By Pamela Wisniewski
/ March 25, 2019
NSF CAREER Award
Congratulations to Dr. Pamela Wisniewski on receiving her National Science Foundation CAREER Award (#1844881) for her work entitled, "Safety by Design; Protecting Adolescents from Online Risks. She will receive $550,000 over the span of five years to complete this important project.
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By Karla Badillo-Urquiola
/ March 15, 2019
Invited Guest Speaker
The Socio-Technical Interaction Research (STIR) Lab and the Participatory Research and Design Network (PRDN) invite you to a special talk on Participatory Design Methods for Children given by Dr. Elizabeth Bonsignore from the University of Maryland. There will be FREE pizza! STIR Lab Invited Speaker Dr. Elizabeth (Beth) Bonsignore University...
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By Karla Badillo-Urquiola
/ March 15, 2019
CHI 2019 Best Paper
Congratulations to Karla Badillo-Urquiola, Xinru Page, and Pamela Wisniewski for receiving a Best Paper Award for their paper entitled, "Risk vs. Restriction: The Tension between Providing a Sense of Normalcy and Keeping Foster Teens Safe Online." The paper will be presented at Glasgow, UK at the ACM CHI Conference on Human...
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By Pamela Wisniewski
/ March 15, 2019
IAC Poster Presentation
Congratulations to STIR Lab students Christy LaPerriere, Zaina Aljallad, Chhaya Chouhan, and their advisor Dr. Pamela Wisniewski for the poster presentation entitled, "Community Oversight for Privacy and Security" at the 2019 Information Architecture Conference in Orlando, FL. Christy and Zaina are undergraduate students at UCF, and we are proud of...
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By Pamela Wisniewski
/ March 15, 2019
IA Conference 2019
Congratulations to Drs. Pamela Wisniewski and Xinru Page on their co-presentation at the Information Architecture Conference 2019 in Orlando, FL. They presented on "Creating a Gateway for Purposeful Privacy Design" with the intent of building bridges between academia and industry in regard to privacy research and design.
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By Pamela Wisniewski
/ March 6, 2019
University of Illinois Fellow
Congratulations to Dr. Pamela Wisniewski for being selected as a Research Fellow by the iSchool at University of Illinios at Champaign-Urbana. She will deliver the 2019 Gryphon Lecture on Friday, March 8, at the iSchool. Sponsored annually by The Center for Children's Books (CCB), the lecture features a leading scholar...
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By Pamela Wisniewski
/ March 4, 2019
RSA Conference
Congratulations to Dr. Pamela Wisniewski who was invited to speak on a panel about "Security, Privacy and Human Behavior" at the RSA Conference 2019 by Dr. Lorrie Cranor. Dr. Wisniewski's presentation was entitled, "Making Privacy Personal: Profiling Users’ Privacy Management Strategies on Social Networking Sites." You can download her a...
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By Pamela Wisniewski
/ February 28, 2019
Mentoring Workshop
Congratulations to Dr. Pamela Wisniewski and her Ph.D. students Karla Badillo-Urquiola and Afsaneh Razi on being invited to participant in the William T. Grant Foundation mentoring workshop for Scholars of Color held in Santa Monica, CA. We learned valuable ways to Pay It Forward and support one another's success as...
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By Pamela Wisniewski
/ February 24, 2019
USEC 2019
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 Usable Security and Privacy (USEC 2019). Safi, M.I., Jha, A.,...
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By Pamela Wisniewski
/ February 20, 2019
IUIoT 2019 Workshop
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 be presented at the IUIoT Workshop at the ACM IUI...
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By Pamela Wisniewski
/ February 14, 2019
Penn State Talk
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.
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By Karla Badillo-Urquiola
/ January 2, 2019
New ACM IMWUT Article
Congratulations to Dr. Pamela Wisniewski, her student Muhammad Safi, and their collaborators Dr. Xinru Page, Paritosh Bahirat, and Dr. Bart P. Knijnenburg for their new journal article titled, "The Internet of What?: Understanding Differences in Perceptions and Adoption for the Internet of Things," which was published in the proceedings of the...
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By Karla Badillo-Urquiola
/ January 2, 2019
ACM Ubiquity Interview
Congratulations to Dr. Pamela Wisniewski for her recent interview featured in ACM's Ubiquity magazine on Innovation Leaders. Read more here: An Interview with Pamela Wisniewski Making The Online World Safer For Our Youth
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By Karla Badillo-Urquiola
/ December 12, 2018
CHI 2019 Paper
Congratulations to STIR Lab Ph.D. student Karla Badillo-Urquiola, her advisor Dr. Pamela Wisniewski, and their collaborator Dr. Xinru Page for their CHI 2019 paper, "Risk vs. Restriction: The Tension between Providing a Sense of Normalcy and Keeping Foster Teens Safe Online"
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By Karla Badillo-Urquiola
/ December 11, 2018
HFAP 2019 Poster
Congratulations to Zaina Aljallad, Christy LaPerriere, and Chhaya Chouhan for their poster acceptance in the 2019 Human Factors and Applied Psychology (HFAP) Conference. Poster title: "Community Oversight: A Social Process on Privacy Settings" Zaina (left) and Christy (right) presenting at HFAP
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By Karla Badillo-Urquiola
/ December 9, 2018
CRA-W 2019
Congratulations to Karla Badillo-Urquiola, Chhaya Chouhan, and Afsaneh Razi for being selected to attend the CRA-W Grad Cohort for Women 2019 !
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By Karla Badillo-Urquiola
/ December 9, 2018
Tech Fee Award
Congratulations to Dr. Pamela Wisniewski and her students! Their technology fee proposal, titled HCI_UX Student Instruction, was selected by the Technology Fee Committee for funding in the amount of$152,470.39. A special thanks to Andrew Talone for leading the proposal writing.
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By Karla Badillo-Urquiola
/ December 6, 2018
UCF’s Top 10 Research
We are pleased to announce that Dr. Arup K. Ghosh's dissertation research advised by Dr. Pamela Wisniewski on adolescent online safety and mobile parental control apps was ranked among UCF’s Top 10 Research Findings of 2018. We would also like to thank co-author Karla Badillo-Urquiola (STIR Lab Ph.D. student) and our...
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