Recent News

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.

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...

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"

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

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.

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...

Congratulations to Dr. Wisniewski, her students (Karla Badillo-Urquiola, Arup K. Ghosh, Larry Morales, Afsaneh Razi, Uzair Tariq), and their collaborators on their recently published conference full-papers at HCII 2019!   Tariq, M.U., Razi, A., Badillo-Urquiola, K., and Wisniewski, P. (2018). "A Review of the Gaps and Opportunities of Nudity and...

Congratulations to Myungho Lee, Nahal Norouzi, Dr.Gerd Bruder, Dr. Pamela Wisniewski, and Dr. Gregory Welch on winning a best paper award at the ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology 2018! Paper Title: "The Physical-Virtual Table: Exploring the Effects of a Virtual Human's Physical Influence on Social Interaction."  ...

Congratulations to Muhammad Safi, Dr. Wisniewski's student who successfully defended his masters thesis entitled, "Examining Users' Application Permissions on Android Mobile Devices."

The STIR Lab celebrated Dr. W's birthday today by surprising her with some cupcakes and cake! Happy Birthday Dr. W!

Congratulations to Dr. Pamela Wisniewski who was invited to the UCF Board of Trustees Meeting to present on her accomplishments in the fields of Human-Computer Interaction and User Experience. She gave a presentation on some of the great things students in the STIR Lab and iUX Academy have done in...

Congratulations to Drs. Pamela Wisniewski (Principal Investigator), Sriram Chellappan (Co-Principal Investigator), Munmun De Choudhury (Co-Principal Investigator), and Karl MacMillan (Co-Principal Investigator) on their newly awarded, National Science Foundation funded (#1827700), research project entitled, “PFI-RP: A Multi-Disciplinary Approach to Detecting Adolescent Online Risks” The research team will receive $750,000 over the...