5 papers
The Capacity to Care: Designing Social Technology for Sustained Engagement With Societal Challenges
JaeWon Kim, Lindsay Popowski, Louisa Conwill +12
People care about climate change, injustice, and humanitarian crises. The challenge is not apathy but capacity: sustained engagement with large-scale problems is psychologically co…
Do We Need Subsidiarity in Software?
Louisa Conwill, Megan Levis Scheirer, Walter Scheirer
Subsidiarity is a principle of social organization that promotes human dignity and resists over-centralization by balancing personal autonomy with intervention from higher authorit…
Is It Possible to Make Chatbots Virtuous? Investigating a Virtue-Based Design Methodology Applied to LLMs
Matthew P. Lad, Louisa Conwill, Megan Levis Scheirer
With the rapid growth of Large Language Models (LLMs), criticism of their societal impact has also grown. Work in Responsible AI (RAI) has focused on the development of AI systems…
The Challenges and Benefits of Bringing Religious Values Into Design
Louisa Conwill, Megan K. Levis, Karla Badillo-Urquiola +1
HCI is increasingly taking inspiration from religious traditions as a basis for ethical technology designs. Such ethically-inspired designs can be especially important for social c…
Design Patterns for the Common Good: Building Better Technologies Using the Wisdom of Virtue Ethics
Louisa Conwill, Megan K. Levis, Karla Badillo-Urquiola +1
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 envisioni…