D. Merrill, H. Raffle, R. Aimi. The Sound of Touch: Physical Manipulation of Digital Sound. In the Proceedings the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems (CHI'08). Florence, Italy. 2008.

J.A. Paradiso, J. Gips, M. Laibowitz, S. Sadi, D. Merrill, R. Aylward, P. Maes, and A. Pentland. Identifying and Facilitating Social Interaction with a Wearable Wireless Sensor Network., accepted to ACM/Springer Wireless Networks, 2007.

D. Merrill, B. Vigoda and D. Bouchard. AudioPint: A Robust Open-Source Hardware Platform for Musical Invention. In the Proceedings of the PureData Convention (PDCON'07). Montreal, Canada. 2007.

B. Vigoda and D. Merrill. JamiOki-PureJoy: A Game Engine and Instrument for Electronically-Mediated Musical Improvisation. In the Proceedings of the Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME'07). New York, New York, USA. 2007.

H. Steiner, D. Merrill and O. Matthes. A Unified Toolkit for Accessing Human Interface Devices in Pure Data and Max/MSP. In the Proceedings of the Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME'07). New York, New York, USA. 2007.

D. Merrill and P. Maes. Augmenting Looking, Pointing and Reaching Gestures to Enhance the Searching and Browsing of Physical Objects. In the Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Pervasive Computing (Pervasive'07). Toronto, Ontario, Canada. 2007.

D. Merrill and H. Raffle. The Sound of Touch. In the Extended Abstracts of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems (CHI'07) San Jose, CA. 2007. (the Sound of Touch was also be featured in the Emerging Technologies track of SIGGRAPH 2007 [SIGGRAPH sketches 1-page overview])

D. Merrill, J. Kalanithi and P. Maes. Siftables: Towards Sensor Network User Interfaces. In the Proceedings of the First International Conference on Tangible and Embedded Interaction (TEI'07). Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA. 2007.

D. Merrill and P. Maes. Invisible Media: Attention-sensitive informational augmentation for physical objects. Abstract and video (97MB) in the Seventh International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp'05). Tokyo, Japan. 2005.

D. Merrill. Ideas and Considerations for Digital Photograph Sharing. In the Proceedings of the Workshop on Pervasive Image Capture and Sharing (UbiComp'05). Tokyo, Japan. 2005.

D. Merrill and J. Paradiso. Personalization, Expressivity, and Learnability of an Implicit Mapping Strategy for Physical Interfaces. In the Extended Abstracts (alt.chi session) of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems (CHI'05). Portland, Oregon. 2005.

D. Merrill. FlexiGesture: A sensor-rich real-time adaptive gesture and affordance learning platform for electronic music control. S.M. Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 2004.

D. Merrill and T. Selker. The Attentional Mixer. Internal Tech Report, Context-Aware Computing Group, MIT Media Lab. 2004.

D. Merrill and T. Selker. A Vibrotactile System for Feeling the Depth of Digital images. Internal Tech Report, Context-Aware Computing Group, MIT Media Lab. 2003.

D. Merrill. Head-Tracking for Gestural and Continuous Control of Parameterized Audio Effects. Demo and paper at the conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME'03). Montreal, Canada. 2003.

T. Hankins, D. Merrill, and J. Robert. Circular Optical Object Locator. In the Proceedings of the Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME'02). Dublin, Ireland. 2002.

D. Merrill and A. Hipple. Evaluation of Masking Models. Final report for Music 422 (M. Bosi), Stanford University. 2001.