Field of Expertise
Augmented Reality, Information Systems, Performance Augmentation
Expertise
Fridolin is convenor and one of the lead authors of the ACM curriculum recommendation on Augmented Reality. He is a leading scholar in the field, with special expertise on job performance aids, the future of work, and learning/training using AR and wearable technology. At the moment, in his lab, he is pursuing several research strands including on holographic AIs and on Digital Twins. Fridolin is and has been leading numerous EU, European Space Agency, and nationally funded research projects since 1999. He leads the Special Interest Group on Wearable-Enhanced Learning (SIG WELL) of EA-TEL and he chairs the working group on Augmented Reality (Learning) Experience Models (ARLEM) of the IEEE Standards Association as well as the Natural Language Processing task view of the Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN). He co-chairs the IEEE ICICLE SIG XR for Learning and Performance Augmentation. From 2015 to 2020, Fridolin was Senior Research Fellow at Oxford Brookes University. From 2009 to 2016, he was at the Knowledge Media Institute of the Open University. Fridolin also worked as a researcher at the Vienna University of Economics and Business in Austria from 2004 to 2009. He studied at the University of Regensburg, Germany, with extra-murals at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and the University of Hildesheim.