Publications

2025

  1. CHI’25
    Voice Assistants for Health Self-Management: Designing for and with Older Adults
    Amama Mahmood, Shiye Cao, Maia Stiber, Victor Nikhil Antony, and Chien-Ming Huang
    Accepted for publication at CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2025
  2. IJHCS
    LLM-Powered Conversational Voice Assistants: Interaction Patterns, Opportunities, Challenges, and Design Guidelines
    Amama Mahmood, Junxiang Wang, Bingsheng Yao, Dakuo Wang, and Chien-Ming Huang
    International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 2025
  3. Under review
    Interruption Handling for Conversational Robots
    Shiye Cao, Jiwon Moon, Amama Mahmood, Victor Nikhil Antony, Ziang Xiao, Anqi Liu, and Chien-Ming Huang
    Under review, 2025

2024

  1. Under review
    Situated Understanding of Older Adults’ Interactions with Voice Assistants: A Month-long In-home Study
    Amama Mahmood, Junxiang Wang, and Chien-Ming Huang
    Under review, 2024
  2. AiP-AAAI FS’24
    From Our Lab to Their Homes: Learnings from Longitudinal Field Research with Older Adults
    Amama Mahmood, and Chien-Ming Huang
    AAAI Fall Symposium Series; Aging in Place, 2024
  3. CSCW’24
    Gender Biases in Error Mitigation by Voice Assistants
    Amama Mahmood, and Chien-Ming Huang
    Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 2024
  4. RSNA 2024
    Care to Explain? AI Explanation Types Differentially Impact Chest Radiograph Diagnostic Performance and Physician Trust in AI
    Drew Prinster*Amama Mahmood*, Suchi Saria, Jean Jeudy, Cheng Ting Lin, Paul H Yi, and Chien-Ming Huang
    Radiology, 2024
    *equal contribution

2023

  1. Under review
    "Mango Mango, How to Let The Lettuce Dry Without A Spinner?": Exploring User Perceptions of Using An LLM-Based Conversational Assistant Toward Cooking Partner
    Szeyi Chan, Jiachen Li, Bingsheng Yao, Amama Mahmood, Chien-Ming Huang, Holly Jimison, Elizabeth D Mynatt, and Dakuo Wang
    Major revision, 2023
  2. Under review
    "You Might Like It": How People Respond to Small Talk in Human-Robot Collaboration
    Kaitlynn Taylor Pineda, Amama Mahmood, and Chien-Ming Huang
    Under review: Human–Computer Interaction, 2023
  3. ACM TiiS
    Crowdsourcing Thumbnail Captions: Data Collection and Validation
    Carlos Aguirre, Shiye Cao, Amama Mahmood, and Chien-Ming Huang
    ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems, 2023

2022

  1. IVA’22
    Effects of rhetorical strategies and skin tones on agent persuasiveness in assisted decision-making
    Amama Mahmood, and Chien-Ming Huang
    In Proceedings of the 22nd ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, 2022
  2. CHI’22
    Owning Mistakes Sincerely: Strategies for Mitigating AI Errors
    Amama Mahmood, Jeanie W Fung, Isabel Won, and Chien-Ming Huang
    In CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2022
  3. IUI’22
    Crowdsourcing thumbnail captions via time-constrained methods
    Carlos A Aguirre, Amama Mahmood, and Chien-Ming Huang
    In Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, 2022

2021

  1. NeurIPS’21
    How mock model training enhances user perceptions of AI systems
    Amama Mahmood, Gopika Ajaykumar, and Chien-Ming Huang
    NeurIPS workshop: arXiv preprint arXiv:2111.08830, 2021

2017

  1. IJMRCAS
    SmartSIM-a virtual reality simulator for laparoscopy training using a generic physics engine
    Zohaib Amjad Khan, Nabeel Kamal, Asad Hameed, Amama Mahmood, Rida Zainab, Bushra Sadia, Shamyl Bin Mansoor, and Osman Hasan
    The International Journal of Medical Robotics and Computer Assisted Surgery, 2017
  2. EMBC’17
    Classification of multi-class motor imagery EEG using four band common spatial pattern
    Amama Mahmood, Rida Zainab, Rushda Basir Ahmad, Maryam Saeed, and Awais Mehmood Kamboh
    In 2017 39th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), 2017