Nicolas Villar

According to our database, Nicolas Villar authored at least 63 papers between 2003 and 2022.

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2022

A Comparison of Wearable Tonometry, Photoplethysmography, and Electrocardiography for Cuffless Measurement of Blood Pressure in an Ambulatory Setting.

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

IEEE J. Biomed. Health Informatics, 2022

2021

Physical Programming for Blind and Low Vision Children at Scale.

Cecily Morrison, Nicolas Villar, Alex Hadwen-Bennett, Tim Regan, Daniel Cletheroe, Anja Thieme, Sue Sentance

Hum. Comput. Interact., 2021

2020

Torino: A Tangible Programming Language Inclusive of Children with Visual Disabilities.

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

Hum. Comput. Interact., 2020

2019

Physical Programming for Blind and Low Vision Children at Scale.

Nicolas Villar, Cecily Morrison, Daniel Cletheroe, Tim Regan, Anja Thieme, Greg Saul

Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2019

2018

Project Zanzibar Demonstration: A Portable and Flexible Tangible Interaction Platform.

Nicolas Villar, Daniel Cletheroe, Greg Saul, Christian Holz, Tim Regan, Oscar Salandin, Misha Sra, Hui-Shyong Yeo, William Field, Haiyan Zhang

Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2018

Project Zanzibar: A Portable and Flexible Tangible Interaction Platform.

Nicolas Villar, Daniel Cletheroe, Greg Saul, Christian Holz, Tim Regan, Oscar Salandin, Misha Sra, Hui-Shyong Yeo, William Field, Haiyan Zhang

Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2018

2017

Polygons, points, or voxels?: stimuli selection for crowdsourcing aesthetics preferences of 3D shape pairs.

Kapil Dev, Nicolas Villar, Manfred Lau

Proceedings of the 13th International Symposium on Computational Aesthetics in Graphics, 2017

Enabling Collaboration in Learning Computer Programing Inclusive of Children with Vision Impairments.

Anja Thieme, Cecily Morrison, Nicolas Villar, Martin Grayson, Siân E. Lindley

Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Designing Interactive Systems, 2017

2016

Improving Style Similarity Metrics of 3D Shapes.

Kapil Dev, Kwang Kim, Nicolas Villar, Manfred Lau

Proceedings of the 42nd Graphics Interface Conference, Victoria, BC, Canada, 1-3 June 2016, 2016

StandUp: understanding body-part and gestural preferences for first-person 3D modeling.

Kapil Dev, Nicolas Villar, Manfred Lau

Proceedings of the 5th Joint Symposium on Computational Aesthetics, 2016

2014

MixFab: a mixed-reality environment for personal fabrication.

Christian Weichel, Manfred Lau, David Kim, Nicolas Villar, Hans-Werner Gellersen

Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2014

Circuit stickers: peel-and-stick construction of interactive electronic prototypes.

Steve Hodges, Nicolas Villar, Nicholas Chen, Tushar Chugh, Jie Qi, Diana Nowacka, Yoshihiro Kawahara

Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2014

A small space for playful messaging in the workplace: designing and deploying Picco.

John Downs, Nicolas Villar, James Scott, Siân E. Lindley, John Helmes, Gavin Smyth

Proceedings of the Designing Interactive Systems Conference 2014, DIS '14, Vancouver, BC, 2014

2013

Prototyping Connected Devices for the Internet of Things.

Steve Hodges, Stuart Taylor, Nicolas Villar, James Scott, Dominik Bial, Patrick Tobias Fischer

Computer, 2013

Exploring physical prototyping techniques for functional devices using .NET gadgeteer.

Steve Hodges, Stuart Taylor, Nicolas Villar, James Scott, John Helmes

Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Tangible, 2013

.NET gadgeteer: a new platform for K-12 computer science education.

Steve Hodges, James Scott, Sue Sentance, Colin Miller, Nicolas Villar, Scarlet Schwiderski-Grosche, Kerry Hammil, Steven J. Johnston

Proceedings of the 44th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, 2013

Exploring smartphone-based web user interfaces for appliances.

Katie Derthick, James Scott, Nicolas Villar, Christian Winkler

Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services, 2013

Workshop on personal and pervasive fabrication (PerFab 2013).

Manfred Lau, Christian Weichel, Nicolas Villar

Proceedings of the 2013 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing, 2013

An interactive belt-worn badge with a retractable string-based input mechanism.

Norman Pohl, Steve Hodges, John Helmes, Nicolas Villar, Tim Paek

Proceedings of the 2013 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2013

2012

A New Era for Ubicomp Development.

Steve Hodges, Nicolas Villar, James Scott, Albrecht Schmidt

IEEE Pervasive Comput., 2012

Socio-Technical Lifelogging: Deriving Design Principles for a Future Proof Digital Past.

Steve Whittaker, Vaiva Kalnikaité, Daniela Petrelli, Abigail Sellen, Nicolas Villar, Ofer Bergman, Paul D. Clough, Jens Brockmeier

Hum. Comput. Interact., 2012

.NET Gadgeteer: A Platform for Custom Devices.

Nicolas Villar, James Scott, Steve Hodges, Kerry Hammil, Colin Miller

Proceedings of the Pervasive Computing - 10th International Conference, 2012

Fast and frugal shopping challenge.

Khaled Bachour, Jon Bird, Vaiva Kalnikaité, Yvonne Rogers, Nicolas Villar, Stefan Kreitmayer

Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2012

At the seams: DIYbio and opportunities for HCI.

Stacey Kuznetsov, Alex S. Taylor, Tim Regan, Nicolas Villar, Eric Paulos

Proceedings of the Designing Interactive Systems Conference 2012, 2012

2011

Prototyping with microsoft .net gadgeteer.

Nicolas Villar, James Scott, Steve Hodges

Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Tangible and Embedded Interaction 2011, 2011

Rudiments 1, 2 & 3: design speculations on autonomy.

John Helmes, Alex S. Taylor, Xiang Cao, Kristina Höök, Peter Schmitt, Nicolas Villar

Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Tangible and Embedded Interaction 2011, 2011

Meerkat and Tuba: Design Alternatives for Randomness, Surprise and Serendipity in Reminiscing.

John Helmes, Kenton O'Hara, Nicolas Villar, Alex S. Taylor

Proceedings of the Human-Computer Interaction - INTERACT 2011, 2011

PreHeat: controlling home heating using occupancy prediction.

James Scott, A. J. Bernheim Brush, John Krumm, Brian Meyers, Mike Hazas, Steve Hodges, Nicolas Villar

Proceedings of the UbiComp 2011: Ubiquitous Computing, 13th International Conference, 2011

How to nudge in Situ: designing lambent devices to deliver salient information in supermarkets.

Vaiva Kalnikaité, Yvonne Rogers, Jon Bird, Nicolas Villar, Khaled Bachour, Stephen J. Payne, Peter M. Todd, Johannes Schöning, Antonio Krüger, Stefan Kreitmayer

Proceedings of the UbiComp 2011: Ubiquitous Computing, 13th International Conference, 2011

Mechanical hijacking: how robots can accelerate UbiComp deployments.

Scott Davidoff, Nicolas Villar, Alex S. Taylor, Shahram Izadi

Proceedings of the UbiComp 2011: Ubiquitous Computing, 13th International Conference, 2011

Interactive generator: a self-powered haptic feedback device.

Akash Badshah, Sidhant Gupta, Gabe Cohn, Nicolas Villar, Steve Hodges, Shwetak N. Patel

Proceedings of the International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2011

2010

The Hardware Is Not a Given.

Steve Hodges, Nicolas Villar

Computer, 2010

The peppermill: a human-powered user interface device.

Nicolas Villar, Steve Hodges

Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Tangible and Embedded Interaction 2010, 2010

FM radio: family interplay with sonic mementos.

Daniela Petrelli, Nicolas Villar, Vaiva Kalnikaité, Lina Dib, Steve Whittaker

Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2010

Visible and controllable RFID tags.

Nicolai Marquardt, Alex S. Taylor, Nicolas Villar, Saul Greenberg

Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2010

Rethinking RFID: awareness and control for interaction with RFID systems.

Nicolai Marquardt, Alex S. Taylor, Nicolas Villar, Saul Greenberg

Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2010

Comparing user performance with single-finger, whole-hand, and hybrid pointing devices.

Xiang Cao, Nicolas Villar, Shahram Izadi

Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2010

Touch-display keyboards: transforming keyboards into interactive surfaces.

Florian Block, Hans Gellersen, Nicolas Villar

Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2010

2009

Mouse 2.0: multi-touch meets the mouse.

Nicolas Villar, Shahram Izadi, Dan Rosenfeld, Hrvoje Benko, John Helmes, Jonathan Westhues, Steve Hodges, Eyal Ofek, Alex Butler, Xiang Cao, Billy Chen

Proceedings of the 22nd Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, 2009

A reconfigurable ferromagnetic input device.

Jonathan Hook, Stuart Taylor, Alex Butler, Nicolas Villar, Shahram Izadi

Proceedings of the 22nd Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, 2009

Putting the physical into the digital: issues in designing hybrid interactive surfaces.

David S. Kirk, Abigail Sellen, Stuart Taylor, Nicolas Villar, Shahram Izadi

Proceedings of the 2009 British Computer Society Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, 2009

2008

Going beyond the display: a surface technology with an electronically switchable diffuser.

Shahram Izadi, Steve Hodges, Stuart Taylor, Dan Rosenfeld, Nicolas Villar, Alex Butler, Jonathan Westhues

Proceedings of the 21st Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, 2008

Integration of virtual and real document organization.

Thomas Seifried, Matthew Jervis, Michael Haller, Masood Masoodian, Nicolas Villar

Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Tangible and Embedded Interaction 2008, 2008

A malleable physical interface for copying, pasting, and organizing digital clips.

Florian Block, Nicolas Villar, Hans Gellersen

Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Tangible and Embedded Interaction 2008, 2008

Threshold devices: looking out from the home.

William W. Gaver, Andy Boucher, Andy Law, Sarah Pennington, John Bowers, Jacob Beaver, Jan Humble, Tobie Kerridge, Nicolas Villar, Alex Wilkie

Proceedings of the 2008 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2008

2007

Flexible physical interfaces.

Nicolas Villar

PhD thesis, 2007

The VoodooIO gaming kit: a real-time adaptable gaming controller.

Nicolas Villar, Kiel Mark Gilleade, Devina Ramduny-Ellis, Hans Gellersen

Comput. Entertain., 2007

A malleable control structure for softwired user interfaces.

Nicolas Villar, Hans Gellersen

Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Tangible and Embedded Interaction 2007, 2007

VoodooFlash: authoring across physical and digital form.

Wolfgang Spiessl, Nicolas Villar, Hans-Werner Gellersen, Albrecht Schmidt

Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Tangible and Embedded Interaction 2007, 2007

The ColorDex DJ System: A New Interface for Live Music Mixing.

Nicolas Villar, Hans Gellersen, Matthew Jervis, Alexander Lang

Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression, 2007

2006

VoodooIO.

Nicolas Villar, Florian Block, David Molyneaux, Hans Gellersen

Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, 2006

Creating Ad Hoc Instruments with Pin&Play&Perform.

John Bowers, Nicolas Villar

Proceedings of the New Interfaces for Musical Expression, 2006

The Friday Afternoon Project: A Two-Hour VoodooIO Prototyping Exercise.

Nicolas Villar, Hans Gellersen

Proceedings of the 36. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Informatik, 2006

Locating Physical Interface Objects on Interactive Surfaces.

Florian Block, Hans-Werner Gellersen, Mike Hazas, David Molyneaux, Nicolas Villar

Proceedings of the 36. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Informatik, 2006

The history tablecloth: illuminating domestic activity.

William W. Gaver, John Bowers, Andy Boucher, Andy Law, Sarah Pennington, Nicolas Villar

Proceedings of the Conference on Designing Interactive Systems, 2006

2005

Exploring Issues of User Model Transparency and Proactive Behaviour in an Office Environment Control System.

Keith Cheverst, Hee Byun, Dan Fitton, Corina Sas, Christian Kray, Nicolas Villar

User Model. User Adapt. Interact., 2005

Pin&Play&Perform: A rearrangeable tangible interface for musical composition and performance.

Nicolas Villar, Adam Lindsay, Hans-Werner Gellersen

Proceedings of the New Interfaces for Musical Expression, 2005

2004

A physical notice board with digital logic and display.

Nicolas Villar, Kristof Van Laerhoven, Hans Gellersen

Proceedings of the Adjunct Proceedings of the 2nd European Union symposium on Ambient intelligence, 2004

Towards a Playful User Interface for Home Entertainment Systems.

Florian Block, Albrecht Schmidt, Nicolas Villar, Hans-Werner Gellersen

Proceedings of the Ambient Intelligence: Second European Symposium, 2004

The drift table: designing for ludic engagement.

William W. Gaver, John Bowers, Andrew Boucher, Hans Gellersen, Sarah Pennington, Albrecht Schmidt, Anthony Steed, Nicolas Villar, Brendan Walker

Proceedings of the Extended abstracts of the 2004 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2004

2003

Pin&Play: the surface as network medium.

Kristof Van Laerhoven, Nicolas Villar, Albrecht Schmidt, Hans-Werner Gellersen, Maria Håkansson, Lars Erik Holmquist

IEEE Commun. Mag., 2003

Interacting with proactive public displays.

Nicolas Villar, Albrecht Schmidt, Gerd Kortuem, Hans-Werner Gellersen

Comput. Graph., 2003

Using an autonomous cube for basic navigation and input.

Kristof Van Laerhoven, Nicolas Villar, Albrecht Schmidt, Gerd Kortuem, Hans-Werner Gellersen

Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces, 2003