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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)...

Congratulations to Ph.D. Candidate Karla Badillo-Urquiola on getting her CHI demo accepted in CHI 2022 conference. The title of the demo is - “30 Days:” An EMA Diary Mobile App & Web Tool. This is year CHI 2022 is structured as a Hybrid-Onsite full conference from April 30–May 5 in...

Congratulations to Dr. Pamela Wisniewski on her CHI panel acceptance. The title of the panel is - "Participatory Design of AI Systems: Opportunities and Challenges Across Diverse Users, Relationships, and Application Domains". The moderator and panelists are Douglas Zytko (Moderator), Pamela Wisniewski (Panelist), Shion Guha (Panelist), Eric P.S. Baumer (Panelist),...

Congratulations to Ph.D. Candidate Afsaneh Razi on multiple invited research presentations this semester. Afsaneh gave research talks at Drexel University, James Madison University, University of Cincinnati, University of San Diego, San Diego State University, Stetson University, and Florida Polytechnic University. Afsaneh discussed her dissertation work around the challenges to train...

Congratulations to STIR lab student Zainab Agha on being selected as a finalist of the Meta Research Fellowship 2022 for Privacy and Data Use. This year, Meta Research Fellowship received over 2,300 applications from over 100 universities worldwide. Zainab is a third year Ph.D. student in Computer Science, pursuing research...

Congratulations to Dr. Wisniewski, her students, and their collaborators for publishing 2 case study papers at the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2022. The STIR Lab is proud of students Afsaneh Razi (Ph.D. Candidate), Ashwaq Alsoubai (Ph.D. Candidate), Zainab Agha (Ph.D. Student), Nurun Naher (Ph.D. Student), Oluwatomisin...

Congratulations to STIR lab student Mamtaj Akter on passing her Qualifying Review (QR) for Ph.D. in Computer Science this Fall! The Qualifying Review is the first milestone in the Ph.D. program in which the Graduate Committee evaluates the research and coursework progress of the student. Mamtaj continues to work on...