Clara Xi

I'm a PhD student in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Calgary, where I am supervised by Lora Oehlberg and co-supervised by James Young at the University of Manitoba. As part of the iLab research group, I am broadly interested in the study of social robots. More specifically, my most recent and ongoing work lies at the intersection of social robotics, gerontechnology, and privacy, which I explore through participatory research processes.

Education

• MSc in Computer Science, University of Calgary (Supervisor: Lora Oehlberg)
  Thesis: Co-Designing Private Social Robots With Older Adults
• BCS in Computer Science, University of Waterloo

Publications

Posters and Workshop Papers

• Clara Y. Xi, Lora Oehlberg. (2025) "Access Control for Privacy-Conscious Social Robots: Findings From a Co-Design Study with Older Adults." In SOUPS 2025.
• Clara Y. Xi, Lora Oehlberg. (2025) "A Study Design for Co-Designing Private Social Robots with Older Adults." In GI 2025.
• Clara Y. Xi, Ryo Suzuki, Lora Oehlberg. (2024) "Access Control for Social Robots in Co-Design with Older Adults." In Privacy-Aware Robotics Workshop, part of HRI 2024.

Teaching

• [TA] CPSC 329: Explorations in Information Security and Privacy (Fall 2025)
• [TA] CPSC 481: Foundations and Principles of Human Computer Interaction (Winter 2025)
  • Guest lecture: "Participatory Design"
• [TA] CPSC 481: Foundations and Principles of Human Computer Interaction (Fall 2024)
• [TA] CPSC 418 / MATH 318: Introduction to Cryptography (Winter 2024)

Other

I play clarinet in the University of Calgary Wind Ensemble.