The Scratchable Devices project has resulted in the following academic publications:

• Blase Ur, Elyse McManus, Melwyn Pak Yong Ho, Michael L. Littman. Scratchable Devices: User-Friendly Programming for Household Appliances. CHI 2014 (Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems). PDF.
  
  
• Jordan Ash, Monica Babes, Gal Cohen, Sameen Jalal, Sam Lichtenberg, Michael Littman, Phillip Quiza, Blase Ur, Emily Zhang. Scratchable Devices: User-Friendly Programming for Household Appliances. HCII 2011 (Human Computer Interaction International). PDF.
  
  
• Jordan Ash, Monica Babes, Gal Cohen, Sameen Jalal, Michael Littman, Luis Piloto, Phillip Quiza, Blase Ur. Scratchable Devices: We'd Like to Teach The World to Code. Scratch@MIT 2010 (poster). PDF, conference link.
  
  
• Samuel Lichtenberg, Emily Zhang, Matthew Continisio, Amanda Rumsey, Raheem Scott Griffith. End-User Programming for Home Automation. New Jersey Governor's School of Engineering and Technology (GSET) (project report). PDF.