Author: Juan Maestre

Happy to announce that I have been invited to present my latest research with Armed Forces Veterans at the Early Career Researcher (ECR) 2026 Colloquium to take place in Aberystwyth University on June 29 and 30th, 2026.

I am glad to have been selected and serve as a Posters and Track Co-chair for the AfriCHI’27 conference to be held in Lagos, Nigeria in April 2027.

I am glad to announce that our paper “Exploring the Use of AI-based Chatbots to Help Support Armed Forces Veterans’ Mental Health” has been conditionally accepted to the Interactive Health 2026 conference! This paper was first authored by PhD student Maheen Ashraf who I supervise. More detail coming soon!

I’m happy to share that I have achieved Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA) after completing a 2-year postgraduate Advance HE accredited programme at Swansea University / Prifysgol Abertawe!

So happy to share the great news that our Welsh Crucible 2025 seed grant proposal of £6K was awarded to our team led by Biao Zhen. This will be an exciting interdisciplinary project between researchers from Swansea University (myself), University of South Wales (Biao Zhen), and Bangor University (Jennifer Roberts). Our research project will look…

It was such a great experience to be a Chair the Poster Track for the BCS HCI 2025 Conference alongside Dushani Pereira! We had a collection of exciting research presented in the form of posters during the conference. We also had a 1-minute madness presentation of posters! (photo of the 1-minute madness shown below). Thanks…

Great talks and discussions at the BCS HCI 2025 Coference (britCHI’25) during the “Co-Designing Human-Centred AI Technologies for Health and Wellbeing” workshop. So thankful to all our wonderful participants and fellow organisers for making this event such a remarkable experience 🙂 I certainly look forward to further discussions and working on disseminating key insights! Stay…

Welcome Maheen! From October 1st, Maheen Ashraf is joing us at Swansea University all the way from India! Maheen will be pursuing a PhD degree in Computer Science under my supervision. Maheen will be working on the Armed Forces Veterans Project I oversee and that investigates how AI-based technology can help and support Armed Forces…

I have completed my participation in the renowed Welsh Crucible programme! These series of workshop brought 30 researchers across Wales from different research institutions and fields. What an incredible experience it has been for me! I could not be more grateful for having been selected to participate as a cruciblee. I certainly look forward for…

It was great to attend and share preliminary findings of my research with Armed Forces Veterans during the FiMT Research Center Conference 2025 hosted at King’s College London.