Publications

Books

Human-Centered Data Science: An Introduction (2022)

“Best practices for addressing the bias and inequality that may result from the automated collection, analysis, and distribution of large datasets”

2024

Journal Articles

Devansh Saxena and Shion Guha. 2024. Algorithmic Harms in Child Welfare: Uncertainties in Practice, Organization, and Street-level Decision-making. ACM J. Responsib. Comput. 1, 1, Article 2 (March 2024), 32 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3616473
Md Kamrul Hasan, Devansh Saxena, Yakin Rubaiat, Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed, and Shion Guha. 2024. Design Recommendations towards Developing a Smartphone-Based Point-of-Care Tool for Rural Bangladeshi Users. International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction 40, 4 (2024), 965–985. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/10447318.2023.2175462
Mohammad Rashidujjaman Rifat, Ashratuz Zavin Asha, Shivesh Jadon, Xinyi Yan, Shion Guha, and Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed. 2024. Combating Islamophobia: Compromise, Community, and Harmony in Mitigating Harmful Online Content. Trans. Soc. Comput. 7, 1, Article 2 (March 2024), 32 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3641510

Conference Proceedings

Ramaravind Kommiya Mothilal, Shion Guha, and Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed. 2024. Towards a Non-Ideal Methodological Framework for Responsible ML. In Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’24). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 477, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1145/3613904.3642501
Kelly McConvey and Shion Guha. 2024. “This is not a data problem”: Algorithms and Power in Public Higher Education in Canada. In Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’24). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 16, 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1145/3613904.3642451
MD Romael Haque, Devansh Saxena, Katy Weathington, Joseph Chudzik, and Shion Guha. 2024. Are We Asking the Right Questions?: Designing for Community Stakeholders’ Interactions with AI in Policing. In Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’24). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 301, 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1145/3613904.3642738
Jessica Pater, Shaan Chopra, Jeanne Carroll, Juliette Zaccour, Fayika Farhat Nova, Tammy Toscos, Shion Guha, and Fen Lei Chang. 2024. Charting the COVID Long Haul Experience – A Longitudinal Exploration of Symptoms, Activity, and Clinical Adherence. In Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’24). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 131, 1–21. https://doi.org/10.1145/3613904.3642827
Erina Seh-Young Moon and Shion Guha. 2024. A Human-Centered Review of Algorithms in Homelessness Research. In Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’24). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 870, 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1145/3613904.3642392
Dipto Das, Shion Guha, Jed R. Brubaker, and Bryan Semaan. 2024. The “Colonial Impulse” of Natural Language Processing: An Audit of Bengali Sentiment Analysis Tools and Their Identity-based Biases. In Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’24). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 769, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1145/3613904.3642669

2023

Journal Articles

Brandon T. McDaniel, Victor Cornet, Jeanne Carroll, Lambros Chrones, Joseph Chudzik, Jeanette Cochran, Shion Guha, Debra F. Lawrence, Maggie McCue, Sara Sarkey, Betty Lorenza, and Jay Fawver. 2023. Real-world clinical outcomes and treatment patterns in patients with MDD treated with vorioxetine: a retrospective study. BMC Psychiatry 23, Article 938, DOI: https://doi-org.myaccess.library.utoronto.ca/10.1186/s12888-023-05439-8
Jessica A Pater, Amanda Coupe, Fayika Farhat Nova, Rachel Pfafman, Jeanne Carroll, Abigal Brouwer, Camden Bohn, Jason Li, Noah Todd, Fen Lei Chang, and Shion Guha. 2023. Social Media is not a Health Proxy: Differences Between Social Media and Electronic Health Record Reports of Post-COVID Symptoms. Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 7, CSCW1, Article 148 (April 2023), 25 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3579624
Md Kamrul Hasan, Devansh Saxena, Yakin Rubaiat, Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed, and Shion Guha. 2023. Design Recommendations towards Developing a Smartphone-Based Point-of-Care Tool for Rural Bangladeshi Users. International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction, DOI: 10.1080/10447318.2023.2175462

Conference Proceedings

Dipto Das, Shion Guha, and Bryan Semaan. 2023. Toward Cultural Bias Evaluation Datasets: The Case of Bengali Gender, Religious, and National Identity. In Proceedings of the First Workshop on Cross-Cultural Considerations in NLP (C3NLP), Association for Computational Linguistics, Dubrovnik, Croatia, 68–83. DOI: https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2023.c3nlp-1.8
Kelly McConvey, Shion Guha, and Anastasia Kuzminykh. 2023. A Human-Centered Review of Algorithms in Decision-Making in Higher Education. In Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’23). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 223, 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1145/3544548.3580658
Devansh Saxena, Erina Seh-Young Moon, Aryan Chaurasia, Yixin Guan, and Shion Guha. 2023. Rethinking “Risk” in Algorithmic Systems Through A Computational Narrative Analysis of Casenotes in Child-Welfare. In Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’23). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 873, 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1145/3544548.3581308 **CHI BEST PAPER AWARD**

Extended Abstracts

Dipto Das, Shion Guha, and Bryan Semaan. 2023. Toward Cultural Bias Evaluation Datasets: The Case of Bengali Gender, Religious, and National Identity. In Proceedings of the First Workshop on Cross-Cultural Considerations in NLP (C3NLP), Association for Computational Linguistics, Dubrovnik, Croatia, 68–83. https://aclanthology.org/2023.c3nlp-1.8
Victoria Chui, Jessica Pater, Tammy Toscos, and Shion Guha. 2023. Applying Human-Centered Data Science to Healthcare: Hyperlocal Modeling of COVID-19 Hospitalizations. In Companion Proceedings of the 2023 ACM International Conference on Supporting Group Work (GROUP ’23). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 24–26. https://doi.org/10.1145/3565967.3570979

2022

Journal Articles

Fayika Farhat Nova, Rachel Pfafman, Kelley Kardys, Connie Kerrigan, Shion Guha, and Jessica Pater. 2022. Uncovering Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) from Clinical Narratives within the Electronic Health Record. Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 6, CSCW2, Article 547 (November 2022), 29 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3555605
Kevin Clancy, Joseph Chudzik, Aleksandra J. Snowden, and Shion Guha. 2022. Reconciling data-driven crime analysis with human-centered algorithms. Cities 124, (2022), 103604. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2022.103604
Fayika Farhat Nova, Amanda Coupe, Elizabeth D. Mynatt, Shion Guha, and Jessica A. Pater. 2022. Cultivating the Community: Inferring Influence within Eating Disorder Networks on Twitter. Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 6, GROUP, Article 7 (January 2022), 33 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3492826

Conference Proceedings

Anissa Tanweer, Cecilia R Aragon, Michael Muller, Shion Guha, Samir Passi, Gina Neff, and Marina Kogan. 2022. Interrogating Human-centered Data Science: Taking Stock of Opportunities and Limitations. In Extended Abstracts of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA ’22). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 99, 1–6. https://doi.org/10.1145/3491101.3503740
Devansh Saxena, Charles Repaci, Melanie D Sage, and Shion Guha. 2022. How to Train a (Bad) Algorithmic Caseworker: A Quantitative Deconstruction of Risk Assessments in Child Welfare. In CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts (CHI ’22 Extended Abstracts), April 29-May 5, 2022, New Orleans, LA, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA 7 Pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3491101.3519771
Devansh Saxena, Seh Young Moon, Dahlia Shehata, and Shion Guha. 2022. Unpacking Invisible Work Practices, Constraints, and Latent Power Relationships in Child Welfare through Casenote Analysis. In CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’22), April 29-May 5, 2022, New Orleans, LA, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA 22 Pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3491102.3517742
Douglas Zytko, Pamela Wisniewski, Shion Guha, Eric P.S. Baumer and Min Kyung Lee. 2022. Participatory Design of AI Systems: Opportunities and Challenges Across Diverse Users, Relationships, and Application Domains. In CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts (CHI ’22 Extended Abstracts), April 29-May 05, 2022, New Orleans, LA, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 5 Pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3491101.3516506

Extended Abstracts

Logan Stapleton, Devansh Saxena, Anna Kawakami, Tonya Nguyen, Asbjørn Ammitzbøll Flügge, Motahhare Eslami, Naja Holten Møller, Min Kyung Lee, Shion Guha, Kenneth Holstein, and Haiyi Zhu. 2022. Who Has an Interest in “Public Interest Technology”?: Critical Questions for Working with Local Governments & Impacted Communities. In Companion Publication of the 2022 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW’22 Companion). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 282–286. https://doi.org/10.1145/3500868.3560484
Anissa Tanweer, Cecilia R Aragon, Michael Muller, Shion Guha, Samir Passi, Gina Neff, and Marina Kogan. 2022. Interrogating Human-centered Data Science: Taking Stock of Opportunities and Limitations. In Extended Abstracts of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA ’22). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 99, 1–6. https://doi.org/10.1145/3491101.3503740

2021

Journal Articles

Devansh Saxena, Karla Badillo-Urquiola, Pamela J. Wisniewski, and Shion Guha. 2021. A Framework of High-Stakes Algorithmic Decision-Making for the Public Sector Developed through a Case Study of Child-Welfare. Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 5, CSCW2, Article 348 (October 2021), 41 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3476089
Patrick Skeba, Devansh Saxena, Shion Guha, and Eric P. S. Baumer. 2021. Who has a Choice?: Survey-Based Predictors of Volitionality in Facebook Use and Non-use. Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 5, GROUP, Article 223 (July 2021), 25 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3463935
Fayika Farhat Nova, Michael Ann DeVito, Pratyasha Saha, Kazi Shohanur Rashid, Shashwata Roy Turzo, Sadia Afrin, and Shion Guha. 2021. “Facebook Promotes More Harassment”: Social Media Ecosystem, Skill and Marginalized Hijra Identity in Bangladesh. Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 5, CSCW1, Article 157 (April 2021), 35 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3449231
Hasan MK, Aziz MH, Zarif MII, Hasan M, Hashem M, Guha S, Love RR, Ahamed S. Noninvasive Hemoglobin Level Prediction in a Mobile Phone Environment: State of the Art Review and Recommendations. JMIR Mhealth Uhealth 2021;9(4):e16806, doi: 10.2196/16806

Conference Proceedings

Lillian Campbell, Amrita George and Shion Guha. 2021. Practitioner Attitudes towards an Early Warning System : From Professional Distraction to Relational Support. 2021 IEEE International Professional Communication Conference (ProComm), Pittsburgh, PA, USA, 2021, pp. 123-124, doi: 10.1109/ProComm52174.2021.00028

Extended Abstracts

Lillian Campbell, Amrita George, and Shion Guha. 2021. Communication and Algorithmic Decision Making in a Virtual Healthcare Context: Extended Abstract. In Proceedings of the 39th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication (SIGDOC ’21). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 367–369. https://doi.org/10.1145/3472714.3473669