COMPASSAll times are listed in UTC.
| Session 1 | |
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| Monday, 27th July 2026 13:00 - 17:00 |
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| Host: Novia Nurain, Rahat Jahangir Rony, Ifti Azad Abeer | |
| Welcome | 13:00 - 13:15 |
| Keynote : Naomi Yamashita | 13:15 - 14:00 |
| Break | 14:00 - 14:05 |
| Repetition is not Redundancy: AI and Relational Listening in Communicating about Extreme Weather | 14:05 - 14:10 |
| From Power-On to Personalization: Understanding Smartphone Setup Experiences in Bangladesh. | 14:10 - 14:15 |
| Designing the Digital Gateway: A Conceptual Framework for a Digital Platform to Empower Conservative Women Entrepreneurs of Bangladesh | 14:15 - 14:20 |
| Loving Baby: An AI-Supported Robotic Companion for Primary Education -- Early Evidence on Emotions, Engagement and Well‑Being | 14:20 - 14:25 |
| Spondon: A Low-Cost, Multi-Sensor Wearable for Understanding Stress in Resource-Constrained Countries | 14:25 - 14:30 |
| Toward Faith-Aligned Mental Health Chatbots: Understanding Muslim Users' Expectations and Design Needs | 14:30 - 14:35 |
| “There Are Things I Can’t Ask People”: User Perceptions of LLM-Based Chatbot for Sexual and Reproductive Health in India | 14:35 - 14:40 |
| A Study of Usability and Accessibility of Private and Public Hospital Websites in Bangladesh | 14:40 - 14:45 |
| Discussion on Digital Health, Inclusivity, and Culturally-Aligned AI | 14:45 - 15:00 |
| Break | 15:00 - 15:05 |
| Designing Sode: A Culturally Grounded Web Application for Social-Emotional Learning Among Ghanaian Preschoolers | 15:05 - 15:10 |
| Designing Voice-Based QR Payment Confirmation for Small Vendors: A Formative Pilot Study | 15:10 - 15:15 |
| Towards Sustainable Waste Management in Nepal: A Low-Cost Edge-AI Prototype for Waste Classification | 15:15 - 15:20 |
| The Doomscrolling Dilemma: How Multilingual Short-Form Videos Reshape the Attention of University Students and the Decline of "Adda" in Bangladesh | 15:20 - 15:25 |
| Monitoring-as-Practice: An Exploratory Study of Everyday Air-Quality Monitoring Through Practice Theory for WAQMs | 15:25 - 15:30 |
| Are You Willing to Wait? An SMS Platform to Measure the Value of Time in the Field | 15:30 - 15:35 |
| “We Don’t Know Where to Start”: Exploring Designers’ Perspectives on Accessibility in Voice User Interfaces Design | 15:35 - 15:40 |
| When Tutorials Become Infrastructure: Bangla Developer Vlogs, Learning Access, and Precarious Digital Labor in Bangladesh | 15:40 - 15:45 |
| Discussion on Learning Infrastructures, Media, and Local Ecosystems | 15:45 - 16:00 |
| Break | 16:00 - 16:05 |
| El Faro: An Advanced Frugal AI Stack for Context-Driven Resilience | 16:05 - 16:10 |
| Sovereign by Design: A Service Architecture for Accountable Small-Language-Model Deployment in Citizen-Facing Government Services | 16:10 - 16:15 |
| Who Decides What Art Means? Interpretive Authority, Cultural Equity, and Conversational Access for Blind and Low-Vision Museum Visitors | 16:15 - 16:20 |
| The Limits of Technological Disruption: AI Imaginaries for Parkinson's Care in Low-Resourced Public Health Systems | 16:20 - 16:25 |
| ClimateSignal Logger: Co-Designing a Community-Controlled Environmental Data Logger for Heat Justice in Little Haiti, Miami | 16:25 - 16:30 |
| A Tool of One’s Own: Motifs, Abduction and Non-Generative World-Building | 16:30 - 16:35 |
| Environmental Constraints in UAV-Based Litter Detection: Deployment Insights from a Forest Park Case Study | 16:35 - 16:40 |
| “Spilling PII into the Lake:” Design and Evaluation of LLM-based Redaction for Community Privacy in Grassroots Volunteer Organizations | 16:40 - 16:45 |
| Discussion on Governance, Privacy, and Community-Led AI & Automation | 16:45 - 17:00 |
| Session 2 | |
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| Tuesday, 28th July 2026 13:00 - 15:35 |
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| Host: Louis Fendji, Silvia Ahmed | |
| Welcome | 13:00 - 13:05 |
| Keynote : Monojit Choudhury | 13:05 - 13:50 |
| When Data Protection Fails to Protect: Law, Power, and Postcolonial Governance in Bangladesh | 13:50 - 14:00 |
| Bangladesh AI Readiness: Gaps in Curriculum, Infrastructure, and Governance | 14:00 - 14:10 |
| Quantifying Regional AI Readiness Disparities: An Empirical Analysis of Indian States | 14:10 - 14:20 |
| Discussion | 14:20 - 14:35 |
| From Restriction to Empowerment: Responsible AI Governance in Higher Education | 14:35 - 14:45 |
| "Is This Not Enough?": Asymmetries in Institutional Accountability and Collective Sensemaking in the Case of Canada's Algorithmic Visa Triage System | 14:45 - 14:55 |
| LLMs as Mediators: Can They Diagnose Conflicts Accurately? | 14:55 - 15:05 |
| AI Adoption in NGOs: A Systematic Literature Review | 15:05 - 15:15 |
| Discussion | 15:15 - 15:35 |
| Session 3 | |
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| Tuesday, 28th July 2026 15:00 - 17:00 |
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| Host: Vikram Kamath, Tamanna Motahar |
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| ‘Ghostcrafting AI’: Under the Rug of Platform Labor | 15:00 - 15:10 |
| Credibility, Anonymity, and Algorithmic Gatekeeping in Leveraging Social Media as a Justice-Seeking Tool | 15:10 - 15:20 |
| From Satire to Misinformation: Visual Mimicry and Audience Interpretation of Fake News Photo-Cards in Bangladesh | 15:20 - 15:30 |
| Mod-Guide: An LLM-based Content Moderation Feedback System to Address Insensitive Speech toward Indigenous Ethnic and Religious Minority Communities | 15:30 - 15:40 |
| Discussion | 15:40 - 16:00 |
| Break | 16:00 - 16:10 |
| DAIEM: Decolonizing Algorithm's Role as a Team-member in Informal E-market | 16:10 - 16:20 |
| How do datasets, developers, and models affect biases in a low-resourced language?: The Case of the Bengali Language | 16:20 - 16:30 |
| Framing Migration News with LLMs: Structured CoT as a Support for Human Interpretation | 16:30 - 16:40 |
| Discussion | 16:40 - 16:55 |
| Concluding | 16:55 - 17:00 |
| Session 4 | |
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| Wednesday, 29th July 2026 12:50 - 14:45 |
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| Host: Monisha Biswas, Dilrukshi Gamage | |
| Welcome | 12:50 - 12:55 |
| Emotional Power and Communicating about Climate Change: Engaging Urban People with Bushfire | 12:55 - 13:05 |
| Frugal Voice: Offline Community–Governed Speech Models for the Soliga Tribe in Karnataka | 13:05 - 13:15 |
| "Wish We Could Study in Our Mother Tongue": Exploring Indigenous Primary Education Barriers and Proposing Guidelines in Bangladesh | 13:15 - 13:25 |
| Of Nostalgia, Trust, and Intimacy: AI Tool Usage among the Undergraduate Students of Bangladesh in Nonacademic Contexts | 13:25 - 13:35 |
| Discussion | 13:35 - 13:50 |
| Break | 13:50 - 14:00 |
| "Had to Use My Guts:" Epistemic Agency in Community-Led Digital Education with Temporary Farmworkers | 14:00 - 14:10 |
| From Agent Dependency to Financial Autonomy: Smartphone based Inclusive MFS Design for Low-Literate Population | 14:10 - 14:20 |
| Sakshm AI: Advancing AI-Assisted Coding Education for Engineering Students in India Through Socratic Tutoring and Comprehensive Feedback | 14:20 - 14:30 |
| Discussion | 14:30 - 14:45 |
| Session 5 | |
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| Wednesday, 29th July 2026 15:00 - 16:40 |
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| Host: Emily Aiken, Jannatun Noor | |
| The Hidden Carbon Cost of Aligning AI: Carbon-Aware Scheduling for Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback | 15:00 - 15:10 |
| Embedding sustainability in IT degree programs: Stakeholder perspectives and curriculum strategies | 15:10 - 15:20 |
| SpheriCity: Designing Trustworthy Conversational AI for Sustainability Decision Support | 15:20 - 15:30 |
| Design for Digital Sufficiency: Understanding User Preferences for More Sustainable Data Centers | 15:30 - 15:40 |
| Discussion | 15:40 - 16:00 |
| Co-Designing Technology-Supported Air Quality Communication: A case study about Integrating Design Thinking, Behavioural Science, and Participatory Approaches | 16:00 - 16:10 |
| Staying with Friction: Designing Community-Based Communication Infrastructures under Climate Disruption | 16:10 - 16:20 |
| Discussion | 16:20 - 16:30 |
| Concluding | 16:30 - 17:00 |
| Session 6 | |
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| Thursday, 30th July 2026 13:00 - 14:30 |
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| Host: Pranjal Borah, Naeima Hamed | |
| Welcome | 13:00 - 13:05 |
| Machiaruki or Machizukuri? Staged Co-design in the Development of “dédédé” | 13:05 - 13:15 |
| Asset Maps & the Digitization of Rural Development: Designing for Sustainable Opportunity | 13:15 - 13:25 |
| Learning Bird Migration Models from Marginals with Site Fidelity and Long-Range Dependencies | 13:25 - 13:35 |
| Discussion | 13:35 - 13:50 |
| Town Hall | 13:50 - 14:30 |