Nicolas Villar

Publication Activity (10 Years)

Years Active: 2003-2022
Publications (10 Years): 10

Top Venues

CHI

Conference on Designing Interactive Systems

Hum. Comput. Interact.

CHI Extended Abstracts

Lancaster University, UK (PHD)

Education History

Lancaster University, UK

PHD

Publications

Rebecca Mieloszyk, Hope Twede, Jonathan Lester, Jeremiah Wander, Sumit Basu, Gabe Cohn, Greg Smith, Dan Morris, Sidhant Gupta, Desney S. Tan, Nicolas Villar, Moni Wolf, Sailaja Malladi, Matt Mickelson, Lauren Ryan, Lindsey Kim, Jeffrey Kepple, Susanne Kirchner, Emma Wampler, Riena Terada, Joel Robinson, Ron Paulsen, T. Scott Saponas
A Comparison of Wearable Tonometry, Photoplethysmography, and Electrocardiography for Cuffless Measurement of Blood Pressure in an Ambulatory Setting. IEEE J. Biomed. Health Informatics 26 (7) (2022)
Cecily Morrison, Nicolas Villar, Alex Hadwen-Bennett, Tim Regan, Daniel Cletheroe, Anja Thieme, Sue Sentance
Physical Programming for Blind and Low Vision Children at Scale. Hum. Comput. Interact. 36 (5-6) (2021)
Cecily Morrison, Nicolas Villar, Anja Thieme, Zahra Ashktorab, Eloise Taysom, Oscar Salandin, Daniel Cletheroe, Greg Saul, Alan F. Blackwell, Darren Edge, Martin Grayson, Haiyan Zhang
Torino: A Tangible Programming Language Inclusive of Children with Visual Disabilities. Hum. Comput. Interact. 35 (3) (2020)
Nicolas Villar, Cecily Morrison, Daniel Cletheroe, Tim Regan, Anja Thieme, Greg Saul
Physical Programming for Blind and Low Vision Children at Scale. CHI Extended Abstracts (2019)
Nicolas Villar, Daniel Cletheroe, Greg Saul, Christian Holz, Tim Regan, Oscar Salandin, Misha Sra, Hui-Shyong Yeo, William Field, Haiyan Zhang
Project Zanzibar Demonstration: A Portable and Flexible Tangible Interaction Platform. CHI Extended Abstracts (2018)
Nicolas Villar, Daniel Cletheroe, Greg Saul, Christian Holz, Tim Regan, Oscar Salandin, Misha Sra, Hui-Shyong Yeo, William Field, Haiyan Zhang
Project Zanzibar: A Portable and Flexible Tangible Interaction Platform. CHI (2018)
Kapil Dev, Nicolas Villar, Manfred Lau
Polygons, points, or voxels?: stimuli selection for crowdsourcing aesthetics preferences of 3D shape pairs. CAe@Expressive (2017)
Anja Thieme, Cecily Morrison, Nicolas Villar, Martin Grayson, Siân E. Lindley
Enabling Collaboration in Learning Computer Programing Inclusive of Children with Vision Impairments. Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (2017)
Kapil Dev, Kwang Kim, Nicolas Villar, Manfred Lau
Improving Style Similarity Metrics of 3D Shapes. Graphics Interface (2016)
Kapil Dev, Nicolas Villar, Manfred Lau
StandUp: understanding body-part and gestural preferences for first-person 3D modeling. Expressive (2016)
Steve Hodges, Nicolas Villar, Nicholas Chen, Tushar Chugh, Jie Qi, Diana Nowacka, Yoshihiro Kawahara
Circuit stickers: peel-and-stick construction of interactive electronic prototypes. CHI (2014)
John Downs, Nicolas Villar, James Scott, Siân E. Lindley, John Helmes, Gavin Smyth
A small space for playful messaging in the workplace: designing and deploying Picco. Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (2014)
Christian Weichel, Manfred Lau, David Kim, Nicolas Villar, Hans-Werner Gellersen
MixFab: a mixed-reality environment for personal fabrication. CHI (2014)
Norman Pohl, Steve Hodges, John Helmes, Nicolas Villar, Tim Paek
An interactive belt-worn badge with a retractable string-based input mechanism. CHI (2013)
Steve Hodges, Stuart Taylor, Nicolas Villar, James Scott, Dominik Bial, Patrick Tobias Fischer
Prototyping Connected Devices for the Internet of Things. Computer 46 (2) (2013)
Steve Hodges, James Scott, Sue Sentance, Colin Miller, Nicolas Villar, Scarlet Schwiderski-Grosche, Kerry Hammil, Steven J. Johnston
.NET gadgeteer: a new platform for K-12 computer science education. SIGCSE (2013)
Manfred Lau, Christian Weichel, Nicolas Villar
Workshop on personal and pervasive fabrication (PerFab 2013). UbiComp (Adjunct Publication) (2013)
Steve Hodges, Stuart Taylor, Nicolas Villar, James Scott, John Helmes
Exploring physical prototyping techniques for functional devices using .NET gadgeteer. Tangible and Embedded Interaction (2013)
Katie Derthick, James Scott, Nicolas Villar, Christian Winkler
Exploring smartphone-based web user interfaces for appliances. Mobile HCI (2013)
Steve Whittaker, Vaiva Kalnikaité, Daniela Petrelli, Abigail Sellen, Nicolas Villar, Ofer Bergman, Paul D. Clough, Jens Brockmeier
Socio-Technical Lifelogging: Deriving Design Principles for a Future Proof Digital Past. Hum. Comput. Interact. 27 (1-2) (2012)
Nicolas Villar, James Scott, Steve Hodges, Kerry Hammil, Colin Miller
.NET Gadgeteer: A Platform for Custom Devices. Pervasive (2012)
Khaled Bachour, Jon Bird, Vaiva Kalnikaité, Yvonne Rogers, Nicolas Villar, Stefan Kreitmayer
Fast and frugal shopping challenge. CHI Extended Abstracts (2012)
Steve Hodges, Nicolas Villar, James Scott, Albrecht Schmidt
A New Era for Ubicomp Development. IEEE Pervasive Comput. 11 (1) (2012)
Stacey Kuznetsov, Alex S. Taylor, Tim Regan, Nicolas Villar, Eric Paulos
At the seams: DIYbio and opportunities for HCI. Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (2012)
Nicolas Villar, James Scott, Steve Hodges
Prototyping with microsoft .net gadgeteer. Tangible and Embedded Interaction (2011)
James Scott, A. J. Bernheim Brush, John Krumm, Brian Meyers, Mike Hazas, Steve Hodges, Nicolas Villar
PreHeat: controlling home heating using occupancy prediction. UbiComp (2011)
John Helmes, Kenton O'Hara, Nicolas Villar, Alex S. Taylor
Meerkat and Tuba: Design Alternatives for Randomness, Surprise and Serendipity in Reminiscing. INTERACT (2) (2011)
Vaiva Kalnikaité, Yvonne Rogers, Jon Bird, Nicolas Villar, Khaled Bachour, Stephen J. Payne, Peter M. Todd, Johannes Schöning, Antonio Krüger, Stefan Kreitmayer
How to nudge in Situ: designing lambent devices to deliver salient information in supermarkets. UbiComp (2011)
Akash Badshah, Sidhant Gupta, Gabe Cohn, Nicolas Villar, Steve Hodges, Shwetak N. Patel
Interactive generator: a self-powered haptic feedback device. CHI (2011)
John Helmes, Alex S. Taylor, Xiang Cao, Kristina Höök, Peter Schmitt, Nicolas Villar
Rudiments 1, 2 & 3: design speculations on autonomy. Tangible and Embedded Interaction (2011)
Scott Davidoff, Nicolas Villar, Alex S. Taylor, Shahram Izadi
Mechanical hijacking: how robots can accelerate UbiComp deployments. UbiComp (2011)
Steve Hodges, Nicolas Villar
The Hardware Is Not a Given. Computer 43 (8) (2010)
Daniela Petrelli, Nicolas Villar, Vaiva Kalnikaité, Lina Dib, Steve Whittaker
FM radio: family interplay with sonic mementos. CHI (2010)
Xiang Cao, Nicolas Villar, Shahram Izadi
Comparing user performance with single-finger, whole-hand, and hybrid pointing devices. CHI (2010)
Nicolai Marquardt, Alex S. Taylor, Nicolas Villar, Saul Greenberg
Visible and controllable RFID tags. CHI Extended Abstracts (2010)
Florian Block, Hans Gellersen, Nicolas Villar
Touch-display keyboards: transforming keyboards into interactive surfaces. CHI (2010)
Nicolas Villar, Steve Hodges
The peppermill: a human-powered user interface device. Tangible and Embedded Interaction (2010)
Nicolai Marquardt, Alex S. Taylor, Nicolas Villar, Saul Greenberg
Rethinking RFID: awareness and control for interaction with RFID systems. CHI (2010)
David S. Kirk, Abigail Sellen, Stuart Taylor, Nicolas Villar, Shahram Izadi
Putting the physical into the digital: issues in designing hybrid interactive surfaces. BCS HCI (2009)
Jonathan Hook, Stuart Taylor, Alex Butler, Nicolas Villar, Shahram Izadi
A reconfigurable ferromagnetic input device. UIST (2009)
Nicolas Villar, Shahram Izadi, Dan Rosenfeld, Hrvoje Benko, John Helmes, Jonathan Westhues, Steve Hodges, Eyal Ofek, Alex Butler, Xiang Cao, Billy Chen
Mouse 2.0: multi-touch meets the mouse. UIST (2009)
Thomas Seifried, Matthew Jervis, Michael Haller, Masood Masoodian, Nicolas Villar
Integration of virtual and real document organization. Tangible and Embedded Interaction (2008)
Shahram Izadi, Steve Hodges, Stuart Taylor, Dan Rosenfeld, Nicolas Villar, Alex Butler, Jonathan Westhues
Going beyond the display: a surface technology with an electronically switchable diffuser. UIST (2008)
William W. Gaver, Andy Boucher, Andy Law, Sarah Pennington, John Bowers, Jacob Beaver, Jan Humble, Tobie Kerridge, Nicolas Villar, Alex Wilkie
Threshold devices: looking out from the home. CHI (2008)
Florian Block, Nicolas Villar, Hans Gellersen
A malleable physical interface for copying, pasting, and organizing digital clips. Tangible and Embedded Interaction (2008)
Wolfgang Spiessl, Nicolas Villar, Hans-Werner Gellersen, Albrecht Schmidt
VoodooFlash: authoring across physical and digital form. Tangible and Embedded Interaction (2007)
Nicolas Villar, Hans Gellersen, Matthew Jervis, Alexander Lang
The ColorDex DJ System: A New Interface for Live Music Mixing. NIME (2007)
Nicolas Villar, Hans Gellersen
A malleable control structure for softwired user interfaces. Tangible and Embedded Interaction (2007)
Nicolas Villar, Kiel Mark Gilleade, Devina Ramduny-Ellis, Hans Gellersen
The VoodooIO gaming kit: a real-time adaptable gaming controller. Comput. Entertain. 5 (3) (2007)
Nicolas Villar, Hans Gellersen
The Friday Afternoon Project: A Two-Hour VoodooIO Prototyping Exercise. GI Jahrestagung (2) (2006)
Nicolas Villar, Florian Block, David Molyneaux, Hans Gellersen
VoodooIO. SIGGRAPH Emerging Technologies (2006)
William W. Gaver, John Bowers, Andy Boucher, Andy Law, Sarah Pennington, Nicolas Villar
The history tablecloth: illuminating domestic activity. Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (2006)
Florian Block, Hans-Werner Gellersen, Mike Hazas, David Molyneaux, Nicolas Villar
Locating Physical Interface Objects on Interactive Surfaces. GI Jahrestagung (2) (2006)
Nicolas Villar, Kiel Mark Gilleade, Devina Ramduny-Ellis, Hans-Werner Gellersen
The VoodooIO gaming kit: a real-time adaptable gaming controller. Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology (2006)
John Bowers, Nicolas Villar
Creating Ad Hoc Instruments with Pin&Play&Perform. NIME (2006)
Nicolas Villar, Kiel Mark Gilleade, Devina Ramduny-Ellis, Hans-Werner Gellersen
The VoodooIO gaming kit: a real-time adaptable gaming controller. Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology (2006)
Nicolas Villar, Adam Lindsay, Hans-Werner Gellersen
Pin&Play&Perform: A rearrangeable tangible interface for musical composition and performance. NIME (2005)
Keith Cheverst, Hee Byun, Dan Fitton, Corina Sas, Christian Kray, Nicolas Villar
Exploring Issues of User Model Transparency and Proactive Behaviour in an Office Environment Control System. User Model. User Adapt. Interact. 15 (3-4) (2005)
William W. Gaver, John Bowers, Andrew Boucher, Hans Gellersen, Sarah Pennington, Albrecht Schmidt, Anthony Steed, Nicolas Villar, Brendan Walker
The drift table: designing for ludic engagement. CHI Extended Abstracts (2004)
Nicolas Villar, Kristof Van Laerhoven, Hans Gellersen
A physical notice board with digital logic and display. EUSAI (adjunct) (2004)
Florian Block, Albrecht Schmidt, Nicolas Villar, Hans-Werner Gellersen
Towards a Playful User Interface for Home Entertainment Systems. EUSAI (2004)
Nicolas Villar, Albrecht Schmidt, Gerd Kortuem, Hans-Werner Gellersen
Interacting with proactive public displays. Comput. Graph. 27 (6) (2003)
Kristof Van Laerhoven, Nicolas Villar, Albrecht Schmidt, Hans-Werner Gellersen, Maria Håkansson, Lars Erik Holmquist
Pin&Play: the surface as network medium. IEEE Commun. Mag. 41 (4) (2003)
Kristof Van Laerhoven, Nicolas Villar, Albrecht Schmidt, Gerd Kortuem, Hans-Werner Gellersen
Using an autonomous cube for basic navigation and input. ICMI (2003)

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