Recent Publications - journal articles, chapters in books, and papers published in
proceedings of international conferences
Emotion
McKeown, G. and Sneddon, I. (Under Review) Modelling continuous self-report measures of
perceived emotion using generalized additive models. Behavior Research Methods.
McRorie, M., Sneddon, I., McKeown, G., Bevacqua, E., de Sevin, E. and Pelachaud, C. (Under
Review) Building and Evaluating Personality in Virtual Agents. IEEE Transactions on Affective
Computing
Edgar, C., McRorie, M. and Sneddon, I. (Under Review) Emotional intelligence, personality
and the decoding of non-verbal expressions of emotion. Personality and Individual
Differences
Sneddon, I., McRorie, M., McKeown, G. and Hanratty, J. (In Press) The Belfast Induced
Natural Emotion Database. IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing
Sneddon, I., McKeown, G., McRorie, M. and Vukicevic, T., (2011) Cross-Cultural Patterns in
Dynamic Ratings of Positive and Negative Natural Emotional Behaviour. PLoS ONE 6(2):
e14679. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0014679
Cowie, R., Douglas-Cowie, E., Sneddon, I., McRorie, M., Hanratty, J., McMahon, E., &
McKeown, G. (2010). Induction techniques developed to illuminate relationships between
signs of emotion and their context, physical and social. In K. R. Scherer, T. Banziger, & E.
Roesch (Eds.), A Blueprint for Affective Computing: a Sourcebook and Manual (p295-307).
Oxford: Oxford University Press
Sneddon, I. Goldie, P. & Petta, P. (2010). Ethics in emotion-oriented-systems: the challenges
for an Ethics Committee. In Paolo Petta, & Catherine Pelachaud & Roddy Cowie (Eds).
Emotion-Oriented Systems: The HUMAINE Handbook (p753-768) Berlin, Germany: Springer.
Cowie, R., Douglas-Cowie, E., Sneddon, I., Batliner, A., & Pelachaud, C. (2010) Data and
Databases: Principles and History. In Paolo Petta, & Catherine Pelachaud & Roddy Cowie
(Eds). Emotion-Oriented Systems: The HUMAINE Handbook (p167-196) Berlin, Germany:
Springer.
Cowie, R., Douglas-Cowie, E., McRorie, M., Sneddon, I., Devillers, L. & Amir, N. (2010) Data
and Databases: Issues in Data Collection. In Paolo Petta, & Catherine Pelachaud & Roddy
Cowie (Eds). Emotion-Oriented Systems: The HUMAINE Handbook (p197-212) Berlin,
Germany: Springer.
Douglas-Cowie, E., Cox, C., Martin, J-C., Devillers, L., Cowie, R., Sneddon, I., McRorie, M.,
Pelachaud, C., Peters, C., Lowry, O., Batliner, A., & Hönig, F. (2010) Data and Databases: The
HUMAINE database. In Paolo Petta, & Catherine Pelachaud & Roddy Cowie (Eds). EmotionOriented Systems: The HUMAINE Handbook (p243-286) Berlin, Germany: Springer.
McRorie, M., Sneddon, I., McKeown, G., Bevacqua, E., de Sevin, E. and Pelachaud, C. (2009).
A model of personality and emotional traits. In Z. Ruttkay et al. (Eds): Intelligent Virtual
Agents: IVA 2009, LNAI 5773, pp. 27–33
Proyer, R. et al (2009). Breaking ground in cross-cultural research on the fear of being
laughed at (gelatophobia): a multinational study involving 73 countries. International
Journal of Humor Research, 22 (1-2), 253–279
McRorie, M. & Sneddon, I. (2007) Real emotion is dynamic and interactive. In Proc. Affective
Computing and Intelligent Interaction pp. 759–760. Berlin, Germany: Springer
Douglas-Cowie, E., Cowie, R., Sneddon, I., Cox, C., Lowry, O., McRorie, M., Martin, J.C.,
Devillers, L., & Batliner, A. (2007). The HUMAINE database: addressing the collection and
annotation of naturalistic & induced emotional data. In Paiva, A., Prada, R. and Picard, R.
(Eds), 2nd International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction
(ACII'2007), LNCS, vol. 4738 (pp. 488-500). Lisbon, Portugal
Animal Welfare
Hanna, D., Sneddon I.A. & Beattie, V.E. (2009) The influence of stockperson personality and
attitudes on the productivity of dairy cows. Animal: An International Journal of Animal
Bioscience. 3 (5) 737-743.
Hanna, D., Sneddon, I.A., Beattie, V.E. & Breuer, K. (2006). The effect of
stockperson on dairy cow behaviour and milk yield. Animal Science 82 (6) 791-797.
Breuer, K., Sutcliffe, M.E.M., Mercer, J.T., Rance, K.A., O’Connell, N.E., Sneddon, I.A.
&. Edwards S.A (2005) Heritability of clinical tail biting and its relation to
performance traits. Livestock Production Science 93 (1) 87-94.
O’Connell, N.E., Beattie, V.E., Sneddon, I.A., Breuer, K., Mercer, J.T., Rance, K.A.,
Sutcliffe, M.E.M. and Edwards, S.A. (2005) Influence of individual predisposition,
maternal experience and lactation environment on the responses of pigs to
weaning at two different ages. Applied Animal Behaviour Science, 90 (3-4) 219-232.
Durrell, J. L., Sneddon, I. A., O’Connell N. E., & Whitehead, H. (2004) Do pigs form
preferential associations? Applied Animal Behaviour Science, 89 (1) 41-52.
Breuer, K., Sutcliffe, M.E.M., Mercer, J.T., Rance, K.A., Beattie, V.E., Sneddon, I.A. &.
Edwards S.A (2003) The effect of breed on the development of adverse social
behaviours in pigs. Applied Animal Behaviour Science, 84 (1) 59-74.
Durrell, J. L., Beattie V. E., Sneddon, I. A., & Kilpatrick D. J. (2003) Pre-mixing as a
technique for facilitating subgroup formation and reducing sow aggression in large
dynamic groups. Applied Animal Behaviour Science, 84: 89-99.
Durrell, J. L., Sneddon, I. A., Beattie, V. E. & Kilpatrick, D. J. (2002). Sow behaviour
and welfare in voluntary cubicle pens (small static groups) and split-yard systems
(large dynamic groups). Animal Science, 75: 67-74.
Beattie, V.E., Sneddon, I.A., Walker, N. & Weatherup, R.N. (2001) Environmental
enrichment of intensive pig housing using spent mushroom compost. Animal
Science 72, 35-42.
Sneddon, I.A., Beattie, V.E., Dunne, L. & Neil, W. (2000) The effect of environmental
enrichment on learning in pigs. Animal Welfare 9, 373-383.