Nikolas Martelaro
Associate Professor
Studies AI-augmented design tools and interfaces for autonomous systems such as vehicles.
Nikolas Martelaro's lab at CMU works on interfaces & interaction techniques, embodied & active vision and autonomous vehicles & drones. 14 papers since 2023, 7 at top venues, mostly CHI and DIS. 6 PhD students. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 4/ year
- at T1 venues
- 50%
- PhD students
- 6
- MS students
- 0
- alumni listed
- —
Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 1 papers2026 · T1 0 · collecting
- 7 papers2025 · T1 3
- 4 papers2024 · T1 2
- 2 papers2023 · T1 2
T1 venuesOtherVenues: CHI, DIS, IUI, UIST
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Autonomous vehicles & drones1 paper
- design tools1 paper
- Interfaces & interaction techniques0 papers
- Embodied & active vision0 papers
- autonomous systems0 papers
Paper list
From the lab homepage.
20261 paper
20257 papers
- DISAt the Breaking Point: How Bus Operators Cope with Transit Technology Failures and What That Can Tell Us About the Integration of Future Innovations (opens in a new tab)
- CHI (T1)BioSpark: Beyond Analogical Inspiration to LLM-augmented Transfer (opens in a new tab)
- DISExploring the Potential of Metacognitive Support Agents for Human-AI Co-Creation (opens in a new tab)
- CHI (T1)Inkspire: Supporting Design Exploration with Generative AI through Analogical Sketching (opens in a new tab)
- CHI (T1)Intent Tagging: Exploring Micro-Prompting Interactions for Supporting Granular Human-GenAI Co-Creation Workflows (opens in a new tab)
- Design ScienceMind over modality? The impact of design representation on shared understanding in collaborative student engineering design (opens in a new tab)
- AutomotiveUINon-Emergency Notification Timing in Autonomous Vehicles: An Interruptibility Study (opens in a new tab)
20244 papers
- CHI (T1)Co-design Accessible Public Robots: Insights from People with Mobility Disability, Robotic Practitioners and Their Collaborations (opens in a new tab)
- CHI (T1)Jigsaw: Supporting Designers to Prototype Multimodal Applications by Chaining AI Foundation Models (opens in a new tab)
- C&CVideogenic: Identifying Highlight Moments in Videos with Professional Photographs as a Prior (opens in a new tab)
- C&CVideoMap: Supporting Video Exploration, Brainstorming, and Prototyping in the Latent Space (opens in a new tab)
Where alumni went
Alumni are not listed on the lab homepage.
Apply to CMUFall 2027
CMU SCS Computer Science PhD
- Round
- Single round
- Opens
- GRE
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- English
- TOEFL / IELTS / Duolingo (F-1/J-1 non-native speakers)
- Fee
- USD 100 (USD 80 by early deadline)
Confirmed on the program page.
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