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Shariff Faleel Posts Publications

2026 October 7

One Finger Warrior: Thumb-to-Index Finger Interaction Technique for Mobile Use

Omang Baheti, Shariff AM Faleel, Rishav Banerjee, Pourang Irani and Khalad Hasan

ISMAR '26

10.1145/3800645.3812913

🏆 Best paper
2026 September 22

Using Euler's Circuit to Generate Order of Tasks in HCI Studies

Using Eulerian circuits and versions of it to balance task orders different target selection studies.
2026 July 3

A Shape-Changing Afterimage Display Preserving Pixel Density During Surface-Area Changes Across Troposkein-Based Shapes.

Maxime Daniel, Shariff AM Faleel, and Pourang Irani

SIGGRAPH '26

10.1145/3811320
2026 June 12

Exploring One-Handed Thumb-to-Finger Text Composition Systems for Head Mounted Displays

Rishav Banerjee, Shariff AM Faleel, and Pourang Irani

DIS '26

10.1145/3800645.3812913
2026 March 4

Why HPUI?

Why HPUI? This article, which is a revision of my thesis introduction, explores why HPUI is needed to realize HMDs as the next evolution of smartphones.
2025 June 23

ThumbSwype: Thumb-to-Finger Gesture Based Text-Entry for Head Mounted Displays

Rishav Banerjee, Shariff AM Faleel, Omang Baheti, Khalad Hasan, Pourang Irani

MobileHCI '25

10.1145/3743708

🏆 Honourable mention
2025 May 26

What's the Thumb Doing? Improving Precision for Thumb-to-Finger Interactions on Hand Proximate User Interfaces

Shariff AM Faleel, Rishav Banerjee, Omang Baheti, Khalad Hasan, and Pourang Irani

GI '25

10.1145/3769872.3769893
2025 March 27

Hand Proximate User Interfaces: Design Space For Single-Handed, Always Available and Comfortable Interface for Head Mounted Displays

Shariff AM Faleel

PhD Thesis

10.14288/1.0448261
2024 September 22

Comparison of unencumbered interaction technique for head-mounted displays

Shariff AM Faleel, Rajveer Sodhi and Pourang Irani

ISS '24

10.1145/3698146
2024 September 1

Validating Eyes-free Affordance of On-Finger Hand Proximate User Interfaces in In-situ Scenarios

Shariff AM Faleel, SoonUk Kwon, David Ahlström and Pourang Irani

ISMAR '24

10.1109/ISMAR62088.2024.00145
2023 December 29

Writing a simple XR Hands subsystem

A quick summary of how to write and use a custom XR Hand provider for Unity
2023 November 3

Software development for research projects

My current approach to writing software artifacts in research projects.
2023 September 30

UBCO 3MT finalist presentation.

The video is finally up!
2023 July 10

Evaluating design guidelines for hand proximate user interfaces

Francisco Perella-Holfeld, Shariff AM Faleel, Pourang Irani

DIS '23

10.1145/3563657.3596117
2023 March 4

T-Force: Exploring the Use of Typing Force for Three State Virtual Keyboards

Shariff AM Faleel, Yishuo Liu, Roya A Cody, Bradley Rey, Linghao Du, Jiangyue Yu, Da-Yuan Huang, Pourang Irani, Wei Li

CHI '23

10.1145/3544548.3580915
2022 September 18

Profiling file loading times for org mode (part 2)

Trying to figure out why the load times with my config is much higher.
2022 September 16

Profiling file loading times for org mode

The loading times of files was starting to become an issue as I started switching to the 'one file per note` approach in my org-roam database. Documenting some profiling I did to see what I can do about it.
2022 July 29

EdgeSelect: Smartwatch Data Interaction with Minimal Screen Occlusion

Ali Neshati; Aaron Salo; Shariff AM Faleel; Ziming Li; Hai-Ning Liang; Celine Latulipe; Pourang Irani

ICMI '22

10.1145/3536221.3556586
2022 June 13

SSCA: Situated Space-time Cube Analytics

Fouad Alallah, Shariff AM Faleel, Yumiko Sakamoto, Bradley Rey, Pourang Irani

EuroVis '22

10.2312/evs20221088
2022 May 21

Reference Management: What am I managing?

Documenting the features of my reference management system along with a wish list.
2022 May 2

Setting up Oculus Quest 2 for development with Unity

Step-by-step guide to setting up oculus for development with unity.
2022 April 19

Personal website with nextjs and github pages

Summery of how I went about setting up my personal website which with markdown blog on github pages using nextjs.
2021 August 27

HPUI: Hand Proximate User Interfaces for One-Handed Interactions on Head Mounted Displays

Shariff AM Faleel; Michael Gammon; Kevin Fan; Da-Yuan Huang; Wei Li; Pourang Irani

TVCG (ISMAR '21)

10.1109/TVCG.2021.3106493
2021 July 6

Writely: Force Feedback for Non-Dominant Hand Writing Training

Shariff AM Faleel; Bibhushan Raj Joshi; Bradley Rey

WHC '21

WHC49131.2021.9517209
2021 May 7

BezelGlide: Interacting with Graphs on Smartwatches with Minimal Screen Occlusion

Ali Neshati; Bradley Rey; Ahmed Shariff Mohommed Faleel; Sandra Bardot; Celine Latulipe; Pourang Irani

CHI '21

10.1145/3411764.3445201
2021 March 29

Writely (Part 2) - Face the kraken

Second iteration of the canhap project, where wrestle the haptic implementations on our system.
2021 March 12

Talking with haptics

Playing with PID controllers and haply
2021 March 8

Writely (Part 1) - Into the belly of the beast

First iteration of using haply to develop a system for training writing.
2021 February 26

PID with Haply

Playing with PID controllers and haply
2021 February 5

Exploring Haply

Introducing myself to using haply, processing and fisca
2021 January 29

Make forky walk - Sketching lab

It's trash
2021 January 27

Using org mode for bibliography management

All hail emacs! All hail org-mode!
2020 May 27

User Gesture Elicitation of Common Smartphone Tasks for Hand Proximate User Interfaces

Shariff AM Faleel; Michael Gammon; Yumiko Sakamoto; Carlo Menon; Pourang Irani

Augmented Human (AH '20)

10.1145/3396339.3396363
2020 May 27

Using guessability framework: age-related differences in hand gesture interaction

Yurii Vasylkiv; Ali Neshati; Shariff AM Faleel; Yumiko Sakamoto; Pourang Irani

Augmented Human (AH '20)

10.1145/3396339.3396394
2019 July 5

A Novel Dialogue Manager Model for Spoken Dialogue Systems Based on User Input Learning

M.F. Ahmed Shariff; Ruwan D. Nawarathna

SLAAI-ICAI '18

10.1007/978-981-13-9129-3_14
2019 February 18

The game of labeling

A summery of the labeing process I follow
2019 January 8

Building a dialogue manager - A retrospective

Lesons learnt and thoughts after working on the dialogue management model
2018 November 1

Article review using git

Implementing a review system for articles using git
2018 September 10

Quantum computing

A brief introduction to the basics of quantum computing.
2018 August 31

Steven Pinker's 'How the mind works'

A few ideas in the book I found interesting. (Though I don't fully understand or accept/agree with them all)
2018 August 1

Practices I follow with the machine learning pipeline

While the ml-pipeline solves some of the problems I encounter, it doesn't solve all of them. Here I describe my process beyond the pipeline.
2018 July 26

ML problems I run into

An ongoing list of problems I run into when using deep learning
2018 July 17

Teaching a computer to play Tic-Tac-Toe.

A simple demonstration of teaching a computer to play tic-tac-toe. This is part of a demonstration made for the first year undergraduates.
2018 June 13

Opening of the qubits lab
2018 June 11

Experiment log - How I keep track of my ML experiments

In order to reduce the clutter, I keep track of the experiments using a emacs org-mode.
2018 April 25

Why you no posting stuff?

Why indeed......

One Finger Warrior: Thumb-to-Index Finger Interaction Technique for Mobile Use

Using Euler's Circuit to Generate Order of Tasks in HCI Studies

A Shape-Changing Afterimage Display Preserving Pixel Density During Surface-Area Changes Across Troposkein-Based Shapes.

Exploring One-Handed Thumb-to-Finger Text Composition Systems for Head Mounted Displays

Why HPUI?

ThumbSwype: Thumb-to-Finger Gesture Based Text-Entry for Head Mounted Displays

What's the Thumb Doing? Improving Precision for Thumb-to-Finger Interactions on Hand Proximate User Interfaces

Hand Proximate User Interfaces: Design Space For Single-Handed, Always Available and Comfortable Interface for Head Mounted Displays

Comparison of unencumbered interaction technique for head-mounted displays

Validating Eyes-free Affordance of On-Finger Hand Proximate User Interfaces in In-situ Scenarios

Writing a simple XR Hands subsystem

Software development for research projects

UBCO 3MT finalist presentation.

Evaluating design guidelines for hand proximate user interfaces

T-Force: Exploring the Use of Typing Force for Three State Virtual Keyboards

Profiling file loading times for org mode (part 2)

Profiling file loading times for org mode

EdgeSelect: Smartwatch Data Interaction with Minimal Screen Occlusion

SSCA: Situated Space-time Cube Analytics

Reference Management: What am I managing?

Setting up Oculus Quest 2 for development with Unity

Personal website with nextjs and github pages

HPUI: Hand Proximate User Interfaces for One-Handed Interactions on Head Mounted Displays

Writely: Force Feedback for Non-Dominant Hand Writing Training

BezelGlide: Interacting with Graphs on Smartwatches with Minimal Screen Occlusion

Writely (Part 2) - Face the kraken

Talking with haptics

Writely (Part 1) - Into the belly of the beast

PID with Haply

Exploring Haply

Make forky walk - Sketching lab

Using org mode for bibliography management

User Gesture Elicitation of Common Smartphone Tasks for Hand Proximate User Interfaces

Using guessability framework: age-related differences in hand gesture interaction

A Novel Dialogue Manager Model for Spoken Dialogue Systems Based on User Input Learning

The game of labeling

Building a dialogue manager - A retrospective

Article review using git

Quantum computing

Steven Pinker's 'How the mind works'

Practices I follow with the machine learning pipeline

ML problems I run into

Teaching a computer to play Tic-Tac-Toe.

Opening of the qubits lab

Experiment log - How I keep track of my ML experiments

Why you no posting stuff?