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Lucas M. Silva @Luke_ms

Assistant Professor @UIowaCS. I study how to design technology to support personal and family management of health and wellbeing

Joined March 2010
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UIowa Computer Science@UIowaCS
8 Jan 2025
📢#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
REU in Computing for Health and Well-being Program Highlights • $6,000 stipend • On-campus housing and food • Mentored research experience • Research Bootcamp • Career development workshops • Fun social events and more The Computer Science Department at the University of Iowa will conduct a 10-week summer research program funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). Our site is motivated by the considerable strain on the U.S. healthcare system due to short-term challenges, such as those posed by the COVID-19 outbreak, and long-term trends, such as an aging U.S. population. Computer scientists are in a unique position to help solve these and other problems in health and well-being. Ten participants will join their faculty mentor's research group to work on interdisciplinary projects.

ALT REU in Computing for Health and Well-being Program Highlights • $6,000 stipend • On-campus housing and food • Mentored research experience • Research Bootcamp • Career development workshops • Fun social events and more The Computer Science Department at the University of Iowa will conduct a 10-week summer research program funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). Our site is motivated by the considerable strain on the U.S. healthcare system due to short-term challenges, such as those posed by the COVID-19 outbreak, and long-term trends, such as an aging U.S. population. Computer scientists are in a unique position to help solve these and other problems in health and well-being. Ten participants will join their faculty mentor's research group to work on interdisciplinary projects.

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Lucas M. Silva retweeted
Nick Su@nicksu28
9 Nov 2024
🌻 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!
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UIowa Computer Science@UIowaCS
18 Oct 2024
📢 @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
Aerial shot of U of Iowa Pentacrest, centered on historic Old Capitol building - and home to U of Iowa Computer Science - with text "We're hiring!" in a speech bubble.

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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
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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!
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Lucas M. Silva retweeted
UCI Informatics@UCI_Informatics
15 Sep 2023
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
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Matthew D.@Matthew_Dressa
8 Aug 2023
Own Fitbit and interested in helping out with a research study for a $50 amazon gift card?
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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

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Daniel Epstein@daepstein
17 Jan 2023
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/
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Baki Kocaballi@abakik
15 Nov 2022
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/ 👇🧵
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I became a PhD candidate Friday after doing my advancement and then drove north to start an internship with Netflix. I think it will be an exciting summer :D Thank you to my committee @daepstein @gillianrhayes @AnamaraROlson Yunan Chen, and Stephanie Reich
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Nick Su@nicksu28
12 Jan 2022
Join us virtually at #CHI2022 for our workshop on Investigating Data Work Across Domains! Looking forward to reviewing submissions w/ my amazing co-organizers @khpine @najaholten @ginasue @MilagrosMiceli @alexlu3211 Leah Horgan, Claus Bossen, Yunan Chen, and Melissa Mazmanian!
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I am really excited to be interning with the Google Play team as a UX Researcher for this summer! #google #internships #internship2021 #googleinterns #uxresearch
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Check out our paper based on a deployment study that examined people's food journaling preferences and strategies when under fewer constraints! lsilva.net/publications #acmdis2021

Designing Interactive Systems Conference@acm_dis
29 Jun 2021
Replying to @acm_dis
P1: How do people prefer to food journal? @Luke_ms & @daepstein find that people’s goals and input modalities influence how they describe foods, suggesting designers should aim to mitigate and leverage journaling variance youtube.com/watch?v=JYDQhGER…
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Go check out our IMWUT paper on mapping personal informatics studies! It also resulted in a repository of the mapped papers and that I always use when looking for related works: personal-informatics.depstei…

Daniel Epstein@daepstein
16 Nov 2020
Our upcoming #IMWUT @ubicomp paper maps areas of study in 523 personal informatics papers to point to opportunities for future research. Preprint available at depstein.net/assets/pubs/dep…, and you can browse the papers we tagged at personal-informatics.depstei…. A few key takeaways: (1/8)
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Lucas M. Silva retweeted
Netflix Brasil
@NetflixBrasil
6 Jan 2017
Tentando equilibrar minha vida social e as maratonas:
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Lucas M. Silva retweeted
Bill Gates
@BillGates
6 Oct 2011
For those of us lucky enough to get to work with Steve, it’s been an insanely great honor. I will miss Steve immensely. b-gat.es/qHXDsU

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parker
@pt
10 Jul 2011
There's a time and a place for running Linux on your laptop, it's called college.
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Tecnoblog@Tecnoblog
6 Jun 2011
Acompanhe no TB o liveblog da apresentação de Steve Jobs na WWDC 2011 - http://migre.me/4JApw
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