By Pamela Wisniewski
/ December 20, 2019
CRA Undergrad Award
Congratulations to STIR Lab undergraduate student Zaina Aljallad for being recognized as a finalist of the Computing Research Association's (CRA) Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award for 2020! This year's nominees were a very impressive group. A number of them, including Zaina, were commended for making significant contributions to more than one...
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By Pamela Wisniewski
/ December 18, 2019
UXPA Article
Congratulations to Dr. Pamela Wisniewski and her collaborators on their newly published work in UXPA's User Experience magazine. They speak to practitioners and a general audience to advocate for responsible privacy design within social technologies. Please check it out below: Page, X. , Wisniewski, P., Knijnenburg, B., and Schiller, J., “Designing...
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By Pamela Wisniewski
/ December 9, 2019
4 CHI 2020 Papers
Congratulations to the STIR Lab members and our collaborators on getting four papers accepted in the CHI 2020 proceedings! CHI is ACM SIGCHI's premiere conference on Human-Computer Interaction. The acceptance rate for the 2020 proceedings was 24.3%. Authors and paper titles are listed below: Accepted CHI 2020 Papers Razi, A.,...
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By Pamela Wisniewski
/ December 9, 2019
Reddit Team
Amy Godfrey (CS undergrad), Maria Lopez (CS undergrad), and Irina Lediaeva (MS Masters student) are working together on a project for a National Science Foundation CHS EAGER grant that examines the impact of viral social media challenges, such as the Blue Whale Challenge, Cinnamon Challenge, and Fire Challenge, on youth...
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By Pamela Wisniewski
/ December 6, 2019
Fall Potluck
Congratulations to the STIR Lab members for a successful Fall semester! We wish everyone a wonderful and restful winter break. Caption: We need to invest in a selfie stick for the lab.
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By Pamela Wisniewski
/ December 4, 2019
Senior Design Showcase
Congratulations to STIR Lab undergrads Chris Granholm, Blake Wyatt, and Jonah Yonker for participating in the Fall 2019 Senior Design Showcase. They built an Android mobile app for Community Oversight of Privacy and Security (CO-opS). This app was developed for Dr. Wisniewski's National Science Foundation (NSF) Secure and Trustworthy Computing...
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By Pamela Wisniewski
/ November 26, 2019
STIR Lab Upgrades
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 see some photos of the rooms before and after the...
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By Pamela Wisniewski
/ November 26, 2019
HFES Abstract
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 Challenge on YouTube and Twitter" describes a study which examines...
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By Pamela Wisniewski
/ November 22, 2019
Badillo-Urquiola Proposal
Congratulations to STIR Lab Ph.D. Candidate Karla Badillo-Urquiola for successfully defending her dissertation proposal on "A Social Ecological Approach to Empowering Foster Youth to Be Safer Online." Karla did a wonderful job presenting this important work. We are very proud of her! Dr. Pamela Wisniewski (left) and Ms. Karla Badillo-Urquiola (right)...
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By Pamela Wisniewski
/ November 13, 2019
Zaina Aljallad at CSCW
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 making individual digital privacy and security decisions, known as Community...
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By Pamela Wisniewski
/ November 11, 2019
Badillo-Urquiola
Congratulations to 4th year STIR Lab Ph.D. student Karla Badillo-Urquiola for being featured by UCF's College of Graduate Studies for her exemplary research and track record as an extraordinary UCF Knight. Karla's dissertation focuses on the online safety of teens in foster care. Karla's Profile: https://graduate.ucf.edu/profile/karla-badillo-urquiola Social Media...
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By Pamela Wisniewski
/ November 11, 2019
CSCW 2019 Workshops
Congratulations to STIR Lab Ph.D. student Afsaneh Razi for being accepted to participate in two CSCW 2019 workshops in Austin, Texas: Qualitative Research Methods for CSCW Ethical Considerations for Adolescent Online Risk Detection AI Systems Qualitative Research Methods Participants (Afsaneh is in the back row, fourth from the right)
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By Pamela Wisniewski
/ November 7, 2019
Women in STEM
Congratulations to Dr. Pamela Wisniewski who was invited to participate in a panel on "Women in STEM" at UCF. She emphasized to undergraduate STEM women at UCF to pursue STEM careers--not because they need to prove to someone else that they can do it, but because they should pursue what...
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By Pamela Wisniewski
/ November 6, 2019
ACM Interactions Article
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 benefits of working with vulnerable populations, and details a list...
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By Pamela Wisniewski
/ November 4, 2019
SAGE Article
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 Adolescent Online Safety Apps Using Value Sensitive Design," takes a...
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By Pamela Wisniewski
/ October 30, 2019
SaTC PI Meeting
Congratulations to Drs. Pamela Wisniewski, Heather Lipford, and Jess Kropcynzski on their Secure and Trustworthy Computing (SaTC) NSF-funded project that was presented in October at the NSF SaTC PI Meeting. STIR Lab undergrads Zaina Aljallad and Christy Laperriere have been working on this project as Research Experience for Undergraduate (REU)...
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By Pamela Wisniewski
/ October 29, 2019
ORC Doctoral Fellows
Congratulations and welcome to STIR Lab first-year Ph.D. students Zainab Agha and Neeraj Chatlani for receiving prestigious UCF's ORC Doctoral Fellowship, a $25,000 stipend with 3 years of graduate assistantship support. They joined the STIR Lab at the beginning of Fall 2019. Neeraj (left) and Zainab (right)
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By Pamela Wisniewski
/ October 18, 2019
Mentoring Award
Congratulations to Dr. Pamela Wisniewski for being awarded the William R. Jones Outstanding Mentoring Award by the McKnight Foundation and the Florida Education Fund. We was nominated by her Ph.D. student Karla Badillo-Urquiola, who is a McKnight Fellow. Dr. Wisniewski attended the award ceremony in Tampa, FL to receive her...
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