Publications

BOOK CHAPTERS

• Juan Martinez Avila. The Repertoire in Motion. Ethnomethodological Studies of Music. 2026. Ed. Peter Tolmie. Routledge. (In press).

• J. Varela, A. Mojardin Y. Larios, M. Lizalde, M. Gonzalez, H. Hernandez, A. Gonzalez, J. P. Martinez Avila, G. Nava, L. Olmedo, K. Puerta, M. A. Urquidez. Learning without third-party mediation: Instructional design, media and linguistic modes [Original title in Spanish]. 2011. Estudios sobre Comportamiento y Aplicaciones (Volumen II). Universidad de Guadalajara. Link: https://seminariosinca.com/libros/Libro%20SINCA%20Vol%202_SINCA%20III_2011.pdf

JOURNAL ARTICLES

• Juan Martinez Avila, Adrian Hazzard, Chris Greenhalgh, Steve Benford, and Andrew McPherson. 2023. The Stretchy Strap: Supporting Encumbered Interaction with Guitars. Journal of New Music Research. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/09298215.2023.2274832

• Steve Benford, Glenn McGarry, Adrian Hazzard, Alan Chamberlain, Rebecca Gibson and Juan Pablo Martinez Avila. 2023. Augmenting Musical Instruments with Digital Identities. Journal of New Music Research, 52(5), 436–455. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/09298215.2024.2423613

• Steve Benford, Kadja Manninen, Sarah Martindale, Adrian Hazzard, Juan Pablo Martinez Avila, Paul Tennent, Jocelyn Spence, Teresa Castle-Green, Pat Brundell, Pepita Barnard Stringer, Dimitrios Paris Darzentas. 2023. Infrastructures for Virtual Volunteering at Online Music Festivals. In Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3579498

• Kristina Höök, Steve Benford, Paul Tennent, Vasiliki Tsaknaki, Miquel Alfaras, Juan Martinez Avila, Christine Li, Joseph Marshall, Claudia Daudén Roquet, Pedro Sanches, Anna Ståhl, Muhammad Umair, Charles Windlin, and Feng Zhou. 2021. Unpacking Non-dualistic Design: the Soma Design Case. ACM Trans. Comput.-Hum. Interact. (December 2021), 36 pages. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3462448

CONFERENCE PAPERS


• Juan Pablo Martinez Avila, Andriana Boudouraki, Harriet R Cameron, Gisela Reyes-Cruz, Velvet Spors, Laia Turmo Vidal, Charles Windlin, Houda Elmimouni, Janet Read, and Jennifer Rode. 2025. Playing with Telepresence Robots for Design Speculation. Companion Publication of the 2025 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 11–15. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3715668.3734184

• Juan Martinez Avila, Doga Cavdir, Courtney Reed, Mary Mainsbridge, Kelsey Cotton, Tove Grimstad Bang, & Lucia Montesinos Garcia. 2025. Somatic and Somaesthetic Design Practices in NIME: Sharing Experiences, Methods, Tools, and Concepts. In Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. Link: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/OutputFile/54268085

• Andriana Boudouraki, Harriet R Cameron, Gisela Reyes-Cruz, Juan Pablo Martinez Avila, Marta Orduna, Samanta Varela Castro, and Laura Kohonen-Aho. 2025. Contesting Control with Automation in Technology-Mediated Interactions. In Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA '25). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 150, 1–7. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3706599.3719855

• Steve Benford, Eike Schneiders, Juan Pablo Martinez Avila, Praminda Caleb-Solly, Patrick Robert Brundell, Simon Castle-Green, Feng Zhou, Rachel Garrett, Kristina Höök, Sarah Whatley, Kate Marsh and Paul Tennent. Somatic Safety: An Embodied Approach Towards Safe Human-Robot Interaction. 2025. 20th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), Melbourne, Australia, 2025, pp. 429-438. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/HRI61500.2025.10973822

• Andriana Boudouraki, Niki Chouliara, Laura Fiorini, Juan Pablo Martinez Avila, Gisela Reyes-Cruz, Pratyusha Ghosh, Veronica Ahumada-Newhart, Houda Elmimouni, and Praminda Caleb-Solly. 2025. Beyond Video-Conferencing: Telepresence Technologies for Extending Expertise Reach and Specialised Skill Sharing. In Companion Proceedings of the 2025 ACM International Conference on Supporting Group Work (GROUP '25). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 6–8. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3688828.3699632

• Marco Amerotti, Steve Benford, Bob Sturm, and Juan Martinez Avila. 2025. The Virtual Session: Synchronizing Multiple Virtual Musicians Simulating an Irish Traditional Music Session. In Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference. Link: https://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:2014007/FULLTEXT01.pdf

• Steve Benford, Rachael Garrett, Eike Schneiders, Paul Tennent, Alan Chamberlain, Juan Martinez Avila, Pat Brundell and Simon Castle-Green. 2025. How Artists Improvise and Provoke Robotics. In: Palinko, O., et al. Social Robotics. ICSR + AI 2024. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 15563. Springer, Singapore. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-96-3525-2_6

• Steve Benford, Marco Amerotti, Bob Sturm, and Juan Martinez Avila. 2024. Negotiating Autonomy and Trust when Performing with an AI Musician. In Proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Trustworthy Autonomous Systems (TAS '24). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 6, 1–10. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3686038.3686040

• Gisela Reyes-Cruz, Juan Martinez Avila, Eike Schneiders, and Andriana Boudouraki. 2024. Reimagining the Design of Mobile Robotic Telepresence: Reflections from a Hybrid Design Workshop. In Proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Trustworthy Autonomous Systems (TAS '24). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 31, 1–7. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3686038.3686055

• Eike Schneiders, Andriana Boudouraki, Gisela Reyes-Cruz, Juan Martinez Avila, Houda Elmimouni, Jens Emil Grønbæk, Sean Rintel & Swapna Joshi. Mobility and Utility in Robot Mediated Interaction An Interactive Workshop for the Identification of Use Cases and Affordances of Telepresence Robots. 2023. In 25th International Conference on Mobile Human-Computer Interaction (MobileHCI ’23). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3565066.3609791

• Craig Vear, Steve Benford, Juan Martinez Avila, & Solomiya Moroz. 2023. Human-AI Musicking: A Framework for Designing AI for Music Co-creativity. AIMC 2023. Link: https://aimc2023.pubpub.org/pub/zd46ltn3

• Juan Pablo Martinez Avila, João Tragtenberg, Filipe Calegario, Ximena Alarcon, Laddy Patricia Cadavid Hinojosa, Isabela Corintha, Teodoro Dannemann, Javier Jaimovich, Adnan Marquez-Borbon, Martin Matus Lerner, Miguel Ortiz, Juan Ramos & Hugo Solís García. 2022. Being (A)part of NIME: Embracing Latin American Perspectives. NIME 2022. DOI: https://doi.org/10.21428/92fbeb44.b7a7ba4f

[🏅 Honourable Mention] 

• Paul Tennent, Kristina Höök, Steve Benford, Vasiliki Tsaknaki, Anna Ståhl, Claudia Dauden Roquet, Charles Windlin, Pedro Sanches, Joe Marshall, Christine Li, Juan Martinez Avila, Miquel Alfaras, Feng Zhou, Muhammad Umair. 2021. Articulating Soma Experiences using Trajectories. In 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Proceedings (CHI 2021), May 8-13, 2021, Yokohoma, Japan. ACM, New York, NY, USA. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3411764.3445482 

[🏅 Honourable Mention] 

• Juan Martinez Avila, João Tragtenberg, Filipe Calegario, Juan Ramos, Martin Matus Lerner, Isabela Corintha, Javier Jaimovich, Teodoro Dannemann, Patricia Cadavid, Ximena Alarcón, Adnan Marquez-Borbon, Hugo Solis, & Miguel Ortiz. 2021. Towards a Latin American NIME Research Community. In Anais do XVIII Simpósio Brasileiro de Computação Musical, (pp. 298-301). Porto Alegre: SBC. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5753/sbcm.2021.19468

• Juan Martinez Avila, Vasiliki Tsaknaki, Pavel Karpashevich, Charles Windlin, Niklas Valenti, Kristina Höök, Andrew McPherson, and Steve Benford. 2020. Soma Design for NIME. In Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME 2020), Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, Birmingham City University, Birmingham, United Kingdom. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4813491

• Juan Pablo Martinez Avila, Chris Greenhalgh, Adrian Hazzard, Steve Benford, Alan Chamberlain. 2019. Encumbered Interaction: A Study of Musicians Preparing to Perform. In 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Proceedings (CHI 2019), May 4-9, 2019, Glagsow, Scotland, UK. ACM, New York, NY, USA. Paper 476, 13 pages. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3290605.3300706

[🏅 Honourable Mention] 

• Juan Pablo Martinez Avila, Adrian Hazzard, Chris Greenhalgh, and Steve Benford. 2019. Augmenting Guitars for Performance Preparation. In Audio Mostly (AM’19), September 18-20, 2019, Nottingham, United Kingdom. ACM,New York, NY, USA, 7 pages. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3356590.3356602

• Richard Ramchurn, Juan Pablo Martinez Avila, Sarah Martindale, Alan Chamberlain, Max L Wilson, and Steve Benford. 2019. Improvising a Live Score to an Interactive Brain-Controlled Film. In Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression, UFRGS, pp. 31-36. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3672856

• Juan Martinez Avila, Adrian Hazzard, Alan Chamberlain, Chris Greenhalgh, and Steve Benford. 2018. An AI-Based Design Framework to Support Musicians’ Practices. In Workshop Proceedings of Audio Mostly 2018 on Sound in Immersion and Emotion (AM’18). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Article 42, 5 pages. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3243274.3275381

• Adnan Marquez-Borbon and Juan Pablo Martinez Avila. The Problem of DMI Adoption and Longevity: Envisioning a NIME Performance Pedagogy. In Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression, Blacksburg, VA, USA, 2018, p. 190-195. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1302541

MAGAZINE ARTICLES

• Dougie Mann, Steve Benford, Adrian Hazzard, Alan Chamberlain, Dimitri Darzentas, Juan Pablo Martinez Avila, Paul Tennent, Joe Marshall, Patrick Brundell, Brendan Walker, Andreas Krauss, Tim Moesgen, and Lennart Otte. 2019. Demo hour. Interactions 26, 4 (June 2019), 8-11. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3338074