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Journal Articles

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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Conference Papers

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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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 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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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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