Milon Biswas, Atanu Shome, Md. Ashraful Islam, Arafat Jahan Nova et al.
In time series data analysis, stock market prediction is particularly hard. In addition, for the best estimation of stock prices, proper tuning of the model is crucial. This research work uses the frequently used algorithms Long Short Term Memory, Extreme Gradient Boosting (XGBoost), Linear Regressi...
Md. Asraful Islam, Taoufikul Islam, Minhaz Ahmed Syrus, Nova Ahmed
This research involved in the design & implementation of water monitoring system that provides a solution to remotely monitoring water levels, early warning of events, sending notifications when critical water levels are reached through mobile and accessing all information via a website. It enables ...
Nova Ahmed
Technology can play an important role to flght social problems. We have explored the role of technology in sexual harassment through our yearlong qualitative study on urban female undergraduate students. The existing notion of fear, mistrust and hope towards technology affects the discussion as pres...
Nova Ahmed, Rahat Jahangir Rony, Kimia Tuz Zaman
This study presents the challenges of marginal communities in maintaining social distances during the COVID-19 pandemic. We focused on garment worker communities in Bangladesh. The current living conditions put the community at high risk due to the contagious nature of COVID-19. The study involved 5...
Nova Ahmed, Tamanna Urmi, Mahbuba Tasmin
This work presents an overview of the participation of young female learners in the STEM field in Bangladesh. The female stakeholder percentage in STEM fields in Bangladesh is one of the lowest in South Asia. The gender disparity in this sector is visible from early on in the educational journey of ...
Daniel J. Stubbs, Benjamin M. Davies, Ellie Edlmann, Akbar Ansari et al.
INTRODUCTION: A chronic subdural haematoma (cSDH) is an encapsulated collection of fluid and blood degradation products in the subdural space. It is increasingly common, affecting older people and those living with frailty. Currently, no guidance exists to define optimal care from onset of symptoms ...
Nithya Sambasivan, Nova Ahmed, Amna Batool, Elie Bursztein et al.
South Asia has one of the world's largest populations—India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh alone are home to more than 20% of all people. The region is also one of the fastest-growing technology markets as a result of its increased infrastructure and growing affordability. Despite this progress, South As...
Mst Shapna Akter, Hossain Shahriar, Nova Ahmed, Alfredo Cuzzocrea
Aggressive comments on social media negatively impact human life. Such offensive contents are responsible for depression and suicidal-related activities. Since online social networking is increasing day by day, the hate content is also increasing. Several investigations have been done on the domain ...
M. M. Lutfe Elahi, Rahat Yasir, Minhaz Ahmed Syrus, Md. S. Q. Zulkar Nine et al.
Road traffic accident is one of the major causes of death in Bangladesh. In this article, we propose a method that uses road side video data to learn the traffic pattern and uses vision based techniques to track and determine various kinetic features of vehicles. Finally, the proposed method detects...
Marisol Wong-Villacrés, Cat Kutay, Shaimaa Lazem, Nova Ahmed et al.
Despite the increase in university courses and curricula on the ethics of computing there are few studies about how computer science (CS) programs should account for the diverse ways ethical dilemmas and approaches to ethics are situated in cultural, philosophical, and governance systems, religions,...
Nova Ahmed, Mahbuba Tasmin, Sayyed Mohammad Nasim Ibrahim
Chandrima Bhattacharya, Debaroti Chowdhury, Nova Ahmed, Su Özgür et al.
The recent pandemic of COVID-19 has not only shaken the healthcare but also economic structure around the world. In addition to these direct effects, it has also brought in some indirect difficulties owing to the information epidemic (hereafter termed as infodemic) on social media. We aimed to under...
Fayika Farhat Nova, Md. Rashidujjaman Rifat, Pratyasha Saha, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed et al.
This paper presents the findings on the use of Anonymous Social Media (ASM) in Bangladesh based on an anonymous online survey of 291 participants and semi-structured interviews with 27 participants. Our study shows a wide prevalence of sexual harassment on anonymous social networks in Bangladesh, th...
Nithya Sambasivan, Garen Checkley, Nova Ahmed, Amna Batool
This is a forum for perspectives on designing for communities marginalized by economics, social status, infrastructure, or policies. It will discuss design methods, theoretical and conceptual contributions, and methodological engagements for underserved communities. --- Nithya Sambasivan, Editor
Neha Kumar, Susan Dray, Christian Sturm, Nithya Sambasivan et al.
At CHI 2016, the Development Consortium titled HCI Across Borders (HCIxB) was widely attended by 71 participants from 20 countries and six continents. The goal of this workshop was to build community and invite collaborations ?across borders? on themes of interest for the participants ? researchers ...