Conference Paper2026

FocusAI: An AI-Assisted Focus and Productivity App to Manage Academic Procrastination Among University Students

Tausia Tahsin Nuzum, Sumita Tasnim, Tasnia Rafique Simran, Ashraful Islam, Rashedur Rahman, M Ashraful Amin

International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction

In: HCI International 2026 Posters

Springer Nature Switzerland, pp. 605-615, ISBN: 9783032308320

  • Quality Education — Relevance: 71%
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-032-30833-7_60URL

Keywords

  • academic procrastination
  • Firebase
  • usability evaluation
  • Llama 3.1
  • task management
  • System usability scale
  • university students
  • chatbots
  • flutter
  • reward processing

CCDS Authors

Ashraful Islam, PhD
Ashraful Islam

Ashraful Islam, PhD

  • Center Director, CCDS
  • Director, HCI Wing

Assistant Professor

Department of Computer Science and Engineering

Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB)

Published at

CHI, UIST, UbiComp, IJCNN, ICIP, HCII, ICDMW, BLP, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, JMIR, JMIR Human Factors, JMIR Formative Research, IEEE Access, Smart Agricultural Technology, Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice, PLOS ONE

Research Interests

Human-Computer Interaction, AI for Social Good, AI for Public Health, AI for Impact

Md. Rashedur Rahman, D. Eng.
Md. Rashedur Rahman, D. Eng.

Md. Rashedur Rahman, D. Eng.

  • Co-Director, MIRA & NEST Wings

Assistant Professor

Department of Computer Science and Engineering

Independent University, Bangladesh

Published at

CHI, HCII, Scientific Reports, Cognitive Computation, Neural Computing and Applications

Prof. M Ashraful Amin, PhD
M Ashraful Amin, PhD

Prof. M Ashraful Amin, PhD

  • Founder Director, CCDS
  • Director, AI/ML, HCI & DS Wings

Professor

+1 more affiliation

Department of Information Sciences and Technology

George Mason University, USA

Published at

ACL, CHI, UbiComp, ECAI, WACV, PAKDD, IJCNN, ICPR, ICIP, HCII, CLEF, BLP, Scientific Reports, JMIR, IEEE Access, Smart Agricultural Technology, Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience, Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice, PLOS ONE

Research Interests

Machine Learning, Cognitive & Vision Science, Cybernetics, Surveillance & Security, ICT in Education, Health, & Agriculture, Human-Computer Interaction, Internet of Things, Robotics

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