Publications de Paola Mejia Domenzain

"Piecing Data Connections Together Like a Puzzle": Effects of Increasing Task Complexity on the Effectiveness of Data Storytelling Enhanced Visualisations

Tanja Christina Käser Jacober, Paola Mejia Domenzain

The emerging concept of data storytelling (DS) suggests that enhancing visualisations with annotations and narratives can make complex data more insightful than conventional visualisations. Previous works found that DS-enhanced visualisations are more effe ...

ACM2025

User-centric Reflective Writing Assistance: Leveraging RAG for Enhanced Personalized Support

Tanja Christina Käser Jacober, Paola Mejia Domenzain, Seyed Parsa Neshaei

Reflective writing, a valuable educational practice, helps learners analyze their thoughts and experiences. However, learners often struggle to translate their experiences and thoughts into written form. Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) ...

ACM2025

The critical role of trust in adopting AI-powered educational technology for learning: An instrument for measuring student perceptions

Tanja Christina Käser Jacober, Paola Mejia Domenzain, Vinitra Swamy, Jibril Albachir Frej, Tatjana Nazaretsky

In recent decades, we have witnessed the democratization of AI-powered Educational Technology (AI-EdTech). However, despite the increased accessibility and evolving technological capabilities, its adoption is accompanied by significant challenges, predomin ...

Elsevier BV2025

Metacognition meets AI: Empowering reflective writing with large language models

Tanja Christina Käser Jacober, Paola Mejia Domenzain, Seyed Parsa Neshaei

Reflective writing is known as a useful method in learning sciences to improve the metacognitive skills of students. However, students struggle to structure their reflections properly, limiting the possible learning gains. Previous works in educational tec ...

Wiley2025

TeamTeachingViz: Benefits, Challenges, and Ethical Considerations of Using a Multimodal Analytics Dashboard to Support Team Teaching Reflection

Tanja Christina Käser Jacober, Paola Mejia Domenzain

Team teaching in higher education can be challenging, especially for educators managing large classes with limited pedagogical training and few opportunities to reflect on their practices. Emerging sensing technologies and analytics can capture and analyse ...

Association for Computing Machinery, Inc2025

Personalizing Learning and Empowering Educators through Multi-Dimensional Clustering, Teacher Dashboards, and AI-Hybrid Learning Systems

Paola Mejia Domenzain

The shift from traditional classroom settings to technology-supported learning environments has led to the adoption of learning analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) in education. These technologies promise to support personalized learning by analyzin ...

EPFL2025

Enhancing Procedural Writing Through Personalized Example Retrieval: A Case Study on Cooking Recipes

Tanja Christina Käser Jacober, Paola Mejia Domenzain, Luca Mouchel, Antoine Bosselut, Thiemo Wambsganss, Seyed Parsa Neshaei, Jibril Albachir Frej, Tatjana Nazaretsky

Writing high-quality procedural texts is a challenging task for many learners. While example-based learning has shown promise as a feedback approach, a limitation arises when all learners receive the same content without considering their individual input ...

2024

1st International Workshop on User-Centered Practices of Knowledge Discovery in Educational Data

Paola Mejia Domenzain

By offering a large number of highly diverse resources, learning platforms have been attracting lots of participants, and the interactions with these systems have generated a vast amount of learning-related data. Their collection, processing and analysis h ...

Association for Computing Machinery, Inc2024

Student Answer Forecasting: Transformer-Driven Answer Choice Prediction for Language Learning

Tanja Christina Käser Jacober, Paola Mejia Domenzain, Vinitra Swamy, Luca Zunino, Elena Grazia Gado, Tommaso Martorella, Jibril Albachir Frej

Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS) enhance personalized learning by predicting student answers to provide immediate and customized instruction. However, recent research has primarily focused on the correctness of the answer rather than the student's perfor ...

2024

Navigating Self-regulated Learning Dimensions: Exploring Interactions Across Modalities

Tanja Christina Käser Jacober, Paola Mejia Domenzain, Tatjana Nazaretsky

Self-regulated learning (SRL) has been extensively studied using self-reported measures, such as surveys, and more recently, behavioral measures, such as trace data. While both modalities offer insights into SRL, their relationship remains ambiguous. Altho ...

Springer Nature Switzerland2024

Interpret3C: Interpretable Student Clustering Through Individualized Feature Selection

Julian Thomas Blackwell, Tanja Christina Käser Jacober, Paola Mejia Domenzain, Vinitra Swamy, Isadora Alves de Salles

Clustering in education, particularly in large-scale online environments like MOOCs, is essential for understanding and adapting to diverse student needs. However, the effectiveness of clustering depends on its interpretability, which becomes challenging w ...

2024

GELEX: Generative AI-Hybrid System for Example-Based Learning

Tanja Christina Käser Jacober, Paola Mejia Domenzain, Aybars Yazici, Jibril Albachir Frej

Traditional example-based learning methods are often limited by static, expert-created content. Hence, they face challenges in scalability, engagement, and effectiveness, as some learners might struggle to relate to the examples or find them relevant. To a ...

Association for Computing Machinery2024

AI or Human? Evaluating Student Feedback Perceptions in Higher Education

Tanja Christina Käser Jacober, Paola Mejia Domenzain, Vinitra Swamy, Jibril Albachir Frej, Tatjana Nazaretsky

Feedback plays a crucial role in learning by helping individuals understand and improve their performance. Yet, providing timely, personalized feedback in higher education presents a challenge due to the large and diverse student population, often resultin ...

Springer Nature Switzerland2024

Teaching and Measuring Multidimensional Inquiry Skills Using Interactive Simulations

Engin Walter Bumbacher, Tanja Christina Käser Jacober, Paola Mejia Domenzain

Interactive simulations play a significant role in science education, serving as a platform for inquiry-based learning and fostering the development of scientific knowledge and skills. However, teaching and quantitatively measuring inquiry strategies has p ...

Springer Nature Switzerland2024

Visualizing Self-Regulated Learner Profiles in Dashboards: Design Insights from Teachers

Tanja Christina Käser Jacober, Paola Mejia Domenzain, Thiemo Wambsganss, Seyed Parsa Neshaei

Flipped Classrooms (FC) are a promising teaching strategy, where students engage with the learning material before attending face-to-face sessions. While pre-class activities are critical for course success, many students struggle to engage effectively in ...

Springer Nature2023

Understanding Revision Behavior in Adaptive Writing Support Systems for Education

Tanja Christina Käser Jacober, Paola Mejia Domenzain, Luca Mouchel, Thiemo Wambsganss

Revision behavior in adaptive writing support systems is an important and relatively new area of research that can improve the design and effectiveness of these tools, and promote students' self-regulated learning (SRL). Understanding how these tools are u ...

Zenodo2023

Identifying and Comparing Multi-dimensional Student Profiles Across Flipped Classrooms

Christian Giang, Tanja Christina Käser Jacober, Paola Mejia Domenzain, Mirko Marras

Flipped classroom (FC) courses, where students complete pre-class activities before attending interactive face-to-face sessions, are becoming increasingly popular. However, many students lack the skills, resources, or motivation to effectively engage in pr ...

Springer2022

Evolutionary Clustering of Apprentices' Self- Regulated Learning Behavior in Learning Journals

Christian Giang, Tanja Christina Käser Jacober, Paola Mejia Domenzain, Mirko Marras

Learning journals are increasingly used in vocational education to foster self-regulated learning and reflective learning practices. However, for many apprentices, documenting working experiences is a difficult task. In this paper, we profile apprentices' ...

2022