Author: Pamela Wisniewski

Congratulations to STIR Lab students Muhammad Safi, Zaina Aljallad, Abhiditya Jha, Chhaya Chouhan, Christy LaPerriere, and their advisor Dr. Pamela Wisniewski, as well as their collaborators on their full papers that were accepted to the the 2019 NDSS Workshop on

Congratulations to STIR Lab Ph.D. student Abhiditya Jha, his advisor Dr. Pamela Wisniewski, and their collaborators Drs. Jessica Kropczynski and Heather Lipford on their workshop position paper entitled, “An Exploration on Sharing Smart Home Devices Beyond the Home,” which will

Congratulations to Dr. Pamela Wisniewski who was invited to Penn State’s College of Information Sciences and Technology to present on her research related to adolescents and online safety.

Congratulations to Dr. Pamela Wisniewski who was invited to the UCF Board of Trustees Meeting to present on her accomplishments in the fields of Human-Computer Interaction and User Experience. She gave a presentation on some of the great things students

Congratulations to Drs. Pamela Wisniewski, Heather Lipford, and Jessica Kropczynski on their newly awarded, National Science Foundation funded (#1814439), research project entitled, “SaTC: CORE: Small: Collaborative: Leveraging community oversight to enhance collective efficacy for privacy and security.” The research team

Dr. Pamela Wisniewski was interviewed by WFTV Channel 9, an ABC affiliate, on important research that she is conducting with her students Karla Badillo-Urquiola, Arup Kumar Ghosh, and Abhiditya Jha on Foster Youth, Sex Trafficking, and Mobile Online Safety. Watch

Congratulations to Kaley Brindisi, Rangita Rajakumar, Zach Shea, and Karla Badillo-Urquiola on their hard work this summer on the Carebit project! Kaley at the Summer 2018 REU on IoT Poster Presentation Dr. Wisniewski, Kaley, Zach, and Karla

Congratulations to Dr. Arup Kumar Ghosh who successfully defended his dissertation entitled, “A Value-Sensitive Design Approach to Adolescent Mobile Online Safety.” Arup is on the job market for academic jobs starting Fall 2018.

  We are please to announce that Dr. Pamela Wisniewski’s proposal on “A Community-based Approach to Co-Managing Privacy and Security for Mozilla’s Web of Things” was selected for funding. She will be conducting this research with her Co-PI Dr. Jessica

Congratulations to Drs. Pamela Wisniewski, Kapil Madathil, Heidi Zinzow, and Laura Whitlock on being awarded funding from the National Science Foundation’s Division of Information and Intelligent Systems on their proposed work on, “Examining Self-Harm and Suicide Contagion Risks of Viral

Congratulations to Dr. Wisniewski on the Palm Beach Posts news media coverage on “How sex predators, traffickers are adapting to ever-volving tech to lure victims.” This interview was directly related to the recent CHI papers and Dr. Wisniewski’s grant-funded research

Congratulations to Dr. Pamela Wisniewski, who was selected as one of six William T. Grant Early Career Scholars for her proposal on, “Reducing Digital Inequality by Empowering At-Risk Youth to be Resilient against Online Sexual Predation Risks.” She will receive

Congratulations to Drs. Pamela Wisniewski, Meghan Gabriel, Raj Gurupur and their students Celia Linton, Aditi Chokshi, and Brielle Perlingieri for their paper entitled, “We Have Built It, But They Have Not Come: Examining the Adoption and Use of Assistive Technologies

Congratulations to the members of the STIR Lab for a successful Spring 2018 semester! To celebrate all of our successes, we threw a multi-cultural potluck at Dr. Wisniewski’s house.

Congratulations to Drs. Pamela Wisniewski, Neha Kumar, Christine Bassem, Sarah Clinch, Susan M. Dray, Geraldine Fitzpatrick, Cliff Lampe, Michael Muller, and Anicia Peters, who co-organized a successful “un-panel” at CHI 2018 on “Intersectionality as a Lens to Promote Equity and Inclusivity within

Congratulations to Drs. Pamela Wisniewski, Soussan Djamasbi, Dennis Galletta, Fiona Nah, Xinru Page, and Lionel Robert on the successful CHI 2018 workshop on “Bridging a Bridge: Bringing Two HCI Communities Together.” They brought researchers from the ACM SIGCHI amd AIS

Congratulations to Arup Ghosh, Karla Badillo-Urquiola, Dr. Shion Guha, Dr. Joe LaViola, Dr. Heng Xu, Dr. Mary Beth Rosson, Sr. Jack Carroll, and Dr. Pamela Wisniewski on their two accepted CHI 2018 papers that were presented in Montreal, Canada in

Congratulations to Arup Ghosh for receiving the 2018 University  Award for Excellence by a Graduate Teaching Assistant.

Congratulations to Dr. Wisniewski and her students Karla Badillo-Urquiola and Arup Ghosh on being selected as recipients of the Learning Institute for Elders (LIFE) Gerontology Research Award for their work entitled, “Carebit: A Privacy-Preserving ‘Step’ toward Remote Informal Caregiving.” They

Congratulations for Arup Kumar Ghosh for successfully defending his dissertation proposal on, “A Value Sensitive Design Approach to Adolescent Mobile Online Safety.”

Congratulations to Dr. Wisniewski who was selected as one of 46 inaugural members of ACM’s Future Computing Academy (FCA). She is serving as the co-chair for the working group on Fostering the Future of Computing.

Congratulations to Dr. Wisniewski who was invited to speak on the Matt Townsend Show to share her expertise on the topic of adolescent online safety.

Congratulations to Arup Ghosh for his two poster presentations at ACM SIGCHI’s GROUP 2016 conference on “Taking a More Balanced Approach to Adolescent Mobile Safety.” He presented a work-in-progress poster and attended the Doctoral Consortium. 

Congratulations to Dr. Wisniewski and her student Kim Chen for their NSF funded work on “Leveraging the Fitbit API to Share Activity Levels with a Trusted Caregiver” as part of the Research Experiences for Undergraduates on the Internet of Things