By Mamtaj Akter
/ May 5, 2022
UCF features Badillo
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).
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By Mamtaj Akter
/ May 5, 2022
Wisniewski sits on CHI panel
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...
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By Mamtaj Akter
/ April 27, 2022
MOSafely: SD Semi-Finalist
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...
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By Mamtaj Akter
/ April 27, 2022
Presentation at CRASSH
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...
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By Mamtaj Akter
/ April 27, 2022
Chandrasekaran defends HUT
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.”
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ODI Scholar’s Showcase
Three STIR Lab students of DIVE program (Discover, Immerse, Visualize, and Excel in STEM program), Carl Antoine, Taylor Moraguez, and Sebastian Perez, presented their research work at the CECS ODI (Office of Diversity & Inclusion) Scholar's Showcase. Taylor Moraguez's poster title was "How Adolescents in the Child Welfare System Seek Support Online" and...
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By Mamtaj Akter
/ April 16, 2022
New IJHCS Publication
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...
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By Mamtaj Akter
/ April 16, 2022
Miller awarded SURF 22
Congratulations to STIR Lab undergrad Zachary Miller who got awarded the 2022 Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship.
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By Mamtaj Akter
/ April 16, 2022
Moraguez defends HUT
Congratulations to our STIR Lab student Taylor Moraguez for successfully defending her Honors Undergraduate Thesis!
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By Mamtaj Akter
/ April 16, 2022
Gracie defends MS 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...
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By Pamela Wisniewski
/ April 8, 2022
Santos awarded Judges’ Choice
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:...
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By Pamela Wisniewski
/ April 7, 2022
Congrats Dr. Karla Badillo!
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...
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By Pamela Wisniewski
/ April 5, 2022
Congrats Dr. Kevin Pfeil!
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!
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By Pamela Wisniewski
/ April 1, 2022
Congrats Dr. Afsaneh Razi!
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...
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By Pamela Wisniewski
/ April 1, 2022
Reyna Summer REU Position
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...
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By Pamela Wisniewski
/ March 31, 2022
Sexting Journal Article Accepted
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:...
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By Pamela Wisniewski
/ March 29, 2022
Wisniewski Featured on WIRED
Congratulations Dr. Pamela Wisniewski on being featured in the article titled “Stop Tracking Your Loved Ones” on the WIRED megazine story. This article is about the pitfalls of tracking apps to see your loved ones daily movements. This artilce was published on the WIRED megazine story on March 29. Here,...
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By Pamela Wisniewski
/ March 29, 2022
SURE Posters on Research week
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...
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