% Publications of Sehrish Basir Nizamani @inproceedings{donekalchandrashekar2027they, author = {Donekal Chandrashekar, Nikitha and Ellis, Margaret and Nizamani, Sehrish Basir and Ramakrishnan, Naren}, title = {{Who (or what) are they prompting? How CS students conceptualize and use LLMs}}, booktitle = {ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE TS 2027)}, year = {2027}, note = {Accepted} } @inproceedings{goyal2026still, author = {Goyal, Khyati and Zeiw, Zannah and Arora, Svastik and Endlaw, Shriya and Das, Sweta and Nizamani, Sehrish Basir}, title = {{Are you still the same user? Evaluating the consistency of large language models as simulated stakeholders in iterative design}}, booktitle = {Artificial Intelligence in HCI (HCII 2026), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 16745, Springer}, year = {2026}, pages = {436--455}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-032-30849-8_26} } @inproceedings{pathak2026llms, author = {Pathak, Maitri and Baek, Yoongi and Li, Hanru and Kayne, Jason and Nizamani, Sehrish Basir}, title = {{Can LLMs improve accessibility? Evaluating LLM detection and remediation of WCAG violations in web dashboards}}, booktitle = {FutureHCI ’26: Future of Human–Computer Interaction Workshop, Virginia Tech}, year = {2026}, note = {Accepted} } @misc{platt2026llms, author = {Platt, Nolan and Nizamani, Sehrish Basir and Tural, Alp and Tural, Elif and Nizamani, Saad and Katz, Andrew and Lee, Yoonje and Basit, Nada}, title = {{Can LLMs reason about attention? Towards zero-shot analysis of multimodal classroom behavior}}, howpublished = {arXiv preprint}, year = {2026}, eprint = {2604.03401}, archivePrefix = {arXiv} } @inproceedings{ondus2026crossing, author = {Ondus, Norah and Nizamani, Sehrish Basir}, title = {{Crossing borders, crossing risks: Understanding cybersecurity literacy needs among cross-border communities in the U.S.}}, booktitle = {FutureHCI ’26: Future of Human–Computer Interaction Workshop, Virginia Tech}, year = {2026}, note = {Accepted} } @inproceedings{ellis2026demystify, author = {Ellis, Margaret and Donekal Chandrashekar, Nikitha and Nizamani, Sehrish Basir and Farghally, Mohammed and O'Brien, Jake and Ramakrishnan, Naren}, title = {{Demystify, use, reflect, assess (DURA): An experience report on LLM integration in CS2}}, booktitle = {ACM SIGCSE Virtual 2026, Experience Report track}, year = {2026}, eprint = {2606.30908}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, note = {Accepted} } @inproceedings{donekalchandrashekar2026demystify, author = {Donekal Chandrashekar, Nikitha and Nizamani, Sehrish Basir and Ellis, Margaret and Ramakrishnan, Naren}, title = {{Demystify, use, reflect: Preparing students to be informed LLM-users}}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 57th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE TS 2026), Vol. 2, poster paper}, year = {2026}, pages = {1299--1300}, doi = {10.1145/3770761.3777319} } @article{basir2026expanded, author = {Basir, N. and Qabulio, M. and Memon, M. S. and Arain, D. N. and Nizamani, Sehrish Basir and Nizamani, S.}, title = {{Expanded entity coverage and machine-annotated pre-training for Urdu named entity recognition}}, journal = {The Asian Bulletin of Big Data Management, 6(1)}, year = {2026}, pages = {77--93} } @inproceedings{nizamani2026less, author = {Nizamani, Sehrish Basir and Zeiw, Zannah and Nizamani, S. and Goyal, Khyati}, title = {{Less deliberate in teams: Student LLM use across individual and collaborative work}}, booktitle = {ACM SIGCSE Virtual 2026, Computing Education Research track}, year = {2026}, eprint = {2606.30860}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, note = {Accepted} } @inproceedings{baek2026persona, author = {Baek, Yoongi and Tozer, Calvin and Ghimire, Aarya and Nizamani, Sehrish Basir}, title = {{Persona diversity: Comparing usability-testing outcomes across heterogeneous personas}}, booktitle = {Artificial Intelligence in HCI (HCII 2026), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 16743, Springer}, year = {2026}, pages = {262--274}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-032-30846-7_16} } @inproceedings{nizamani2026thinking, author = {Nizamani, Sehrish Basir and Donekal Chandrashekar, Nikitha and Ellis, Margaret and Ramakrishnan, Naren}, title = {{Thinking before prompting: Imparting responsible LLM use and security awareness in a CS problem-solving course}}, booktitle = {2026 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Charlotte, NC}, year = {2026}, doi = {10.18260/1-2--60967} } @inproceedings{nizamani2026understanding, author = {Nizamani, Sehrish Basir and Lee, Yoonje and Donekal Chandrashekar, Nikitha and Ellis, Margaret and Ramakrishnan, Naren}, title = {{Understanding student use of large language models across computer science subfields}}, booktitle = {IEEE Frontiers in Education (FIE 2026)}, year = {2026}, eprint = {2610.01158}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, note = {Accepted} } @inproceedings{nizamani2026virtual, author = {Nizamani, Sehrish Basir and Nizamani, S. and Goyal, Khyati and Nizamani, S. and Zeiw, Zannah}, title = {{Virtual global collaboration in data analytics and machine learning education: A mixed-methods study of asynchronous cross-border teamwork}}, booktitle = {IEEE Frontiers in Education (FIE 2026)}, year = {2026}, eprint = {2610.01147}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, note = {Accepted} } @incollection{nizamani2026everyone, author = {Nizamani, Sehrish Basir}, title = {{When everyone is “doing fine”: Rethinking belonging, honesty, and care in capstone teams}}, booktitle = {Why Belonging Matters: Exploring a Trauma-Informed Approach to Building Communities of Learning in Higher Education Classrooms, VT Publishing}, year = {2026}, note = {Accepted} } @inproceedings{nizamani2026more, author = {Nizamani, Sehrish Basir and Devaraj, Deepika and Nguyen, Tien}, title = {{When more attempts makes things worse: Check-level visualization for uncovering hidden struggle patterns in SQL learning}}, booktitle = {FutureHCI ’26: Future of Human–Computer Interaction Workshop, Virginia Tech}, year = {2026}, note = {Accepted} } @inproceedings{platt2026beyond, author = {Platt, Nolan and Nizamani, Sehrish Basir and Lee, Yoonje and Tural, Alp and Tural, Elif and Nizamani, Saad and Basit, Nada and Katz, Andrew}, title = {{WIP: Beyond manual observation: Automated analysis of student engagement while preserving privacy}}, booktitle = {IEEE Frontiers in Education (FIE 2026), Work-in-Progress track}, year = {2026}, note = {Accepted} } @inproceedings{nizamani2026dbworkout, author = {Nizamani, Sehrish Basir and Devaraj, Deepika and Nguyen, Tien and Goyal, Khyati and Nizamani, Saad and Hamouda, Sally and Goldberg, Jaren}, title = {{WIP: DBWorkout: A gamified SQL practice platform to support formative learning in database courses}}, booktitle = {IEEE Frontiers in Education (FIE 2026), Work-in-Progress track}, year = {2026}, eprint = {2610.01174}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, note = {Accepted} } @inproceedings{platt2025catching, author = {Platt, Nolan and Luchs, Ethan and Nizamani, Sehrish Basir}, title = {{Catching UX flaws in code: Leveraging LLMs to identify usability issues at the development stage}}, booktitle = {2025 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC)}, year = {2025}, pages = {152--158}, doi = {10.1109/VL-HCC65237.2025.00024} } @article{nizamani2025comparison, author = {Nizamani, Sehrish Basir and Nizamani, Saad and Basir, Nazish and Khoumbati, Khalil and Nizamani, Sarwat and Memon, Shahzad}, title = {{Comparison of cultural preferences and cultural practices in website design in Pakistan}}, journal = {Universal Access in the Information Society, 24(4)}, year = {2025}, pages = {3465--3481}, doi = {10.1007/s10209-025-01248-w} } @inproceedings{basir2025enhancing, author = {Basir, N. and Haider, G. and Arain, D. N. and Nizamani, Sehrish Basir and Nizamani, S.}, title = {{Enhancing Pashto NER using machine-labeled data and transformer-based models}}, booktitle = {2025 20th International Conference on Emerging Technologies (ICET)}, year = {2025}, pages = {1--8} } @article{nizamani2025feelsafe, author = {Nizamani, Sarwat and Shareef, Mariyam and Jamali, Abdul Samad and Kazi, Nabeel Hussain and Khan, Burhan and Nizamani, Sehrish and Rajput, Iffat}, title = {{FeelSafe: A women’s safety and security system}}, journal = {International Journal of Innovations in Science \& Technology, 7(6)}, year = {2025}, pages = {1--11} } @misc{nizamani2025heuristic, author = {Nizamani, Sehrish Basir}, title = {{Heuristic usability evaluation dataset: Human vs. LLM (GPT-4o)}}, howpublished = {Virginia Tech University Libraries (dataset)}, year = {2025}, doi = {10.7294/29042675.v1} } @article{nizamani2022methodology, author = {Nizamani, Sehrish and Khoumbati, Khalil and Nizamani, Sarwat and Memon, Shahzad and Nizamani, Saad and Laghari, Gulsher}, title = {{A methodology for domain and culture-oriented heuristics creation and validation}}, journal = {Behaviour \& Information Technology, 41(8)}, year = {2022}, pages = {1769--1795}, doi = {10.1080/0144929X.2021.1903080} } @article{khan2022prototype, author = {Khan, Burhan and Nizamani, Sehrish and Kazi, Nabeel Hussain and Nizamani, Saad and Nizamani, Sarwat}, title = {{A prototype of obstacle avoidance for autonomous vehicle}}, journal = {Iraqi Journal of Science, 63(5)}, year = {2022}, pages = {2203--2210}, doi = {10.24996/ijs.2022.63.5.33} } @article{nizamani2022heuristic, author = {Nizamani, Sehrish and Nizamani, Saad and Basir, Nazish and Laghari, Gulsher and Nizamani, Sarwat and Khoumbati, Khalil}, title = {{Heuristic evaluation vs. guideline reviews: A tale of comparing two domain usability expert’s evaluation methods}}, journal = {IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, 65(4)}, year = {2022}, pages = {516--529}, doi = {10.1109/TPC.2022.3201732} } @inproceedings{nizamani2022usability, author = {Nizamani, Sehrish and Nizamani, Saad and Nizamani, Sarwat and Basir, Nazish and Khoumbati, Khalil and Memon, Shahzad}, title = {{Usability evaluation of university websites in Pakistan through user testing}}, booktitle = {2022 International Conference on Emerging Technologies in Electronics, Computing and Communication (ICETECC), Jamshoro, Pakistan}, year = {2022}, pages = {1--6}, doi = {10.1109/ICETECC56662.2022.10069383} } @article{nizamani2021domain, author = {Nizamani, Sehrish and Nizamani, Saad and Memon, Muhammad and Nizamani, Sarwat and Memon, Shahzad}, title = {{Domain and culture-specific heuristic evaluation of the websites of universities of Pakistan}}, journal = {University of Sindh Journal of Information and Communication Technology, 5(1)}, year = {2021}, pages = {45--51} } @article{basir2021network, author = {Basir, Nazish and Memon, Bisharat and Mahesar, Abdul Waheed and Malkani, Yasir Arafat and Nizamani, Sehrish}, title = {{Network analysis of co-authorship system of the University of Sindh authors on ScienceDirect}}, journal = {University of Sindh Journal of Information and Communication Technology, 5(3)}, year = {2021}, pages = {152--157} } @article{arain2020mediumscale, author = {Arain, Danish Nazir and Basir, Nazish and Nizamani, Sehrish}, title = {{Towards medium-scale and large-scale game development using agile-based Scrum}}, journal = {University of Sindh Journal of Information and Communication Technology, 4(3)}, year = {2020}, pages = {134--138} } @article{farooque2020watero, author = {Farooque, Khurram and Ahmed, Bilal and Raza, Waqas and Kazi, Nabeel Hussain and Nizamani, Sehrish and Leghari, Mehjabeen and Nizamani, Saad and Nizamani, Sarwat}, title = {{WaterO: A smart water device}}, journal = {University of Sindh Journal of Information and Communication Technology, 4(4)}, year = {2020}, pages = {217--220} } @article{laghari2019making, author = {Laghari, Gulsher and Nizamani, Saad and Nizamani, Sehrish and Memon, Muniba and Abro, Altaf Hussain and Koondhar, Muhammad Yaqoob}, title = {{Making the software architecture explicit in Java programs to enable dynamic evolution}}, journal = {Sindh University Research Journal (Science Series), 51(3)}, year = {2019}, pages = {541--546} } @article{nizamani2019usability, author = {Nizamani, Sehrish and Khoumbati, Khalil and Nizamani, Sarwat and Memon, Shahzad and Nizamani, Saad}, title = {{Usability evaluation of the top 10 universities of Pakistan through guideline scoring}}, journal = {Sindh University Research Journal (Science Series), 51(1)}, year = {2019}, pages = {151--158} } @inproceedings{nizamani2018cultural, author = {Nizamani, Saad and Nizamani, Sehrish and Khoumbati, Khalil and Nizamani, Sarwat and Memon, Shahzad and Basir, Nazish}, title = {{Cultural preferences of Pakistan for the university website design}}, booktitle = {2018 International Conference on Information and Communication Technology for the Muslim World (ICT4M)}, year = {2018}, pages = {323--328}, doi = {10.1109/ICT4M.2018.00066} } @inproceedings{nizamani2018exploring, author = {Nizamani, Sehrish and Khoumbati, Khalil and Nizamani, Sarwat and Memon, Shahzad and Nizamani, Saad and Basir, Nazish}, title = {{Exploring the impact of cultural preferences in website design: A controlled experiment based on three university websites of Pakistan}}, booktitle = {2018 International Conference on Information and Communication Technology for the Muslim World (ICT4M)}, year = {2018}, pages = {329--334}, doi = {10.1109/ICT4M.2018.00067} } @article{dahri2018prototype, author = {Dahri, Kamran and Hassan, Z. and Laghari, Gulsher and Nizamani, Sehrish and Nizamani, Saad and Nizamani, Sarwat and Nizamani, Abdul Rehman}, title = {{Prototype smart parking system accessible via Android}}, journal = {Sindh University Research Journal (Science Series), 50(3D)}, year = {2018}, pages = {216--219} } @article{nizamani2017tdc, author = {Nizamani, Sarwat and Memon, Nasrullah and Nizamani, Sehrish and Nizamani, Saad}, title = {{TDC: Typed dependencies-based chunking model}}, journal = {Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering, 42(8)}, year = {2017}, pages = {3585--3595}, doi = {10.1007/s13369-017-2587-y} } @article{nizamani2017testing, author = {Nizamani, Sehrish and Khoumbati, Khalil and Ismaili, Imdad Ali and Nizamani, Saad and Basir, Nazish}, title = {{Testing and validating the ERP success evaluation model for higher education institutes of Pakistan}}, journal = {International Journal of Business Information Systems, 25(2)}, year = {2017}, pages = {165--191}, doi = {10.1504/IJBIS.2017.083682} } @article{dahri2016home, author = {Dahri, Kamran and Nizamani, Sehrish and Laghari, Gulsher and Nizamani, Saad and Nizamani, Sarwat}, title = {{Towards home automation system framework and design}}, journal = {Sindh University Research Journal (Science Series), 48(4)}, year = {2016}, pages = {849--854} } @article{nizamani2015efficient, author = {Nizamani, Saad and Dahri, Kamran and Nizamani, Sehrish and Nizamani, Sarwat and Laghari, Gulsher}, title = {{An efficient partitioning clustering algorithm}}, journal = {Sindh University Research Journal (Science Series), 47(1)}, year = {2015}, pages = {171--174} } @article{nizamani2015crime, author = {Nizamani, Sarwat and Memon, Nasrullah and Shah, Azhar Ali and Nizamani, Saad and Nizamani, Sehrish and Ismaili, Imdad Ali}, title = {{Crime analysis using open-source information}}, journal = {Sindh University Research Journal (Science Series), 47(4)}, year = {2015}, pages = {677--681} } @article{nizamani2015influence, author = {Nizamani, Sehrish and Khoumbati, Khalil and Ismaili, Imdad Ali and Nizamani, Saad}, title = {{Influence of top management support as an important factor for ERP implementation in higher education institutes of Pakistan}}, journal = {Sindh University Research Journal (Science Series), 47(2)}, year = {2015}, pages = {295--302} } @article{nizamani2014computational, author = {Nizamani, Sarwat and Nizamani, Saad and Nizamani, Sehrish and Ismaili, Imdad Ali}, title = {{On the computational models for the analysis of illicit activities}}, journal = {Sindh University Research Journal (Science Series), 46(4)}, year = {2014}, pages = {561--566} } @article{nizamani2013conceptual, author = {Nizamani, Sehrish and Khoumbati, Khalil and Ismaili, Imdad Ali and Nizamani, Saad}, title = {{A conceptual framework for ERP evaluation in higher educational institutes of Pakistan}}, journal = {Sindh University Research Journal (Science Series), 45(3)}, year = {2013}, pages = {596--607} }