Journal Papers

Gloerich, I., De Waal, M., Ferri, G., Cila, N., & Karpinski, T. (2020). The city as a licence: Implications of Blockchain and distributed ledgers for urban governance. Frontiers in Sustainable Cities, section Governance and Cities, 2:534942. doi: 10.3389/frsc.2020.534942.

Mehra, S., Visser, B., Cila, N., van den Helder, J., Engelbert, R. H., Weijs, P. J. & Kröse, B. J. (2019). Supporting Older Adults in Exercising With a Tablet: A Usability Study. JMIR Hum Factors, 6(1): e11598.

Bueno Mesquita, N., Cila, N., Groen, M. & Meys, W. (2018). Socio-technical systems for citizen empowerment. International Journal of Electronic Governance, 10(2), 172-195.

Hekkert, P. & Cila, N. (2015). Handle with care! Why and how designers make use of product metaphors. Design Studies, 40(1), 196-217.

Cila, N., Hekkert, P. & Visch, V. (2014). “Digging for meaning”: The eff­ect of a designer’s expertise and intention on depth of product metaphors. Metaphor & Symbol, 29(4), 257-277.

Cila, N., Borsboom, F. & Hekkert, P. (2014). Determinants of aesthetic preference for product metaphors. Empirical Studies of the Arts, 32(2), 183-203.

Cila, N., Hekkert, P. & Visch, V. (2014). Source selection in product metaphor generation: The e­ffect of salience and relatedness. International Journal of Design, 8(1), 15-28.

Book Chapters

Cila, N. & DiSalvo, C. (2021). What can Actor-Network Theory teach us about the socio-technological implications of delivery robots? In M. C. Rozendaal, B. Marenko & W. Odom (Eds.), Designing Smart Objects in Everyday Life: Intelligence, Agency, Ecology. Bloomsbury.

Cila, N. & Hekkert, P. (2020). Generating metaphors in product design. In Gargett A. & J Barnden (Eds.), Producing Figurative Expression (pp. 299-330). John Benjamins.

Cila, N. (2018). Exploring the potential of Blockchain in the city. In M. de Waal & G. Ferri (Eds.), A Lab of Labs: Methods and Approaches to Human-Centered Design. Amsterdam Creative Industries Publishing.

Giaccardi, E., Speed, C., Cila, N. & Caldwell, M. (2016). Things as co-ethnographers: Implications of a thing perspective for design and anthropology. In R. C. Smith, T. Otto, K. T. Vangkilde, J. Halse, T. Binder & M. G. Kjærsgaard (Eds.), Design Anthropological Futures (pp. 235-248). London: Bloomsbury Academic.

Cardoso, C. & Cila, N. (2013). Analogies and metaphors. In A. van Boeijen, J. Daalhuizen, J. Zijlstra & R. van der Schoor (Eds.), Delft Design Guide (pp. 113-115). Amsterdam: BIS Publishers.

Refereed Conference Papers

Cila, N., González González, I., Jacobs, J., & Rozendaal, M. (2024). Bridging HRI Theory and Practice: Design Guidelines for Robot Communication in Dairy Farming. In Proceedings of the 2024 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (pp. 137-146). doi: 10.1145/3610977.3634991

Cila, N. (2022). Designing Human-Agent Collaborations: Commitment, responsiveness, and support. In CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '22). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 420, 1–18. DOI: 10.1145/3491102.3517500 (Honorable Mention)

Coskun, A., Cila, N., Nicenboim, I., Frauenberger, C., Wakkary, R., Hassenzahl, M., Mancini, C., Giaccardi, E., & Forlano, L. (2022). More-than-human Concepts, Methodologies, and Practices in HCI. In CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts (CHI EA '22). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 150, 1–5. DOI: 10.1145/3491101.3516503

Lupetti, M. L., Zaga, C., Cila, N., Luria, M., Hoggenmüller, M. & Jung, M. F. (2022). 2nd International Workshop on Designerly HRI Knowledge. Reflecting on HRI practices through Annotated Portfolios of Robotic Artefacts. In 2022 17th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), Sapporo, Japan, 2022, pp. 1269-1271, doi: 10.1109/HRI53351.2022.9889569.

Cila, N., Zaga, C. & Lupetti., M. L. (2021). Learning from robotic artefacts: A quest for strong concepts in Human-Robot Interaction. In Proceedings of the Designing Interactive Systems Conference 2021. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, (pp. 1356–1365). DOI: 10.1145/3461778.3462095

Lupetti, M. L., Zaga, C. & Cila, N. (2021). Designerly Ways of Knowing in HRI: Broadening the Scope of Design-oriented HRI Through the Concept of Intermediate-level Knowledge. In Proceedings of the 2021 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI '21). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, (pp. 389–398). DOI: 10.1145/3434073.3444668 (Best Paper Candidate)

Cila, N., Ferri, G., de Waal, M., Gloerich, I., & Karpinski, T. (2020). The Blockchain and the Commons: Dilemmas in the Design of Local Platforms. In Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '20). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1–14. DOI: 10.1145/3313831.3376660

Lupetti, M. L., Zaga, C. & Cila, N. (2020). Designerly HRI knowledge: Bridging HRI and Design Research. In Proceedings of the 29th IEEE International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN).

Lupetti, M. L. & Cila, N. (2019). Envisioning and Questioning Near Future Robotics. In Proceedings of the DeSForM 2019 Conference.

Lupetti, M. L., Cila, N. & Smit, I. (2018). Near Future Cities of Things: Addressing Dilemmas through Design Fiction. In Proceedings of the 10th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (pp. 787-800). ACM.

Cila, N., van Zuthem, H., Thomése, F., Otten, W., Meiland, F., & Kröse, B. (2017, September). FIT Decision Aid: Matching the Needs of People with Dementia and Caregivers with Products and Services. In Interact: IFIP Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (pp. 442-452). Springer, Cham.

Cila, N., Smit, I., Giaccardi, E., & Kröse, B. (2017, May). Products as Agents: Metaphors for Designing the Products of the IoT Age. In Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 448-459). ACM.

Giaccardi, E., Cila, N., Speed, C. & Caldwell, M. (2016). Thing ethnography: Doing design research with non-humans. In Proceedings of the 2016 ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS '16). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 377-387.

Cila, N., Jansen, G., Groen, M., Meys, W., den Broeder, L. & Krose, B. (2016). Look! A healthy neighborhood: Means to motivate participants in using an app for monitoring community health. In Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA '16). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 889-898.

Cila, N., Giaccardi, E., Tynan-O’Mahony, F., Speed, C., Caldwell, M. & Rubens, N. (2015). Listening to an everyday kettle: How can the data objects collect be useful for design research? In R. Valkenburg, C. Dekkers & J. Sluijs (Eds.), Proceedings of PIN-C: 4th Participatory Innovation Conference. Den Haag: The Hague University of Applied Sciences.

Cila, N., Giaccardi, E., Tynan-O’Mahony, F., Speed, C. & Caldwell, M. (2015). Thing-centered narratives: A study of object personas. Paper presented at the 3rd Seminar Research Network for Design Anthropology, Aarhus, Denmark.

Cila, N., Rozendaal, M., Berghman, M. & Hekkert, P. (2015). Searching for balance in aesthetic pleasure in interaction. Proceedings of DeSForM 2015: 9th International Conference on Design and Semantics of Form and Movement. Milan, Italy.

Berghman, M., Cila, N. & Hekkert, P. (2014). The combined eff­ect of perceptual and conceptual dimensions on product design aesthetics. In A. Kozbelt (Ed.), Proceedings of IAEA 2014. New York: Hunter College of the City of New York.

Cila, N., Özcan, E. & Hekkert, P. (2012). Product metaphor generation: Mapping strategies of designers. Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Design and Emotion, London, United Kingdom.

Cila, N., Hekkert, P. & Visch, V. (2012). The role of designer experience in source selection during product metaphor generation. In Proceedings of the DeSForM 2012: Meaning, Matter, Making Conference, Wellington, New Zealand.

Markussen, T., Özcan, E. & Cila, N. (2012). Beyond metaphor in product use and interaction. In Proceedings of the DeSForM 2012: Meaning, Matter, Making Conference, Wellington, New Zealand.

Cila, N., Hekkert, P. & Visch, V. (2011). Elephants, tornados, and vacuum cleaners: Generating product metaphors. Poster presented at the Researching and Applying Metaphor (RaAM) Seminar Metaphor Across Time and Genre, Almagro, Spain.

Cila, N., Hekkert, P. & Visch, V. (2010). “As light as a leaf”: Product Metaphor Generation for Experience-Driven Design. In Proceedings of the 7th International Design & Emotion Conference 2010, Chicago (USA).

Cila, N. &. Hekkert, P. (2009). Product Metaphors: A Framework for Metaphor Generation and Experience in Products. Proceedings of International Association of Societies of Design Research (IASDR) 2009, Seoul (South Korea), 316-320.

Cila, N. & Erbug, Ç. (2008). The Dimensions of Users’ Fun Experiences with Consumer Products. In P. Desmet, S. A. Tzvetanova, P. Hekkert, & L. Justice (Eds.) Proceedings of the 6th International Design & Emotion Conference 2008, Hong Kong.