Shaikh Shawon Arefin Shimon

Shaikh Shawon Arefin Shimon

CS/HCI PhD Candidate @ UWaterloo

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publications

Exploring User-Defined Back-Of-Device Gestures for Mobile Devices

Published in MobileHCI, 2015

This paper is an elicitation study exploring finger-based interaction with the back of the smartphone, which is relevant in the context of folding smartphones and smartphones with sensors enabled in the back.

Recommended citation: Shaikh Shawon Arefin Shimon, Sarah Morrison-Smith, Noah John, Ghazal Fahimi, and Jaime Ruiz. 2015. "Exploring User-Defined Back-Of-Device Gestures for Mobile Devices." In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (MobileHCI "15). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 227–232.
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Exploring Non-touchscreen Gestures for Smartwatches

Published in CHI, 2016

This paper is about an elicitation study on non-touchscreen gestures on the watch rim, band, and midair and onskin space above and around the smartwatch.

Recommended citation: Shaikh Shawon Arefin Shimon, Courtney Lutton, Zichun Xu, Sarah Morrison-Smith, Christina Boucher, and Jaime Ruiz. 2016. "Exploring Non-touchscreen Gestures for Smartwatches." In Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI "16). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 3822–3833.
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MFS Design in Appstore-enabled Smart Featurephones for Low-literate, Marginalized Communities

Published in CHI, 2023

This paper is about Mobile Financial Services (MFS) design for Smart Featurephones (like KaiOS) focused at low-literate, marginalized communities.

Recommended citation: Mohammad Rayed, Tawfique Elahi, Shaikh Shawon Arefin Shimon, and Nova Ahmed. 2023. "MFS Design in Appstore-enabled Smart Featurephones for Low-literate, Marginalized Communities." In Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI "23). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 762, 1–19.
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Exploring Uni-manual Around Ear Off-Device Gestures for Earables

Published in IMWUT, 2024

This paper is about location-based hand-to-face gesture reuse for off-device earable (i.e., Ear-mounted wearable) interaction.

Recommended citation: Shaikh Shawon Arefin Shimon, Ali Neshati, Junwei Sun, Qiang Xu, and Jian Zhao. 2024. "Exploring Uni-manual Around Ear Off-Device Gestures for Earables." Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol. 8, 1, Article 3 (March 2024), 29 pages.
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Exploring Above-neck Unimanual Swipe Gestures for Off-Device Earable Interaction

Published in Graphics Interface, 2026

This paper is about shape, orientation and contortion-based reuse of cross-region swipe gestures for off-device earable (i.e., Ear-mounted wearable) interaction.

Recommended citation: Shaikh Shawon Arefin Shimon and Ali Neshati and Junwei Sun and Qiang Xu and Jian Zhao. 2026. "Exploring Above-neck Unimanual Swipe Gestures for Off-Device Earable Interaction." In Proceedings of the Graphics Interface 2026 (GI "26). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 20 pages.
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talks

Exploring Non-touchscreen Gestures for Smartwatches

Published:

CHI ‘16: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Session: Fat Fingers, Small Watches

Bare-Hand Continuous VR Locomotion Using Beyond-FOV, Around-HMD Unimanual Gestures

Published:

GI ‘26: Graphics Interface 2026
Session: Posters and Demos

Exploring Above-neck Unimanual Swipe Gestures for Off-Device Earable Interaction

Published:

GI ‘26: Graphics Interface 2026
Session: Hands on Interfaces

teaching

Graduate Teaching Assistant, Colorado State University

Undergraduate courses (TA), Colorado State University, Department of Computer Science, 2014

Worked as a graduate teaching assistant during 1st year of masters program at Department of Computer Science, Colorado State University (CSU), Fort Collins, CO, USA.

Lecturer (Computer Science), North South University

Undergraduate courses (Instructor), North South University, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering (ECE), 2018

Worked as a full-time, permanent faculty of Computer Science program at ECE department, School of Engineering and Physical Sciences (SEPS), North South University, Dhaka, Bangladesh. On official leave for pursuing PhD at School of Computer Science (SCS), University of Waterloo, ON, Canada.

Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Waterloo

Undergraduate courses (TA), University of Waterloo, School of Computer Science (SCS), 2021

Worked as a graduate teaching assistant during my doctoral program at School of Computer Science (SCS), Faculty of Mathematics at University of Waterloo, ON, Canada.