Moushumi Sharmin, PhD

Associate Professor · She/Her/Hers

Website

Personal Homepage

Office

Location

CF 477

Hours

T: 10:00 - 10:50 am (in-person)

W: 11:10-12:00 pm (in-person)

F: 4:00 - 4:50 pm (via Zoom link)

Office Hours Zoom Information:
Via Zoom link

Meeting ID: 923 6418 3361
Passcode: 669741

Contact

Email

sharmim@wwu.edu

Phone

(360) 650-2249

About

You may say I am a dreamer, but I am not the only one...

Recent and Upcoming News and Events:

Attended GHC 2022 virtually.
From NEAT Research Lab, we submitted two full papers to CHI 2023. 🤞
Jamey Albert presented "To Aid Emotion Expression for Non-Verbal Autistic Individuals, In an App, Less (Features) is More (Better)" at UbiComp, 2022, Sep 11.
Jamey Albert received the prestigious Jarvis Memorial Summer Research Award at the College of Science and Engineering, WWU!
I presented "Constrained Life in a Multifarious Environment-A Closer Look at the Lives of Autistic College Students" at CHI 2022.

Talks on Autism

Shameem and I gave a talk on Autism and Scientifically Proven Interventions and Services for Autism on Saniya Rahman Autism Blog on March 5th, 2022. This is targeted towards a Bangla-speaking audience. Presentation: https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?ref=search&v=1005344373733421
I gave a talk on IEP on Jan 30, 2022 on মায়ার আলিঙ্গন. This talk was for Bangla Speaking non-technical, non-academic audience.
I gave a talk on ABA Therapy and Autism (in Bangla), Feb 6th on মায়ার আলিঙ্গন. This talk was for Bangla Speaking non-technical, non-academic audience. Link: https://www.facebook.com/175089797625933/videos/463593128347653
Shameem and I presented a virtual talk about Autism and Technology, Nov 12th, on Sanya Rahman Autism Vlog. This platform has 17000+ members who are parents or caregivers of children with autism. This was for Bangla Speaking audience. Link: https://www.facebook.com/SaniyaAutismVlog/videos/1052830791788991
I participated in a discussion related to Autism, Misconceptions, and Nutrition, Nov 1st, on NutriTalk - an online program. Link: https://www.facebook.com/doctortv.net/videos/787814608731770
Shameem and I presented a virtual talk about Autism, Family, and Technology, Sep 12, 2020. This was for Bangla Speaking audience. Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A77jqNlPF40&list=PL0q25H2G5qeGARHtO1TJ4Ddj73c2JA4ma

Past Events

Attended CHI 2022 (virtually), April 2022.
Attended Virtual Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing as the chair of Human-Computer Interaction Track, GHC 2021, Sep 27-Oct 1st.
Anais Dawson won the outstanding graduate student award, 2021. Congratulations Anais!!!!
Forest Sweeney's MS work on Vaping Behavior has been accepted for presentation and publication to OzCHI 2020.

Research Interests:

Mobile Health (mHealth), Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Interactive Visualization, Autism, Affective Computing

Recent Publications:

Journal and Conference Publications

(sorted chronologically) * indicates co-first-authors

2022

Ahmed, S., Hossain, M. M., Pragner, C., Kimball, M., Shrivastava, A., Gildner, J., McCulloch, S., and Sharmin, M. Constrained Life in a Multifarious Environment - A Closer Look at the Lives of Autistic College Students, CHI 2022 (to appear)

2021

Islam, T., Liang, P. W., Sweeney, F., Pragner, C., Thiagarajan, J., Sharmin, M. and Ahmed, S. College Life is Hard! - Shedding Light on Stress Prediction for Autistic College Students using Data-Driven Analysis. 2021 IEEE 45th Annual Computers, Software, and Applications Conference (COMPSAC), 2021.
McCulloch, S., Gildner, J., Hoefel, B., Cervantes, G., Ahmed, S. and Sharmin, M. Visualization as a Tool to Understand the Experience of College Students with Autism. 2021 IEEE 45th Annual Computers, Software, and Applications Conference (COMPSAC), 2021.

2020

Sweeney, F. and Sharmin, M. Investigating Electronic Nicotine Delivery System Use Habits and Contexts. 32ND Australian Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (OzCHI), Dec 2-4th, 2020.
Weber, T., Ferrin, M., Sweeney, F., Ahmed, S. and Sharmin, M. Towards Identifying the Optimal Timing for Near Real-Time Smoking Interventions Using Commercial Wearable Devices. 2020 IEEE 44th Annual Computers, Software, and Applications Conference (COMPSAC), 429-438, 2020.
Ahmed, S^*., Deneke, W.^*, Mai, V., Veneruso, A., Stepita, M., Dawson, A., Hoefel, B., Claeys, G., Lam, N., and Sharmin, M. InterViewR: A Mixed-Reality Based Interview Training Simulation Platform for Individuals with Autism. 2020 IEEE 44th Annual Computers, Software, and Applications Conference (COMPSAC), 439-448, 2020.
Hridi, AP.^*, Ahmed, S.^*, Abeer, IA., Saha, A., Sinha, A., Hossain, MS., Ahmed, N., and Sharmin, M. Understanding the Educational Landscape of Children with Autism in Bangladesh. International Conference on Information (iConference).Springer, Cham. 441-455, 2020.

2019

Ahmed, S., Hossain, MF, Price, K., Pranger, C., Hossain, MM., Sharmin, M. A Tale of the Social-Side of ASD, IEEE Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC), 644-652, 2019.

2018

Hossain, M. M., Sharmin, M. and Ahmed, S. Bangladesh Emergency Services: A Mobile Application to Provide 911-Like Service in Bangladesh, ACM SIGCAS Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies (ACM COMPASS), 2018.
Sharmin, M.^*, Hossain, M.M.^*, Saha, A., Das, M., Maxwell, M. and Ahmed, S., 2018, April. From Research to Practice: Informing the Design of Autism Support Smart Technology. In Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (p. 102). ACM.
Polack, P. J., Chen, S-T., Kahng, M., Barbaro, K. D., Basole, R., Sharmin, M. and Chau, D. H. Chronodes: Interactive Multi-focus Exploration of Event Sequences, ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems (TIIS), 2018.

2017

Sharmin, M., Weber, T., Sarker, H., Saleheen, N., Kumar, S., Ahmed, S., and al'Absi, M. Opportunities and Challenges in Designing Participant-Centric Smoking Cessation System, IEEE COMPSAC, 2017.
Hossain, M. M., Sharmin, M. and Ahmed, S. Understanding the Feasibility of a Location-Aware Mobile-Based 911-like Emergency Service in Bangladesh, IEEE COMPSAC, 2017.

2016

Sarker, H., Tyburski, M., Rahman, M. M., Hovsepian, K., Sharmin, M. et al. Finding Significant Stress Episodes in a Discontinuous Time Series of Rapidly Varying Mobile Sensor Data, ACM CHI, 4489-4501, 2016.

2015

Sharmin, M., Raij, A., Epstien, D., Nahum-Shani, I., Beck, G., Vadhuri, S., Preston, K., and Kumar, S. Visualization of Time-Series Sensor Data to Inform the Design of Just-In-Time Adaptive Stress Interventions,ACM Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp 2015).
Ahmed, S. and Sharmin, M. Why do mobile phone-based smoking cessation interventions struggle and how can we make them more effective?, ACM iConference, 2015.
Kumar, S., Abowd, G., Abraham, W., al’Absi, M., Beck, J.G., Chau, D.H., Condie, T., Conroy, D.E., Ertin, E., Estrin, D., Ganesan, D., Lam, C., Marlin, B., Marsh, C.B., Murphy, S.A., Nahum-Shani, I., Patrick, K., Rehg, J.,Sharmin, M., Shetty, V., Sim, I., Spring, B., Srivastava, M., Wetter, D. (2015). Center of Excellence for Mobile Sensor Data-to-Knowledge (MD2K), Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.

Peer Reviewed Posters and Extended Abstracts

(partial list, sorted chronologically)