This past May, the e-UCM group participated in the Learning Analytics Summer Institute (LASI) Spain 2026 conference, which is part of the global LASI network and is organized by SNOLA (Spanish Network of Learning Analytics). The group’s director, Baltasar Fernández Manjón, researchers and professors Manuel Freire, Antonio Calvo Morata, and Cristina Alonso Fernández, and doctoral […]
This April, the e-UCM research group participated in the conference IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON) 2026. The head of the group Baltasar Fernández Manjón and researcher Cristina Alonso Fernández attended the event online. During the event, Cristina Alonso Fernández presented the full paper Detecting player emotions in serious games using AI-based recognition models that […]
Professor Baltasar Fernández Manjón participated as a guest speaker at the ieTIC2026 conference: Emerging Technological Trends in Educational Use, held at the Faculty of Education of the Complutense University of Madrid. He gave a plenary talk entitled “Serious games in school: Articoding as a tool to improve programming learning and support teachers.” During his presentation, […]
The director of the e-UCM research group, Baltasar Fernández Manjón, has participated in the Conference on Best Practices in Educational Innovation in Madrid 2025: Very pleased with the presentation, together with Carlos Tribaldo, of our educational games and their use at CES Carpe Diem (Fuenlabrada) at the Conference on Good Practices in Educational Innovation in […]
This August of 2025, the e-UCM research group has participated in the conference 24th International Federation for Information Processing – International Conference on Entertainment Computing (IFIP-ICEC 2025). Researchers Antonio Calvo Morata and Cristina Alonso Fernández attended the event held during 27, 28, 29 and 30 of August, 2025, in Tokyo, Japan. During the event, Cristina […]
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This May 2025, several members of the e-UCM research group have participated in the Learning Analytics Summer Institute Spain 2025 (LASI Spain 2025). Professors Baltasar Fernández Manjón, Manuel Freire Morán, Antonio Calvo Morata, Cristina Alonso Fernández and PhD candidate Julio Santilario Berthilier attended the event held during 26 and 27th May 2025 in Vitoria, Spain. […]
Social Sprouts is an open-source, multi-platform serious game (https://github.com/DavidChGA/social-sprouts) designed to enhance the social skills of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). The application was developed as part of the Final Degree Project (TFG) by students Paula Oramas, David Chaparro, and Johan Cruz, under the supervision of two of our faculty members: Manuel Freire and […]
Last week, our research group e-ucm participated in the 19 EATEL Summer School on Technology Enhanced Learning 2025 (JTELSS 2025), in Rethymno, Creta (Grecia), from 10th to 18th of May. Professor Baltasar Fernández Manjón and PhD student Julio Santilario Berthilier presented a workshop on “Introduction to serious game learning analytics and e-UCM ecosystem” and gave […]
The week of May 12-16, 2025, Professor Cristina Alonso Fernández made a research visit to the Royal Institute of Technology KTH in Stockholm (Sweden). Professor Olga Viberg was the host during her visit. During the visit, Professor Alonso gave a presentation on “Game Learning Analytics: Applications of Data analysis in Serious Games” in which she […]