| 2019 | IUI | Building Jarvis - A Learner-Aware Conversational Trainer. | Shiwali Mohan, Kalai Ramea, Bob Price, Matthew Shreve, Hoda Eldardiry, Les Nelson |
| 2015 | CHI | Finding the Adaptive Sweet Spot: Balancing Compliance and Achievement in Automated Stress Reduction. | Artie Konrad, Victoria Bellotti, Nicole Crenshaw, Simon Tucker, Les Nelson, Honglu Du, Peter Pirolli, Steve Whittaker |
| 2012 | CHI | Online gaming motivations scale: development and validation. | Nick Yee, Nicolas Ducheneaut, Les Nelson |
| 2012 | CHI | Through the azerothian looking glass: mapping in-game preferences to real world demographics. | Nick Yee, Nicolas Ducheneaut, Han-Tai Shiao, Les Nelson |
| 2012 | CSCW | Modeling problem difficulty and expertise in stackoverflow. | Benjamin V. Hanrahan, Gregorio Convertino, Les Nelson |
| 2011 | CHI | Introverted elves & conscientious gnomes: the expression of personality in world of warcraft. | Nick Yee, Nicolas Ducheneaut, Les Nelson, Peter Likarish |
| 2011 | CHI | Do men heal more when in drag?: conflicting identity cues between user and avatar. | Nick Yee, Nicolas Ducheneaut, Mike Yao, Les Nelson |
| 2011 | ECSCW | Studying the Adoption of Mail2Tag: an Enterprise2.0 Tool for Sharing. | Les Nelson, Gregorio Convertino, Ed H. Chi, Rowan Nairn |
| 2010 | CHI | Short and tweet: experiments on recommending content from information streams. | Jilin Chen, Rowan Nairn, Les Nelson, Michael S. Bernstein, Ed H. Chi |
| 2009 | CHI | With a little help from my friends: examining the impact of social annotations in sensemaking tasks. | Les Nelson, Christoph Held, Peter Pirolli, Lichan Hong, Diane J. Schiano, Ed H. Chi |
| 2009 | HCI | Activity Awareness and Social Sensemaking 2.0: Design of a Task Force Workspace. | Gregorio Convertino, Lichan Hong, Les Nelson, Peter Pirolli, Ed H. Chi |
| 2009 | HCI | Impact on Performance and Process by a Social Annotation System: A Social Reading Experiment. | Les Nelson, Gregorio Convertino, Peter Pirolli, Lichan Hong, Ed H. Chi |
| 2008 | AVI | SparTag.us: a low cost tagging system for foraging of web content. | Lichan Hong, Ed Huai-hsin Chi, Raluca Budiu, Peter Pirolli, Les Nelson |
| 2008 | CHI | Keyholes: selective sharing in close collaboration. | Les Nelson, Diana K. Smetters, Elizabeth F. Churchill |
| 2008 | NSDI | Ad-hoc Guesting: When Exceptions Are the Rule. | Brinda Dalal, Les Nelson, Diana K. Smetters, Nathaniel Good, Ame Elliot |
| 2007 | CHI | Mapmail: restructuring an email client for use in distributed teams. | Les Nelson, Elizabeth F. Churchill |
| 2006 | CHI | Caf life in the digital age: augmenting information flow in a caf-work-entertainment space. | Elizabeth F. Churchill, Les Nelson, Gary Hsieh |
| 2006 | IRI | Repurposing: Techniques for reuse and integration of interactive systems. | Les Nelson, Elizabeth F. Churchill |
| 2004 | CHI | Digital graffiti: public annotation of multimedia content. | Scott A. Carter, Elizabeth F. Churchill, Laurent Denoue, Jonathan Helfman, Les Nelson |
| 2004 | CHI | Gooey interfaces: an approach for rapidly repurposing digital content. | Les Nelson, Elizabeth F. Churchill, Laurent Denoue, Jonathan Helfman, Paul Murphy |
| 2004 | UIST | Who cares?: reflecting who is reading what on distributed community bulletin boards. | Toshiya Yamada, Jun Shingu, Elizabeth F. Churchill, Les Nelson, Jonathan Helfman, Paul Murphy |
| 2003 | CHI | AttrActive windows: dynamic windows for digital bulletin boards. | Laurent Denoue, Les Nelson, Elizabeth F. Churchill |
| 2003 | Interact | Weaving Between Online & Offline Community Participation. | Elizabeth F. Churchill, Andreas Girgensohn, Les Nelson, Alison Lee |
| 2003 | Interact | The Plasma Poster Network: Posting Multimedia Content in Public Places. | Elizabeth F. Churchill, Les Nelson, Laurent Denoue, Andreas Girgensohn |
| 2003 | IUI | AttrActive windows: active windows for pervasive computing applications. | Les Nelson, Laurent Denoue, Elizabeth F. Churchill |
| 2003 | SIGGRAPH | Implementing a paper flier metaphor using cloth simulation. | Laurent Denoue, Les Nelson, Elizabeth F. Churchill |
| 2003 | UIST | A fast, interactive 3D paper-flier metaphor for digital bulletin boards. | Laurent Denoue, Les Nelson, Elizabeth F. Churchill |
| 2002 | CHI | Tangibly simple, architecturally complex: evaluating a tangible presentation aid. | Elizabeth F. Churchill, Les Nelson |
| 2001 | CHI | Quiet calls: talking silently on mobile phones. | Les Nelson, Sara A. Bly, Tomas Sokoler |
| 2000 | CHI | Anchored conversations: chatting in the context of a document. | Elizabeth F. Churchill, Jonathan Trevor, Sara A. Bly, Les Nelson, Davor Cubranic |
| 2000 | CSCW | StickyChats: remote conversations over digital documents. | Elizabeth F. Churchill, Jonathan Trevor, Sara A. Bly, Les Nelson |
| 1999 | CHI | Palette: A Paper Interface for Giving Presentations. | Les Nelson, Satoshi Ichimura, Elin Rnby Pedersen, Lia Adams |