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reem-albaghli

أكاديمي

د.

ريم على البغلى

أستاذ مساعد

موقع المكتب:
S02E1174
r.albaghli@ku.edu.kw
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Courses Taught

CPE
341
Database Management Systems
CPE
342
Database Management Systems Laboratory
CPE
371
Software Engineering and Development
CPE
495
Capstone Design
CPE
325
Human-Computer Interaction
CPE
494
Computer Systems Engineering
CPE
580
Special Topics In Computer Engineering I

Selected Publications

  • R. Albaghli, A. Beidas, and N. Attar, “Eyes on higher education: Evaluating web usability in Kuwaiti private universities using eye-tracking and SUPR-Q metrics,” Journal of Engineering Research, p. S2307187724002888, Dec. 2024, doi: 10.1016/j.jer.2024.12.001.
  • U. S. Raja and R. Al-Baghli, “Ethical concerns in contemporary virtual reality and frameworks for pursuing responsible use,” Front. Virtual Real., vol. 6, p. 1451273, Jan. 2025, doi: 10.3389/frvir.2025.1451273.
  • R. Albaghli, A. S. Gurnaney, and N. Attar, “Seeing Bias Through Eye Movements: Investigating Empathy and Engagement With Authentic and
    Altered Refugee Imagery,” IEEE Trans. Human-Mach. Syst., pp. 1–10, 2025, doi: 10.1109/THMS.2025.3585452.
  • A. Mohammed, R. Albaghli, H. Alrushood, and F. Ghaddar, “An Empirical Eye-Tracking Study of Cross-Lingual Program Comprehension and Debugging”, doi: 10.1016/j.jss.2026.112793.
  • R. Albaghli, W. Zhang, and N. Attar, “Understanding Implicit Ethnic Bias: An Eye-Tracking HCI Study on How Visual Cues Influence Perceptions of Refugees,” Iran Journal of Computer Science | Springer Nature Link.
  • R. Albaghli, A. Gurnaney and N. Attar, "Detecting Bias in Refugee Perception using Face Swapping: An Empirical Eye-Tracking Study," 2024 IEEE 4th International Conference on Human-Machine Systems (ICHMS), Toronto, ON, Canada, 2024, pp. 1-6, DOI:10.1109/ICHMS59971.2024.10555693
  • Reem Al-Baghli, Akshay Sunil Gurnaney*, and Nada Attar, Detecting Bias in Refugee Perception using Face Swapping: An Empirical Eye-Tracking Study, 4th IEEE International Conference on Human-Machine Systems, Accepted, 2024
  • Reem Albaghli, Chaz Chang, Sarah Almahmeed, and Nada Attar. 2022. Untraining Ethnocentric Biases about Gender Roles: A Preliminary Empirical Study Presenting Art as Stimulus. In Proceedings of Mensch und Computer 2022 (MuC '22). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 376–381. https://doi.org/10.1145/3543758.3547543
  • Reem Albaghli, Yaman Jandali, Sarah Almahmid, Nada Attar. Leveraging Initial Cognitive Load to Predict User Response to Complex Visual Tasks. (2022). In proceedings of the 8 th World Congress on Electrical Engineering and Computer Systems and Sciences (EECSS’22) Prague, Czech Republic. Paper No. MHCI 103. DOI: 10.11159/mhci22.103
  • Albaghli, Reem. 2018, A Framework to Design and Evaluate Wearable Interactive Systems for Health, PhD Thesis, University of Colorado, Boulder. Corpus ID: 150142746.
  • Reem Albaghli, Urooj Raja, and Kenneth M. Anderson, “An Innovative Approach to Better Cardiac Health Through Wearable Technology ,” Proc. 2017 ACM Int. Jt. Conf. CHI’17 Adjun., 2017.
  • Reem Albaghli and Kenneth M. Anderson. 2016. A vision for heart rate health through wearables. In Proceedings of the 2016 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing: Adjunct (UbiComp '16). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 1101-1105.
  • Halley Profita, Reem Albaghli, Leah Findlater, Paul Jaeger,and Shaun K. Kane. 2016. The AT Effect: How Disability Affects the Perceived Social Acceptability of Head-Mounted Display Use. In Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’16).
     
Other

Recent Professional Development Activities

 

COMPUTER LANGUAGES 

  • C++, Pascal, Python, JavaScript, Prolog, HTML, Swift.


RESEARCH & TECH PROJECTS 

  • AR children game for local curriculums of the ministry of education, Kuwait.
  • Speech pathology training system for children with hearing impairment.
  • Smart storytelling system for children.
  • Arabic reading game, with a focus on children with Dyslexia.
    WORKSHOPS
  • Critical thinking and presentation skills workshops.
  • Course Instructor and Lecturer for KFAS's Chief Science Officer initiative CSO program 2022.
  • Organizer, speaker: Committee member of COEP-Mitigation Strategy and vision for COVID19-
  • education crisis.
  • Training Faculty and staff for Covid mitigation plan.
  • Attendee: Organizer, speaker, CRA-W Grad Cohort for Women program, Chicago, April 2019.

RESEARCH GRANTS

  • EO06/21 UI design methods through Eye tracking technology for education and Critical thinking enrichment
    a. Duration: from 2022-2025
    b. Amount: 38941KD
    c. Completion Score: 82%
  • EO11/25 Advancing Eye-Tracking–Driven UX Research for Digital Systems: Completing Ongoing Studies and Supporting New Applied Investigations
    a. Duration: from 2026-2028
    b. Amount: 4000KD
    c. Proposal Score: 91%

OTHER PROJECTS AND INTERESTS

  • Children book author, critical thinking workshops for young adults and children, painter

Conference Papers:

  • R. Albaghli, A. Gurnaney and N. Attar, "Detecting Bias in Refugee Perception using Face Swapping: An Empirical Eye-Tracking Study," 2024 IEEE 4th International Conference on Human-Machine Systems (ICHMS), Toronto, ON, Canada, 2024, pp. 1-6,
    doi: 10.1109/ICHMS59971.2024.10555693.
  • Reem, Albaghli, Chaz, Chang, Sarah, Almahmid and Nada, Attar. 2022. Untraining Ethnocentric Biases about Gender Roles: A Preliminary Empirical Study Presenting Art as Stimulus. In Mensch und Computer 2022 (MuC '22), September 04-07, 2022,
    Darmstadt, Germany. ACM, NY, USA, 9 Pages. doi: 10.1145/3543758.3547543.
  • R Albaghli, Y Jandali, S Almahmid, N Attar, “Leveraging initial cognitive load to predict user response to complex visual tasks,” Proceedings of the 8th World Congress on Electrical Engineering and Computer Systems and Sciences (EECSS’22) Prague, Czech Republic - July 28- 30, 2022 Paper No. MHCI 103 doi: 10.11159/mhci22.103.
     
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