Publications
Refereed Journal and Conference Papers
Taslima Akter, Aparajita Marathe, Darren Gergle, and Anne Marie Piper, Beyond Accessibility: Understanding the Ease of Use and Impacts of Digital Collaboration Tools for Blind and Low Vision Workers. To appear in ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '25).
Taslima Akter, Manohar Swaminathan, and Apu Kapadia, Toward Effective Communication of AI-Based Decisions in Assistive Tools: Conveying Confidence or Doubt to People with Visual Impairments at Accelerated Speech (Best paper candidate). 21st International Web for All Conference (W4A '24).
Taslima Akter, Yoonha Cha, Isabela Figueira, Stacy Branham, and Anne Marie Piper, "If I’m supposed to be the facilitator, I should be the host": Understanding the Accessibility of Videoconferencing for Blind and Low Vision Meeting Facilitators. ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '23).
Taslima Akter, Reducing Privacy Risks of Visually Impaired People with Camera-Based Assistive Technologies. Dissertation, Indiana University, 2022.
Sabid Bin Habib Pias, Imtiaz Ahmad, Taslima Akter, Apu Kapadia, and Adam J. Lee, Decaying Photos for Enhanced Privacy: User Perceptions Towards Temporal Redactions and 'Trusted' Platforms. ACM Journal: Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW ‘22).
Imtiaz Ahmad, Taslima Akter, Zachary Buher, Rosta Farzan, Apu Kapadia, and Adam J. Lee, Tangible Privacy for Smart Voice Assistants: Bystanders' Perceptions of Physical Device Controls. ACM Journal: Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW ‘22).
Taslima Akter, Tousif Ahmed, Apu Kapadia, and Manohar Swaminathan, Shared Privacy Concerns of the Visually Impaired and Sighted Bystanders with Camera Based Assistive Technologies. ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing (TACCESS '22).
Taslima Akter, Privacy Considerations of the Visually Impaired with Camera Based Assistive Tools. CSCW '20 Companion : Conference Companion Publication of the 2020 on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, October 2020.
Taslima Akter, Tousif Ahmed, Apu Kapadia, and Manohar Swaminathan, Privacy Considerations of the Visually Impaired with Camera Based Assistive Technologies: Misrepresentation, Impropriety, and Fairness. In The 22nd International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '20), Athens, Greece, October 2020.
Taslima Akter, Bryan Dosono, Tousif Ahmed, Apu Kapadia, and Bryan Semaan, "I am uncomfortable sharing what I can't see": Privacy Concerns of the Visually Impaired with Camera Based Assistive Applications. In the Proceedings of 29th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security '20), Boston, USA, August 2020.
Bryan Dosono, Yasmeen Rashidi, Taslima Akter, Bryan Semaan, and Apu Kapadia, Challenges in Transitioning from Civil to Military Culture: Hyper-Selective Disclosure through ICTs. Proceedings of the ACM Journal: Human-Computer Interaction: Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (PACM '17/CSCW '18), Vol. 1, No. 2, Article 41, 2017.
Hafsa Zannat, Taslima Akter, Mashrura Tasnim, and Ashikur Rahman, The coverage problem in visual sensor networks: A target oriented approach. Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Vol 75 (2016): 1-15.
Novia Nurain, Taslima Akter, Hafsa Zannat, Most. Monira Akter, A. B. M. Alim Al Islam and Md. Humayun Kabir, General-Purpose Multi-Objective Vertical Hand-off Mechanism Exploiting Network Dynamics. IEEE International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob), 2015, Abu Dhabi, UAE.
Workshop Papers and Posters
Sabid Bin Habib Pias, Alicia Freel, Timothy Trammel, Taslima Akter , Donald Williamson, Apu Kapadia The Drawback of Insight: Detailed Explanations Can Reduce Agreement with XAI. ACM CHI 2024 Workshop on Human-Centered Explainable AI (HCXAI), 2024.
Taslima Akter, Bryan Dosono, Tousif Ahmed, Apu Kapadia, and Bryan Semaan, AI vs Human Intelligence: Privacy Implications of Assistive Tools for Visually Impaired People. Grace Hopper Conference (GHC), 2019.
Taslima Akter, Bryan Dosono, Tousif Ahmed, Apu Kapadia, and Bryan Semaan, Privacy Implications of Assistive Tools for Visually Impaired People. Symposium On Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS), 2019.
Taslima Akter, Bryan Dosono, Tousif Ahmed, Apu Kapadia, and Bryan Semaan, Privacy Implications of Artificial and Human Intelligence Assistive Tools for Visually Impaired People. AI-HCI, CHI, 2019.
Taslima Akter, Bryan Dosono, Tousif Ahmed, Apu Kapadia, and Bryan Semaan, Privacy Concerns of People with Visual Impairments while Using Camera-based Assistive Technologies. CRA-W Grad Cohort workshop, 2019.
Taslima Akter, Bryan Dosono, Yasmeen Rashidi, Bryan Semaan, and Apu Kapadia, Challenges in Transitioning from Civil to Military Culture: Hyper-Selective Disclosure through ICTs. Midwest Security Workshop (MSW), 2018.
Taslima Akter, Tousif Ahmed, Kay Connelly, David Crandall, and Apu Kapadia, Privacy Risks of Using Camera Assisted Tools for People with Visual Impairments. The Bright and Dark Sides of Computer Vision: Challenges and Opportunities for Privacy and Security (CV-COPS), 2017, Hawaii, USA.
Hafsa Zannat, Monira Akter, Taslima Akter and A. B. M. Alim Al Islam, MOVH: General Purpose Multi-Objective Vertical Hand-off Mechanism with Higher Scalability and Higher Stability. Workshop on Mobile Computing and Human-Computer Interaction (MoHCI), 2014, Dhaka, Bangladesh.