Alexander Hubers

Papers

Total Citations

H-Index

About

Alexander Hubers’s research lies at the intersection of human-robot interaction, privacy, and spatial mapping. His most influential work, “Video Manipulation Techniques for the Protection of Privacy in Remote Presence Systems” (2015, 14 citations), addresses a critical challenge in telepresence robotics: how to protect the privacy of people in a robot’s environment while still allowing a remote operator to navigate effectively. Through user studies, Hubers demonstrated that selectively obscuring or distorting video feeds can preserve privacy without compromising task performance—a foundational insight for designing socially acceptable remote presence systems. He also contributed to spatial understanding with work on aligning hand-drawn sketches with sensor-generated SLAM maps, developing a simple yet effective algorithm for establishing correspondences between conceptual floor plans and metric maps. This line of work, including his 2016 comparison of sketched floor plans versus SLAM maps, has practical implications for intuitive human-robot communication and environment modeling. Though his citation counts are modest, Hubers’s research is notable for its user-centered approach to privacy and its creative bridging of human cognitive representations with robotic sensing.