Research Activities

Conference Organizing Committee Member

  • Workshop Co-chair: 15th International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI 2020)
  • Publicity Co-chair: ACM 4th International Conference on Mobile Software Engineering and Systems (MOBILESoft 2017)
  • Tutorials, Workshops, and Studios Co-Chair: 11th ACM International Conference on Interactive Surfaces and Spaces (ISS 2016), formerly known as ACM ITS (ISS 2016)
  • Demos Co-Chair: 17th International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS 2016)
  • Social Media & Publicity Co-chair: IEEE/ACM 3rd International Conference on Mobile Software Engineering and Systems (MOBILESoft 2016)
  • Social Media & Publicity Co-chair: ACM 2nd International Conference on Mobile Software Engineering and Systems (MOBILESoft 2015)
  • Poster Papers Co-Chair: 16th International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS 2015)
  • Panel Co-organizer: HCI International, Parallel session "Designing and Developing for the Smart-Device World" (HCII 2013)

Books and Journals Editorial Work

  • SERP4IoT: IEEE Internet of Things Journal Special Issue on: Software Engineering Research and Practices for the Internet of Things, 2020. https://moar82.github.io/ieee-iotj-si-serp4iot
  • UsARE: Usability and Accessibility-Focused Requirements Engineering. Achim Ebert, Shah Rukh Humayoun, Norbert Seyff, Anna Perini, and Simone D. J. Barbosa (Eds.). Lecture Notes in Computer Science, LNCS Volume 9312, Springer, September 2016

Workshop Organizing

  • SERP4IoT 2020: Second International Workshop on Software Engineering Research & Practices for IoT, in conjunction with 42nd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2020)
  • SERP4IoT 2019: First International Workshop on Software Engineering Research & Practices for IoT, in conjunction with 41st ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2019)
  • UsARE 2017: IEEE 3rd International Workshop on Usability and Accessibility focused Requirements Engineering, in conjunction with 25th IEEE Requirements Engineering Conference 2017
  • CSD&M for IoT: “CSD&M for IoT: What is IoT for your Organization?” workshop, in conjunction with CSD&M 2015
  • DeMobile 2015: ACM 3rd International Workshop on Software Development Lifecycle for Mobile, in conjunction with ACM ESEC/FSE 2015
  • DIViM 2015: IFIP Workshop on Designing Interaction and Visualization for Mobile Applications, in conjunction with INTERACT 2015
  • UsARE 2014: IEEE and IFIP 2nd International Workshop on Usability and Accessibility focused Requirements Engineering, in conjunction with 22nd IEEE Requirements Engineering Conference 2014 (General Chair and Co-organizer)
  • PID-MAD 2013: Workshop on Visualization in University Level Computer Science Education, in conjunction with CSERC '2012
  • VUSCE 2012: HCI International, Parallel session "Designing and Developing for the Smart-Device World" (HCII 2013)
  • Vis2B 2012: Workshop "Visualization – Beauty or The Beast", in conjunction with ECCE 2012
  • UsARE 2012: IEEE 1st International Workshop on Usability and Accessibility focused Requirements Engineering, in conjunction with IEEE/ACM ICSE 2012

Program Committee Member

  • IUI 2020 (Papers): 25th ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces
  • IUI 2020 (Posters and Demos): 25th ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces
  • CSCW 2019 (Posters): 22nd ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing
  • HICSS 2020: “Mobile App Development” mini-track in the 53rd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
  • CHI 2019 (Late Breaking Work – LBW): ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
  • IUI 2019: 24th ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces
  • HICSS 2019: “Mobile App Development” mini-track in the 52nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
  • CSCW 2018 (Online First): 21st ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing
  • CSCW 2018 (Second Cycle): 21st ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing
  • CSCW 2018 (Posters & Demos): 21st ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing
  • AVI 2018 (Papers, Posters & Demos): 14th International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces
  • HICSS 2018: “Mobile App Development” mini-track in the 51th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
  • IIT 2018: 5th HCT Conference on Information Technology Trends
  • ISEC 2017: 10th Innovation in Software Engineering Conference
  • HICSS 2017: “Mobile App Development” mini-track in the 50th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
  • ICOSST 2017: IEEE 11th International Conference on Open Source Systems and Technologies
  • (IC)2 2017: 1st International Conference on Innovative Computing
  • MOBILESoft 2016: ACM/IEEE 3rd International Conference on Mobile Software Engineering and Systems
  • IUI 2016 (Poster Session): ACM 21st Conference on Intelligence User Interface
  • CTS 2016: 17th International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems
  • HICSS 2016: “Mobile App Development” mini-track in the 49th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
  • MOBILESoft 2015: ACM 2nd International Conference on Mobile Software Engineering and Systems
  • IUI 2015 (Poster Session): ACM 20th Conference on Intelligence User Interface
  • CTS 2015: 16th International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems
  • ICOSST 2015: IEEE 9th International Conference on Open Source Systems and Technologies
  • MOBILESoft 2014: First International Conference on Mobile Software Engineering and Systems
  • ICOSST 2014: IEEE 8th International Conference on Open Source Systems and Technologies
  • DeMobile 2014: ACM 2nd International Workshop on Mobile Development Lifecycle
  • ICOSST 2013: IEEE 7th International Conference on Open Source Systems and Technologies
  • DeMobile 2013: ACM First International Workshop on Mobile Development Lifecycle

Reviewing Activities

  • CHI: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2014 – 2020
  • CSCW: ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, 2015 – 2019
  • InfoVis: IEEE Information Visualization, 2017, 2018
  • VAST: IEEE Conference on Visual Analytics Science and Technology, 2010, 2018
  • PacificVis: IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium, 2019
  • VR: IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality, 2018, 2020
  • MobileHCI: ACM Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services, 2015 – 2019
  • ICMI: ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, 2019
  • INTERACT: IFIP International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, 2019
  • DIS: ACM SIGCHI Conference on Designing Interactive Systems, 2016 – 2018
  • MOBILESoft: ACM/IEEE Conference on Mobile Software Engineering and Systems, 2014 – 2016
  • Eurohaptic: The European Meeting for Haptics and Touch Enabled Computer Applications, 2018
  • HRI: ACM Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 2017, 2019
  • UIST: ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, 2017 – 2018
  • AVI: International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces, 2010, 2018
  • IUI: ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, 2015, 2016, 2019, 2020
  • ISS: International Conference on Interactive Surfaces and Spaces, 2015 – 2016
  • NordiCI: Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, 2016, 2018
  • VRST: ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology, 2016
  • ICD: ACM SIGCHI Conference on Interaction Design and Children, 2015, 2017
  • EICS: ACM Conference on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems, 2014, 2015, 2019
  • SUI: ACM Symposium on Spatial User Interaction, 2014, 2016
  • TVX: ACM International Conference on Interactive Experiences for Television and Online Video, 2015
  • CHIPlay: ACM SIGCHI Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play, 2015 – 2017
  • C&C: ACM Conference on Creativity and Cognition, 2015, 2017
  • HICSS: Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2016 – 2019
  • OzCHI: Australian Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, 2015
  • ICOSST: IEEE International Conference on Open Source Systems and Technologies, 2013 – 2015, 2017, 2018
  • ICTS: International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems, 2015 – 2016
  • MobileDeli: ACM Workshop on Mobile Development Lifecycle, 2013 – 2014
  • iTAIS: Conference of the Italian Chapter of Organization change and Information Systems, 2011
  • ER: International Conference on Conceptual Modeling, 2009
  • DeMobile 2013: ACM First International Workshop on Mobile Development Lifecycle
  • IWWUA: International Workshop on Web Usability and Accessibility, 2010

Thesis Supervising and Research Mentoring

  • Ghazanfar Abbas, MSc Thesis Title: “Behavioral-based Authentication on Smartphones using Machine Learning Approaches" (2019)
    (Work published in AVI 2018)
  • Ibrahim Mansour, MSc Thesis Title: “Interactive Visualization of Twitter Data over Time" (2018)
  • Abhigyan Mahajan, MSc Thesis Title: “Assessment and Deployment of Evaluation Heuristics for Smartwatch Applications" (2018)
  • Mannan Maqbool, MSc Thesis Title: “Interactive Visualization for the Evolution of Twitter Data" (2018)
  • Syed Moiz Hasan, MSc Thesis Title: “Interactive Visualization Support for Software Metrics" (2017)
    (Work published in AVI 2018)
  • Erinchan Telatar, MSc Thesis Title: “Comparison of Object Perception in Head Mounted Display and in Desktop Monitor for Congruent and Incongruent Environments" (2017)
    (Work published in EuroVis 2017)
  • Mustafa Irshad, MSc Thesis Title: “Interactive Visualization Support for Neural Networks Analysis" (2017)
  • Syed Ahsan Shah, MSc Thesis Title: “Interactive Visualization Support for the Analysis of Machine Learning Classifiers" (2017)
  • Syed Hammad Ali, MSc Thesis Title: “Social-Circles Exploration in Social Media through Interactive Visualizations" (2017)
    (Work published in EuroVis 2017)
  • Saman Ardalan, MSc Thesis Title: “Interactive Visualization Support to Explore Tweets Data" (2017)
    (Work published in EuroVis 2017)
  • Muhammad Faizan, MSc Thesis Title: “Gesture Recognition on a Humanoid Robot using Myo Armband" (2017)
    (Work published in AC 2016)
  • Ricarda Moses, MSc Thesis Title: “Cognitive Load and Information Visualizations: Force-directed vs. Chord Layout" (2017)
    (Work published in EuroVis 2017)
  • Munir Ahmed, MSc Thesis Title: “Accelerometer-based Gestures for Mobile Devices" (2016)
    (Work published in ACM NordiCHI 2016)
  • Priya Rath, MSc Thesis Title: “Role of Wearable Devices in the Shared-Economy Supported Platforms" (2016)
    (Work published in BCS-HCI 2017)
  • Mahmoud Sharf, MSc Thesis Title: “Enhancing Viewing and Interaction in Tabletop Collaborative Environments through Smart Mobile Devices" (2016)
    (Work published in ACM ITS 2015)
  • Hafez Ezaiza, MSc Thesis Title: “Visualization of Ego Social Networks" (2016)
    (Work published in ACM CHI 2016 and AVI 2016)
  • Paresh Chotala, MSc Thesis Title: “An Enhanced Set of Heuristics for Evaluating Mobile Applications" (2016)
    (Work published in BCS-HCI 2017)
  • Sujay Muraila, MSc Thesis Title: “UX Testing of Space Filling Technique: Exploring the impact of layout on usability" (2016)
    (Work published in AC 2016 and International Journal of Computer Science and Information Security)
  • Aamir Islam, MSc Thesis Title: “Visualization Quality Aspects of Public Transportation between Cities in A Region" (2016)
    (Work published in IEEE LDAV 2015)
  • Razan Jaber Ibraheem, MSc Thesis Title: “Evaluation of Interactive Collaborative Environment" (2015)
    (Work published in ACM ITS 2015)
  • Ramya Nischala Akula, MSc Thesis Title: “Tool for Visualization of Complex Social Networks" (2015)
  • Artem Avtandilov, MSc Thesis Title: “Mobile Platform Support for Emergencies" (2015)
    (Work published in ACM CSCW 2015 and ICT4AgeingWell 2015)
  • Abdel-Karim Al-Ja’afreh, MSc Thesis Title: “Visualizing Software Structures of Embedded Systems" (2014)
    (Work published in DIViM 2015 workshop at INTERACT 2015)