Citadel

S. Schneider (Sebastian)

Assistant Professor
EEMCS-CS-HMI
Citadel H208
s.schneider@utwente.nl
+31534895496
Business card

I am an Assistant Professor at the Human Media Interaction group at the Electrical Engineering Mathematics and Computer Science faculty. My background is in intelligent systems and human-machine interaction. My research focuses on developing interactive intelligent systems for coaching, (long-term) Human-Robot Interaction, and interactive robot learning.Ā 

Starting as a research student assistant at theĀ Cognition and Robotics LabĀ developing mobile interactive mobile and humanoid service robotics, I continued to broaden my perspective on human-technology interaction from a social and sports psychology stance to create social robots for exercising and coaching scenarios in long-term and recurring interactions as a PhD student, also at the CoR Lab, andĀ Center for Cognitive Interaction TechnologiesĀ (CITEC).

After my Ph.D., I worked as a postdoc at theĀ HRI LabĀ at Kyoto University, exploring mobile persuasive robotics "in the wild." Subsequently, I joined theĀ Faculty of SociologyĀ at Bielefeld University as a postdoc to investigate the impact of AI on epidemiology from a sociological perspective.

However, my curiosity remained on the interactive side of technology, and I continued my research in HRI on service robots for public spaces and socially empathic multi-turn interaction at theĀ Cologne Cobots Lab.

Before joining the University of Twente, I worked as a Data Scientist in the Machine Learning and AI group atĀ Miele & Cie. KGĀ on deep learning, computer vision for household appliances, and large language models.

Expertise

  • Computer Science

    • Robot
    • User
    • Social Robot
    • Human Robot Interaction
    • Models
    • Motivation
    • Robotics

  • Psychology

    • Humans

Organisations

Publications

2025

"I Canā€™t See You, But I Trust You!": Exploring the Impact of Reduced Vision On Object Handover Times in Human-Robot Collaboration (2025)In 2025 34th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN) (pp. 1209-1215). Ester, L., Hindemith, L. & Schneider, S.https://doi.org/10.1109/ro-man63969.2025.11217532Social-Physical Human-Robot Interaction forĀ Health Applications: A Scoping Review (2025)In Social Robotics: 16th International Conference, ICSR + AI 2024, Odense, Denmark, October 23ā€“26, 2024, Proceedings, Part III (pp. 381-391). Springer. Schneider, S.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-96-3525-2_32Combining Haptic and Socially Assistive Robot Feedback for Enhancing Squat Technique in Healthy Individuals (2025)In 2025 20th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) (pp. 1509-1513). Mois, B. I. & Schneider, S.https://doi.org/10.1109/hri61500.2025.10973933

2024

Precision Epidemiology: A Computational Analysis of the Impact of Algorithmic Prediction on the Relationship Between Population Epidemiology and Clinical Epidemiology (2024)International journal of public health, 69. Article 1607396. Esposito, E., Angelini, P. & Schneider, S.https://doi.org/10.3389/ijph.2024.1607396

2023

Interactive Robot Task Learning: Human Teaching Proficiency With Different Feedback Approaches (2023)IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems, 15(4), 1938-1947. Hindemith, L., Bruns, O., Noller, A. M., Hemion, N., Schneider, S. & Vollmer, A.-L.https://doi.org/10.1109/TCDS.2022.3186270

2022

Robot Control Using Model-Based Reinforcement Learning With Inverse Kinematics (2022)In 2022 IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL). IEEE. Luipers, D., Kaulen, N., Chojnowski, O., Schneider, S., Richert, A. & Jeschke, S.https://doi.org/10.1109/ICDL53763.2022.9962215Investigating gender-stereotyped interactions with virtual agents in public spaces (2022)In 2022 31st IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN) (pp. 1592-1597) (International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication). IEEE. Müller, A., Penkert, L., Schneider, S. & Richert, A.https://doi.org/10.1109/RO-MAN53752.2022.9900529Predicting Perceived Exhaustion in Rehabilitation Exercises Using Facial Action Units (2022)Sensors (Switzerland), 22(17). Article 6524. Kreis, C., Aguirre, A., Cifuentes, C. A., Munera, M., Jiménez, M. F. & Schneider, S.https://doi.org/10.3390/s22176524Stop Ignoring Me!: On Fighting the Trivialization of Social Robots in Public Spaces (2022)ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction, 11(2), 1–23. Schneider, S., Liu, Y., Tomita, K. & Kanda, T.https://doi.org/10.1145/3488241An Architecture for Social Robot-assisted Subjective and Objective Health Monitoring (2022)In 2022 IEEE International Conference on Advanced Robotics and Its Social Impacts (ARSO). Neef, C., Schneider, S. & Richert, A.https://doi.org/10.1109/ARSO54254.2022.9802961

Research profiles

Address

University of Twente

Citadel (building no. 09), room H208
Hallenweg 15
7522 NH Enschede
Netherlands

Navigate to location

Organisations

Scan the QR code or
Download vCard