Courtney N. Reed

Lecturer in Digital Technologies at Loughborough University London.

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Hello, I’m Courtney~

I am a researcher, educator, and musician.

My research focuses on the roles and dynamic relationships between people, technology and the world around us. My goal is to uncover how we experience and understand interaction with our senses and bodies and how this can inform design.

As a musician, I am especially interested in the role technology has in human creativity.

As a singer, I use my experience of my own voice and performance to motivate my research.

My work has centred around the interaction and relationship vocalists have with their voices — both body and instrument — and how technology mediates, informs, and even disrupts this connection.


latest news

Mar 10, 2025 🥐 Back from my favourite, the ACM TEI Conference in Bordeaux, FR with amazing organising experiences (and lots of canneles).
Feb 05, 2025 🌍 Had an amazing visit with Loughborough Global Engagement to meet students and academics in Lagos and Abuja, NG and Accra, GH.
Dec 03, 2024 🎸 Some DMI research action abroad at NIME 2024 in Utrecht, NL and locally at the CHIME Network Conference in Milton Keynes, UK.
Oct 08, 2024 🧚‍♀️ I’ve joined the NIME Board as Member-at-Large, stepping in to support as Charles Martin moves to the NIME 2025 Chair seat.
Sep 02, 2024 🌿 Finishing up a restful summer and celebrating new pubs from the ACM DIS Conference in Copenhagen, DK, new XAI book chapter, and TOCHI article.
Jun 20, 2024 💖 I was awarded the “Best Newcomer Award” at Loughborough University London’s Community Awards Celebration.
Mar 06, 2024 🏆 My PhD thesis, Imagining & Sensing, has been awarded the 2024 ACM SIGCHI Outstanding Dissertation Award!
Feb 28, 2024 ⚡️ Presented at CHIME Seminar #11 about senSInt’s work with RaveNET in Exploring Liminal Spaces through a Wearable Rave Network
Feb 16, 2024 🧶 After a successful ACM TEI conference in Cork, IE, senSInt’s new music/eTextile projects are now online!
Dec 05, 2023 📚 New Pubs!: Chapter about Evaluating Media & Arts Tech in Springer Volume Creating Digitally & IEEE Computer Featured Article!
Nov 10, 2023 🌐 Finally got around to DNS configuration for www.courtneynreed.com - yay! Feels nice to have a custom domain.
Oct 09, 2023 🍂 A new site for a new gig!: I start as a Lecturer in Digital Technologies at Loughborough University London on 01/11.

recent publications

  1. Yarmand_CHI25_DialogicMetaphor.png
    Towards Dialogic and On-Demand Metaphors for Interdisciplinary Reading
    Matin Yarmand, Courtney N. Reed, Udayan Tandon, and 3 more authors
    In Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Apr 2025
  2. Reed_TOCHI_ShiftingAmbiguity.png
    Shifting Ambiguity, Collapsing Indeterminacy: Designing with Data as Baradian Apparatus
    Courtney N. Reed, Adan L. Benito, Franco Caspe, and 1 more author
    ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, Dec 2024
  3. Freire_NIME24_BodyLutherie.png
    Body Lutherie: Co-Designing a Wearable for Vocal Performance with a Changing Body
    Rachel Freire, and Courtney N. Reed
    In Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression, Sep 2024