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Louisa Conwill @louisaconwill.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

I'm grateful for my dream team of collaborators, @wjscheirer.bsky.social and @meganlevis.bsky.social. I'm also grateful for the 16 interview participants who provided valuable insights for this paper!

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Louisa Conwill @louisaconwill.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

At the start of my PhD I was unsure of how my work applying Catholic Social Teaching to technology ethics would be received in the computer science world. I'm grateful that this work was not only accepted to the premier conference in HCI, but received an Honorable Mention Award.

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Louisa Conwill @louisaconwill.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

It then considers data collection through the lens of subsidiarity, using subsidiarity to evaluate the tradeoffs of data privacy vs. the conveniences afforded by surveillance capitalism.

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Louisa Conwill @louisaconwill.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

The paper presents an argument for why the principle of subsidiarity (one of the main principles of Catholic Social Teaching!) is a helpful frame for ethical questions in computing.

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Louisa Conwill @louisaconwill.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

I'm excited to share that my first author paper, "Do We Need Subsidiarity in Software?" received an Honorable Mention Award at #CHI2026. You can access a preprint of the paper here arxiv.org/pdf/2509.13466

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Walter Scheirer @wjscheirer.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Do We Need Subsidiarity in Software? #CHI2026 paper led by @louisaconwill.bsky.social. Subsidiarity is a principle where decisions or control occurs at the lowest level possible and the highest level necessary. Think about that for platforms like this one... Read it here: arxiv.org/abs/2509.13466

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Jose A. Guridi @jaguridi.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

[Qualitative Researchers] We are researching how qualitative researchers are using and/or thinking about AI in their research pipeline. If you are a qualitative researcher and can spare some minutes, please answer this survey: cornell.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... #AI #QualitativeResearch

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Louisa Conwill @louisaconwill.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

babe wake up, lindsay popwski just dropped a new paper 🔥

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Walter Scheirer @wjscheirer.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Inspired by @louisaconwill.bsky.social's work, I wrote a short piece on subsidiarity as a guiding principle for open source AI in the latest issue of the Red Hat Research Quarterly. research.redhat.com/blog/article...

Graphic for the Summer 2025 issue of the Red Hat Research Quarterly

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Louisa Conwill @louisaconwill.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Today I received my Masters in Computer Science and Engineering! 👩‍🎓👩‍💻 Although I’m in a PhD program, not a masters program, it’s nice to finally have a graduate degree to show for my four years in grad school 😃 Next up is the PhD, expected in 2026 or 2027! (God willing 😅)

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Louisa Conwill @louisaconwill.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

#CHI2025 recap: I got to catch up with old academic friends and meet new ones, and it was especially a treat to meet so many scholars whose work I’ve read and cited. It was also such a gift to present a paper so central to my dissertation in the country where I was raised 🇯🇵

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Louisa Conwill @louisaconwill.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Wish I could join! It's at the same time as my talk 😭

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Louisa Conwill @louisaconwill.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

I’ll be presenting this paper at #CHI2025 this afternoon! I’ll be in the 2:10 pm “Personal Data and Ethical Design” session in room G402

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Louisa Conwill @louisaconwill.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

"Design Patterns for the Common Good" is now available on arXiv! arxiv.org/abs/2501.10288 Note that this version does *not* include the minor revisions conditional for the paper's acceptance at #CHI2025. The version on arXiv will be updated as soon as those changes are made.

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Design Patterns for the Common Good: Building Better Technologies Using the Wisdom of Virtue Ethics

Virtue ethics is a philosophical tradition that emphasizes the cultivation of virtues in achieving the common good. It has been suggested to be an effective framework for envisioning more ethical tech...

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Louisa Conwill @louisaconwill.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Thank you!! I will be sharing a pre-print soon!

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Louisa Conwill @louisaconwill.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Our paper was (conditionally) accepted to #CHI2025! In this paper we propose an approach to translate abstract ethics into concrete designs that promote the common good. On a personal note, I grew up in Tokyo so I'm grateful for a trip home 🇯🇵 @meganlevis.bsky.social @wjscheirer.bsky.social

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Louisa Conwill @louisaconwill.bsky.social · 06/12/2023

Getting closer to submitting our manuscript to the publisher! Stay tuned for “Virtual in Virtual Spaces: Catholic Social Teaching and Technology” in 2024

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