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Cross-Cultural Communication

This project explores how OpenAI models can be used to detect and reduce cross-cultural misunderstandings in online communication through systematic prompt engineering.
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Social Media Intervention

Young autistic adults face both unique benefits and high risks on social media. Our lab works to improve social media literacy and empower neurodiverse users to navigate platforms more safely and confidently.
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Privacy Incident Reporting

This project builds a research infrastructure to track privacy harms, such as reputational, psychological, or autonomy-related harms, and identify the technologies, contexts, and mitigation strategies associated with them.
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Educational Games

We are developing Safe Scales, a gamified mobile app that delivers self-paced social media literacy education for autistic young adults.

About the Social Technology and Privacy Lab

The Social Technology and Privacy Lab (STaPL) explores how emerging technologies shape social values, communication, and the lives of everyday people. We combine empirical research and applied interventions to examine privacy harms, technology use in religious and cultural contexts, cross‑cultural communication, and the impacts of digital systems on neurodiverse communities.

Xinru Page

Dr. Xinru Page works in the field of Human-Computer Interaction and directs the Social Technology and Privacy Lab (STaPL). Her research falls into the areas of Privacy, Social Media, Cultural Differences Shaping Technology Use, and Supporting Vulnerable Populations.

Her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, Facebook, Disney Research, Samsung and Yahoo! Labs, and she holds editorial positions and publishes in her field's top conferences and journals.