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Our Current Projects

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Religion and Technology

We analyzed 16 years of general conference talks to identify principles of technology use and are now exploring how young adults apply them to redesign digital tools.
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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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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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Autistic Young Adults and AI-Based Manipulation

Autistic young adults are more likely to experience harms on social media due to interpreting interface cues literally. In the context of AI systems, these challenges may be amplified.
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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.
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Our Past Projects

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Educational Privacy Video Intervention

We designed and tested short educational videos that used emotional messaging, digital literacy instruction, and personalized reflection to educate users about Facebook targeted advertising and ad privacy settings.
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Contact Tracing App Perceptions

We wanted to understand the perceptions of different cultures regarding contract tracing apps.
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