🌱 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.
For details about my publications, see Google Scholar.
🗞️ 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