Hello!
I am a postdoctoral fellow at KITE,
University Health Network, Canada.
I collaborate under the mentorship of Dr. Sharon Gabison
and Dr. Tilak Dutta
on various research initiatives, including the development of smart-based socks for the prevention and management of Diabetic Foot Ulcers (DFU),
as well as research related to pressure injury management.
I defended my doctoral thesis,
“Visualizations for Smartwatches and Fitness Trackers,”
at the AVIZ research team, INRIA, and Université Paris-Saclay,
under the supervision of Dr. Petra Isenberg.
In my thesis, I studied the challenges of designing and using micro-visualizations for pervasive and mobile data exploration.
My research focuses on the areas of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Information Visualization (InfoVis). Specifically, I am interested in designing novel wearable interfaces and exploring techniques for analyzing and visualizing personal health data on wearable devices. I combine cross-sectional, qualitative, and quantitative studies in my research efforts. These methodologies encompass survey studies, design thinking approaches, experiments on human-factor perception, interactions, and evaluations.
Publications
CHI 2022 || Proc. of the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
We present the findings of four studies related to the visualization of sleep data on wearables with two form factors: smartwatches and fitness bands. Our goal was to understand the interests, preferences, and effectiveness of different sleep visualizations by form factor... Read More
MobileHCI 2022 || Proc. of the New Trends in HCI and Sports Workshop at MobileHCI
In this paper, we reflect on our past work towards understanding how to design visualizations for fitness trackers that are used in motion... Read More
EuroVis 2022 || Posters of the European Conference on Visualization (EuroVis)
We present an analysis of the results of a full-day context-specific ideation exercise for smartwatch visualizations. Participants of the exercise created 34 sketches during a sightseeing activity. Our analysis of these sketches showed where visualizations could be applied and shown, what information needs they could target, and how data could be represented in the sightseeing context.... Read More
Book Chapter 2021 || Chapman and Hall/CRC
To discover ways to create new designs for smartwatch visualizations we explored the potential of an in-situ ideation method during a half-day group sightseeing activity in Stuttgart, Germany...... Read More
VIS 2020 || IEEE Information Visualization (VIS) Short Papers
We present the findings of a survey with 237 smartwatch wearers, and assess the types of data and representations commonly displayed on watch faces. We found a predominant display of health & fitness data, with icons accompanied by text being the most frequent representation type......Read More
Publication Summary
Year | Type | Publication |
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2024 | Conference | Alaul Islam, Tingying He, Anastasia Bezerianos, Tanja Blascheck, Bongshin Lee, Petra Isenberg (2024). Visualizing Information on Smartwatch Faces: A Review and Design Space. In ACM Interactive Surfaces and Spaces (ISS) (Under Review), pp. missing (bib) |
2023 | Conference | Tanja Blascheck, Lonni Besançon, Anastasia Bezerianos, Bongshin Lee, Alaul Islam, Tingying He, Petra Isenberg (2023). Studies of Part-to-Whole Glanceable Visualizations on Smartwatch Faces. In 2023 IEEE 16th Pacific Visualization Symposium (PacificVis), pp. 187-196. (bib) |
2022 | Conference | Alaul Islam, Tanja Blascheck, Petra Isenberg (2022). Context Specific Visualizations on Smartwatches. In Posters of the European Conference on Visualization (EuroVis), pp. . (link) (bib) |
2022 | Conference | Alaul Islam, Ranjini Aravind, Tanja Blascheck, Anastasia Bezerianos, Petra Isenberg (2022). Preferences and Effectiveness of Sleep Data Visualizations for Smartwatches and Fitness Bands. In Proceedings of the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 1–17. (link) (bib) |
2021 | In Collection | Sheelagh Carpendale, Petra Isenberg, Charles Perin, Tanja Blascheck, Foroozan Daneshzand, Alaul Islam, Katherine Currier, Peter Buk, Victor Cheung, Lien Quach, Laton Vermette (2021). Mobile Visualization Design: An Ideation Method to Try. In Mobile Data Visualization, pp. 241-261. (link) (bib) |
2020 | Conference | Alaul Islam, Anastasia Bezerianos, Bongshin Lee, Tanja Blascheck, Petra Isenberg (2020). Visualizing Information on Watch Faces: A Survey with Smartwatch Users. In Proceedings of the IEEE Visualization Conference – Short Papers, pp. 156-160. (link) (bib) |
EDUCATION
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Ph.D. Student
2019 - 2023INRIA & Université Paris-Saclay
Paris-Saclay, France
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Data Science Summer School
July 2022 - August 2022Colchester, England
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Master's in Human-Computer Interaction
2018 - 2019Paris-Saclay, France
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MSc in Computer Science
2015 - 2016United International University
Dhaka, Bangladesh
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BSc in Computer Science & Engineering
2009 - 2013Ahsanullah University of Science & Technology
Dhaka, Bangladesh
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Higher Secondary School
2006 - 2008Dhaka, Bangladesh
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Secondary School
2001 - 2005Kachua Govt. Pilot High School
Chandpur, Bangladesh
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
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Visiting Researcher
June 2022 - July 2022Dresden University of Technology, Germany
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Invited Talk
July 2022Dresden Talks on Interaction & Visualization
Dresden University of Technology, Germany
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Supervising a Master's student internship
March 2021 - August 2021Paris-Saclay, France
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Research Intern
March 2019 - August 2019CEA (French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission) Tech
Toulouse, France
JOB EXPERIENCE
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Associate Senior Programmer
2017 - 2018Dhaka, Bangladesh
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Software Engineer
2016 - 2017National Development Engineers Ltd.
Dhaka, Bangladesh
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Web Application Developer
2014 - 2016Dhaka, Bangladesh
Volunteer Experience
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PhD Students Representative
2020 - 2021ED-STIC (Pole B) , Université Paris-Saclay
Paris-Saclay, France
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Event coordinator
May 2020 - December 2020CARaDOC , Université Paris-Saclay
Paris-Saclay, France
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Student Volunteer
2020 - 2022IEEE VIS (2020, 2021), EuroVis 2022
Virtual, Italy
Favourite Class Projects

Smartwatch Interaction
This prototype shows two modalities of interaction with a smartwatch visualization; specifically, it shows how to interact with a bar chart for time series data on a smartwatch display. I designed and developed the prototype for the InfoVis course project at Université Paris-Saclay in 2020.

3D Point Cloud Interaction
During my master thesis internship at CEA Tech, Toulouse, I proposed and implemented four selection techniques for the 3D point cloud data selection. This project was part of CEA in collaboration with the cyber security department.

Gender Project
This is an Augmented Reality based fun project; accomplished for the HCI Exhibition 2019, Université Paris-Saclay. Basically, we showed social pressure on gender preferences using AR and tablet-based interactions.

AR Based Shopping Experience
This AR-based prototype is for real-time collaborative shopping. This was also a fun project for CSCW coursework at the Université Paris-Saclay HCI master's program.

Interactive Map Ideation
Video Prototype "Reify people's physical real-time locations on a whereabouts clock".