North South University Human Computer Interaction

Eid Mubarak to everyone 🌙✨
May this Eid bring peace, happiness, and endless blessings into your life. Thank you for being a part of our journey.

📢 Seminar Announcement

We are pleased to invite all researchers to join this seminar session.

Date: 5th March 2026
Time: 2:00 PM to 3.00 PM
Venue: BRAC University

The session is open to all researchers. You can register using the link below and join the talk.

🔗 Registration Link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSczcBwUOqpoWvHIQ8Hx8eWDQmDM1wQKmnc9naR0t3RJTTVykw/viewform?pli=1

Looking forward to your participation!

Hello all, the ACM COMPASS 2026 poster call is live. The conference is virtual this year. The submission link will be live soon. This time, we have two rounds of submissions. The dates are below:

[Important Dates for Authors]
First Round
Submission Site Open: February 10, 2026
Submission Deadline: March 20, 2026
Notification to the Authors: April 17, 2026
Camera-Ready Completion Deadline: May 1, 2026

Second Round
Submission deadline: May 15, 2026
Notification to the authors: June 12, 2026
Camera-Ready Completion Deadline: June 26, 2026
COMPASS 2026 Conference: July 27-31, 2026
Deadlines are anywhere on earth (AoE) time.

Submission length: Between 2000 and 3000 words excluding references. Typically, up to 6 pages long (excluding references).
Submissions must be anonymous and should not include any author names, affiliations, and contact information.

Accepted papers will be included in the Proceedings of COMPASS 2026 and will become available in the ACM Digital Library.
Details on the site:

Call for Posters – COMPASS COMPASS draws from a wide array of disciplines: computer and information sciences, social sciences, critical geography, environmental studies, economics, climate studies, and engineering. We aim to foster a discussion that interrogates not only the potentials but also the limitations of technology-l...

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Hello all,

We would love to announce that ACM COMPASS 2026 is here. The conference will be on July 27-31. This time, the conference will be VIRTUAL, so it will be a nice opportunity to submit your work and present from home.

Important dates: Call for Full Paper

Submission site open: February 10, 2026
Submission Deadline: March 7, 2026
Author Notifications: May 1, 2026
Camera-Ready Deadline: June 1, 2026
COMPASS 2026 Virtual Conference: July 27–31, 2026.
Submission Details: https://compass.acm.org/call-for-papers/

Themes and Topics of Interest

We invite submissions that speak to that contribute to one or more of the following areas:

Systems and IoT for Sustainable Societies
HCI, Design and Critical Perspectives
AI, ML and Data Science for Sustainable Societies
Development, Economics and Policy
Environment, Sustainability, Degrowth, and Climate Change
Technology, Media, and Social Practice
Energy, Infrastructure and Economic Changes in age of AI

There will be a separate Call for Posters, which will be announced soon.

We look forward to having your submissions in COMPASS 2026. Best wishes.

Thank you.

Call for Papers – COMPASS As part of an alternating virtual/physical cycle, COMPASS 2026 will be hosted virtually this year and invites interdisciplinary research on sustainability that draws attention to how computing and sustainability efforts are embedded in and shaped by local contexts. COMPASS welcomes work that critica...

Huge congratulations to the Autism Team led by Anik Sinha and the 4IR Team led by Antara Saha. Both teams have received CTRG funding from NSU this 2026. The year has truly started with a blast!

The Autism project focuses on the development of an application to support communication and learning for Children with Autism (CWA).

The 4IR project aims to examine the adoption of automation-driven manufacturing tools in Bangladeshi RMG industries through a socio-technical lens.

Both teams are moving forward with dedication and hard work. They have got a fantastic opportunity to deliver outstanding research.

Best wishes✨

Some wonderful memories from our trips to Khulna and Tangail. It was a truly refreshing break spent together as a team. We got a chance to enjoy the natural beauty of our country during the semester break. Such an amazing experience🌷

Year End Celebration ✨️
Design Inclusion and Access Lab
2025 was an excellent year for research, publications and funding.
Hope to continue this growth in the upcoming year as well.

Look at the pictures. The smiles and achievements hide countless hours of sorrow, dedication, tension, uncertainty, and predictions.

Congratulations to Professor Nova Ahmed and her team of sailors—Anik Saha, Ifti Azad, and Anik Sinha—for successfully signing the Higher Education Acceleration and Transformation (HEAT) Research Project with the World Bank and the University Grants Commission of Bangladesh. This project, titled "Understanding Mental Health Status & Tech Intervention Design for Tertiary-Level Students in Bangladesh," is a nationwide initiative that will last 34 months, with funding amounting to USD 434000 (5 Crore and 29 lac BDT). It is the only project awarded from the ECE department of North South University (NSU). We also extend our congratulations to the other two teams from NSU that received this grant

We are grateful to Professor Salekul Islam, Dr. Abdul Wohab, and Zeeba Zahra Sultana for collaborating with Professor Nova Ahmed and providing constructive feedback. We hope this partnership will yield innovative results in mental health research. Thanks to Rahat Jahagir Rony for his unwavering support. Additionally, we would like to thank research students Antara Saha, Shihab Reza, and Manoshi Turzo for their contributions to the proposal writing during the initial phase.

We wish great success for this project!

Majed had done wonderful work when he was at NSU, back in couple of years ago. His work was unpublished for so a long time. Finally, it has been accepted in COMPASS 2025. We wish him the best of luck in his mindblowing career in Washington, USA.

Nova Ahmed, Rahat Jahangir Rony, and Md. Majedur Rahman. 2025. Jalli: System Level Support for Critical Real-Time Applications. In ACM SIGCAS/SIGCHI Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies (COMPASS’25), July 22–25, 2025, Toronto, ON, Canada. ACM, New York, NY, USA,

Congrats to Young researchers (Aalok, Tisha, and Marzan) in DIAL for the new journal acceptance in JMIR.

"Understanding the Mental and Physical Burdens of Physicians and Identifying Support Interventions in Bangladesh: Qualitative Study" has been accepted in Interactive Journal of Medical Research (iJMR) in JMIR Publications, authored by: Rahat Jahangir Rony, Shams Akbor Aalok, Lamia Amin Tisha, Marzan Mahatab, and Nova Ahmed.

Understanding the Mental and Physical Burdens of Physicians and Identifying Support Interventions in Bangladesh: Qualitative Study Background: The COVID-19 pandemic had a substantial, negative impact on the world, and physicians played a crucial role in providing health care while facing the risk of contracting the virus themselves. While working on the frontlines, they also needed to protect themselves and their families from....