Publications
A comprehensive collection of my academic research and contributions to the field of Human-Computer Interaction
Zamanifard, S., S., Goudarzi, S., Soleimani, M., & Robb, A. (2025). Undergraduate Students' Perceptions of Large Language Models in Higher Education: Self-Perceived Benefits, Reliance, and Accuracy Assessment. Preprint
Diaz, D., Zamanifard, S., Volonte, M., & Duchowski, A. T. (2025). Evaluating Demographic Bias of Virtual Humans With Gaze: Race and Sex Concordance. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 9(3), 1-17.
Diaz, D., Zamanifard, S., Volonte, M., & Duchowski, A. T. (2025, May). Toward Standardization of Colliders for Statistical Comparison of Gaze on Virtual Humans. In Proceedings of the 2025 Symposium on Eye Tracking Research and Applications (pp. 1-5).
Vankit, S. A., Motti, V. G., Do, T. D., Zamanifard, S., Diaz, D., Duchowski, A. T., et al. (2025). Path Modeling of Visual Attention, User Perceptions, and Behavior Change Intentions in Conversations with Embodied Agents in VR.
Vankit, S. A., Zamanifard, S., Diaz, D., Mousas, C., Richardson, K., Duchowski, A. T., & Volonte, M. (2025). Exploring the Impact of Multimodal Long Conversations in VR on Attitudes Towards Behavior Change, Memory Retention, and Cognitive Load.
Diaz, D., Zamanifard, S., Duchowski, A. T., & Volonte, M. (2024, March). Initial Investigations into Information Retention and Perception on Virtual Human Race. In 2024 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops (VRW) (pp. 1078-1079). IEEE.
Zamanifard, S., & Robb, A. (2023, April). Social Virtual Reality Is My Therapist: Overcoming Social Anxiety Disorder. In Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1-6).
Schulenberg, K., Li, L., Freeman, G., Zamanifard, S., & McNeese, N. J. (2023, April). Towards Leveraging AI-based Moderation to Address Emergent Harassment in Social Virtual Reality. In Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1-17).
Zamanifard, S., & Freeman, G. (2023, March). A Surprise Birthday Party in VR: Leveraging Social Virtual Reality to Maintain Existing Close Ties over Distance. In International Conference on Information (pp. 268-285). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland.
Freeman, G., Zamanifard, S., Maloney, D., & Acena, D. (2022). Disturbing the peace: Experiencing and mitigating emerging harassment in social virtual reality. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 6(CSCW1), 1-30.
Maloney, D., Zamanifard, S., & Freeman, G. (2020, November). Anonymity vs. familiarity: Self-disclosure and privacy in social virtual reality. In Proceedings of the 26th ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology (pp. 1-9).
Freeman, G., Zamanifard, S., Maloney, D., & Adkins, A. (2020, April). My body, my avatar: How people perceive their avatars in social virtual reality. In Extended Abstracts of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1-8).
Alizadeh, A., Chehrehpak, M., Nasr, A. K., & Zamanifard, S. (2020). An empirical study on effective factors on adoption of cloud computing in electronic banking: a case study of Iran banking sector. International Journal of Business Information Systems, 33(3), 408-428.
Zamanifard, S., & Freeman, G. (2019, November). " The Togetherness that We Crave" Experiencing Social VR in Long Distance Relationships. In Conference companion publication of the 2019 on computer supported cooperative work and social computing (pp. 438-442).
Zamanifard, S., Khosravi, R., & Sabouri, H. (2015). An Incremental Approach to Manage Variability in Software Product Line Requirements. International Journal of Computer and Electrical Engineering, 7(1), 47.