Hussain Abid Syed

2023

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  Veisi, O., Du, D., Moradi, M. A., Guasselli, F. C., Athanasoulias, S., Syed, H. A., Müller, C. & Stevens, G. (2023)Designing SafeMap Based on City Infrastructure and Empirical Approach: Modified A-Star Algorithm for Earthquake Navigation Application

  Proceedings of the 1st ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Advances in Urban-AI. New York, NY, USA, Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery, Pages: 61–70 doi:10.1145/3615900.3628788
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  Designing routing systems for earthquakes requires frontend usability studies and backend algorithm modifications. Evaluations from subject-matter experts can enhance the design of both the front-end interface and the back-end algorithm of urban artificial intelligence (AI). Urban AI applications need to be trustworthy, responsible, and reliable against earthquakes, by assisting civilians to identify safe and fast routes to safe areas or health support stations. However, routes may become dangerous or obstructed as regular routing applications may fail to adapt responsively to city destruction caused by earthquakes. In this study, we modified the A-star algorithm and designed an interactive mobile app with the evaluation and insights of subject-matter experts including 15 UX designers, 7 urbanists, 8 quake survivors, and 4 first responders. Our findings reveal reducing application features and quickening application use time is necessary for stressful earthquake situations, as emerging features such as augmented reality and voice assistant may negatively backlash user experience in earthquake scenarios due to over-immersion, distracting users from real world condition. Additionally, we utilized expert insights to modify the A-star algorithm for earthquake scenarios using the following steps: 1) create a dataset based on the roads; 2) establish an empty dataset for weight; 3) enable the updating of weight based on infrastructure; and 4) allow the alteration of weight based on safety, related to human behavior. Our study provides empirical evidence on why urban AI applications for earthquakes need to adapt to the rapid speed to use and elucidate how and why the A-star algorithm is optimized for earthquake scenarios.

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  address = {New York, NY, USA},
  series = {{UrbanAI} '23},
  title = {Designing {SafeMap} {Based} on {City} {Infrastructure} and {Empirical} {Approach}: {Modified} {A}-{Star} {Algorithm} for {Earthquake} {Navigation} {Application}},
  isbn = {9798400703621},
  shorttitle = {Designing {SafeMap} {Based} on {City} {Infrastructure} and {Empirical} {Approach}},
  url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3615900.3628788},
  doi = {10.1145/3615900.3628788},
  abstract = {Designing routing systems for earthquakes requires frontend usability studies and backend algorithm modifications. Evaluations from subject-matter experts can enhance the design of both the front-end interface and the back-end algorithm of urban artificial intelligence (AI). Urban AI applications need to be trustworthy, responsible, and reliable against earthquakes, by assisting civilians to identify safe and fast routes to safe areas or health support stations. However, routes may become dangerous or obstructed as regular routing applications may fail to adapt responsively to city destruction caused by earthquakes. In this study, we modified the A-star algorithm and designed an interactive mobile app with the evaluation and insights of subject-matter experts including 15 UX designers, 7 urbanists, 8 quake survivors, and 4 first responders. Our findings reveal reducing application features and quickening application use time is necessary for stressful earthquake situations, as emerging features such as augmented reality and voice assistant may negatively backlash user experience in earthquake scenarios due to over-immersion, distracting users from real world condition. Additionally, we utilized expert insights to modify the A-star algorithm for earthquake scenarios using the following steps: 1) create a dataset based on the roads; 2) establish an empty dataset for weight; 3) enable the updating of weight based on infrastructure; and 4) allow the alteration of weight based on safety, related to human behavior. Our study provides empirical evidence on why urban AI applications for earthquakes need to adapt to the rapid speed to use and elucidate how and why the A-star algorithm is optimized for earthquake scenarios.},
  urldate = {2024-02-05},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 1st {ACM} {SIGSPATIAL} {International} {Workshop} on {Advances} in {Urban}-{AI}},
  publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
  author = {Veisi, Omid and Du, Delong and Moradi, Mohammad Amin and Guasselli, Fernanda Caroline and Athanasoulias, Sotiris and Syed, Hussain Abid and Müller, Claudia and Stevens, Gunnar},
  month = nov,
  year = {2023},
  keywords = {A-star algorithm, city infrastructure, earthquake, navigation, routing, user experience},
  pages = {61--70},
  }

2022

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  Ontika, N. N., Saßmannshausen, S. M., Syed, H. A. & Pinatti De Carvalho, A. F. (2022)Exploring Human-Centered AI in Healthcare: A Workshop Report

  IN IRSI Report, Vol. 19, Pages: 1–54
  [BibTeX] [Abstract] [Download PDF]

  As a technique of improving the quality of life, AI has the potential to take a significant part in healthcare worldwide. However, in order to facilitate the widespread use of AI systems, we must first better comprehend the influence of AI on the healthcare sector. To create an acceptable intelligent system for healthcare, a comprehensive evaluation of ethically driven design, technology that effectively addresses human intellect, and human aspects of design is required. Our two-day workshop at the European Conference on CSCW in 2022 focused on Human-centered AI in the healthcare domain. In the workshop, we brought together researchers and practitioners in health informatics to accelerate conversations about developing usable and efficient intelligent systems that are more understandable and reliable for users.

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  abstract = {As a technique of improving the quality of life, AI has the potential to take a significant part in healthcare worldwide. However, in order to facilitate the widespread use of AI systems, we must first better comprehend the influence of AI on the healthcare sector. To create an acceptable intelligent system for healthcare, a comprehensive evaluation of ethically driven design, technology that effectively addresses human intellect, and human aspects of design is required. Our two-day workshop at the European Conference on CSCW in 2022 focused on Human-centered AI in the healthcare domain. In the workshop, we brought together researchers and practitioners in health informatics to accelerate conversations about developing usable and efficient intelligent systems that are more understandable and reliable for users.},
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  author = {Ontika, Nazmun Nisat and Saßmannshausen, Sheree May and Syed, Hussain Abid and Pinatti De Carvalho, Aparecido Fabiano},
  editor = {Pipek, Volkmar and Rohde, Markus},
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  year = {2022},
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  pages = {1--54},
  }

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  Ontika, N. N., Saßmannshausen, S. M., Syed, H. A., de Carvalho, A. F. P. & Pipek, V. (2022)‪Towards Human-Centered AI: Learning from Current Practices in Radiology‬

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  @inproceedings{ontika_towards_2022,
  title = {‪{Towards} {Human}-{Centered} {AI}: {Learning} from {Current} {Practices} in {Radiology}‬},
  shorttitle = {‪{Towards} {Human}-{Centered} {AI}},
  url = {https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=de&user=3f5u4_kAAAAJ&citation_for_view=3f5u4_kAAAAJ:2osOgNQ5qMEC},
  urldate = {2022-11-15},
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  year = {2022},
  keywords = {pairads},
  }

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  Ontika, N. N., Syed, H. A., Saßmannshausen, S. M., Harper, R. H., Chen, Y., Park, S. Y., Grisot, M., Chow, A., Blaumer, N., Pinatti de Carvalho, A. F. & Pipek, V. (2022)Exploring Human-Centered AI in Healthcare: Diagnosis, Explainability, and Trust

  doi:10.48340/ecscw2022_ws06
  [BibTeX] [Abstract] [Download PDF]

  AI has become an increasingly active area of research over the past few years in healthcare. Nevertheless, not all research advancements are applicable in the field as there are only a few AI solutions that are actually deployed in medical infrastructures or actively used by medical practitioners. This can be due to various reasons as the lack of a human-centered approach for the or non-incorporation of humans in the loop. In this workshop, we aim to address the questions relevant to human-centered AI solutions associated with healthcare by exploring different human-centered approaches for designing AI systems and using image-based datasets for medical diagnosis. We aim to bring together researchers and practitioners in AI, human-computer interaction, healthcare, etc., and expedite the discussions about making usable systems that will be more comprehensible and dependable. Findings from our workshop may serve as ‘terminus a quo’ to significantly improve AI solutions for medical diagnosis.

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  title = {Exploring {Human}-{Centered} {AI} in {Healthcare}: {Diagnosis}, {Explainability}, and {Trust}},
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  shorttitle = {Exploring {Human}-{Centered} {AI} in {Healthcare}},
  url = {https://dl.eusset.eu/handle/20.500.12015/4409},
  doi = {10.48340/ecscw2022_ws06},
  abstract = {AI has become an increasingly active area of research over the past few years in healthcare. Nevertheless, not all research advancements are applicable in the field as there are only a few AI solutions that are actually deployed in medical infrastructures or actively used by medical practitioners. This can be due to various reasons as the lack of a human-centered approach for the or non-incorporation of humans in the loop. In this workshop, we aim to address the questions relevant to human-centered AI solutions associated with healthcare by exploring different human-centered approaches for designing AI systems and using image-based datasets for medical diagnosis. We aim to bring together researchers and practitioners in AI, human-computer interaction, healthcare, etc., and expedite the discussions about making usable systems that will be more comprehensible and dependable. Findings from our workshop may serve as ‘terminus a quo’ to significantly improve AI solutions for medical diagnosis.},
  language = {en},
  urldate = {2022-06-27},
  author = {Ontika, Nazmun Nisat and Syed, Hussain Abid and Saßmannshausen, Sheree May and Harper, Richard HR and Chen, Yunan and Park, Sun Young and Grisot, Miria and Chow, Astrid and Blaumer, Nils and Pinatti de Carvalho, Aparecido Fabiano and Pipek, Volkmar},
  year = {2022},
  note = {Accepted: 2022-06-22T04:34:51Z
  Publisher: European Society for Socially Embedded Technologies (EUSSET)},
  keywords = {pairads},
  }

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  Syed, H. A., Schorch, M., Pinatti de Carvalho, A. F., Rutz, P. & Pipek, V. (2022)Blending Practices to Facilitate Grounded Design Research: A Praxeological Research Perspective

  doi:10.48340/ecscw2022_n04
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  In this paper, we reflect on the experiences from two Grounded Design (GD) research projects conducted by a multidisciplinary group of researchers between 2019 – 2021 and highlight the methodological foundations and related obstacles for iterative designing. Both projects investigate the phenomena of knowledge sharing and crisis-related learning in business organizations under the GD paradigm, which has been increasingly adopted within the Computer- supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) community. During these projects, the researchers with backgrounds in computer science, business informatics, software engineering, and sociology experienced the need for systematization to transition between the stages of GD. Looking back, we realize that our teams arrived at this systematization by blending the prior knowledge from team members’ original educational backgrounds. While blending practices most likely happens intuitively in interdisciplinary projects, as is often the case of the user-centered design initiatives seen in CSCW and Human-Computer Interaction, little can be found on how this usually happens and its implications. In this paper, we respond to this literature gap by discussing how this blending can facilitate the realization of GD projects and lead to a praxeological information science research perspective, which has ‘methods appropriation’ as key to systematizing abstraction, broader traceability, and flexibility of research methods.

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  shorttitle = {Blending {Practices} to {Facilitate} {Grounded} {Design} {Research}},
  url = {https://dl.eusset.eu/handle/20.500.12015/4345},
  doi = {10.48340/ecscw2022_n04},
  abstract = {In this paper, we reflect on the experiences from two Grounded Design (GD) research projects conducted by a multidisciplinary group of researchers between 2019 – 2021 and highlight the methodological foundations and related obstacles for iterative designing. Both projects investigate the phenomena of knowledge sharing and crisis-related learning in business organizations under the GD paradigm, which has been increasingly adopted within the Computer- supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) community. During these projects, the researchers with backgrounds in computer science, business informatics, software engineering, and sociology experienced the need for systematization to transition between the stages of GD. Looking back, we realize that our teams arrived at this systematization by blending the prior knowledge from team members’ original educational backgrounds. While blending practices most likely happens intuitively in interdisciplinary projects, as is often the case of the user-centered design initiatives seen in CSCW and Human-Computer Interaction, little can be found on how this usually happens and its implications. In this paper, we respond to this literature gap by discussing how this blending can facilitate the realization of GD projects and lead to a praxeological information science research perspective, which has ‘methods appropriation’ as key to systematizing abstraction, broader traceability, and flexibility of research methods.},
  language = {en},
  urldate = {2022-06-20},
  author = {Syed, Hussain Abid and Schorch, Marén and Pinatti de Carvalho, Aparecido Fabiano and Rutz, Philipp and Pipek, Volkmar},
  year = {2022},
  note = {Accepted: 2022-06-14T07:23:54Z
  Publisher: European Society for Socially Embedded Technologies (EUSSET)},
  }

2021

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  Syed, H. A., Schorch, M., Ankenbauer, S. A., Hassan, S., Meisner, K., Stein, M., Skudelny, S., Karasti, H. & Pipek, V. (2021)Infrastructuring for organizational resilience: Experiences and perspectives for business continuity

  doi:10.18420/ecscw2021_wsmc02
  [BibTeX] [Abstract] [Download PDF]

  This workshop discusses organizational resilience and resilient infrastructures by uniting researchers, professionals, and experts from various disciplines. Workplace studies and organizational settings have always been an integral theme in computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW) research. This workshop hopes to broaden this research horizon by overlapping the multidisciplinary perspectives of resilience and crisis research with human-computer interaction (HCI), CSCW, organizational, and business studies. The COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent physical and social constraints have been detrimental to the activities of different organizations, especially to small and medium enterprises (SMEs). SMEs must recognize and search for opportunities to adapt to this crisis by developing resilient organizational infrastructures. These adaptations can be crucial to overcoming the current disruptions challenging the continued existence keeping in view the intrinsic diversification of various business and industrial sectors. How organizational infrastructures can be designed to instill resilient properties like adaptive capacity, self-adjustment and continuity? We intend to focus on bringing this discussion under the umbrella of CSCW to explore the potentials of collaboration and cooperative work in organizational infrastructure. Through this workshop, we offer research prospects by applying organizational resilience theories to study organizational infrastructure and infrastructuring activities, which can be used for their prospective transformations into resilient infrastructures.

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  title = {Infrastructuring for organizational resilience: {Experiences} and perspectives for business continuity},
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  shorttitle = {Infrastructuring for organizational resilience},
  url = {https://dl.eusset.eu/handle/20.500.12015/4133},
  doi = {10.18420/ecscw2021_wsmc02},
  abstract = {This workshop discusses organizational resilience and resilient infrastructures by uniting researchers, professionals, and experts from various disciplines. Workplace studies and organizational settings have always been an integral theme in computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW) research. This workshop hopes to broaden this research horizon by overlapping the multidisciplinary perspectives of resilience and crisis research with human-computer interaction (HCI), CSCW, organizational, and business studies. The COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent physical and social constraints have been detrimental to the activities of different organizations, especially to small and medium enterprises (SMEs). SMEs must recognize and search for opportunities to adapt to this crisis by developing resilient organizational infrastructures. These adaptations can be crucial to overcoming the current disruptions challenging the continued existence keeping in view the intrinsic diversification of various business and industrial sectors. How organizational infrastructures can be designed to instill resilient properties like adaptive capacity, self-adjustment and continuity? We intend to focus on bringing this discussion under the umbrella of CSCW to explore the potentials of collaboration and cooperative work in organizational infrastructure. Through this workshop, we offer research prospects by applying organizational resilience theories to study organizational infrastructure and infrastructuring activities, which can be used for their prospective transformations into resilient infrastructures.},
  language = {en},
  urldate = {2021-04-15},
  author = {Syed, Hussain Abid and Schorch, Marén and Ankenbauer, Sam Addison and Hassan, Sohaib and Meisner, Konrad and Stein, Martin and Skudelny, Sascha and Karasti, Helena and Pipek, Volkmar},
  year = {2021},
  annote = {Accepted: 2021-03-18T22:35:23Z Publisher: European Society for Socially Embedded Technologies (EUSSET)},
  }

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  Syed, H. A. & Schorch, M. (2021)Infrastructuring for organizational resilience: A Workshop Report

  IN Pipek, V. & Rohde, M. (Eds.), Infrastructuring for Organizational Resilience: A workshop report Bonn, Germany
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  @incollection{syed_infrastructuring_2021-1,
  address = {Bonn, Germany},
  series = {International reports on socio-informatics},
  title = {Infrastructuring for organizational resilience: {A} {Workshop} {Report}},
  volume = {1},
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  author = {Syed, Hussain Abid and Schorch, Marén},
  editor = {Pipek, Volkmar and Rohde, Markus},
  year = {2021},
  pages = {4--14},
  }

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  Syed, H. A., Schorch, M., Ankenbauer, S. A., Hassan, S., Meisner, K., Stein, M., Skudelny, S., Karasti, H. & Pipek, V. (2021)Infrastructuring for organizational resilience: Experiences and perspectives for business continuity

  doi:10.18420/ecscw2021_wsmc02
  [BibTeX] [Abstract] [Download PDF]

  This workshop discusses organizational resilience and resilient infrastructures by uniting researchers, professionals, and experts from various disciplines. Workplace studies and organizational settings have always been an integral theme in computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW) research. This workshop hopes to broaden this research horizon by overlapping the multidisciplinary perspectives of resilience and crisis research with human-computer interaction (HCI), CSCW, organizational, and business studies. The COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent physical and social constraints have been detrimental to the activities of different organizations, especially to small and medium enterprises (SMEs). SMEs must recognize and search for opportunities to adapt to this crisis by developing resilient organizational infrastructures. These adaptations can be crucial to overcoming the current disruptions challenging the continued existence keeping in view the intrinsic diversification of various business and industrial sectors. How organizational infrastructures can be designed to instill resilient properties like adaptive capacity, self-adjustment and continuity? We intend to focus on bringing this discussion under the umbrella of CSCW to explore the potentials of collaboration and cooperative work in organizational infrastructure. Through this workshop, we offer research prospects by applying organizational resilience theories to study organizational infrastructure and infrastructuring activities, which can be used for their prospective transformations into resilient infrastructures.

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  doi = {10.18420/ecscw2021_wsmc02},
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  author = {Syed, Hussain Abid and Schorch, Marén and Ankenbauer, Sam Addison and Hassan, Sohaib and Meisner, Konrad and Stein, Martin and Skudelny, Sascha and Karasti, Helena and Pipek, Volkmar},
  year = {2021},
  }

2020

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  Syed, H. A., Schorch, M., Hassan, S. S., Skudelny, S., Grinko, M. & Pipek, V. (2020)From technology adoption to organizational resilience: A current research perspective

  IN Radtke, Jörg (Hrsg.) ; Klesel, Michael (Hrsg.) ; Niehaves, Björn (Hrsg.): New perspectives on digitalization: Local issues and global impact. Siegen: Universitätsbibliothek Siegen, 2020. – DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.25819/ubsi/1894, S. 84 – 92 doi:10.25819/ubsi/2778
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  Digitalization is an ever-increasing phenomenon and is being focused in all prominent research communities around the world. When it comes to businesses, the concept of digitalization can have its far-reaching impacts due to the diverseness of business and distinctiveness of their capabilities. Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are of dire importance in this research arena, due to their immense share in global economy and organizational characteristics. The concept of digitalization needs special attention for these business specimens. Technology adoption models need to be built which can transcend the utility of digitalization and digital technologies in SMEs. We propose a hypothetical technology adoption model for increasing the digital maturity in small and medium business organizations and further proposing that matured digitalization will lead to centralized business continuity infrastructure which can boost the organizational resilience.

  @article{syed_technology_2020,
  title = {From technology adoption to organizational resilience: {A} current research perspective},
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  url = {https://dspace.ub.uni-siegen.de/handle/ubsi/1633},
  doi = {10.25819/ubsi/2778},
  abstract = {Digitalization is an ever-increasing phenomenon and is being focused in all prominent research communities around the world. When it comes to businesses, the concept of digitalization can have its far-reaching impacts due to the diverseness of business and distinctiveness of their capabilities. Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are of dire importance in this research arena, due to their immense share in global economy and organizational characteristics. The concept of digitalization needs special attention for these business specimens. Technology adoption models need to be built which can transcend the utility of digitalization and digital technologies in SMEs. We propose a hypothetical technology adoption model for increasing the digital maturity in small and medium business organizations and further proposing that matured digitalization will lead to centralized business continuity infrastructure which can boost the organizational resilience.},
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  urldate = {2021-04-15},
  journal = {Radtke, Jörg (Hrsg.) ; Klesel, Michael (Hrsg.) ; Niehaves, Björn (Hrsg.): New perspectives on digitalization: Local issues and global impact. Siegen: Universitätsbibliothek Siegen, 2020. - DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.25819/ubsi/1894, S. 84 - 92},
  author = {Syed, Hussain Abid and Schorch, Marén and Hassan, Sohaib S. and Skudelny, Sascha and Grinko, Margarita and Pipek, Volkmar},
  year = {2020},
  annote = {Accepted: 2020-11-06T11:48:13Z},
  }

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  Schorch, M., Seifert, F., Syed, H. A., Kotthaus, C. & Pipek, V. (2020)Doing CSCW research in small and medium enterprises: experiences, options and challenges

  doi:10.18420/ecscw2020_ws02
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  This ECSCW workshop draws attention to research and development projects (R&D) that deal with cooperative and collaborative practices in small and medium enterprises (SMEs). European companies are for the most part SMEs: nine out of every ten companies can be defined as an SME (Eurostat 2015). They cover a huge variety of branches and fields, including diverse examples such as manufacturing, construction or IT start-ups, and meanwhile, there is again a growing sphere of CSCW projects that recognize the importance of this field. The empirical methods applied in such SME centered projects include qualitative methods with participant observation, interviewing or conducting co-design workshops, but also quantitative methods like the use of questionnaires or eye-tracking systems. In the workshop, we open up for sharing and reflecting experiences of doing research in SMEs and for discussing the characteristics and challenges of this (old and new) field in CSCW.

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  year = {2020},
  }

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  Syed, H. A., Schorch, M. & Pipek, V. (2020)Disaster Learning Aid: A Chatbot Centric Approach for Improved Organizational Disaster Resilience

  IN Learning from Experience, Pages: 10
  [BibTeX] [Abstract]

  The increasingly frequent occurrence of organizational crises exemplifies the need to strengthen organizational resilience. An example of business organizations is small and medium enterprises (SMEs) which contribute largely to the economic growth. But often, their limited resources (manpower, time, financial capital), organizational structure, focus on operational routines and less priority towards disaster resilience make them more vulnerable to crisis than bigger companies. The proposed solution addresses this dilemma by establishing a collaborative medium within the organization to improve disaster resilience by raising awareness and self-learning in employees without overburdening their constrained routines and resources. Our work in progress demonstrates a conceptual model of a learning aid (collaboration channel and a chatbot) that supports the pedagogical methodologies and employs them for enhancing learnability and awareness and elaborates the usability of interactive learning instilling disaster resilience in employees and hence in an organization.

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  title = {Disaster {Learning} {Aid}: {A} {Chatbot} {Centric} {Approach} for {Improved} {Organizational} {Disaster} {Resilience}},
  abstract = {The increasingly frequent occurrence of organizational crises exemplifies the need to strengthen organizational resilience. An example of business organizations is small and medium enterprises (SMEs) which contribute largely to the economic growth. But often, their limited resources (manpower, time, financial capital), organizational structure, focus on operational routines and less priority towards disaster resilience make them more vulnerable to crisis than bigger companies. The proposed solution addresses this dilemma by establishing a collaborative medium within the organization to improve disaster resilience by raising awareness and self-learning in employees without overburdening their constrained routines and resources. Our work in progress demonstrates a conceptual model of a learning aid (collaboration channel and a chatbot) that supports the pedagogical methodologies and employs them for enhancing learnability and awareness and elaborates the usability of interactive learning instilling disaster resilience in employees and hence in an organization.},
  language = {en},
  journal = {Learning from Experience},
  author = {Syed, Hussain Abid and Schorch, Marén and Pipek, Volkmar},
  year = {2020},
  pages = {10},
  }

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  Schorch, M., Seifert, F., Syed, H. A., Kotthaus, C. & Pipek, V. (2020)Doing CSCW research in small and medium enterprises: experiences, options and challenges

  doi:10.18420/ecscw2020_ws02
  [BibTeX] [Abstract] [Download PDF]

  This ECSCW workshop draws attention to research and development projects (R&D) that deal with cooperative and collaborative practices in small and medium enterprises (SMEs). European companies are for the most part SMEs: nine out of every ten companies can be defined as an SME (Eurostat 2015). They cover a huge variety of branches and fields, including diverse examples such as manufacturing, construction or IT start-ups, and meanwhile, there is again a growing sphere of CSCW projects that recognize the importance of this field. The empirical methods applied in such SME centered projects include qualitative methods with participant observation, interviewing or conducting co-design workshops, but also quantitative methods like the use of questionnaires or eye-tracking systems. In the workshop, we open up for sharing and reflecting experiences of doing research in SMEs and for discussing the characteristics and challenges of this (old and new) field in CSCW.

  @article{schorch_doing_2020-1,
  title = {Doing {CSCW} research in small and medium enterprises: experiences, options and challenges},
  issn = {2510-2591},
  shorttitle = {Doing {CSCW} research in small and medium enterprises},
  url = {https://dl.eusset.eu/handle/20.500.12015/4060},
  doi = {10.18420/ecscw2020_ws02},
  abstract = {This ECSCW workshop draws attention to research and development projects (R\&D) that deal with cooperative and collaborative practices in small and medium enterprises (SMEs). European companies are for the most part SMEs: nine out of every ten companies can be defined as an SME (Eurostat 2015). They cover a huge variety of branches and fields, including diverse examples such as manufacturing, construction or IT start-ups, and meanwhile, there is again a growing sphere of CSCW projects that recognize the importance of this field. The empirical methods applied in such SME centered projects include qualitative methods with participant observation, interviewing or conducting co-design workshops, but also quantitative methods like the use of questionnaires or eye-tracking systems. In the workshop, we open up for sharing and reflecting experiences of doing research in SMEs and for discussing the characteristics and challenges of this (old and new) field in CSCW.},
  language = {en},
  urldate = {2021-04-16},
  author = {Schorch, Marén and Seifert, Fabienne and Syed, Hussain Abid and Kotthaus, Christoph and Pipek, Volkmar},
  year = {2020},
  note = {Accepted: 2020-06-15T07:28:12Z
  Publisher: European Society for Socially Embedded Technologies (EUSSET)},
  }

2019

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  Syed, H. A. (2019)Sustainability in Crisis: Towards Business Continuity in Small and Medium Enterprises

  Proceedings of 17th European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work-Doctoral Colloquium., Publisher: European Society for Socially Embedded Technologies (EUSSET)
  [BibTeX]

  @inproceedings{syed_sustainability_2019,
  title = {Sustainability in {Crisis}: {Towards} {Business} {Continuity} in {Small} and {Medium} {Enterprises}},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of 17th {European} {Conference} on {Computer}-{Supported} {Cooperative} {Work}-{Doctoral} {Colloquium}},
  publisher = {European Society for Socially Embedded Technologies (EUSSET)},
  author = {Syed, Hussain Abid},
  year = {2019},
  }

2014

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  Syed, H. A., Nasreen, S. & Khalid, S. (2014)An Efficient System For Generating Reports Of Cots Used In Component Based Software Engineering

  IN J. Appl. Environ. Biol. Sci, Vol. 4, Pages: 13–17
  [BibTeX] [Abstract]

  The world is advancing towards 4th generation techniques of software engineering (SE) and new paradigms are being introduced in every area of SE to outfit new demands of the progressive world. The primary focus of Project Management is time and cost. We are trying our level best to make processes fast and more responsive in order to overcome the time and budget constraints. In the area of software engineering, development of a new system is a comparatively slow process due to which most software projects lag behind the schedule and infringe the deadlines which in return have direct impact on expenditure. To overcome this problem Component Based Software Engineering (CBSE) was introduced which opened up into a new dimension in software development process. Using commercially off the shelf components (COTS) have proved to be an immense assistance to developers reducing a great amount of development time and cost. But their lies a problem in using COTS or a prewritten module or code ie we have to customize it as per our requirements. This customization requires complete understanding of the module as a part or the component as whole. To understand a prewritten code is never an easy task. We propose an efficient and effective system for report generation of input software components that will be a great assistance for programmers who frequently need to customize codes or COTS according to organization’s need.

  @article{syed_efficient_2014,
  title = {An {Efficient} {System} {For} {Generating} {Reports} {Of} {Cots} {Used} {In} {Component} {Based} {Software} {Engineering}},
  volume = {4},
  abstract = {The world is advancing towards 4th generation techniques of software engineering (SE) and new paradigms are being introduced in every area of SE to outfit new demands of the progressive world. The primary focus of Project Management is time and cost. We are trying our level best to make processes fast and more responsive in order to overcome the time and budget constraints. In the area of software engineering, development of a new system is a comparatively slow process due to which most software projects lag behind the schedule and infringe the deadlines which in return have direct impact on expenditure. To overcome this problem Component Based Software Engineering (CBSE) was introduced which opened up into a new dimension in software development process. Using commercially off the shelf components (COTS) have proved to be an immense assistance to developers reducing a great amount of development time and cost. But their lies a problem in using COTS or a prewritten module or code ie we have to customize it as per our requirements. This customization requires complete understanding of the module as a part or the component as whole.
  To understand a prewritten code is never an easy task. We propose an efficient and effective system for report generation of input software components that will be a great assistance for programmers who frequently need to customize codes or COTS according to organization’s need.},
  number = {8S},
  journal = {J. Appl. Environ. Biol. Sci},
  author = {Syed, Hussain Abid and Nasreen, Shamila and Khalid, Samina},
  year = {2014},
  pages = {13--17},
  }

2012

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  Syed, H. A. & Vine, H. A. (2012)An Efficient and Simplest Algorithm for Intelligent Comments Generation of the Input Code that is in High Level Language

  IN International Journal of Scientific & Engineering Research, Vol. 3
  [BibTeX] [Download PDF]

  @article{syed_efficient_2012,
  title = {An {Efficient} and {Simplest} {Algorithm} for {Intelligent} {Comments} {Generation} of the {Input} {Code} that is in {High} {Level} {Language}},
  volume = {3},
  url = {https://www.wineme.uni-siegen.de/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/An-Efficient-and-Simplest-Algorithm-for-Intelligent-Comments-Generation-of-the-Input-Code.pdf},
  number = {6},
  journal = {International Journal of Scientific \& Engineering Research},
  author = {Syed, Hussain Abid and Vine, Huma Ayub},
  year = {2012},
  }

2011

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  Syed, H. A., Zehra, S. & Iftikhar, H. (2011)Using computer aided language software for teaching and self-learning

  2011 14th International Conference on Interactive Collaborative Learning., Publisher: IEEE, Pages: 102–106
  [BibTeX] [Download PDF]

  @inproceedings{syed_using_2011,
  title = {Using computer aided language software for teaching and self-learning},
  url = {https://www.wineme.uni-siegen.de/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Using_CALS_for_Teaching_and_Learning.pdf},
  booktitle = {2011 14th {International} {Conference} on {Interactive} {Collaborative} {Learning}},
  publisher = {IEEE},
  author = {Syed, Hussain Abid and Zehra, Samana and Iftikhar, Haseeb},
  year = {2011},
  pages = {102--106},
  }