By Pamela Wisniewski
/ April 5, 2019
People’s Choice Award
Congratulations to Chhaya Chouhan, a first-year Ph.D. student in the STIR Lab. She won the People's Choice Poster Presentation Award at UCF's Graduate Research Forum. Her poster was on, "Community Oversight as a Mechanism for Helping People Make Privacy and Security Decisions," and was partially funded by the Secure and...
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By Pamela Wisniewski
/ April 5, 2019
Washington Post Article
Congratulations to Dr. Pamela Wisniewski who was interviewed and quoted in an article published by the Washington Post. Dr. Wisniewski explained, “In some ways we’re treating teens more like children, just because we have technology that allows us to. Just because you can do something does not mean you should....
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By Pamela Wisniewski
/ April 5, 2019
Grad Research Forum 2019
Congratulations to STIR Lab graduate students Abhiditya Jha, Irina Lediaeva, Karla Badillo-Urquiola, and Chhaya Chouhan for presenting their posters at the 2019 UCF Graduate Research Forum. Lediaeva, I. , Badillo-Urquiola, K., Shea, Z. , and Wisniewski, P. †, (2019) "Co-designing EMA Diary Study Mobile App with Teens and their Parents." Chouhan, C.*, Aljallad,...
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By Karla Badillo-Urquiola
/ April 4, 2019
2019 UCF SURE
Congratulations to STIR Lab undergraduate students Christy LaPerriere, Zaina Aljallad, Jaclyn Abraham, Tim Dinh, Thomas Lukas, Amy Godfrey, Hannah Main, Elizabeth Maspoch, and Zach Shea for presenting their posters at the 2019 UCF Showcase of Undergraduate Research Excellence. Maspoch, E.*, Badillo-Urquiola, K.*, Edwards, J., and Wisniewski, P. †, (2019) “Children’s Evaluations...
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By Karla Badillo-Urquiola
/ April 4, 2019
STIR Lab Tours
The STIR Lab PhD students showcased our current research projects and encouraged undergraduate EXCEL students to get involved in research. Great job Karla Badillo-Urquiola, Afsaneh Razi, Abhiditya Jha, Kevin Pfeil, and Sheikh Nabil Mohammad for running the tours. Afsaneh, Karla, and Nabil leading a tour Karla and Kevin leading a...
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By Pamela Wisniewski
/ April 3, 2019
Reach for the Stars
Congratulations to Dr. Pamela Wisniewski for being a Reach for the Stars recipient at UCF's Founder's Day Convocation. The UCF Reach for the Stars Award honors and rewards highly successful research and creative activity accomplished by early-career university professionals. These annual awards are determined by the president and do not...
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By Pamela Wisniewski
/ April 2, 2019
Team Building
Go team! As part of the UCF Outdoor Adventures program,the STIR Lab completed team building activities and a rigorous high ropes course. Congratulations to Dr. Pamela Wisniewski and the STIR Lab students Afsaneh Razi, Denielle Abaquita, Zach Shea, Irina Lediaeva, Abhiditya Jha, Nabil Mohammad, Thomas Lukas, Karla Badillo-Urquiola,and Chhaya Chouhan...
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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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