Nirul Hoeba
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3
Total Citations
45
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About
Nirul Hoeba is a pioneering researcher at the intersection of telepresence, human-robot interaction, and virtual reality, whose work redefines how humans connect with remote environments. Hoeba’s core research areas include embodied teleoperation, multisensory feedback, and social presence, with a focus on transporting not just a user’s functional capabilities but their entire social self. In their highly cited 2022 paper, “What Comes After Telepresence?” (20 citations), Hoeba introduces the concept of “embodied telepresence,” arguing that advances in robotics and multisensory displays can extend telepresence beyond mere visual immersion to a full transport of identity and agency. This work has become a touchstone for researchers exploring the future of remote interaction. Hoeba’s 2019 study on VR-mediated teleoperation (19 citations) demonstrates how environmental information critically enhances spatial task performance and operator situation awareness, providing foundational insights for designing intuitive robotic control systems. More recently, their 2022 proof-of-concept on thermal feedback (6 citations) pushes boundaries by integrating long-wave infrared sensing into teleoperation, giving operators a thermal sense alongside vision. Hoeba’s contributions are shaping the next generation of telepresence systems, with implications for remote surgery, hazardous environment exploration, and social robotics.
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- 3Grasping Temperature: Thermal Feedback in VR Robot Teleoperation6 citations · 2022