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Roghayeh Leila Barmaki

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arxivcs.HC2026-07-10

Reading the Eyes in VR: Multimodal Modeling of Social Intelligence

Mohammad Fahim Abrar, Shayla Sharmin, Roghayeh Leila Barmaki

Social intelligence, the ability to interpret others' emotions, beliefs, and intentions, is often assessed with the Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test (RMET), in which participants infer mental states from images of the eye region. Yet RMET is typically presented on paper or deskt…

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arxivcs.HC2026-07-10

When LLM Tutoring Responses Work: Evidence from Student Programming Conversations

Mohammad Fahim Abrar, Shayla Sharmin, Roghayeh Leila Barmaki

As students increasingly use LLM tutors in computer science education, one question becomes especially important: what kind of response helps a student continue productively? Prior work has studied how students use LLMs in computer science education, but less is known about how t…

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arxivcs.HC2026-07-10

Indirect and Direct AI Scaffolding for Computational Problem Posing: A Pilot Experience Report

Shayla Sharmin, Mohammad Fahim Abrar, Mohammad Al-Ratrout, Roghayeh Leila Barmaki

Problem posing is a valuable learning activity in computing education, encouraging learners to actively construct, refine, and reflect on problems rather than simply solving them. This experience report presents the design and pilot deployment of two LLM-powered scaffolding syste…

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arxivcs.HC2026-07-09

Micro-level AI Feedback Features and Student Responses in Consecutive LLM Tutoring Interactions

Shayla Sharmin, Mohammad Fahim Abrar, Roghayeh Leila Barmaki

AI-assisted feedback research has shown that micro-level feedback features, such as concrete elaboration, affective language, and response length, are associated with learning outcomes. Existing studies have primarily examined these features using session- or task-level measures.…

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arxivcs.HC2026-07-09

How YouTube Frames ChatGPT Use in Education: An Epistemic Network Analysis with Supporting Multimodal Metadata

Shayla Sharmin, Mohammad Al-Ratrout, Mohammad Fahim Abrar, Roghayeh Leila Barmaki

We examine educational YouTube videos through multimodal metadata, such as transcripts, titles, thumbnails, and viewer comments, to investigate how ChatGPT is framed across creator groups and how those framings relate to audience response and platform reach. Little is known about…

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