Juanan Pereira

• Ph. D., Computer Science
• Lecturer at University of the Basque Country

This paper presents LAMB (Learning Assistant Manager and Builder), an innovative open-source software framework designed to create AI-powered Learning Assistants tailored for integration into learning management systems. LAMB addresses critical gaps in existing educational AI solutions by providing a framework specifically designed for the unique r...

El capítulo presenta el impacto y las aplicaciones de la Inteligencia Artificial Generativa (IAGen) en educación superior, centrándose en principios de seguridad y experiencias prácticas. Desde finales de 2022, herramientas como ChatGPT y Dall-E han revolucionado los métodos de enseñanza, promoviendo la personalización del aprendizaje y la automati...

The increasing integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into educational environments necessitates a structured framework to ensure its safe and ethical use. A manifesto outlining seven core principles for safe AI in education has been proposed, emphasizing the protection of student data, alignment with institutional strategies, adherence to did...

The increasing volume of research paper submissions poses a significant challenge to the traditional academic peer-review system, leading to an overwhelming workload for reviewers. This study explores the potential of integrating Large Language Models (LLMs) into the peer-review process to enhance efficiency without compromising effectiveness. We f...

The Safe AI in Education Manifesto outlines ethical principles for integrating AI into educational environments. It emphasizes the need for human oversight, ensuring AI complements rather than replaces educators. Decision-making must remain transparent and appealable, protecting the educational process's integrity. Confidentiality is paramount; ins...

Web accessibility evaluation is a costly process that usually requires manual intervention. Currently, large language model (LLM) based systems have gained popularity and shown promising capabilities to perform tasks that seemed impossible or required programming knowledge specific to a given area or were supposed to be impossible to be performed a...

Writing a successful computer science bachelor’s thesis requires extensive advisor support. This need for guidance is especially pronounced given the complexity and technical nature of computer science, where students struggle with scope definition and task planning for these first-time major projects. Large language models (LLMs) like GPT-4 and Cl...

Research Question (RQ) Scoping refers to defining and refining a research question before conducting research. This step is crucial for ensuring the relevance and focus of the study, particularly in Design Science Research (DSR), where problems and solutions develop gradually. Literature reviews are a traditional method for comprehending the proble...

Contribution: Instructors are leveraging open-source software (OSS) as a way to experience authentic examples of software problems with their students. Recommender engines might assist students in selecting the right project based on metrics mined from project repositories (e.g., GitHub). This vision is realized through GitMate, a GitHub-based reco...

Capstone projects usually represent the most significant academic endeavor with which students have been involved. Time management tends to be one of the hurdles. On top, University students are prone to procras-tinatory behavior. Inexperience and procrastination team up for students failing to meet deadlines. Supervisors strive to help. Yet heavy...

Los alumnos del último curso del grado en ingeniería informática deben completar un Trabajo Fin de Grado como colofón a sus estudios. Las memorias de dichos trabajos suelen publicarse en el repositorio institucional de acceso abierto de las distintas universidades del estado. La red de bibliotecas universitarias españolas (REBIUN) abarca un directo...

1) Background: final year students of computer science engineering degrees must carry out a final degree project (FDP) in order to graduate. Students' contributions to improve open source software (OSS) through FDPs can offer multiple benefits and challenges, both for the students, the instructors and for the project itself. This work reports on a...

Hypertension is a chronic condition that can lead to serious health problems. Patients with High Blood Pressure (HBP) are often asked to have their BP checked at home. The traditional at-home procedure has some drawbacks, such as forgetting to check or write down the values, errors in transcribing the numbers, or the impossibility of immediately no...

Due to time constraints (one term or quarterly subjects) software projects used in university classes of Software Engineering are usually limited to small developments, with few people involved and without any previous code base to build upon, that is, without taking into account important aspects like software maintenance or software evolution. Op...

The globally widespread instant messaging (IM) mobile applications such as WhatsApp or Telegram were not originally educational tools, but they have become platforms for peer to peer assessment (P2P). The IM applications offer “chatbots” or “virtual assistant bots” that help students by providing them a multitude of services in the form of text or...

It is frequently the case for final degree projects (FDP) to represent the largest academic endeavor students have been involved with. The writing of the FDP technical report tends to be one of the hurdles. Due to their inexperience, students fail to meet quality standards in their writing efforts. Research shows that text and image plagiarism, poo...

This study conducts a mapping study to survey the landscape of health chatbots along three research questions: What illnesses are chatbots tackling? What patient competences are chatbots aimed at? Which chatbot technical enablers are of most interest in the health domain? We identify 30 articles related to health chatbots from 2014 to 2018. We anal...

This work introduces a set of quality attributes for chatbots. The selection is grounded on scholarly but also reputed blog references from 2016 and 2017. In addition, attributes should be amenable to be extracted (semi) automatically. On these premises, we consider four attributes: "support of a minimal set of common commands", "foresee language v...

Moodle forums can be a great way to share course information, build community and allow students to easily share resources and ideas. However, students’ day-to-day discussions are not happening in Moodle but in instant messaging applications’ groups, such as WhatsApp or Telegram. This work explores how the students’ motivation and engagement were a...

Over 2.5 billion people have at least one messaging app installed. In 2015, messaging apps have surpassed social networks. In this context, chat-bots or bots, are a new kind of applications that leverage these messaging ecosystem advantages. They need no installation effort, they are ubiquitous and they reside in students' most valuable gadgets, th...

In response to the necessity of implementing innovative strategies and new teaching methodologies for the design of University degrees curricula according to the new educational model put forward by the European Space of Higher Education, we launched a pilot project in the Department of Nursing Studies of a university of the north of Spain based on...

El desarrollo de cursos abiertos masivos online (MOOCs) es un fenómeno en pleno auge a nivel mundial. Todos estos cursos se asientan en plataformas tecnológicas cuyas características técnicas conviene tener en cuenta, más aún tratándose de desarrollos de código abierto. Por lo tanto, a la hora de hacer una elección, tan relevante o más que analizar...

Attaining a satisfactory level of oral communication in a second language is a laborious process. In this action research paper we describe a new method applied through the use of interactive videosand the Babelium Project Rich Internet Application (RIA), which allows students to practice speaking skills through a variety of exercises. We present a...

This paper shows how to take advantage of a common need and the current social, economic and technological situation to develop Babelium Project: a new e-learning system for foreign language speaking practice based on a collaborative open source environment using innovative technological solutions based on video treatment.