Conferences are usually considered more prestigious than journals in the Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) discipline. The top two conferences in this area are CHI and CSCW. In the ICTD (Information and Communication Technologies and Development) field, the top conferences are ICTD and COMPASS. The top two journals in HCI are Transactions on Computer-Human Interactions (ToCHI) and Transactions on Social Computing (TSC).​

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2025

• Ananya Bhattacharjee, Mohammad Rashidujjaman Rifat, Dipto Das, S M Taiabul Haque, and Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed.
  Residual Mobilities and Religious Practices: Exploring the Experiences of the Hindu Migrants in Canada.
  CSCW 2025 (accepted - coming soon)

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2024

• Mohammad Rashidujjaman Rifat, Reem Ayad, Ashratuz Zavin Asha, Bingjian Huang, Selin Okman, Dina Sabie, Hasan Shahid Ferdous, Robert Soden, and Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed.
  Cohabitant: The Design, Implementation, and Evaluation of a Virtual Reality Application for Interfaith Learning and Empathy Building.
  CHI 2024

• Nabila Chowdhury, Natasha Shokri, Cibeles Herrera Valera, Azhagu Meena SP, Carolina Reyes Marquez, Mohammad Rashidujjaman Rifat, Marisol Wong-Villacres, Cosmin Munteanu, Negin Dahya, and Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed. 
  Politics of the Past: Understanding the Role of Memory, Postmemory, and Remembrance in Navigating the History of Migrant Families.
  CHI 2024

• Mohammad Rashidujjaman Rifat*, Dipto Das*, Arpon Poddar, Mahiratul Jannat, Robert Soden, Bryan Semaan, and Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed.
  The Politics of Fear and the Experience of Bangladeshi Religious Minority Communities Using Social Media Platforms.
  CSCW 2024

• Mohammad Rashidujjaman Rifat, Abdullah Hasan Safir, Sourav Saha, Jahedul Alam Junaed, Maryam Saleki, Mohammad Ruhul Amin, and Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed.
  Data, Annotation, and Meaning-Making: The Politics of Categorization in Annotating a Dataset of Faith-based Communal Violence.
  FAccT 2024

• C. Estelle Smith, Alemitu Bezabih, Diana Freed, Brett A. Halperin, Sara Wolf, Caroline Claisse, Jingjin Li, Michael J Hoefer, and Mohammad Rashidujjaman Rifat. 

       (Un)designing AI for Mental and Spiritual Wellbeing. (extended abstract - panel)

       CSCW 2024

• Mohammad Rashidujjaman Rifat, Dipto Das, Dylan Thomas Doyle, Nusrat Jahan Mim, Zaidat Ibrahim, Sharifa Sultana, Estelle Smith, Jed R. Brubaker, Robert Soden, and Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed. 
  Postsecular Computing: Religious, Spiritual, and Faith-based Ethics, Politics, and Pluralism in HCI. (short paper - non archival)
  Northeast HCI Meeting 2024

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2023

• Mohammad Rashidujjaman Rifat, Ashratuz Zavin Asha, Shivesh Singh Jadon, Xinyi Yan, Shion Guha, and Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed.
  Combating Islamophobia: Compromise, Community, and Harmony in Mitigating Harmful Online Content.
  ACM Transactions on Social Computing (TSC)

• Mohammad Rashidujjaman Rifat, Ayesha Bhimdiwala, Ananya Bhattacharjee, Amna Batool, Dipto Das, Nusrat Jahan Mim, Abdullah Hasan Safir, Sharifa Sultana, Taslima Akter, Estelle Smith, Bryan Semaan, Shaimaa Lazem, Robert Soden, Michael Muller, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed.
  Many Worlds of Ethics: Ethical Pluralism in CSCW. (extended abstract)
  CSCW 2023

• Ananya Bhattacharjee, Dana Kulzhabayeva, Mohi Reza, Harsh Kumar, Eunchae Seong, Xuening Wu, Mohammad Rashidujjaman Rifat, Robert Bowman, Rachel Kornfield, Alex Mariakakis, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, Munmun De Choudhury, Gavin Doherty, Mary Czerwinski, and Joseph Jay Williams.
  Integrating Individual and Social Contexts into Self-Reflection Technologies. (extended abstract)
  CHI 2023​

• Sourav Saha, Jahedul Alam Junaed, Maryam Saleki, Arnab Sen Sharma, Mohammad Rashidujjaman Rifat, Mohamed Rahouti, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, Nabeel Mohammed, Mohammad Ruhul Amin
  Vio-Lens: A Novel Dataset of Annotated Social Network Posts Leading to Different Forms of Communal Violence and its Evaluation.
  EMNLP Workshop on Bangla Language Processing​

• Abdullah Hasan Safir, Sharifa Sultana, Mohammad Rashidujjaman Rifat, and Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed.
  Big Data and AI in the Global South. 
  Third Data Justice Conference

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2022

• Mohammad Rashidujjaman Rifat, Hasan Mahmud Prottoy, and Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed.
  Putting The Waz on the Social Media: Infrastructuring Online Islamic Counterpublic through Digital Sermons in Bangladesh.
  CHI 2022

• Mohammad Rashidujjaman Rifat, Ruhul Amin, and Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed.
  Situating Public Speaking: The Politics and Poetics of the Digital Islamic Sermons in Bangladesh.
  CSCW 2022

• Mohammad Rashidujjaman Rifat, Firaz Ahmed Peer, Hawra Rabaan, Nusrat Jahan Mim, Maryam Mustafa, Kentaro Toyama, Robert B. Markum, Elizabeth Buie, Jessica Hammer, Sharifa Sultana, Samar Sabie, and Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed.
  Integrating Religion, Faith, and Spirituality in HCI. (extended abstract)
  CHI 2022

• Sharifa Sultana, Mohammad Rashidujjaman Rifat, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, Ranjit Singh, Julian Posada, Azra Ismail, Yousif Hassan, Seyram Avle, Nithya Sambasivan, Rajesh Veeraraghavan, Priyank Chandra, and Rafael Grohmann.
  Big Data and AI in the Global South. (extended abstract)
  FAccT 2022

• Mohammad Rashidujjaman Rifat, Ashratuz Zavin Asha, Shivesh Jadon, Xinyi Yan, and Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed.
  Detecting and Mitigating Islamophobic Posts Online.
  CHI 2022 Workshop on Integrating Religion, Faith, and Spirituality in HCI.

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2021

• Mohammad Rashidujjaman Rifat, Mahiratul Jannat, Mahdi Nasrullah Al-Ameen, S M Taiabul Haque, Muhammad Ashad Kabir, and Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed.
  Purdah, Amanah, and Gheebat: Understanding Privacy in Bangladeshi "pious" Muslim Communities.
  COMPASS 2021

• Rayhan Rashed, Mohammad Rashidujjaman Rifat, and Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed.
  Pandemic, Repair, and Resilience: Coping with Technology Breakdown during COVID-19.
  COMPASS 2021

• Firaz Peer, Nusrat Jahan Mim, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, Mohammad Rashidujjaman Rifat, Maryam Mustafa, and Hawra Rabaan.

       Technology Needs for the Muslim Communities Around the World.

       4SOnline

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2020

• Mohammad Rashidujjaman Rifat, Toha Toriq, and Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed.
  Religion and Sustainability: Lessons of Sustainable Computing from Islamic Religious Communities.
  CSCW 2020

• Yan Wang, Andrea Peris, Mohammad Rashidujjaman Rifat, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, Nirupam Aich, Linh V. Nguyen, Jakub Urík, Ethel Eljarrat, Branislav Vrana, Liisa M. Jantunen, Miriam L. Diamond.
  Measuring exposure of e-waste dismantlers in Dhaka Bangladesh to organophosphate esters and halogenated flame retardants using silicone wristbands and T-shirts.
  In Science of the Total Environment (STOTEN).

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2019

• Mohammad Rashidujjaman Rifat, Hasan Mahmud Prottoy, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed.
  The Breaking Hand: Knowledge, Care, and Sufferings of the Hand of an Electronic Waste Worker in Bangladesh.
  CHI 2019
  Best paper honorable mention award 
  Video abstract

• Yasaman Rohanifar, Mohammad Rashidujjaman Rifat, Nusrat Jahan Mim, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed.
  Ambivalence: Simultaneous Tactile Experiences of Using and Recycling Smartphones. 
  DIS 2019
  Video abstract

• Fayika Farhat Nova, Mohammad Rashidujjaman Rifat, Pratyasha Saha, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, and Shion Guha.
  Online Sexual Harassment over Anonymous Social Media in Bangladesh.
  ICTD 2019

• Mohammad Rashidujjaman Rifat, Dipto Das, Najmul Islam, and Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed.
  Social Media Celebrities in Bangladesh. 
  HCIxB at CHI 2019.

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2017

• Mohammad Rashidujjaman Rifat, Jay Chen, and Kentaro Toyama.
  Money, God, and SMS: Explorations in Supporting Social Action Through a Bangladeshi Mosque.
  CHI 2017

• Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, Md. Romael Haque, Shion Guha, Mohammad Rashidujjaman Rifat, and Nicola Dell.
  Privacy and Surveillance in the Global South: A Study of Biometric Mobile Registration in Bangladesh.
  CHI 2017

• Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, Shion Guha, Md. Rashidujjaman Rifat, Faysal Hossain, and Nicola Dell.
  Privacy Vulnerabilities in the Practices of Repairing Broken Digital Artifacts in Bangladesh.
  Information Technologies & International Development (ITID)

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2016

• Md. Rashidujjaman Rifat, Aysha Siddique, Azza Abouzied, and Jay Chen.
  From Alley to Landfill: Challenges of and Design Opportunities for Cleaning Dhaka’s Communal Trash.
  ICTD 2016

• Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, Shion Guha, Md. Rashidujjaman Rifat, Faysal Hossain, and Nicola Dell.
  Privacy in Repair: Challenges around the Broken Digital Objects in Bangladesh.
  ICTD 2016

       Best of ICTD 2016

• Shion Guha, Md. Rashidujjaman Rifat, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, and Nicola Dell.
  Privacy and Security Issues in ICTD: Research and Practice
  Development Consortium: HCI4D Across Borders at CHI 2016.

 

2015

• Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, Steven J. Jackson, and Md. Rashidujjaman Rifat.
  Learning to fix: knowledge, collaboration and mobile phone repair in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
  ICTD 2015
  ICTD Travel Grant Award

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2014

• Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, Steven J. Jackson, Nova Ahmed, Hasan Shahid Ferdous, Md. Rashidujjaman Rifat, A. S. M. Rizvi, Shamir Ahmed, and Rifat Sabbir Mansur.
  Protibadi: a platform for fighting sexual harassment in urban Bangladesh.
  CHI 2014

• Steven J. Jackson, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, and Md. Rashidujjaman Rifat.
  Learning, innovation, and sustainability among mobile phone repairers in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
  DIS 2014

• Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, Shion Guha, Md. Rashidujjaman Rifat.
  Privacy Concerns in Repairing. (extended abstract)
  SOUPS 2014

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2012

• Md. Rashidujjaman Rifat, Shubrami Moutushy, and Hasan Shahid Ferdous.
  A Location Based Advertisement scheme using OpenStreetMap.
  ICCIT 2012

• Hasan Shahid Ferdous, Farhana Murtaza Choudhury, Md. Rashidujjaman Rifat, and Shubrami Moutushy.
  Usability analysis of e-Governance services in Bangladesh—A survey and future directions.
  ICCIT 2012

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2011

• Md. Rashidujjaman Rifat, Shubrami Moutushy, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, and Hasan Shahid Ferdous.
  Location based Information system using OpenStreetMap.
  SCOReD 2011

• Ridwanur Rahman, Md. Rashidujjaman Rifat, Shubrami Moutushy, and Hasan Shahid Ferdous.
  Toward a customizable effective patient management system for ensuring quality medical service.
  SCOReD 2011