Md Habibullah Bin Ismail

Md Habibullah Bin Ismail

London, England, United Kingdom
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About

Love learning and playing with new technologies.

Experience

  • Amazon Graphic

    Amazon

    London, United Kingdom

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    Singapore

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    Singapore

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    Dhaka, Bangladesh

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    Dhaka, Bangladesh

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    Human-Computer Interaction Lab

Education

Volunteer Experience

  • Co-Founder & Advisor

    Creative Circle

    - Present 14 years 4 months

    Education

    For the welfare of the students of Bhola, Bangladesh, with some friends I founded an organization named CREATIVE CIRCLE back in 2011. The motto of our organization is to help the student of Bhola for their better schooling and better performance in future.

  • Member

    Badhon

    - 1 year 2 months

    Social Services

    Badhon is a blood donation organization. My responsibility was to find the donor if someone needs blood.

Publications

  • Suhrid: A Collaborative Mobile Phone Interface for Low Literate People

    ACM DEV

    The design of accessible mobile phone interfaces for low literate people usually assumes an individual model of use, and are often limited by the low technical expertise and/or cognitive ability of users in marginal communities of developing countries. Drawing on previous ICTD scholarship around shared and intermediated use of technology and our own ethnographic field study, we introduce a collaborative model of use in the design of Suhrid, a mobile phone interface that helps low literate users…

    The design of accessible mobile phone interfaces for low literate people usually assumes an individual model of use, and are often limited by the low technical expertise and/or cognitive ability of users in marginal communities of developing countries. Drawing on previous ICTD scholarship around shared and intermediated use of technology and our own ethnographic field study, we introduce a collaborative model of use in the design of Suhrid, a mobile phone interface that helps low literate users perform common phone tasks by receiving remote help from higher-literacy members of their community. The results of our six week long deployment of Suhrid among 10 low literate rickshaw pullers in Dhaka, Bangladesh, indicate the potential of collaborative use models to help low-literate people more effectively use mobile phones while strengthening bonds between them and the people in their community who provide help.

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  • Collaborative Mobile Phone Interface for Users with Low Literacy[Demo]

    MoHCI 2014

    A number of technical solutions have been proposed, which involve audio or graphic assistances from to help illiterate user to operate mobile phone. We extend this research, but in a novel direction, where we bring collaborative support from the social peers within the mobile phone interface to assist the users. Based on our six months of ethnographic fieldwork on a Rickshawpuller community in Dhaka, instead of considering the use of mobile phone as an individual consumption of technology, we…

    A number of technical solutions have been proposed, which involve audio or graphic assistances from to help illiterate user to operate mobile phone. We extend this research, but in a novel direction, where we bring collaborative support from the social peers within the mobile phone interface to assist the users. Based on our six months of ethnographic fieldwork on a Rickshawpuller community in Dhaka, instead of considering the use of mobile phone as an individual consumption of technology, we considered it as a social process of getting services, where people collaborate with each other. Based on our observation, we design an application which would help illiterate users to place call and save contact number via help of their social collaborators. Our design intervention also received positive feedback in the field study on the same community.

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  • Ecologies of Use and Design: Individual and Social Uses of Mobile Phones Within Low-Literate Rickshaw-Puller Communities in Urban Bangladesh

    ACM

    Making technology accessible to low literate users and communities is an important challenge of ICTD research and practice. Past work in the field has addressed the problem of effective UI (User Interface) design under low literacy conditions, exploring graphic or audio alternatives to text-centered interfaces on the basis of studies that take individual users and user-interface interactions as their central unit of analysis. Our study complements this work through an alternative 'ecological'…

    Making technology accessible to low literate users and communities is an important challenge of ICTD research and practice. Past work in the field has addressed the problem of effective UI (User Interface) design under low literacy conditions, exploring graphic or audio alternatives to text-centered interfaces on the basis of studies that take individual users and user-interface interactions as their central unit of analysis. Our study complements this work through an alternative 'ecological' model, in which literacy-based barriers to technology use are encountered not by individual users but embedded social actors who draw on external networks, resources, and infrastructures to manage the problems that literacy poses. Based on a six month ethnographic study of mobile phone use within a low-literate rickshawpuller community in Dhaka, Bangladesh, we explore the literacy-based barriers to use experienced by our study population, and the external networks and connections that users draw on to work around such barriers. We conclude with design and wider research recommendations that may expand the toolkit of researchers seeking to better address these and other ICTD problems.

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  • Incorporating Collaboration into the Design of Mobile Phones for the People with Low Literacy

    ICCIT-HAT 2013

    The ubiquitous nature of the services of mobile phones has made it popular in most places in the world. Many operations of mobile phones often require the users to read and understand from the displays and keypads. This creates an obstacle for the people with low literacy (illiterate or semi-literate) toward getting the full services from their mobile phones. A number of technical solutions have been proposed in the literature, which involve audio or graphic assistances from the device to help…

    The ubiquitous nature of the services of mobile phones has made it popular in most places in the world. Many operations of mobile phones often require the users to read and understand from the displays and keypads. This creates an obstacle for the people with low literacy (illiterate or semi-literate) toward getting the full services from their mobile phones. A number of technical solutions have been proposed in the literature, which involve audio or graphic assistances from the device to help the user. We extend this research but in a novel direction where we bring collaborative support from the social peers within the mobile phone interface to assist the users. Based on our six months of ethnographic fieldwork on a rickshawpuller community in Dhaka, we discovered the functions that they mostly use in their mobile phones and the way they do so. Instead of considering the use of mobile phone as an individual consumption of technology, we realized it as a social process of getting services where people collaborate with each other. Based on our observation, we propose a set of design and policy implications that would help them get better services from their mobile phones.

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Courses

  • Artificial Intelligence

    CSE401

  • Computer Graphics

    CSE409

  • Digital Image Processing

    CSE433

  • Machine Learning

    CSE471

  • Pattern Recognition

    CSE473

Projects

  • Dissemination of Rich Media Contents in Disruption-Tolerant Network

    We focus on the problem of disseminating a rich media content among the nodes in an opportunistic network efficiently. We adopt the traditional SIR model as a one-state epidemic model for the underlying mathematical foundation of our problem.

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  • Shurid: A Mobile Based Collaborative Application for Low Literate Users.

    A mobile based project which provides assistance in generating phone call and saving contact numbers exploiting the help of social peers through text message. This application was built for Android platform with specially designed Graphical User Interface for people with low-literacy.

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  • Game: Pacman

    Traditional Multilevel Pacman game using C. A framework named iGraphics was used for Graphical User Interface. Dijkstra's Algorithm is incorporated for giving AI to BOTs.
    Tools and Languages: C, iGraphics, Visual Studio 6.0

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  • Remote Desktop Sharing

    This particular application has the following features
    • connects a remote PC’s desktop with users own PC in real time.
    • Execute commands remotely
    • Handling multiple clients in parallel threads

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  • Automated BUET M.Sc and PhD Admission System

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    A web application which automatically select eligible students for admission in M.Sc. and PhD. and students also can apply using this system. It was built in PHP using CodeIgniter framework and Oracle 11g database. It was a term project under the course Database Sessional of Level: 3/Term: 1.

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  • Care24: An easy health service

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    This project consists of both a web application and an android application. This project aims to give services to patients to find doctors, health centers and make appointments. This system also includes automated history management, report and prescription system. This system was built in PHP using CodeIgniter framework, Android, and MySQL and SQLite databases. It was a term project under the course Software Development of Level: 3/Term: 2.

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Honors & Awards

  • Group Achievement Award, Database Project Show 2013

    Department of Computer Science and Engineering, BUET

    Group Achievement Award.
    Project Title: Automated BUET M.Sc and PhD Admission System.
    One of the Top Ten Projects in Database Project Show 2013 as part of CSE 304 course.

  • Intra-department Project Show, CSE Festival 2011

    Department of Computer Science and Engineering, BUET

    Champion.
    Project Title : Pacman Game

Languages

  • English

    Professional working proficiency

  • Bangla

    Native or bilingual proficiency

Organizations

  • Creative Circle

    Advisor

    - Present

    For the welfare of the students of Bhola, Bangladesh, with some friends I founded an organization named CREATIVE CIRCLE in 2011. Our motto is to help the student of Bhola for their better schooling and better performance in future.

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