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  1. Understanding the Challenges of Maker Entrepreneurship

    Article • Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, May 2025, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Natalie Friedman, Alexandra Bremers, Nikolas Martelaro

  2. Punctuated and Prolonged: A Workers' Inquiry into Infrastructural Failures in Bus Transit

    Article • Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, May 2025, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Nikolas Martelaro

  3. Power and Play: Investigating "License to Critique" in Teams' AI Ethics Discussions

    Article • Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, November 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Nikolas Martelaro

  4. Inkspire: Sketching Product Designs with AI

    Article • October 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Nikolas Martelaro

  5. Reality Check: Insights from Experienced Users of Current Automated Driving Systems for an Updated AutoUI Research Agenda

    Article • September 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Nikolas Martelaro

  6. VideoMap: Supporting Video Exploration, Brainstorming, and Prototyping in the Latent Space

    Article • June 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Nikolas Martelaro

  7. Videogenic: Identifying Highlight Moments in Videos with Professional Photographs as a Prior

    Article • June 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Nikolas Martelaro

  8. “The bus is nothing without us”: Making Visible the Labor of Bus Operators amid the Ongoing Push Towards Transit Automation

    Article • May 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Nikolas Martelaro

  9. Co-design Accessible Public Robots: Insights from People with Mobility Disability, Robotic Practitioners and Their Collaborations

    Article • May 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Nikolas Martelaro

  10. Jigsaw: Supporting Designers to Prototype Multimodal Applications by Chaining AI Foundation Models

    Article • May 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Nikolas Martelaro

  11. BioSpark: An End-to-End Generative System for Biological-Analogical Inspirations and Ideation

    Article • May 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Nikolas Martelaro

  12. Human-Computer Interaction and AI: What Practitioners Need to Know to Design and Build Effective AI systems from a Human Perspective

    Article • May 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Nikolas Martelaro

  13. An Evidence-based Workflow for Studying and Designing Learning Supports for Human-AI Co-creation

    Article • May 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Nikolas Martelaro

  14. The AI Incident Database as an Educational Tool to Raise Awareness of AI Harms: A Classroom Exploration of Efficacy, Limitations, & Future Improvements

    Article • October 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Nikolas Martelaro

  15. Soundify: Matching Sound Effects to Video

    Article • October 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Nikolas Martelaro

  16. The Robot in Our Path: Investigating the Perceptions of People with Motor Disabilities on Navigating Public Space Alongside Sidewalk Robots

    Article • October 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Nikolas Martelaro

  17. Generative Image AI Using Design Sketches as input: Opportunities and Challenges

    Article • June 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Nikolas Martelaro, Weijie Wang

  18. Human-Computer Interaction and AI

    Article • April 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Nikolas Martelaro

  19. Exploring Challenges and Opportunities to Support Designers in Learning to Co-create with AI-based Manufacturing Design Tools

    Article • April 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Nikolas Martelaro

  20. Designing an Inclusive Mobile App for People with Disabilities to Independently Use Autonomous Vehicles

    Article • September 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Nikolas Martelaro

  21. How to Manage Social Order in Shared Automated Vehicles

    Article • September 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Nikolas Martelaro, Debargha Dey

  22. Learning When Agents Can Talk to Drivers Using the INAGT Dataset and Multisensor Fusion

    Article • Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive Mobile Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies, September 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Jorge Ortiz, Nikolas Martelaro

  23. Learning Personal Style from Few Examples

    Article • June 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Nikolas Martelaro

  24. Fake It to Make It

    Article • March 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Nikolas Martelaro, Natalie Friedman

  25. What Could Go Wrong? Exploring the Downsides of Autonomous Vehicles

    Article • September 2020, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Nikolas Martelaro

  26. Using Remote Controlled Speech Agents to Explore Music Experience in Context

    Article • July 2020, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Nikolas Martelaro

  27. Make This! Introduction to Electronics Prototyping Using Arduino

    Article • April 2020, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Nikolas Martelaro

  28. An Exploration of Speech-Based Productivity Support in the Car

    Article • May 2019, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Nikolas Martelaro