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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By Pamela Wisniewski
/ September 27, 2018
Board of Trustees
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...
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By Karla Badillo-Urquiola
/ September 15, 2018
New NSF-Funded Project
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...
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By Karla Badillo-Urquiola
/ August 23, 2018
CSCW18 Workshop CFP
Privacy researchers, come join us at CSCW! CFP for networked privacy workshop in Jersey City, Nov 3: “Privacy in Context: Critically Engaging with Theory to Guide Privacy Research and Design.” This one-day workshop will facilitate discourse around key privacy theories and frameworks that can inform privacy research with the goal...
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By Pamela Wisniewski
/ August 21, 2018
New NSF-funded Project
Congratulations to Drs. Pamela Wisniewski, Heather Lipford, and Jessica Kropczynski on their newly awarded, National Science Foundation funded (#1814439), research project entitled, "SaTC: CORE: Small: Collaborative: Leveraging community oversight to enhance collective efficacy for privacy and security." The research team will receive $547,955 over the course of three years to...
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