By Karla Badillo-Urquiola
/ July 6, 2018
Now Recruiting Participants
Recruiting Informal Family Caregivers and Their Loved Ones We are conducting a study to gain a better understanding about tele-monitoring between two family members (a caregiver and caregivee). For at least 48 hours, the caregivee (individual receiving care) will wear a Fitbit and live their daily lives, while the caregiver...
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By Karla Badillo-Urquiola
/ July 1, 2018
Jha UCF ORC Fellowship
Congratulations to Abhiditya Jha a for receiving UCF's ORC Doctoral Fellowship, a $25,000 stipend with 3 years of graduate assistantship support.
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By Karla Badillo-Urquiola
/ June 12, 2018
SOUPS 2018 Poster
Congratulations to Karla Badillo-Urquiola, Diva Smriti, Brenna McNally, Elizabeth Bonsignore, Evan Golub, and Pamela Wisniewski for their poster "Co-Designing with Children to Address “Stranger Danger” on Musical.ly" that was accepted to the Fourteenth Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS 2018)
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By Pamela Wisniewski
/ June 1, 2018
NSF CHS EAGER Grant
Congratulations to Drs. Pamela Wisniewski, Kapil Madathil, Heidi Zinzow, and Laura Whitlock on being awarded funding from the National Science Foundation's Division of Information and Intelligent Systems on their proposed work on, "Examining Self-Harm and Suicide Contagion Risks of Viral Social Media Challenges on Youth and Young Adults." See: NSF...
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By Pamela Wisniewski
/ May 24, 2018
Palm Beach Post
Congratulations to Dr. Wisniewski on the Palm Beach Posts news media coverage on "How sex predators, traffickers are adapting to ever-volving tech to lure victims." This interview was directly related to the recent CHI papers and Dr. Wisniewski's grant-funded research on at-risk youth and online sexual predation.
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By Pamela Wisniewski
/ May 11, 2018
W.T. Grant Scholars Program
Congratulations to Dr. Pamela Wisniewski, who was selected as one of six William T. Grant Early Career Scholars for her proposal on, "Reducing Digital Inequality by Empowering At-Risk Youth to be Resilient against Online Sexual Predation Risks." She will receive $350K over the course of five years to complete this...
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By Pamela Wisniewski
/ May 11, 2018
AHFE 2018 Paper
Congratulations to Drs. Pamela Wisniewski, Meghan Gabriel, Raj Gurupur and their students Celia Linton, Aditi Chokshi, and Brielle Perlingieri for their paper entitled, "We Have Built It, But They Have Not Come: Examining the Adoption and Use of Assistive Technologies for Informal Family Caregivers," that was accepted to 9th International...
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By Pamela Wisniewski
/ April 28, 2018
STIR Lab Party!
Congratulations to the members of the STIR Lab for a successful Spring 2018 semester! To celebrate all of our successes, we threw a multi-cultural potluck at Dr. Wisniewski's house.
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By Pamela Wisniewski
/ April 25, 2018
#SIGCHI4ALL
Congratulations to Drs. Pamela Wisniewski, Neha Kumar, Christine Bassem, Sarah Clinch, Susan M. Dray, Geraldine Fitzpatrick, Cliff Lampe, Michael Muller, and Anicia Peters, who co-organized a successful "un-panel" at CHI 2018 on "Intersectionality as a Lens to Promote Equity and Inclusivity within SIGCHI" as part of her service to the ACM Future...
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By Pamela Wisniewski
/ April 22, 2018
Bridging HCI Workshop
Congratulations to Drs. Pamela Wisniewski, Soussan Djamasbi, Dennis Galletta, Fiona Nah, Xinru Page, and Lionel Robert on the successful CHI 2018 workshop on "Bridging a Bridge: Bringing Two HCI Communities Together." They brought researchers from the ACM SIGCHI amd AIS SIGHCI communities together to forge a path forward toward more...
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By Pamela Wisniewski
/ April 21, 2018
Two CHI 2018 Papers
Congratulations to Arup Ghosh, Karla Badillo-Urquiola, Dr. Shion Guha, Dr. Joe LaViola, Dr. Heng Xu, Dr. Mary Beth Rosson, Sr. Jack Carroll, and Dr. Pamela Wisniewski on their two accepted CHI 2018 papers that were presented in Montreal, Canada in April: Safety vs. Surveillance: What Teens Have to Say about...
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By Karla Badillo-Urquiola
/ April 4, 2018
2018 UCF SURE
Congratulations to Zaina Aljallad, Jaclyn Abraham, and Tim Dinh for presenting their posters at the 2018 UCF Showcase of Undergraduate Research Excellence Zaina Aljallad Jaclyn Abraham and Tim Dinh
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By Karla Badillo-Urquiola
/ April 4, 2018
2018 UCF Grad Forum
Congratulations to Karla Badillo-Urquiola and Arup Kumar Gosh for presenting at the 2018 UCF Graduate Research Forum
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By Pamela Wisniewski
/ April 2, 2018
Ghosh GTA Excellence
Congratulations to Arup Ghosh for receiving the 2018 University Award for Excellence by a Graduate Teaching Assistant.
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By Pamela Wisniewski
/ March 8, 2018
UCF LIFE Grant
Congratulations to Dr. Wisniewski and her students Karla Badillo-Urquiola and Arup Ghosh on being selected as recipients of the Learning Institute for Elders (LIFE) Gerontology Research Award for their work entitled, "Carebit: A Privacy-Preserving 'Step' toward Remote Informal Caregiving." They received $2000 to support their project.
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By Pamela Wisniewski
/ December 11, 2017
Ghosh Proposal Defense
Congratulations for Arup Kumar Ghosh for successfully defending his dissertation proposal on, "A Value Sensitive Design Approach to Adolescent Mobile Online Safety."
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By Karla Badillo-Urquiola
/ November 10, 2017
2018 CRA URMD Workshop
Congratulations to Karla Badillo-Urquiola for her acceptance into the 2018 CRA Grad Cohort Workshop for Underrepresented Minorities + Persons with Disabilities (URMD)
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By Karla Badillo-Urquiola
/ September 20, 2017
NCS Scholarship
Congratulations to Karla Badillo-Urquiola for receiving the NCS Vince and Beth Amico Scholarship Award
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