Protibadi
It is a technology design to support women facing sexual harassment. We initially developed a website and later worked towards a wearable device. I have collaborated with Dr. Ishtiaque Ahmed and Dr. Hasan Shahid Ferdous on this project at the beginning. Then a bunch of students joined to work on it. Azmeen joined as a young faculty and Nabila, Nabila, Shareen, Rahat, Tanvir worked on it as students. I probably don't have research members who have not worked on this for a while! It has been a passion project and we worked on it without any external funding - every minute dedicated it is counted as an activism against this violence that takes place on regular basis.
The work started in Bangladesh but we later explored regions in South Asia including India and Pakistan and the situation is equally bitter for women.
Protibadi team at Ubicomp
Protibadi Collaboration
Publication
Ahmed, N., Tasmin, M., & Ibrahim, S. M. N. (2022). Technology for empowerment: Context of urban Afghan women. Technology in Society, 70, 102058.
Ahmed, N., & Churchill, E. (2021). Women on the web: challenges, persistence, and resilience. XRDS: Crossroads, The ACM Magazine for Students, 27(3), 8-9. [Digital Edition]
Turjo, Kazi Rumman Reswan, Partho Anthony D’Costa, Surjo Bhowmick, Asadullah Galib, Sami Raian, Mst Shapna Akter, Nova Ahmed, and M. R. C. Mahdy. "Design of Low-Cost Smart Safety Vest for the Prevention of Physical Abuse and Sexual Harassment." In 2021 24th International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (ICCIT), pp. 1-6. IEEE, 2021.
Ahmed, N. (2020). Strategic communication to counter sexual harassment in Bangladesh. In Handbook of Communication for Development and Social Change (pp. 1119-1129). Singapore: Springer Singapore.
Ahmed, N., Urmi, T., & Tasmin, M. (2020, December). Challenges and opportunities for young female learners in STEM from the perspective of Bangladesh. In 2020 IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment, and Learning for Engineering (TALE) (pp. 39-46). IEEE. [pdf]
Sambasivan, Nithya, Amna Batool, Nova Ahmed, Tara Matthews, Kurt Thomas, Laura Sanely Gaytán-Lugo, David Nemer, Elie Bursztein, Elizabeth Churchill, and Sunny Consolvo. "" They Don't Leave Us Alone Anywhere We Go" Gender and Digital Abuse in South Asia." In proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 1-14. 2019. [Abstract]
Ahmed, Nova. "Protibadi: Starting the fight against sexual abuse." XRDS: Crossroads, The ACM Magazine for Students 26, no. 2 (2019): 40-43. [DigitalEdition]
Ahmed, S. I., Ahmed, N., Hussain, F., & Kumar, N. (2016, June). Computing beyond gender-imposed limits. In proceedings of the Second workshop on Computing within Limits (pp. 1-7). [Abstract]
Ahmed, Nova. "Discussing about sexual harassment (breaking silence): The role of technology." Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ACM, 2016. [pdf]
Ahmed, Nova, et al. "Protibadi next: sensor support to handle sexual harassment." Proceedings of the 2016 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing: Adjunct. ACM, 2016 [pdf]
Ahmed, N., Syrus, M. A., & Chowdhury, A. M. (2016, September). Softsense: sensing at software level. In Proceedings of the 2016 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing: Adjunct (pp. 1-4).
Ahmed, Syed Ishtiaque, et al. "Protibadi: A platform for fighting sexual harassment in urban Bangladesh." Proceedings of the 32nd annual ACM conference on Human factors in computing systems. ACM, 2014. [pdf]
Talk
Here is a story in CHI Stories
Unpublished work
Ahmed, Nova et al. Fighting Sexual Harassment in Bangladesh. [pdf]
Ahmed, Nova et al. System Support for IoT based Real Time Sexual Harassment Response. [pdf]