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Research Interests
Social and communicative interactions, social signal processing and affective computing, laughter and humour, cognition and emotion, cross-cultural emotion perception, the evolution of human communication and language, embodied conversational agents, risk perception and communication, opinion dynamics, and agent based modeling.
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R2348PSY: The Importance of Social Context in Interpreting and Generating Laughter
08/12/2016 → …
Project: Research
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Turing's menagerie: Talking lions, virtual bats, electric sheep and analogical peacocks: Common ground and common interest are necessary components of engagement
McKeown, G., 02 Dec 2015, 2015 International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction, ACII 2015. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., p. 950-955 6 p. 7344689Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
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The Analogical Peacock Hypothesis: The Sexual Selection of Mind-Reading and Relational Cognition in Human Communication
McKeown, G. J., Sep 2013, In: Review of General Psychology. 17, 3, p. 267-287 21 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Modeling continuous self-report measures of perceived emotion using generalized additive mixed models
McKeown, G. J. & Sneddon, I., Mar 2014, In: Psychological Methods. 19, 1, p. 155-174 20 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Gender Differences in the Perceptions of Genuine and Simulated Laughter and Amused Facial Expressions
McKeown, G., Sneddon, I. & Curran, W., Jan 2015, In: Emotion Review. 7, 1, p. 30-38 9 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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The SEMAINE Database: Annotated Multimodal Records of Emotionally Colored Conversations between a Person and a Limited Agent
McKeown, G., Valstar, M., Cowie, R., Pantic, M. & Schröder, M., 01 Jan 2012, In: IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing. 3, 1, p. 5-17 13 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open AccessFile361 Citations (Scopus)812 Downloads (Pure)
Prizes
Activities
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TEDxQueensUniversityBelfast: Teaching Algorithms Responsibly: Lessons From Cold Spaghetti and Emotion Research
Magdalena Rychlowska (Advisor) & Gary McKeown (Advisor)
25 Jun 2021Activity: Talk or presentation types › Public lecture/debate/seminar
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9th International Conference on Affective Computing & Intelligent Interaction (Event)
Gary McKeown (Board Member)
28 Sep 2021 → 01 Oct 2021Activity: Membership types › Membership of peer review panel or committee
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Exploring Deception Using Automatically Detected Facial Action Units
Gary McKeown (Examiner)
17 Dec 2020Activity: Examination types › PhD external examination
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Laughter and Other Non-Verbal Vocalisations Workshop 2020
Gary McKeown (Organiser), Magdalena Rychlowska (Organiser), Bogdan Ludusan (Organiser) & Petra Wagner (Organiser)
05 Oct 2020Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in workshop, seminar, course
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Communication Skills Training Intervention Based on Automated Recognition of Human Emotion and Non-Verbal Behaviour
Gary McKeown (Examiner)
26 Feb 2020Activity: Examination types › PhD external examination
Press / Media
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Are computers really able to tell if you're happy or sad?
19/03/2021
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Other
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Radio 4 Documentary All in the Mind - Emotion AI
03/12/2019
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Expert Comment
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BBC Radio 4 Documentary All in the Mind - Empathic Cars
05/06/2019
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Expert Comment
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QUB graduates developing car that responds to driver's moods
21/05/2019
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Expert Comment
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Impact
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Connecting Emotionally With and Through Computers
Roddy Cowie (Participant), Ellen Douglas-Cowie (Participant), Gary McKeown (Participant), Noel Sheehy (Participant), Ian Sneddon (Participant), Margaret McRorie (Participant) & Tijana Vukicevic (Participant)
Impact: Economic Impact