Publications

2024	Qiao Jin†, Saba Kawas, Ye Yuan, Stuti Arora†, Svetlana Yarosh, 2024. Is Your Family Ready for VR? Ethical Concerns and Considerations in Children’s VR Usage. Proceedings of the 23rd ACM conference on interaction design and children. (to appear IDC ’24). Nominated Best Paper (Top 2%)
2023	Katie Davis, Petr Slovak, Rotem Landesman, Caroline Pitt, Abdullatif Ghajar, Jessica Lee Schleider, Saba Kawas, Andrea Guadalupe Perez Portillo, and Nicole S. Kuhn†. 2023. Supporting Teens’ Intentional Social Media Use Through Interaction Design: An exploratory proof-of-concept study. In Proceedings of the 22nd Annual ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference (IDC ’23).
2021	Saba Kawas, Nicole S. Kuhn†, Kyle Sorstokke†, Emily Bascom†, Alexis Hiniker, and Katie Davis. 2021. When Screen Time Isn’t Screen Time: Tensions and Needs Between Tweens and Their Parents During Nature-Based Exploration. In Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’21). Saba Kawas, Andrea Tartaro, Julie A. Kientz, Alissa N. Antle, Lucas Franco Colusso, Emily Schlemmer, Meagan Rothschild, and Nikita Soni. 2021. Translational IDC: Bridging the IDC Research-Practice Gap. In Proceedings of the 20th Annual ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference (IDC ’21).
2020	Saba Kawas, Nicole S. Kuhn†, Mina Tari†, Alexis Hiniker, Katie Davis, 2020. “Otter this World: Can a Mobile Application Promote Children’s Connectedness to Nature?” Proceedings of the 19th ACM conference on interaction design and children (IDC ‘20). Saba Kawas, Ye Yuan, Akeiylah DeWitt†, Qiao Jin, Susanne Kirchner†, Abigail Bilger, Ethan Grantham, Julie A Kientz, Andrea Tartaro, lana Yarosh ‘20. “Another Decade of IDC Research: Examining and Reflecting on Values and Ethics” Proceedings of the 19th ACM conference on interaction design and children. (IDC ’20). XueYan (Sue) Chen†, Meghna Nayak†, Tiffany C Wong†, Saba Kawas, and Julie A Kientz. 2020. Interaction design & children toolkit. In Proceedings of the 2020 ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference: Extended Abstracts (IDC ’20). Saba Kawas, Jordan Sherry-Wagner, Nicole S. Kuhn†, Sarah K. Chase, Brittany Bentley†, Joshua J. Lawler, and Katie Davis, 2020. NatureCollections: Can A Mobile Application Trigger Children’s Interest In Nature? In 12th International Conference on Computer Supported Education (CSEDU 2020). Best Paper (Top 1%).
2019	Saba Kawas, Laura Vonessen, and Amy J. Ko. 2019. Teaching Accessibility: A Design Exploration of Faculty Professional Development at Scale. In Proceedings of the 50th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE ’19). Saba Kawas, Sarah Chase, Jason Yip, Joshua Lawler, and Katie Davis 2019. Sparking Interest: A Design Framework for Mobile Technologies to Promote Children’s Interest in Nature. International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction (IJCCI, 2019).
2018	Kristen Shinohara, Saba Kawas, Amy J. Ko, and Richard E. Ladner. 2018. Who Teaches Accessibility? A Survey of U.S. Computing Faculty. In Proceedings of the 49th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE ’18).
2017	Mega Subramaniam, Ligaya B. Scaff, Saba Kawas, Kelly. M. Hoffman, Katie Davis “Using technology to support equity and inclusion in youth library programming: Current practices and future opportunities” In The Library Journal Quarterly, 2017. Ligaya Scaff, Mega Subramaniam, Kelly M. Hoffman, Saba Kawas, & Katie Davis (2017, June). Promoting equity and access in public libraries’ computer-supported youth programming. Poster session presented at the 12th International Conference on Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL 2017).
2016	Saba Kawas, George Karalis, Tzu Wen, and Richard E. Ladner. 2016. Improving Real-Time Captioning Experiences for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students. In Proceedings of the 18th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS ’16). Daniela K. Rosner, Saba Kawas, Wenqi Li, Nicole Tilly, and Yi-Chen Sung. 2016. Out of Time, Out of Place: Reflections on Design Workshops as a Research Method. In Proceedings of the 19th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing (CSCW ’16). Honorable Mention Top 5%
2015	Yibo Dai, George Karalis, Saba Kawas, and Chris Olsen. 2015. Tipper: Contextual Tooltips that Provide Seniors with Clear, Reliable Help for Web Tasks. In Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’15).