By Pamela Wisniewski
/ September 13, 2019
Associate Editor TSC
Congratulations to Dr. Pamela Wisniewski who was selected to serve as an Associate Editor for ACM Transactions on Social Computing. ACM Transactions on Social Computing (TSC) seeks to publish work that covers the full spectrum of social computing including theoretical, empirical, systems, and design research contributions. Dr. Wisniewski is excited...
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By Pamela Wisniewski
/ August 22, 2019
CSCW 2019 Papers
Congratulations to Dr. Wisniewski, her students, and collaborators for two full papers that were accepted to CSCW 2019!! The papers will be presented during November 2019 in Austin, Texas. Page, X., Anaraky, R.G., Knijnenburg, B.P., and Wisniewski, P. (2019) “Pragmatic Tool vs. Relational Hindrance: Exploring Why Some Social Media Users...
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By Pamela Wisniewski
/ August 20, 2019
Rivera Award
Congratulations to Ms. Olga Rivera for winning the CECS Employee of the Semester Award! Dr. Wisniewski nominated Olga for this award due to Olga's commitment to excellence at UCF and her support of the STIR Lab: "Olga is impeccable in terms of the accuracy in which she does her job....
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By Karla Badillo-Urquiola
/ August 12, 2019
Privacy Workshop CFP
Privacy researchers, come join us at CSCW! CFP for networked privacy workshop in Austin, Texas Nov 9: “Ubiquitous Privacy: Research and Design for Mobile and IoT Platforms.” This one-day workshop aims to explore ubiquitous privacy research and design in the context of mobile and IoT by facilitating discourse among scholars...
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By Pamela Wisniewski
/ July 30, 2019
Razi HCII 2019
Congratulation to STIR Lab Ph.D. Candidate Afsaneh Razi on her presentation at HCII 2019 in Orlando, FL. She presented a paper entitled, "A Review of the Gaps and Opportunities of Nudity and Skin Detection Algorithmic Research for the Purpose of Combating Adolescent Sexting Behaviors," on behalf of herself and her...
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By Karla Badillo-Urquiola
/ July 30, 2019
Camp Connect III
The STIR lab was invited to participate in UCF iSTEM's Camp Connect III summer event. Ph.D. student Karla Badillo-Urquiola led the week-long day camp, introducing the three high school students to the field of Human-Computer Interaction within Computer Science. STIR Lab student Zach Shea also introduced the students to the design...
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By Pamela Wisniewski
/ July 29, 2019
Ghosh Job Placement
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...
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By Pamela Wisniewski
/ July 16, 2019
ACM-W Committee
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...
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By Pamela Wisniewski
/ July 14, 2019
Your Teen Article
Congratulations to Dr. Pamela Wisniewski who was quoted in an article published by the Your Teen Magzine. This article discusses the ways that teens get around parental restrictions and techniques to manage teens' phone and social media use. Dr. Wisniewski explained, “My research has confirmed that when parents use more...
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By Pamela Wisniewski
/ July 8, 2019
WTG Mentoring Award
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...
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By Pamela Wisniewski
/ June 25, 2019
STIR Potluck
Thanks to all of the STIR Lab students who came together for a summer potluck!
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By Pamela Wisniewski
/ June 19, 2019
CSST 2019
Congratulations to STIR Lab Ph.D. student Karla Badillo-Urquiola on being accepted and attending the Consortium for the Science of Sociotechnical Systems (CSST 2019)! She was one of 50 early career scholars who was competitively selected to attend the CSST Summer School. Way to go, Karla!
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By Pamela Wisniewski
/ June 14, 2019
TIDRC Framework
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...
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By Pamela Wisniewski
/ June 14, 2019
NASW Presentation
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.
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By Pamela Wisniewski
/ June 4, 2019
Razi Ph.D. Candidate
Congratulations to STIR Lab Ph.D. student Afsaneh Razi on successfully passing her candidacy and being admitted into full doctoral status!
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By Pamela Wisniewski
/ June 4, 2019
NSF I-Corps Award
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...
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By Pamela Wisniewski
/ May 30, 2019
Privacy Symposium
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...
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By Pamela Wisniewski
/ May 27, 2019
Stranger Danger Research
Congratulations to STIR Lab Ph.D. student Karla Badillo-Urquiola and her advisor Dr. Pamela Wisniewski on being featured in UCF Today for the research "Children Give Their Input on How to Make TikTok a Safer Platform for Youth". Link of the article: https://www.ucf.edu/news/children-give-input-make-tiktok-safer-platform-youth/
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