M. Sc. Qurat Ul Ain

Ph.D. Student Qurat Ul Ain

Office location: LE 409

Office hours: By appointment only

Phone : +49 (0) 203 379-1333

E-Mail: qurat.ain@stud.uni-due.de

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Projects: CourseMapper

Short CV

Qurat Ul Ain is a Research Assistant and Ph.D. student of the Social Computing Group in the Department of Computer Science and Applied Cognitive Science at the University of Duisburg-Essen. She has completed her bachelor’s in computer science (2016) from Quaid-i-Azam University, and master’s in computer science (2019) from the National University of Computer & Emerging Sciences, Islamabad, Pakistan. After completing her Masters, she joined COMSATS University, Islamabad, Pakistan as a Lecturer at the undergraduate level in the Department of Computer Science. Her primary area of research is Human-Computer Interaction and User Experience Engineering. For her Ph.D. research, she is working on explainable learning analytics.

Research Interests

  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • User Experience Engineering
  • Human-Centered Design
  • Visual Analytics
  • Recommender Systems
  • Personalized explanations in RS

Academic Qualifications

August 2019
Master of Science in Computer Science
National University of Computer & Emerging Sciences, Islamabad, Pakistan

December 2016
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan

Work Experience

Since July 2021
Research assistant and Ph.D. student in the Social Computing Group at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany

September 2019 - March 2021
Lecturer in the Computer Science department at COMSATS University, Islamabad, Pakistan

Publications

2024

  • Qurat Ul Ain, Mohamed Amine Chatti, William Kana Tsoplefack, Rawaa Alatrash and Shoeb Joarder
    Designing and Evaluating an Educational Recommender System with Different Levels of User Control   Inproceedings  
    In Proceedings of the 11th Joint Workshop on Interfaces and Human Decision Making for Recommender Systems (IntRS)
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  • Qurat Ul Ain, Mohamed Amine Chatti, Paul Arthur Meteng Kamdem, Rawaa Alatrash, Shoeb Joarder and Clara Siepmann
    Learner Modeling and Recommendation of Learning Resources using Personal Knowledge Graphs   Inproceedings  
    In Proceedings of the 14th International Learning Analytics and Knowledge Conference (LAK’24), pp. 273–283
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  • Rawaa Alatrash, Mohamed Amine Chatti, Qurat Ul Ain, Shoeb Joarder
    Transparent Learner Knowledge State Modeling using Personal Knowledge Graphs and Graph Neural Networks   Inproceedings  
    In Adjunct Proceedings of the 32nd ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP’24 Adjunct), Cagliari, Italy, July 2024.
     
  • Rawaa Alatrash, Mohamed Amine Chatti, Qurat Ul Ain, Fang Yipeng, Shoeb Joarder, Clara Siepmann
    ConceptGCN: Concept Recommendation in MOOCs based on Knowledge Graph Convolutional Networks and SBERT  Journal Article Open Access
    Computers and Education: Artificial Intelligence, Volume 6, 2024, 100193, ISSN 2666-920X, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.caeai.2023.100193
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2023

  • Qurat Ul Ain, Mohamed Amine Chatti, Komlan Gluck Charles Bakar, Shoeb Joarder, Rawaa Alatrash
    Automatic Construction of Educational Knowledge Graphs: A Word Embedding-based Approach   Journal Article Open Access
    Information 2023, 14(10), 526; https://doi.org/10.3390/info14100526
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  • Mouadh Guesmi, Mohamed Amine Chatti, Shoeb Joarder, Qurat Ul Ain, Rawaa Alatrash, Clara Siepmann, Tannaz Vahidi
    Interactive Explanation with Varying Level of Details in an Explainable Scientific Literature Recommender System   Journal Article
    International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction, 2023; https://doi.org/10.1080/10447318.2023.2262797
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  • Mouadh Guesmi, Mohamed Amine Chatti, Lamees Kadhim, Shoeb Joarder, Qurat Ul Ain
    Semantic Interest Modeling and Content-based Scientific Publication Recommendation Using Word Embeddings and Sentence Encoders   Journal Article Open Access
    Multimodal Technol. Interact. 2023, 7(9), 91; https://doi.org/10.3390/mti7090091
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  • Mouadh Guesmi, Mohamed Amine Chatti, Shoeb Joarder, Qurat Ul Ain, Clara Siepmann, Hoda Ghanbarzadeh, Rawaa Alatrash
    Justification vs. Transparency: Why and How Visual Explanations in a Scientific Literature Recommender System   Journal Article Open Access
    Information. 2023; 14(7):401. https://doi.org/10.3390/info14070401
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  • Mouadh Guesmi, Clara Siepmann, Mohamed Amine Chatti, Shoeb Joarder, Qurat Ul Ain, Rawaa Alatrash
    Validation of the EDUSS Framework for Self-Actualization Based on Transparent User Models: A Qualitative Study   Inproceedings
    In Adjunct Proceedings of the 31th ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP ’23 Adjunct), Limassol, Cyprus, June 2023.
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  • Shoeb Joarder, Mohamed Amine Chatti, Seyedemarzie Mirhashemi, and Qurat Ul Ain
    Towards a Flexible User Interface for 'Quick and Dirty' Learning Analytics Indicator Design   Inproceedings  
    In Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Human-Centered Learning Analytics (HCLA) at the LAK'23 conference.
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2022

  • Qurat Ul Ain, Mohamed Amine Chatti, Shoeb Joarder, Ilia Nassif, Benjamine Stella Wobiwo Teda, Mouadh Guesmi, Rawaa Alatrash
    Learning Channels to Support Interaction and Collaboration in CourseMapper   Inproceedings
    In Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Education Technology and Computers (ICETC ’22).
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  • Qurat Ul Ain, Mohamed Amine Chatti, Mouadh Guesmi, Shoeb Joarder
    A Multi-Dimensional Conceptualization Framework for Personalized Explanations in Recommender Systems   Inproceedings
    In Companion Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI'22).
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  • Mouadh Guesmi, Mohamed Amine Chatti, Jaleh Ghorbani-Bavani, Shoeb Joarder, Qurat Ul Ain, Rawaa Alatrash
    What if Interactive Explanation in a Scientific Literature Recommender System   Inproceedings  
    In Proceedings of the 9th Joint Workshop on Interfaces and Human Decision Making for Recommender Systems (IntRS ’22).
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  • Mohamed Amine Chatti, Mouadh Guesmi, Laura Vorgerd, Thao Ngo, Shoeb Joarder, Qurat Ul Ain, Arham Muslim
    Is More Always Better? The Effects of Personal Characteristics and Level of Detail on the Perception of Explanations in a Recommender System  Inproceedings  
    In Proceedings of the 30th ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization, Barcelona, Spain, July 2022.
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  • Mouadh Guesmi, Mohamed Amine Chatti, Laura Vorgerd, Thao Ngo, Shoeb Joarder, Qurat Ul Ain, Arham Muslim
    Explaining User Models with Different Levels of Detail for Transparent Recommendation: A User Study   Inproceedings  
    In Adjunct Proceedings of the 30th ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP ’22 Adjunct), Barcelona, Spain, July 2022.
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  • Mouadh Guesmi, Mohamed Amine Chatti, Alptug Tayyar, Qurat Ul Ain, Shoeb Joarder
    Interactive Visualizations of Transparent User Models for Self-Actualization: A Human-Centered Design Approach  Journal Article  Open Access
    Multimodal Technologies and Interaction, 2022, 6(6), 42; https://doi.org/10.3390/mti6060042
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