Recent News

Congratulations to our STIR Lab student Taylor Moraguez for successfully defending her Honors Undergraduate Thesis!  

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 Dr. Karla Badillo-Urquiola on successfully defending her doctoral dissertation entitled, “A Social Ecological Approach to Adolescent Online Safety.” She will be starting a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in the Computer Science and Engineering Department at the University of Notre Dame with a Lucy Fellow affiliation with the Lucy...

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 Avery Reyna on getting accepted into an REU Site hosted by Columbia University and Cornell Tech. Avery will be researching the intersection of accessibility and AR/VR, assisting on projects that aid disabled people with their interactions in the virtual world. Avery is a fourth-year undergraduate student studying Social...

Congratulations Dr. Pamela Wisniewski on getting accepted her co-authored paper in ELSEVIER 2022. All the authors of this article are: Erin Corcoran, Jennifer Doty, Pamela Wisniewski, Joy Gabrielli. The title and abstract of the paper is following : Title: Youth sexting and associations with parental media mediation. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2022.107263 Abstract: Purpose:...

STIRLab Undergraduate Research Assistants are presenting poster in the Student Scholar Symposium at UCF this coming thursday March 31st. The Student Scholar Symposium provides an opportunity for graduate and undergraduate students to present their research and creative scholarship in a poster format to the UCF community during Student Research Week. For additional information see this...

Congratulations to STIRLab and collaborators from GeorgiaTech and Boston University on receiving Best Paper Honorable Mention for our CHI 2022 paper on understanding the digital lives of youth. The proud authors of this paper are : Shiza Ali, Afsaneh Razi, Kim Seunghyun, Ashwaq Alsoubai, Joshua Gracie, Munmun De Choudhury, Pamela...

Congratulations to Karla Badillo-Urquiola (PhD Candidate) for accepting a tenure track Assistant Professor position in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Notre Dame. Karla will be joining Fall 2022 as a fellow of Notre Dame's Lucy Family Institute for Data and Society .

Dr. Pamela Wisniewsk gave research talk at the University of Cambridge at their Security Seminar Series as invited speaker this week. Talk Summary: Risk and Resilience: Promoting Privacy, Online Safety, and Empowerment through Human-Centered Computing During her talk, Dr. Wisniewski gave an overview of her on-going grant-funded research that will...

Congratulations Dr. Pamela Wisniewski on being featured in the article titled "We’re Here to End This" on the UCF magazine - PEGASUS, Spring 22. This article is about how to end domestic violence and who will help to break the cycle. The author featured all the UCF faculties who work...

We had presented at MozFest 2022 where we launched our MozSafely community. Modus Operandi Safely (MOSafely.org) is an open-source community that leverages evidence-based research, data, and Artificial Intelligence to help youth engage more safely online. MOSafely.org is a result of a funded research project led by Drs. Pamela Wisniewski (PI)...