Michael A. Nees, MS, PhD candidate

School of Psychology

Georgia Institute of Technology

PUBLISHED PAPERS, PROCEEDINGS, AND BOOK CHAPTERS (peer reviewed)

in press

Nees, M.A. & Walker, B.N. (in press). Auditory interfaces and sonification. In C. Stephanidis (Ed.), The Universal Access Handbook (pp TBD). New York: CRC Press. <Preprint pdf>

Walker, B.N., & Nees, M.A. (in press). Theory of sonification. In T. Herrman, A. Hunt, & J. Neuhoff (Eds.), Principles of Sonification: An Introduction to Auditory Display and Sonification. <Preprint pdf>

2009

Bonebright, T., & Nees, M. A. (2009). Most earcons do not interfere with spoken passage comprehension. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 23(3), 431-445. <pdf>

2008

Nees, M. A., & Walker, B. N. (in press). Encoding of information in auditory displays: Initial research on flexibility and processing codes in dual-task scenarios. Proceedings of the 52nd Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES 2008), New York, NY, pp. 1820-1824. <pdf>

Nees, M.A., & Walker, B.N. (2008). Data density and trend reversals in auditory graphs: Effects on point estimation and trend identification tasks. ACM Transactions on Applied Perception, 5(30), pp. TBD. <pdf>

Nees, M. A., & Walker, B. N. (2008). Encoding and representation of information in auditory graphs: Descriptive reports of listener strategies for understanding data. Proceedings of the International Conference on Auditory Display (ICAD 08), Paris, France. <pdf>

2007

Nees, M.A., & Walker, B.N. (2007). Listener, task and auditory graph: Toward a conceptual model of auditory graph comprehension. Proceedings of ICAD 07 – Thirteenth Meeting of the International Conference on Auditory Display, Montreal, Canada, June 26-29 2007, pp. 266-273. <pdf>

Bonebright, T.L., & Nees, M.A. (2007). Memory for auditory icons and earcons with localization cues. Proceedings of ICAD 07 – Thirteenth Meeting of the International Conference on Auditory Display, Montreal, Canada, June 26-29 2007, pp. 419-422. <pdf>

2006

Nees, M.A., & Walker, B.N. (2006). Relative intensity of auditory context for auditory graph design. Proceedings of ICAD 06 – Twelfth Meeting of the International Conference on Auditory Display, London, UK, June 19-23, 2006, pp. 95-98. <pdf>

Eiriksdottir, E., Nees, M.A., Lindsay, J., Stanley, R.M. (2006). User preferences for auditory device-driven menu navigation. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 50th Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, October 16-20, 2006, pp. 2076-2078.<pdf>

2005

Walker, B.N., & Nees, M.A. (2005). Conceptual versus perceptual training for auditory graphs. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 49th Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL, September 26-30, 2005, 1598-1601.<pdf>

Walker, B.N. & Nees, M.A. (2005). Brief training for performance of a point estimation sonification task. Proceedings of ICAD 05 – Eleventh Meeting of the International Conference on Auditory Display, Limerick, Ireland, July 6-9, 2005, 276-279.<pdf>

Walker, B.N., & Nees, M.A. (2005). An agenda for research and development of multimodal graphs. Proceedings of ICAD 05 – Eleventh Meeting of the International Conference on Auditory Display, Limerick, Ireland, July 6-9, 2005, 428-432.<pdf>

Lysaker, P.H., Davis, L.W., Hunter, N.L., Nees, M.A., & Wickett, A. (2005). Personal narratives in schizophrenia: Increases in coherence following 5 months of vocational rehabilitation. Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal, 29(1), 66-68. <pdf>

2004

Davis, L.W., Nees, M.A., Hunter, N.L., & Lysaker, P.H. (2004). Hopelessness as a predictor of work function in schizophrenia. Psychiatric Services, 55(4), 434-436.<pdf>

Lysaker, P.H., Nees, M.A., Lancaster, R.S., & Davis, L.W. (2004). Vocational function among persons with schizophrenia with and without history of childhood sexual trauma. Journal of Traumatic Stress Studies, 17(5), 435 – 438. <pdf>

Lysaker, P.H., Lancaster, R.S., Davis, L.W., & Nees, M.A. (2004). Patterns of obsessive compulsive symptoms and social function in schizophrenia. Psychiatry Research, 125(2), 139-146.<pdf>

Lysaker, P.H., Lancaster, R.S., Nees, M.A., & Davis, L.W. (2004). Attributional style and symptoms as predictors of social function in schizophrenia. Journal of Rehabilitation Research and Development, 41(2), 225-232. <pdf>

2003

Lysaker P.H., Lancaster RS, Nees, M.A. & Davis L.W. (2003). Neuroticism and visual memory impairments as predictors of the severity of delusions in schizophrenia. Psychiatry Research, 119 (3), 87-92.<pdf>

2002

Lysaker, P.H., Nees, M.A., & Lancaster, R.S. (2002). Use of memory aids as cognitive prostheses in schizophrenia: An untapped potential? Cognitive Technology, 7(2), 8-12.<pdf>

2001

Bonebright, T.L., Nees, M.A., Connerley, T.T., & McCain, G.R. (2001). Testing the effectiveness of sonified graphs for education: A programmatic research project. Proceedings of the International Conference on Auditory Display, Espoo, Finland, July 29 - August 1, 2001. <pdf>

Nees, M.A., Bonebright, T.L., & McCain, G. (2001). Matching auditory graphs with their visual counterparts. DePauw Journal of Undergraduate Research, 2, 21-26.<pdf>

PRESENTATIONS

Nees, M.A. (2008). Training for auditory graphs. Lecture and poster presented at the Student Thinktank of the Meeting of the International Conference on Auditory Display (ICAD 08). Paris, France. <poster pdf>

Nees, M.A. (2005). Training for auditory graphs. Paper presented at the Student Thinktank of the Eleventh Meeting of the International Conference on Auditory Display (ICAD 06). Limerick, Ireland.

Davis, L.W., Nees, M., & Lysaker, P.H. (2003). Coping style and hopelessness as predictors of social behavior at work in schizophrenia. Poster presented at the 10th International Congress on Schizophrenia Research, Colorado Springs, CO.

Lysaker, P.H., Lancaster, R.S., Nees, M.A., & Davis, L.W. (2003). Attribution style and symptoms as predictors of social function in schizophrenia. Poster presented at the 10th International Congress on Schizophrenia Research, Colorado Springs, CO.

Bonebright, T.L., Roberts, M., & Nees, M.A. (2001). Memory for auditory icons and earcons used in computer displays. Poster presented at the American Psychological Society Conference, Toronto, Canada.

Connerley, T.T., Love, S.M., & Nees, M.A. (2001). The effects of thought suppression on analogue post-traumatic intrusions: An ERP study. Paper presented at the National Conference for Undergraduate Research, Lexington, KY.

Nees, M.A., Bonebright, T.L., & McCain, G. (2000). Matching auditory graphs with their visual counterparts. Paper presented at the Mid-America Undergraduate Psychology Research Conference, Evansville, IN.

SUBMITTED FOR PUBLICATION OR PRESENTATION

OTHER PUBLISHED PAPERS

Walker, B. N., & Nees, M. A. (2007). Research in the Georgia Tech Sonification Lab: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Nontraditional Information Display. INSIGHT, Publication of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Perception and Performance Technical Group (HFES PPTG) 29(2), pp. 4-7. <pdf>