Publications

A major output of my research has been peer-reviewed publications, including journal articles, conference papers, patents, and abstracts. These publications reflect my work as an interdisciplinary researcher specializing in auditory neurophysiology, sonification, and human-computer interaction. Below is a complete list of my publications, organized by category.

A full list, including citation counts, is available on my Google Scholar profile.

Patents

• R. M. Winters, T. Gemicioglu, T. M. Gable, Y. T. Wang, & I. J. Tashev. (2024). Inertial sensing of tongue gestures. US Patent Application 18/669,788.
• Y. Wang, N. Djuric, I. J. Tashev, R. M. Winters, H. Gamper, & D. Emmanouilidou. (2024). Physiological Feedback for Predictive Models. US Patent Application 18/118,849.
• R. M. Winters, T. Gemicioglu, T. M. Gable, Y. T. Wang, & I. J. Tashev. (2024). Inertial Sensing of Tongue Gestures. US Patent Application 18/075,786.

Journal Articles

• C. Nadri, S. Ko, C. Diggs, R. M. Winters, S. Vattakkandy, & M. Jeon. (2023). Sonification Use Cases in Highly Automated Vehicles: Designing and Evaluating Use Cases in Level 4 Automation. International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction, 40(12), 3122-32.
• B. N. Walker, J. M. Rehg, A. Kalra, R. M. Winters, P. Drews, J. Dascalu, & A. Dascalu. (2019). Dermoscopy Diagnosis of Cancerous Lesions Utilizing Dual Deep Learning Algorithms via Visual and Audio (Sonification) Outputs. EBioMedicine, 40, 176–183.
• R. M. Winters, N. Joshi, E. Cutrell, & M. R. Morris. (2019). Strategies for Auditory Display of Social Media. Ergonomics in Design, 27(1), 11–15.
• R. M. Winters, B. J. Tomlinson, B. N. Walker, & E. B. Moore. (2019). Sonic Interaction Design for Science Education. Ergonomics in Design, 27(1), 5–10.
• R. M. Winters, A. Kumar, B. J. Tomlinson, & B. N. Walker. (2018). The Planetorium: Sonic Information Design for Earthling Audiences. Journal of Sonic Studies, 17.
• W. Lv, R. M. Winters, F. Deangelis, G. Weinberg, & A. Henry. (2017). Understanding Divergent Thermal Conductivity in Single Polythiophene Chains Using Green-Kubo Modal Analysis and Sonification. Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 121(30), 5586–5596.
• R. M. Winters, & M. M. Wanderley. (2014). Sonification of Emotion: Strategies and Results from the Intersection with Music. Organised Sound, 19(1), 60–69.
• R. M. Winters, A. Savard, V. Verfaille, & M. M. Wanderley. (2012). A Sonification Tool for the Analysis of Large Databases of Expressive Gesture. International Journal of Multimedia and Its Applications, 4(6), 13–26.
  

Conference Proceedings

• A. Kastrati, R. M. Winters, N. Djuric, I. J. Tashev, & Y. T. Wang. (2025). Automated Feature Engineering for Single-Trial EEG and Eye-Tracking Classification in Predictive Text Interfaces. 13th International Winter Conference on Brain-Computer Interface (BCI).
• T. Srivastava, R. M. Winters, T. Gable, Y. T. Wang, T. LaScala, & I. J. Tashev. (2024). Whispering Wearables: Multimodal Approach to Silent Speech Recognition with Head-Worn Devices. Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Multimodal Interaction.
• T. Gemicioglu, R. M. Winters, T. M. Gable, Y. T. Wang, & I. J. Tashev. (2023). TongueTap: Multimodal Tongue Gesture Recognition with Head-Worn Devices. ICMI ’23: Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Multimodal Interaction.
• I. J. Tashev, R. M. Winters, Y. T. Wang, D. Johnston, & N. Bridges. (2023). Adaptive Training System. 2023 IEEE Research and Applications of Photonics in Defense Conference.
• I. J. Tashev, R. M. Winters, Y. T. Wang, D. Johnston, J. Estepp, & N. Bridges. (2023). Towards a Better Scoring. 2023 IEEE Research and Applications of Photonics in Defense Conference.
• D. Chou-Ren, R. M. Winters, J. Hernandez, D. McDuff, J. Suh, & V. Rodriguez. (2023). Do You Even Need Sensors?: Synthetic Biomusic as an Empathic Technology. 11th International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction.
• C. Nadri, S. Ko, C. Diggs, R. M. Winters, S. Vattakkandy, & M. Jeon. (2023). Novel Auditory Displays in Highly Automated Vehicles: Sonification Improves Driver Situation Awareness, Perceived Workload and Overall Experience. Proceedings of the 2021 Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 65th International Annual Meeting.
• S. J. Cantrell, R. M. Winters, P. Kaini, & B. N. Walker. (2022). Sonification of Emotion in Social Media: Affect and Accessibility in Facebook Reactions. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction 6 (CSCW1), 1-26.
• T. Gemicioglu, R. M. Winters, Y. T. Wang, & I. Tashev. (2022). Tongue Gestures for Hands-Free Interaction in Head-Worn Displays. 26th Annual International Symposium on Wearable Computers (UbiComp/ISWC).
• I. J. Tashev, R. M. Winters, Y. T. Wang, D. Johnston, A. Reyes, & J. Estepp. (2022). Modeling the Training Process. 2022 IEEE Research and Applications of Photonics in Defense Conference.
• V. N. Koraganji, A. J. Whelan, A. Mokkapati, J. N. Zerick, R. M. Winters, & G. F. Lewis. (2021). Performance of 1D-CNNs for EEG-Based Mental State Classification: Effects of Domain, Window Size, and Electrode Montage. 2021 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics.
• C. Nadri, S. Ko, C. Diggs, R. M. Winters, V. K. Sreehari, & M. Jeon. (2021). Novel Auditory Displays in Highly Automated Vehicles: Sonification Improves Driver Situation Awareness, Perceived Workload, and Overall Experience. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting.
• R. M. Winters, B. N. Walker, & G. Leslie. (2021). Can You Hear My Heartbeat?: Hearing an Expressive Biosignal Elicits Empathy. CHI ’21: Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.
• R. M. Winters, L. Harden, & E. B. Moore. (2020). Co-Designing Accessible Science Education Simulations with Blind and Visually-Impaired Teens. ASSETS ’20: 22nd International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility.
• R. M. Winters, & S. Koziej. (2020). An Auditory Interface for Real-Time Brainwave Similarity in Dyads. AM ’20: Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Audio Mostly.
• R. M. Winters, A. Kalra, & B. Walker. (2019). Hearing Artificial Intelligence: Sonification Guidelines & Results from a Case-Study in Melanoma Diagnosis. Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Auditory Display.
• R. M. Winters, B. J. Tomlinson, C. Latina, S. Bhat, M. Rane, & B. N. Walker. (2017). Solar System Sonification: Exploring Earth and Its Neighbors Through Sound. Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Auditory Display.
• R. M. Winters, S. Gururani, & A. Lerch. (2016). Automatic Practice Logging: Introduction, Dataset & Preliminary Study. Proceedings of the 17th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference.
• R. M. Winters, T. Tsuchiya, L. W. Lerner, & J. Freeman. (2016). Multi-Modal Web-Based Dashboards for Geo-Located Real-Time Monitoring. Proceedings of the 2nd Web Audio Conference.
• R. M. Winters, & G. Weinberg. (2015). Sonification of the Tohoku Earthquake: Music, Popularization, and the Auditory Sublime. Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Auditory Display.
• R. M. Winters, & J. E. Cumming. (2014). Sonification of Symbolic Music in the ELVIS Project. Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Auditory Display.
• R. M. Winters, I. Hattwick, & M. M. Wanderley. (2013). Emotional Data into Music Performance: Two Audio Environments for the Emotional Imaging Composer. Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Music and Emotion.
• R. M. Winters, & M. M. Wanderley. (2013). Sonification of Emotion: Strategies for Continuous Auditory Display of Arousal and Valence. Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Music and Emotion.
• R. M. Winters, & M. M. Wanderley. (2012). New Directions for Sonification of Expressive Movement in Music. Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Auditory Display.
• R. M. Winters. (2011). 1/f Noise and Auditory Aesthetics: Sonification of a Driven Bead Pile. Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Auditory Display.
• R. M. Winters, A. Blaikie, & D. O’Neil. (2011). Simulating the Electroweak Phase Transition: Sonification of Bubble Nucleation. Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Auditory Display.
  

Abstracts

• R. M. Winters, B. N. Walker, & G. Leslie. (2019). Heartrate Entrainment: A Physiological Role for Empathy in the Act of Music Listening? Proceedings of the 2019 Society for Music Perception & Cognition Conference.
• S. Koziej, D. Sabio, & R. M. Winters. (2019). Brainwave Correlation in Dyads: A Biofeedback Art Installation. The 20th Annual Congress of the International Neuropsychoanalysis Society.
• S. Koziej, & R. M. Winters. (2018). Thinking Difference Through Brain-Synchronization. National Women’s Studies Association National Conference.
• R. M. Winters, M. Lee, C. Culwell, & G. Weinberg. (2018). Insight and Cringe in Music Performers During Self-Reflective Listening. 4th Meeting of the Society for the Neuroscience of Creativity.
• R. M. Winters, L. Long, M. Lee, & G. Weinberg. (2017). Mapping the Experience of Creative Insight in Music Performers Using EEG. Proceedings of the 2017 NeuroMusic Conference.

Theses & Dissertations

• R. M. Winters. (2020). Empathic Effects of Auditory Heartbeats: A Neurophysiological Investigation. PhD Dissertation, Georgia Institute of Technology.
• R. M. Winters. (2013). Sonification of Emotion, Gesture, and Corpora. MA Thesis, McGill University.
• R. M. Winters. (2010). The Two-Higgs Doublet Model and Sonification: Using Sound to Understand the Origin of Mass. BA Thesis, The College of Wooster.