Chief Examiner & Lecturer

• FIT5125 (SSB 2025)
• FIT4005 (Sem 1 and Sem 2 2024)
• FIT5125 Sem 1 & 2, 2019; Sem 1 & Nov 2020, Sem 1 & Oct 2021)
• FIT4441 Honours thesis (Sem 1 & 2, 2021)
• FIT5229 Masters thesis (Sem 1 & 2, 2021)
• FIT4008 (Sem 1 & 2, 2021; Sem 1 & 2, 2022; Sem 1 & 2, 2023)
• FIT5027 (Sem 1 & 2, 2023)
• FIT2002 (Sem 2 & Oct, 2022; Sem 2, 2023)

Patrick is a human-computer interaction researcher with particular expertise in human-centred design methods, digital-in-health, and collaborative and social computing. Shortly after arriving at Monash University (in 2018) Patrick founded Action Lab: Australia, a multidisciplinary research group comprising impact-focused researchers working at the intersection of communities, technology and social innovation. This has since grown into the Action Lab Network, a transnational research network spanning Action Lab's in Monash University Malaysia, Monash University Indonesia, and Northumbria University in the United Kingdom.

Patrick coined the term Digital Civics, for a number of years has been a major focus of his research. This is a cross-disciplinary area of research that explores ways technology can promote new forms of participation in the design and delivery of government and non-government services including education, health, social care and community engagement.

One key element of Patrick's work is a commitment to the creation of open source software and hardware. Notable examples include: the OpenMovement AX3 accelerometer which was designed for the largest study of physical activity ever conducted (over 100K participants) and the most widely used monitor by clinical researchers across the World (see spinout Axivity Ltd); and Intake24, an online 24-hour dietary recall system that was developed for Food Standards Scotland. Initially aimed at a UK population, Intake24 is currently used in the UK government's National Diet & Nutrition Survey and the Australian Bureau of Statistics Intergeneration Health and Mental Health Survey.

Co-design Methods, Digital-in-Health, Technology-Enhanced Learning, Collaborative Computing, Social Computing, Media Computing.

Digital-in-Health, Interaction Design Methods, Technology-Enhanced Learning, Collaborative Computing, Social Computing, Media Computing.