Prof. Dr. Martin Dobricki
Martin Dobricki is professor and head of the «Education & Digital Technologies» research program at the Bern University of Teacher Education (PHBern). He holds a PhD degree awarded by the University of Zurich. Martin Dobricki was the leader of the «Perception and Action in Virtual Environments» research group at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Germany. After this he continued his research at the University of Würzburg, the University of Bern, the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and finally at the Swiss Federal University for Vocational Education and Training. Martin Dobricki's main line of research is to investigate the utility and risk of human-machine interaction for competent human behavior and its learning using virtual or mixed reality technology and artificial intelligence.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
EDUCATION
Learning
2008
PhD in Experimental Psychology at the University of Zurich
Human-Machine Interaction
2003
Master of Science in Psychology at the University of Zurich
Perception and action
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
since 2021 Professor and head of the research group «Education & Digital Technologies» of the Bern
University for Teacher Education (PHBern)
2017 - 2021 Senior scientist in the «learning technologies» research group at the Swiss Federal University
for Vocational Education and Training in Zollikofen
2018 Senior scientist in the «Computer-Human Interaction in Learning and Instruction» group at the
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
2017 Senior research scientist in the department for Cognitive Psychology, Perception and Methods at
the University of Bern
2014 - 2016 Senior scientist in the department for Biological Psychology at the University of Würzburg
2012 - 2014 Head of the «Perception and Action in Virtual Environments» research group at the
Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics
2011 - 2012 Postdoctoral scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen
2008 - 2011 Postdoctoral scientist at Agroscope the Swiss centre of excellence for agricultural
research
2004 - 2008 Research fellow and PhD candidate at the Psychological Institute of the University of Zurich
Memberships
- IEEE
- ACM