Recent News

With the new year properly started, the STIR Lab undergraduate students have all begun their own research projects and are well on their way toward a productive semester! Even with busy schedules, everyone was able to find time for a

After a restful winter break, the STIR lab is back in action for a productive new year! All our PhD students and Dr. Wisniewski have made their New Year’s resolutions and are looking forward to launching new studies in the

Privacy researchers, come join us at SIGCHI 2020! This is a Call for Participation for the networked privacy workshop in Honolulu, HI, April 26th: “Privacy and Power: Acknowledging the Important of Privacy Research and Design for Vulnerable Populations” The aim

Congratulations to STIR Lab PhD candidates Karla Badillo-Urquiola and Afsaneh Razi, undergraduate student Denielle Abaquita, Dr. Pamela Wisniewski, and their collaborators for having their research presented at the GROUP 2020 conference in Sanibel Island, Florida. Karla Badillo-Urquiola and Afsaneh Razi

Congratulations to Dr. Pamela Wisniewski who was recognized as an ACM Senior Member. The Senior Members Grade recognizes those ACM members with at least 10 years of professional experience and 5 years of continuous Professional Membership who have demonstrated performance

Congratulations to Drs. Louise Barkhuus (PI) and her Co-PI collaborators Drs. Pamela Wisniewski, Yang Wang, Bart Knijnenburg, Heather Lipford, and Xinru Page on the $44,000 in seed funding from the Ministry of Higher Education and Science in Denmark for “Cultivating

Congratulations to STIR Lab undergraduate student Zaina Aljallad for being recognized as a finalist of the Computing Research Association’s (CRA) Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award for 2020! This year’s nominees were a very impressive group. A number of them, including Zaina,

Congratulations to Dr. Pamela Wisniewski and her collaborators on their newly published work in UXPA’s User Experience magazine. They speak to practitioners and a general audience to advocate for responsible privacy design within social technologies.  Please check it out below:

Congratulations to the STIR Lab members and our collaborators on getting four papers accepted in the CHI 2020 proceedings! CHI is ACM SIGCHI’s premiere conference on Human-Computer Interaction. The acceptance rate for the 2020 proceedings was 24.3%. Authors and paper

Amy Godfrey (CS undergrad), Maria Lopez (CS undergrad), and Irina Lediaeva (MS Masters student) are working together on a project for a National Science Foundation CHS EAGER grant that examines the impact of viral social media challenges, such as the

Congratulations to the STIR Lab members for a successful Fall semester! We wish everyone a wonderful and restful winter break. Caption: We need to invest in a selfie stick for the lab.  

Congratulations to STIR Lab undergrads Chris Granholm, Blake Wyatt, and Jonah Yonker for participating in the Fall 2019 Senior Design Showcase. They built an Android mobile app for Community Oversight of Privacy and Security (CO-opS). This app was developed for

We’re pleased to announce the completion of upgrades to our lab space for the Socio-Technical Interaction Research (STIR) Lab and the industry-focused User Experience (iUX) Academy — rooms 109 and 112 of the Barbara Ying CMMS Building. Below, you can

Congratulations to Dr. Pamela Wisniewki on her co-authorship of an extended abstract, recently published in the Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics (HFES) Society Annual Meeting, Volume 63. The abstract, titled “An Investigation on the Portrayal of Blue Whale

Congratulations to STIR Lab Ph.D. Candidate Karla Badillo-Urquiola for successfully defending her dissertation proposal on “A Social Ecological Approach to Empowering Foster Youth to Be Safer Online.” Karla did a wonderful job presenting this important work. We are very proud of

Congratulations to STIR Lab undergraduate student Zaina Aljallad for her presentation at CSCW 2019 on the co-authored article, “Co-designing for Community Oversight: Helping People Make Privacy And Security Decisions Together”. The article proposes a novel model for collaborative interaction for

Congratulations to 4th year STIR Lab Ph.D. student Karla Badillo-Urquiola for being featured by UCF’s College of Graduate Studies for her exemplary research and track record as an extraordinary UCF Knight. Karla’s dissertation focuses on the online safety of teens

Congratulations to STIR Lab Ph.D. student Afsaneh Razi for being accepted to participate in two CSCW 2019 workshops in Austin, Texas: Qualitative Research Methods for CSCW Ethical Considerations for Adolescent Online Risk Detection AI Systems Qualitative Research Methods Participants (Afsaneh

Congratulations to Dr. Pamela Wisniewski who was invited to participate in a panel on “Women in STEM” at UCF. She emphasized to undergraduate STEM women at UCF to pursue STEM careers–not because they need to prove to someone else that

Congratulations to Dr. Pamela Wisniewski for her co-authorship on a recent article in the November-December 2019 edition of ACM Interactions. The article, titled “Moving Beyond ‘One Size Fits All’: Research Considerations For Working With Vulnerable Populations,” discusses the challenges and

Congratulations to Dr. Pamela Wisniewski and STIR Lab Ph.D. student Karla Badillo-Urquiola for their lead in the co-authorship of an article in the November 2019 Special Issue of SAGE’s Journal of Adolescent Research. The article, titled “Beyond Parental Control: Designing

Congratulations to Drs. Pamela Wisniewski, Heather Lipford, and Jess Kropcynzski on their Secure and Trustworthy Computing (SaTC) NSF-funded project that was presented in October at the NSF SaTC PI Meeting. STIR Lab undergrads Zaina Aljallad and Christy Laperriere have been

Congratulations and welcome to STIR Lab first-year Ph.D. students Zainab Agha and Neeraj Chatlani for receiving prestigious UCF’s ORC Doctoral Fellowship, a $25,000 stipend with 3 years of graduate assistantship support. They joined the STIR Lab at the beginning of Fall

Congratulations to Dr. Pamela Wisniewski for being awarded the William R. Jones Outstanding Mentoring Award by the McKnight Foundation and the Florida Education Fund. We was nominated by her Ph.D. student Karla Badillo-Urquiola, who is a McKnight Fellow. Dr. Wisniewski

Congratulations to STIR Lab Ph.D. student Ms. Karla Badillo-Urquiola who received the Russel V. Ewald Award, which is presented by the McKnight Foundation and the Florida Education Fund to recognize academic excellence and community service. We are proud of Karla,

Congratulations to Dr. Pamela Wisniewski who gave an invited presentation in Fort Wayne, Indiana at Parkview Medical Center’s 2019 “Teens and Screens: Taking Charge of Mental Health” event. Over 300 families and community members attended this wonderfully planned event. Dr.

Congratulations to STIR Lab students Zachary Shea, Zaina Aljallad, David Taylor, and Chhaya Chouhan, and Dr. Wisniewski for the acceptance of their demonstration at CSCW 2019. The demo showcases Carebit, a mobile app for remote, informal caregiving using Fitbit technology. Shea, Z.,

The STIR Lab welcomes four new PhD students who joined the lab in Fall 2019. From left to right, standing in the picture below: Rajib Dey, Zainab Agha, Neeraj Chatlani, and Zach Shea. Also pictured in the front row, Karla