Author: Neeraj Chatlani

Congratulations to Dr. Pamela Wisniewski on her recent promotion to the rank of Associate Professor, and her award of tenure at the University of Central Florida! Dr. Wisniewski is thankful for the strong support she received at the department, college,

As we at the STIR Lab continue to bid farewell to our graduating students of 2020, we highlight another of our undergraduate students. Christy LaPerriere has graduated from the University of Central Florida having received her BA in Digital Media

As the STIR Lab continues to bid farewell to our graduating students of 2020, we are proud to announce that Zaina Aljallad, one of our graduating undergraduate students, has accepted a position as a UX researcher for NCR in Atlanta!

As our spring semester comes to a close here at the STIR Lab, it’s time to bid farewell to our graduating students in the Class of 2020. One of our undergraduates, Timothy Dinh, has accomplished his Bachelor’s of Science degree

Congratulations to Dr. Wisniewksi on being selected to receive a UCF Teaching Incentive Program award! These awards are made available by UCF each academic year, and recognize employee contributions to to the university’s key goals of offering the best undergraduate

The STIR Lab is proud to announce that, in light of the decision by SIGCHI to not hold a virtual CHI 2020, that Ph.D. student Afsaneh Razi will be presenting her work as part of a series of presentations, on

Congratulations to STIR Lab student Zachary Shea who has been admitted to UCF’s Modelling and Simulation Ph.D. program! Zachary has also been awarded the Graduate Dean’s Fellowship, which will support him in the first year of his PhD, supplementing his

Congratulations to STIR Lab Ph.D. student Karla Badillo-Urquiola on being awarded a Doctoral Research Support Award from the UCF College of Graduate Studies. The award will help Karla as she continues to progress in her dissertation research and completing her

Congratulations to Dr. Wisniewki on being awarded the Spring 2020 Marchioli Collective Impact Innovation Award for her work in creating UCF’s User Experience Academy! The iUX Academy is an integrative learning initiative created by Dr. Wiskniewski to provide students with

Karla Badillo-Urquiola recently participated as a panelist for UCF’s Academic Advancement Programs. The panel, which focused on Applying to and Succeeding in Grad School, had grad students like Karla share their insights on the graduate application process and the graduate

Congratulations to Dr. Wisniewski on the reception of UCF’s Research Incentive Award for the period 2019-2020! This award recognizes contributions to UCF’s goal of achieving prominence in research and creative activities. With the institutional intent of doubling research funding, and

Congratulations to Dr. Wisniewski and her students, Afsaneh Razi, Zainab Agha, and Neeraj Chatlani, for the acceptance of a position paper into the CHI 2020 Networked Privacy Workshop! These papers will be part of the workshop, which seeks to facilitate

Congratulations to STIR Lab Ph.D. student Karla Badillo-Urquiola on being featured in a UCF news article as part of a series of Stories Of Impact+Innovation. The article highlights Karla’s work on both empowering teens in the foster care system to

Congratulations to Karla Badillo-Urquiola on being selected for induction into UCF’s Order of Pegasus! The Order of Pegasus is the most prestigious award a student can attain at the University of Central Florida. Graduate students like Karla are selected for

Congratulations to STIR Lab Ph.D. student Afsaneh Razi on being featured in a UCF news article as part of a series on Stories of Impact+Innovation. The article highlights Afsaneh’s work at the intersection of human-computer interaction and machine learning. “Teens

Congratulations to Dr. Wisniewski and her students, Afsaneh Razi, Rajib Dey, Zainab Agha and Neeraj Chatlani, for two extended abstracts that were accepted into CHI 2020’s Late Breaking Works! These papers will be presented in April at CHI 2020 in

The STIR Lab is excited to announce the dates on which we will be holding lab visits for UCF’s EXCEL students, for STEM Seminar II: Dates: March 17th, March 24th, March 31st Time: 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM Location: Barbara

It’s National Mentoring Month and we celebrate Dr. Wisniewski for inspiring and guiding her students to success. She was recently highlighted by UCF for her impact on students: “I want to give as many students as possible the opportunity to

STIR Lab PhD candidate, Karla Badillo-Urquiola, was invited to participate on a panel at Orlando’s 12th Annual Human Trafficking Awareness Day and Film Festival. The panel, titled “Impact of Social Media Addiction – A Trafficker’s Playground” discussed common patterns of

With the new year properly started, the STIR Lab undergraduate students have all begun their own research projects and are well on their way toward a productive semester! Even with busy schedules, everyone was able to find time for a

After a restful winter break, the STIR lab is back in action for a productive new year! All our PhD students and Dr. Wisniewski have made their New Year’s resolutions and are looking forward to launching new studies in the

Privacy researchers, come join us at SIGCHI 2020! This is a Call for Participation for the networked privacy workshop in Honolulu, HI, April 26th: “Privacy and Power: Acknowledging the Important of Privacy Research and Design for Vulnerable Populations” The aim

We’re pleased to announce the completion of upgrades to our lab space for the Socio-Technical Interaction Research (STIR) Lab and the industry-focused User Experience (iUX) Academy — rooms 109 and 112 of the Barbara Ying CMMS Building. Below, you can

Congratulations to Dr. Pamela Wisniewki on her co-authorship of an extended abstract, recently published in the Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics (HFES) Society Annual Meeting, Volume 63. The abstract, titled “An Investigation on the Portrayal of Blue Whale

Congratulations to STIR Lab undergraduate student Zaina Aljallad for her presentation at CSCW 2019 on the co-authored article, “Co-designing for Community Oversight: Helping People Make Privacy And Security Decisions Together”. The article proposes a novel model for collaborative interaction for

Congratulations to Dr. Pamela Wisniewski for her co-authorship on a recent article in the November-December 2019 edition of ACM Interactions. The article, titled “Moving Beyond ‘One Size Fits All’: Research Considerations For Working With Vulnerable Populations,” discusses the challenges and

Congratulations to Dr. Pamela Wisniewski and STIR Lab Ph.D. student Karla Badillo-Urquiola for their lead in the co-authorship of an article in the November 2019 Special Issue of SAGE’s Journal of Adolescent Research. The article, titled “Beyond Parental Control: Designing