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...
Fayika Farhat Nova, Md. Rashidujjaman Rifat, Pratyasha Saha, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed et al.
Prior research on anonymous social media (ASM) has studied the issue of sexual harassment and has revealed its connections to stereotyping, aggression, interpersonal relationships, and mental health among others [16, 24, 60]. However, the characteristics of such harassment in the context of low and ...
Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, Md Romael Haque, Shion Guha, Md. Rashidujjaman Rifat et al.
With the rapid growth of ICT adoption in the Global South, crimes over and through digital technologies have also increased. Consequently, governments have begun to undertake a variety of different surveillance programs, which in turn provoke questions regarding citizens' privacy rights. However, bo...
Md Iftekharul, Md Abid-Ar-Rafi, Md Neamul, Md. Rashidujjaman Rifat
Safe From Fire (SFF) is an intelligent self controlled smart fire extinguisher system assembled with multiple sensors, actuators and operated by micro-controller unit (MCU). It takes input signals from various sensors placed in different position of the monitored area, and combines integrated fuzzy ...
Steven J. Jackson, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, Md. Rashidujjaman Rifat
Acts of technology maintenance and repair constitute important and often overlooked moments in the operation of complex interactive systems. They also provide fresh insight on a series of problems -- innovation, learning, and sustainability -- long core to HCI concern. This paper builds on original ...
Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, Steven J. Jackson, Md. Rashidujjaman Rifat
Practices of technology repair in developing country contexts play crucial and often overlooked roles in supporting ICTD goals of access and sustainability. They also constitute complex and neglected sites of technical skill, knowledge, and learning. Building on original ethnographic fieldwork, this...
Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, Shion Guha, Md. Rashidujjaman Rifat, Faysal Hossain Shezan et al.
This paper presents an analysis of the privacy issues associated with the practice of repairing broken digital objects in Bangladesh. Historically, research in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICTD), and related disciplines has focused on ...
Md. Rashidujjaman Rifat, Jay Chen, Kentaro Toyama
Religious institutions hold a significant place in daily life for the vast majority of people in the world, especially in developing countries. Yet despite their social prominence, and despite HCI's emphasis on the social context of technology, organized religion is neglected in both the HCI and ICT...
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...
Md. Rashidujjaman Rifat, Shubrami Moutushy, Hasan Shahid Ferdous
Location Based Advertisement (LBA) has become today's most personal and direct marketing channel that provides customers more relevant information, personalized message, targeted offer about products and allows marketers to reach a specific target audience by creating campaigns. Location-based adver...
Md. Rashidujjaman Rifat, Shubrami Moutushy, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, Hasan Shahid Ferdous
Faced with an increasingly difficult challenge in growing both the average revenue per user (ARPU) and the number of subscribers, wireless carriers and their partners are developing a lot of new products, services, and business models based on data services. Location based services, which provide in...
Md. Rashidujjaman Rifat, M. A. Prottoy, M. A. H. S. Arabi, Rajeia Sultana et al.
Bangladesh has a number of indigenous communities or tribes residing within her borders. Most tribal communities, unless they have switched over to allopathic medicines, still have their own traditional medicinal practices. The traditional medicinal practitioners (TMPs) rely mostly on medicinal plan...
Hasan Shahid Ferdous, Farhana Choudhury, Md. Rashidujjaman Rifat, Shubrami Moutushy
This research addresses the issues affecting e-Governance implementation in Bangladesh in consideration with a detailed usability analysis and directions for future development. Implementing e-Governance has always been a challenge either it is social, economical, or political. Besides this, there a...
Ridwanur Rahman, Md. Rashidujjaman Rifat, Shubrami Moutushy, Hasan Shahid Ferdous
Ensuring a computer based quick and accurate patient management system has been a challenging goal for many years. And it adds additional challenges in undeveloped countries where the doctor-patient ration is quite higher than in the developed ones. In our research, we identified the user requiremen...
Muhammad Hussain Mahdi, Nafisa Anzum, Farzana Ahmed Siddique, Md. Rashidujjaman Rifat et al.
Education, i.e., the backbone of a nation, encompasses a variety of role players and stakeholders among which students are, perhaps, the most important one. However, analyzing students' feedback on institutional education system from a macro level is yet to be done in the literature. To address this...