Category: News

Pina and Hayes’ Work Featured in PsychCentral and British Psychological Society!

Laura Pina and Gillian Hayes’ work on ADHD parenting strategies was recently featured in both PsychCentral and The British Psychological Association! PsychCentral: “New App Helps ADHD Moms Manage Stress” “Instead of focusing an individual in need we are looking at how to build and design technology for the family as a whole and what’s beneficial […]

Pina and Hayes’ Work Featured in Medical News Today!

Congratulations to Laura Pina and Gillian Hayes, whose work was featured recently in Medical News Today in an article titled “Stress measured and advice delivered by app to help parents cope in real time“. Computer scientists at Microsoft Research and the University of California, San Diego have developed a system that combines a mobile application […]

Projects Recognized at Ingenuity 2014!

Congratulations to STAR undergrads Kathy Nguyen and Erick Custodio, both part of teams placing within the top five project teams in ICS at the Ingenuity 2014 UCI Student Technology Showcase! Kathy Nguyen’s team project is Cappegories, a social iOS application that connects you with others to discover the latest apps that best fit your lifestyle. […]

Hayes Announced as Endowed Robert A. and Barbara L. Kleist Chair in Informatics!

Huge congratulations to Gillian Hayes, who will be the first holder of the newly endowed Robert A. and Barbara L. Kleist Chair in Informatics! Bob and Barbara Kleist are long-term supporters of the university, and have graciously donated $1M to establish the endowment. Thank you to the Kleists and congratulations to Gillian! Find more information […]

STAR Undergraduates Recognized at ICS Graduating Student Luncheon!

Several STAR undergrads will be receiving honors this week at the ICS Graduating Student Luncheon: Van Erick Custodio: Honors in Information and Computer Science, 2014 Outstanding Contribution to Research, 2014 Andrea Lau: Phi Beta Kappa, 2014 Katherine Nguyen: Outstanding Contribution to Research, 2014 Minhnhut Thanh Vo: Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research, 2012 Congratulations!

Dombrowski and Brubaker Awarded ISTC Graduate Research Fellowships!

Congratulations to Lynn Dombrowski and Jed Brubaker, who were both awarded Intel Science and Technology Center (ISTC) for Social Computing Graduate Research Awards for the 2014-2015 academic year! The ISTC for Social Computing is one of a network of university-based research centers supported by Intel Corporation. Based at UC Irvine, ISTC-Social is focused particularly on […]

Congrats to Pina and Hayes for PervasiveHealth Best Paper Award!

Congratulations to Laura Pina, Gillian Hayes, and their co-authors for winning the Best Paper Award at PervasiveHealth 2014 for their paper “In Situ Cues for ADHD Parenting Strategies Using Mobile Technology”! citation: Pina, L., Rowan, K., Roseway, A., Johns, P., Hayes, G. R., Czerwinski, M. In Situ Cues for ADHD Parenting Strategies Using Mobile Technology. […]

Haimson Awarded UCI Faculty Mentor Program Fellowship!

Congratulations to Oliver Haimson, who has been awarded a UCI Faculty Mentor Program (FMP) Fellowship for the 2014-2015 academic year to work with Dr. Gillian Hayes! The Faculty Mentor Program (FMP) Fellowship is designed to increase the number of students who complete their Ph.D. degree and successfully acquire a faculty appointment.

Brubaker and Collaborators’ Work Featured on Fast Company!

A study by Jed Brubaker and his collaborators Funda Kivran-Swaine (Rutgers), Mor Naaman (Cornell Tech), et al. was featured on Fast Company, in an article titled “Women Are More Lonely On Twitter, But Men Get More Sympathy“. A new analysis that catalogued some expressions of loneliness on Twitter found compelling gender differences both in how […]