Lucas M. Silva

📢#NSFFunded-#REU: #Computing for #Health & #WellBeing 5/26-8/2! Students from populations underrepresented in #STEM or schools w/ limited research opp those with disabilities encouraged to apply by March 15. Deets at bit.ly/uiowacs_reu R/T plz 😊 #CSforGood #URM #CSforAll

🌻 I'm on the job market 🌻 I'm a designer and HCI & Health researcher exploring how emotion, value, and aesthetics shape interactivity and vice versa. Learn more about me and my work here: nicksu.me Please get in touch if you're hiring or know of any good fits!

📢 @UIowaCS invites applications for multiple #TenureTrack & #InstructionalTrack #CSfaculty positions eff. Aug 2025. Deets @ cs.uiowa.edu/hiring ⚠️𝗦𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗯𝗲𝗴𝗶𝗻 𝗶𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗹𝘆; full consideration to apps rcvd by 1/1/25 🗓️ #ComputerScience

I'll be recruiting PhD students for Fall 2025 in CS or Informatics programs. If you are interested in HCI research focused on health & wellbeing, feel free to reach out! Contact and program details are available on my website. #HCI #PhDposition

@UIowaCS @uiowa @daepstein @gillianrhayes @Xi_Lu_HCI @ekjo15 @Dwnnis @jazette_j Thank you! Looking forward to it.

@Luke_ms @uiowa @daepstein @gillianrhayes @Xi_Lu_HCI @ekjo15 @Dwnnis @jazette_j Congratulations! 🎉 We @UIowaCS look forward to welcoming you in our midst😀.

I defended my PhD! It has been a challenging but fulfilling journey and I am super grateful to my huge support network, including my advisors, committee, labs, and family. Also happy to announce I am joining @uiowa as an assistant professor in the CS dpt!

@TeraReynolds @uiowa @daepstein @gillianrhayes @Xi_Lu_HCI @ekjo15 @Dwnnis @jazette_j Thank you, Tera!

@Luke_ms @uiowa @daepstein @gillianrhayes @Xi_Lu_HCI @ekjo15 @Dwnnis @jazette_j Congratulations!! 🎊

@YounghoHCI @uiowa @daepstein @gillianrhayes @Xi_Lu_HCI @ekjo15 @Dwnnis @jazette_j Thanks, Young-Ho!

@Luke_ms @uiowa @daepstein @gillianrhayes @Xi_Lu_HCI @ekjo15 @Dwnnis @jazette_j Congratulations! Well deserved!

@realwithlu Thanks, Lulu!

Sooo happy for my lab mate!! Congratssss again 🎉🎉

@Yuxing_Wu_ @uiowa @daepstein @gillianrhayes @Xi_Lu_HCI @ekjo15 @Dwnnis @jazette_j Ha! Thanks and looking forward to it!

@Luke_ms @uiowa @daepstein @gillianrhayes @Xi_Lu_HCI @ekjo15 @Dwnnis @jazette_j Congrats Dr. Silva!!! Welcome to the Midwest!😉

@LizAnkrah @uiowa @daepstein @gillianrhayes @Xi_Lu_HCI @ekjo15 @Dwnnis @jazette_j Thank you!!! ❤️

@tknearem @uiowa @daepstein @gillianrhayes @Xi_Lu_HCI @ekjo15 @Dwnnis @jazette_j Thanks, Tiffany!

@Luke_ms @uiowa @daepstein @gillianrhayes @Xi_Lu_HCI @ekjo15 @Dwnnis @jazette_j Congratulations Dr. Silva!! Happy for you!

@EvropiStefanidi @LizAnkrah @gillianrhayes @daepstein @Linney11 It was wonderful hosting you here! I hope “next time” is soon.

Special thanks to @Luke_ms & @LizAnkrah for the fun times at the office & the beach and for letting me be passenger princess🚗, to @gillianrhayes & @daepstein for their wonderful hospitality, and to @Linney11 for the fun tour at Chapman and showing us the best tacos in Orange!🌮

Back in Bremen after a month at sunny @UCIrvine☀️ Delighted I got to meet and spend time with so many amazing people - and even had a wonderful visit there by my PhD co-advisor @yervonner 🤩

Congratulations to Assistant Professor of Informatics Daniel Epstein (@daepstein) for receiving the prestigious @NSF's Faculty Early Career Development award to advance his research into meaningful self-tracking experiences. 👏 📱 Read: bit.ly/3EJRFdq #uciics

Own Fitbit and interested in helping out with a research study for a $50 amazon gift card?

Today I presented our paper at #CHI2023 "Unpacking the Lived Experiences of Smartwatch Mediated Self and Co-Regulation with ADHD Children," a deployment study I led with @Linney11 and with a big team, including @a_sliceoftime @daepstein and @gillianrhayes. lsilva.net/publications

@youngho_yhkim @ekjo15 @NAVER_AI_Lab @daepstein @hyunhoonjung Congrats!

I'm super proud of my former research intern @ekjo15 that her internship project at @NAVER_AI_Lab received a best paper award at #CHI2023! Huge congrats to Jo and the amazing coauthors @daepstein and @hyunhoonjung!

@AehongMin @drwendymiller Congrats!!

I passed my defense! 👩‍🎓 So grateful to my advisor, Patrick C. Shih, and my research committee Kay Connelly, Christena Nippert-Eng, Hsien-Chang Lin, and @drwendymiller! Also, thanks to my collaborators, friends, and my family for their support 🥰

Join us at WISH on April 28 at #CHI2023! WISH brings together the HCI-Health community towards understanding and creating systems for health and wellbeing. We'll have research highlights, works-in-progress, and a mentoring program. sites.uci.edu/wish2023/

Our new @jmirpub paper on the design and evaluation challenges of healthcare conversational agents is out! The paper is the product of a long and highly collaborative process involving 22 researchers world-wide: jmir.org/2022/11/e38525/ 👇🧵