manitoba

About

Devon Blewett is an extended reality (XR) researcher who focuses on interaction design, usability, and XR as an educational or training tool. His current work focuses on musical simulations with hand tracking, such as mixed reality tiled instruments.

Publications

Brass Haptics: Comparing Virtual and Physical Trumpets in Extended Realities

Blewett, D.J.; Gerhard, D. Brass Haptics: Comparing Virtual and Physical Trumpets in Extended Realities. Arts 2023, 12, 145. https://doi.org/10.3390/arts12040145

External Publications

Design and analysis of gesture-controlled musical instrument interfaces in extended reality

About

Hello! I’m a Master’s student at the University of Manitoba, having joined in Fall 2024. I completed my Bachelor of Science (BSc) degree from the Islamic University of Technology (IUT), Gazipur in May 2023, after which I served as a lecturer at Green University of Bangladesh (GUB). My time at GUB allowed me the rewarding experience of teaching and learning from students while gaining deeper insights into the workings of academia.

During my bachelor’s, I completed a thesis on blockchain and cybersecurity, which fueled my interest in exploring new areas of computing. For my master’s research, I’ve shifted focus to Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) with a specific interest in understanding user experiences. I’m particularly interested in how users form mental models around the outputs generated by generative AI and large language models (LLMs) and aim to explore how informed users’ decisions are when interacting with these tools.

Beyond academia, I love traveling and discovering new places. I’m an avid reader and enjoy exploring a wide range of genres, but above all, I seek out books with captivating plots.

About

I'm an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Manitoba. My research sits at the intersection of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), and Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW). My work focuses on understanding human interactions with robots and other digital systems. My goal is to design and develop these technologies effectively, enhancing user interactions while upholding human values such as privacy and accessibility.

I earned my PhD from Drexel University and hold a Master of Science in Library and Information Science from Pratt Institute in New York City, a BS from the Ecole des Science de l’Information in Morocco , and BAs in both Language and Pedagogy and Linguistics from Mohamed V University. Before joining the University of Manitoba, I was a Computing Innovation Fellow and Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Informatics at Indiana University Bloomington.

I have received recognition and support through several prestigious fellowships and awards, including the CI Fellowship (’21), Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Award (‘20), Phoebe W. Haas Endowed Fellowship (’15, ’17), and Fulbright Fellowship (’11). Additionally, my collaborative work has earned best paper awards at ACM Ubicomp, DIS and OpenSym.

Currently I serve as a member of the SIGCHI Mediterranean Committee (MedCHI), the GROUP and CSCW Co-Chair for Accessibility and the AfriCHI 2025 Notes Co-Chair.

About

Hi traveler! I'm Peter, a Vietnamese second year Computer Science Honours student minoring in Mathematics and Film Studies. My research interest is Computer Science Education, and so I'm currently volunteering under Dr. Celine Latulipe in revising and evaluating a Java programming activity book to be used in introductory computer science courses. Currently, I'm also doing research in Matrix Algebra under the course MATH 4920, and formerly, I was an URA holder at the GADA Lab working on pursuit-evasion models in theoretical computer science.

Outside of academia, I'm the current elected Director of Student Affairs of the Computer Science Students' Association, under which I authored the Computer Science First Year Guide. I'm also leading an initiative called Robo-Bisons with goals of sustainably sending undergraduate students out to national competitions and conferences. Lastly, I do recreational web development, game development, competitive programming, CTFs, data science, and whatever I feel like dipping my toes in.

My penultimate goal is to become the most complete Computer Science student, through which I can help foster the next generation of CS students to be best prepared to pursue their dreams in this vast field — working with Dr. Celine and the HCI Lab is the best way for me to achieve that target. If you're a prospective or undergraduate student with any questions, please feel free to contact me!

About

I’m a Masters student focused on leveraging technology to empower older adults. I have a BSc in Software Engineering from the American University of Nigeria, where I developed a Hausa-based programming language called Hapy. Alongside my academic and professional interests, I enjoy (amateur) photography, design, music, comedy, and nature. I am also involved in small-scale coding projects including a football simulation game, FS Pro.

“He knew that his brother, when excited, was like a coin in motion, spinning and spinning to give the illusion of a million sides”
--Measuring time, Helon Habila

About

Hello! I’m Pritha, an undergraduate student in the Computer Science Honours program with a minor in Statistics. My research is centered on creating an age-friendly data dashboard for older adults, offering insights into health conditions, socio-economic status, quality of life, and other relevant information concerning caregivers and care receivers.

When I’m not studying or working, you can find me experimenting with new recipes in the kitchen, playing Pokémon Go, or binge-watching Modern Family/The Office. I also love staying active and exploring new places whenever I get the chance!

About

I am an undergraduate Computer Science student at the University of Manitoba and a student research assistant at the HCI Lab! I am working with Dr. Celine Latulipe to develop an open educational resource (OER) that functions as an interactive Java programming activity book. Our work is designed to support a flipped classroom model through in-class active learning activities and formative assessments, with the potential for adoption by instructors both at the University of Manitoba and at other institutions worldwide!

About

My name is Dion and I am entering my third year in the Honours Computer Science program at the University of Manitoba. This summer, I am working under Dr. David Gerhard studying throwing mechanics and learning transfer in virtual reality. Outside of school, I am a solid runner and a passable baker.

About

I'm a undergraduate student at the University of Manitoba. I am working under Dr. David Gerhard focusing on Virtual Reality interactions and its potential for skill transfer into the real world. This summer the group is working on throwing interactions using inside-out hand tracking and using haptic gloves. I enjoy programming, however, my other interests include: photography, movies, reading, and live music.

About

I am a master’s student in computer science from Fall 2023. Fusing my interest in Art, Creativity, and CS, my project focuses on online art-based activities for older adults. I got my undergraduate degree in Computer Engineering in University of Tehran on 2021. Then I assisted a research on AutoML there and came to Canada to discover Art in CS.

https://celinelatulipe.net/the-able-village-study/

https://sites.google.com/view/imaginationtoreality/home

Projects

Stream Assistant

Publications

Investigating the Role of Real-Time Chat Summaries in Supporting Live Streamers

Pouya Aghahoseini, Millan David, and Andrea Bunt. 2024. Investigating the Role of Real-Time Chat Summaries in Supporting Live Streamers. In Proceedings of the 50th Graphics Interface Conference.

About

I’m Luke (he/him), and I’m an undergraduate student in the Computer Science Honours program with a German minor here at the University of Manitoba. In the lab, I’m working on exploring the ways that older adults and their caregivers interact with essential online services, like filing taxes and receiving benefits with the CRA.
In my spare time I read blogs (and sometimes I write one too), tinker with tools like keyboards and text editors, make coffee, and watch movies.

About

hello i am timmy i love the field of computer science

Projects

Exploring A Design Space for Digital Interventions Addressing Early Adolescents’ Tech Overuse

Publications

Designing Digital Interventions by Involving End Users in Meta-design

Ananta Chowdhury, Timmy Wang and Andrea Bunt. 2024. Promoting Early Adolescents’ Tech Disengagement: Designing Digital Interventions by Involving End Users in Meta-design. In Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Participatory Design & End-User Development - Building Bridges (PDEUD2024), October 2024, Uppsala, Sweden.

About

My name is Aidan, next fall I'm entering my 3rd year in the Computer Science Honours Program minoring in Physics & Astronomy. I am very excited to be a part of the HCI lab this summer, and to get to work with the amazing people at the lab. I also look forward to being able to learn more about the interactions we have every day with computers and how much work actually goes into designing them. I have always been fascinated with computers and how things work, but some of my other interests and hobbies include cycling, martial arts, playing music, puzzles, and playing games (video, board, card, or otherwise).

About

My name is Michelle Okolie (she/her) and I am an undergraduate first year student and a prospective Honours Computer Science student. I am going to be working under James Young this summer, refining my programming skills and porting old algorithms to new robots for a study. Apart from programming I have many interests like skateboarding, watching TV shows and working out.

About

I am an undergraduate Honours Co-op student at the University of Manitoba in my last year of study. My focus lies in the innovation of learning methods for adolescents and young adults in the realm of computer science and related fields. Presently, I am exploring the application of Generative Artificial Intelligence to supplement the content and learning objectives of high school curricula, particularly in art, writing, and computer science courses.

Outside of school and work, I spend a lot of time outdoors, exploring both Winnipeg and the wider Manitoba region. Additionally, I pursue a side passion as a semi-professional photographer.

About

I am a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Manitoba. I work under the supervision of Dr. Jacquie Ripat in the Bannatyne campus of the University of Manitoba and Dr. James Young in the Fort Gary campus, as my research has a multidisciplinary concern between occupational therapy and the computer science department. My research focused on technology's importance in facilitating play for children with different abilities.

I completed my Ph.D. in occupational therapy at the University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation, Tehran, Iran. I am currently working in the Bannatyne campus, the rehabilitation center for children and in the human-computer lab.

Projects (Outside of UofM HCI Lab)

Power-up mobility

Level-up

Adapted bike

Power-assisted wheelchair

myoboy

Publications (Outside of UofM HCI Lab)

• Psychometric properties of Persian version of “child-initiated pretend play assessment” for Iranian children
Dabiri Golchin, M., Mirzakhani, N., Stagnitti, K., & Rezaei, M. (2017). Psychometric properties of Persian version of “child-initiated pretend play assessment” for Iranian children.

• Reliability of Persian version of ChIPPA for pretend play assessment in children
Mirzakhani, N., Dabiri Golchin, M., Rezaee, M., Tabatabaee, S. M., Dabiri Golchin, M., Stagnitti, K., & Pashazadeh, Z. (2016). Relaibility of Persian version of ChIPPA for pretend play assessment in children. Pajoohandeh Journal, 21(2), 87-92.

• Health-related quality of life of mothers of children with phenylketonuria
Mortazavi, Z., Tapak, L., Mortazavi, S. S., & Dabiri Golchin, M. (2020). Health-Related Quality of Life of Mothers of Children With Phenylketonuria. Caspian J Neurol Sci. 2020; 6 (3): 156-163.

• The comparative study of pretend plays between 5-7 years old high-functioning autistic children and their normal peers with child-initiated pretend play assessment
Mirzakhany, N., Farzinfar, M., & Golchin, M. D. (2021). The comparative study of pretend plays between 5-7 years old high-functioning autistic children and their normal peers with child-initiated pretend play assessment. Iranian Journal of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, 15(2).

• Correlation Between the Theory of Mind and Pretend Play in 5 to 7-Year-Old Children with Autism and Their Typically Developed Peers
Zarei, M., Golchin, M. D., Seyedi, M., Baghban, A. A., Daryabor, A., Mahmoudi, E., & Mirzakhani, N. (2022). Correlation Between the Theory of Mind and Pretend Play in 5 to 7-Year-Old Children with Autism and Their Typically Developed Peers. Iranian Journal of Pediatrics, (In Press).

• Effects of Occupational Therapy Interventions on Improving Play Performance in Children With Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD): A Systematic Review
Dabiri Golchin, M., Mirzaie, H., & Hosseini, S. A. (2021). Effects of Occupational Therapy Interventions on Improving Play Performance in Children With Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD): A Systematic Review. Iranian Rehabilitation Journal, 19(3), 221-230.

• The influence of doll therapy in Iranian elderly: A randomized trial study
Araghi, N. M., Golchin, M. D., Tafti, M. G., Golchin, M. D., Fallah, S., & Yazdani, F. (2019). The influence of doll therapy in Iranian elderly: A randomized trial study. Journal of Clinical Physiotherapy Research, 4(4), e24-e24.

• Pretend to Play Therapy In-person Versus Online for Participation Improvement in Children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: Study Protocol for a Clinical Trial
Golchin, M. D., Mirzaie, H., Hosseini, S. A., Pishyareh, E., Ellis, G., Bakhshi, E., & Khosroabadi, P. (2023). Pretend to Play Therapy In-person Versus Online for Participation Improvement in Children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: Study Protocol for a Clinical Trial. Iranian Journal of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, (In Press).

• The Psychometric Properties of Iranian Children's Participation Assessment Scale for Iranian Children With Attention-deficit/hyperactivity Disorder
Dabiri Golchin, M., Mirzaie, H., Hosseini, S. A., Pishyareh, E., & Bakhshi, E. (2023). The Psychometric Properties of Iranian Children's Participation Assessment Scale for Iranian Children With Attention-deficit/hyperactivity Disorder. Iranian Rehabilitation Journal, 21(1), 57-64.

Projects

Social Robots to Encourage Play for Children with Disabilities

Publications

Understanding Family Needs: Informing Social Robot Design to Support Children with Disabilities

Raquel Thiessen, Denise Y. Geiskkovitch, Minoo Dabiri, James M Berzuk, Nathan Lo, Daisuke Sakamoto, Jacquie Ripat, and James Everett Young. 2024. Understanding Family Needs: Informing Social Robot Design to Support Children with Disabilities to Engage in Play. In International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction (HAI ’24), November 24–27, 2024, Swansea, United Kingdom. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 12 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3687272.3688301

Social Robots to Encourage Play for Children with Disabilities: Learning Perceived Requirements

Raquel Thiessen, Minoo Dabiri, Denise Y. Geiskkovitch, Jacquie Ripat, and James Everett Young. 2023. Social Robots to Encourage Play for Children with Disabilities: Learning Perceived Requirements and Barriers from Family Units. In Companion of the 2023 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI '23). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 625–628. https://doi-org.uml.idm.oclc.org/10.1145/3568294.3580161

About

I have been a Master's student at Hokkaido University since 2023. I am currently affiliated with the Human-Computer Interaction Lab, where I focus on interaction designs to mitigate the stress caused when robots are placed in everyday environments.

In my free time, I enjoy taking walks in nature and listening to music.

About

I'm an undergraduate student in the final year of my CS degree. I have previously completed 3 co-op work terms and am excited to join the HCI lab to explore the research aspect of Computer Science. I am currently working on implementing a dialog algorithm for human-robot interaction. In my spare time I enjoy reading novels and playing video games.

About

I am an MSc student researching the role of rhythm and turn-taking in human-robot dialog systems, and how we can build systems that engage in natural conversational styles.

Outside of my work, I consider myself a seasoned guitarist and a mediocre cook.

Projects

Improving Human-Robot Dialogue Interactions

Publications

Toward Designing a Toolkit for Intuitive Design of Backchanneling Behaviour in Social Robots

S. R. M. Barrett and J. E. Young, “Toward Designing a Toolkit for Intuitive Design of
Backchanneling Behaviour in Social Robots,” in Proceedings of the Companion of the 2025 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, in HRI'25. Melbourne, Australia: ACM, Mar. 2024.

About

I am currently a Computer Science Ph.D. student working on research concerning High Performance training for Olympic Fencing in Virtual Reality here at the HCI Lab. I also teach courses about Programming Language Theory as well as Virtual Reality. Previously, I have worked for BlackBerry as a Multimedia developer as well as a Technical Support Analyst. This position allowed me to gain another Technical Support position where I was a Junior Developer at Storm Applied Technologies. In both these positions I was focused on customer communication and rapidly learning new techniques and technologies. I have also held a number of casual web development positions notably for the Woman's mental health research Unit at the U of R and for various not-for profit and community groups.

I also train full time as a Fencer on the Canadian national team. This has been my focus for the past 15+ years. In 2018 I was the Canadian Men's Sabre Commonwealth Fencing Championship Team Captain and again for the 2019 FISU World University Games. I am a leader and strongly focused on always learning and improving.

About

My name is Ahmed (he/they), and I am a third-year student majoring in computer science with a mathematics minor. I’m excited to begin working under Dr. Andrea Bunt’s supervision in the HCI lab this summer. I’ve always been interested in how people use and perceive computers, and this is a fantastic chance to learn more about that. I love music a lot, especially indie rock; I can talk about it for hours. My favourite artists are Alex G, Phoebe Bridgers, Car Seat Headrest, and Radiohead. I also love watching movies, and Mysterious Skins is probably my favourite movie. I also enjoy community engagement, as I was previously .devclub treasurer, and I worked on many successful events, such as .Hackathon which I’m very proud of and many more. I’m also excited to begin my role as vice president of .devclub this upcoming term. In addition to my involvement in student clubs, I’m also starting my role as Resident Advisor on campus this August, which will help me build a community for students living on campus.

About

My name is Minh and I am starting the third year of my Computer Science Honours Program next Fall. I enjoy making games and open to try everything. In fact, I worked in the IDEAS (Inter-Disciplinary Evolving Algorithmic Science) lab last year. Apart from studying, I love getting involve with our CS community on campus through CSSA, .devClub and WICS, I practically live in the CSSA Lounge and attend most of the CS events on campus. My hobbies are watching E-Sports, reading light novels and cooking. I am also very athletic, I bike to campus everyday all year round (the black bike outside of the Engineering Building in the winter), and climb a lot at the UM Climbing Club.

Projects

Collaborative Learning for Feature Rich Software

About

I am an undergraduate student at the University of Manitoba in the second year of my Computer Science Honours program. I am working under Dr. Celine Latulipe where we will design prototypes that ease the creation of proxy accounts for older adults. Some of the things I enjoy doing most are watching movies, listening to music, and traveling.

Projects

Improving Online Banking for Older Adults & Their Caregivers

About

I am the Department Head of Computer Science at the University of Manitoba and a Full Professor. My research focuses on Virtual Reality User Interactions. I am specifically focused on researching highly dexterous interactions in Virtual Reality for sport, music, and typical use. I have an interdisciplinary background with experience in Engineering, Computer Technology, Mathematics, Communication, Music, Linguistics and Philosophy. My current work focuses on virtual reality interactions.

Publications

Brass Haptics: Comparing Virtual and Physical Trumpets in Extended Realities

Blewett, D.J.; Gerhard, D. Brass Haptics: Comparing Virtual and Physical Trumpets in Extended Realities. Arts 2023, 12, 145. https://doi.org/10.3390/arts12040145

About

Hi I’m Yengin, and I am currently an undergraduate student majoring in Computer Science at the University of Manitoba. I previously obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in Biological Sciences (University of Manitoba) and worked as an aquatic biologist for Fisheries and Oceans Canada for 6 years. I am passionate about “warm” technology and technologies that bring people, optimize decision-making to minimize waste, and are universally accessible. My hobbies include hiking, travel, ultimate frisbee and baking.

About

I'm a undergraduate student at the University of Manitoba. I have split roles as I work under Dr. Celine Latulipe in the creation/developement of a new Introduction to Computer Science course for the University. Secondly, I am a research assistant to Lauren Himbeault with her master's work in Computer Science Education and Pedagogy.

In my spare time I enojoy traveling around the world and playing soccer.

Projects

Improving Computer Science Education

About

Currently pursuing my Master's in Computer Science at the University of Manitoba. I am interested in game development and virtual worlds. I got my B.S. in Computer Science and Economics in New York University Abu Dhabi.

Projects

Investigating Tools for Designing Virtual Spaces

About

Pronouns - he/him.

Currently doing my Masters in Computer Science here at the University of Manitoba, where I completed my undergrad in 2016. I'm back now after spending 5 years working as a Software Engineer at Google in NYC, where I worked on distributed consensus solutions. I'm interested in reasearch in the intersection of human-computer interaction, security, and privacy.

Projects

Improving Online Banking for Older Adults & Their Caregivers

Publications

Proxy Accounts and Behavioural Nudges: Investigating Support for Older Adults and their Financial De

Zach Havens and Celine Latulipe. 2024. Proxy Accounts and Behavioural Nudges: Investigating Support for Older Adults and their Financial Delegates. In Proceedings of the 50th Graphics Interface Conference (GI '24). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 4, 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1145/3670947.3670962

About

Pronouns - she/her.

I am an instructor here at the University of Manitoba. I completed my Master's and Undergrad in the same department (in Spring 2024 and Fall 2014 respectively) and spent 5 years working in industry and 3 years teaching prior to restarting my studies. My research was in the areas of human-computer interaction and computer science education and pedagogy, which I continue to explore through my teaching. I am interested to work with curriculum design, notional machines, various pedagogical practices to support our students.

I was born and raised here in Winnipeg. I’ve been working for the department in a variety of roles since 2012 including a course director, sessional instructor, TA/Grader Coordinator, TA, and grader.

I have 2 toddlers who keep me busy and I love kickboxing, do yoga, and craft.

Projects

Improving Computer Science Education

Publications

Using a Two-Stage Final Exam in an Intro CS Course: Student Perceptions and Grade Impacts

Celine Latulipe and Lauren Himbeault. 2023. Using a Two-Stage Final Exam in an Intro CS Course: Student Perceptions and Grade Impacts. In Western Canadian Conference on Computing Education (WCCCE ’23), May 4–5, 2023, Vancouver, BC, Canada. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 2 pages. https://doi.org/ 10.1145/3593342.3593355

Diagrammatic Question Framework: Studying Effectiveness in First-Year Computing Courses

About

Charles-Olivier Dufresne-Camaro is a PhD student whose research interests lie at the intersection of Augmented Reality, Information Visualization, and applied Computer Vision. Charles-Olivier holds a MSc in Computer Science from the University of Toronto, and a B.Eng. in Electrical Engineering from Université Laval.

About

I am a Computer Science student at the University of Manitoba, and started my doctoral studies in 2024. Prior to this, I completed my MSc here (2024), as well as undergraduate degrees in Computer Science (BCSc, 2022) and Linguistics (BA, 2019). Since 2021 I have been working in the Human-Computer Interaction Lab researching human-robot communication and human perceptions of robots.

Projects

Publications

Interact at Own Risk! Developing a Prototype of a Robot Hazardous Capability Labeling System

James M. Berzuk and James E. Young. 2025. Interact at Own Risk! Developing a Prototype of a Robot Hazardous Capability Labeling System. In Companion of the 2025 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI'25).

Understanding Family Needs: Informing Social Robot Design to Support Children with Disabilities

Raquel Thiessen, Denise Y. Geiskkovitch, Minoo Dabiri, James M Berzuk, Nathan Lo, Daisuke Sakamoto, Jacquie Ripat, and James Everett Young. 2024. Understanding Family Needs: Informing Social Robot Design to Support Children with Disabilities to Engage in Play. In International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction (HAI ’24), November 24–27, 2024, Swansea, United Kingdom. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 12 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3687272.3688301

An Analytical Framework to Examine and Describe People’s Expectations of Robots

James M. Berzuk. An Analytical Framework to Examine and Describe People’s Expectations of Robots. MSc Thesis (2024). University of Manitoba, Canada.

Caring for a Robot, to Care for You

Danika Passler Bates, Skyla Y. Dudek, James M. Berzuk, Adriana Lorena González, and James E. Young. 2024. Caring for a Robot, to Care for You: An Exploration of Robot Care as an Interaction Design to Support Wellbeing. In Proceedings of the RoboCare Design Workshop: Understanding, Translating, Operationalizing, and Scaling Up Design Knowledge Regarding Robotic Systems for Care Assistance (RCDW'24) at the ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS ’24), July 01–05, 2024, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark, 4 pages.

SnuggleBot the Companion: Exploring In-Home Robot Interaction Strategies

Danika Passler Bates, Skyla Y. Dudek, James M. Berzuk, Adriana Lorena González, and James E. Young. 2024. SnuggleBot the Companion: Exploring In-Home Robot Interaction Strategies to Support Coping With Loneliness. In Proceedings of the 2024 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS '24). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 2972–2986. https://doi-org.uml.idm.oclc.org/10.1145/3643834.3660702

Clarifying Social Robot Expectation Discrepancy

James M. Berzuk and James E. Young. 2023. Clarifying Social Robot Expectation Discrepancy: Developing a Framework for Understanding How Users Form Expectations of Social Robots. In Companion of the 2023 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI '23). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 231–233. https://doi-org.uml.idm.oclc.org/10.1145/3568294.3580078

More than words: A Framework for Describing Human-Robot Dialog Designs

James M. Berzuk and James E. Young. 2022. More Than Words: A Framework for Describing Human-Robot Dialog Designs. In Proceedings of the 2022 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI '22). IEEE Press, 393–401. (Best Paper Award in Theory and Methods Category)

About

I have a Bsc. in Physics and Astronomy from the University of Manitoba. My undergraduate research involved optimizing a particle detector for sub atomic particle experiments. I am currently taking some undergraduate courses in statistics, computer science and math to prepare for a Msc. program in data science. Working in the HCI lab allows me to apply my knowledge of physics and to enrichen my computer science and research skills.

Publications

Expanding Touch Interaction Capabilities for Smart-rings

Anuradha Herath, Bradley Rey, Sandra Bardot, Sawyer Rempel, Lucas Audette, Huizhe Zheng, Jun Li, Kevin Fan, Da-Yuan Huang, Wei Li, and Pourang Irani. 2022. Expanding Touch Interaction Capabilities for Smart-rings: An Exploration of Continual Slide and Microroll Gestures. In Extended Abstracts of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA '22). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 292, 1–7. https://doi.org/10.1145/3491101.3519714

One Ring to Rule Them All: An Empirical Understanding of Day-to-Day Smartring Usage

Sandra Bardot, Bradley Rey, Lucas Audette, Kevin Fan, Da-Yuan Huang, Jun Li, Wei Li, and Pourang Irani. 2022. One Ring to Rule Them All: An Empirical Understanding of Day-to-Day Smartring Usage Through In-Situ Diary Study. Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol. 6, 3, Article 100 (September 2022), 20 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3550315

About

I am interested in Human-Computer Interaction and User Experience. I am working on Live Stream interfaces and features that can improve the communication between the streamers and the viewers and improve the streaming experience. I started my Master’s at the University of Manitoba in 2021. Previously, I received my Bachelor’s degree from the Amirkabir University of Technology in Iran.
In my free time, I am usually working out, cooking, and spending time with my friends.

Projects

Stream Assistant

Publications

Investigating the Role of Real-Time Chat Summaries in Supporting Live Streamers

Pouya Aghahoseini, Millan David, and Andrea Bunt. 2024. Investigating the Role of Real-Time Chat Summaries in Supporting Live Streamers. In Proceedings of the 50th Graphics Interface Conference.

Stream Assistant: A Study of Chat Importance and Effects of Real-Time Chat Summarization Techniques

Pouya Aghahoseini. Stream Assistant: A Study of Chat Importance, Management Approaches, and Effects of Real-Time Chat Summarization Techniques. MSc Thesis (2023). University of Manitoba, Canada.

About

I’m a co-op student currently completing my first work term as a software developer for the University of Manitoba’s HCI Lab. In my free time I like to play videogames and play the piano.

Projects

Data Videos and Contact Tracing

About

I am an Undergraduate student studying computer science. I have a strong interest in computer graphics and HCI. Outside of school, I enjoy sports such as basketball and ultimate frisbee.

Projects

Data Videos and Contact Tracing

Publications

EdgeSelect: Smartwatch Data Interaction with Minimal Screen Occlusion

Ali Neshati, Aaron Salo, Shariff Am Faleel, Ziming Li, Hai-Ning Liang, Celine Latulipe, and Pourang Irani. 2022. EdgeSelect: Smartwatch Data Interaction with Minimal Screen Occlusion. In Proceedings of the 2022 International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI '22). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 288–298. https://doi.org/10.1145/3536221.3556586

Persuasive data storytelling with a data video during Covid-19 infodemic

Sakamoto Y, Sallam S, Leboe-McGowan J, Salo A, Irani P. Persuasive data storytelling with a data video during Covid-19 infodemic: Affective pathway to influence the users’ perception about contact tracing apps in less than 6 minutes. Proceedings of the 2022 Pacific Vis. 2022.

About

I have started my Master’s studies in Computer Science at the University of Manitoba in 2021. In my thesis, I am interested in the impacts of collaborative learning on software learnability for older adult users.
I am holding two BSc degrees in Computer Engineering (IT- 2018) and Industrial Engineering (2020) from Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran.

Projects

Collaborative Learning for Feature Rich Software

Publications

Older Adults’ Collaborative Learning Dynamics When Exploring Feature-Rich Software

Afsane Baghestani, Celine Latulipe, Andrea Bunt. 2024. Older Adults’ Collaborative Learning Dynamics When Exploring Feature-Rich Software. Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact., 8, CSCW1, Article 101 (April 2024), 27 pages, https://doi.org/10.1145/3637378

Older Adults’ Collaborative Learning Dynamics When Exploring Feature-Rich Software

Afsane Baghestani. Older Adults’ Collaborative Learning Dynamics When Exploring Feature-Rich Software. 2023. MSc Thesis. University of Manitoba, Canada.

Feature-Rich Software Exploration: Older Adults’ Collaborative Learning Dynamics

Afsane Baghestani, Celine Latulipe, Andrea Bunt. 2023. Feature-Rich Software Exploration: Older Adults’ Collaborative Learning Dynamics.Centre on Aging 40th Annual Spring Research Symposium. Poster.

About

I am an AI fanatic with a keen interest in machine learning and data analytics currently pursuing my M.Sc in HCI under Prof. Pourang Irani.

Publications

Expanding Touch Interaction Capabilities for Smart-rings

Anuradha Herath, Bradley Rey, Sandra Bardot, Sawyer Rempel, Lucas Audette, Huizhe Zheng, Jun Li, Kevin Fan, Da-Yuan Huang, Wei Li, and Pourang Irani. 2022. Expanding Touch Interaction Capabilities for Smart-rings: An Exploration of Continual Slide and Microroll Gestures. In Extended Abstracts of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA '22). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 292, 1–7. https://doi.org/10.1145/3491101.3519714

About

My name is Nabila Chowdhury. Currently, I'm pursuing my Master’s in Computer Science at the University of Manitoba. I'm a Research Assistant in the Human-Computer Interaction Lab, working under the supervision of Dr. Celine Latulipe and Dr. James E. Young. My current research focuses on the topic of intergenerational music co-listening between grandparents and teen grandchildren to facilitate sustained interactions. I have completed my B.Sc. in Computer Science and Engineering from North South University and my undergrad project supervisor was Dr. Nova Ahmed.

Projects

Intergenerational Music Co-Listening

Publications

Music Co-listening over Video Chat to Support Intergenerational Connectedness: An Exploratory Study

Nabila Chowdhury BSc MSc*, Celine Latulipe BA MMath PhD, James E. Young BSc PhD (2022). Music co-listening over video chat to support intergenerational connectedness: An exploratory study. Gerontechnology, 21(1), 1-13. https://doi.org/10.4017/gt.2023.21.1.778.03

Listening Together while Apart: Intergenerational Music Listening

Chowdhury N, Latulipe C, Young JE. "Listening Together while Apart: Intergenerational Music Listening". In Companion Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW '21, poster Track. ACM. doi:10.1145/3462204.3481765

About

I am a PhD Student in the department of Computer Science at the University of Manitoba. I joined the HCI lab during my undergraduate degree in the spring of 2020, and completed my Masters here as well in the summer of 2023. My research interests include Human-Robot interaction, social robotics, and domestic robots. In my research, I am investigating how people use and adopt companion robots in their homes.

Outside of research, I love to run, and compete on the University of Manitoba Bisons track and field and cross country teams.

Projects

SnuggleBot

Publications

Caring for a Robot, to Care for You

Danika Passler Bates, Skyla Y. Dudek, James M. Berzuk, Adriana Lorena González, and James E. Young. 2024. Caring for a Robot, to Care for You: An Exploration of Robot Care as an Interaction Design to Support Wellbeing. In Proceedings of the RoboCare Design Workshop: Understanding, Translating, Operationalizing, and Scaling Up Design Knowledge Regarding Robotic Systems for Care Assistance (RCDW'24) at the ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS ’24), July 01–05, 2024, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark, 4 pages.

SnuggleBot the Companion: Exploring In-Home Robot Interaction Strategies

Danika Passler Bates, Skyla Y. Dudek, James M. Berzuk, Adriana Lorena González, and James E. Young. 2024. SnuggleBot the Companion: Exploring In-Home Robot Interaction Strategies to Support Coping With Loneliness. In Proceedings of the 2024 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS '24). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 2972–2986. https://doi-org.uml.idm.oclc.org/10.1145/3643834.3660702

SnuggleBot: a Cuddly Companion Robot for Lonely People to use at Home

Danika Lorraine Passler Bates. SnuggleBot: a Cuddly Companion Robot for Lonely People to use at Home. MSc Thesis (2023). University of Manitoba, Canada.

SnuggleBot: A Simple Cuddly Companion Robot Prototype

Danika Passler Bates, James E. Young. 2022. SnuggleBot: A simple cuddly companion robot prototype. In Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Designerly HRI, at the ACM International Conference of Human Robot Interaction (HRI'22), 3 pages.

SnuggleBot: A Novel Cuddly Companion Robot Design

Danika Passler Bates, James E. Young. 2020. SnuggleBot: A Novel Cuddly Companion Robot Design. In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction (HAI’20), November 10-13, 2020, Virtual Event, NSW, Australia. ACM, 3 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/ 3406499.3418772

About

I am a Master's Student at Indian Institute of Technology (ISM) majoring in Mathematics and Computing. I am here as a visiting student to pursue my Master's thesis project, supervised by Dr Pourang Irani.

Publications

Elbow-Anchored Interaction: Designing Restful Mid-Air Input

Rafael Veras, Gaganpreet Singh, Farzin Farhadi-Niaki, Ritesh Udhani, Parth Pradeep Patekar, Wei Zhou, Pourang Irani, and Wei Li. 2021. Elbow-Anchored Interaction: Designing Restful Mid-Air Input. In Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '21). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 737, 1–15. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3411764.3445546

Limb-O: Real-Time Comparison and Visualization of Lower Limb Motions

Michael Gammon, Ritesh Udhani, Parth Patekar, Yumiko Sakamoto, Carlo Menon, and Pourang Irani. 2020. Limb-O: Real-Time Comparison and Visualization of Lower Limb Motions. In 11th Augmented Human International Conference (AH ’20), May 27–29, 2020, Winnipeg, MB, Canada. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 8 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3396339.3396360

Publications

ARO: Exploring the Design of Smart-Ring Interactions for Encumbered Hands

Sandra Bardot, Surya Rawat, Duy Thai Nguyen, Sawyer Rempel, Huizhe Zheng, Bradley Rey, Jun Li, Kevin Fan, Da-Yuan Huang, Wei Li, and Pourang Irani. 2021. ARO: Exploring the Design of Smart-Ring Interactions for Encumbered Hands. In Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Mobile Human-Computer Interaction (MobileHCI '21). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 12, 1–11. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3447526.3472037

About

I did my Ph.D. at the University of Toulouse at the Elipse team - IRIT Lab (France). During my Ph.D., I focused on the design and evaluation of interaction techniques that assist visually impaired people to explore virtual maps using smartwatches. These techniques provided users with information from a map relying on located audio and vibratory feedback.

Now, I am interested in exploring new research problematics concerning the use of smartwatches. Indeed, I work on the visualization of data on small screens in a sporting context. The limited screen real estate of smartwatches makes visualization of multidimensional data difficult. This task becomes even more complex in a sporting context in which the display is unstable. It is necessary to propose new visualization techniques as well as new interaction techniques to manipulate these visualizations.

Publications

Understanding and Adapting Bezel-to-Bezel Interactions for Circular Smartwatches in Mobile and Encum

Bradley Rey, Kening Zhu, Simon Tangi Perrault, Sandra Bardot, Ali Neshati, and Pourang Irani. 2022. Understanding and Adapting Bezel-to-Bezel Interactions for Circular Smartwatches in Mobile and Encumbered Scenarios. Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 6, MHCI, Article 201 (September 2022), 28 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3546736

Expanding Touch Interaction Capabilities for Smart-rings

Anuradha Herath, Bradley Rey, Sandra Bardot, Sawyer Rempel, Lucas Audette, Huizhe Zheng, Jun Li, Kevin Fan, Da-Yuan Huang, Wei Li, and Pourang Irani. 2022. Expanding Touch Interaction Capabilities for Smart-rings: An Exploration of Continual Slide and Microroll Gestures. In Extended Abstracts of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA '22). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 292, 1–7. https://doi.org/10.1145/3491101.3519714

One Ring to Rule Them All: An Empirical Understanding of Day-to-Day Smartring Usage

Sandra Bardot, Bradley Rey, Lucas Audette, Kevin Fan, Da-Yuan Huang, Jun Li, Wei Li, and Pourang Irani. 2022. One Ring to Rule Them All: An Empirical Understanding of Day-to-Day Smartring Usage Through In-Situ Diary Study. Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol. 6, 3, Article 100 (September 2022), 20 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3550315

ARO: Exploring the Design of Smart-Ring Interactions for Encumbered Hands

Sandra Bardot, Surya Rawat, Duy Thai Nguyen, Sawyer Rempel, Huizhe Zheng, Bradley Rey, Jun Li, Kevin Fan, Da-Yuan Huang, Wei Li, and Pourang Irani. 2021. ARO: Exploring the Design of Smart-Ring Interactions for Encumbered Hands. In Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Mobile Human-Computer Interaction (MobileHCI '21). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 12, 1–11. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3447526.3472037

BezelGlide: Interacting with Graphs on Smartwatches with Minimal Screen Occlusion

Ali Neshati, Bradley Rey, Ahmed Shariff Mohommed Faleel, Sandra Bardot, Celine Latulipe, and Pourang Irani. 2021. BezelGlide: Interacting with Graphs on Smartwatches with Minimal Screen Occlusion. In Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '21). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 501, 1–13. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3411764.3445201

Eyes-Free Graph Legibility: Using Skin-Dragging to Provide a Tactile Graph Visualization on the Arm

Sandra Bardot, Sawyer Rempel, Bradley Rey, Ali Neshati, Yumiko Sakamoto, Carlo Menon and Pourang Irani. 2020. Eyes-Free Graph Legibility: Using Skin-Dragging to Provide a Tactile Graph Visualization on the Arm. In 11th Augmented Human International Conference (AH ’20), May 27–29, 2020, Winnipeg, MB, Canada. ACM, NewYork, NY, USA, 8pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3396339.3396344

Projects

Publications

Caring for a Robot, to Care for You

Danika Passler Bates, Skyla Y. Dudek, James M. Berzuk, Adriana Lorena González, and James E. Young. 2024. Caring for a Robot, to Care for You: An Exploration of Robot Care as an Interaction Design to Support Wellbeing. In Proceedings of the RoboCare Design Workshop: Understanding, Translating, Operationalizing, and Scaling Up Design Knowledge Regarding Robotic Systems for Care Assistance (RCDW'24) at the ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS ’24), July 01–05, 2024, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark, 4 pages.

SnuggleBot the Companion: Exploring In-Home Robot Interaction Strategies

Danika Passler Bates, Skyla Y. Dudek, James M. Berzuk, Adriana Lorena González, and James E. Young. 2024. SnuggleBot the Companion: Exploring In-Home Robot Interaction Strategies to Support Coping With Loneliness. In Proceedings of the 2024 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS '24). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 2972–2986. https://doi-org.uml.idm.oclc.org/10.1145/3643834.3660702

Fluid Sex Robots: Looking to the 2LGBTQIA+ Community to Shape the Future of Sex Robots

Skyla Y. Dudek and James E. Young. 2022. Fluid Sex Robots: Looking to the 2LGBTQIA+ Community to Shape the Future of Sex Robots. In Proceedings of the 2022 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI '22). IEEE Press, 746–749.

Projects

Tekkotsu: A programming framework for AIBO

About

Md. Hosne Al Walid Shaiket is a graduate student at the Dept. of Computer Science of University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada. He completed his Bachelor's degree in Computer Science with First Class (Honours) from the Islamic University of Technology (IUT), Dhaka, Bangladesh and currently working as a Graduate Research Assistant in Collaborative Visual Analytics (CoVA) HCI Lab of CS Dept. under Prof. Pourang Irani.

Projects

COVID-19: Disease Tracking

Projects

Publications

Persuasive data storytelling with a data video during Covid-19 infodemic

Sakamoto Y, Sallam S, Leboe-McGowan J, Salo A, Irani P. Persuasive data storytelling with a data video during Covid-19 infodemic: Affective pathway to influence the users’ perception about contact tracing apps in less than 6 minutes. Proceedings of the 2022 Pacific Vis. 2022.

Towards Design Guidelines for Effective Health-Related Data Videos

Sallam S, Sakamoto Y, Leboe-McGowan J, Latulipe C, Irani P. Towards Design Guidelines for Effective Health-Related Data Videos: An Empirical Investigation of Affect, Personality, and Video Content. Proceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.

About

I was born and grew up in Tehran, Iran. I completed my undergraduate and MSc degrees in software engineering at the Sharif University of Technology and worked as a full-stack developer for three years. I joined the UofM HCI lab in the fall of 2019 as a Master's student. I am interested in Gender HCI. Currently, my focus is on gender differences in participation in Online Q&A communities.
In my spare time, I enjoy solving jigsaw puzzles, biking and listening to podcasts.

Projects

Gender Differences in Knowledge Sharing

Publications

Towards Gender-Inclusive Q&As: Investigating Community Presence Information

Patrick Marcel Joseph Dubois, Mahya Maftouni, and Andrea Bunt. 2022. Towards More Gender-Inclusive Q&As: Investigating Perceptions of Additional Community Presence Information. Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact, 6, CSCW2, Article 466 (November 2022), 23 pages, https://doi.org/10.1145/3555567

“Thank you for being nice”: Investigating Perspectives Towards Social Feedback on Stack Overflow

Mahya Maftouni, Patrick Marcel Joseph Dubois, and Andrea Bunt. 2022. “Thank you for being nice”: Investigating Perspectives Towards Social Feedback on Stack Overflow. In Proceedings of the 48th Graphics Interface Conference. Canadian Human-Computer Communications Society. https://openreview.net/forum?id=rrHU3gtETG9

Gender consideration in the design of online knowledge-sharing Q&A platforms

Mahya Maftouni. Gender consideration in the design of online knowledge-sharing Q&A platforms. MSc Thesis (2022). University of Manitoba, Canada.

Gender Differences in Graphic Design Q&As

Patrick Marcel Joseph Dubois, Mahya Maftouni, Parmit K. Chilana, Joanna McGrenere and Andrea Bunt. 2020. Gender Differences in Graphic Design Q&As: How Community and Site Characteristics Contribute to Gender Gaps in Answering Questions. In Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, Vol. 4, CSCW2, Article 113 (October 2020), 27 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3415184

About

I am an AI enthusiast and interested in all facets of it. Currently a PhD student under Dr Pourang Irani at the HCI lab.

Publications

EdgeSelect: Smartwatch Data Interaction with Minimal Screen Occlusion

Ali Neshati, Aaron Salo, Shariff Am Faleel, Ziming Li, Hai-Ning Liang, Celine Latulipe, and Pourang Irani. 2022. EdgeSelect: Smartwatch Data Interaction with Minimal Screen Occlusion. In Proceedings of the 2022 International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI '22). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 288–298. https://doi.org/10.1145/3536221.3556586

SSCA: Situated Space-time Cube Analytics

Fouad Alallah, Shariff Faleel, Yumiko Sakamoto, Bradley Rey, and Pourang Irani. "SSCA: Situated Space-time Cube Analytics." (2022).

BezelGlide: Interacting with Graphs on Smartwatches with Minimal Screen Occlusion

Ali Neshati, Bradley Rey, Ahmed Shariff Mohommed Faleel, Sandra Bardot, Celine Latulipe, and Pourang Irani. 2021. BezelGlide: Interacting with Graphs on Smartwatches with Minimal Screen Occlusion. In Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '21). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 501, 1–13. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3411764.3445201

User Gesture Elicitation of Common Smartphone Tasks for Hand Proximate User Interfaces

Shariff A. M. Faleel, Michael Gammon, Yumiko Sakamoto, Carlo Menon, and Pourang Irani. 2020. User Gesture Elicitation of Common Smartphone Tasks for Hand Proximate User Interfaces. In 11th Augmented Human International Conference (AH ’20), May 27–29, 2020, Winnipeg, MB, Canada. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 8 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3396339.3396363

Using Guessability Framework: Age-Related Differences In Hand Gesture Interaction (Short paper)

Yurii Vasylkiv, Ali Neshati, Shariff A. M. Faleel, Yumiko Sakamoto, and Pourang Irani. 2020. Using guessability framework: age-related differences in hand gesture interaction. In Proceedings of the 11th Augmented Human International Conference (AH '20). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 24, 1–2. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3396339.3396394

Publications

Elbow-Anchored Interaction: Designing Restful Mid-Air Input

Rafael Veras, Gaganpreet Singh, Farzin Farhadi-Niaki, Ritesh Udhani, Parth Pradeep Patekar, Wei Zhou, Pourang Irani, and Wei Li. 2021. Elbow-Anchored Interaction: Designing Restful Mid-Air Input. In Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '21). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 737, 1–15. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3411764.3445546

Limb-O: Real-Time Comparison and Visualization of Lower Limb Motions

Michael Gammon, Ritesh Udhani, Parth Patekar, Yumiko Sakamoto, Carlo Menon, and Pourang Irani. 2020. Limb-O: Real-Time Comparison and Visualization of Lower Limb Motions. In 11th Augmented Human International Conference (AH ’20), May 27–29, 2020, Winnipeg, MB, Canada. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 8 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3396339.3396360

About

I am a robotics enthusiast from Bangladesh with a vision to become an experimental roboticist. I completed my undergrad in Computer Science and Engineering from BRAC University, Bangladesh. During my undergrad, I worked on multiple projects that featured robotic systems and IoT devices. My undergraduate thesis was based on underwater robotics, and I was a core member of the BRACU DUBURI team (underwater autonomous vehicle team). After graduating, I worked as a Quality Assurance Engineer in two reputed companies in Bangladesh, Sourcetop Inc. and THERAP Bangladesh Ltd. Afterwards, in 2019, I joined the HRI Lab to work with social robots and explore the social aspect of the robotics field. My current research is with lonely individuals and social robots. I am exploring how a lonely person would adopt (or non-adopt) a domestic social robot in their own homes and how the robot impacts (or not impact) their general wellness, as well as loneliness. I also plan to pursue my Ph.D. in the HRI field and explore the unknowns of social robotics.

Projects

Social Robots to Address Loneliness

Publications

Can Robots Help with Loneliness? An Exploration of Social Robot Adoption by Lonely Individuals

Rahatul Amin Ananto. Can Robots Help with Loneliness? An Exploration of Social Robot Adoption by Lonely Individuals. MSc Thesis (2022). University of Manitoba, Canada.

We Can Do Better! An Initial Survey Highlighting an Opportunity for More HRI Work on Loneliness

Rahatul A. Ananto, James E. Young. 2021. We Can Do Better! An Initial Survey Highlighting an Opportunity for More HRI Work on Loneliness. In the Companion of 2021 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction (HRI’21), March 8–11, 2021, Boulder, CO, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA. 6 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3434074.3447213

Robot Pets for Everyone: The Untapped Potential for Domestic Social Robots

Rahatul A. Ananto, James E. Young, “Robot Pets for Everyone: The Untapped Potential for Domestic Social Robots.” In Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2020 WORKSHOP ON SOCIAL HUMAN-ROBOT INTERACTION OF HUMAN-CARE SERVICE ROBOTS). 2020.

Domestic Robots for Individuals Living with Loneliness: A Long-Term In-Home Interaction Study Design

Rahatul A. Ananto, Geiskkovitch, D.Y., James E. Young. 2020. Domestic Robots for Individuals Living with Loneliness: A Long-Term In-Home Interaction Study Design. In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction (HAI '20), Australia. ACM, 2 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3406499.3418749

About

I teach and engage in research in the fields of Human-Computer Interaction and Computer Science Education. My research involves understanding how older adults and their caregivers engage with technology and developing systems and tools to support a partnership model for the older adult’s digital life. I also conduct research in innovative curriculum and pedagogy for Computer Science, and I am particularly interested in how to design learning environments and tools to facilitate team-based learning. I also am interested in understanding how best to support underserved populations learning computer science. A third area of interest is in developing and evaluating novel interaction techniques, creativity support tools and measurement, and the study of how people use complex software, whether mobile, web-based or traditional desktop systems. I have previously conducted research on technology to support the arts and I am a strong advocate for interdisciplinary research and funding that goes beyond STEM. Beyond technology, education and art, I am also interested in politics, gender issues, philosophy, behavioural economics, neuroscience, psychology and sociology.

I received my PhD in Computer Science from the University of Waterloo in 2006. I have a Master of Mathematics in Computer Science and a Bachelor of Arts in Honours Economics and Applied Studies, both from Waterloo. I began my research career as an Assistant Professor in the College of Computing and Informatics at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte in 2006, was granted tenure there in 2012, and was promoted to Full Professor there in 2017. I am now a research affiliate at UNC Charlotte, where I am still actively involved in research projects related to Computer Science education. I joined the University of Manitoba in 2019 as an Associate Professor and was promoted to Full Professor in 2021.

Projects

Publications

Proxy Accounts and Behavioural Nudges: Investigating Support for Older Adults and their Financial De

Zach Havens and Celine Latulipe. 2024. Proxy Accounts and Behavioural Nudges: Investigating Support for Older Adults and their Financial Delegates. In Proceedings of the 50th Graphics Interface Conference (GI '24). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 4, 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1145/3670947.3670962

Older Adults’ Collaborative Learning Dynamics When Exploring Feature-Rich Software

Afsane Baghestani, Celine Latulipe, Andrea Bunt. 2024. Older Adults’ Collaborative Learning Dynamics When Exploring Feature-Rich Software. Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact., 8, CSCW1, Article 101 (April 2024), 27 pages, https://doi.org/10.1145/3637378

Feature-Rich Software Exploration: Older Adults’ Collaborative Learning Dynamics

Afsane Baghestani, Celine Latulipe, Andrea Bunt. 2023. Feature-Rich Software Exploration: Older Adults’ Collaborative Learning Dynamics.Centre on Aging 40th Annual Spring Research Symposium. Poster.

Using a Two-Stage Final Exam in an Intro CS Course: Student Perceptions and Grade Impacts

Celine Latulipe and Lauren Himbeault. 2023. Using a Two-Stage Final Exam in an Intro CS Course: Student Perceptions and Grade Impacts. In Western Canadian Conference on Computing Education (WCCCE ’23), May 4–5, 2023, Vancouver, BC, Canada. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 2 pages. https://doi.org/ 10.1145/3593342.3593355

Music Co-listening over Video Chat to Support Intergenerational Connectedness: An Exploratory Study

Nabila Chowdhury BSc MSc*, Celine Latulipe BA MMath PhD, James E. Young BSc PhD (2022). Music co-listening over video chat to support intergenerational connectedness: An exploratory study. Gerontechnology, 21(1), 1-13. https://doi.org/10.4017/gt.2023.21.1.778.03

Curating Interactive Art for Online Conferences: Artist, Curator and Technologist Experiences in Gat

Celine Latulipe and Deborah Turnbull Tillman. 2022. Curating Interactive Art for Online Conferences: Artist, Curator and Technologist Experiences in Gather.Town. In Creativity and Cognition (C&C '22). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 380–391.

Unofficial Proxies: How Close Others Help Older Adults with Banking

Celine Latulipe, Ronnie Dsouza, and Murray Cumbers. 2022. Unofficial Proxies: How Close Others Help Older Adults with Banking. In Proceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '22). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 601, 1–13.

Comparing Student Experiences of Collaborative Learning in Synchronous CS1 Classes in Gather.Town vs

Celine Latulipe and Amy De Jaeger. 2022. Comparing Student Experiences of Collaborative Learning in Synchronous CS1 Classes in Gather.Town vs. Zoom. In Proceedings of the 53rd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education V. 1 (SIGCSE 2022). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 411–417.

Using Discrimination Response Ideation to Uncover Student Attitudes about Diversity and Inclusion in

Lina Lee, Celine E Latulipe, and Tonya K. Frevert. 2022. Using Discrimination Response Ideation to Uncover Student Attitudes about Diversity and Inclusion in Computer Science. (August 2022).

EdgeSelect: Smartwatch Data Interaction with Minimal Screen Occlusion

Ali Neshati, Aaron Salo, Shariff Am Faleel, Ziming Li, Hai-Ning Liang, Celine Latulipe, and Pourang Irani. 2022. EdgeSelect: Smartwatch Data Interaction with Minimal Screen Occlusion. In Proceedings of the 2022 International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI '22). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 288–298. https://doi.org/10.1145/3536221.3556586

Towards Design Guidelines for Effective Health-Related Data Videos

Sallam S, Sakamoto Y, Leboe-McGowan J, Latulipe C, Irani P. Towards Design Guidelines for Effective Health-Related Data Videos: An Empirical Investigation of Affect, Personality, and Video Content. Proceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.

Listening Together while Apart: Intergenerational Music Listening

Chowdhury N, Latulipe C, Young JE. "Listening Together while Apart: Intergenerational Music Listening". In Companion Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW '21, poster Track. ACM. doi:10.1145/3462204.3481765

BezelGlide: Interacting with Graphs on Smartwatches with Minimal Screen Occlusion

Ali Neshati, Bradley Rey, Ahmed Shariff Mohommed Faleel, Sandra Bardot, Celine Latulipe, and Pourang Irani. 2021. BezelGlide: Interacting with Graphs on Smartwatches with Minimal Screen Occlusion. In Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '21). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 501, 1–13. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3411764.3445201

Projects

Understanding Robot Expectation Formation and Discrepancy

Publications

Warning: This Robot is Not What it Seems!

Lena T. Schramm, Derek Dufault, and James E. Young. 2020. Warning: This Robot is Not What it Seems! Exploring Expectation Discrepancy Resulting from Robot Design. HRI'20 Late-Breaking Reports, In proceedings of the 2020 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, HRI2020, Cambridge, United Kingdom. DOI=10.1145/3371382.3378280 https://doi.org/10.1145/3371382.3378280

Publications

Blind Trust: how making a device humanoid reduces the impact of functional errors on trust

Vattheuer, C., Baecker, A.N., Geiskkovitch, D.Y., Seo, S.H., Rea, D.J., Young, J.E.: Blind Trust: how making a device humanoid reduces the impact of functional errors on trust. In: International Conference on Social Robotics. Springer. (2020).

Emotional Support Domestic Robots for Healthy Older Adults

Annalena Nora Baecker, Denise Y. Geiskkovitch, Adriana Lorena González and James E. Young. 2020. Emotional Support Domestic Robots for Healthy Older Adults: Conversational Prototypes to Help With Loneliness. In Companion Proceedings of 2020 ACM International Conference on Human Robot Interaction (HRI’20), March 23–26, 2020, Cambridge, United Kingdom. ACM, 2 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3371382.3378279

Projects

Understanding Robot Expectation Formation and Discrepancy

Publications

Warning: This Robot is Not What it Seems!

Lena T. Schramm, Derek Dufault, and James E. Young. 2020. Warning: This Robot is Not What it Seems! Exploring Expectation Discrepancy Resulting from Robot Design. HRI'20 Late-Breaking Reports, In proceedings of the 2020 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, HRI2020, Cambridge, United Kingdom. DOI=10.1145/3371382.3378280 https://doi.org/10.1145/3371382.3378280

Publications

Blind Trust: how making a device humanoid reduces the impact of functional errors on trust

Vattheuer, C., Baecker, A.N., Geiskkovitch, D.Y., Seo, S.H., Rea, D.J., Young, J.E.: Blind Trust: how making a device humanoid reduces the impact of functional errors on trust. In: International Conference on Social Robotics. Springer. (2020).

Projects

Mindful Eating

Publications

A Smart Utensil for Detecting Food Pick-Up Gesture and Amount While Eating

Zuoyi Zhang, Huizhe Zheng, Sawyer Rempel, Kenny Hong, Teng Han, Yumiko Sakamoto, and Pourang Irani. 2020. A smart utensil for detecting food pick-up gesture and amount while eating. In Proceedings of the 11th Augmented Human International Conference (AH '20). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 2, 1–8. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3396339.3396361 (3rd best paper award)

About

Hi, I’m Bradley, a PhD candidate at the University of Manitoba in the HCI Lab! I broadly study in-situ and on-the-go health data visualization and interaction for a range of wearables. Specifically, my thesis pertains to enabling effective transient data queries on smartwatches to allow for an increasingly complementary tool to the smartphone. As smartwatches are progressively collecting more and more complex health data, I strongly believe smartwatches have the capacity, beyond displaying default metrics, to provide a greater benefit to the end-user’s health journey.

Publications

SSCA: Situated Space-time Cube Analytics

Fouad Alallah, Shariff Faleel, Yumiko Sakamoto, Bradley Rey, and Pourang Irani. "SSCA: Situated Space-time Cube Analytics." (2022).

Understanding and Adapting Bezel-to-Bezel Interactions for Circular Smartwatches in Mobile and Encum

Bradley Rey, Kening Zhu, Simon Tangi Perrault, Sandra Bardot, Ali Neshati, and Pourang Irani. 2022. Understanding and Adapting Bezel-to-Bezel Interactions for Circular Smartwatches in Mobile and Encumbered Scenarios. Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 6, MHCI, Article 201 (September 2022), 28 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3546736

Expanding Touch Interaction Capabilities for Smart-rings

Anuradha Herath, Bradley Rey, Sandra Bardot, Sawyer Rempel, Lucas Audette, Huizhe Zheng, Jun Li, Kevin Fan, Da-Yuan Huang, Wei Li, and Pourang Irani. 2022. Expanding Touch Interaction Capabilities for Smart-rings: An Exploration of Continual Slide and Microroll Gestures. In Extended Abstracts of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA '22). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 292, 1–7. https://doi.org/10.1145/3491101.3519714

One Ring to Rule Them All: An Empirical Understanding of Day-to-Day Smartring Usage

Sandra Bardot, Bradley Rey, Lucas Audette, Kevin Fan, Da-Yuan Huang, Jun Li, Wei Li, and Pourang Irani. 2022. One Ring to Rule Them All: An Empirical Understanding of Day-to-Day Smartring Usage Through In-Situ Diary Study. Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol. 6, 3, Article 100 (September 2022), 20 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3550315

Writely: Force Feedback for Non-Dominant Hand Writing Training

S. A. Faleel, B. Raj Joshi and B. Rey, "Writely: Force Feedback for Non-Dominant Hand Writing Training," 2021 IEEE World Haptics Conference (WHC), 2021, pp. 340-340, doi: 10.1109/WHC49131.2021.9517209.

ARO: Exploring the Design of Smart-Ring Interactions for Encumbered Hands

Sandra Bardot, Surya Rawat, Duy Thai Nguyen, Sawyer Rempel, Huizhe Zheng, Bradley Rey, Jun Li, Kevin Fan, Da-Yuan Huang, Wei Li, and Pourang Irani. 2021. ARO: Exploring the Design of Smart-Ring Interactions for Encumbered Hands. In Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Mobile Human-Computer Interaction (MobileHCI '21). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 12, 1–11. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3447526.3472037

SF-LG: Space-Filling Line Graphs for Visualizing Interrelated Time-series Data on Smartwatches

Ali Neshati, Fouad Alallah, Bradley Rey, Yumiko Sakamoto, Marcos Serrano, and Pourang Irani. 2021. SF-LG: Space-Filling Line Graphs for Visualizing Interrelated Time-series Data on Smartwatches. In Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Mobile Human-Computer Interaction (MobileHCI '21). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 5, 1–13. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3447526.3472040. Honourable Mention Award

BezelGlide: Interacting with Graphs on Smartwatches with Minimal Screen Occlusion

Ali Neshati, Bradley Rey, Ahmed Shariff Mohommed Faleel, Sandra Bardot, Celine Latulipe, and Pourang Irani. 2021. BezelGlide: Interacting with Graphs on Smartwatches with Minimal Screen Occlusion. In Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '21). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 501, 1–13. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3411764.3445201

Eyes-Free Graph Legibility: Using Skin-Dragging to Provide a Tactile Graph Visualization on the Arm

Sandra Bardot, Sawyer Rempel, Bradley Rey, Ali Neshati, Yumiko Sakamoto, Carlo Menon and Pourang Irani. 2020. Eyes-Free Graph Legibility: Using Skin-Dragging to Provide a Tactile Graph Visualization on the Arm. In 11th Augmented Human International Conference (AH ’20), May 27–29, 2020, Winnipeg, MB, Canada. ACM, NewYork, NY, USA, 8pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3396339.3396344

Projects

Mindful Eating

Publications

Expanding Touch Interaction Capabilities for Smart-rings

Anuradha Herath, Bradley Rey, Sandra Bardot, Sawyer Rempel, Lucas Audette, Huizhe Zheng, Jun Li, Kevin Fan, Da-Yuan Huang, Wei Li, and Pourang Irani. 2022. Expanding Touch Interaction Capabilities for Smart-rings: An Exploration of Continual Slide and Microroll Gestures. In Extended Abstracts of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA '22). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 292, 1–7. https://doi.org/10.1145/3491101.3519714

ARO: Exploring the Design of Smart-Ring Interactions for Encumbered Hands

Sandra Bardot, Surya Rawat, Duy Thai Nguyen, Sawyer Rempel, Huizhe Zheng, Bradley Rey, Jun Li, Kevin Fan, Da-Yuan Huang, Wei Li, and Pourang Irani. 2021. ARO: Exploring the Design of Smart-Ring Interactions for Encumbered Hands. In Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Mobile Human-Computer Interaction (MobileHCI '21). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 12, 1–11. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3447526.3472037

Eyes-Free Graph Legibility: Using Skin-Dragging to Provide a Tactile Graph Visualization on the Arm

Sandra Bardot, Sawyer Rempel, Bradley Rey, Ali Neshati, Yumiko Sakamoto, Carlo Menon and Pourang Irani. 2020. Eyes-Free Graph Legibility: Using Skin-Dragging to Provide a Tactile Graph Visualization on the Arm. In 11th Augmented Human International Conference (AH ’20), May 27–29, 2020, Winnipeg, MB, Canada. ACM, NewYork, NY, USA, 8pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3396339.3396344

A Smart Utensil for Detecting Food Pick-Up Gesture and Amount While Eating

Zuoyi Zhang, Huizhe Zheng, Sawyer Rempel, Kenny Hong, Teng Han, Yumiko Sakamoto, and Pourang Irani. 2020. A smart utensil for detecting food pick-up gesture and amount while eating. In Proceedings of the 11th Augmented Human International Conference (AH '20). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 2, 1–8. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3396339.3396361 (3rd best paper award)

About

I’m a computer science undergrad working under Dr. Irani on self-driving cars. When I’m not furiously typing away at a computer, you can usually find me collecting sheep in Catan or eating pizza on mountains. Last year, I was working in Japan for 7 months where I perfected a Japanese curry recipe.

Publications

Limb-O: Real-Time Comparison and Visualization of Lower Limb Motions

Michael Gammon, Ritesh Udhani, Parth Patekar, Yumiko Sakamoto, Carlo Menon, and Pourang Irani. 2020. Limb-O: Real-Time Comparison and Visualization of Lower Limb Motions. In 11th Augmented Human International Conference (AH ’20), May 27–29, 2020, Winnipeg, MB, Canada. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 8 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3396339.3396360

User Gesture Elicitation of Common Smartphone Tasks for Hand Proximate User Interfaces

Shariff A. M. Faleel, Michael Gammon, Yumiko Sakamoto, Carlo Menon, and Pourang Irani. 2020. User Gesture Elicitation of Common Smartphone Tasks for Hand Proximate User Interfaces. In 11th Augmented Human International Conference (AH ’20), May 27–29, 2020, Winnipeg, MB, Canada. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 8 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3396339.3396363

Projects

Mindful Eating

Publications

Design to Eat Smart! A Design Framework for Pervasive Interventions

Zuoyi Zhang, Teng Han, John Swystun, Yumiko Sakamoto, and Pourang Irani. 2020. Design to Eat Smart! A Design Framework for Pervasive Interventions of Eating Habits. To appear at Pervasive Health 2020.

About

I am an M.Sc. student in Dr. Irani's HCI lab. I have completed an M.Sc. program at Amirkabir University of Technology in Iran, in which I explored several machine learning and signal processing techniques with the data collected with smartphone sensors, in order to detect people's safe driving behaviors. For my M.Sc. thesis in Dr. Irani's HCI lab, one of the major goals is the identification of people's unhealthy habits. To achieve this, I use wearable devices and apply machine learning algorithms classification techniques.

Projects

Mindful Eating

Publications

A Comparison between Audio and IMU data to Detect Chewing Events Based on an Earable Device

Roya Lotfi, George Tzanetakis, Rasit Eskicioglu, and Pourang Irani. 2020. A Comparison between Audio and IMU data to Detect Chewing Events Based on an Earable Device. In 11th Augmented Human International Conference (AH ’20), May 27–29, 2020, Winnipeg, MB, Canada. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 8pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3396339.3396362

About

I am a graduate student doing my PhD in Computer Science at the University of Manitoba. I completed my MSc in the same department in Fall 2020. My research interests are in the areas of human-computer interaction and human-centered AI. I am interested to work with explainable AI systems, designing and personalizing explanations, and study the factors that impact people’s perception of and interaction with AI explanations.

I was born in Bangladesh and I moved to Canada for my MSc in Fall 2018. I completed my BSc in Computer Science and Engineering in 2016 at the Islamic University of Technology, Gazipur, Dhaka, Bangladesh. I also worked in the same institution as an Assistant Programmer till Fall 2018.

I love to listen to a lot of music, and I am an avid soccer fan!

Projects

Data-Centric Explanations

Publications

Diversity Challenges in Recruiting for Human-Centered Explainable AI Studies

A. I. Anik and A. Bunt, "Diversity Challenges in Recruiting for Human-Centered Explainable AI Studies," 2024 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC), Liverpool, United Kingdom, 2024, pp. 429-431, doi: 10.1109/VL/HCC60511.2024.00067.

Supporting User Critiques of AI Systems via Training Dataset Explanations

A. I. Anik and A. Bunt, "Supporting User Critiques of AI Systems via Training Dataset Explanations: Investigating Critique Properties and the Impact of Presentation Style," 2024 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC), Liverpool, United Kingdom, 2024, pp. 134-147, doi: 10.1109/VL/HCC60511.2024.00024.

Understanding and Mitigating the Negative Consequences of Training Dataset Explanations

Ariful Islam Anik and Andrea Bunt. 2023. Understanding and Mitigating the Negative Consequences of Training Dataset Explanations. In Proceedings of the ACM CHI 2023 Workshop on Human-centered Explainable AI (HCXAI), April 23–28, 2023, Hamburg, Germany.

Data-Centric Explanations: Explaining Training Data of ML Systems to Promote Transparency

Ariful Islam Anik and Andrea Bunt. 2021. Data-Centric Explanations: Explaining Training Data of Machine Learning Systems to Promote Transparency. In CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI’21), May 08–13, 2021, Yokohama, Japan. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 13 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3411764.3445736

Investigating Explanations that Target Training Data

Ariful Islam Anik and Andrea Bunt. 2021. Investigating Explanations that Target Training Data. In Proceedings of the ACM IUI workshop on Transparency and Explanations in Smart Systems (TExSS). Texas, USA, 7 pages.

Data-Centric Explanations: Explaining Training Data of ML Systems to Promote Transparency

Ariful Islam Anik. Data-Centric Explanations: Explaining Training Data of Machine Learning Systems to Promote Transparency. MSc Thesis (2020). University of Manitoba, Canada.

About

I am a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Manitoba. I joined the HCI lab in 2018 and completed my master’s degree from here in 2020. My research interest is Human-computer Interaction, more specifically, child-computer interaction. My research concentrates on designing innovative interactive technology for children. I also have an interest in the social aspects of human-robot interaction.

I completed my bachelor’s degree from the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh, in 2016. After graduating, I served as a lecturer at the Daffodil International University in Bangladesh.

My hobbies include listening to music, singing, and traveling.

Projects

Publications

Designing Digital Interventions by Involving End Users in Meta-design

Ananta Chowdhury, Timmy Wang and Andrea Bunt. 2024. Promoting Early Adolescents’ Tech Disengagement: Designing Digital Interventions by Involving End Users in Meta-design. In Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Participatory Design & End-User Development - Building Bridges (PDEUD2024), October 2024, Uppsala, Sweden.

Exploring A Design Space for Digital Interventions for Early Adolescents’ Tech Disengagement

Ananta Chowdhury and Andrea Bunt. 2024. Exploring A Design Space for Digital Interventions Facilitating Early Adolescents’ Tech Disengagement: A Parent-Child Perspective. In Proceedings of the 13th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (NordiCHI '24). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 47, 1–17. https://doi-org.uml.idm.oclc.org/10.1145/3679318.3685382

Reflections on Online Child-Centric Participatory Design Approaches

Ananta Chowdhury and Andrea Bunt. 2023. Reflections on Online Child-Centric Participatory Design Approaches: Two Case Studies with Children and Early Adolescents. In Proceedings of the ACM CHI 2023 Workshop on Bridging Distances for Global Participation: Conducting and Theorizing Participatory Design and Research in Hybrid Contexts, April 23–28, 2023, Hamburg, Germany.

Co-Designing with Early Adolescents

Ananta Chowdhury and Andrea Bunt. 2023. Co-Designing with Early Adolescents: Understanding Perceptions of and Design Considerations for Tech-Based Mediation Strategies that Promote Technology Disengagement. In Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '23). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 198, 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1145/3544548.3581134

Tutorials for Children by Children: Design and Evaluation of a Children’s Tutorial Authoring Tool

Ananta Chowdhury and Andrea Bunt. 2022. Tutorials for Children by Children: Design and Evaluation of a Children’s Tutorial Authoring Tool for Digital Art. In Proceedings of the 48th Graphics Interface Conference. Canadian Human-Computer Communications Society. https://openreview.net/forum?id=HzgpxFETf5 (Best Paper Award)

Tutorials for Children by Children: Design and Evaluation of a Child-Centric Tutorial Authoring Tool

Ananta Chowdhury. Tutorials for Children by Children: Design and Evaluation of a Child-Centric Tutorial Authoring Tool. MSc Thesis (2020). University of Manitoba, Canada.

About

I am a PhD student in the Department of Community Health Sciences at University of Manitoba. My research interests include Statistical Methods for Handling Missing Data in Patient Reported Outcomes (PROs), Longitudinal Data Analysis, Multi-level Modeling, and Data Visualization. Previously, I explored Quantile Regression with Nominated Samples. I’m also interested in Machine Learning techniques and Latent Mixture Modeling.

Publications

Persuasive Data Videos: Investigating Persuasive Self-Tracking Feedback with Augmented Data Videos

Eun Kyoung Choe, Yumiko Sakamoto, Yanis Fatmi, Bongshin Lee, Christophe Hurter, Ashkan Haghshenas, and Pourang Irani (2019) Persuasive Data Videos: Investigating Persuasive Self-Tracking Feedback with Augmented Data Videos, Proceedings of AMIA 2019.

Publications

Investigating Screen Reachability on an Articulated Dual-Display Smartphone

Pecchioli M., Dubois E., Irani P., Serrano M. (2019) Investigating Screen Reachability on an Articulated Dual-Display Smartphone. In: Lamas D., Loizides F., Nacke L., Petrie H., Winckler M., Zaphiris P. (eds) Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2019. INTERACT 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 11748. Springer, Cham

Projects

Publications

Caring for a Robot, to Care for You

Danika Passler Bates, Skyla Y. Dudek, James M. Berzuk, Adriana Lorena González, and James E. Young. 2024. Caring for a Robot, to Care for You: An Exploration of Robot Care as an Interaction Design to Support Wellbeing. In Proceedings of the RoboCare Design Workshop: Understanding, Translating, Operationalizing, and Scaling Up Design Knowledge Regarding Robotic Systems for Care Assistance (RCDW'24) at the ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS ’24), July 01–05, 2024, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark, 4 pages.

SnuggleBot the Companion: Exploring In-Home Robot Interaction Strategies

Danika Passler Bates, Skyla Y. Dudek, James M. Berzuk, Adriana Lorena González, and James E. Young. 2024. SnuggleBot the Companion: Exploring In-Home Robot Interaction Strategies to Support Coping With Loneliness. In Proceedings of the 2024 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS '24). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 2972–2986. https://doi-org.uml.idm.oclc.org/10.1145/3643834.3660702

Say What You Want, I’m Not Listening! A Conversational Social Robot Behavior Design

Gonzalez, AL, Geiskkovitch, DY, Young, JE. "Say What you Want, I'm not Listening! A conversational social robot behavior design for self-reflection that does not parse user speech." Journal of Interactive Media. In press.

Design and Implementation of a Novel Conversational Companion Robot For Older Adults

Adriana Lorena González. Design and Implementation of a Novel Conversational Companion Robot For Older Adults. MSc Thesis (2022). University of Manitoba, Canada.

A Simple and Lightweight Algorithm for Social Robot Speech Turn Taking (Technical Report)

González, A.L. and Young, J.E. 2020. A Simple and Lightweight Algorithm for Social Robot Speech Turn Taking. University of Manitoba MSpace repository. (2020).

Please Tell Me About It: Self-Reflection Conversational Robots to Help with Loneliness

Adriana Lorena González. James E. Young. 2020. Please Tell Me About It: Self-Reflection Conversational Robots to Help with Loneliness. In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction (HAI '20), November 10–13, 2020, Virtual Event, NSW, Australia. ACM, 2 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3406499.3418764

When Can I Get a Robot for my Home?: A Constrained Design Approach to Feasible, Deployable Companion

A.L. González, D. Y. Geiskkovitch and J. E. Young, "When Can I Get a Robot for my Home?: A Constrained Design Approach to Feasible, Deployable Companion," In Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2020 WORKSHOP ON SOCIAL HUMAN-ROBOT INTERACTION OF HUMAN-CARE SERVICE ROBOTS). 2020.

Emotional Support Domestic Robots for Healthy Older Adults

Annalena Nora Baecker, Denise Y. Geiskkovitch, Adriana Lorena González and James E. Young. 2020. Emotional Support Domestic Robots for Healthy Older Adults: Conversational Prototypes to Help With Loneliness. In Companion Proceedings of 2020 ACM International Conference on Human Robot Interaction (HRI’20), March 23–26, 2020, Cambridge, United Kingdom. ACM, 2 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3371382.3378279

Projects

Low Frequency Sound in Social HRI

Publications

Infrasound for HRI: A Robot Using Low-Frequency Vibrations to Impact How People Perceive its Actions

Thiessen, R., Rea, D. J., Garcha, D. S., Cheng, C.,Young, J. E. (2019). Infrasound for HRI: A Robot Using Low-Frequency Vibrations to Impact How People Perceive its Actions. In Proceedings of the 14th ACM/IEEE International Conference of Human-Robot Interaction.

About

I'm a M.Sc graduate student under Dr. Pourang Irani and co-supervised by Dr. Jayanne English. When I'm not learning and working on projects, you can find me singing in a choir.

Projects

Publications

Exploring Technology For Neonatal Resuscitation Training

Kenny Hong, Yumiko Sakamoto, Ganesh Srinivasan, and Pourang Irani. 2020. Exploring Technology For Neonatal Resuscitation Training. In 11th Augmented Human International Conference (AH ’20), May 27–29, 2020, Winnipeg, MB, Canada. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 9 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3396339.3396359

A Smart Utensil for Detecting Food Pick-Up Gesture and Amount While Eating

Zuoyi Zhang, Huizhe Zheng, Sawyer Rempel, Kenny Hong, Teng Han, Yumiko Sakamoto, and Pourang Irani. 2020. A smart utensil for detecting food pick-up gesture and amount while eating. In Proceedings of the 11th Augmented Human International Conference (AH '20). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 2, 1–8. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3396339.3396361 (3rd best paper award)

The Use of Head-Worn Augmented Reality Displays in Health Communications

Hong K, Sakamoto Y, Irani P. The Use of Head-Worn Augmented Reality Displays in Health Communications. Stud Health Technol Inform. 2019;257 163-169. PMID: 30741190.

Subliminal Priming in Human-Agent Interaction

Elaheh Sanoubari, Denise Y. Geiskkovitch, Diljot S. Garcha, Shahed A. Sabab, Kenny Hong, James E. Young, Andrea Bunt, Pourang Irani, "Subliminal Priming in Human-Agent Interaction: Can Agents Use Single-Frame Visuals in Video Feeds to Shape User Perceptions?" , In Proceedings of the 6th ACM International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction (HAI '18). 2018.

About

Passionate computer scientist struggling with an ongoing pizza addiction.

Publications

Persuasive Data Videos: Investigating Persuasive Self-Tracking Feedback with Augmented Data Videos

Eun Kyoung Choe, Yumiko Sakamoto, Yanis Fatmi, Bongshin Lee, Christophe Hurter, Ashkan Haghshenas, and Pourang Irani (2019) Persuasive Data Videos: Investigating Persuasive Self-Tracking Feedback with Augmented Data Videos, Proceedings of AMIA 2019.

Publications

Shaping Affective Robot Haru’s Reactive Response

Y. Vasylkiv et al., "Shaping Affective Robot Haru’s Reactive Response," 2021 30th IEEE International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), 2021, pp. 989-996, doi: 10.1109/RO-MAN50785.2021.9515525.

Using Guessability Framework: Age-Related Differences In Hand Gesture Interaction (Short paper)

Yurii Vasylkiv, Ali Neshati, Shariff A. M. Faleel, Yumiko Sakamoto, and Pourang Irani. 2020. Using guessability framework: age-related differences in hand gesture interaction. In Proceedings of the 11th Augmented Human International Conference (AH '20). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 24, 1–2. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3396339.3396394

Smart Home Interactions for People with Reduced Hand Mobility Using Subtle EMG-Signal Gestures

Vasylkiv Y, Neshati A, Sakamoto Y, Gomez R, Nakamura K, Irani P. Smart Home Interactions for People with Reduced Hand Mobility Using Subtle EMG-Signal Gestures. Stud Health Technol Inform. 2019;257 436-443. PMID: 30741236.

About

My research interest centers on Social Cognition during Interpersonal as well as Human-Computer interactions. More specifically, I am interested in how different levels of perception can affect our cognitive and physical performance during these Interactions.

Projects

Publications

SSCA: Situated Space-time Cube Analytics

Fouad Alallah, Shariff Faleel, Yumiko Sakamoto, Bradley Rey, and Pourang Irani. "SSCA: Situated Space-time Cube Analytics." (2022).

Persuasive data storytelling with a data video during Covid-19 infodemic

Sakamoto Y, Sallam S, Leboe-McGowan J, Salo A, Irani P. Persuasive data storytelling with a data video during Covid-19 infodemic: Affective pathway to influence the users’ perception about contact tracing apps in less than 6 minutes. Proceedings of the 2022 Pacific Vis. 2022.

Towards Design Guidelines for Effective Health-Related Data Videos

Sallam S, Sakamoto Y, Leboe-McGowan J, Latulipe C, Irani P. Towards Design Guidelines for Effective Health-Related Data Videos: An Empirical Investigation of Affect, Personality, and Video Content. Proceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.

Ambient assisted living technologies to support older adults’ health and wellness: a systematic mapp

Choukou, M. A., Polyvyana, A., Sakamoto, Y., & Osterreicher, A. (2021). Ambient assisted living technologies to support older adults’ health and wellness: a systematic mapping review. European Review for Medical and Pharmacological Sciences, 25(12), 4289-4307.

Attitude and perceptions of older and younger adults towards ambient technologyfor assisted living

Choukou, M. A., Sakamoto, Y., & Irani, P. (2021). Attitude and perceptions of older and younger adults towards ambient technology for assisted living. European Review for Medical and Pharmacological Sciences, 25(10), 3709-3717.

SF-LG: Space-Filling Line Graphs for Visualizing Interrelated Time-series Data on Smartwatches

Ali Neshati, Fouad Alallah, Bradley Rey, Yumiko Sakamoto, Marcos Serrano, and Pourang Irani. 2021. SF-LG: Space-Filling Line Graphs for Visualizing Interrelated Time-series Data on Smartwatches. In Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Mobile Human-Computer Interaction (MobileHCI '21). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 5, 1–13. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3447526.3472040. Honourable Mention Award

Exploring the Need and Design for Situated Video Analytics.

Fouad Alallah, Yumiko Sakamoto, and Pourang Irani. 2020. Exploring the Need and Design for Situated Video Analytics. In Symposium on Spatial User Interaction (SUI ’20), October 31-November 1, 2020, Virtual Event, Canada. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 11 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3385959.3418458

Is Going Unnoticed More Socially Acceptable?: An Exploration of the Relationship Between Social Acce

Sakamoto, Y., Irani, P., & Hasan, K. (2020). Is Going Unnoticed More Socially Acceptable?: An Exploration of the Relationship Between Social Acceptability and Noticeability of Fitness Trackers. Human Computer Interaction and Emerging Technologies: Adjunct Proceedings from, 117.

Limb-O: Real-Time Comparison and Visualization of Lower Limb Motions

Michael Gammon, Ritesh Udhani, Parth Patekar, Yumiko Sakamoto, Carlo Menon, and Pourang Irani. 2020. Limb-O: Real-Time Comparison and Visualization of Lower Limb Motions. In 11th Augmented Human International Conference (AH ’20), May 27–29, 2020, Winnipeg, MB, Canada. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 8 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3396339.3396360

Exploring Technology For Neonatal Resuscitation Training

Kenny Hong, Yumiko Sakamoto, Ganesh Srinivasan, and Pourang Irani. 2020. Exploring Technology For Neonatal Resuscitation Training. In 11th Augmented Human International Conference (AH ’20), May 27–29, 2020, Winnipeg, MB, Canada. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 9 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3396339.3396359

User Gesture Elicitation of Common Smartphone Tasks for Hand Proximate User Interfaces

Shariff A. M. Faleel, Michael Gammon, Yumiko Sakamoto, Carlo Menon, and Pourang Irani. 2020. User Gesture Elicitation of Common Smartphone Tasks for Hand Proximate User Interfaces. In 11th Augmented Human International Conference (AH ’20), May 27–29, 2020, Winnipeg, MB, Canada. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 8 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3396339.3396363

Using Guessability Framework: Age-Related Differences In Hand Gesture Interaction (Short paper)

Yurii Vasylkiv, Ali Neshati, Shariff A. M. Faleel, Yumiko Sakamoto, and Pourang Irani. 2020. Using guessability framework: age-related differences in hand gesture interaction. In Proceedings of the 11th Augmented Human International Conference (AH '20). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 24, 1–2. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3396339.3396394

Eyes-Free Graph Legibility: Using Skin-Dragging to Provide a Tactile Graph Visualization on the Arm

Sandra Bardot, Sawyer Rempel, Bradley Rey, Ali Neshati, Yumiko Sakamoto, Carlo Menon and Pourang Irani. 2020. Eyes-Free Graph Legibility: Using Skin-Dragging to Provide a Tactile Graph Visualization on the Arm. In 11th Augmented Human International Conference (AH ’20), May 27–29, 2020, Winnipeg, MB, Canada. ACM, NewYork, NY, USA, 8pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3396339.3396344

A Smart Utensil for Detecting Food Pick-Up Gesture and Amount While Eating

Zuoyi Zhang, Huizhe Zheng, Sawyer Rempel, Kenny Hong, Teng Han, Yumiko Sakamoto, and Pourang Irani. 2020. A smart utensil for detecting food pick-up gesture and amount while eating. In Proceedings of the 11th Augmented Human International Conference (AH '20). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 2, 1–8. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3396339.3396361 (3rd best paper award)

Design to Eat Smart! A Design Framework for Pervasive Interventions

Zuoyi Zhang, Teng Han, John Swystun, Yumiko Sakamoto, and Pourang Irani. 2020. Design to Eat Smart! A Design Framework for Pervasive Interventions of Eating Habits. To appear at Pervasive Health 2020.

Persuasive Data Videos: Investigating Persuasive Self-Tracking Feedback with Augmented Data Videos

Eun Kyoung Choe, Yumiko Sakamoto, Yanis Fatmi, Bongshin Lee, Christophe Hurter, Ashkan Haghshenas, and Pourang Irani (2019) Persuasive Data Videos: Investigating Persuasive Self-Tracking Feedback with Augmented Data Videos, Proceedings of AMIA 2019.

#SociallyAcceptableHCI: Social Acceptability of Emerging Technologies and Novel Interaction Paradigm

Koelle, M., George, C., Schwind, V., Perry, D., Sakamoto, Y., Hasan, K., ... & Olsson, T. (2019, September). # SociallyAcceptableHCI: Social Acceptability of Emerging Technologies and Novel Interaction Paradigms. In IFIP Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (pp. 741-746). Springer, Cham.

G-Sparks: Glanceable Sparklines on Smartwatches

Ali Neshati, Yumiko Sakamoto, Launa Leboe-Mcgowan, Jason Leboe-Mcgowan, Marcos Serrano, Pourang Irani. G-Sparks: Glanceable Sparklines on Smartwatches (regular paper). Dans : Graphics Interface (GI 2019), Kingston, Canada, 28/05/19-31/05/19, 2019

Smart Home Interactions for People with Reduced Hand Mobility Using Subtle EMG-Signal Gestures

Vasylkiv Y, Neshati A, Sakamoto Y, Gomez R, Nakamura K, Irani P. Smart Home Interactions for People with Reduced Hand Mobility Using Subtle EMG-Signal Gestures. Stud Health Technol Inform. 2019;257 436-443. PMID: 30741236.

The Use of Head-Worn Augmented Reality Displays in Health Communications

Hong K, Sakamoto Y, Irani P. The Use of Head-Worn Augmented Reality Displays in Health Communications. Stud Health Technol Inform. 2019;257 163-169. PMID: 30741190.

Challenges in Displaying Health Data on Small Smartwatch Screens

Neshati A, Sakamoto Y, Irani P. Challenges in Displaying Health Data on Small Smartwatch Screens. Stud Health Technol Inform. 2019;257 325-332. PMID: 30741218.

Applying a Pneumatic Interface to Intervene with Rapid Eating Behaviour

Zhang Z, Kim J, Sakamoto Y, Han T, Irani P. Applying a Pneumatic Interface to Intervene with Rapid Eating Behaviour. Stud Health Technol Inform. 2019;257 513-519. PMID: 30741249.

Performer vs. observer: whose comfort level should we consider?

Fouad Alallah, Ali Neshati, Yumiko Sakamoto, Khalad Hasan, Edward Lank, Andrea Bunt, and Pourang Irani. 2018. Performer vs. observer: whose comfort level should we consider when examining the social acceptability of input modalities for head-worn display?. In Proceedings of the 24th ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology (VRST '18), Stephen N. Spencer (Ed.). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Article 10, 9 pages. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3281505.3281541

Crowdsourcing vs Laboratory-Style Social Acceptability Studies?: Examining the Social Acceptability

Fouad Alallah, Ali Neshati, Nima Sheibani, Yumiko Sakamoto, Andrea Bunt, Pourang Irani, and Khalad Hasan. 2018. Crowdsourcing vs Laboratory-Style Social Acceptability Studies?: Examining the Social Acceptability of Spatial User Interactions for Head-Worn Displays. In Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '18). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Paper 310, 7 pages. DOI: https://doi-org.uml.idm.oclc.org/10.1145/3173574.3173884

Culture moderates the relationship between interdependence and face recognition.

Ng, A. H., Steele, J. R., Sasaki, J. Y., Sakamoto, Y., & Williams, A. (2015). Culture moderates the relationship between interdependence and face recognition. Frontiers in psychology, 6, 1620.

Airport security measures and their influence on enplanement intentions

Alards-Tomalin, D., Ansons, T. L., Reich, T. C., Sakamoto, Y., Davie, R., Leboe-McGowan, J. P., & Leboe-McGowan, L. C. (2014). Airport security measures and their influence on enplanement intentions: Responses from leisure travelers attending a Canadian University. Journal of Air Transport Management, 37, 60-68.

Who cares what the outgroup thinks?

Vorauer, J. D., & Sakamoto, Y. (2008). Who cares what the outgroup thinks? Testing an information search model of the importance individuals accord to an outgroup member's view of them during intergroup interaction. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 95(6), 1467–1480. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0012631

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Subliminal Priming in Human-Agent Interaction

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An Automated Approach to Assessing an Application Tutorial’s Difficulty

S. A. Sabab, A. Khan, P. K. Chilana, J. McGrenere and A. Bunt, "An Automated Approach to Assessing an Application Tutorial’s Difficulty," 2020 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC), Dunedin, New Zealand, 2020, pp. 1-10, doi: 10.1109/VL/HCC50065.2020.9127271.

An Investigation on Automatically Assessing an Application Tutorial’s Difficulty

Shahed Anzarus Sabab. An Investigation on Automatically Assessing an Application Tutorial’s Difficulty. M.Sc. Thesis (2019). University of Manitoba, Canada.

Subliminal Priming in Human-Agent Interaction

Elaheh Sanoubari, Denise Y. Geiskkovitch, Diljot S. Garcha, Shahed A. Sabab, Kenny Hong, James E. Young, Andrea Bunt, Pourang Irani, "Subliminal Priming in Human-Agent Interaction: Can Agents Use Single-Frame Visuals in Video Feeds to Shape User Perceptions?" , In Proceedings of the 6th ACM International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction (HAI '18). 2018.

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Mindful Eating

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A Smart Utensil for Detecting Food Pick-Up Gesture and Amount While Eating

Zuoyi Zhang, Huizhe Zheng, Sawyer Rempel, Kenny Hong, Teng Han, Yumiko Sakamoto, and Pourang Irani. 2020. A smart utensil for detecting food pick-up gesture and amount while eating. In Proceedings of the 11th Augmented Human International Conference (AH '20). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 2, 1–8. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3396339.3396361 (3rd best paper award)

Design to Eat Smart! A Design Framework for Pervasive Interventions

Zuoyi Zhang, Teng Han, John Swystun, Yumiko Sakamoto, and Pourang Irani. 2020. Design to Eat Smart! A Design Framework for Pervasive Interventions of Eating Habits. To appear at Pervasive Health 2020.

Applying a Pneumatic Interface to Intervene with Rapid Eating Behaviour

Zhang Z, Kim J, Sakamoto Y, Han T, Irani P. Applying a Pneumatic Interface to Intervene with Rapid Eating Behaviour. Stud Health Technol Inform. 2019;257 513-519. PMID: 30741249.

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Conveyor: A Dual-Task Paradigm for Studying VR Dialogue Interfaces

Patrick Dubois, Daniel J. Rea, Kevin Hoang, Meghan Chua, Danielle King, Corey King, James E. Young and Andrea Bunt. Conveyor: A Dual-Task Paradigm for Studying VR Dialogue Interfaces. Graphics Interface (GI'18). 2018. Poster. (Best Poster Award)

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Understanding Family Needs: Informing Social Robot Design to Support Children with Disabilities

Raquel Thiessen, Denise Y. Geiskkovitch, Minoo Dabiri, James M Berzuk, Nathan Lo, Daisuke Sakamoto, Jacquie Ripat, and James Everett Young. 2024. Understanding Family Needs: Informing Social Robot Design to Support Children with Disabilities to Engage in Play. In International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction (HAI ’24), November 24–27, 2024, Swansea, United Kingdom. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 12 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3687272.3688301

Understanding Family Needs: Informing the Design of Social Robots for Children with Disabilities

Raquel Reann Thiessen. Understanding Family Needs: Informing the Design of Social Robots for Children with Disabilities to Support Play. MSc Thesis (2023). University of Manitoba, Canada.

Face to Face with a Sexist Robot: Investigating how women react to sexist robot behaviors

Garcha, D., Geiskkovitch, D., Thiessen, R. et al. Face to Face with a Sexist Robot: Investigating How Women React to Sexist Robot Behaviors. Int J of Soc Robotics (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12369-023-01001-4

Social Robots to Encourage Play for Children with Disabilities: Learning Perceived Requirements

Raquel Thiessen, Minoo Dabiri, Denise Y. Geiskkovitch, Jacquie Ripat, and James Everett Young. 2023. Social Robots to Encourage Play for Children with Disabilities: Learning Perceived Requirements and Barriers from Family Units. In Companion of the 2023 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI '23). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 625–628. https://doi-org.uml.idm.oclc.org/10.1145/3568294.3580161

Social Robots to Encourage Play for Children with Physical Disabilities: Learning from Family Units

Raquel Thiessen. 2023. Social Robots to Encourage Play for Children with Physical Disabilities: Learning from Family Units. In Companion of the 2023 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI '23). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 784–786. https://doi-org.uml.idm.oclc.org/10.1145/3568294.3579985

What? That’s Not a Chair!: How Robot Informational Errors Affect Children’s Trust Towards Robots

Geiskkovitch, D. Y., Thiessen, R., Young, J. E., Glenwright, M. R. (2019). What? That’s not a chair!: How robot informational errors affect children’s trust towards robots. In Proceedings of the 14th ACM/IEEE International Conference of Human-Robot Interaction.

Infrasound for HRI: A Robot Using Low-Frequency Vibrations to Impact How People Perceive its Actions

Thiessen, R., Rea, D. J., Garcha, D. S., Cheng, C.,Young, J. E. (2019). Infrasound for HRI: A Robot Using Low-Frequency Vibrations to Impact How People Perceive its Actions. In Proceedings of the 14th ACM/IEEE International Conference of Human-Robot Interaction.

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Face to Face with a Sexist Robot: Investigating how women react to sexist robot behaviors

Garcha, D., Geiskkovitch, D., Thiessen, R. et al. Face to Face with a Sexist Robot: Investigating How Women React to Sexist Robot Behaviors. Int J of Soc Robotics (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12369-023-01001-4

Infrasound for HRI: A Robot Using Low-Frequency Vibrations to Impact How People Perceive its Actions

Thiessen, R., Rea, D. J., Garcha, D. S., Cheng, C.,Young, J. E. (2019). Infrasound for HRI: A Robot Using Low-Frequency Vibrations to Impact How People Perceive its Actions. In Proceedings of the 14th ACM/IEEE International Conference of Human-Robot Interaction.

Good Robot Design or Machiavellian? An in-the-wild robot leveraging minimal knowledge of passersby’s

Elaheh Sanoubari, Stela H. Seo, Diljot S. Garcha, James E. Young, Verónica Loureiro-Rodríguez. “Good Robot Design or Machiavellian? An in-the-wild robot leveraging minimal knowledge of passersby’s culture”. In Proceedings of alt.HRI track, ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction. 2019.

Subliminal Priming in Human-Agent Interaction

Elaheh Sanoubari, Denise Y. Geiskkovitch, Diljot S. Garcha, Shahed A. Sabab, Kenny Hong, James E. Young, Andrea Bunt, Pourang Irani, "Subliminal Priming in Human-Agent Interaction: Can Agents Use Single-Frame Visuals in Video Feeds to Shape User Perceptions?" , In Proceedings of the 6th ACM International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction (HAI '18). 2018.

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Robots, Bullies and Stories: A Remote Co-design Study with Children.

Sanoubari, E, Munoz, J, Mahdi, H, Young, J, Houston, A, Dautenhahn, K (2021) "Robots, Bullies and Stories: A Remote Co-design Study with Children.'' In Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Interaction Design and Children (IDC), 2021. ACM.

Can Robots Be Bullied? A Crowdsourced Feasibility Study for Using Social Robots in Anti-Bullying Int

Sanoubari, E, Young, J, Houston, A, Dautenhahn, K (2021) ``Can Robots Be Bullied? A Crowdsourced Feasibility Study for Using Social Robots in Anti-Bullying Interventions.'' In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (Ro-Man). 2021. IEEE.

A Need for Trust in Conversational Interface Research

Edwards, J & Sanoubari, E. "A Need for Trust in Conversational Interface Research”. Provocation Papers of the ACM International Conference on Conversational User Interfaces’19. 2019.

Mutation: Leveraging Performing Arts Practices in Cyborg Transitioning

Hammad, N, Sanoubari, E, Finn, P, Somanath, S, Young, JE, Sharlin, E. “Mutation: Leveraging Performing Arts Practices in Cyborg Transitioning”, Proc. ACM conference on Creativity and Cognition, 2019. Honorable Mention Award

AV-Pedestrian Interaction Design Using a Pedestrian Mixed Traffic Simulator

Mahadevan, K, Sanoubari, E, Somanath, S, Young, JE, Sharlin, E. “AV-Pedestrian Interaction Design Using a Pedestrian Mixed Traffic Simulator”, Proc. ACM conference on Designing Interactive Systems, 2019.

Good Robot Design or Machiavellian? An in-the-wild robot leveraging minimal knowledge of passersby’s

Elaheh Sanoubari, Stela H. Seo, Diljot S. Garcha, James E. Young, Verónica Loureiro-Rodríguez. “Good Robot Design or Machiavellian? An in-the-wild robot leveraging minimal knowledge of passersby’s culture”. In Proceedings of alt.HRI track, ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction. 2019.

Subliminal Priming in Human-Agent Interaction

Elaheh Sanoubari, Denise Y. Geiskkovitch, Diljot S. Garcha, Shahed A. Sabab, Kenny Hong, James E. Young, Andrea Bunt, Pourang Irani, "Subliminal Priming in Human-Agent Interaction: Can Agents Use Single-Frame Visuals in Video Feeds to Shape User Perceptions?" , In Proceedings of the 6th ACM International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction (HAI '18). 2018.

“Hi human, can we talk?”

Elaheh Sanoubari, James E. Young. “Hi human, can we talk? An in-the-wild study template for robots approaching unsuspecting participants" in proceedings of the Workshop on the Social Robots in the Wild at the 13th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction. ACM. 2018.

Explicit, Neutral, or Implicit: a cross-cultural exploration of communication-style preferences

Elaheh Sanoubari, James E. Young. "Explicit, Neutral, or Implicit: a cross-cultural exploration of communication-style preferences in human robot interaction" In adjunct Proceedings of the 13th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction . ACM. 2018.

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EdgeSelect: Smartwatch Data Interaction with Minimal Screen Occlusion

Ali Neshati, Aaron Salo, Shariff Am Faleel, Ziming Li, Hai-Ning Liang, Celine Latulipe, and Pourang Irani. 2022. EdgeSelect: Smartwatch Data Interaction with Minimal Screen Occlusion. In Proceedings of the 2022 International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI '22). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 288–298. https://doi.org/10.1145/3536221.3556586

Understanding and Adapting Bezel-to-Bezel Interactions for Circular Smartwatches in Mobile and Encum

Bradley Rey, Kening Zhu, Simon Tangi Perrault, Sandra Bardot, Ali Neshati, and Pourang Irani. 2022. Understanding and Adapting Bezel-to-Bezel Interactions for Circular Smartwatches in Mobile and Encumbered Scenarios. Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 6, MHCI, Article 201 (September 2022), 28 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3546736

SF-LG: Space-Filling Line Graphs for Visualizing Interrelated Time-series Data on Smartwatches

Ali Neshati, Fouad Alallah, Bradley Rey, Yumiko Sakamoto, Marcos Serrano, and Pourang Irani. 2021. SF-LG: Space-Filling Line Graphs for Visualizing Interrelated Time-series Data on Smartwatches. In Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Mobile Human-Computer Interaction (MobileHCI '21). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 5, 1–13. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3447526.3472040. Honourable Mention Award

BezelGlide: Interacting with Graphs on Smartwatches with Minimal Screen Occlusion

Ali Neshati, Bradley Rey, Ahmed Shariff Mohommed Faleel, Sandra Bardot, Celine Latulipe, and Pourang Irani. 2021. BezelGlide: Interacting with Graphs on Smartwatches with Minimal Screen Occlusion. In Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '21). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 501, 1–13. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3411764.3445201

Using Guessability Framework: Age-Related Differences In Hand Gesture Interaction (Short paper)

Yurii Vasylkiv, Ali Neshati, Shariff A. M. Faleel, Yumiko Sakamoto, and Pourang Irani. 2020. Using guessability framework: age-related differences in hand gesture interaction. In Proceedings of the 11th Augmented Human International Conference (AH '20). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 24, 1–2. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3396339.3396394

Eyes-Free Graph Legibility: Using Skin-Dragging to Provide a Tactile Graph Visualization on the Arm

Sandra Bardot, Sawyer Rempel, Bradley Rey, Ali Neshati, Yumiko Sakamoto, Carlo Menon and Pourang Irani. 2020. Eyes-Free Graph Legibility: Using Skin-Dragging to Provide a Tactile Graph Visualization on the Arm. In 11th Augmented Human International Conference (AH ’20), May 27–29, 2020, Winnipeg, MB, Canada. ACM, NewYork, NY, USA, 8pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3396339.3396344

G-Sparks: Glanceable Sparklines on Smartwatches

Ali Neshati, Yumiko Sakamoto, Launa Leboe-Mcgowan, Jason Leboe-Mcgowan, Marcos Serrano, Pourang Irani. G-Sparks: Glanceable Sparklines on Smartwatches (regular paper). Dans : Graphics Interface (GI 2019), Kingston, Canada, 28/05/19-31/05/19, 2019

An Analytic Model for Time Efficient Personal Hierarchies

William Delamare, Ali Neshati, Pourang Irani, and Xiangshi Ren. 2019. An Analytic Model for Time Efficient Personal Hierarchies. In Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '19). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Paper 368, 11 pages. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3290605.3300598. Honourable Mention Award.

Smart Home Interactions for People with Reduced Hand Mobility Using Subtle EMG-Signal Gestures

Vasylkiv Y, Neshati A, Sakamoto Y, Gomez R, Nakamura K, Irani P. Smart Home Interactions for People with Reduced Hand Mobility Using Subtle EMG-Signal Gestures. Stud Health Technol Inform. 2019;257 436-443. PMID: 30741236.

Challenges in Displaying Health Data on Small Smartwatch Screens

Neshati A, Sakamoto Y, Irani P. Challenges in Displaying Health Data on Small Smartwatch Screens. Stud Health Technol Inform. 2019;257 325-332. PMID: 30741218.

Performer vs. observer: whose comfort level should we consider?

Fouad Alallah, Ali Neshati, Yumiko Sakamoto, Khalad Hasan, Edward Lank, Andrea Bunt, and Pourang Irani. 2018. Performer vs. observer: whose comfort level should we consider when examining the social acceptability of input modalities for head-worn display?. In Proceedings of the 24th ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology (VRST '18), Stephen N. Spencer (Ed.). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Article 10, 9 pages. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3281505.3281541

Crowdsourcing vs Laboratory-Style Social Acceptability Studies?: Examining the Social Acceptability

Fouad Alallah, Ali Neshati, Nima Sheibani, Yumiko Sakamoto, Andrea Bunt, Pourang Irani, and Khalad Hasan. 2018. Crowdsourcing vs Laboratory-Style Social Acceptability Studies?: Examining the Social Acceptability of Spatial User Interactions for Head-Worn Displays. In Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '18). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Paper 310, 7 pages. DOI: https://doi-org.uml.idm.oclc.org/10.1145/3173574.3173884

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Influencing Operator Perceptions and Behavior during Teleoperation

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Tortoise and the Hare Robot: Slow and steady almost wins the race, but finishes more safely

Daniel J. Rea, Mahdi Rahmani, Neil Bruce, James E. Young. "Tortoise and the Hare Robot: Slow and steady almost wins the race, but finishes more safely," IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, RO-MAN, 2017. Lisbon, Portugal.

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TDome: A Touch-Enabled 6DOF Interactive Device for Multi-Display Environments

Houssem Saidi, Marcos Serrano, Pourang Irani, and Emmanuel Dubois. 2017. TDome: A Touch-Enabled 6DOF Interactive Device for Multi-Display Environments. In Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '17). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 5892–5904. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3025453.3025661

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AirPanes: Two-Handed Around-Device Interaction for Pane Switching on Smartphones

Khalad Hasan, David Ahlström, Junhyeok Kim, and Pourang Irani. 2017. AirPanes: Two-Handed Around-Device Interaction for Pane Switching on Smartphones. In Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '17). To appear.

Thumbs-Up: 3D Spatial Thumb-Reachable Space for One-Handed Thumb Interaction on Smartphones

Khalad Hasan, Junhyeok Kim, David Ahlström, and Pourang Irani. 2016. Thumbs-Up: 3D Spatial Thumb-Reachable Space for One-Handed Thumb Interaction on Smartphones. In Proceedings of the 2016 Symposium on Spatial User Interaction (SUI '16), 103-106.

Exploring Design Factors for Transforming Passive Vibration Signals into Smartwear Interactions

Teng Han, David Ahlström, Xing-Dong Yang, Ahmad Byagowi, and Pourang Irani. 2016. Exploring Design Factors for Transforming Passive Vibration Signals into Smartwear Interactions. In Proceedings of the 9th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (NordiCHI '16). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Article 35, 10 pages.

Moving Ahead with Peephole Pointing: Modelling Object Selection with Head-Worn Display Field of View

Barrett Ens, David Ahlström, Pourang Irani. 2016. Moving Ahead with Peephole Pointing: Modelling Object Selection with Head-Worn Display Field of View. In Proceedings of the 4th symposium on Spatial User Interactions (SUI '16), Tokyo, Japan. ACM, to appear.

SAMMI: A Spatially-Aware Multi-Mobile Interface for Analytic Map Navigation Tasks

Khalad Hasan, David Ahlström, and Pourang Irani. 2015. SAMMI: A Spatially-Aware Multi-Mobile Interface for Analytic Map Navigation Tasks. In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (MobileHCI '15), 36-45.

Comparing Direct Off-Screen Pointing, Peephole, and Flick&Pinch Interaction for Map Navigation

Khalad Hasan, David Ahlström, and Pourang Irani. 2015. Comparing Direct Off-Screen Pointing, Peephole, and Flick&Pinch Interaction for Map Navigation. In Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Spatial User Interaction (SUI 2015). Los Angeles, USA. ACM. 99-102.

Are You Comfortable Doing That?: Acceptance Studies of Around-Device Gestures in and for Public Sett

David Ahlström, Khalad Hasan, Pourang Irani. 2014. Are You Comfortable Doing That?: Acceptance Studies of Around-Device Gestures in and for Public Settings. In Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (MobileHCI 2014). Toronto, Canada. ACM. To Appear.

AD-Binning: Leveraging Around Device Space for Storing, Browsing and Retrieving Mobile Device Conten

Khalad Hasan, David Ahlström and Pourang Irani. 2013. AD-Binning: Leveraging Around Device Space for Storing, Browsing and Retrieving Mobile Device Content. In Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2013). Paris, France. ACM. 899-908.

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