Publications

Full list of publications is available on my Google Scholar profile.

Selected Publications

2025

Farhat Tasnim Progga and Sabirat Rubya. 2025. Women’s Perspectives and Challenges in Adopting Perinatal Mental Health Technologies. Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 9, 1, Article GROUP38 (January 2025), 30 pages.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3701217

Okusanya, Temitayo R., Md Romael Haque, Natalie Baker, Praveen Madiraju, Robert Curry, Otis Winstead, Sabirat Rubya, Zahra Bayat, Maliha Mahajebin, and Zeno Franco. “Mental Health Support and Crisis Detection for Veterans Using Opioids: Evaluating Predictive Modeling and Peer Support Through a Mobile App.” In Proceedings of the International ISCRAM Conference. 2025.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.59297/7v638x92

2024

MD Romael Haque, Zeno Franco, Praveen Madiraju, Natalie D Baker, Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed, Otis Winstead, Robert Curry, and Sabirat Rubya. 2024. “Butt call me once you get a chance to chat 🙂” : Designing Persuasive Reminders for Veterans to Facilitate Peer-Mentor Support. In Proceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’24). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 874, 1–17.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3613904.3642962

Farhat Tasnim Progga, Amal Khan, and Sabirat Rubya. 2024. Large Language Models and Personalized Storytelling for Postpartum Wellbeing. In Companion Publication of the 2024 Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW Companion ’24). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 653–657.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3678884.3681921

2023

Haque MDR, Rubya S. “An Overview of Chatbot-Based Mobile Mental Health Apps: Insights From App Description and User Reviews”
JMIR Mhealth Uhealth 2023;11:e44838
DOI: 10.2196/44838

2021

Sabirat Rubya, Joseph Numainville, and Svetlana Yarosh. 2021. “Comparing Generic and Community-Situated Crowdsourcing for Data Validation in the Context of Recovery from Substance Use Disorders.” In Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’21).
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3411764.3445399

2020

PhD thesis: Sabirat Rubya (2020). Enhancing Access to Peer Support Through Technology for Recovery from Substance Use Disorders (Doctoral dissertation, University of Minnesota).

Zachary Levonian, Drew Richard Erikson, Wenqi Luo, Saumik Narayanan, Sabirat Rubya, Prateek Vachher, Loren Terveen, Svetlana Yarosh. (2020) “Bridging Qualitative and Quantitative Methods for User Modeling: Tracing Cancer Patient Behavior in an Online Health Community.” In Proceedings of the 14th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media – ICWSM 14(1), 405-416.
https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/ICWSM/article/view/7310

2019

Sabirat Rubya, Xizi Wang, and Svetlana Yarosh. 2019. “HAIR: Towards Developing a Global Self-Updating Peer Support Group Meeting List Using Human-Aided Information Retrieval.” In Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (CHIIR ’19). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 83-92.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3295750.3298933

2017

Sabirat Rubya and Svetlana Yarosh. 2017. Interpretations of Online Anonymity in Alcoholics Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous. Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 1, CSCW, Article 91 (December 2017), 22 pages.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3134726

Sabirat Rubya and Svetlana Yarosh. 2017. Video-Mediated Peer Support in an Online Community for Recovery from Substance Use Disorders. In Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW ’17). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 1454-1469.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/2998181.2998246