@article{leon_tamanna_kuttal_2023, title={Comparing Foraging Behavior Across Code Hosting and Q&A Platforms through a Gender Lens}, ISSN={["1943-6092"]}, DOI={10.1109/VL-HCC57772.2023.00040}, abstractNote={This study compares the information foraging behavior of developers on two prominent platforms, StackOverflow and GitHub, which are widely used for code hosting and question and answer purposes. Understanding how developers seek and retrieve information is crucial for designing effective interfaces. In a gender and expertise-balanced study involving 12 developers, we utilized Information Foraging Theory to analyze their foraging behavior. Our findings revealed contrasting patterns, with women spending 30% more time and utilizing 21.24% more cues on GitHub, while men utilized 55% more time and 19.7% more cues on StackOverflow. These insights have significant implications for optimizing website design and information presentation to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of developers' information seeking processes.}, journal={2023 IEEE SYMPOSIUM ON VISUAL LANGUAGES AND HUMAN-CENTRIC COMPUTING, VL/HCC}, author={Leon, Shahnewaz and Tamanna, Mahzabin and Kuttal, Sandeep Kaur}, year={2023}, pages={235–238} }
 @article{uddin_albert_tamanna_alsharef_2022, title={YouTube as a source of information: early coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic in the context of the construction industry}, volume={12}, ISSN={["1466-433X"]}, DOI={10.1080/01446193.2022.2162096}, abstractNote={Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic has been the largest global crisis in recent decades. Apart from the countless deaths and health emergencies, the pandemic has disrupted several industries—including construction. For example, a significant number of construction projects have been interrupted, delayed, and even abandoned. In such emergencies, information gathering and dissemination are vital for effective crisis management. The role of social media platforms such as YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter, as information sources, in these contexts has received much attention. The purpose of this investigation was to evaluate if YouTube can serve as a useful source of information for the construction industry in emergency situations—such as during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic. The assessment was undertaken by distilling the coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic as it relates to the construction industry from the content shared via YouTube by leveraging Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) topic modelling. The investigation also compared the timeline with which relevant content was shared via YouTube and peer-reviewed research articles to make relative assessments. The findings suggest that YouTube offered significant and relevant coverage across six topics that include health and safety challenges, ongoing construction operation updates, workforce-related challenges, industry operations-related guidelines and advocacy, and others. Moreover, compared to the coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic in the research literature, YouTube offered more comprehensive and timely coverage of the pandemic as it relates to the construction industry. Accordingly, industry stakeholders may leverage YouTube as a valuable and largely untapped resource to aid in combating similar emergency situations.}, journal={CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT AND ECONOMICS}, author={Uddin, S. M. Jamil and Albert, Alex and Tamanna, Mahzabin and Alsharef, Abdullah}, year={2022}, month={Dec} }