Recent News

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...

Dr. Wisniewski was given the honor of speaking at the Jenny Lin Foundation on the topic of cyber safety and protecting children online. The Jenny Lin foundation is a non profit organization born out the tragic murder of Jenny Lin at the age of 15. They have become a Bay...

This past weekend, PhD Candidate Karla Badillo-Urquiola and Dr. Pamela Wisniewski, alongside their collaborators, held a workshop addressing Justice-Centered Design Engagements with Children and Teens. Congratulations on a successful and thought provoking workshop! Shout-out to STIR Lab members Afsaneh Razi, Neeraj Chatlani, Xavier Caddle, and Arianna Davis for attending! Here are...

Congratulations to STIR Lab Senior Design Team for winning the "Best in Show" Award in the Senior Design Showcase! The Senior Design Team members Max Huebler, Mujahid Jaffer, Jody Kocis, Mary McIntosh and Ian Vickers received the highest award in the competition for designing  “SafeLINC: A Youth-Suicide Prevention App,” with guidance from...

Congratulations to STIR lab student Ashwaq Alsoubai on passing her Qualifying Review (QR) and Candidacy Examination for PhD in Computer Science this Spring! The Qualifying Review and Candidacy Examination are two important milestones in the PhD program in which the Graduate Committee evaluates the research and coursework progress of the...

Congratulations to STIR Lab student Denielle Abaquita on winning the SURE Poster Judge's Choice Award with a scholarship of $500! Denielle's poster is based on his undergraduate honors thesis, titled "Understanding the Challenges Child Welfare Workers Encounter Related to Promoting the Online Safety of Foster Youth".  Grateful for his mentors...

Join Dr. Butler as he speaks with Dr. Candice Bridge, Dr. Pamela Wisniewski & Dr. Nazanin Rahnavard regarding matters of diversity.