Recent News

Dr. Pamela Wisniewski was interviewed by WFTV Channel 9, an ABC affiliate, on important research that she is conducting with her students Karla Badillo-Urquiola, Arup Kumar Ghosh, and Abhiditya Jha on Foster Youth, Sex Trafficking, and Mobile Online Safety. Watch the video below!

Congratulations to Zaina Aljallad and Wentao Guo for winning first place at the poster competition for the REU at UNC Charlotte. Zaina is an undergraduate Computer Science student and a member of the STIR Lab.  

Congratulations to Kaley Brindisi, Rangita Rajakumar, Zach Shea, and Karla Badillo-Urquiola on their hard work this summer on the Carebit project! Kaley at the Summer 2018 REU on IoT Poster Presentation Dr. Wisniewski, Kaley, Zach, and Karla

Congratulations to Dr. Arup Kumar Ghosh who successfully defended his dissertation entitled, "A Value-Sensitive Design Approach to Adolescent Mobile Online Safety." Arup is on the job market for academic jobs starting Fall 2018.

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...

Congratulations to Abhiditya Jha a for receiving UCF's ORC Doctoral Fellowship, a $25,000 stipend with 3 years of graduate assistantship support.

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...

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.

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...

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.

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...

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...