Basic Information

Email Address

• Email Address

  sahab.sofia.4hkyoto-u.ac.jp

Academic Degree

• 23 Mar. 2014

  名古屋工業大学修士（工学）
• 23 Mar. 2017

  名古屋工業大学博士（工学）

Academic Resume (Graduate Schools)

• 名古屋工業大学, 大学院工学研究科創成シミュレーション工学専攻博士後期課程, 修了
• 名古屋工業大学, 大学院工学研究科創成シミュレーション工学専攻博士前期課程, 修了

Academic Resume (Undergraduate School/Majors)

• Kabul University, Faculty of Engineering, Department of Architecture, 卒業

ID,URL

• ORCID ID

  0000-0002-5822-5021

• J-Global ID

  202201000897263042

• Researcher number

  00892928

researchmap URL

• https://researchmap.jp/sofiasahab

Research

Papers

• Assessment of the LLM-based Chatbots on Student Engagement and Learning Outcomes in Afghanistan

  Jawad Ahmad Haqbeen; Sofia Sahab; Takayuki Ito

  Conference on Digital Government Research, 19 May 2025

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• E-contact facilitated by conversational agents reduces interethnic prejudice and anxiety in Afghanistan

  Sofia Sahab; Jawad Haqbeen; Rafik Hadfi; Takayuki Ito; Richard Eke Imade; Susumu Ohnuma; Takuya Hasegawa

  Communications Psychology, 21 Mar. 2024

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• Assessing the Impact of AI Conversational Agents on the Mental Health and Self-Efficacy of Afghan Women

  WANG Tianchen; SAHAB Sofia; HAQBEEN Jawad; ITO Takayuki

  Proceedings of the Annual Conference of JSAI, 2024

  
• Examining the Impact of Conversational AI Interaction on Perceptions of Individuals with Extreme Views in Post-2021 Afghanistan

  HAQBEEN Jawad; SAHAB Sofia; ITO Takayuki

  Proceedings of the Annual Conference of JSAI, 2024

  
• Discussion Timeline for Collaborative Planning: Case of IBIS element-specific AI-enabled facilitation policy

  SAHAB Sofia Sahab; HAQBEEN Jawad; ITO Takayuki

  Proceedings of the Annual Conference of JSAI, 2024

  
• From Interactive Idea Development to Solution Planning: An AI-assisted Discussion Facilitation Timeline for Collaborative Planning.

  Jawad Ahmad Haqbeen; Sofia Sahab; Takayuki Ito 0001

  DG.O, 2024

  
• Assessing the Impact of AI-mediation on Changing Extreme Perception in Online Discussion: Post-Intervention Responses in Post-2021 Afghanistan.

  Jawad Ahmad Haqbeen; Sofia Sahab; Takayuki Ito 0001

  DG.O, 2024

  
• Talent-Spotting in Online Deliberative Crowdsourcing Initiative: Case of Afghanistan’s first ever Internet-based Idea Competition on Solid Waste Management

  SAHAB Sofia; HAQBEEN Jawad; ITO Takayuki

  Proceedings of the Annual Conference of JSAI, 2023

  
• Facilitating Collaborative Consensus Building in Web-based Discussion through Collective Task-Based Roles: A Case Study

  Sahab Sofia; Haqbeen Jawad; Ito Takayuki

  IIAI Letters on Informatics and Interdisciplinary Research, 2023

  
• A Lage-scale Labeled English Text Datasets for Machine Learning: Case of Issue-based Information System

  HAQBEEN Jawad; SAHAB Sofia; ITO Takayuki

  Proceedings of the Annual Conference of JSAI, 2023

  
• A Digital Initiative to Address Girls Education Challenges in Collaboration with NPO in Post-2021 Afghanistan

  Haqbeen Jawad; Sahab Sofia; Ito Takayuki

  IIAI Letters on Informatics and Interdisciplinary Research, 2023

  
• A Case Study on the Comparison of AI-facilitated Threaded Conversation versus Threaded Conversation

  Haqbeen Jawad; Sahab Sofia; Ito Takayuki

  IIAI Letters on Informatics and Interdisciplinary Research, 2023

  
• Evaluating Rank-Coherence among AI-enabled Ranking, Expert Rating and Crowd Voting for Selecting Winners in Incentivized Large-scale Idea Contest for Creative Works

  HAQBEEN Jawad; SAHAB Sofia; ITO Takayuki

  Proceedings of the Annual Conference of JSAI, 2022

  
• The Image of the City through Digital Participatory Platform: A comparative study of “AI-mediated” and “non-mediated” discussions in five major cities of Afghanistan

  SAHAB Sofia; HAQBEEN Jawad; ITO Takayuki

  Proceedings of the Annual Conference of JSAI, 2022

  
• A STUDY ON NEIGHBORHOOD UNIT MODEL FOR INNER CITY KABUL, AFGHANISTAN

  Sofia Sahab

  01 Apr. 2017

  
• A STUDY ON NEIGHBORHOOD FUNCTIONS OF ‘GOZARS’ IN KABUL, AFGHANISTAN

  Sofia SAHAB; Toshiyuki KANEDA

  Journal of Architecture and Planning (Transactions of AIJ), 2015

  
• Conversational AI as a Facilitator Improves Participant Engagement and Problem-Solving in Online Discussion: Sharing Evidence from Five Cities in Afghanistan

  Sofia SAHAB; Jawad HAQBEEN; Takayuki ITO

  IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems, 01 Apr. 2024

  
• Conversational agents enhance women's contribution in online debates

  Rafik Hadfi; Shun Okuhara; Jawad Haqbeen; Sofia Sahab; Susumu Ohnuma; Takayuki Ito

  Scientific Reports, 04 Sep. 2023

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• In Solidarity with Ukraine through Conversational AI via Facebook Ads: A Case Study of Online Discussion in 15 Countries

  Jawad Haqbeen; Sofia Sahab; Takayuki Ito

  ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, 11 Jul. 2023

  
• Facilitating the Problems that lie within the Solutions using Conversational AI: A Case Study of Post-2021 Afghanistan

  Sofia Sahab; Jawad Haqbeen; Takayuki Ito

  ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, 11 Jul. 2023

  
• How did discourse shift among Afghan citizens during the fall of republic: Early insights using conversational AI platform

  Jawad Haqbeen; Sofia Sahab; Takayuki Ito

  DG.O 2022: The 23rd Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research, 15 Jun. 2022

  
• Argumentative Conversational Agents for Online Discussions

  Rafik Hadfi; Jawad Haqbeen; Sofia Sahab; Takayuki Ito

  Journal of Systems Science and Systems Engineering, Aug. 2021

  
• Using decision support system to enable crowd identify neighborhood issues and its solutions for policy makers: An online experiment at kabul municipal level

  Jawad Haqbeen; Sofia Sahab; Takayuki Ito; Paola Rizzi

  Sustainability (Switzerland), 02 May 2021

  
• Meeting the SDGs : Enabling the Goals by Cooperation with Crowd using a Conversational AI Platform.

  Jawad Ahmad Haqbeen; Takayuki Ito 0001; Sofia Sahab; Rafik Hadfi; Takumi Sato; Shun Okuhara

  CoRR, 2021

  
• A Contribution to COVID-19 Prevention through Crowd Collaboration using Conversational AI & Social Platforms.

  Jawad Ahmad Haqbeen; Takayuki Ito 0001; Sofia Sahab; Rafik Hadfi; Shun Okuhara; Nasim Saba; Murataza Hofaini; Umar Baregzai

  CoRR, 2021

  
• Insights from a large-scale discussion on COVID-19 in collective intelligence

  Jawad Haqbeen; Takayuki Ito; Sofia Sahab; Takumi Sato; Shun Okuhara; Murtaza Hofiani

  Proceedings - 2020 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology, WI-IAT 2020, Dec. 2020

  
• Gaming Exercise for Rights-Conversion-Type Urban Redevelopment Project in International Cooperation Context

  Toshiyuki Kaneda; Mingji Cui; Sofia Sahab; Ahmad Ramin Sadiq

  Simulation and Gaming, Apr. 2020

  

Misc.

• Empowering Girls’ Education with AI-assisted Online Forum in Post-2021 Afghanistan

  HAQBEEN Jawad; SAHAB Sofia; ITO Takayuki

  情報科学技術フォーラム講演論文集, 2023

  
• An IBIS-Focused Diverse Facilitation Timeline for Online Discussion: Preliminary Experiment

  SAHAB Sofia; HAQBEEN Jawad; ITO Takayuki

  情報科学技術フォーラム講演論文集, 2023

  
• Usage & Application of AI-based Discussion Facilitation System for Urban Renewal in selected districts of Kabul city: Afghanistan Experimental View

  HAQBEEN Jawad; ITO Takayuki; HADFI Rafik; SAHAB Zoia; SAHAB Sofia; AMIRYAR Ramin; NISHIDA Tomohiro

  人工知能学会全国大会(Web), 2020

  

External funds: Kakenhi

• Proposal on discussion element-specific deliberation based on autonomous agent facilitation for consensus building in complex society

  Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists

  Basic Section 61030:Intelligent informatics-related

  Kyoto University

  SAHAB Sofia

  From 01 Apr. 2022, To 31 Mar. 2026, Granted

  Conversational AI;AI agent policy;Online discussion;Targeted facilitation;Issue prioritization;Problem solving;Conversational agent;IBIS framework;Idea generation;Issue generation;consensus policy;conversational agent;online discussion;agent facilitation;cyber democracy

  https://kaken.nii.ac.jp/grant/KAKENHI-PROJECT-22K17948/
• AI-Mediated E-Contact for Reducing Bias and Prejudice in Intergroup Interactions

  Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

  Basic Section 90020:Library and information science, humanistic and social informatics-related

  Kyoto University

  SAHAB Sofia

  From 01 Apr. 2025, To 31 Mar. 2028, Granted

  AI-Mediated Interaction;Intergroup Relations;Bias Mitigation;E-contact;Contact Theory

  https://kaken.nii.ac.jp/grant/KAKENHI-PROJECT-25K15828/