Recent News

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...

Congratulations to Dr. Pamela Wisniewski on participating as a panelist on a virtual session hosted by The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) and Mozilla Foundation titled “AI and Democratic Values” to discuss what an automated and democratic society should look like. Dr. Wisniewski, along with other...

Congratulations to Ph.D. Candidate Karla Badillo-Urquiola on giving a talk about her online safety research at the University of Notre Dame last week! Karla discussed the challenges foster parents encounter trying to mediate their foster teens’ technology use in the home, as well as heuristics for conducting risky research with...

Congratulations to Dr. Wisniewski, her students, and their collaborators on publishing 7 full papers, a workshop paper and a poster accepted at the 24th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW 2021). The STIR Lab is proud of students Afsaneh Razi (Ph.D. Candidate), Kevin Pfiel (Ph.D. Candidate),...

Congratulations to the STIR Lab's Teenovate team in obtaining grant funding for supporting the development of a Youth Advisory Board! The grant was created by the Social Media Adolescent Health Research Team (SMAHRT) within the Technology and Adolecent Mental Wellness program, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. A description of our...

MOSafely: Building An Open-Source HCAI Community To Make The Internet A Safer Place For Youth STIR Lab students Xavier Caddle and Afsaneh Razi are leading the MOSafely Workshop at CSCW, in collaboration with students from Georgia Tech and Boston University. The goal of this one-day workshop is to begin building...

Congratulations to the MOSafely Senior Design Team for completing their Senior Design Project! The team made up of Natalie Larkin, Omar Kalam, James Zhou, Abdulrahman Al Sumaih, and Micah Renfrow successfully presented their year long assignment under the guidance of Dr. Pamela Wizniewski. They created a Social Risk Detection Service...