Recent News

The Office of Diversity and Inclusion selects Dr. Pamela Wisniewski to serve as theDiversity and Inclusion Ambassador for the College of Engineering & Computer Science.  

Congratulations to STIR Lab undergraduate student Camila Acevedo Carrillo for receiving the prestigious Goldwater Scholarship. She is featured on the University of Central Florida Colleges & Campus webpage.

Congratulations to Dr. Karla Badillo for being featured on the UCF Student Life. She is going to join the University of Notre Dame as an Assistant Professor (tenure-track).

Dr. Pamela Wisniewski participated in a CHI 2022 panel with Dr. Douglas Zytco, Dr. Shion Guha, Dr. Eric Baumer, and Dr. Min Kyung Lee to discuss how participatory design can be applied to AI systems. Participatory Design of AI Systems: Opportunities and Challenges Across Diverse Users, Relationships, and Application Domains...

Congratulations to Dr. Pamela Wisniewski, Ashwaq Alsoubai, Dr. Afsaneh Razi, and Xavier Caddle who presented at the CRASSH Webinar: Children and Artificial Intelligence: risks, opportunities and the future at the University of Cambridge. The title of the presentation was "Youth for a Safer Internet: How Youth can Shape Artificial Intelligence...

Congratulations to the STIR Lab undergrad student Ritesh Chandrasekaran for successfully defending his Honors Undergraduate Thesis in Biomedical Sciences. His thesis title is “Differential Workload Levels using Primary and Secondary Tasks in VR.” 

Congratulations to Dr. Pamela Wisniewski! Her co-authored journal article titled "The Advantages of Virtual Dogs Over Virtual People: Using Augmented Reality to Provide Social Support in Stressful Situations" got published in the International Journal of Human-Computer Studies (IJHCS)! In this article, she co-authored with Nahal Norouzi, Kangsoo Kim, Gerd Bruder, Jeremy Beilenson, and...

Congratulations to  STIR Lab undergrad Zachary Miller who got awarded the 2022 Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship.  

Congratulations to the STIR Lab MS student Joshua Gracie for successfully defending his Master's Thesis in Computer Science. His thesis title is "Leveraging Human Centered Insight and Vision Transformers To Understand and Detect Online Risks in Teens' Private Social Media Conversations on Instagram". His thesis committee members were Dr. Pamela Wisniewski...

Congratulations to Carolina Santos on receiving the judges' choice distinction award for presenting poster in the Student Scholar Symposium at UCF, 2022 from among a strong group of Undergraduate presentation in the S.T.E.M category. Carolina is a STIRLab Undergraduate Research Assistant. She presented her interview study titled "Revisiting the Past:...

Congratulations to Dr. Kevin Patrick Coleman Pfeil who successfully defended his dissertation entitled, “Balancing User Experience for Mobile One-to-One Interpersonal Telepresence.” Kevin will be joining the University of North Florida as a tenure-track assistant professor this fall 2022. We are very proud of Kevin and will miss him!

Congratulations to Dr. Afsaneh Razi who successfully defended her dissertation entitled, “A Human-centered Approach to improving Adolescent Online Sexual Risk Detection Algorithms.” We are very proud of Afsaneh. We wish her the best of luck in her career. We will miss you! Dr. Razi with her Dissertation Committee (Left to...