Mori Featured in UCI Undergraduate Research Journal
Congratulations to Kevin Mori, whose work title “Navigating Multiple Identities in Online and Offline Spaces” has been selected for publication in Volume XVI of The UCI Undergraduate Research Journal. Kevin Mori worked on this project as a part of the Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (UROP). Congratulations!
Introducing New STAR PhD Students!
This year, we have three new PhD students joining us in the STAR group! Welcome, LouAnne, Erick, and Mark! LouAnne Boyd, BCBA, has 24 years experience in the field of Applied Behavior Analysis and is dedicated to improving the lives of those affected by Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). She is the originator of The Social […]
STAR Ubicomp 2014 Best Paper Honorable Mentions!
Two STAR papers were chosen as Honorable Mentions for Best Paper awards at Ubicomp 2014! Ringland, K., Zalapa, R., Neal, M., Escobedo, L., Tentori, M., and Hayes, G.R. et al SensoryPaint: A Multimodal Sensory Intervention for Children with Neurodevelopmental Disorders. Proceedings of Ubicomp 2014. Matic, A., Hayes, G.R., Tentori, M., Abdullah, M., and Schuck, S. […]
Brubaker featured on Australia’s Triple J Radio!
Jed Brubaker was recently featured on a “Death on Social Media” episode of “Hack,” a show on Australia’s Triple J radio! Take a listen to hear about Jed’s research and the human experience of grief on social media. Its like a modern day graveyard. But its definitely Graveyard 2.0… Unlike a cemetery, where you might travel […]
STAR CSCW 2015 Papers
Three papers by STAR group members have been accepted for CSCW 2015! Haimson, O. L., Brubaker, J. R., Dombrowski, L., & Hayes, G. R. (2015). Disclosure, Stress, and Support During Gender Transition on Facebook. In Proceedings of the ACM 2015 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work. Ringland, K. E., Wolf, C. T., Dombrowski, L., & Hayes, […]
Hayes Featured in Calit2 Newsroom!
Gillian Hayes’ and STAR’s work was featured in UCI’s Calit2 Newsroom in an article on Technology and Autism! Can technology benefit those with autism? UCI professor Gillian Hayes thinks it can and does. Hayes, whose primary academic appointment is in Informatics (she also has appointments in education and pediatrics) told this week’s SURF-IT seminar series lunchtime […]
Brubaker Awarded Rob Kling Memorial Fellowship!
Congratulations to Jed Brubaker, who won a Rob Kling Memorial Fellowship for 2014-2015! The fellowship comes with a $2,000 cash award to support Jed’s research and dissertation. The Rob Kling Memorial Endowed Fellowship was created to honor the life of Rob Kling, Professor of Information and Computer Science here at UCI, who passed away in […]
Dombrowski Awarded Newkirk Graduate Student Fellowship!
Congratulations to Lynn Dombrowski, whose project on “How various perspectives on social justice affect the visioning and design of systems and technologies aimed to address issues of food justice” was awarded a Newkirk Graduate Student Fellowship for 2014-2015! The Newkirk Center for Science and Society awarded Lynn $8,000 to support her work.
Wong Awarded Summer Undergraduate Research Program Grant!
Congratulations to STAR undergraduate Tiffany Wong, who was awarded a UC Irvine Summer Undergraduate Research Program Grant/Fellowship in support of the research project “vSked: Visual Schedules for Autism”! Tiffany will be working with Gillian Hayes and Sen Hirano this summer.
Weiner Featured in ICS News!
Congratulations to STAR undergraduate Rachel Weiner, who was recently featured in the ICS news! The article is titled “Mentorship program makes a strong impression in its first year.” Rachel Weiner, a computer science/informatics double major who just finished her sophomore year, was paired up with Smart as her mentor. “I like the idea of having […]