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  1. "If We Had the Option": Infrastructuring for Access to Online Subscription-Based Services in Bangladesh

    Article • Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, May 2025, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Foad Hamidi

  2. Supporting Campus Activism through Creating DIY-AT in a Social Justice Aligned Makerspace

    Article • ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing, January 2025, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Erin Higgins, Foad Hamidi

  3. Transcending Transit Deserts: Participatory Design of Interactive Bicycling Advocacy Tools in an American City

    Article • Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, January 2025, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Foad Hamidi

  4. An Ecosystem of Support: A U.S. State Government-Supported DIY-AT Program for Residents with Disabilities

    Article • October 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Foad Hamidi, Erin Higgins

  5. Co-designing a 3D-Printed Tactile Campus Map With Blind and Low-Vision University Students

    Article • October 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Kirk Crawford, Foad Hamidi, Erin Higgins

  6. Connecting in Crisis: Investigating Equitable Community Internet Access in the US During the COVID-19 Pandemic

    Article • ACM Journal on Computing and Sustainable Societies, July 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Foad Hamidi

  7. An Investigation of the Experiences of Orientation and Mobility Trainers in India

    Article • May 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Foad Hamidi

  8. “Pretty Much an Advocate as Well”: Investigating the Experiences of Self-Employed Individuals with Visual Impairments

    Article • May 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Foad Hamidi

  9. Decoding the Privacy Policies of Assistive Technologies

    Article • May 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Kirk Crawford, Foad Hamidi

  10. Message in a Bottle: Investigating Bioart Installations as a Transdisciplinary Means of Community Engagement

    Article • May 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Erin Higgins, Foad Hamidi

  11. A11yFutures: Envisioning the Future of Accessibility Research

    Article • October 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Foad Hamidi, Kirk Crawford

  12. Towards a Social Justice Aligned Makerspace: Co-designing Custom Assistive Technology within a University Ecosystem

    Article • October 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Foad Hamidi, Erin Higgins

  13. Complex Dynamics: Disability, Assistive Technology, and the LGBTQIA+ Community Center Experience in the United States

    Article • October 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Foad Hamidi, Kirk Crawford

  14. Supporting Social Inclusion with DIY-ATs: Perspectives of Kenyan Caregivers of Children with Cognitive Disabilities

    Article • ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing, August 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Foad Hamidi

  15. Investigating an Equity-based Participatory Approach to Technology-rich Learning in Community Recreation Centers

    Article • April 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Susanna Abler, Erin Higgins, Foad Hamidi

  16. Youths' Usage of an Informal Chatting Tool in an After-school 3D Print Shop

    Article • Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, April 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Foad Hamidi

  17. Creating 3D Printed Assistive Technology Through Design Shortcuts: Leveraging Digital Fabrication Services to Incorporate 3D Printing into the Physical Therapy Classroom

    Article • October 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Erin Higgins, Foad Hamidi

  18. ProAesthetics: Changing How We View Prosthetic Function

    Article • October 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Susanna Abler, Foad Hamidi

  19. Structural accessibility barriers and service gaps facing refugees with disabilities in the United States

    Article • Journal of Enabling Technologies, August 2022, Emerald

    Foad Hamidi

  20. Note: “Fear is Grounded in Reality”: The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Refugees’ Access to Health and Accessibility Resources in the United States

    Article • June 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Foad Hamidi

  21. "I'm ok because I'm alive"

    Article • April 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Foad Hamidi

  22. "Knowledge Comes Through Participation": Understanding Disability through the Lens of DIY Assistive Technology in Western Kenya

    Article • Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, March 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Foad Hamidi

  23. Exploring the Collaboration Possibilities of Distributed Making for Storytelling Using 3D Printing Pens

    Article • October 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Susanna Abler, Foad Hamidi

  24. Investigating the Navigational Habits of People who are Blind in India

    Article • October 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Raghavendra Prasad S G, Foad Hamidi

  25. Using a Participatory Toolkit to Elicit Youth’s Workplace Privacy Perspectives

    Article • October 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Foad Hamidi

  26. Designing for New Forms of Vulnerability

    Article • May 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Foad Hamidi

  27. “Turning the Invisible Visible”: Transdisciplinary Bioart Explorations in Human-DNA Interaction

    Article • May 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Lisa Scheifele, Foad Hamidi

  28. Perspectives of Bioartists and Community Lab Organizers on Working with Living Organisms

    Article • May 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Foad Hamidi

  29. Online learning accessibility during the COVID-19 pandemic

    Article • April 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Foad Hamidi

  30. Chasing Lions

    Article • July 2020, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Foad Hamidi

  31. SenseBox

    Article • March 2019, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Foad Hamidi

  32. Shifting Expectations

    Article • Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, November 2018, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Foad Hamidi

  33. Safe Spaces and Safe Places

    Article • Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, November 2018, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Foad Hamidi

  34. Understanding How Youth Employees Use Slack

    Article • October 2018, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Foad Hamidi

  35. Who Should Have Access to my Pointing Data?

    Article • October 2018, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Foad Hamidi

  36. Gender Recognition or Gender Reductionism?

    Article • April 2018, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Foad Hamidi

  37. Inviting silence

    Article • interactions, February 2018, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Foad Hamidi

  38. Using Robotics and 3D Printing to Introduce Youth to Computer Science and Electromechanical Engineering

    Article • May 2017, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Foad Hamidi