Journal Article

2025

• Rahat Jahangir Rony and Nova Ahmed. 2024. ''Teens Online Behavior and Support Interventions in Bangladesh''. ACM Journal on Computing and Sustainable Societies. Vol: 3, No. 1. doi.org/10.1145/3704813 (PDF)

• Ifti Azad Abeer, Anik Saha, Anik Sinha, Rahat Jahangir Rony, Gazi Fakhrul Islam, Shajnush Amir, Md. Sabbir Ahmed, Syeda Shabnam Khan, and Nova Ahmed. 2025. Implications of Mobile Financial Service Users' Adaptive Usage Behavior: The Vicious Cycle of Negative Experience, Social Construct, and Confidence. ACM Journal on Computing and Sustainable Societies (March 2025). https://doi.org/10.1145/3723041 (PDF)

2024

• Rahat Jahangir Rony, Shajnush Amir, Nova Ahmed, Samuelson Atiba, Nervo Verdezoto Dias,  Valerie Sparkes, Katarzyna Stawarz. 2024. Understanding the Socio-cultural Challenges and Opportunities for Affordable Wearables to Support Post-Stroke Upper-Limb Rehabilitation: A Qualitative Study. JMIR Rehabilitation and Assistive Technologies. doi: 10.2196/54699 (PDF)

• Rahat Jahangir Rony, Md. Sabbir Ahmed, Sayan Sarcar, and Nova Ahmed. 2024. "Understanding Driving Stress in Urban Bangladesh: An Exploratory Study, Wearable Development and Experiment". ACM Journal on Computing and Sustainable Societies. doi.org/10.1145/3648434. (PDF)

• Anik Sinha, Nova Ahmed, Md Sabbir Ahmed, Ifti Azad Abeer, Rahat Jahangir Rony, Anik Saha, Syeda Shabnam Khan, Shajnush Amir, Shabana Khan. 2024. Roles of Technology for Risk Communication and Community Engagement in Bangladesh during COVID-19 Pandemic. ACM Journal on Computing and Sustainable Societies. doi.org/10.1145/3648433 (PDF)

2023

• Md. Sabbir Ahmed, Rahat Jahangir Rony, Mohammad Abdul Hadi, Ekram Hossain, and Nova Ahmed, 2023. A Minimalistic Approach to Predict and Understand the Relation of App Usage with Students’ Academic Performance. Proc. ACM Human-Computer. Interaction, 7, MobileHCI, Article 193 (September 2023). DOI.org/10.1145/3604240 (PDF) 

2022

• Nova Ahmed,  Rahat Jahangir Rony, Anik Sinha, Md. Sabbir Ahmed, Anik Saha, Syeda Shabnam Khan, Ifti Azad Abeer, Shajnush Amir, Tanvir Hasan Fuad. 2022. "Risk Communication during COVID-19 Pandemic: Impacting Women in Bangladesh". Frontiers in Communication: Disaster Communications. DOI: 10.3389/fcomm.2022.878050 (PDF)

• Nova Ahmed, Anik Saha, Md. Sabbir Ahmed, Ifti Azad, Anik Sinha, Rahat Jahangir Rony, Syeda Shabnam Khan, Shajnush Amir, Tanvir Hasan, Gazi Fakhrul. 2022. "The Role of Fintech as a Positive Enabler During COVID-19 in Bangladesh".  Journal of Bangladesh Studies. Vol.24 Issue 2, December 2022 (PDF)

2021

• Nova Ahmed and Rahat Jahangir Rony. 2021. "Understanding Self-Reported Stress among Drivers and Designing Stress Monitor using Heart Rate Variability". Journal of Quality and User Experience 6, 4 (2021). Springer Publication. doi.org/10.1007/s41233-020-00043-0 (PDF)

2020

• Nova Ahmed, Rahat Jahangir Rony, and Kimia Tuz Zaman. 2020. "Social Distancing Challenges for Marginal Communities during COVID-19 Pandemic in Bangladesh". Journal of Biomedical Analytics. Vol. 3, No. 2 (2020), pp. 5–13. doi:10.30577/jba.v3i2.45 (PDF)

• Nova Ahmed, Rahat Jahangir Rony and Kimia Tuz Zaman. 2020. Design thinking around COVID-19: Focusing on the garment workers of Bangladesh. ACM Interaction. DOI: 10.1145/3406034 (Link)

Conference, Symposium, Workshop, Notes and Article Papers

2025

• C14: Nova Ahmed, Rahat Jahangir Rony, and Md. Majedur Rahman. 2025. Jalli: System Level Support for Critical Real-Time Applications. COMPASS 2025 (accepted).

2024

• C13: Ifti Azad Abeer, Anik Sinha, Rahat Jahangir Rony, Anik Saha, Ulfat Tahsin, Syeda Shabnam Khan, Nova Ahmed. “Now I am Socially Well Respected” - From being Bullied in the Society to being Important Community Member. ACM CHI LBW 2024. DOI.org/10.1145/3613905.3651062 (PDF)

2022

• C12: Md. Sabbir Ahmed, Shajnush Amir, Samuelson Atiba, Rahat Jahangir Rony, Nervo Verdezoto Dias, Valerie Sparkes, Katarzyna Stawarz and Nova Ahmed, 2022. A low-cost wearable system to support upper limb rehabilitation in resource-constrained settings. Presented at: EAI PervasiveHealth 2022 - 16th EAI International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare, Thessaloniki, Greece, 12-14 December 2022. Doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-34586-9_3 (PDF)

• C11: Nova Ahmed, Anik Sinha, Anik Saha, Rahat Jahangir Rony, Syeda Shabnam Khan, Ifti Azad Abeer, and Munir Hasan. 2022. "Structured Training as an Enabler for Women in ICT". IEEE TALE 2022. Taiwan. DOI: 10.1109/TALE54877.2022.00027 (PDF)

• C10: Rahat Jahangir Rony, Anik Sinha, Shajnush Amir, Syeda Shabnam Khan, Anik Saha, Ifti Azad Abeer, Nova Ahmed. 2022. “I Use YouTube Now in COVID”: Understanding Technology Adoption of Indigenous Communities during COVID-19 Pandemic in Bangladesh. ACM SIGCAS Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies (COMPASS) 2022, Seattle, USA. doi.org/10.1145/3530190.3534847. (PDF)

• W6: Rahat Jahangir Rony, Nova Ahmed, Shajnush Amir, Nervo Verdezoto Dias, Samuelson Atiba, Valerie Sparkes, Katarzyna Stawarz. 2022. Upper-limb Rehabilitation: Exploring The Physiotherapy Landscape of the UK and Bangladesh. 9th World Congress of Biomechanics 2022. Taipei (Accepted)

• W5: Shajnush Amir, Rahat Jahangir Rony, Nova Ahmed, Nervo Verdezoto Dias, Samuelson Atiba, Valerie Sparkes, Katarzyna Stawarz. 2022. Development of A Low Cost Wearable for Upper-limb Functional Rehabilitation. 9th World Congress of Biomechanics 2022. Taipei (Accepted) 

• S13: Ridwanul Haque, Md. Saif Ahammod Khan, Nasim Mahmud Mishu, Rahat Jahangir Rony and Nova Ahmed. 2022. Understanding the Healthcare Sector in Bangladesh: Experience and Services during the COVID-19 Pandemic. AsianCHI Symposium, CHI 2022. USA. (PDF)

2021

• S12: Rahat Jahangir Rony, Syeda Shabnam Khan, Anik Sinha, Anik Saha, and Nova Ahmed. 2021. “COVID has Made Everyone Digital and Digitally Independent”: Understanding Working Women’s DFS and Technology Adoption during COVID Pandemic in Bangladesh. AsianCHI Symposium, CHI 2021. Japan.  doi.org/10.1145/3429360.3468212 (PDF)

• S11: Rahat Jahangir Rony, Syeda Shabnam Khan, Anik Sinha, Anik Saha, and Nova Ahmed. 2021. “I didn’t understand but I was determined to learn”: Understanding the Contrast of using DFS among the Working Women in Bangladesh. Human Computer Interaction Across the Border Symposium. CHI 2021. Japan. (PDF)

• S10: Sabbir Ahmed, Rahat Jahangir Rony, Nova Ahmed. 2021. "Identifying High and Low Academic Result Holders Through Smartphone Usage Data". AsianCHI Symposium, CHI 2021. Japan.  doi.org/10.1145/3429360.3468192  (PDF)

• S9: Sabbir Ahmed, Rahat Jahangir Rony, Syeda Shabnam Khan, Anik Sinha, Anik Saha, Nova Ahmed,  "Towards Exploration of the Factors Affecting Mobile Banking of Bangladeshi Women During COVID". Human Computer Interaction Across the Border Symposium. CHI 2021.  Japan.  (PDF)

2020

• S8: Rahat Jahangir Rony, Nova Ahmed. 2020. "Development of a Low-Cost Wearable with Mobile Sensing to Monitor Driving Stress using HRV". Asian CHI 2020 Symposium.  Hawaii, USA. doi.org/10.1145/3391203.3391213 (PDF)

• S7: Rahat Jahangir Rony, Partho Anthony D' Costa, Nova Ahmed. 2020. "Understanding Teens Online Awareness and Knowledge Regarding Cybersecurity in Bangladesh". CHI 2020 HCIxB Symposium.  Hawaii, USA. 

• W4: Md. Sabbir Ahmed, Rahat Jahangir Rony, Tanvir Hasan and Nova Ahmed. 2020. "Smartphone Usage Behavior between Depressed and Non-Depressed Students." International Workshop on Computing for Wellbeing 2020 (Wellcomp 2020). UbiComp/ISWC 2020 Adjunct. Mexico. doi.org/10.1145/3410530.3414441 (PDF)

• S6: Mahbub Hossain Joy, Abdullah Mahmood, Md. Rajoan Rahman, Sohanur Rahman, Rahat Jahangir Rony and Nova Ahmed. 2020. "Kotha Bondhu: Translating Sign Languages into Bengali Voice”. Asian CHI 2020 Symposium.  Hawaii, USA. doi.org/10.1145/3391203.3391208 (PDF)

• S5: Anuva Chowdhury, Arisha Chowdhury, Rahat Jahangir Rony, Nova Ahmed, Md. Moinuddin Bhuiyan. 2020. "Mom thinks, Technology is my Enemy: A Teen Perspective". CHI 2020 HCIxB Symposium.  Hawaii, USA. 

• R1 (Report) : Rahat Jahangir Rony, Kimia Tuz Zaman and Nova Ahmed. 2020. Stories Beneath Needle: Understanding Ready-made Garments Workers in Bangladesh. Report on Digital RMG Mapping in Bangladesh Project, BRAC University.  (PDF)

• C9: Md. Sabbir Ahmed, Rahat Jahangir Rony, Md. Mahir Ashhab, Nova Ahmed. 2020. "An Empirical Study to Analyze the Impact of Instagram on Students' Academic Results". IEEE TENSYMP 2020. Bangladesh. DOI:10.1109/TENSYMP50017.2020.9230945 (PDF)

2019

• W3: Rahat Jahangir Rony, Nova Ahmed. 2019. "Understanding Drivers Wellbeing: Quantitative Study Analysis and Wearable Experiment". International Workshop on Computing for Wellbeing 2019 (Wellcomp 2019). UbiComp/ISWC 2019 Adjunct. London, UK. doi.org/10.1145/3341162.3344830 (PDF)

• S4: Rahat Jahangir Rony, Nova Ahmed. 2019. “AM I Safe? Looking at Personal Data Privacy in Bangladesh”. CHI HCIxB Symposium. Glasgow, Scotland. 

• S3: Rahat Jahangir Rony, Rio Chakma, Nova Ahmed. 2019. “Stress and Personality Study on Drivers of Bangladesh”. CHI HCIxB Symposium. Glasgow, Scotland. 

• S2: Rahat Jahangir Rony, Gazi Fakhrul Islam, Nova Ahmed. 2019. “Motorbike Ridesharing in Bangladesh: The Way of Empowerment”. CHI HCIxB Symposium. Glasgow, Scotland.

• C8: Dibya Prokash Sarkar, Md. Fahim Farden, Md. Atiqul Islam, Rahat Jahangir Rony and Tamanna Motahar. 2019. “A Low-cost Healthcare Bot for Elderly People”. IEEE 8th International Conference on Informatics, Electronics & Vision (ICIEV) 2019. Washington, USA. DOI: 10.1109/ICIEV.2019.8858567 (PDF)

• C7: Arif Ahmed Nowfel, Nova Ahmed, Rahat Jahangir Rony. 2019. “Sustainable Houses of Bangladesh”. Proc. Of 1st International Conference on Sustainability in Natural and Built Environment (iCSNBE 2019) Bangladesh. ISBN: 978-0-6482681-4-7 

• C6: Rahat Jahangir Rony and Nova Ahmed. 2019. “Monitoring Driving Stress using HRV”. IEEE 11th International Conference on COMmunication Systems & NETworkS 2019 (COMSNETS). Bangalore, India. DOI: 10.1109/COMSNETS.2019.8711411  (Best Poster Award) (PDF)

2018

• C5: Rahat Jahangir Rony. 2018. “How Well Our Drivers on Road?: Discomfort is Obvious in Drivers Daily Life”. UbiComp/ISWC 2018 Adjunct. Singapore. DOI.org/10.1145/3267305.3277809

• C4: Tamanna Motahar, Md Fahim Farden, Md. Atiqul Islam, Rahat Jahangir Rony, Dibya Prokash Sarkar. 2018. “Mini Nurse-Bot: A Healthcare Assistance for Elderly People”. UbiComp Demos,  UbiComp/ISWC 2018 Adjunct. Singapore. DOI.org/10.1145/3267305.3267662

• W2: Rahat Jahangir Rony, MD Tanvir Mushfique, Nova Ahmed, Saad Azmeen Ur Rahman. 2018. "Changes in Driving Behavior Possibly Hidden in Stress", ASSET 2018, IEEE 10th International Conference on COMmunication Systems & NETworkS 2018 (COMSNETS), Bangalore, India 

• W1: MD Tanvir Mushfique, Rahat Jahangir Rony, Nova Ahmed, Saad Azmeen Ur Rahman. 2018. “ProtibadiNext: A Low Cost Emergency Solution against the Perpetrators”, ASSET 2018, IEEE 10th International Conference on COMmunication Systems & NETworkS 2018 (COMSNETS), Bangalore, India 

2017

• S1: Nova Ahmed, Saad Azmeen Ur Rahman, Rahat Jahangir Rony, Tanvir Mushfique. 2017. “How Do You Feel When You Are Driving?: A Participatory Approach”, Symposium 2017, CHI, Denver, CO. 

2016

• C3: Nova Ahmed, Saad Azmeen Ur Rahman, Rahat Jahangir Rony, Tanvir Mushfique, Vikram Mehta. 2016. “Protibadinext: Sensor Support to Handle Sexual Harassment”, UbiComp Adjunct 2016: 918-921. Heidelberg, Germany. DOI: 10.1145/2968219.2979133

• C2: Nova Ahmed, Saad Azmeen Ur Rahman, Rahat Jahangir Rony, Tanvir Mushfique. 2016. “Assessing Driving Stress Using Custom Built Real-Time Sensor”, International Conference on Computer, Communication, Chemical, Material and Electronic Engineering, IC4ME2, 2016, Rajshahi, Bangladesh.

• C1: Prosonna Hossain Nabila, Shareen Mahmud, Nabila Rezwana Mirza, Rahat Jahangir Rony, Tanvir Mushfique,  Nova Ahmed, Saad Azmeen-Ur-Rahman. 2016. “ProtibaadiNext: A Low Cost Wearable System to Deal with Sexual Harassment in Bangladesh”, The 8th EAI International Conference on Mobile Computing, Applications and Services, MobiCASE 2016, Cambridge, Great Britain. DOI: 10.4108/eai.30-11-2016.2267059 

Paper Pre-Print 

• Rahat Jahangir Rony and Nova Ahmed. 2021. “My Mom took My Phone and Locked It in the Wardrobe”: Parental Mediation in Teen-Parent Relationship in Technology Usage from Teens Perspective in Bangladesh. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4000430 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4000430  

• Rahat Jahangir Rony and Nova Ahmed. 2021. Technology-based Support for Ready Made Garment Workers in Bangladesh: Understanding their Lives before and during COVID-19 Pandemic. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4005862 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4005862 

• Rahat Jahangir Rony, Nazmus Saliheen and Nova Ahmed. 2021. Cybercrime Experiences, Handling and Practices: A Reality Check in the Perspective of Urban Bangladesh. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4014453 

• Nova Ahmed, Rahat Jahangir Rony, Syeda Shabnam Khan, MD. Sabbir Ahmed, Anik Sinha, Anik Saha, Shajnush Amir, Ifti Azad Abeer, and Sayan Sarcar. 2021. Resilience During COVID Pandemic: Role of Fintech in the Perspective of Bangladesh (October 26, 2021). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4009497 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4009497 

Acknowledgement 

• Sambasivan, N., Batool, A., Ahmed, N., Matthews, T., Thomas, K., Gaytán-Lugo, L., Nemer, D., Bursztein, E., Churchill, E. and Consolvo, S. “They Don’t Leave Us Alone Anywhere We Go”: Gender and Digital Abuse in South Asia. CHI 2019 [Best of CHI]

• Sambasivan, N., Batool, A., Ahmed, N., Matthews, T., Thomas, K., Gaytán-Lugo, L., Nemer, D., Bursztein, E., Churchill, E. and Consolvo, S. Toward Gender-Equitable Privacy and Security in South Asia. IEEE Security & Privacy. 17. (2019). 71-77. 

• Research with Next Billion Users (Google) Report . Toward Gender Equity Online. 2019. http://services.google.com/fh/files/misc/toward_gender_equity_online.pdf 

Thesis Paper

• Analytical Expression of P3HT:PCBM, Considering Recombination Factors for Organic Photovoltaics.