Research Terms
Computer Security Computer Technology Educational Technology Humanities Health Information Systems Adolescents
Keywords
Adolescent Online Safety Human-Centered Computing Human-Computer Interaction Social Media Social Media Harms Usable Privacy And Security
Industries
Military IT Microelectronics & Computer Products Modeling, Simulation, & Training (MST) Software & Computer Systems Design
Dr. Wisniewski is the Founder and Director of the Socio-Technical Interaction Research (STIR) Lab and Teenovate. Her work lies at the intersection of Social Computing and Privacy. She is an expert in the interplay between social media, privacy, and online safety for adolescents. She has authored over 150 peer-reviewed publications and won multiple best papers (top 1%) and best paper honorable mentions (top 5%) at ACM SIGCHI conferences. She has been awarded $6.04 million in external grant funding, including the NSF CAREER Award, and her research has been featured by popular news media outlets, including Scientific American, CNN, ABC News, NPR, Psychology Today, and U.S. News and World Report. She is an ACM Senior Member, Computing Research Association (CRA) CCC Council Member, and the first ever computer scientist to be selected as a William T. Grant Scholar for her work on reducing digital inequality in youth outcomes. The importance of her work on adolescent online safety has been recognized nationally and internationally by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, Netherland’s Down to Zero Alliance on combating the online sexual exploitation of children, and most recently, the White House’s Biden-Harris Task Force on Kids Online Health and Safety.
Dr. Wisniewski is the Founder and Director of the Socio-Technical Interaction Research (STIR) Lab and Teenovate. Her work lies at the intersection of Social Computing and Privacy. She is an expert in the interplay between social media, privacy, and online safety for adolescents. She has authored over 150 peer-reviewed publications and won multiple best papers (top 1%) and best paper honorable mentions (top 5%) at ACM SIGCHI conferences. She has been awarded $6.04 million in external grant funding, including the NSF CAREER Award, and her research has been featured by popular news media outlets, including Scientific American, CNN, ABC News, NPR, Psychology Today, and U.S. News and World Report. She is an ACM Senior Member, Computing Research Association (CRA) CCC Council Member, and the first ever computer scientist to be selected as a William T. Grant Scholar for her work on reducing digital inequality in youth outcomes. The importance of her work on adolescent online safety has been recognized nationally and internationally by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, Netherland’s Down to Zero Alliance on combating the online sexual exploitation of children, and most recently, the White House’s Biden-Harris Task Force on Kids Online Health and Safety.
Speaker Topics
Adolescent Online Safety Digital Safety Social Media Harms
Target Audiences
Adults High School Middle School
Fee Range
Dr. Wisniewski’s research expertise is situated at the juxtaposition of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Social Computing, and Privacy. She views privacy as a social mechanism that helps people regulate their interpersonal boundaries with others in a way that facilitates more meaningful connections and safer online interactions with others. Her active grant-funded research focuses on 1) community-based approaches for helping people (adults and teens) co-manage their online privacy with people they trust, 2) teen-centric approaches to online safety that promote self-regulation and empower teens to effectively manage online risks, and 3) online safety interventions that protect our most vulnerable youth from severe online risks, such as sexual predation. Through her research trajectories above, she has become a leading HCI scholar at the intersections of adolescent online safety, developmental science, interaction design, and human-centered computing. She has created an exciting research program that intertwines research and education to engage teens, college students, experts in adolescent psychology, experts in participatory design and research methods, community partners, and industry stakeholders in a community-based effort to build the village needed to protect our youth from online risks by empowering them. During her talk, Dr. Wisniewski will give an overview of her on-going grant-funded research that will continue in the next five years, as well as her career-long aspirations as a “scholar activist,” which is someone committed to scholarly research and scientific rigor, but equally committed to their situations of origin and are passionate about making the world a better place through their learned experience.
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Audience:
Adults
Duration:
2-3 hours
Fee:
Less than $500
