🌱 hello!
I’m Luis Morales-Navarro. I’m interested in how novices make sense of ai/ml-powered systems and issues of algorithmic justice.
I'm a PhD candidate in the learning sciences and technologies program at the University of Pennsylvania. At Penn, I’m part of Yasmin Kafai’s research group and collaborate closely with Danaé Metaxa. My work brings together perspectives from child-computer interaction and the learning sciences to study how youth can participate in the design and evaluation of ai/ml systems and how young people develop and integrate functional and critical understandings about ai/ml and computing.
Here you can explore publications and presentations or learn about what I’m currently working on and what I was previously up to.
🗞️ News
4/25: We’ll be presenting two papers at IDC 2025 in Reykjavík 🌄: Youth as Advisors in Participatory Design: Situating Teens' Expertise in Everyday Algorithm Auditing with Teachers and Researchers and Building babyGPTs: Youth Engaging in Data Practices and Ethical Considerations through the Construction of Generative Language Models
3/25: We presented two papers at AAAI 2025 in Philadelphia 🔔: Learning About Algorithm Auditing in Five Steps: Scaffolding How High School Youth Can Systematically and Critically Evaluate Machine Learning Applications and What Can Youth Learn About in One Hour? Examining How Hour of Code Activities Address the Five Big Ideas of Artificial Intelligence.
1/25: Our paper “Assessing Changes in Thinking about Troubleshooting in Physical Computing: A Clinical Interview Protocol with Failure Artifact Scenarios” was published in Information & Learning Sciences 📄.