Publications and Presentations

All publications prior to September 2025 appear under the name Hamed Jalali.

Journal Papers

– Djalali, Hans., Aljedaani, Wajdi., Ludi, Stephanie. ”The Evolution of Software Usability in Developer Communities:An Empirical Study on Stack Overflow.” MDPI Software Journal. [Accepted October 2025]

Peer-Reviewed Conference Papers

Mollik, Rubel Hassan., Kosuri, Vamsi Krishna., Djalali, Hans., Ludi, Stephanie., Mountapmbeme, Aboubakar.”Designing an Accessible Blockly: An Extension-Based Accessibility Framework (EAF) for Structured Navigation andEditing.” Submitted to IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering: Software Engineering in Society(ICSE-UISE), 2026. [Under Review]

– Jalali, Hamed., Aljedaani, Wajdi., Ludi, Stephanie. ”The Gap Between Usability Theory and PracticalImplementation: An Empirical Study on Stack Overflow.” Proceedings of HCI International, 2025, volume 85. [Accepted]

– Jalali, Hamed., Aljedaani, Wajdi., Ludi, Alghamdi, Asmaa., Stephanie., Eler, Marcelo M. ”Understanding DeveloperMisconceptions About Accessibility and Usability: An Empirical Study on Stack Overflow.” Proceedings of HCIInternational, 2025, volume 85. [Accepted]

A ljedaani, Wajdi., Eler, Marcelo M., Jalali, Hamed., Keeland, Lorene E., Al-Raddah, Khaled., Mkaouer, MohamedWiem. ”Accessible Gaming Through Better Captions: Preferences and Inclusivity of Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Players.”Proceedings of the ACM International Web for All Conference (W4A), 2024.

Alghamdi, Asmaa., Jalali, Hamed., Aljedaani, Wajdi., Ludi, Stephanie., Eler, Marcelo M. ”Developer Challenges andTrends in Web Accessibility: A Stack Overflow Analysis.” Univ Access Inf Soc24, 1701–1717 (2024).

Conference Presentations & Posters

Jalali, Hamed. ”Usability Heuristics: Can Jakob Nielsen’s 10 Detect Modern Usability Issues?” UNT ComputerScience & Engineering Research & Development Expo, 2024. [Poster]

Jalali, Hamed., Afshari, Atoosa. ”Our Sedimented Petit-bourgeois Body: Sedimented Silence.” Society for Literature,Science, and the Arts (SLSA) Conference, 2023.