{"id":1081,"date":"2025-06-27T23:21:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T21:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.uef.fi\/isila\/?p=1081"},"modified":"2026-03-30T10:28:32","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T08:28:32","slug":"sofia-university-pilot-human-computer-interaction-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uef.fi\/isila\/2025\/06\/27\/sofia-university-pilot-human-computer-interaction-course\/","title":{"rendered":"Sofia University pilot Human-Computer Interaction course"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sofia University (SU) has successfully piloted its Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) course under the ISILA project. This course includes user-centered design, prototyping, usability evaluation, and interactive technologies, with 122 enrolled students with hands-on skills for crafting intuitive digital interfaces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The pilot leveraged a Learning Record Store (LRS) and multimodal dashboards to track engagement metrics like time spent, exercise submissions, and self-regulated learning (SRL) surveys. Visual tools\u2014including line graphs for activity trends, bar charts for performance comparisons, and heatmaps for low-engagement spots\u2014enabled weekly monitoring, revealing patterns such as high effort but varying focus, elevated stress levels, and inconsistent help-seeking behaviors among participants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Interventions were rolled out at weeks 4, 8, and 12, targeting inactive or irregular students through personalized emails with resources and encouragement. The interventions helped inactive learners to re-engage and complete the course pre-exam. 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