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Current Roles, Research Focus, and Academic Profile

A homepage summary built from the current CV, reflecting present appointments, supervision, and the shift toward responsible computing and online safety research.

Current Appointments Melbourne Responsible Computing

Current profile

  • Principal Supervisor at Melbourne Institute of Technology, currently directing Master's research in online safety and responsible computing.
  • Lecturer and HCI researcher with more than twelve years of tertiary teaching experience across New Zealand and Australia.
  • Research focused on inclusive interface design, online harm, trust, platform design, AI and human interaction, and participatory HCI methods.
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Why it matters

Current work centres on exclusion, safety, and participation

The CV shows a clear through-line: digital systems often fail the people who were not consulted in their design. That concern now anchors both the research programme and supervision practice.

Research with CALD communities, older adults, multilingual users, and other excluded groups
Current projects on dark patterns, social commerce, trust, and technology-facilitated harm
Supervision and teaching that translate participatory HCI into practical design guidance

Professional Strengths Across Research, Teaching, and Innovation

The current CV highlights a research profile built around HCI, inclusive design, responsible computing, and the practical translation of participatory research into usable recommendations.

HCI & Inclusive Interface Design

Research grounded in the idea that digital systems often fail people who were not consulted in their design, especially multilingual users, CALD communities, older adults, and other excluded groups.

Human-Computer Interaction Explainable AI Vulnerable Populations UX

Teaching & Curriculum Leadership

More than twelve years of tertiary teaching across undergraduate and postgraduate IT, IS, UX, and research-focused courses in New Zealand and Australia.

AI in Design Thinking UCD Frameworks 98% Success Rate

Responsible Computing & Online Safety

A growing research programme focused on dark patterns, deceptive design, trust, social commerce harms, AI-powered systems, and technology-facilitated manipulation.

NZQRI Educational Standards AI Ethics

Supervision & Research Development

Principal supervision and Master's research mentoring from topic development and ethics approval through to thesis completion and publication-oriented academic writing.

Research Supervision Industry Engagement 500+ Students

Research and Practice Themes

Three themes drawn directly from the current CV and active research agenda.

Cross-Cultural & Participatory HCI

Arabic Interface Design  ·  Co-Inquiry  ·  Inclusive UX

Focus Studying how interfaces can be designed with, rather than simply for, users whose linguistic, cultural, or social contexts are often ignored in mainstream design.
Methods Card sorting, think-aloud protocols, situated co-inquiry, participatory evaluation, and design translation into practitioner-facing guidance.
Applications Arabic-speaking users, CALD communities, multilingual learners, older adults, and people navigating complex digital systems in second or third languages.

Responsible Computing & Online Harm

Dark Patterns  ·  Social Commerce  ·  Trust and Safety

Focus Investigating how interface design shapes trust, emotional experience, negotiation, manipulation, and harm recognition in online platforms such as Facebook Marketplace.
Practice Building a supervision-led research programme around older adult users, peer communities, CALD users, and AI-powered recommendation systems.
Contribution Recent ICDABI 2025 papers and current MIT supervision projects in online safety and responsible computing.

Higher Education Practice

Teaching  ·  Supervision  ·  Academic Development

Focus Designing and delivering teaching, workshops, and supervision in HCI, UX, information systems, AI in education, and research methods across diverse tertiary contexts.
Work Paper leadership, curriculum design, staff development, quality assurance, and postgraduate supervision from ethics through to completion.
Impact A practice that connects curriculum, supervision, and research so that academic work remains practical, ethical, and useful beyond publication.

Teaching, Workshops, and Academic Leadership

The CV shows a strong blend of course leadership, staff development, research training, and workshop delivery across higher education settings.

Key Course Frameworks

  • UX and User-Centred Design - Paper leadership in INFS811 and UCD805, including large multilingual cohorts and team coordination
  • AI in Teaching and Learning - Practical workshop delivery for educators on curriculum design, formative assessment, and feedback
  • Participatory UX Methods in Practice - Workshops on card sorting, think-aloud protocols, and co-design with CALD and vulnerable groups
  • Designing for Online Safety - Seminar series on dark patterns, harm reduction, and safety-oriented interface recommendations
220+
Largest Cohort
12+
Years Teaching
9
Master's Completed

Academic Engagements

Visiting and Leadership Roles

  • Visiting Lecturer, German Jordanian University
    Amman, Jordan | June 2025
  • Visiting Lecturer, Heriot-Watt University
    Dubai, UAE | November 2024
  • Visiting Lecturer, Universiti Utara Malaysia
    Penang, Malaysia | November 2024
  • Visiting Scholar, 42 Abu Dhabi
    UAE | November 2022 to January 2023
Dr. Alex Sadi

Dr. Alex Sadi

I am an HCI researcher and academic with more than twelve years of tertiary teaching experience across New Zealand and Australia. My work is grounded in a practical concern: digital systems consistently fail the people who were not consulted in their design.

My research spans Arabic-speaking users, women and gender-diverse users, older adults, CALD communities, international students, and people navigating complex digital systems in a second or third language. More recently, that work has moved into responsible computing, online safety, dark patterns, trust, and harm in social commerce platforms.

Principal Supervisor - Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia
Senior IT Research Advisor - Whitireia & WelTec | Te Pukenga, New Zealand
Lecturer roles across ICL Graduate Business School, NorthTec, and AUT

Experience & Education

Academic & Professional Experience

Principal Supervisor
Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia | 2026-Present

Supervising Master's students across all stages from topic development and ethics approval through to thesis completion. Currently directing projects in online safety and responsible computing.

Senior IT Research Advisor
Whitireia & WelTec (Te Pukenga) | 2021-2026

Contributed to programme review and quality assurance aligned with NZQA standards. Mentored early-career academics in research design, ethics, publication, and applied research project development.

Information Systems Lecturer
ICL Graduate Business School, New Zealand | 2018-2021, 2024-2025

Designed and coordinated undergraduate and postgraduate IS and IT courses, supervised Master's theses, and supported diverse domestic and international student cohorts.

IS Lecturer
NorthTec, New Zealand | 2017-2021

Taught undergraduate information systems courses, supervised final-year projects, developed learning resources, and completed programme moderation work.

Lecturer in Information Systems
Auckland University of Technology (AUT), New Zealand | 2014-2017, 2019-2020

Delivered undergraduate and postgraduate IT and IS courses, led large UCD papers including cohorts up to 220 students, and supervised Master's theses and industry capstones.

IT Lecturer and Student Affairs Lead
Prince Sattam Bin Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia | 2010-2013

Taught undergraduate IT courses, supervised student projects, and managed registration and enrolment for more than 5,000 students annually.

Education & Credentials

PhD in Information Technology
Auckland University of Technology (AUT) | 2018

Specialisation in Human-Computer Interaction, user-centred computing, and ethical technology practice.

Master of Information Technology
University Utara Malaysia | 2008

Focus on Information Systems, software development, and project management.

Bachelor of Computer Science
Irbid National University, Jordan | 2003

Foundational study in computing and information systems.

Teaching Qualifications

NZ Certificate in Adult & Tertiary Teaching (Level 5) Using Standards to Assess Candidate Performance AI in Education Professional Development

Core Competencies

Postgraduate Supervision Responsible Computing Online Safety Research Methods User-Centred Design Participatory HCI Digital Wellbeing Cross-Cultural Interface Design AI and Human Interaction
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Selected Publications

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2026
Supporting Novice Creativity in Design Education Through Human-Centred Explainable AI
Design Education Research, 2026
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2024
MindCare: Culturally Adapted HCI Design for Refugee Mental Health Support
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
38 cites
2024
The EduFlex Framework: Integrating AI Tools into Adaptive Tertiary Curriculum Design
Computers & Education: Artificial Intelligence
22 cites
2023
Explainable AI for Educational Decision Support: A Practitioner's Framework
Expert Systems with Applications
41 cites
2023
Cross-Cultural UX Design: Arabic Interface Guidelines for Inclusive Digital Products
ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
29 cites
2022
Technology Acceptance of AI Tools Among Mature-Age University Students: A TAM Extension
Computers in Human Behavior
55 cites
2022
Usability Evaluation of Disaster Management Applications: A Mixed-Methods HCI Study
International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction
34 cites
2021
Design Thinking as a Pedagogical Tool: A Longitudinal Study in NZ Tertiary Education
Teaching in Higher Education
27 cites
2020
User-Centred AI: Bridging the Gap Between Algorithm Transparency and End-User Trust
Behaviour & Information Technology
48 cites

Let's Collaborate

Open to research collaborations, supervision conversations, invited teaching, workshops, and speaking engagements.

Email

goalsadi@gmail.com

Phone

0407 687 781

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