Publications
Orchard, A., & O’Gorman, M. (2024). Fostering responsible innovation with critical design methods. Journal of Responsible Innovation, 11(1), 2318823. https://doi.org/10.1080/23299460.2024.2318823
Radke, D., & Orchard, A. (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
Orchard, A., & Radke, D. (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
Guerzhoy, M., Neumann, M., Virtue, P., Anderson, C. J., Singla, Y. K., Orchard, A., & Ratn Shah, R. (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.
Orchard, A., O’Gorman, M., La Vecchia, C., & Lajoie, J. (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
Truax, C., Orchard, A., & Love, H. A. (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
Love, H., Lajoie, J., Orchard A., Kim, J., Lubin, K., Boger, J., & Sodhi P. (2021) Uniting Sustainability and Ethics in Engineering Curriculum: A Literature Review of Shared Challenges and Opportunities, 2021 CEEA ACEG 2021 Conf. Proc., Abstract only.
Lajoie, J., Orchard, A., & Love, H. A. (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
BLOGS + Other Writing
“Engineering students envision equity and access in Waterloo Park” LA Tech4Good May 2023
POSITIONS
Research Assistant | University of Waterloo | october 2023 - FEbruary 2024
“Emergent Encounters Action Project” PIs: Craig Fortier (Social Development Studies) and Matt Borland (Systems Design Engineering). Funded by the Centre for Teaching and Learning LITE Grant 2022 - 2023. University of Waterloo.
Research Assistant | University of Waterloo | May 2020 - Present
“Critical by Design: Fostering Responsible Innovation through Critical Design Methods” PI: Marcel O’Gorman (English Language & Literature). Funded by UW/SSHRC Explore Grant 2021 - 2022 and SSHRC Insight Grant 2022 - 2025. University of Waterloo.
“Ethical Tech Innovation: Uniting Educational Initiatives and Professional Practice”. PIs: Heather Love, Jason Lajoie, Jennifer Boger. Funded by SSHRC and Government of Canada’s Future Skills program. University of Waterloo.
“Ethical By Design: A Bottom-Up Approach to Fostering a “Tech for Good” Ethos in the Innovation Ecology” | PI: Marcel O’Gorman, Jennifer Boger, Heather A. Love, Matt Borland. | Funded by the Waterloo Interdisciplinary Trailblazer Fund 2020 - 2022
Research Assistant | Critical Media Lab / University of Waterloo | December 2019 - May 2020
“Heads-Up User Group (HUUG): An Ethnographic Study of Augmented Reality Glasses” | PI: Marcel O’Gorman (Critical Media Lab)
Research Assistant | Thompson Rivers University | May 2018 - May 2019
“First Impressions of Virtual Reality” | PI: Andrew Fergus, Chair of Human Enterprise & Innovation, School of Business & Economics
Master’s Major Research Project
“Embedding Ethics and Empathy into Engineering Curriculum: Case Studies of Systems Design Capstone Courses”. Committee: Marcel O’Gorman and Heather A. Love. August 2020.
Undergraduate Thesis Project
“Perceptions of Data Privacy in the Age of Social Media Addiction”. April 2019. Co-supervised by Tracy Penny Light and Blair McDonald. Presented at the TRU Undergraduate Research and Innovation Conference 2019
Awards & Funding
2023
Graduate Research Studentship funded by SSHRC Insight Grant | University of Waterloo
2022
Ontario Graduate Scholarship
Graduate Research Studentship funded by Waterloo Interdisciplinary Trailblazer Grant
President’s Graduate Scholarship
Waterloo Artificial Intelligence Institute Award
2021
Ontario Graduate Scholarship
Graduate Research Studentship funded by Waterloo Interdisciplinary Trailblazer Grant
President’s Graduate Scholarship
2020
Provost Doctoral Entrance Award for Women
Graduate Research Studentship funded by Waterloo Interdisciplinary Trailblazer Grant
2019
Graduate Studies & Research Award | Thompson Rivers University
Research Coach Award
2018
Research Coach Award
Presentations
“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)
“Embedding Ethics and Empathy in the Engineering CUrriculum” Lecture | February 2021
PRES Lecture Series. Virtual Presentation at University of Waterloo, Canada. Link to view (w/o discussion segment): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q77vHYFNV4c&feature=youtu.be
“Interdisciplinary Roundtable” | June 2020
Accepted Paper. Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English. Congress 2020 of the Humanities and Social Sciences. Postponed due to COVID-19
“Cartridge Blowing and Nostalgia: SNES Modding in 2020” | April 2020
Accepted paper with Alex Fleck. Panel: “Re-Pair, Re-Make, Re-Think.” 2020 R-CADE (Rutgers-Camden Archive of Digital Ephemera) Symposium. Postponed due to COVID-19
“CHuck klosterman” | March 2019
Accepted paper with Sam Neufeld. Panel: "The Role of the Critic in the Digital Age.” Undergraduate Research Conference, Thompson Rivers University, Canada.
Research Coach & Real World Problem Showcase | November 2018
Co-presented with Dr. Tracy Penny Light. A summary of our experience with the Research Coach pilot program and the class project results.
“Creating a Collaborative Ecosystem” | July 2018
Sponsored Panel. Association for Authentic, Experiential, Evidence Based Learning (AAEEBL) Annual Conference. Capilano University, Canada.
Workshops
Conference on Diversity in Engineering, November 2023
Critical Design for Responsible Innovation | November 2023
With Rebecca Sherlock. Conference for Diversity in Engineering, University of Waterloo, Canada.
Critical design for responsible iNnovation | May 2023
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
With Matt Borland, Kate Mercer, Jenny Howcroft, Shannon Veitch, and Matt Robichaud. Canadian Engineering Education Association Annual Conference 2022, York University, Toronto, Canada.
