I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Manitoba. My work focuses on understanding human interactions with robots and other digital systems. My goal is to design and develop these technologies effectively, enhancing user interactions while upholding human values such as privacy and accessibility.
My research sits at the intersection of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), and Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW). I employ social science methods to study technologies, particularly communication and collaboration technologies. My research objectives are to: (1) understand the usage of these technologies across diverse social and cultural contexts; (2) assess how their designs align with core social values, such as privacy; and (3) develop design guidelines, prototypes, and strategies that enhance user experience.
My active research projects include telepresence robots in classrooms and meetings, privacy-aware social robots for public spaces, socially assistive robots for stroke rehabilitation, content moderation and algorithmic censorship on social media, and contestable AI for farmers.
I earned my PhD from Drexel University and hold a Master of Science in Library and Information Science from Pratt Institute in New York City, a BS from the École des Sciences de l’Information, and BAs in both Language and Pedagogy and Linguistics from Mohamed V University. Before joining the University of Manitoba, I was a Computing Innovation Fellow and Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Informatics at Indiana University Bloomington.
I have received recognition and support through several prestigious fellowships and awards, including the CI Fellowship (’21), Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Award (‘20), Phoebe W. Haas Endowed Fellowship (’15, ’17), and Fulbright Fellowship (’11). Additionally, my collaborative work has earned best paper awards at UbiComp, DIS, and OpenSym, and an Honourable Mention at CHI 2026.
Currently I serve as Technical Program Committee Co-Chair for AfriCHI 2027, Associate Chair for CHI 2027, Mentorship Co-Chair for Graphics Interface 2027, and a founding member of the ACM SIGCHI Mediterranean Committee (MedCHI). I recently served as Publications Co-Chair for CSCW 2026 and Global Inclusion Co-Chair for CHI 2026.
Research areas: Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), Human-AI Interaction, Privacy, Accessibility.
Recent News
⭐⭐⭐ Prospective students: I am looking for motivated PhD and MSc students to join my research group in Human-Computer Interaction. If you are interested in exploring how technology shapes human experiences across diverse social and cultural contexts, please email me with the following: your CV, transcripts, language test results, a sample publication, and a brief motivation letter explaining your interest in joining my group. Due to the high volume of inquiries, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
Invited Talk. October 2026
Delivered the talk “Being There Is Not Enough: How Robots and Algorithms Shape Who Participates” for EECS 1001: Research Directions in Computing at York University’s Lassonde School of Engineering, Toronto, Canada.
Roundtable. October 2026
Organized and moderated the roundtable “Algorithmic Silence and Technoscientific Power: Platform Governance, Censorship, and the Politics of Speech” at the 4S 2026 Annual Meeting in Toronto, Canada, with Konstantin Aal, Walid Magdy, and Sarah Rüller.
Conference Paper. October 2026
Presented “Coded Out: Platform Technopower, Algorithmic Censorship, and Palestinian Digital Resistance from Sheikh Jarrah to Gaza” with Sarah Rüller, Yarden Skop, and Konstantin Aal in the open panel “War, Genocide and Technopower” at 4S 2026, Toronto, Canada.
New Service. Fall 2026
Serving as Associate Chair (AC) for ACM CHI 2027, Mentorship Co-Chair for Graphics Interface 2027, and a member of the International Advisory Committee of IEEE Women in Services Computing (WISC).
Grant Award. August 2026
Thrilled to announce that I have been awarded a Research Manitoba New Investigator Operating Grant for the project “Rhythm to Recovery: A Socially Assistive Robot Coach for Post-Stroke Hand Rehabilitation.”
Paper Accepted. August 2026
Our paper “Beyond Trust: Designing Contestable AI for Farmers,” co-authored with Rafiat Bamimore Akodu, was accepted at the 1st EUSSET International Conference on Innovation in Rural Regions (ICIRR 2026).
Research
My research asks who gets to be present, be seen, and talk back to technology. I study how people use robots, social media platforms, and AI systems across different social and cultural settings, and I design technologies that support human values such as privacy, accessibility, fairness, and inclusion. My work sits at the intersection of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), and Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW).
Research areas: human-robot interaction, telepresence, social and assistive robots, content moderation and algorithmic resistance, contestable and trustworthy AI, privacy, accessibility, and culturally responsive computing.
Robots and Telepresence
Telepresence Robots in the Classroom
We study how students who cannot attend class in person use telepresence robots to join lessons. We look at inclusion, accessibility, identity, and the extra work students and teachers do to make the robot work, and we turn these findings into design guidelines for remote learning.
[CHI ’18 SIG] [CHI ’22 Workshop] [HRI ’23] [DIS ’23] [IJHCS ’24] [TACCESS ’24] [GROUP ’25] [CHI EA ’25]
Telepresence for Hybrid Meetings and Group Work
We examine how remote people take part in multi-party meetings through telepresence robots. We study why small breakdowns lead to remote users being ignored, and we design easier robot control systems for first-time users.
[MobileHCI ’23 Workshop] [CSCW ’23 Workshop] [GROUP ’25 Workshop] [MMVE ’25] [CHI EA ’26]
Play and Design Speculation with Telepresence Robots
We work with school children to explore how they play with and through telepresence robots, and how play can open new design ideas for these robots.
[NordiCHI ’24] [DIS ’25 Workshop]
Privacy-Aware Social Robots for Public Spaces
Robots in libraries, malls, and campuses collect data about the people around them. We study what people expect from these robots and design robots that respect privacy in shared public places.
NSERC Discovery Grant, 2025–2029
Socially Assistive Robots for Rehabilitation
We design and test a social robot coach that guides people through hand exercises after a stroke, using rhythm and encouragement to keep them motivated during recovery.
Research Manitoba New Investigator Grant, 2026–2028
Trust and Group Dynamics in Human-Robot Interaction
We study how people come to trust robots and how a robot changes who leads in a group. This includes how robots can show uncertain movement plans and a review of trust in HRI through interaction primitives.
Student projects, 2025–present
Platforms, Speech, and Information
Content Moderation, Algorithmic Censorship, and Resistance
We study how social media platforms moderate content during political crises, with a focus on Palestinian voices from Sheikh Jarrah to Gaza. We document how users experience suppression and the strategies they use to resist it.
[GROUP ’24] [First Monday ’24] [CSCW ’25] [CHI ’26] [4S ’26]
Trust in Wikipedia
Through surveys and interviews with readers around the world, we built a taxonomy of the strategies people use to decide whether a Wikipedia article is credible.
[OpenSym ’22 — Distinguished Paper Award]
Privacy Expertise and Privacy-Enhancing Technologies
We compare how privacy experts and everyday users describe, choose, and use privacy-enhancing tools and practices, and we suggest design changes that serve non-experts better.
[SOUPS ’20] [iConference ’23] [CSCW ’24]
Human-AI Interaction
Contestable AI for Farmers
We work with farmers in Manitoba to understand how they use and question AI advice, and we design AI tools that let farmers challenge and correct recommendations.
[ICIRR ’26]
Culturally Situated Human-AI Collaboration in the Arab World
As part of a Google multi-lab project, we identify interaction design building blocks for AI systems that are ethical, trustworthy, and fit the cultures of Arab users.
Google Humans and AI Multi-Lab Project, 2025–2026
Cultural Representation in Generative AI
We study how people judge the way image generators portray their ethnic and cultural identity, including how Africans read and contest AI-generated traditional clothing.
[CSCW Companion ’26]
Values, Culture, and Inclusion
Race, Values, and Technology Design
We study how designers’ assumptions and values shape technology, who gets left out as a result, and what the HCI community can do about it. Projects range from race and technology to marriage matchmaking tools and values in AI writing tools.
[CHI EA ’16] [DIS ’17 — Best Paper Award] [CHI ’19 SIG] [HttF ’24]
Social Media and International Students
We study how international students use social media to adapt to a new country, manage privacy, and express who they are.
[C&T ’25] [AfriCHI ’25]
African and Global HCI
We map who writes African HCI research and where it is published, and we organize workshops that bring Indigenous and relational ideas, such as Ubuntu, into HCI and AI.
[CHI EA ’25] [AfriCHI ’25] [CHI ’26 — Honourable Mention] [CSCW Companion ’26]
Computing Education and Making
Culturally Responsive Computational Making
We run e-textile and robotics workshops with youth from marginalized communities to teach computing through hands-on making and to build a sense of belonging in computing.
[UbiComp ’15 — Best Paper Award] [SIGCSE ’16] — SSHRC Insight Development Grant; UM SSHRC Explore Grant
Assessment in HCI Education
We argue that HCI courses should grade the traceable design process, not only the final product, especially now that generative AI can produce polished artifacts.
[EduCHI ’26]
Students
I work with a team of graduate and undergraduate students on projects in human-computer interaction, human-robot interaction, and human-AI interaction. Our students design robots, study online platforms, and work with communities across Manitoba and beyond.
Current Graduate Students
| Name | Program | Research topic |
|---|---|---|
| Rafiat Bamimore Akodu | MSc | Human-AI interaction in agriculture: insights from farmers in Manitoba |
| Muntasir Mubin Nashit | MSc | Designing a telepresence robot control system for novice users |
| Tashfia Fatema | MSc | Culturally responsive computational making with pre-teens in Manitoba |
| Arrubla Harrinson | MSc | Interaction primitives for trust in human-robot interaction |
| Md Shihab Hossain | MSc (co-advised) | Explaining media bias through agency and framing in news |
| Md Tahmid Hasan Fuad | MSc (co-advised) | Proposition-level misinformation detection and verification |
Current Undergraduate Students
| Name | Program | Research topic |
|---|---|---|
| Dion Barja | Honours thesis | Communicating uncertain robot movement |
| Richard Shalchi | Honours thesis | Folk theories of algorithmic control |
Alumni
- Heet Patel — Research Assistant, 2025 — group dynamics in human-robot collaboration
- Kriza Cyrene del Moro — NSERC USRA, 2025 — ethnic identity in AI-generated images
- Indiana University undergraduate researchers (2021–2024): Deo Akiode, Roda Berhane, Griffin Peters, Cooper Young, Amy Kinney, Elizabeth Brooks, Ritu Sundaram, Hannah Li
Join the group
I am looking for motivated PhD and MSc students. To apply, email me your CV, transcripts, language test results, a sample publication, and a short letter explaining your interest. Due to the high volume of inquiries, I only contact shortlisted candidates.
Teaching
Teaching resides at the heart of my academic endeavors. Unveiling knowledge, guiding students toward their potential, and drawing inspiration from their progress continually fulfill me. My teaching philosophy, deeply anchored in empathy and collaborative learning, celebrates the mutual enrichment derived from the shared experiences and insights between educators and students. In my teaching approach, a steadfast commitment to understanding each student’s unique learning needs is paramount. I employ a “Learn by Doing” methodology, intertwining a robust theoretical foundation with real-world examples and hands-on project experiences. Navigating the academic journey with empathy, I ensure that learning is not only impactful but also resonates on a human level, fostering a nurturing and inclusive educational environment.
At the University of Manitoba, I teach COMP 4020: Human-Computer Interaction II (undergraduate) and COMP 7920: Human-Artificial Intelligence Interaction (graduate). Before that, I taught HCI to graduate and undergraduate students at Drexel University’s College of Computing and Informatics and Indiana University’s Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering. My courses cover the theoretical foundations of HCI, cognitive modeling of user interactions, task analysis, iterative design, usability testing, human-AI interaction, and project planning and report writing.
I also mentor graduate and undergraduate students. I learn about each student’s skills and interests and design projects that prepare them for their next step. My students have published at CHI, CSCW, HRI, DIS, GROUP, C&T, and AfriCHI. See the Students section to meet the current team.
Select Publications
For the list of all my publications please see my CV
2026
Ajit G. Pillai, Jaydon Farao, Houda Elmimouni, Cat Kutay, Friederike Fröbel, Wakanyi Hoffman, Hafeni Mthoko, Marly Muudeni Samuel, Alfred Kondoro, Eman Abulmagd, Nour Boulahcen, Katja Becker, Wanjiru Mburu, Martha Mosha, Chris Paulus MuAshekele, and Shaimaa Lazem. 2026. From Extraction to Gardening: Ubuntu-Inspired Provocations for Relational AI and CSCW. In Companion of CSCW ’26. ACM. doi.org/10.1145/3785651.3831568
Tochukwu Ikwunne, Rafiat Bamimore Akodu, Kriza del Moro, Christianah Titilope Oyewale, Moushira Issa, Norah Abokhodair, and Houda Elmimouni. 2026. When Culture Becomes Costume: How Africans Interpret and Contest AI-Generated Traditional Attire. In Companion of CSCW ’26. ACM, 339–343. doi.org/10.1145/3785651.3831540
Mahmoud Fawzi, Houda Elmimouni, and Walid Magdy. 2026. From Cairo to Cape Town: How African Twitter Shapes the Global Palestine-Israel Narrative. In Proceedings of PoliticalNLP 2026 at LREC 2026. ELRA, 29–34. doi.org/10.63317/3yjem8toy98z
Batool Najeh Balah, Mahmoud Fawzi, Houda Elmimouni, and Walid Magdy. 2026. The NakbaEcho Dataset: From Oral Testimonies to a Transcribed Arabic History Corpus. In Proceedings of NakbaNLP 2026 at LREC 2026. ELRA, 1–22. doi.org/10.63317/4zvtrpg8sm2s
Rafiat Bamimore Akodu and Houda Elmimouni. 2026. Beyond Trust: Designing Contestable AI for Farmers. In Proceedings of the 1st EUSSET International Conference on Innovation in Rural Regions (ICIRR 2026). EUSSET. doi.org/10.48340/icirr2026_27
Houda Elmimouni, Andrea Bunt, Daniel J. Rea, Patrick Dubois, James E. Young, and Celine Latulipe. 2026. Stop Grading the Artifact: Traceability as the New Core Assessment in HCI. In Proceedings of the EduCHI 2026: 7th Annual Symposium on HCI Education. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA. doi.org/10.1145/3803869.3803884
Muntasir Mubin Nashit, Tashfia Fatema, Heet Shailesh Patel, Andriana Boudouraki, Eike Schneiders, and Houda Elmimouni. “I Had to Actively Inject Myself”: How Small Breakdowns Cascade into Being Ignored in Multi-Party Telepresence. In Extended Abstracts of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA ’26), April 13–17, 2026, Barcelona, Spain. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA doi.org/10.1145/3772363.3799382
Maristella Matera, Zhicong Lu, Gustavo López Herrera, Houda Elmimouni, and Susan Dray. 2026. Cultures as Catalysts: Nurturing HCI Communities Across Regions. In Extended Abstracts of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA ’26), April 13–17, 2026, Barcelona, Spain. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA doi.org/10.1145/3772363.3778799
Houda Elmimouni, Sarah Rüller, Yarden Skop, Norah Abokhodair, Konstantin Aal, Tashfia Fatema, Mahmoud Fawzi, Ghadeer Awwad, Walid Magdy, Volker Wulf, and Peter Tolmie. 2026. Silencing & Surging: A Layered Ecology of Algorithmic Repression and Resistance in the Gaza Escalations. In Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’26). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA. doi.org/10.1145/3772318.3790994
Houda Elmimouni, Khadijah D Mohammed, Hafeni Mthoko, Shaimaa Lazem, and Nicola J. Bidwell. 2026. From Periphery to Presence: Authorship, Venues, and Education in African HCI. In Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’26). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA. Honorable Mention Award (Top 5%) doi.org/10.1145/3772318.3791668
2025
Maristella Matera, George Caridakis, Houda El Mimouni, Joel Lanir, Valentina Nisi, and Giuliana Vitiello. 2025. First Mediterranean CHI Summer School on “Designing Human-Centric Interactive and Intelligent Technology”. Voice SIGCHI 1, 3 (October 2025), 11–13. doi.org/10.1145/3778111.3778115
Jaydon Farao, Ajit G. Pillai, Hafeni Mthoko, Marly Muudeni Samuel, Houda Elmimouni, Manar Atwa, Chris MuAshkele, Cat Kutay, and Shaimaa Lazem. 2025. Weaving Indigeneity and Culture into the Fabric of HCI Futures: African Threads. In Proceedings of the 5th Biennial African Human Computer Interaction Conference (AfriCHI ’25). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 409–414. doi.org/10.1145/3757232.3757276
Houda Elmimouni, Khadijah D Mohammed, Hafeni Mthoko, Shaimaa Lazem, and Nicola J. Bidwell. 2025. Who Speaks for African HCI? Mapping Authorship, Venues, and Epistemic Gaps of 10 Years of African HCI Research. In The 5th Biennial African Human Computer Interaction Conference (Africhi 2025), November 4–8, 2025, Cairo, Egypt. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 14 pages. doi.org/10.1145/3757232.3757271
Juan Pablo Martinez Avila, Andriana Boudouraki, Harriet R Cameron, Gisela Reyes-Cruz, Velvet Spors, Laia Turmo Vidal, Charles Windlin, Houda Elmimouni, Janet Read, and Jennifer Rode. 2025. Playing with Telepresence Robots for Design Speculation. Companion Publication of the 2025 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 11–15. doi.org/10.1145/3715668.3734184
Christianah Titilope Oyewale, Rafiat Bamimore Akodu*, Tochukwu Ikwunne, and Houda Elmimouni. 2025. Bridging Distances, Navigating Dilemmas: Social Media’s Role for Sub-Saharan African Students in Morocco. In The 5th Biennial African Human Computer Interaction Conference (Africhi 2025), November 4–8, 2025, Cairo, Egypt. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 20 pages. doi.org/10.1145/3757232.3757239
Rafiat Bamimore Akodu*, Christianah Titilope Oyewale, Tochukwu Ikwunne, and Houda Elmimouni. 2025. Cultural Adaptation Through Digital Identities: Privacy and Self-Expression Among Sub-Saharan Students in Morocco. In 12th International Conference on Communities & Technologies (C&T 2025), July 20–23, 2025, Siegen, Germany. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 13 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3742800.3742831
Houda Elmimouni and Selma Sabanovic. 2025. “I Am ThereBut…”: Remote Students’ Experiences of Inclusion through TelepresenceRobots. In Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on HumanFactors in Computing Systems (CHI EA ’25). Association for Computing Machinery,New York, NY, USA, Article 9, 1–7. doi.org/10.1145/3706599.3720031
Jaydon Farao, Ajit G. Pillai, Hafeni Mthoko, Marly Muudeni Samuel, Houda Elmimouni, and Shaimaa Lazem. 2025. Weaving Indigeneity and Culture into the Fabric of HCI Futures. In Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference onHuman Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA ’25). Association for ComputingMachinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 806, 1–6. doi.org/10.1145/3706599.3706737
Marta Orduna, Ester Gonzalez-Sosa, Andriana Boudouraki, Houda Elmimouni, Pablo Perez, Jesus Gutierrez, Veronica Ahumada-Newhart, and Pablo Cesar. 2025. Emerging Telepresence Technologies for Hybrid Meetings: Experiences and Lessons Learned from an Interactive Workshop. In Proceedings of the 17th International Workshop on IMmersive Mixed and Virtual Environment Systems (MMVE ’25). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 40–46. doi.org/10.1145/3712677.3720464
Roda Berhane*, Deo Akiode*, Swapna Joshi, and Houda Elmimouni. 2025. Integrating Function and Connection: Two Perspectives to Telepresence Robot Design for Classroom. In The 2025 ACM International Conference on Supporting Group Work (GROUP Companion’25), January 12–15, 2025, Hilton Head, SC, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 10 pages. doi.org/10.1145/3688828.3699633
Houda Elmimouni, Sarah Rüller, Konstantin Aal, Yarden Skop, Norah Abokhodair, Volker Wulf, and Peter Tolmie. 2025. Exploring Algorithmic Resistance: Responses to Social Media Censorship in Activism. Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 9, 2, Article CSCW072 (May 2025), 24 pages. doi.org/10.1145/3710970
Andriana Boudouraki, Niki Chouliara, Laura Fiorini, Juan Martinez Avila, Gisela Reyes-Cruz, Pratyusha Ghosh, Verónica Ahumada-Newhart, Houda Elmimouni, and Praminda Caleb-Solly. Beyond video-conferencing: telepresence technologies for extending expertise reach and specialised skill sharing. Workshop. ACM GROUP 2025. doi.org/10.1145/3688828.3699632
2024
Jennifer A. Rode, Yifan Feng, Hanlin Zhang, Ria Rosman, Amanda S. Bastaman, John King, Madeline H. Samson, Xinyue Dong, Adam Walker, Matthew Horton, Janet C. Read, Martin Oliver, and Houda Elmimouni. 2024. Playful Telepresence Robots with School Children ACM NordiCHI 2024 doi.org/10.1145/3679318.3685367
Houda Elmimouni, Vidushi S. Manarya, Anasuya Venkateshwarlu, Yoyo Chan, Kata Kyrola, Jennifer Rode. Whose Values Matter in Persuasive Writing Tools? 2024 Halfway to the Future SYMPOSIUM. doi.org/10.1145/3686169.3686171
Houda Elmimouni, Selma Šabanović, and Jennifer Rode. 2024. Navigating the Cyborg Classroom: Telepresence Robots, Accessibility Challenges, and Inclusivity in the Classroom. ACM Trans. Access. Comput. doi.org/10.1145/3672569
Houda Elmimouni, Jennifer A. Rode, and Selma Šabanović. 2024. Articulation work for supporting the values of students attending class via telepresence robots. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies: 103318. doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhcs.2024.103318
Norah Abokhodair, Yarden Skop, Sarah Rüller, Konstantin Aal, and Houda Elmimouni. 2024. Opaque algorithms, transparent biases: Automated content moderation during the Sheikh Jarrah Crisis. First Monday. doi.org/10.5210/fm.v29i4.13620
Sarah Rüller, Konstantin Aal, Norah Abokhodair, Houda Elmimouni, Yarden Skop, Dave Randall, Nina Boulus-Rodje, Alan Borning, and Volker Wulf. 2024. Ethnography at the Edge: Exploring Research Dynamics in Crisis and Conflict Areas. In Extended Abstracts of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA ’24). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 578, 1–4. doi.org/10.1145/3613905.3643982
Yarden Skop, Sarah Rüller, Houda Elmimouni. Live from the Frontlines: The Mediation of Armed Conflict Through Online Platforms. Panel at 4S/EASST 2024.
Houda Elmimouni, Eric P. S. Baumer, and Andrea Forte. 2024. On Being an Expert: Habitus as a Lens for Understanding Privacy Expertise. Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 8, CSCW1, Article 102 (April 2024), 25 pages. doi.org/10.1145/3637379
2023
Andriana Boudouraki, Houda Elmimouni, Marta Orduna, Pablo Perez, Ester Gonzalez-Sosa, Pablo Cesar, JesÚS GutiÉRrez, Taffeta Wood, Verónica Ahumada-Newhart, and Joel E Fischer. 2023. Emerging Telepresence Technologies for Hybrid Meetings: an Interactive Workshop. In Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW ’23 Companion). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 547–552. doi.org/10.1145/3584931.3611283
Houda Elmimouni, Cooper Young, Selma Sabanovic, and Jennifer Rode. 2023. Does Robotic Telepresence Make the Classroom Accessible? In Companion Publication of the 2023 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS ’23 Companion). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 194–197. doi.org/10.1145/3563703.3596631
Eike Schneiders, Andriana Boudouraki, Gisela Reyes-Cruz, Juan Pablo Martinez Avila, Houda Elmimouni, Jens Emil Sloth Grønbæk, Sean Rintel, and Swapna Joshi. 2023. Mobility and Utility in Robot Mediated Interaction: An Interactive Workshop for the Identification of Use Cases and Affordances of Telepresence Robots. In Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Mobile Human-Computer Interaction (MobileHCI ’23 Companion). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 34, 1–5. doi.org/10.1145/3565066.3609791
Houda Elmimouni, Amy Kinney, Elizabeth C. Brooks, Hannah Li, and Selma Sabanovic. 2023. “Who’s that?”: Identity Self-Perception and Projection in the Use of Telepresence Robots in Hybrid Classrooms. In Companion of the 2023 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI ’23). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 287–291.
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Houda Elmimouni, Erica Shusas, Patrick Skeba, Eric P. S. Baumer and Andrea Forte. 2023. What makes a technology privacy enhancing? laypersons’ and experts’ descriptions, uses, and perceptions of privacy enhancing technologies. In Information for a Better World: Normality, Virtuality, Physicality, Inclusivity. 18th International Conference, iConference 2023, Virtual Event, March 13–17, 2023, Proceedings, Part II, pp. 229-250. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13972. Springer, Cham. doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-28032-0_20
2022
Houda Elmimouni, Andrea Forte, and Jonathan Morgan. 2022. Why People Trust Wikipedia Articles: Credibility Assessment Strategies Used by Readers. In Proceedings of the 18th International Symposium on Open Collaboration (OpenSym ’22). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 9, 1–10. Best Paper Award (Top 1%) doi.org/10.1145/3555051.3555052
Houda Elmimouni, Houda Elmimouni, John Paulin Paulin Hansen, Susan Herring, James Marcin, Marta Orduna, Pablo Perez, Irene Rae, Janet Read, Jennifer Rode, Selma Sabanovic, and Verónica Ahumada. 2022. Emerging Telepresence Technologies in Hybrid Learning Environments. In Extended Abstracts of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA ’22). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 85, 1–5. doi.org/10.1145/3491101.3503728
Houda Elmimouni, Selma Sabanovic. 2022. Robotic Telepresence to Support Remote Classroom Attendance and Interactions. Exploring the Roles of Robots for Embodied Mediation. ICRA2022
2020
Houda Elmimouni, Erica Racine, Patrick Skeba, Eric PS Baumer, and Andrea Forte. 2020. What are PETs for Privacy Experts and Non-experts. In Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security. www.usenix.org/conference/soups2020/presentation/elmimouni
Kapllani, Levi, and Houda Elmimouni. 2020. Gestalt principles in web design: A study of the usage of similarity, symmetry and closure in today’s websites. Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology 57, no. 1 (2020): e340. doi.org/10.1002/pra2.340
Jung Ran Park, and Houda Elmimouni. 2020. Emoticons and non-verbal communications across Arabic, English, and Korean Tweets. Global Knowledge, Memory and Communication. doi.org/10.1108/GKMC-02-2020-0021
2019
Ana Luísa Sertã, Houda Elmimouni, Louise Barkhuus, Rosie Cox, and Jennifer Rode. 2019. Digital Housekeeping, Gender and Domestic Work. In Extended Abstracts of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA ’19). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Paper SIG03, 1–4. doi.org/10.1145/3290607.3311759
2018
Houda Elmimouni, Susan R. Fussell, Susan Herring, Carman Neustaedter, and Jennifer Rode. 2018. SIG on Telepresence Robots. In Extended Abstracts of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA ’18). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Paper SIG05, 1–4. doi.org/10.1145/3170427.3185376
2017
Adel Al-Dawood, Norah Abokhodair, Houda Elmimouni, and Svetlana Yarosh. 2017. Against Marrying a Stranger”: Marital Matchmaking Technologies in Saudi Arabia. In Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS ’17). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1013–1024 . Best Paper Award (Top 1%)
Houda Elmimouni, Jennifer Anderson, Nadaleen F. Tempelman-Kluit, and Alexandra Dolan-Mescal. 2018. UX Work in Libraries: How (and Why) to Do It. In Developing In-House Digital Tools in Library Spaces, pp. 1-36. IGI Global. doi.org/10.1145/3064663.3064683
2016
David Hankerson, Andrea R. Marshall, Jennifer Booker, Houda Elmimouni, Imani Walker, and Jennifer A. Rode. 2016. Does Technology Have Race? In Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA ’16). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 473–486. doi.org/10.1145/2851581.2892578
Jennifer A. Rode, Andrea Marshall, Houda Elmimouni, and Jennifer Booker. 2016. Computational Making” (Abstract Only). In Proceedings of the 47th ACM Technical Symposium on Computing Science Education (SIGCSE ’16). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 494. doi.org/10.1145/2839509.2850522
2015
Houda Elmimouni and Craig M. MacDonald. 2015. Culture and information architecture: a study of American and Arab academic websites. In Proceedings of the 78th ASIS&T Annual Meeting: Information Science with Impact: Research in and for the Community (ASIST ’15). American Society for Information Science, USA, Article 91, 1–4. doi.org/10.1002/pra2.2015.145052010091
Jennifer A. Rode, Anne Weibert, Andrea Marshall, Konstantin Aal, Thomas von Rekowski, Houda Elmimouni, and Jennifer Booker. 2015. From computational thinking to computational making. In Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp ’15). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 239–250. Best Paper Award (Top 1%) doi.org/10.1145/2750858.2804261
2014
Irene Lopatovska, Aimee Slater, Caitlin Bronner, Houda Elmimouni, Leanora Lange, and Victoria Ludas Orlofsky. 2014. In transition: academic e-book reading in an institution without e-books. Library Review. doi.org/10.1108/LR-12-2013-0163
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Invited Talk. October 2026
Delivered the talk “Being There Is Not Enough: How Robots and Algorithms Shape Who Participates” for EECS 1001: Research Directions in Computing at York University’s Lassonde School of Engineering, Toronto, Canada.
Roundtable. October 2026
Organized and moderated the roundtable “Algorithmic Silence and Technoscientific Power: Platform Governance, Censorship, and the Politics of Speech” at the 4S 2026 Annual Meeting in Toronto, Canada, with Konstantin Aal, Walid Magdy, and Sarah Rüller.
Conference Paper. October 2026
Presented “Coded Out: Platform Technopower, Algorithmic Censorship, and Palestinian Digital Resistance from Sheikh Jarrah to Gaza” with Sarah Rüller, Yarden Skop, and Konstantin Aal in the open panel “War, Genocide and Technopower” at 4S 2026, Toronto, Canada.
New Service. Fall 2026
Serving as Associate Chair (AC) for ACM CHI 2027, Mentorship Co-Chair for Graphics Interface 2027, and a member of the International Advisory Committee of IEEE Women in Services Computing (WISC).
Grant Award. August 2026
Thrilled to announce that I have been awarded a Research Manitoba New Investigator Operating Grant for the project “Rhythm to Recovery: A Socially Assistive Robot Coach for Post-Stroke Hand Rehabilitation.”
Paper Accepted. August 2026
Our paper “Beyond Trust: Designing Contestable AI for Farmers,” co-authored with Rafiat Bamimore Akodu, was accepted at the 1st EUSSET International Conference on Innovation in Rural Regions (ICIRR 2026).
Papers Accepted. July 2026
Two posters were accepted at CSCW 2026: “When Culture Becomes Costume: How Africans Interpret and Contest AI-Generated Traditional Attire,” co-authored with Tochukwu Ikwunne, Rafiat Bamimore Akodu, Kriza del Moro, Christianah Titilope Oyewale, Moushira Issa, and Norah Abokhodair; and “From Extraction to Gardening: Ubuntu-Inspired Provocations for Relational AI and CSCW,” led by Ajit G. Pillai and Jaydon Farao with Shaimaa Lazem and colleagues.
Media. July 2026
Spoke with CBC Radio Noon Manitoba about Meta smart glasses and the privacy of people around the wearer.
Invited Talk. June 2026
Delivered the talk “Who Gets to Be Seen? Algorithmic Resistance and Robotic Presence in a World of Mediated Participation” for the ACS Speaker Series at the University of Winnipeg, Winnipeg, Canada.
Papers Published. May 2026
Two workshop papers with Mahmoud Fawzi and Walid Magdy appeared at LREC 2026 in Palma, Mallorca: “From Cairo to Cape Town: How African Twitter Shapes the Global Palestine-Israel Narrative” (PoliticalNLP 2026) and “The NakbaEcho Dataset: From Oral Testimonies to a Transcribed Arabic History Corpus” (NakbaNLP 2026), with Batool Najeh Balah.
Panels. April 2026
Spoke on two panels at ACM CHI 2026 in Barcelona: “Cultures as Catalysts: Nurturing HCI Communities Across Regions” and the Mediterranean CHI community meet-up, “Building HCI Across Shores.”
Paper Presented. April 2026
Presented “Stop Grading the Artifact: Traceability as the New Core Assessment in HCI” at EduCHI 2026, co-authored with Andrea Bunt, Daniel J. Rea, Patrick Dubois, James E. Young, and Celine Latulipe.
New Service. March 2026
Honored to serve as Technical Program Committee (TPC) Co-Chair for AfriCHI 2027, to be held in Lagos, Nigeria.
Award. March 2026
Our CHI ’26 paper “From Periphery to Presence: Authorship, Venues, and Education in African HCI” received an Honorable Mention Award. This work is co-authored with Khadijah D Mohammed, Hafeni Mthoko, Shaimaa Lazem, and Nicola J. Bidwell.
New Service. January 2026
Thrilled to serve as Publications Co-Chair for ACM CSCW 2026.
Paper Accepted. January 2026
Our CHI EA ’26 extended abstract “‘I Had to Actively Inject Myself’: How Small Breakdowns Cascade into Being Ignored in Multi-Party Telepresence” has been accepted. This work is co-authored with Muntasir Mubin Nashit, Tashfia Fatema, Heet Shailesh Patel, Andriana Boudouraki, and Eike Schneiders.
Paper Accepted. January 2026
Our CHI ’26 paper “Silencing & Surging: A Layered Ecology of Algorithmic Repression and Resistance in the Gaza Escalations” has been accepted. This work is co-authored with Sarah Rüller, Yarden Skop, Norah Abokhodair, Konstantin Aal, Tashfia Fatema, Mahmoud Fawzi, Ghadeer Awwad, Walid Magdy, Volker Wulf, and Peter Tolmie.
Paper Accepted. January 2026
Our CHI ’26 paper “From Periphery to Presence: Authorship, Venues, and Education in African HCI” has been accepted. This work is co-authored with Khadijah D Mohammed, Hafeni Mthoko, Shaimaa Lazem, and Nicola J. Bidwell.
Paper Accepted. January 2026
Our CHI EA ’26 extended abstract “Cultures as Catalysts: Nurturing HCI Communities Across Regions” has been accepted. This work is co-authored with Maristella Matera, Zhicong Lu, Gustavo López Herrera, and Susan Dray.
Grant Award. February 2026
Thrilled to announce that I have been awarded a SSHRC Insight Development Grant for the project “From Making to Belonging: Culturally Responsive E-Textiles and Robotics Workshops with Marginalized Youth,” in partnership with the Manitoba Crafts Museum and Library.
Grant Award. February 2026
Thrilled to announce that I have been awarded a UMSSHRC Explore Grant for the project “Empowering Marginalized Youth Through Maker Workshops.”
Grant Award. November 2025
Thrilled to announce that I have been awarded a SSHRC Destination Horizon Grant for the project “Speech Under Siege: A Canada–EU Network on Algorithmic Censorship and Democratic Resilience.”
Invited Talk. November 2025
I had a pleasure delivering a talk in French “Comment rendre nos technologies plus humaines?” at Université Senghor, Alexandria, Egypt.
Panel. November 2025
Participated in the panel “The Future of Knowledge and Expression” at the University of Manitoba Research Symposium in Winnipeg, Canada.
Paper Accepted. November 2025
Our AfriCHI 2025 paper “Bridging Distances, Navigating Dilemmas: Social Media’s Role for Sub-Saharan African Students in Morocco” was accepted. This work is co-authored with Christianah Titilope Oyewale, Rafiat Bamimore Akodu, and Tochukwu Ikwunne.
Grant Award. October 2025
Thrilled to announce that I have been awarded the SIGCHI Development Fund for the project “Seeds of HCI Morocco: National Gathering & SIGCHI Chapter Launch at UM6P.”
Grant Award. October 2025
Excited to be part of the Google Humans and AI Multilab project “Design Primitives for Ethical, Trustworthy, and Culturally Situated Human-AI Collaboration: The Case of the Arab World” (PI: Elizabeth Churchill).
Podcast Guest. September 2025
Honored to be the guest on the first episode of the Faculty of Science, University of Manitoba’s The Science Lens podcast series. https://umanitoba.ca/science/the-science-lens
Panel. July 2025
Participated in the panel “Preserving Culture Through Interaction” at the Human-Computer Interaction Hackathon at University Mohammed VI Polytechnic (UM6P), Rabat, Morocco.
Invited Talk. May 2025
Delivered the talk “Designing Technology with Users’ Values and Human Rights in Mind” for the Feed Your Mind lecture series at the University of Winnipeg, Winnipeg, Canada.
Grant Award. April 2025
Thrilled to announce that I have been awarded an NSERC Discovery Grant for the project “Designing Privacy-Aware Social Robots for Public Spaces.”
New Service. April 2025
Thrilled to serve as the Global Inclusion Co-Chair for ACM CHI 2026 in Barcelona, Spain
Workshop Paper. April 2025
Our CHI EA ’25 workshop paper “Weaving Indigeneity and Culture into the Fabric of HCI Futures” has been accepted. This collaboration includes Jaydon Farao, Ajit G. Pillai, Hafeni Mthoko, Marly Muudeni Samuel, Shaimaa Lazem, and myself.
Publication. March 2025
Our article “Emerging Telepresence Technologies for Hybrid Meetings: Experiences and Lessons Learned from an Interactive Workshop” appeared in the Proceedings of the 17th International Workshop on Immersive Mixed and Virtual Environment Systems (MMVE ’25). Co-authors: Marta Orduna, Ester Gonzalez-Sosa, Andriana Boudouraki, Pablo Pérez, Jesús Gutiérrez, Verónica Ahumada-Newhart, Pablo Cesar, and me.
Publication. March 2025
Pleased to share our CHI EA ’25 extended abstract “I Am There But…’: Remote Students’ Experiences of Inclusion through Telepresence Robots,” co-authored with Selma Šabanović.
New Service. March 2025
I will be serving as the Accessibility Chair for Communities & Technologies (C&T) 2025.
Invited Talk. February 2025
Delivered the talk “Designing Technology with Users’ Values in Mind” for the Preparation for Research through Immersion, Skills, and Mentorship (PRISM) program at the University of Toronto.
New Service. December 2024
Joined the organizing committee for the ACM SIGCHI Mediterranean Committee (MedCHI) Summer School 2025.
New Service. November 2024
Serving as Accessibility Co-Chair for ACM CSCW 2025.
New Service. October 2024
Serving as Notes Co-Chair for AfriCHI 2025.
Paper Accepted. October 2024
Our paper “Integrating Function and Connection: Two Perspectives to Telepresence Robot Design for Classroom” has been accepted for presentation at the 2025 ACM GROUP conference. This work is co-authored with Roda Berhane, Deo Akiode, and Swapna Joshi.
Paper Accepted. October 2024
Excited to share that our paper “Exploring Algorithmic Resistance: Strategies to Circumvent Social Media Censorship in Activism” has been accepted for ACM CSCW 2025. This work was a collaborative effort with Yarden Skop, Norah Abokhodair, Sarah Rüller, Konstantin Aal, Volker Wulf, and Peter Tolmie.
Upcoming Workshop. August, 2024
I am co-organizing a workshop titled “Beyond Video-Conferencing: Telepresence Technologies for Extending Expertise Reach and Specialized Skill Sharing” at the ACM GROUP conference. I am delighted to collaborate with Andriana Boudouraki, Niki Chouliara, Laura Fiorini, Juan Martinez Avila, Gisela Reyes-Cruz, Pratyusha Ghosh, Verónica Ahumada-Newhart, and Praminda Caleb-Solly on this initiative.
Paper Accepted. August, 2024
Our paper “Playful Telepresence Robots with School Children” has been accepted for presentation at ACM NordiCHI 2024. This work is co-authored with Jennifer A. Rode, Yifan Feng, Hanlin Zhang, Ria Rosman, Amanda S. Bastaman, John King, Madeline H. Samson, Xinyue Dong, Adam Walker, Matthew Horton, Janet C. Read, and Martin Oliver.
Paper Accepted. August, 2024
Excited to announce that our paper, “Whose Values Matter in Persuasive Writing Tools?” has been accepted for presentation at the 2024 Halfway to the Future Symposium. This work was a collaborative effort with Vidushi S. Manarya, Anasuya Venkateshwarlu, Yoyo Chan, Kata Kyrola, Yifan Feng and Jennifer Rode.
Paper Published. July, 2024
Our paper “Navigating the Cyborg Classroom: Telepresence Robots, Accessibility Challenges, and Inclusivity in the Classroom” has been published in ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing. This work is co-authored with Selma Šabanović and Jennifer Rode. Looking forwards presenting in ASSETS conference.
Paper Published. July, 2024
Our latest research titled “Articulation Work for Supporting the Values of Students Attending Class via Telepresence Robots” has been published in the International Journal of Human-Computer Studies. Co-authored with Jennifer A. Rode and Selma Šabanović.
Position Accepted. June, 2024
I am excited to announce that I have accepted an Assistant Professor position in the Computer Science Department at the University of Manitoba. I look forward to contributing to the academic community and advancing my research in Human-Computer Interaction and related fields.
Position Accepted. June, 2024
Thrilled to share that I have accepted the position of Visiting Professor in the Information Systems and New Media department at the University of Siegen, Germany. I am eager to collaborate with colleagues and students there.
Service. May, 2024
I am excited to share that I am considering serving as the Short Papers Co-Chair for AfriCHI 2025. This role would allow me to deepen my engagement with the HCI community in Africa, and I look forward to the opportunity to contribute to this important event.
Upcoming Summer School. April, 2024
I am excited to co-organize a summer school with the MedCHI committee, fostering learning and collaboration in the Mediterranean HCI community.
Service. March, 2024
I am honored to serve as the Accessibility Chair for the GROUP Conference 2025.
Service. March, 2024
I am serving on the Program Committee for the MedCHI Special Issue on “Digital Crossroads: Enhancing Mediterranean Values through Human-Computer Interaction Research,” to be published in IxD&A. We warmly welcome submissions that contribute to this important discourse.
Paper accepted. October, 2023
Excited to share that our paper, “Shielding or Silencing?: An Investigation into Content Moderation during the Sheikh Jarrah Crisis,” co-authored with Y. Skop, N. Abokhodair, S. Rüller, K. Aal, A. Weibert, A. Al-Dawood, V. Wulf, and P. Tolmie, has been accepted for publication in PACM HCI, GROUP series.
Paper accepted. September, 2023
My paper was accepted to the ACM CSCW conference. Title: On Being an Expert: Habitus as a Lens for Understanding Privacy Expertise. Co-authored with Eric P.S. Baumer and Andrea Forte.
Service. September, 2023
Thrilled to join the ACM SIGCHI Mediterranean Committee! Honored to contribute to the HCI community in the area.
Travel grant and invitation to attend CRA-WP 2023. August,2023
I was invited and awarded a travel grant to attend the CRA-WP Career Mentoring Workshop organized by the Computing Research Association.
Invited Panelist. August, 2023
Thrilled to share that I will be a panelist at the upcoming IEEE CIC 2023-Workshop on “Exploring the Impact of Emerging Technologies on Digital Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DDEI) on the Future of Work & Education.”
Upcoming workshop. June, 2023
I am co-organizing a workshop at ACM CSCW about the “Emerging Telepresence Technologies for Hybrid Meetings” w/ Andriana Boudouraki, Marta Orduna, Pablo Pérez, Ester Gonzalez-Sosa, Pablo Cesar, Jesús Gutiérrez, Taffeta Wood, Verónica Ahumada-Newhart and Joel E. Fischer.
Service. June, 2023
I accepted the invitation to serve as Associate Chair (AC) for CHI 2024.
Upcoming workshop. May, 2023
I am co-organizing a workshop at ACM MobileHCI about the “Mobility and Utility in Robot Mediated Interaction” w/ Eike Schneiders, Andriana Boudouraki, Gisela Reyes-Cruz, And Juan Martinez, Avila, Jens Emil Grønbæk, Sean Rintel, Swapna Joshi. Check our CfP.
Paper accepted. May, 2023
My paper was accepted to the ACM DIS conference. Title: Does Robotic Telepresence Make the Classroom Accessible? Co-authored with Jennifer Rode, Selma Šabanović, and my UROC student Cooper Young.
Invited talk. Apr, 2023
I am thrilled to announce that I have been invited to speak at the 2023 Symposium of Socio-Informatics at the University of Siegen about my robotic telepresence research. I will also be participating in a panel discussion about the challenges of recruiting research participants from war zones.
Invited talk. Apr, 2023
I am thrilled and honored to be invited to speak about my Wikipedia research at the University of Rey Juan Carlos in Madrid.
Invited panel. Apr, 2023
I am thrilled to announce my invitation to join the Data Science Junior Faculty/Postdoc Panel, where I will be sharing insights on my research into robotic telepresence in the classroom.
Invited talk. Apr, 2023
I am honored to be invited by the Center of Excellence for Women & Technology at IU to give a talk about the “Progression of research from Idea to Publishing” and my experience publishing with undergraduate students.
Report published. Feb, 2023
A report on a CHI workshop I co-organized at CHI ’22 conference is published at the ACM Interactions wesbite. Title: “Emerging Telepresence Technologies in Hybrid Learning Environments.” Co-authored with Pablo Pérez, Andriana Boudouraki, Fatma Guneri and Verónica Ahumada-Newhart.
Paper accepted. Jan, 2023
My paper was accepted to the HRI conference. Title: “Who’s that?” Identity Self-Perception and Projection in the Use of Telepresence Robots in Hybrid Classrooms. Co-authored with Selma Šabanović and my REU students Amy Kinney, Elizabeth C. Brooks, Hannah Li.
Paper accepted. Dec, 2022
My paper was accepted to the iConference. Titled: “What Makes a Technology Privacy Enhancing? Laypersons’ and Experts’ Descriptions, Uses, and Perceptions of Privacy Enhancing Technologies”. Co-authored with Erica Shusas, Patrick Skeba, Eric P. S. Baumer and Andrea Forte.
Distinguished Paper Award. Sep, 2022
My paper about Credibility-Assessment Strategies Used by Wikipedia Readers, co-authored with Andrea Forte and Jonathan Morgan, got a distinguished paper award at OpenSym.
Defended dissertation. Mar, 2021
I defended my dissertation and will be joining the R-House Lab to work with Selma Sabanovic. I am excited for the new journey!
Fellowship Award. Feb, 2021
I won the very competitive CRA & CCC ‘s NSF-funded Computing Innovation Fellowship.
Dissertation Award. Dec, 2020
I am so thrilled that my dissertation won the Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Award by Beta Phi Mu.
Teaching Award. May, 2018
I am honored to receive the Highly Commended Teaching Assistant award from the Graduate College at Drexel University.
Best paper award. Jun, 2017
My paper with Adel Al Dawood, Norah Abokhodair and Lana Yarosh, titled “Against Marrying a Stranger: Marital Matchmaking Technologies in Saudi Arabia”, won the Best Paper Award at DIS.
Fellowship Award. May, 2017
Phoebe W. Haas Endowed Fellowship for Academic Achievement.
Best paper award. Sep, 2015
My paper with Jennifer Rode et al., titled “From Computational Thinking to Computational Making” received the Ubicomp 2015 Best Paper Award.
Travel Award from Google. Sep, 2019
I am so excited to attend the GHC with support from Google