Associate Professor Abdullah Al Mahmud

Biography

Associate Professor Abdullah Al Mahmud is a design researcher and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) specialist working at the intersection of design and health. He is proficient in co-designing, developing and assessing products, systems and services with end-users. His research interests include co-design, child-computer interaction, assistive technology, digital health, persuasive technology, and designing with and for marginalised communities living in low-resource regions. 

He completed several industry-funded projects on co-design (loneliness intervention app and sleep hygiene app), assistive technology design (for people with low vision or blindness, children with autism, older adults, and people with aphasia), and technology assessment (e.g., improving service delivery for vulnerable mothers). 

He has published widely in top-tier Human-Computer Interaction/Design Journals (International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction, Interacting with Computers, International Journal of Social Robotics, Universal Access in Information Society, ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing, Journal of Design Research, The Design Journal, Entertainment Computing) and Core ranked HCI conferences (CHI, Interact, TEI, OzCHI, IDC). He has authored/co-authored 55 journal papers, 5 book chapters, and over 75 Core-ranked conference papers. He is an editorial board member of the 'Advanced Design Research' journal (https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/advanced-design-research) published by Elsevier.

He supervised 8 HDR students to completion and currently supervises 8 PhD students. He also provides hands-on training to PhD students on literature review and qualitative data analysis using NVivo.

He obtained an average rating of 9.0 or above for overall teaching satisfaction in 2019 and 2022 and was commended by Swinburne University for his outstanding teaching.

Talks for higher degree research (HDR) students:
-Conducting systematic and scoping reviews
-Essential software for conducting literature reviews
-Qualitative data analysis: thematic and content analysis 
-NVivo and qualitative data analysis 
-Essential statistics for PhD students
-Research methods made easy: Tackling your PhD research
-Publishing during your PhD: from a conference abstract to a high-quality journal paper
-Peer reviewing tips for HDR students and early career researchers
-Critical reading and writing for HDR students 
-Developing an effective research proposal
-Theory and theorising in research

See recent publications:
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com.au/citations?user=hSiIuvYAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
DBLP: https://dblp.org/pid/09/6741.html 

*** I am accepting PhD students. Don't hesitate to contact me (aalmahmud@swin.edu.au) if you want to pursue a PhD under my supervision.***

**Scholarship: Candidates (Information Technology/Health Informatics/Industrial or Product Design/Human-Computer Interaction/Ergonomics) having first-class honours (80% or more marks in undergraduate) degrees would be eligible for a full or tuition fee scholarship.** 

Current PhD supervision/co-supervision:

1. Napawadee Kateratanamalee (Thai Government Scholarship recipient): Design Integration in Food System for the Future of Food for Health
2. Di Zhu: Co-Designing Technology-Based Interventions to Improve Social Connections and Participation for People with Mild Cognitive Impairment.
3. Harry Robertson (Swinburne University Postgraduate Research Award SUPRA recipient): Plastic Packaging Waste Exploration Through Participatory Design.
4. Yansen Theopilus (Indonesian Education Scholarship recipient): Persuasive Technology Innovation to Solve Children’s Digital Addiction in Developing Countries
5. Tauqeer Faiz: Virtual Reality in Disaster Management.
6. Alex Washington: UX support for student engagement in LMS
7. Mudassar Arsalan:  Exploring Research Impact in the Age of Knowledge Discovery and Artificial Intelligence.
8. Zhao Zou: Socially assistive robots for cognitive training for people with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) or dementia living in residential aged care facilities.

Completed HDR supervision/co-supervision:

1. Dr Carmen Chai (PhD, 2022): Serious Games for Increasing Motivation of Children with Cancer to Fight Cancer.
2. Dr Philemon Yalamu (PhD, 2022): Cultural integration in Designing Learning Management Systems for Higher Education.
3. Dr Jennifer Stargatt (PhD, 2022): “You haven’t always been just a little old lady”: Evaluating a digital storytelling program in residential aged care facilities.
4. Dr Tharushi Indeewari Wickramarathne (PhD, 2021): Designing Affordable Cooling Sportswear for Tropical and Developing Countries.
5. Dr Edirimuni Amani Indunil Soysa (PhD, 2020): POMA: An Affordable Tangible User Interface for Children with ASD in Low-Resource Countries. [School of Design Best PhD Thesis Award 2020].
6. Dr Aylwin Chai (PhD, 2020): Frontal Ground Plane Checking with Single LiDAR Range Finder-based Wearable Model.
7. Dr Dylan Davis (PhD, 2018): What happens when the Design Process meets Community Engagement?
8. Khairul Azim Bin Zaaba (MSc, 2018): Real-Time Canny-Edge Based Obstacle Detection Model for Mobile Devices with Monocular Camera. 
9. Thanh Tuan To: 3D Printing Integration in Engineering Education: A Developing Country Perspectives.