Eike Schneiders, Ph.D

Agents, Interaction and Complexity (AIC),
School of Electronics and Computer Science (ECS),
University of Southampton
eike.schneiders@soton.ac.uk

Hello there!

My name is Eike, and I am an Assistant Professor at the School of Electronics and Computer Science (ECS) at the University of Southampton. As part of the TAS Hub and RAi UK, my research investigates autonomous systems and how we can ensure that these are trustworthy and responsible. This includes the design and development of these in a responsible manner, i.e., by involving various stakeholders, as well as the interaction with the system itself. Furthermore, I am interested in the impact that the introduction of autonomous systems, including robots, has on the interpersonal relationships among human (and non-human) collaborators. My focus lies on user research emphasising qualitative methods, with some use of quantitative methods to study interaction with systems in various contexts, such as the domestic space, industrial manufacturing, or at the intersection between HRI, Art, and Animal Welfare.

As of 2024 I have been selected to be part of the UK Foundation for Science and Technology Foundation Future Leaders Programme.

I look forward to hearing from you, eike.schneiders@soton.ac.uk.

Eike Schneiders, Ph.D. - Assistant Professor at University of Southampton.

Publications

For the most updated list of my publications, please visit my Google Scholar profile.

2024

Steve Benford, Rachael Garrett, Eike Schneiders, Paul Tennent, Alan Chamberlain, Juan Avila, Patrick Brundell, Simon Castle-Green. 2024. "How Artists Improvise and Provoke Robotics". In the 16th International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR24). To appear

Eike Schneiders, Tina Seabrooke, Joshua Krook, Richard Hyde, Natalie Leesakul, Jeremie Clos and Joel Fischer. 2024. "Objection Overruled! Lay People can Distinguish Large Language Models from Lawyers, but still Favour Advice from an LLM." https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.07871

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)

Harriet R. Cameron, Simon Castle-Green, Muhammad Chughtai, Liz Dowthwaite, Ayse Kucukyilmaz, Horia A. Maior, Victor Ngo, Eike Schneiders, and Bernd C. Stahl. 2024. A Taxonomy of Domestic Robot Failure Outcomes: Understanding the impact of failure on trustworthiness of domestic robots. In Second International Symposium on Trustworthy Autonomous Systems (TAS ’24), September 16–18, 2024, Austin, TX, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 14 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3686038.3686050

Gisela Reyes-Cruz, Juan Martinez Avila, Eike Schneiders, and Andriana Boudouraki. 2024. Reimagining the Design of Mobile Robotic Telepresence: Reflections from a Hybrid Design Workshop. In Second International Symposium on Trustworthy Autonomous Systems (TAS ’24), September 16–18, 2024, Austin, TX, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 7 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3686038.3686055

Eleftherios Papachristos, Timothy Merritt, Eike Schneiders, David Jahanshiri, Alef Pir, and Andrei Ciobanu. 2024. Sound Strategies for Safe Driving: Exploring Auditory Interventions to Counteract Passive Driver Fatigue. In Second International Symposium on Trustworthy Autonomous Systems (TAS ’24), September 16–18, 2024, Austin, TX, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 6 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3686038.3686042

Jennifer Williams, Eike Schneiders, Henry Card, Tina Seabrooke, Beatrice Pakenham-Walsh, Tayyaba Azim, Lucy Valls-Reed, Ganesh Vigneswaran, John Robert Bautista, Rohan Chandra, Arya Farahi. 2024. Predicting Acute Pain Levels Implicitly from Vocal Features. In Proceedings of Interspeech 2024. https://www.isca-archive.org/interspeech_2024/williams24_interspeech.html

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, Christopher Fourie, Stanley Celestin, Julie Shah, and Malte Jung. 2024. Understanding Entrainment in Human Groups: Optimising Human-Robot Collaboration from Lessons Learned during Human-Human Collaboration. 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, 13 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3613904.3642427

Ayodeji Opeyemi Abioye, William Hunt, Yue Gu, Eike Schneiders, Mohammad Naiseh, Joel Fischer, Sarvapali Ranchurn, Mohammad Soorati, Blair Archibald, and Michele Sevegnani. 2024. The Effect of Predictive Formal Modelling at Runtime on Performance in Human-Swarm Interaction. In Proceedings of the 2024 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI ’24). https://doi.org/10.1145/3610978.3640725

Eike Schneiders, Steve Benford, Ju Row Farr, Nick Tandavanitj, and Matt Adams. 2024. The Purr-suit of Happiness: A Tale of Three Kittens: Robots, Humans, Cats, and AI. In Companion of the 2024 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI ’24 Companion), March 11–14, 2024, Boulder, CO, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 3 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3610978.3640791

Eike Schneiders, Steve Benford, Nick Tandavanitj, Matt Adams, and Ju Row Farr. 2024. Cat Royale. ACM Interactions 31, 1 (January – February 2024), 64. https://doi.org/10.1145/3636499

2023

Eike Schneiders, Andriana Boudouraki, Gisela Reyes-Cruz, Juan Pablo Martinez Avila, Houda Elmimouni, Jens Emil Sloth Grønbæk, Sean Rintel, and Swapna Joshi. 2023. Mobility and Utility in Robot Mediated Interaction: An Interactive Workshop for the Identification of Use Cases and Affordances of Telepresence Robots. In Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Mobile Human-Computer Interaction (MobileHCI ’23 Companion). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 34, 1–5. https://doi.org/10.1145/3565066.3609791

Joshua Krook, Stuart E. Middleton, Tina Seabrooke, Eike Schneiders, Jan Blockx, Jennifer Williams and Sarvapali D. Ramchurn. 2023. AI Large Language Models Inquiry, Communications and Digital Committee, House of Lords. A Trustworthy Autonomous Systems Hub response. https://doi.org/10.5258/SOTON/P1126

Meryl Ye, Eike Schneiders, Wen-Ying Lee, and Malte Jung. The Future of Home Appliances: A Study on the Robotic Toaster as a Domestic Social Robot, 2023. 32nd IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), Busan, Korea, 2023. To appear in proceedings. https://doi.org/10.1109/RO-MAN57019.2023.10309555.

Eike Schneiders, Alan Chamberlain, Joel E. Fischer, Steve Benford, Simon Castle-Green, Victor Ngo, Ayse Kucukyilmaz, Pepita Barnard, Ju Row Farr, Matt Adams, Nick Tandavanitj, Kate Devlin, Clara Mancini, and Daniel S. Mills. 2023. TAS for Cats: An Artist-led Exploration of Trustworthy Autonomous Systems for Companion Animals. In First International Symposium on Trustworthy Autonomous Systems (TAS ’23), ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/3597512.3597517

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)

Eike Schneiders, Eleftherios Papachristos, Niels van Berkel, and Rune Møberg Jacobsen. 2023. “Briefly Entertaining but Pointless”: Perceived Benefits & Risks of Social Robots in the Home, in CHI EA ’23: Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI’23). https://doi.org/10.1145/3544549.3585696

Stine S. Johansen, Rikke Hagensby Jensen, Eike Schneiders, and Nicolai Brodersen Hansen. 2023. Manifestations of a Sound Wave: Establishing Human-Data Relations from a Data-Centred Perspective, in Data as a Material for Design: Alternative Narratives, Divergent Pathways, and Future Directions (CHI’23). Download Paper.

Eike Schneiders, Christopher Fourie, Julie Shah, and Malte Jung. 2023. Human-Human Collaboration: What can we learn from Human Group Collaboration to improve Human-Robot Collaboration?, in Workshop YOUR Study Design! (HRI’23). Download Paper.

Joel Wester, Eike Schneiders, and Niels van Berkel. 2023. Perceived Moral Agency of Non-Moral Entities: Implications and Future Research Directions for Social Robots, in Workshop on Perspectives on Moral Agency in Human-Robot Interaction (HRI’23). Download Paper.

2022

Eike Schneiders. 2022. Non-Dyadic Collaboration In Human-Robot Interaction, in Technical Faculty of IT and Design, Aalborg University. Aalborg Universitetsforlag, Ph.D. Dissertation (redacted), 81 pages. Download Ph.D. Dissertation.

EunJeong Cheon, Eike Schneiders, Kristina Diekjobst, and Mikael B. Skov. 2022. Robots as a Place for Socializing: Influences of Collaborative Robots on Social Dynamics In- and Outside the Production Cells, in Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction. 6, CSCW2, Article 457, 2022, 26 pages. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3555558

EunJeong Cheon, Eike Schneiders, and Mikael B. Skov. 2022. Working with Bounded Collaboration: A Qualitative Study on How Collaboration is Co-Constructed around Collaborative Robots in Industry, in Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction. 6, CSCW2, Article 369, 2022, 34 pages. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3555094

Eike Schneiders, Niels van Berkel and Mikael B. Skov. 2022. Hybrid Work for Industrial Workers: Challenges and Opportunities in using Collaborative Robots, in Work of the Future (NordiCHI22 Workshop), 2022. Download Paper.

Niels van Berkel, Eike Schneiders, and Rune Møberg Jacobsen. 2022. Addressing Repetition in Crowdsourcing: A Concept for Fast-Form Entry, in Adjunct Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI’22 EA), 2022, Download Paper.

Eike Schneiders and Stanley Celestin. 2022. Non-Dyadic Entrainment for Industrial Tasks. In Workshop on Joint Action, Adaptation, and Entrainment in Human-Robot Interaction (HRI’22). Download Paper.

Eike Schneiders and Eleftherios Papachristos. 2022. It’s not all Bad – Worker Perceptions of Industrial Robots. In Proceedings of the 2022 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI ’22). IEEE Press, 1025–1029. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/3523760.3523928

Eike Schneiders. 2022. Non-Dyadic Human-Robot Interaction: Concepts and Interaction Techniques. In Proceedings of the 2022 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI ’22). IEEE Press, 1176–1178. https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.5555/3523760.3523963

Eike Schneiders, EunJeong Cheon, Jesper Kjeldskov, Matthias Rehm, and Mikael B. Skov. 2022. Non-Dyadic Interaction: A Literature Review of 15 Years of Human-Robot Interaction Conference Publications.J. Hum.-Robot Interact. 11, 2, Article 13 (June 2022), 32 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3488242

2021

Eike Schneiders, Eleftherios Papachristos, and Niels van Berkel. 2021. The Effect of Anthropomorphism of Personal Assistants on User Perceptions. In 33rd Australian Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (OzCHI ’21). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, https://doi.org/10.1145/3520495.3520503

Eike Schneiders, Anne Marie Kanstrup, Jesper Kjeldskov, and Mikael B. Skov. 2021. Domestic Robots and the Dream of Automation: Understanding Human Interaction and Intervention. In CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’21), May 8–13, 2021, Yokohama, Japan. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 13 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3411764.3445629 

2020

Eike Schneiders, Mikkel Bjerregaard Kristensen, Michael Kvist Svangren, and Mikael B. Skov. 2020. Temporal Impact on Cognitive Distraction Detection for Car Drivers using EEG. In 32nd Australian Conference on Human-Computer Interaction(OzCHI ’20). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 594–601. https://doi.org/10.1145/3441000.3441013

2019

Eike Schneiders, Mikael B. Skov. 2019. CyclAir: A Bike Mounted Prototype for Real-Time Visualization of CO2Levels While Cycling. In: Lamas D., Loizides F., Nacke L., Petrie H., Winckler M., Zaphiris P. (eds) Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2019. INTERACT 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 11747. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29384-0_40

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