Alex McIntyre

I graduated from The University of Stirling in 2004 with a First Class BSc (Hons) in Psychology and The Alan Baddeley Award for best final year project.  After graduation I worked with Professor Anne Anderson on the Monitor project at The University of Glasgow, before returning to Stirling in 2005 to take up a research assistant post with Professor Peter Hancock and commence a part time PhD.

My research involves forensic facial identification.  I am currently employed with Peter Hancock studying how to improve human face matching performance on a DTI grant to Omniperception.  On a previous ESRC grant to Peter Hancock, Vicki Bruce and Charlie Frowd I collaborated on the development of the EvoFIT Evolutionary Facial Composite System. 

Personal research projects began with a final year project investigating the effects of inaccurate configural information on identification of facial composites.  I found that by interfering with configural face processing, composite identification was signifiantly enhanced.  Since then I have demonstrated that affective information also influences recognition of facial composites.  Specifically, composites that are manipulated to portray more positive expressions are identified significantly  more often, and that the effect is stronger with personally familiar identities.  Current projects are investigating how affective information and presentation format can influence identification accuracy in forensic face matching tasks.

Cognitive psychology PSY9AC: course tutor for group project workshops and face perception lectures.

McIntyre, A.H., Hancock, P.J.B., & Frowd, C.D. (in preparation).  Splitting facial composites can improve identification.

McIntyre, A.H., & Hancock, P.J.B.  (in preparation).  A smiling face bias can enhance identification of facial composites.

Hancock, P.J.B., & McIntyre, A.H.  (in preparation).  Reducing the own race bias in face matching tasks.

Hancock, P.J.B., & McIntyre, A.H.  (in preparation).  The application of caricature improves accuracy in face matching tasks.

Frowd, C.D., Bruce, V., Chang, Y., Plenderleith, Y., McIntyre, A.H., & Hancock, P.J.B. (in press). Predict Your Child: a system to suggest the facial appearance of children. Journal of Multimedia. Word @Academy Publisher.

Frowd, C.D., Bruce, V., Gannon, C., Robinson, M., Tredoux, C., Park., J., McIntyre, A., & Hancock, P.J.B. (in press). Evolving the face of a criminal: how to search a face space more effectively. Soft Computing. www.springerlink.com.

Frowd, C.D., Park., J., McIntyre, A., Bruce, V., Pitchford, M., Fields, S., Kenirons, M. & Hancock, P.J.B. (in press). Effecting an improvement to the fitness function. How to evolve a more identifiable face. Paper to appear in proceedings of 2008 ECSIS Symposium on Bio-inspired, Learning, and Intelligent Systems for Security, Edinburgh.

Frowd, C.D., Bruce, V., Ross, D., McIntyre, A. & Hancock, P.J.B. (2007). An application of caricature: how to improve the recognition of facial composites. To appear in Visual Cognition, 15, 1-31

Frowd, C.D., Bruce, V., McIntyre, A. & Hancock, P.J.B. (2007). The relative importance of external and internal features of facial composites. British Journal of Psychology, 98, 61-77.

Frowd, C.D., Bruce, V., Ness, H., Thomson-Bogner, C., Paterson, J., McIntyre, A. & Hancock, P.J.B. (2007). Parallel approaches to composite production. Ergonomics, 50 (4), 562-585.

Frowd, C.D., Bruce, V., McIntyre, A., Ross, D., Fields, S., Plenderleith, Y., & Hancock, P.J.B (2006).  Implementing Holistic Dimensions for a Facial Composite System. Journal of Multimedia, 1(3), 42-51. 

Frowd, C.D., Bruce, V., McIntyre, A., Ross., D. & Hancock, P.J.B. (2006). Adding Holistic Dimensions to a Facial Composite System. Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (pp. 183-188). Los Alamitos: Ca

 

 

 

Frowd, C.D., Bruce, V., Ross, D., McIntyre, A. & Hancock, P.J.B. (2007). An application of caricature: how to improve the recognition of facial composites. Visual Cognition, 15, 954-984. Word Author Posting. (c) Taylor & Francis, 2007. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here by permission of Taylor & Francis for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version is published in Visual Cognition, Volume 15 Issue 8, November 2007. DOI: 10.1080/13506280601058951 (http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content?content=10.1080/13506280601058951)Frowd, C.D., Bruce, V., Ness, H., Bowie, L., Paterson, J., Thomson-Bognor, C., McIntyre, A.H., & Hancock, P.J.B.  Parallel approaches to composite production: interfaces that behave contrary to expectation. Ergonomics, 50, 4, 562-585.

Conferences

 

McIntyre, A.H., & Hancock, P.J.B. (2008).  The smiling bias can improve forensic identification.  25th Anniversary BPS Cognitive Section Conference.

McIntyre, A.H., & Hancock, P.J.B. (2008).  The smiling bias can improve identification of facial composites.  18th Conference of the European Association of Psychology and Law Maastricht.

McIntyre, A.H., & Hancock, P.J.B. (2008).  Overcoming the own race bias in facial matching tasks.  18th Conference of the European Association of Psychology and Law Maastricht.

McIntyre A.H. & Hancock, P.J.B. (2007).  Enhancing Identification Rates of Facial Composites.  Invited to present at an Eyewitness symposium at The 24th Annual Cognitive Section Conference, Aberdeen.

McIntyre, A.H., & Hancock, P.J.B. (2006).  Affective and Social bias influences identification of faces.  Invited to present paper at The ACPO Working Group on Facial Identification Conference.

PJB Hancock, AL Hogg, AH McIntyre (2006).  Adaptation of familiar and unfamiliar faces.  Paper to be presented at the European Conference for Visual Perception, St Petersburg.

McIntyre, A.H., Park, P., Frowd, C.D., Bruce, V., & Hancock, P.J.B (2006).  When blurring helps you remember more clearly: Improving the effectiveness of facial composites.  Paper presented at The 16th European Conference for Psychology and Law, Liverpool.

McIntyre, A.H., & Hancock, P.J.B. (2006).  You look nice, do I know you?:  Social bias can affect face recognition.  Poster presented at SGRS conference Stirling.

McIntyre, A.H., Frowd, C.D., Hancock, P.J.B., & Bruce, V. (2006).  Evolving 21st Century Facial Composites.  Poster presented at SGRS conference, Stirling.

McIntyre, A.H., Hancock, P.J.B., & Frowd, C.D. (2005).  Horizontally split facial composites show improved identification.  Paper presented at The 8th International Investigative Psychology Conference, London.

McIntyre, A.H., Hancock, P.J.B., & Frowd, C.D. (2005).  Horizontally split facial composites show improved identification.  Poster presented at The 15th European Conference for psychology and Law, Vilnius.