* denotes shared first authorship
My research field is primarily conference driven
Research Articles
For a full list of publications and citations, please see my Google Scholar profile.
Conference Papers
Courtney N. Reed, Paul Strohmeier, Andrew McPherson. 2023. Negotiating Experience and Communicating Information Through Abstract Metaphor. In Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’23), April 23–28, 2023, Hamburg, Germany. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 16 pages. DOI: 10.1145/3544548.3580700
Nihar Sabnis, Dennis Wittchen, Gabriela Vega, Courtney N. Reed, Paul Strohmeier. Tactile Symbols with Continuous and Motion-Coupled Vibration: An Exploration of using Embodied Experiences for Hermeneutic Design. In Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’23), April 23–28, 2023, Hamburg, Germany. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 17 pages. DOI: 10.1145/3544548.3580716
Courtney N. Reed*, Nihar Sabnis*, Dennis Wittchen*, Narges Pourjafarian, Jürgen Steimle, Paul Strohmeier. Haptic Servos: Self-Contained Vibrotactile Rendering System for Creating or Augmenting Material Experiences. In Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’23), April 23–28, 2023, Hamburg, Germany. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 19 pages. DOI: 10.1145/3544548.3581356
Dennis Wittchen, Valentin Marinez-Missir, Sina Mavali, Nihar Sabnis, Courtney N. Reed, Paul Strohmeier. Designing Interactive Shoes for Tactile Augmented Reality. In Augmented Humans Conference (AHs ’23), March 12–14, 2023, Glasgow, United Kingdom. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 14 pages. DOI: 10.1145/3582700.3582728
Courtney N. Reed and Andrew McPherson. The Body as Sound: Unpacking Vocal Embodiment through Auditory Biofeedback. In TEI ’23: Proceedings of the Seventeenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (TEI ’23), February 26-March 1, 2023, Warsaw, Poland. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 15 pages. DOI: 10.1145/3569009.3572738
Courtney N. Reed, Charlotte Nordmoen, Andrea Martelloni, Giacomo Lepri, Nicole Robson, Eevee Zayas-Garin, Kelsey Cotton, Lia Mice and Andrew P. McPherson. Exploring Experiences with New Musical Instruments through Micro-phenomenology. Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME ’22), Auckland, New Zealand. 2022. DOI: 10.21428/92fbeb44.b304e4b1 [PDF]
Courtney N. Reed, Sophie Skach, Paul Strohmeier, and Andrew P. McPherson. 2022. Singing Knit: Soft Knit Biosensing for Augmenting Vocal Performances. In Augmented Humans 2022 (AHs ’22), March 13–15, 2022, Kashiwa, Chiba, Japan. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 20 pages DOI: 10.1145/3519391.3519412 [PDF] [Presentation]
Courtney N. Reed. 2022. Examining Embodied Sensation and Perception in Singing. In Sixteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (TEI ’22), February 13-16, 2022, Daejeon, Republic of Korea. ACM, New York, NY, USA, Article 47, 1–7. DOI: 10.1145/3490149.3503581 [Presentation]
Nick Bryan-Kinns, Berker Banar, Corey Ford, Courtney N. Reed, Yixiao Zhang, Simon Colton, and Jack Armitage. 2021. Exploring XAI for the Arts: Explaining Latent Space in Generative Music. 1st Workshop on eXplainable AI Approaches for Debugging and Diagnosis (XAI4Debugging@NeurIPS2021), December 14, 2021, Online. [PDF] [Poster]
Courtney N. Reed and Andrew P. McPherson. 2021. Surface Electromyography for Sensing Performance Intention and Musical Imagery in Vocalists. In Fifteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (TEI ’21), February 14–19, 2021, Salzburg, Austria. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 11 pages. DOI: 10.1145/3430524.3440641 [Presentation]
Courtney N. Reed and Andrew P. McPherson. 2020. Surface Electromyography for Direct Vocal Control. Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME ’20), July 21-25, 2020, Birmingham, UK, pp. 458–463. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4813475 [Presentation]
Journal Articles
Simin Yang, Courtney N. Reed, Elaine Chew, and Mathieu Barthet. 2021. Examining Emotion Perception Agreement in Live Music Performance. IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing (Early Access). DOI: 10.1109/TAFFC.2021.3093787
Book Chapters
Nick Bryan-Kinns and Courtney N. Reed. A Guide to Evaluating the Experience of Media and Arts Technology. Creating Digitally; Springer, Forthcoming.
Presentations & Symposia
My research work is centred in design and interactivity; I have led conference workshops that are published works, as well as unreferenced, invited presentations at conferences and symposia.
Organised Workshops (Referenced)
Alice C. Haynes, Courtney N. Reed, Charlotte Nordmoen, and Sophie Skach. 2023. Being Meaningful: Weaving Soma-Refective Technological Mediations into the Fabric of Daily Life. In Seventeenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 5 pages. DOI: 10.1145/3569009.3571844
Workshop Position Papers (Referenced)
Courtney N. Reed. 2023. As the Luthiers Do: Designing with a Living, Growing, Changing Body-Material. In 2023 CHI Workshop on Body X Materials. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 4 pages. [PDF]
Courtney N. Reed. 2022. Communicating Across Bodies in the Voice Lesson. In 2022 CHI Workshop on Workshop on Tangible Interaction for Well-Being. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 4 pages. [PDF]
Courtney N. Reed. 2022. Sensory Sketching for Singers. In 2022 CHI Workshop on Sketching Across the Senses. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 4 pages. [PDF]
Invited Talks & Symposia
Courtney N. Reed. 2023. Bodily Understanding and Communication through Sonified Laryngeal sEMG. Invited Talk at the Joint C4DM-CogSci Body-Centred Perspectives on Human-Human and Human-Machine interaction Seminar and Workshop.
Courtney N. Reed, Paul Strohmeier. 2022. Augmenting Human Musical Expression with the Singing Knit. Invited Performance at Augmented Humans 2022 (Satellite Event, LMU Munich, Germany).
Courtney N. Reed, Andrew P. McPherson, and Marcus T. Pearce. 2021. The Role of Auditory Imagery and Altered Auditory Feedback in Singers’ Timing Accuracy. In 16th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition/11th Triennial Conference of the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music (ICMPC16-ESCOM11), July 28-31, 2021, Sheffield, UK. [Presentation]
BEST PAPER NOMINATION
Courtney N. Reed. 2021. Translating the Body: Abstract Language in the Teaching of Fundamental Vocal Pedagogy. Presentation at the Language, Discourse and Communication Doctoral Lab, May 6, King’s College London, UK. [Slides]
Courtney N. Reed. 2020. The Research Intensive University (RIU) Experience. Presentation at the Realising Opportunities Student Conference, March 7, University of Exeter, UK. [Program] [Slides]
Courtney N. Reed and Elaine Chew. 2019. Effects of Musical Stimulus Habituation and Musical Training on Felt Tension. In 20th Conference of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR) Late Breaking/Demo Session, November 4-8, 2019, Delft, The Netherlands. [PDF] [Poster]
Courtney N. Reed, Simin Yang, Elaine Chew, and Mathieu Barthet. 2019. The Listening Participant and The Living Instrument: A Thematic Analysis of Why Listeners Actively Annotate Emotion Changes Through Live Performance. Workshop-Symposium on Research Methods in Music and Emotion, September 14, 2019, Durham, UK. [Slides] [Program]
Simin Yang, Courtney N. Reed, Elaine Chew, and Mathieu Barthet. 2019. Listener-informed Features for Time-varying Emotion Perception in Live Music Performance. 7th Seminar on Cognitively Based Music Informatics Research Workshop (CogMIR), August 8, 2019, New York, USA. [Slides] [Program]
Dissertations
Courtney N. Reed. 2018. Interactions Between Felt Emotion and Musical Changepoints in Live Music Performance. (Unpublished Master’s Thesis). Queen Mary University of London: London, UK. [PDF]
Courtney N. Reed 