Recent News

Congratulations to Dr. Arup Kumar Ghosh! He accepted a position as a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Computer Science at Jacksonville State University in Alabama. He will be starting this position in Fall 2019. Dr. Ghosh's dissertation was using a value sensitive design approach to re-imagine mobile online safety apps for...

Congratulations to Dr. Pamela Wisniewski for being selected as the inaugural chair for ACM-W's Rising Star Award. She will be chairing a committee to select an early career woman researcher who has made fundamental contributions to Computer Science. The award recognizes a woman whose early-career research has had significant impact...

Congratulations to STIR Lab Ph.D. student Mrs. Karla Badillo-Urquiola and her advisor Dr. Pamela Wisniewski for being awarded the William T. Grant Mentoring Grant to support junior researchers of color. Mrs. Badillo-Urquiola is a third-year Ph.D. student in the UCF Modeling and Simulation program studying Human-Computer Interaction. She will receive...

Thanks to all of the STIR Lab students who came together for a summer potluck!  

Dr. Wisniewski, in collaboration with Dr. Lisa Anthony from the University of Florida's INIT Lab recently published their work, which characterized the nature of the gap between research and practice for touchscreen interface design for children. To explore the research-practice gap, in this project we conducted a meta-analysis to create...

Congratulations to Karla Badillo-Urquiola for presenting her poster on "The Tensions of Keeping Foster Youth Safe Online" at the Social Work Conference 2019 hosted by The National Association of Social Workers.  

Congratulations to Dr. Pamela Wisniewski (PI, technical lead), Mr. Abhiditya Jha (Entrepreneurial Lead), and Ms. Robin Phelps (Industry Mentor) on being accepted to participate in the National Science Foundation's (NSF) I-Corps Teams program. They will receive $50,000 to conduct customer discovery on a solution to improve risk detection algorithms for...

We are pleased to announce the Industry & Academia Privacy Symposium on Monday, June 10th at Bentley University (greater Boston area) that will feature presentations and panels by leading privacy scholars, as well as practitioner perspectives on key online privacy challenges. The presenters are authors from a book to be...

Congratulations to STIR Lab PhD student Karla Badillo-Urquiola and her advisor Dr. Pamela Wisniewski on being featured in UCF Today for their research that examined the unique challenges of foster parents when it comes to mediating the technology use of teens in their homes. UCF Today Article: https://today.ucf.edu/foster-parents-teens-face-challenges-surfing-internet/ Karla Badillo-Urquiola...

Dr. Wisniewski participated in a Mixed Methods Workshop hosted at the University of Michigan and sponsored by the William T. Grant Foundation. The workshop provided practical and robust methodologies for integrating quantitative and qualitative research.

Dr. Wisniewski gave two invited research talks at the University of Michigan. First, she engaged with researchers from the Michigan Interactive and Social Computing (MISC) Group. Then, she presented her research to the Center for Human Growth and Development. Both were great groups who engaged with the research and its...

Congratulations to Chhaya Chouhan,  Karla Badillo-Urquiola, and Afsaneh Razi for their acceptance to attend 2019 CRA-W Grad Cohort. They presented their posters at the event, which was held in Chicago, IL. Poster Presentations: Chouhan, C.*, Aljallad, Z.*, LaPerriere, C.*, and Wisniewski, P. †, (2019) “Designing Features to Collaboratively Manage Mobile App Permissions.”...