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AI-Driven Feedback for Enhancing Students' Mathematical Problem-Solving: The ScaffoldiaMyMaths System (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Sun, D., Wang, J., Yang, L., Chou, K.-L., Song, Z., & Zheng, Z. (2024, November). AI-Driven Feedback for Enhancing Students' Mathematical Problem-Solving: The ScaffoldiaMyMaths System. Poster presented at International Conference on Computers in Education, Philippines

As online learning becomes increasingly prevalent, it is essential to understand students' perspectives and address the challenges they encounter. The developing system, ScaffoldiaMyMaths, aims to support the mathematics learning of underprivileged a... Read More about AI-Driven Feedback for Enhancing Students' Mathematical Problem-Solving: The ScaffoldiaMyMaths System.

Simplifying Multimedia Programming for Novice Programmers: MediaLib and Its Learning Materials (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Wynn, A., Wang, J., & Valente, A. (2024, July). Simplifying Multimedia Programming for Novice Programmers: MediaLib and Its Learning Materials. Presented at ITiCSE 2024: Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, Milan, Italy

Beginner programmers can develop an intuitive understanding of programming by leveraging the motivating field of multimedia to visually inspect outputs and experiment with different ways to solve problems. This paper presents MediaLib, a Python libra... Read More about Simplifying Multimedia Programming for Novice Programmers: MediaLib and Its Learning Materials.

Analysing Learner Behaviour in an Ontology-Based E-learning System: A Graph Neural Network Approach (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Wynn, A., Wang, J., Sun, Z., & Shimada, A. (2024, March). Analysing Learner Behaviour in an Ontology-Based E-learning System: A Graph Neural Network Approach. Paper presented at LAK '24: The 14th Learning Analytics and Knowledge Conference, Kyoto, Japan

Despite the prevalence of e-learning systems, there is a lack of support for learners to identify and compare new knowledge with existing cognitive structures. Therefore, an ontology-based visualization support system was previously introduced which... Read More about Analysing Learner Behaviour in an Ontology-Based E-learning System: A Graph Neural Network Approach.

An Adaptive Learning Support System based on Ontology of Multiple Programming Languages (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Nongkhai, L. N. A., Wang, J., & Mendori, T. (2023, December). An Adaptive Learning Support System based on Ontology of Multiple Programming Languages. Presented at ICCE 2023: The 31st International Conference on Computers in Education, Matsue, Shimane, Japan

This research proposes to develop an adaptive ontology-based learning support system for computer programming learning. Firstly, the system adopts a previously developed ontology called CONTINUOUS, which represents programming concepts and their rela... Read More about An Adaptive Learning Support System based on Ontology of Multiple Programming Languages.

Multiplayer Serious Games Supporting Programming Learning (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Wynn, A., Wang, J., Han, R., & Hsu, T.-C. (2023, October). Multiplayer Serious Games Supporting Programming Learning. Presented at ECGBL 2023: 17th European Conference on Games Based Learning, Enschede, Netherlands

Computational thinking (CT) is crucial in education for providing a multifaceted approach to problem-solving. However, challenges exist such as supporting teachers' knowledge of CT and students' desire to learn it, particularly for non-t... Read More about Multiplayer Serious Games Supporting Programming Learning.

PICA-PICA: Exploring a Customisable Smart STEAM Educational Approach via a Smooth Combination of Programming, Engineering and Art (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Nagai, T., Klem, S., Kayama, M., Asuke, T., Meccawy, M., Wang, J., Cristea, A. I., Stewart, C. D., & Shi, L. (2023, May). PICA-PICA: Exploring a Customisable Smart STEAM Educational Approach via a Smooth Combination of Programming, Engineering and Art. Presented at 2023 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON), Kuwait

The STEAM approach in education has been gaining increasing popularity over the last decade. This is due to its potential in enhancing students' learning, when teaching arts and scientific disciplines together. This paper introduces the PICA-PICA con... Read More about PICA-PICA: Exploring a Customisable Smart STEAM Educational Approach via a Smooth Combination of Programming, Engineering and Art.

Hybrid Weighted Retrieval of Twitter Users for Temporally Relevant Full-Text Querying in the Media Industry (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hodgson, R., Wang, J., Cristea, A. I., & Graham, J. (2022, December). Hybrid Weighted Retrieval of Twitter Users for Temporally Relevant Full-Text Querying in the Media Industry. Presented at 2022 13th International Congress on Advanced Applied Informatics Winter (IIAI-AAI-Winter), Phuket, Thailand

Barriers to the delivery of journalistic content to suitable media outlets present difficulties to both journalists and publishing houses. These may take the form of barriers to the identification of key individuals to whom the content is relevant, a... Read More about Hybrid Weighted Retrieval of Twitter Users for Temporally Relevant Full-Text Querying in the Media Industry.

A Topic-Centric Crowdsourced Assisted Biomedical Literature Review Framework for Academics (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hodgson, R., Wang, J. W., Cristea, A., Matsuzaki, F., & Kubota, H. (2022, July). A Topic-Centric Crowdsourced Assisted Biomedical Literature Review Framework for Academics. Presented at 15th International Conference on Educational Data Mining, Durham, England

In the academic process, comprehension and analysis of liter- ature is essential, however, time-consuming. Reviewers may encounter difficulties in identifying relevant literature, given the considerable volume of available texts. It is arduous not on... Read More about A Topic-Centric Crowdsourced Assisted Biomedical Literature Review Framework for Academics.

A Framework of Exercise Recommendation for Novice Learners in Computer Programming (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Na Nongkhai, L., Wang, J., & Mendori, T. (2021, November). A Framework of Exercise Recommendation for Novice Learners in Computer Programming. Presented at ICCE 2021: The 29th International Conference on Computers in Education, Online

To support novice learners majoring in Information Technology, this paper proposed an ontology-based framework to recommend exercise to learners in response to their understanding levels. This framework involves three essential mechanisms: (1) determ... Read More about A Framework of Exercise Recommendation for Novice Learners in Computer Programming.

Design of an educational multimedia library to teach Python to non-technical university students (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Valente, A., Marchetti, E., & Wang, J. (2020, September). Design of an educational multimedia library to teach Python to non-technical university students. Presented at International Conference on Learning Technologies and Learning Environments (LTLE) 2020, Online

Starting from our teaching experience and previous research on programming for non-technical university students in Japan and Denmark, we identify an unarticulated dependency of programming materials from other technical domains, which causes a knowl... Read More about Design of an educational multimedia library to teach Python to non-technical university students.

What Should be Considered in Group Formation for Open-end Tasks? (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Wang, J., & Yamada, Y. (2020, September). What Should be Considered in Group Formation for Open-end Tasks?. Presented at International Conference on Learning Technologies and Learning Environments (LTLE) 2020, Online

In this paper, we analyze learner data of 157 students in a cooperative learning course. The relation between learner attributes of the group member and group cooperative learning performance are explored. The analysis results suggest that the group... Read More about What Should be Considered in Group Formation for Open-end Tasks?.

Exploring an Approach for Grouping through Predicting Group Performance from Analysis of Learner Characteristics (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Wang, J., & Kojima, K. (2018, July). Exploring an Approach for Grouping through Predicting Group Performance from Analysis of Learner Characteristics. Presented at 2018 7th International Congress on Advanced Applied Informatics (IIAI-AAI), Yonago, Japan

In this paper, we present a mathematical model for forming heterogeneous groups of learners under different teaching strategies. This model requires a formulation which can effectively predict the learning performance of cooperative learning groups.... Read More about Exploring an Approach for Grouping through Predicting Group Performance from Analysis of Learner Characteristics.

Behavior Analysis of Learning Methods to Overcome Stress or Pressure on Learning Situation (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kaneko, K., & Wang, J. (2018, July). Behavior Analysis of Learning Methods to Overcome Stress or Pressure on Learning Situation. Presented at 2018 7th International Congress on Advanced Applied Informatics (IIAI-AAI), Yonago, Japan

This paper discusses about learning methods to overcome stress or pressure. We had an experiment in which learners were given a quiz game for each learner to need responsibility for their team. Each learner was also given learning time for the game s... Read More about Behavior Analysis of Learning Methods to Overcome Stress or Pressure on Learning Situation.

Semi-automatic Construction of Ontology Based on Data Mining Technique (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Wang, J., Flanagan, B., & Ogata, H. (2017, July). Semi-automatic Construction of Ontology Based on Data Mining Technique. Presented at 2017 6th IIAI International Congress on Advanced Applied Informatics (IIAI-AAI), Hamamatsu, Japan

In this paper, we present a method to extract the possible relationships between knowledge points by analyzing e-book log and mining quiz data and mining Wikipedia articles. This method will be implemented in an ontology-based visualization support s... Read More about Semi-automatic Construction of Ontology Based on Data Mining Technique.

A meaningful discovery learning environment for e-book learners (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Wang, J., Ogata, H., & Shimada, A. (2017, April). A meaningful discovery learning environment for e-book learners. Presented at 2017 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON), Athens, Greece

In this paper, we present a system framework making use of e-book logs for visualization learning support systems intended to provide meaningful learning environment for e-book learners. An ontology-based visualization support system, which supports... Read More about A meaningful discovery learning environment for e-book learners.

Enhancing Personalized Feedback System by Visual Biometric Data Analysis (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Wang, J., Ho, H.-F., & Ono, Y. (2016, July). Enhancing Personalized Feedback System by Visual Biometric Data Analysis. Presented at 2016 5th IIAI International Congress on Advanced Applied Informatics (IIAI-AAI), Kumamoto, Japan

This paper propose to develop and evaluate a learning support system which can provide personalized feedbacks for helping learners to improve their learning ability. To support the analysis of learners' cognitive processes during learning activities,... Read More about Enhancing Personalized Feedback System by Visual Biometric Data Analysis.