Recent News

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...

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...

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...

Congratulations to Karla Badillo-Urquiola and her team (Diva Smriti, Brenna McNally, Evan Golub, Elizabeth Bonsignore, and Pamela Wisniewski) on winning the best poster award at the Fourteenth Symposium On Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS 2018)! Poster Title: “Co-Designing with Children to Address “Stranger Danger” on Musical.ly”

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 Zach Shea for receiving the 2018 Integrative Learning Scholarship recognition! Zach is a member of the STIR Lab and the iUX Academy and was nominated for this award by Dr. Wisniewski. Great job, Zach for a job well-done!

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.

  We are please to announce that Dr. Pamela Wisniewski's proposal on "A Community-based Approach to Co-Managing Privacy and Security for Mozilla’s Web of Things" was selected for funding. She will be conducting this research with her Co-PI Dr. Jessica Kropczynski at the University of Cincinnati and their collaborator Dr....

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 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)

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 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...