Author: Pamela Wisniewski

Congratulations to our postdoctoral scholar, Dr. Renkai Ma, on his new position as a tenure-track Assistant Professor at the University of Cincinnati’s School of Information Technology! Renkai will officially begin his faculty role in Fall 2025. Renkai’s research takes a

Congratulations to Carolina Santos on receiving the judges’ choice distinction award for presenting poster in the Student Scholar Symposium at UCF, 2022 from among a strong group of Undergraduate presentation in the S.T.E.M category. Carolina is a STIRLab Undergraduate Research

Congratulations to Dr. Karla Badillo-Urquiola on successfully defending her doctoral dissertation entitled, “A Social Ecological Approach to Adolescent Online Safety.” She will be starting a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in the Computer Science and Engineering Department at the University of

Congratulations to Dr. Kevin Patrick Coleman Pfeil who successfully defended his dissertation entitled, “Balancing User Experience for Mobile One-to-One Interpersonal Telepresence.” Kevin will be joining the University of North Florida as a tenure-track assistant professor this fall 2022. We are

Congratulations to Dr. Afsaneh Razi who successfully defended her dissertation entitled, “A Human-centered Approach to improving Adolescent Online Sexual Risk Detection Algorithms.” We are very proud of Afsaneh. We wish her the best of luck in her career. We will

Congratulations to Avery Reyna on getting accepted into an REU Site hosted by Columbia University and Cornell Tech. Avery will be researching the intersection of accessibility and AR/VR, assisting on projects that aid disabled people with their interactions in the

Congratulations Dr. Pamela Wisniewski on getting accepted her co-authored paper in ELSEVIER 2022. All the authors of this article are: Erin Corcoran, Jennifer Doty, Pamela Wisniewski, Joy Gabrielli. The title and abstract of the paper is following : Title: Youth

Congratulations Dr. Pamela Wisniewski on being featured in the article titled “Stop Tracking Your Loved Ones” on the WIRED megazine story. This article is about the pitfalls of tracking apps to see your loved ones daily movements. This artilce was

STIRLab Undergraduate Research Assistants are presenting poster in the Student Scholar Symposium at UCF this coming thursday March 31st. The Student Scholar Symposium provides an opportunity for graduate and undergraduate students to present their research and creative scholarship in a poster format to the UCF

Congratulations to STIRLab and collaborators from GeorgiaTech and Boston University on receiving Best Paper Honorable Mention for our CHI 2022 paper on understanding the digital lives of youth. The proud authors of this paper are : Shiza Ali, Afsaneh Razi,

Congratulations to Camila Acevedo Carrillo on her getting selected for the prestigious Goldwater Scholarship. Camila Acevedo is an undergraduate student working with STIRLab and mentored by Dr. Pamela Wisniewski. This scholarship is considered the most prestigious undergraduate scholarship in the

Dr. Pamela Wisniewsk gave research talk at the University of Cambridge at their Security Seminar Series as invited speaker this week. Talk Summary: Risk and Resilience: Promoting Privacy, Online Safety, and Empowerment through Human-Centered Computing During her talk, Dr. Wisniewski

Congratulations to STIR lab student Mamtaj Akter on getting selected as aparticipant in the 2022 CRA-WP Grad Cohort for Women in New Orleans on April 21-23. At the Grad Cohort for Women, she will spend two days interacting with about

Congratulations Dr. Pamela Wisniewski on being featured in the article titled “We’re Here to End This” on the UCF magazine – PEGASUS, Spring 22. This article is about how to end domestic violence and who will help to break the

We had presented at MozFest 2022 where we launched our MozSafely community. Modus Operandi Safely (MOSafely.org) is an open-source community that leverages evidence-based research, data, and Artificial Intelligence to help youth engage more safely online. MOSafely.org is a result of

Congratulations to Dr. Pamela Wisniewski on publishing her co-edited book “Modern Socio-Technical Perspectives on Privacy” with an awesome lineup of authors. This book provides a foundational understanding of technical and social aspects related to online privacy and covers modern application

Congratulations to Ph.D. Candidate Karla Badillo-Urquiola on getting her CHI demo accepted in CHI 2022 conference. The title of the demo is – “30 Days:” An EMA Diary Mobile App & Web Tool. This is year CHI 2022 is structured

Congratulations to Dr. Pamela Wisniewski on her CHI panel acceptance. The title of the panel is – “Participatory Design of AI Systems: Opportunities and Challenges Across Diverse Users, Relationships, and Application Domains”. The moderator and panelists are Douglas Zytko (Moderator),

Four CHI Papers Accepted Congratulations to the STIR Lab and their collaborators for having four CHI 2022 papers accepted. Below are the paper titles, co-authors, and abstracts of the accepted papers. We hope to see you in New Orleans (or

Congratulations to Ph.D. Candidate Afsaneh Razi on multiple invited research presentations this semester. Afsaneh gave research talks at Drexel University, James Madison University, University of Cincinnati, University of San Diego, San Diego State University, Stetson University, and Florida Polytechnic University.

Congratulations to STIR lab student Zainab Agha on being selected as a finalist of the Meta Research Fellowship 2022 for Privacy and Data Use. This year, Meta Research Fellowship received over 2,300 applications from over 100 universities worldwide. Zainab is

Congratulations to Ph.D. Candidate Karla Badillo-Urquiola on giving a talk about her online safety research at Virginia Tech University last week! Karla discussed the challenges foster parents encounter trying to mediate their foster teens’ technology use in the home, as

Congratulations to the MOSafely Senior Design Team for completing their Senior Design Project! The team made up of Natalie Larkin, Omar Kalam, James Zhou, Abdulrahman Al Sumaih, and Micah Renfrow successfully presented their year long assignment under the guidance of

Congratulations to the Senior Design Team for delivering their final presentation on MiSu project. They designed and developed the MiSu v2, an innovative mobile app that allows smart homeowners to share limited control access to their smart home devices with

Dr. Wisniewski was given the honor of speaking at the Jenny Lin Foundation on the topic of cyber safety and protecting children online. The Jenny Lin foundation is a non profit organization born out the tragic murder of Jenny Lin

MOSafely, a project supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) has been accepted in the the UCF I-Corp Summer Cohort. MOSafely is an open-source community that leverages evidence-based research, data, and Artificial Intelligence to help youth and young adults engage more safely

Join Dr. Butler as he speaks with Dr. Candice Bridge, Dr. Pamela Wisniewski & Dr. Nazanin Rahnavard regarding matters of diversity. 

This year the STIR Lab is proud to have multiple students participating in the Showcase of Undergraduate Research Excellence (SURE). Each student is assigned to create a poster that displays research and information pertaining to their field of interest. This