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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By Karla Badillo-Urquiola
/ December 6, 2018
Knights of Distinction
Congratulations to Christy Laperriere for being selected as a member of the Knights of Distinction program!
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By Karla Badillo-Urquiola
/ December 4, 2018
New HCII 2019 Publications
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...
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By Karla Badillo-Urquiola
/ November 29, 2018
Best Paper Award
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." ...
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By Karla Badillo-Urquiola
/ November 16, 2018
Grad Day @STIR Lab
Congratulations to Chhaya Chouhan, a first-year Ph.D. student in the STIR Lab, who was invited to serve on the grad panel for CECS's Grad Open House Day! With the help of her lab mates (Kevin, Zach, and Zaina), Chhaya showcased our current research projects and encouraged the prospective graduate students to...
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By Karla Badillo-Urquiola
/ October 30, 2018
Muhammad Safi MS Defense
Congratulations to Muhammad Safi, Dr. Wisniewski's student who successfully defended his masters thesis entitled, "Examining Users' Application Permissions on Android Mobile Devices."
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By Karla Badillo-Urquiola
/ October 10, 2018
Happy Bday Dr. W!
The STIR Lab celebrated Dr. W's birthday today by surprising her with some cupcakes and cake! Happy Birthday Dr. W!
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By Karla Badillo-Urquiola
/ October 9, 2018
New Journal Publications
Congratulations to Dr. Wisniewski and her collaborators on their recently published journal articles! McHugh, B.C., Wisniewski, P. , Rosson, M.B., and Carroll, J.M. (2018) “When Social Media Traumatizes Teens: The Roles of Online Risk Exposure, Coping, and Post-Traumatic Stress,” Internet Research, 28(5), pp. 1169–88. doi: 10.1108/IntR-02-2017-0077 Page. X.,...
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