| 2020 | CHI | Playing a Serious Game for Earthquake Preparedness: Effects of Resource Richness and Avatar Choice. | Erik Nilsen, Elizabeth Safran, Peter Drake, Bryan Sebok |
| 2015 | SIGCSE | Teaching Cybersecurity Analysis Skills in the Cloud. | Richard S. Weiss, Stefan Boesen, James F. Sullivan, Michael E. Locasto, Jens Mache, Erik Nilsen |
| 2004 | CHI | Banner ads hinder visual search and are forgotten. | Moira Burke, Nicholas Gorman, Erik Nilsen, Anthony J. Hornof |
| 1999 | CHI | Exploring the divide between two unified theories of cognition: modeling visual attention in menu selection. | Erik Nilsen, Jake Evans |
| 1995 | CHI | Reducing visual stress symptoms of VDT users with prescription eyeglasses. | Erik Nilsen, David Fencsik, Aidan Smith, Linda Solares, Scott Stratton |
| 1994 | CHI | Device comparisons for goal-directed drawing tasks. | Shawna Meyer, Oryx Cohen, Erik Nilsen |
| 1993 | CHI | Studying the movement of high-tech Rodentia: pointing and dragging. | Oryx Cohen, Shawna Meyer, Erik Nilsen |
| 1993 | CHI | The growth of software skill: a longitudinal look at learning & performance. | Erik Nilsen, Hee Sen Jong, Judith S. Olson, Kevin Biolsi, Henry H. Rueter, Sharon Mutter |
| 1992 | CHI | Method engineering: from data to model to practice. | Erik Nilsen, Hee Sen Jong, Judith S. Olson, Peter G. Polson |