John-Harmen Valk, Ahmed Tareq Rashid, Laurent Elder
Despite improvements in educational indicators, such as enrolment, significant challenges remain with regard to the delivery of quality education in developing countries, particularly in rural and remote regions. In the attempt to find viable solutions to these challenges, much hope has been placed ...
Md. Shahadat Hossain Khan, Mahbub Hasan, Che Kum Clement
Within a very few years, Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has turned out to be an effective educational technology which promotes some dramatic changes in teaching and learning processes. Technologies allow students to work more productively than in the past, but the teacher's role in ...
Zubair Ahmed Ratan, Anne‐Maree Parrish, Sojib Bin Zaman, Mohammad Saud Alotaibi et al.
BACKGROUND: Smartphones play a critical role in increasing human-machine interactions, with many advantages. However, the growing popularity of smartphone use has led to smartphone overuse and addiction. This review aims to systematically investigate the impact of smartphone addiction on health outc...
Tania Akter, Md. Shahriare Satu, Md. Imran Khan, Mohammad Hanif Ali et al.
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a group of neurodevelopmental disabilities that are not curable but may be ameliorated by early interventions. We gathered early-detected ASD datasets relating to toddlers, children, adolescents and adults, and applied several feature transformation methods, includi...
Abderrahman M Khalaf, Abdullah A Alubied, Ahmed Khalaf, Abdallah A Rifaey
Adolescents increasingly find it difficult to picture their lives without social media. Practitioners need to be able to assess risk, and social media may be a new component to consider. Although there is limited empirical evidence to support the claim, the perception of the link between social medi...
Eve Gregory
Over the past three decades numerous studies from the English-speaking world have pointed to the advantages for young children of family involvement in their literacy development. However, their emphasis has always been firmly and almost exclusively upon parentsworking with children in specific ways...
Sharifa Sultana, François Guimbretière, Phoebe Sengers, Nicola Dell
This paper examines the opportunities and issues that arise in designing technologies to support low-income rural women in Bangladesh. Through a qualitative, empirical study with 90 participants, we reveal systemic everyday challenges that women face that form the backdrop against which technology d...
Markus Wöhr, Florence Roullet, Jacqueline N. Crawley
Qualitative impairments in communication, such as delayed language and poor interactive communication skills, are fundamental to the diagnosis of autism. Investigations into social communication in adult BTBR T+tf/J (BTBR) mice are needed to determine whether this inbred strain incorporates phenotyp...
Anuradha Mathrani, Tarushikha Sarvesh, Rahila Umer
This article showcases digital inequalities that came to the forefront for online learning during the COVID-19 lockdown across five developing countries, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal and Afghanistan. Large sections of population in developing economies have limited access to basic digital serv...
Mohammed A. Mamun, Mark D. Griffiths
Social media addiction has become an area of increasing research interest over the past few years. However, there has been no previous research on social media addiction in Bangladesh. The present pilot study is the first ever in Bangladesh to examine the relationship between one specific form of so...
Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, Steven J. Jackson, Nova Ahmed, Hasan Shahid Ferdous et al.
Public sexual harassment has emerged as a large and growing concern in urban Bangladesh, with deep and damaging implications for gender security, justice, and rights of public participation. In this paper we describe an integrated program of ethnographic and design work meant to understand and addre...
Tania Akter, Mohammad Hanif Ali, Md. Imran Khan, Md. Shahriare Satu et al.
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a complex neuro-developmental disorder that affects social skills, language, speech and communication. Early detection of ASD individuals, especially children, could help to devise and strategize right therapeutic plan at right time. Human faces encode important mar...
S. M. Mahedy Hasan, Md Palash Uddin, Md. Al Mamun, Muhammad Imran Sharif et al.
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a type of neurodevelopmental disorder that affects the everyday life of affected patients. Though it is considered hard to completely eradicate this disease, disease severity can be mitigated by taking early interventions. In this paper, we propose an effective fram...
Md. Saiful Islam, Md. Safaet Hossain Sujan, Rafia Tasnim, Rashenda Aziz Mohona et al.
Background: Smartphone and social media use are an integral part of our daily life. Currently, the impact of excessive smartphone and social media use during the COVID-19 pandemic is poorly understood. The present study aimed to investigate problematic smartphone use (PSPU) and problematic social me...
Mohammed A. Mamun, Md. Sharif Hossain, Abu Bakkar Siddique, Md. Tajuddin Sikder et al.
Problematic Internet Use (PIU) has become a concern for public mental health across the globe. However, there are few studies assessing PIU in Bangladesh. The present cross-sectional study estimated the prevalence rate of PIU and its associated risk factors among 405 university students in Banglades...