Publications
Shannon Lodoen & Alexi Orchard (2025) “Ethics and Persuasion in Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback: A Procedural Rhetorical Approach” Proceedings of IEEE ETHICS Conference. Preprint: https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.09576
Kari Zacharias, Jillian Seniuk Cicek, Paula Rodrigues Affonso Alves, Fenella Amarasinghe, Jeffrey Harris, Renato Bezerra Rodrigues, Janna Rosales, Alexi Orchard, Rosheedat Adeniji, Luke Slade (2025) “Student Perceptions of “Tech Stewardship”” Proceedings of the Canadian Engineering Education Association (CEEA ACEG). (Forthcoming)
Heather A. Love, Greg Adamson, Mallory James, Jason Lajoie, Iven Mareels, Zach Pearl, Daniel S Schiff, Ketra Schmitt, Thirumala Arohi, John Buchanan, Stéphanie Camaréna, Marten Kaevats, Jeremy Reynolds, Pedro H Albuquerque, John C Havens, Davis Chacón-Hurtado, Sucheta Lahiri, Ayse Ocal, Alexi Orchard, Michael Rigby, Rebecca Sherlock, Victor Sundararaj, Qin Zhu. (2024) “The Future of Work in the Age of Automation: Proceedings of a Workshop on Norbert Wiener’s 21st Century Legacy.” IEEE Transactions on Technology and Society. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/10798994
Alexi Orchard (2024) Opportunities and Obstacles for an Embedded STS Program in Engineering. Proceedings of the Canadian Engineering Education Association (CEEA ACEG). https://ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/PCEEA/article/view/18545
Alexi Orchard (2024) The Innovation Problem Finder Dartboard. Proceedings of the Canadian Engineering Education Association (CEEA ACEG). https://ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/PCEEA/article/view/18553
Alexi Orchard & Marcel O’Gorman (2024). Fostering responsible innovation with critical design methods. Journal of Responsible Innovation, 11(1), 2318823. https://doi.org/10.1080/23299460.2024.2318823
David Radke, & Alexi Orchard (2023). Presenting Multiagent Challenges in Team Sports Analytics. Proceedings of the 2023 International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, 1781–1785. https://www.southampton.ac.uk/~eg/AAMAS2023/pdfs/p1781.pdf
Alexi Orchard & David Radke (2023). An Analysis of Engineering Students’ Responses to an AI Ethics Scenario. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 37(13), Article 13. https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v37i13.26880
Michael Guerzhoy, Marion Neumann, Pat Virtue, Carolyn Anderson, Yaman Singla, Alexi Orchard, & Rajiv Ratn Shah (2023). EAAI-23 Blue Sky Ideas in Artificial Intelligence Education from the AAAI/ACM SIGAI New and Future AI Educator Program. AI Matters, 9(2), 24–29.
Alexi Orchard, Marcel O’Gorman, Chelsea La Vecchia, & Jason Lajoie (2022). Augmented Reality Smart Glasses in Focus: A User Group Report. Extended Abstracts of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 1–7. https://doi.org/10.1145/3491101.3503565
Conor Truax, Alexi Orchard, & Heather A. Love (2021). The influence of curriculum and internship culture on developing ethical technologists: A case study of the University of Waterloo. Proceedings of the 2021 IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society (ISTAS), 1–8. https://doi.org/10.1109/ISTAS52410.2021.9629124
Heather A. Love, Jason Lajoie, Alexi Orchard, Jinsol Kim, Kem Laurin Lubin, Jen Boger, & Pallavi Sodhi. (2021) Uniting Sustainability and Ethics in Engineering Curriculum: A Literature Review of Shared Challenges and Opportunities, 2021 CEEA ACEG 2021 Conf. Proc., Abstract only.
Jason Lajoie, Alexi Orchard, & Heather A. Love (2020). Ethical Tech Pedagogy for Public Good: A Review of Educational Initiatives and Approaches. 2020 IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society (ISTAS), 29–32. https://doi.org/10.1109/ISTAS50296.2020.9462181
Selected Presentations
Generative AI in academia: moving beyond mistrust and panic | September 2025
Accepted abstract. Panel: AI Presents and Futures: the practices and the hype. Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) 2025.
IDEAS and Challenges in Generative AI | May 2025
Invited lecture. Technical University Berlin ADDTRUTH Workshop on Manipulation Recognition and Trust Literacy.
Responsibly anticipating the impacts of engineering and technology | April 2025
Invited research seminar. Engineering Education Research Seminars, Purdue University, USA.
Love in the Digital Age: The sOcial Impacts of Dating Apps | February 2025
Contributed lecture. “A Match Made in the Cloud” Valentine’s Day event, Technology and Digital Studies Program, University of Notre Dame, USA.
AI in the wild | September 2024
Invited lecture with John Behrens. “Crash Course” Lecture Series, University of Notre Dame, USA.
“Critical and speculative design for the responsible anticipation of science and technology” | JUne 2024
Accepted Paper. Panel: The social fabric of technology: imagining uses and users. Canadian Communication Association, Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences 2024
“A cross disciplinary approach to making responsible innovation actionable for engineers and technologists” | November 2023
Accepted Paper. Panel: ‘Talking story’ about innovation and making change. Society for Social Studies of Science Meeting 2023.
“Enhancing technologists’ ethical awareness through critical design” | OCtober 2022
Poster Presentation at Waterloo Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute (CPI) Annual Conference. University of Waterloo, Canada.
“teaching tech ethics and responsible design” | September 2022
PRES Lecture Series. Hybrid In-person/Virtual Presentation at University of Waterloo, Canada.
“Critical Design Interventions in Engineering Curriculum” | June 2021
Accepted paper. Panel: “Making Media Theory: Critical Design in Action” Canadian Communication Association. Congress 2021 of the Humanities and Social Sciences. University of Alberta, Canada. (Virtual)
Selected Workshops
Engineering Writing as if Audience Matters | April 2025
Invited workshop. Writing Program Spring Speaker Series, New York Institute of Technology, USA.
REIMAGINING the history of women in computing | October 2024
Invited workshop. Association for Women in Science, University of Notre Dame, USA.
CRITICAL DESIGN FOR RESPONSIBLE INNOVATION | NOVEMBER 2023
Invited workshop with Rebecca Sherlock. Conference for Diversity in Engineering, University of Waterloo, Canada.
Critical design for responsible iNnovation | May 2023
Accepted workshop with Heather A. Love and Rebecca Sherlock. IEEE ETHICS 2023, Purdue University, USA. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10155030
“Mending Engineering: A Workshop to Start Radically Repairing Engineering’s Relationship with the Rest of the World” | June 2022
Accepted workshop with Matt Borland, Kate Mercer, Jenny Howcroft, Shannon Veitch, and Matt Robichaud. Canadian Engineering Education Association Annual Conference 2022, York University, Toronto, Canada.
Featured In...
BEhind the Screens: IT @ ND POdcast | Winter 2025
Discussing the integration of AI at Notre Dame https://open.spotify.com/episode/1RhrTzy5WjOYTpY2Br4kN6
