Recent News

Congratulations to Zainab Agha, Dr. Karla Badillo-Urquiola, and Dr. Pamela Wisniewski for getting their paper "Strike at the Root: Co-designing Real-Time Social Media Interventions for Adolescent Online Risk Prevention" accepted at CSCW 2023. Strike at the Root: Co-designing Real-Time Social Media Interventions for Adolescent Online Risk Prevention Abstract: Adolescent online...

Congratulations to the STIR Lab researchers and the collaborators on getting two full papers, one poster, and three demos accepted at CSCW 2022. From Parental Control to Joint Family Oversight: Can Parents and Teens Manage Mobile Online Safety and Privacy Together? This full paper was authored by Mamtaj Akter, Amy...

Congratulations to Dr. Drishti Sharma, Dr. Krista Mehari, Dr. Jennifer Doty, Dr. Nandini Sharma, and Dr. Pamela Wisniewski for getting their new book published titled "Cyberbullying and Digital Safety". The digital version of this book is available at this link: https://ufl.pb.unizin.org/cyberindia/ The purpose of this book with authored chapters is...

Congratulations to STIR Lab undergraduate student, Zachary Miller, for presenting his research work at the Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) Showcase. His poster titled “Evaluating Usability: Mobile Collaborative Safety Planning for Youth Suicide Prevention" was mentored by the STIR Lab Ph.D. student, Zainab Agha.

Congratulations to Dr. Pamela Wisniewski for serving as a Senior Technical Expert for Terre des Homes Netherlands' report on "Child safety by design that works against online sexual exploitation of children." To check out the full report, please click here.

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

Dr. Pamela Wisniewski was invited to the University of Waterloo to present her research work on Promoting Adolescent Online Safety and Privacy through Human-Centered Computing.  

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).

Congratulations to Ashwaq Alsoubai and her MOSafely Senior Design group for being nominated as Semi-Finalist out of 118 Senior Design projects. They created a social media risk detection dashboard that provides users risk assessments of their social media conversations. MOSafely Senior Design Team (from left): Ryan Doherty, Estefania Sanchez, Alex...

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 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...