Recent News

The STIR Lab welcomes a new semester and two new Ph.D. students! Mamtaj Akter and Ashwaq Soubai have joined the lab and we are excited to have them as both our graduate and undergraduate students begin another Fall of work

Congratulations to Ph.D. candidate Karla Badillo-Urquiola who recently completed her coursework to receive the graduate certificate in Advanced Quantitative Methodologies in Educational and Human Sciences from the Department of Learning Sciences and Education Research at UCF. This certificate provides advanced

Congratulations to Dr. Wisniewski on co-authoring an article in the December 2020 edition of the Computers in Human Behavior Journal, which is dedicated to examining the use of computers and computing technology from a psychological perspective. The article, titled “Examining

Congratulations to Ph.D. student Neeraj Chatlani on being selected to receive a graduate research assistantship for the year 2020-21, from the UCF School of Modelling, Simulation and Training. Neeraj will use this assistantship to continue working with Dr. Wisniewski as

Congratulations to STIR Lab Ph.D. Candidate Karla Badillo-Urquiola on being accepted in the CSCW 2020 Doctoral Consortium! This consortium provides an opportunity for doctoral students to discuss their research in an international forum under the guidance of a panel of

Congratulations to Ph.D. students Zainab Agha and Afsaneh Razi on receiving scholarships to attend the Virtual Grace Hopper Celebration 2020. Committed to supporting the advancement of women in computing, the STIR Lab wishes the best for Zainab and Afsaneh as

The STIR Lab is proud to announce that we are sponsoring a new Senior Design Team at UCF. The team is comprised of Computer Science undergraduate seniors Samuel Beatson, Samuel Armininana Quintana, Jason Dhillon and Blakely Barr. The team will

Congratulations to STIR Lab members Heidi Hartikainen and Ashwaq Soubai on having posters accepted to the Grace Hopper Celebration 2020 General Poster Session! Heidi’s poster, “Online Peer Support for Adolescent Online Sexual Risk” analyzes social media trace data from a

Congratulations to STIR Lab Ph.D. Candidate Kevin Pfiel on successfully defending his dissertation proposal on “Balancing User Experience Between Streamer and Viewer in Mobile Human-to-Human Telepresence”. Kevin did an excellent job presenting his work so far and plan to complete

Congratulations to STIR Lab Ph.D. candidate Afsaneh Razi, who recently began a summer internship with Mozilla Research. Afsaneh will be working in Mozilla’s Voice Consumer Products team, which is part of the Emerging Technologies R&D division. She will be working

Congratulations to Dr. Wisniewski on receiving an ORC 2020 Mentoring Opportunity Program award! This program’s award is intended to pair UCF senior and junior faculty in a mentoring relationship, and will be used to support a faculty research partnership effort

Our CHI 2020 presentation for the paper “Let’s Talk about Sext: How Adolescents Seek Support and Advice about Their Online Sexual Experiences” is now available! This research work provides more insights into how adolescents talk about their online sexual interactions

Congratulations to Dr. Wisniewski and her co-authors on the publishing of an article in the JMIR Journal of Mental Health (JMH). The article, titled “Examining the Self-harm and Suicide Contagion Effects Related to the Portrayal of the Blue Whale Challenge

Congratulations to STIR Lab Ph.D. students, Neeraj Chatlani and Zachary Shea, and Dr. Wisniewski for the acceptance of a position paper into an IDC 2020 workshop! This paper will be part of the workshop, titled “Teaching the Next Generation of

Congratulations to STIR Lab student Neeraj Chatlani, who was recently admitted to UCF’s Modelling and Simulation PhD program! Neeraj will begin his new program in the Fall, along with his ongoing research projects at the STIR Lab. We look forward

Congratulations to Dr. Pamela Wisniewski on her recent promotion to the rank of Associate Professor, and her award of tenure at the University of Central Florida! Dr. Wisniewski is thankful for the strong support she received at the department, college,

As we wrap up our goodbyes to our graduating students of 2020, we’d like to highlight the STIR Lab’s graduating Master’s student, Irina Lediaeva. As Irina prepares to return to her home country of Russia, she took some time to

As we at the STIR Lab continue to bid farewell to our graduating students of 2020, we highlight another of our undergraduate students. Christy LaPerriere has graduated from the University of Central Florida having received her BA in Digital Media

As the STIR Lab continues to bid farewell to our graduating students of 2020, we are proud to announce that Zaina Aljallad, one of our graduating undergraduate students, has accepted a position as a UX researcher for NCR in Atlanta!

As our spring semester comes to a close here at the STIR Lab, it’s time to bid farewell to our graduating students in the Class of 2020. One of our undergraduates, Timothy Dinh, has accomplished his Bachelor’s of Science degree

Congratulations to Dr. Wisniewksi on being selected to receive a UCF Teaching Incentive Program award! These awards are made available by UCF each academic year, and recognize employee contributions to to the university’s key goals of offering the best undergraduate

The STIR Lab is proud to announce that, in light of the decision by SIGCHI to not hold a virtual CHI 2020, that Ph.D. student Afsaneh Razi will be presenting her work as part of a series of presentations, on

Congratulations to STIR Lab student Zachary Shea who has been admitted to UCF’s Modelling and Simulation Ph.D. program! Zachary has also been awarded the Graduate Dean’s Fellowship, which will support him in the first year of his PhD, supplementing his

Congratulations to STIR Lab Ph.D. student Karla Badillo-Urquiola on being awarded a Doctoral Research Support Award from the UCF College of Graduate Studies. The award will help Karla as she continues to progress in her dissertation research and completing her

Congratulations to Dr. Wisniewki on being awarded the Spring 2020 Marchioli Collective Impact Innovation Award for her work in creating UCF’s User Experience Academy! The iUX Academy is an integrative learning initiative created by Dr. Wiskniewski to provide students with

Karla Badillo-Urquiola recently participated as a panelist for UCF’s Academic Advancement Programs. The panel, which focused on Applying to and Succeeding in Grad School, had grad students like Karla share their insights on the graduate application process and the graduate

Congratulations to Dr. Wisniewski on the reception of UCF’s Research Incentive Award for the period 2019-2020! This award recognizes contributions to UCF’s goal of achieving prominence in research and creative activities. With the institutional intent of doubling research funding, and

Congratulations to Dr. Wisniewski and her students, Afsaneh Razi, Zainab Agha, and Neeraj Chatlani, for the acceptance of a position paper into the CHI 2020 Networked Privacy Workshop! These papers will be part of the workshop, which seeks to facilitate