Awards & Honours

I was awarded the Dean’s Award from the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences (FEPS) at the University of Southampton.

The Cat Royale project received two nominations for the prestigious AI & Robotics Award 2025 in the categories of “Best Demonstrator of AI & Robotics” and “Best Research Paper - Early Career Researcher" (https://doi.org/10.1145/3613904.3642115). The awards ceremony took place on March 12, 2025, at the Royal Society in London, recognising outstanding contributions to AI and robotics innovation.

The Cat Royale project won the "2024 Webby Award - The Best of the Internet" in the category "AI, Metaverse & Virtual, Best Integrated Experience People's Voice Winner, 2024".

I received the inaugural TAS Early Career Researcher Award for significant impact in relation to Engagement and Outreach of research. This highly competetive award came with £4000 of research funding.

I was awarded membership of the 2024 Foundation Future Leaders programme awarded by the Foundation for Science and Technology.

University of Nottingham 2022/2023 award for "my excellent contributions to the School and University". This annual University of Nottingham wide award is given to staff members who significantly contributed to the School or the University.

I was selected to participate in the the prestigious HRI Pioneer 2022 event. An annual workshop for early career researchers to foster communication and collaboration between researchers.

Tina Seabrooke, Eike Schneiders, Liz Dowthwaite, Joshua Krook, Natalie Leesakul, Jeremie Clos, Horia Maior, and Joel Fischer. 2024. A Survey of Lay People’s Willingness to Generate LegalAdvice using Large Language Models (LLMs). In Second International Symposium on Trustworthy Autonomous Systems (TAS ’24), September 16–18, 2024, Austin, TX, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 5 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3686038.3686043Honourable Mention (TAS'24)

Eike Schneiders, Steve Benford, Alan Chamberlain, Clara Mancini, Simon Castle-Green, Victor Ngo, Ju Row Farr, Matt Adams, Nick Tandavanitj, and Joel Fischer. 2024. Designing Multispecies Worlds for Robots, Cats, and Humans. In Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’24), May 11–16, 2024, Honolulu, HI, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 16 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3613904.3642115 Best Paper Award (CHI'24)

Steve Benford, Clara Mancini, Alan Chamberlain, Eike Schneiders, Simon Castle-Green, Joel Fischer, Ayse Kucukyilmaz, Guido Salimbeni, Victor Ngo, Pepita Barnard, Matt Adams, Nick Tandavanitj, and Ju Row Farr. 2024. Charting Ethical Tensions in Multispecies Technology Research through Beneficiary-Epistemology Space. In Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’24), May 11–16, 2024, Honolulu, HI, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 16 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3613904.3641994 Honourable Mention (CHI'24)

Eike Schneiders, Jennifer Williams, Arya Farahi, Tina Seabrooke, Ganesh Vigneswaran, John Robert Bautista, Liz Dowthwaite, and Anna-Maria Piskopani. 2023. TAME Pain: Trustworthy AssessMEnt of Pain from Speech and Audio for the Empowerment of Patients. In First International Symposium on Trustworthy Autonomous Systems (TAS ’23), ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/3597512.3597513 Honourable Mention (TAS'23)