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Steven Livingstone - Senior Lecturer

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Owheo Building, G.30
Tel +64 3 479 9045
Email s.livingstone@otago.ac.nz

My research is in affective data science, where I apply programming, statistics, and machine learning to understand emotion and its related disorders. I am also interested in the rehabilitation of facial and vocal deficits in neurodegenerative disorders such as Parkinson's disease. For more information, please see my research page.

I lead the Affective Data Science Lab (ADSL) here at Otago. We focus on developing techniques and technologies that can recognize, predict, and express emotion. We often work with physiological equipment that generate large amounts of data, including motion capture and electromyography.

My background is in computer science and psychology. I studied Physics and Information Technology at the University of Queensland, and then did my PhD in Computer Science at UQ entitled “Changing musical emotions with a computational rule system”. I was then a postdoctoral fellow at McGill University, Canada, in Psychology, followed by fellowship positions at Ryerson University and McMaster University, Canada, in Psychology. Following this, I was an Assistant Professor in Computer Science at the University of Wisconsin, River Falls, where I taught the Data Science program. I joined the University of Otago in 2019.

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Publications

Chang, A., Kragness, H., Livingstone, S. R., Bosnyak, D., & Trainor, L. (2019). Body sway reflects joint emotional expression in music ensemble performance. Scientific Reports, 9, 205. doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-36358-4

Swarbrick, D., Bosnyak, D., Livingstone, S. R., Bansal, J., Marsh-Rollo, S., Woolhouse, M., & Trainor, L. (2019). How live music moves us: Head movement differences in audiences to live versus recorded music. Frontiers in Psychology, 9, 2682. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02682

Livingstone, S. R., & Russo, F. (2018). The Ryerson Audio-Visual Database of Emotional Speech and Song (RAVDESS): A dynamic, multimodal set of facial and vocal expressions in North American English. PLoS ONE, 13(5), e0196391. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0196391

Chang, A., Livingstone, S. R., Bosnyak, D., & Trainor, L. (2017). Body sway reflects leadership in joint music performance. PNAS, 114(21), E4134-E4141. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1617657114

Livingstone, S. R., & Palmer, C. (2016). Head movements encode emotions during speech and song. Emotion, 16(3), 365-380. doi: 10.1037/emo0000106

Livingstone, S. R. (2014). Facial expression. In W. F. Thompson (Ed.), Music in the social and behavioral sciences: An encyclopedia (Vol. 1). (pp. 447-449). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. doi: 10.4135/9781452283012.n149

Chapter in Book - Research

Livingstone, S. R., & Thompson, W. F. (2010). Émergence de la musique et théorie de l'esprit. In I. Deliege, O. Vitouch & O. Ladinig (Eds.), Musique et évolution: Les origines et l'évolution de la musique. (pp. 47-63). Wavre, Belgium: Mardaga.

Chapter in Book - Research

Chang, A., Kragness, H., Livingstone, S. R., Bosnyak, D., & Trainor, L. (2019). Body sway reflects joint emotional expression in music ensemble performance. Scientific Reports, 9, 205. doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-36358-4

Journal - Research Article

Swarbrick, D., Bosnyak, D., Livingstone, S. R., Bansal, J., Marsh-Rollo, S., Woolhouse, M., & Trainor, L. (2019). How live music moves us: Head movement differences in audiences to live versus recorded music. Frontiers in Psychology, 9, 2682. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02682

Journal - Research Article

Livingstone, S. R., & Russo, F. (2018). The Ryerson Audio-Visual Database of Emotional Speech and Song (RAVDESS): A dynamic, multimodal set of facial and vocal expressions in North American English. PLoS ONE, 13(5), e0196391. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0196391

Journal - Research Article

Chang, A., Livingstone, S. R., Bosnyak, D., & Trainor, L. (2017). Body sway reflects leadership in joint music performance. PNAS, 114(21), E4134-E4141. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1617657114

Journal - Research Article

Livingstone, S. R., & Palmer, C. (2016). Head movements encode emotions during speech and song. Emotion, 16(3), 365-380. doi: 10.1037/emo0000106

Journal - Research Article

Livingstone, S. R., Vezer, E., McGarry, L. M., Lang, A. E., & Russo, F. (2016). Deficits in the mimicry of facial expressions in Parkinson's disease. Frontiers in Psychology, 7, 780. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00780

Journal - Research Article

Livingstone, S. R., Thompson, W. F., Wanderley, M. M., & Palmer, C. (2015). Common cues to emotion in the dynamic facial expressions of speech and song. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 68(5), 952-970. doi: 10.1080/17470218.2014.971034

Journal - Research Article

Livingstone, S. R., Choi, D. H., & Russo, F. A. (2014). The influence of vocal training and acting experience on measures of voice quality and emotional genuineness. Frontiers in Psychology, 5, 156. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00156

Journal - Research Article

Chan, L. P., Livingstone, S. R., & Russo, F. A. (2013). Facial mimicry in response to song. Music Perception, 30(4), 361-367. doi: 10.1525/MP.2013.30.4.361

Journal - Research Article

Livingstone, S. R. (2013). The kinematics of musical expression in the spatiotemporal dimension. Empirical Musicology Review, 8(2), 124-127. doi: 10.18061/emr.v8i2.3931

Journal - Research Article

Livingstone, S. R., Palmer, C., & Schubert, E. (2012). Emotional response to musical repetition. Emotion, 12(3), 552-567. doi: 10.1037/a0023747

Journal - Research Article

Livingstone, S. R., Muhlberger, R., Brown, A. R., & Thompson, W. F. (2010). Changing musical emotion: A computational rule system for modifying score and performance. Computer Music Journal, 34(1), 41-64. doi: 10.1162/comj.2010.34.1.41

Journal - Research Article

Thompson, W. F., Russo, F. A., & Livingstone, S. R. (2010). Facial expressions of singers influence perceived pitch relations. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 17(3), 317-322. doi: 10.3758/PBR.17.3.317

Journal - Research Article

Livingstone, S. R., & Thompson, W. F. (2009). The emergence of music from the Theory of Mind. Musicæ Scientiæ, 13(2, Suppl.), 83-115. doi: 10.1177/1029864909013002061

Journal - Research Article

Livingstone, S. R., Thompson, W. F., & Russo, F. A. (2009). Facial expressions and emotional singing: A study of perception and production with motion capture and electromyography. Music Perception, 26(5), 475-488. doi: 10.1525/mp.2009.26.5.475

Journal - Research Article

Livingstone, S. R., Mühlberger, R., Brown, A. R., & Loch, A. (2007). Controlling musical emotionality: An affective computational architecture for influencing musical emotions. Digital Creativity, 18(1), 43-53. doi: 10.1080/14626260701253606

Journal - Research Article

Livingstone, S. R., & Thompson, W. F. (2006). Multimodal affective interaction: A comment on musical origins. Music Perception, 24(1), 89-94. doi: 10.1525/mp.2006.24.1.89

Journal - Research Other

Zhao, S., Rudzicz, F., Carvalho, L., Márquez-Chin, C., & Livingstone, S. (2014). Automatic detection of expressed emotion in Parkinson's Disease. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustic, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP). (pp. 4813-4817). IEEE. doi: 10.1109/ICASSP.2014.6854516

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper

Livingstone, S. R., Peck, K., & Russo, F. A. (2013). Acoustic differences in the speaking and singing voice. Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics. 19(1), 035080. Melville, NY: Acoustical Society of America. doi: 10.1121/1.4799460

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper

Livingstone, S. R., Palmer, C., Wanderley, M. M., Thompson, W. F., & Lissemore, J. (2011). Facial expressions in vocal performance: Visual communication of emotion. In A. Williamon, D. Edwards & L. Bartel (Eds.), Proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Performance Science (ISPS). (pp. 545-550). Utrecht, The Netherlands: European Association of Conservatoires (AEC). doi: 10.13140/2.1.3522.1446

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper

Livingstone, S. R., Schubert, E., Loehr, J. D., & Palmer, C. (2009). Emotional arousal and the automatic detection of musical phrase boundaries. In A. Williamon, S. Pretty & R. Buck (Eds.), Proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Performance Science (ISPS). (pp. 445-450). Utrecht, The Netherlands: European Association of Conservatoires (AEC). Retrieved from https://performancescience.org/publications/

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper

Livingstone, S. R., & Brown, A. R. (2005). Dynamic response: Real-time adaptation for music emotion. In Y. Pisan (Ed.), Proceedings of the Second Australasian Conference on Interactive Entertainment. (pp. 105-111). Sydney, Australia: Creativity and Cognition Studios Press. [Full Paper]

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper

Livingstone, S. R., Muhlberger, R., & Brown, A. R. (2005). Playing with affect: Music performance with awareness of score and audience. In T. Opie & A. R. Brown (Eds.), Proceedings of the Australasian Computer Music Conference. (pp. 92-98). Brisbane, Australia: Australasian Computer Music Association. [Full Paper]

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper

Henricksen, K., Livingstone, S., & Indulska, J. (2004). Towards a hybrid approach to context modelling, reasoning and interoperation. In D. De Roure & J. Indulska (Eds.), Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Advanced Context Modelling, Reasoning and Management. Southampton, UK: University of Southampton. [Full Paper]

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper

Livingstone, S. R., Palmer, C., Thompson, W. F., & Wanderley, M. M. (2010). Facial expressions in speech and singing. In M. M. Wanderley, J. Wild & S. X. Wei (Eds.), Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Music and Gesture. (pp. 9-10). Montreal, Canada: McGill University. doi: 10.13140/2.1.3030.6249

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Livingstone, S. R., Brown, A. R., & Muhlberger, R. (2005, November-December). Influencing the perceived emotions of music with intent. Verbal presentation at the Third International Conference on Generative Systems in the Electronic Arts, Melbourne, Australia.

Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs

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