most citedEmotional Support with Conversational AI: Talking to Machines About Life

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cs.HC2026

"You Can't Just Automate It": Negotiating and Sustaining a "Good" Family Life Through Energy Practices

Yang Hong, Ying-Yu Chen, Wei-Chien Chang +2

This study examines how Taiwanese parent-child families negotiate a "good" family life through everyday energy use and imagine future smart homes that support it. We conducted in-h…

cs.HC2026

Making Fragmented Reports Legible: Finding Patterns and Perceptions of Sexual Violence in Bangladesh

Sheherjan Haq, Sharifa Sultana

Evidence about sexual violence in Bangladesh is fragmented across individual reports, while official and civil-society statistics rarely provide reusable case-level detail. We exam…

cs.CY2026

Beyond PUE: A Local Impact Audit Framework for Data Center Environmental Accountability

Sharifa Sultana, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed

Standard data center sustainability metrics, including Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE), Water Usage Effectiveness (WUE), and Carbon Usage Effectiveness (CUE), measure a facility's…

cs.CL2026

BenSyc: Benchmarking Conversational Sycophancy and Human Alignment in LLMs for Bengali Contexts

Kazi Noshin, Sajib Acharjee Dip, Ranat Das Prangon +4

Large language models (LLMs) increasingly participate in emotionally sensitive social conversations, where responses may shift from balanced support toward excessive validation or…

cs.CL2026

Evaluating LLMs' Effectiveness on Real-World Consumer Device Repair Questions

Atm Mizanur Rahman, Md Arid Hasan, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed +1

Consumer device repair is an important but underexplored testbed for large language models (LLMs). Repair tasks require reasoning over incomplete problem descriptions, hardware-spe…

cs.HC2026

'OpenBloom': A Stigma-Sensitive LLM Design Probe for Navigating Reproductive Well-being Conversations with Young Adults

Yang Hong, Ashley Hua, Adya Daruka +1

The growing use of large language models (LLMs) by young adults seeking sensitive health information has raised important questions in Human-AI Interaction about how these systems…

cs.CL2026

When English Rewrites Local Knowledge: Global Narrative Dominance in Large Language Models

Md Arid Hasan, Ruwad Naswan, Farhan Samir +2

Large language models (LLMs) are widely used as cross-lingual knowledge interfaces. However, culturally grounded questions often reflect globally dominant narratives rather than lo…

cs.HC2026

When Data Protection Fails to Protect: Law, Power, and Postcolonial Governance in Bangladesh

Pratyasha Saha, Anita Say Chan, Sharifa Sultana

Rapid digitization across government services, financial platforms, and telecommunications has intensified the collection and processing of large scale personal data in Bangladesh.…

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Emotional Support with Conversational AI: Talking to Machines About Life

Olivia Yan Huang, Monika Stodolska, Sharifa Sultana

AI companion chatbots are increasingly used for emotional support, with prior work in the domain predominantly documenting their mixed psychosocial impacts, including both increase…

cs.HC2026

Embodying Facts, Figures, and Faiths in Narrative Artistic Performances in Rural Bangladesh

Sharifa Sultana, Zinnat Sultana, Jeffrey M. Rzeszotarski +1

There is an increasing interest in telling serious stories with data. Designers organize information, construct narratives, and present findings to inform audiences. However, many…

cs.HC2026

The Illusion of Agreement with ChatGPT: Sycophancy and Beyond

Kazi Noshin, Sharifa Sultana

While concerns about ChatGPT-induced harms due to sycophancy and other behaviors, including gaslighting, have grown among researchers, how users themselves experience and mitigate…

cs.HC2026

"OpenBloom": A Question-Based LLM Tool to Support Stigma Reduction in Reproductive Well-Being

Ashley Hua, Adya Daruka, Yang Hong +1

Reproductive well-being education remains widely stigmatized across diverse cultural contexts, constraining how individuals access and interpret reproductive health knowledge. We d…

cs.HC2025

From Literature to ReWA: Discussing Reproductive Well-being in HCI

Hafsah Mahzabin Chowdhury, Sharifa Sultana

Reproductive well-being is shaped by intersecting cultural, religious, gendered, and political contexts, yet current technologies often reflect narrow, Western-centric assumptions.…

cs.HC2025

`Socheton': A Culturally Appropriate AI Tool to Support Reproductive Well-being

Sharifa Sultana, Hafsah Mahzabin Chowdhury, Zinnat Sultana +1

Reproductive well-being education in the Global South is often challenged as many communities perceive many of its contents as misinformation, misconceptions, and language-inapprop…