🌱 hello!
I’m Luis Morales-Navarro. 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. I’m interested in how novices make sense of AI/ML-powered systems and issues of algorithmic justice.
I'm a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Computational Thinking and Design at Aarhus University in Denmark. Previously, I was a Penn AI Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania, where I completed my PhD while working with Yasmin Kafai’s research group and collaborating closely with Danaé Metaxa.
Here you can explore publications and presentations or learn about what I’m currently working on and what I was previously up to.
🗞️ News
6/26: 🏆 Building to Understand: Examining Teens' Technical and Socio-Ethical Pieces of Understandings in the Construction of Small Generative Language Models received the Best Paper award at IDC! 🏆
5/26: Understanding Teens' Self-beliefs when Learning to Construct and Deconstruct AI/ML Systems: Developing a Survey Instrument was accepted to IDC 2026
8/25: Learning AI Auditing: A Case Study of Teenagers Auditing a Generative AI Model was accepted to CSCW 2025
8/25: High school students building babyGPTs: Engaging in data practices and addressing ethical issues through the construction of generative language models was published in the International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction