Officers 2020
Seif Samer, Chair
POET Egypt
Ask me about : HCI, UX, web design, database, machine learning, photography, videography, movie editing
Yasmeen Abdrabou, Vice Chair
Bundeswehr University Munich
Yasmeen Abdrabou is a 1st year PhD student at Bundewehr university Munich. Her thesis focuses on exploring the privacy concerns from and by ubiquitous systems. In 2017, she co-founded a cultural heritage cluster in the GUC with the collaboration of Luxor governorate, Egypt to integrate ubiquitous technologies in the heritage sites. In 2016, she earned her M.Sc. from the German University in Cairo (GUC), where her dissertation focused on integrating and evaluating ubiquitous technologies in the pedagogical field.
Contact : yabdrabou@acm.org .
Ask me about : Security, Eye Tracking, Interaction, Ubiquitous Computing
Nasser Ali, Treasurer
VirginGates
Nasser Ali is a self-taught user experience designer who focuses on research now. He comes from a computer science education background. Nasser also organizes meetups and conferences with the GDG (Google Developers Groups) and would give sessions and workshops on UX topics sometimes.
Contact: nasserma@acm.org
Ask me about: HCI, UX Design, User Research, Conversational Design
Dr. Ayman Ezzat, Membership Chair
University of Modern Science and Arts (MSA)
Dr Ayman Ezzat holds a Ph.D. From the University of Tsukuba, Japan 2011. He received the BS and MS degree from the Department of Computer Science, Helwan University, Egypt in 2000 and 2004, respectively. Dr Ayman Ezzat was a senior member of the IEEE computer society and currently a member of
ACM SIGCHI. Dr Ayman is Co-Founder of HCI-LAB http://www.hciegypt.com , and head of the interaction group. He was a member of the government-funded project “ASRP” for intelligent Liver angiography. The work aim is to build a smart interactive environment controller for doctors doing angiography in the operation room. The work was published in 2013 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference. My work considers innovative tools for traffic and road accident avoidance. Dr Ayman and his students develop a tool for detecting bumps/potholes and driving behavior published in many conferences and journals. Their work focuses on driving behavior and awareness monitoring and analysis of human behaviors. His work includes finding new interaction techniques for large display too. Dr Ayman Ezzat is head of graduation project committee for supervision at October university for modern sciences and arts (MSA), Previously combined technical and theoretical background to win many local and international competitions.
Contact: ayman@fcih.net
Officers 2019
Shaimaa Lazem, Chair
City of Scientific Research and Technology Applications (SRTA-City), Egypt
Shaimaa Lazem is an Associate Research Professor at the City for Scientific Research and Technology Applications (SRTA-City). She earned her PhD in Computer Science from Virginia Tech, USA in 2012. At SRTA-City she established a research program in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). Her previous projects included designing low-cost education and health technologies, applying learner-centered and flexible learning pedagogies for teaching computer science and HCI, and digital documentation of the Bedouin intangible cultural heritage. She is a Leaders-in-Innovation fellow with the Royal Academy of Engineering, London, UK. Dr. Lazem is the Chair of the Cairo ACM SIGCHI Professional Chapter in Egypt (CairoCHI) and the Cofounder of the ArabHCI community
Contact : shlazem@acm.org.
Ask me about : Educational technologies, Communities and Technologies, Participatory Design, User Research
Amr Ismail, Vice Chair
Babel, CEO
Amr Ismail is the founder of Babel which is a media production house and is a Behance Local Community Leader , have more than 5 years experience in media production and specialized in filmmaking and UI. Graduated from Faculty of Engineering, Computer and Communication Department 2018
Contact: amr.ismail@babelmp.com
Ask me about : Entrepreneurship, UI/UX Design , Film-making
Seif Samer, Treasurer
POET Egypt
Ask me about : HCI, UX, web design, database, machine learning, photography, videography, movie editing
Yasmeen Abdrabou, Secertary
Bundeswehr University Munich
Yasmeen Abdrabou is a 1st year PhD student at Bundewehr university Munich. Her thesis focuses on exploring the privacy concerns from and by ubiquitous systems. In 2017, she co-founded a cultural heritage cluster in the GUC with the collaboration of Luxor governorate, Egypt to integrate ubiquitous technologies in the heritage sites. In 2016, she earned her M.Sc. from the German University in Cairo (GUC), where her dissertation focused on integrating and evaluating ubiquitous technologies in the pedagogical field.
Contact : yabdrabou@acm.org .
Ask me about : Security, Eye Tracking, Interaction, Ubiquitous Computing
Officers 2018
Shaimaa Lazem, Chair
City of Scientific Research and Technology Applications (SRTA-City), Egypt
Shaimaa Lazem earned a BSc and MSc in Computer Engineering from Alexandria University, Egypt. She earned her PhD in Computer Science, Virginia Tech, USA in 2012. She holds an academic research position at the City of Scientific Research and Technology Applications (SRTA-City), Egypt. Her research projects included designing educational games that helped children in rural Egypt, and exploring flexible learning pedagogies for teaching HCI to engineering students. She is the Egyptian lead of a UK-Egypt project to engage Egyptian Bedouins in self-documenting their intangible heritage using mobile phones, the Hilali Institutional link , with Kingston University, UK. Shaimaa was recently awarded the Leaders in Innovation Fellowship with the Royal Academy of Engineering in London.
Contact : shlazem@acm.org.
Ask me about : Educational technologies, Communities and Technologies, Participatory Design, User Research
Mennatallah Saleh, Vice Chair
Technical University of Berlin/Hamm-Lippstadt University of Applied Science
I am a PhD Student working on cross-cultural usable privacy. I conduct ethnographic qualitative research and I am interested in Information sharing decisions on social media platforms.I want to make the world a better place through design for underprivileged communities. I have finished my Bachelors from the German University in Cairo and my masters project was a collaboration between the German University in Cairo and Hamm-Lippstadt Applied Sciences University.
Contact : menna.esaleh@gmail.com
Ask me about : HCI for Development, Cross-cultural HCI, literacy and education, usable privacy
Rana Mohamed Eisa, Treasurer
German University in Cairo
Contact : rana.mohamed.eisa@gmail.com
Ask me about : Privacy, Usability, Behavior Analysis, Security, HCI, Event Detection
Yasmeen Abdrabou, Secertary
Bundeswehr University Munich
Yasmeen Abdrabou is a 1st year PhD student at Bundewehr university Munich. Her thesis focuses on exploring the privacy concerns from and by ubiquitous systems. In 2017, she co-founded a cultural heritage cluster in the GUC with the collaboration of Luxor governorate, Egypt to integrate ubiquitous technologies in the heritage sites. In 2016, she earned her M.Sc. from the German University in Cairo (GUC), where her dissertation focused on integrating and evaluating ubiquitous technologies in the pedagogical field.
Contact : yabdrabou@acm.org .
Ask me about : Security, Eye Tracking, Interaction, Ubiquitous Computing
Passant Elagroudy, Web Master
University of Stuttgart, Visualizations and Interactive Systems Institute
Passant is a PhD student a researcher in Univeristy of Stuttgart, Germany. Her research focuses on creating ubiquitous technologies for augmenting human memory. She earned her BSc and MSc degree from the Faculty of Digital Media Engineering and Technology in the German University in Cairo (GUC). She worked on several EU research projects such as RECALL and AMPLIFY to augment the human senses. Passant also worked in a serious games research cluster and an affective computing research cluster in the GUC. She also worked before in supporting the memories of knowledge workers in the German Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI).
Ask me about: memories, lifelogging, serious games, HCI qualitative research, studying in Germany, social media