Rahat Jahangir Rony
Research student, School of Computer Science and Informatics
- ronyr@cardiff.ac.uk
- +44(0)7311249074
- 2.36, HCC Lab, Abacws, Senghennydd Road, Cathays, Cardiff, CF24 4AG
Overview
I am Rahat Jahangir Rony, Ph.D. Student and Researcher in Computer Science and Informatics at Cardiff University under the supervision of Dr. Katarzyna, Dr. Nervo, and Dr. Valerie.
I am also an affiliated researcher (external) in Design Inclusion and Access Lab (DIAL) at North South University. I worked as a Research Assistant of Dr. Nova Ahmed, Professor, ECE Dept., NSU, Bangladesh, and still working with her. Also, I worked as a RA at BRAC University. I have nearly five years of research experience in HCI. I have worked as a Researcher on funded research projects by Gates Foundation, Google, UKRI & GCRF. I have completed my Bachelor's in Electrical Engineering from North South University, Bangladesh. I also have a small research firm, "Methopoth Ltd.: Reaching to the People," based in Bangladesh.
Treasurer: Dhaka ACM SIGCHI Chapter (September 1, 2019 - August 30, 2023)
Organizer:
- ACM SIGCHI Workshop on Introduction to HCI Research World (July, 2022)
- ACM SIGCHI Virtual Summer School on Research Methodologies: CHI and CSCW (June 2020)
- ACM SIGCHI Winter School on How to Write a Research Paper for CHI 2021, Bangladesh (November 2019)
- ACM SIGCHI Summer School on Research Methods in Human-Computer Interaction: Building Bangladesh's Future HCI Professionals, Bangladesh (March 2019)
- Workshop on Privacy: Privacy and Pandemic in South Asia: Work from Home Culture, Class and Domestic Space. IndiaHCI 2020
- Workshop on Teaching HCI in South Asia: Designing inclusive HCI Curriculum. IndiaHCI 2020
Research
Research interests
My research interest includes Human-Computer Interaction and ICT4D
Few notable projects:
- Intersection of Gender and Technology in Bangladesh (Gates Foundation: 2020-2022)
- Developing Affordable Wearables for Upper-limb Function Rehabilitation in Bangladesh ( GCRF-UKRI: 2021-2022)
- Digital RMG Mapping in Bangladesh (2020)
- Assessment of the Driving Behavior and Stress in Multi-modal Road Culture in Developing Countries (2016-2018)
- Development of the Wearable Security for Women Against Sexual Harassment (2016-2018)
- Google Gender and Technology Research in Bangladesh (Google: 2017)
- Cyber Security, Privacy Concerns, and Data Breach (2018-2019)
Thesis
Exploring the Opportunities of Low-cost wearable for Upper-Limb Rehabilitation for the Low income Communities in Bangladesh and Wales in the UK
This project aims to explore the landscape of upper-limb rehabilitation for stroke patients and come up with possible, affordable, and accessible wearable options to aid ULR for both patients in Wales and Bangladesh.
Funding source
Cardiff University COMSC
Supervisors
Professor Valerie Sparkes
Interim Professional Head: Physiotherapy / Director: Biomechanics and Bioengineering Research Centre Versus Arthritis
Publications
2022
- Ahmed, M. S. et al. 2022. A low-cost wearable system to support upper limb rehabilitation in resource-constrained settings. Presented at: EAI PervasiveHealth 2022 - 16th EAI International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare, Thessaloniki, Greece, 12-14 December 2022.
- Rony, R. J., Sinha, A., Amir, S., Khan, S. S., Saha, A., Abeer, I. A. and Ahmed, N. 2022. "I use YouTube now in COVID": understanding technology adoption of indigenous communities during COVID-19 pandemic in Bangladesh. Presented at: ACM SIGCAS/SIGCHI Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies (COMPASS), Seattle, WA, USA, 29 June - 1 July 2022Proceedings of COMPASS '22. New York, USA: Association for Computing Machinery pp. 596–602., (10.1145/3530190.3534847)
- Ahmed, N. et al. 2022. Risk communication during COVID-19 pandemic: impacting women in Bangladesh. Frontiers in Communication 7, article number: 878050. (10.3389/fcomm.2022.878050)
2021
- Rony, R. J., Shabnam Khan, S., Sinha, A., Saha, A. and Ahmed, N. 2021. "COVID has made everyone digital and digitally independent": understanding working women's DFS and technology adoption during COVID pandemic in Bangladesh. Presented at: Asian CHI Symposium, Yokohama, Japan, 8-13 May 2021Proceedings of Asian CHI Symposium. New York, USA: Association for Computing Machinery pp. 202–209., (10.1145/3429360.3468212)
- Ahmed, M. S., Rony, R. J. and Ahmed, N. 2021. Identifying high and low academic result holders through smartphone usage data. Presented at: Asian CHI Symposium, Yokohama, Japan, 8-13 May 2021Proceedings of Asian CHI Symposium. New York, USA: Association for Computing Machinery pp. 114–121., (10.1145/3429360.3468192)
- Ahmed, N. and Rony, R. J. 2021. Understanding self-reported stress among drivers and designing stress monitor using heart rate variability. Quality and User Experience 6(1), article number: 4. (10.1007/s41233-020-00043-0)
2020
- Ahmed, M. S., Rony, R. J., Ashhab, M. M. and Ahmed, N. 2020. An empirical study to analyze the impact of instagram on students' academic results. Presented at: 2020 IEEE Region 10 Symposium (TENSYMP), Dhaka, Bangladesh, 05-07 June 20202020 IEEE Region 10 Symposium (TENSYMP). IEEE, (10.1109/TENSYMP50017.2020.9230945)
- Ahmed, M. S., Rony, R. J., Hasan, T. and Ahmed, N. 2020. Smartphone usage behavior between depressed and non-depressed students. Presented at: UbiComp-ISWC '20: Adjunct Proceedings of the 2020 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of the 2020 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers, Mexico, 12-17 September 2020UbiComp-ISWC '20: Adjunct Proceedings of the 2020 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of the 2020 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers. ACM pp. 675-679., (10.1145/3410530.3414441)
- Rony, R. J. and Ahmed, N. 2020. Development of a low cost wearable with mobile sensing to monitor driving stress through HRV. Presented at: AsianCHI '20: Proceedings of the 2020 Symposium on Emerging Research from Asia and on Asian Contexts and Cultures, Mexico, 25 April 2020AsianCHI '20: Proceedings of the 2020 Symposium on Emerging Research from Asia and on Asian Contexts and Cultures. ACM pp. 37-40., (10.1145/3391203.3391213)
- Hossain, M., Mahmood, A., Rahman, M. R., Rahman, S., Rony, R. J. and Ahmed, N. 2020. Kotha Bondhu. Presented at: AsianCHI '20: Proceedings of the 2020 Symposium on Emerging Research from Asia and on Asian Contexts and Cultures, Honolulu, USA, 25 April 2020AsianCHI '20: Proceedings of the 2020 Symposium on Emerging Research from Asia and on Asian Contexts and Cultures. ACM pp. 21-24., (10.1145/3391203.3391208)
- Ahmed, N., Rony, R. J. and Zaman, K. T. 2020. Design thinking around Covid-19. Interactions 27(4) (10.1145/3406034)
- Ahmed, N., Rony, R. J. and Tuz Zaman, K. 2020. Social distancing challenges for marginal communities during COVID-19 pandemic in Bangladesh. Journal of Biomedical Analytics 3(2), pp. 5-14. (10.30577/jba.v3i2.45)
2019
- Ahmed, N. et al. Mahmood, Z. ed. 2019. Ambient intelligence in systems to support wellbeing of drivers. Computer Communications and Networks. Springer Nature. (10.1007/978-3-030-04173-1_10)