Maria Consuelo Saiz-Manzanares

Maria Consuelo Saiz-Manzanares
Universidad de Burgos | UBU · Faculty of Health Sciences

Doctor in Psychology and Doctor in Industrial Technologies
Full professor at the University of Burgos

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Introduction
Teaching and learning methodologies in the twenty-first century have changed in such a way that many authors consider that they represent a new form of accessing knowledge and, in consequence, revolutionize learning. At present, both regulated (presential, semi-presential and online teaching) and nonregulated (massive open online courses) educational activities are offered either totally or partially through interactive platforms known as learning management systems (LMS), for example, Moodle (Allen and Taylor, 2017). This reality has implied a change in the form of transferring and processing information. Because of the educational characteristics of higher education, where applicable, LMS gains greater relevance and implies modifications in the teaching and the learning styles of both te
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January 2014 - March 2017
Universidad de Burgos
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  • PhD and Quality Manager

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Publications (169)
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This study deals with an analysis of the cognitive load indicators produced in virtual simulation tasks through supervised and unsupervised machine learning techniques. The objectives were (1) to identify the most important cognitive load indicators through the use of supervised and unsupervised machine learning techniques; (2) to study which type...
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Monitoring the learning process during task solving through different channels will facilitate a better understanding of the learning process. This understanding, in turn, will provide teachers with information that will help them to offer individualised education. In the present study, monitoring was carried out during the execution of a task appl...
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This work includes materials aimed at training graduates and updating practising professionals in the framework of early intervention. It also integrates new biomedical engineering professionals. It contains information on the design and implementation of self-regulated virtual laboratories applied to the resolution of practical cases in early inte...
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Esta obra incluye materiales dirigidos a la formación de egresados y a la actualización de profesionales en ejercicio en el marco de la intervención temprana. También, integra a nuevos profesionales de la ingeniería biomédica. Dicha obra, contiene información sobre el diseño e implementación de laboratorios virtuales autorregulados aplicados a la r...
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Evaluating teachers’ social-emotional competence is key to studying the effectiveness of education systems. This competence tends to be measured through self-reports, which might lead to a distorted vision. As an alternative, situational judgement tests have emerged. The present work seeks to adapt the Test of Regulation in and Understanding of Soc...
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Purpose The purpose of the paper is to describe the development and implementation of a specialized Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) designed to enhance the knowledge and skills related to sustainability in students with Down syndrome. This VLE serves as a means to make sustainable concepts more accessible and comprehensible to this specific stud...
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Neurophysiological measures have been used in the field of education to improve our knowledge about the cognitive processes underlying learning. Furthermore, the combined use of different neuropsychological measures has deepened our understanding of these processes. The main objective of this systematic review is to provide a comprehensive picture...
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This book is a material aimed at training new graduates and updating practising professionals within the framework of early childhood care (0-6 years). It also opens up training to new professions such as health engineering or biomedicine. This work includes the use of new technologies (eye tracking, personal voice assistants, etc.), Machine Learni...
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Esta obra es un material dirigido a la formación de nuevos egresados y a la actualización de profesionales en ejercicio en el marco de la atención en edades tempranas (0-6 años). Asimismo, abre la formación a nuevas profesiones como la ingeniería de la salud o la biomedicina. Dicha obra, incluye la utilización de nuevas tecnologías (eye tracking, a...
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Advances in technology and artificial intelligence (smart healthcare) open up a range of possibilities for precision intervention in the field of health sciences. The objectives of this study were to analyse the functionality of using supervised (prediction and classification) and unsupervised (clustering) machine learning techniques to analyse res...
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Early care professionals have to use instruments for assessing functional skills in children susceptible to early intervention that apply records and produce developmental profiles and personalized intervention proposals. The aims of the study were (1) to analyze the development of functional skills in users with an age range of 48–252 months atten...
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Background and Purpose: The transmission of sexual infections is increasing globally. The research aims to validate the Health Protective Sexual Communication Scale (HPSC) in English and Spanish. Methods: The study survey was administered to 1,223 university students from Spain (658) and the United Kingdom (565) during the academic year 2020–2021....
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The present study seeks to ascertain whether the academic procrastination of university pre-service teachers varied during the COVID-19 pandemic when compared to data collected from another sample (n = 794) taken before the pandemic, and the reasons that might explain this. 910 pre-service teachers responded to the PASS scale, Academic Procrastinat...
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The use of virtual learning environments (VLEs) is becoming increasingly common in teaching. Nevertheless, analysis of how effective these prove to be for the learning of persons with disabilities remains scarce. In this study, we work with a sample of 34 people aged between 16 and 44 (14 women and 20 men) who have Down Syndrome. The aims of the st...
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Assessment is an essential resource for guaranteeing quality education. In order for it to be effective, it must be continuous, formative and adapted to the characteristics of the individual student, so that it shows their abilities. Students with Down Syndrome benefit from these aspects, as they can demonstrate their achievements and difficulties...
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The use of Machine Learning techniques and technological resources that facilitate diagnosis and intervention at early ages (0–6 years) will facilitate the development of both processes from the point of view of accuracy. This paper analyses the most useful Machine Learning techniques to be applied to diagnosis and therapeutic intervention in the f...
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The high prevalence rates of obesity and its comorbidity with serious diseases like diabetes or hypertension and psychological problems like depression or anxiety, highlight the necessity of new treatments for this condition.This is a pilot study, which main objective is analyzing the correct functioning of the program with a small sample. The samp...
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Learning processes and outcomes have been one of the main focuses of interest in educational research. The main objective of this systematic review is to provide a comprehensive and integrative view of the application of eye tracking to identify cognitive processes involved in college students’ learning process. The bibliographic sources for this r...
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Eye-tracking technology together with supervised and unsupervised Machine Learning techniques facilitate the monitoring of students during the performance of learning tasks. Specifically, the use of both has been shown to be effective for the analysis of the learning process in Health Science students. The objectives of this work were: 1) to know t...
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Sin duda, la historia de la industria y la valoración de su legado como patrimonio industrial se han consolidado durante las últimas décadas como uno de los aspectos de más novedosos para la difusión y puesta en valor del patrimonio cultural. Sin embargo, a menudo existe un desconocimiento sobre esta temática y hay notables dificultades para desarr...
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Advances in neuro-technology provide new insights into how individual students learn in educational contexts. However, applying it poses challenges for teachers in natural settings. This paper presents an example of the use and applicability of eye-tracking technology in Higher Education. We worked with a sample of 20 students from three universiti...
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Monitoring through the use of eye-tracking technology helps in understanding the cognitive load learners experience when doing tasks. This data gives the teacher and the student important information for improving learning outcomes. This study examined whether students' participation in a learning virtual laboratory, with a self-regulated video mon...
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Chatbots are a promising resource for giving students feedback and helping them deploy metacognitive strategies in their learning processes. In this study we worked with a sample of 57 university students, 42 undergraduate and 15 Master's degree students in Health Sciences. A mixed research methodology was applied. The quantitative study analysed t...
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Contexto: Cada vez con más frecuencia la docencia se realiza en entornos e-Learning o b-Learning. Estos ámbitos facilitan la utilización de recursos tecnológicos aplicados al aprendizaje (Advanced Learning Technologies -ALT-). Dentro de ALT destaca la utilización de laboratorios virtuales. Estos se han mostrado como un recurso didáctico muy efectiv...
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Contexto: La asignatura de informática resulta compleja de superar para muchos estudiantes. Esto es debido a la diversidad de sus contenidos y el nivel de complejidad que ha alcanzado en las últimas décadas. En estas asignaturas no se realizan habitualmente ejercicios prácticos, debido al coste que implicaría que los alumnos tuvieran acceso, por ej...
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Contexto: La docencia cada vez con más frecuencia se realiza en entornos e-Learning y b-Learning. Estos ámbitos facilitan la utilización de recursos tecnológicos aplicados al aprendizaje (Advanced Learning Technologies-ALT-). Diagnóstico: En el entorno ALT destaca la utilización de actividades de gamificación dentro de Digital Game-Based Learning (...
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Contexto: La enseñanza universitaria para personas mayores se ha consolidado como una disciplina relevante en la mejora continua de la educación para adultos, contribuyendo a mejorar el aprendizaje activo en esta etapa de la vida. En este marco, la enseñanza de Historia adquiere un notable valor, no solo para aprender conocimientos sobre el pasado,...
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Contexto: Una de las herramientas más útiles para la enseñanza de Geografía es el manejo de la cartografía digital como instrumento de interpretación y análisis territorial. Sin embargo, con frecuencia se detecta un desconocimiento de este tipo de recursos entre el alumnado universitario. Además, su comprensión puede resultar compleja si no se gene...
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Nowadays, technological teaching tools, such as virtual labs, have become essential, especially in nursing degrees. These resources help implement practical learning based on self-regulation and it is important to know how satisfied students are with them. This means it is important to study students’ perceived satisfaction with virtual labs in fli...
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Actualmente se está produciendo un interés por la implementación de actividades maker en la enseñanza formal a la vez que los currículos educativos apuntan hacia el desarrollo competencial del alumnado. En esta comunicación se describe una experiencia de implementación de una actividad maker utilizando la metodología ABP. La actividad se realizó co...
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Procrastination in academic activities is common amongst university students, and has negative consequences for their personal as well as academic development. As a result, there is a need for valid –yet at the same time brief and clear-cut– measurement tools that enable the specific procrastinating behaviour of university students to be measured....
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Children with reading and writing difficulties, such as dyslexia, have been directly affected by the Covid-19 situation because they could not have the teacher’s face-to-face support. Consequently, new devices and technological applications are being used in educational contexts to improve the interest of learning. This paper presents the design of...
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In recent years, research interest in human and non-human behavioral analysis has increased significantly. One key element in the resulting studies is the use of software that facilitates comparative analysis of behavioral patterns, such as using T-Pattern and T-String analysis -TPA- with THEME. Furthermore, all these studies use mixed methods rese...
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Un alto porcentaje de alumnado universitario posterga sus actividades académicas, siendo causa de dificultades académicas y personales. El objetivo de este trabajo fue identificar y caracterizar la procrastinación académica, y su relación con el uso de estrategias de aprendizaje metacognitivas, estrategias socioafectivas, y con el rendimiento acadé...
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Technological advances together with machine learning techniques give health science disciplines tools that can improve the accuracy of evaluation and diagnosis. The objectives of this study were: (1) to design a web application based on cloud technology (eEarlyCare-T) for creating personalized therapeutic intervention programs for children aged 0–...
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Higher education in the 21st century faces the challenge of changing the way in which knowledge is conveyed and how teachers and students interact in the teaching-learning process. The current pandemic caused by SARS-CoV-2 has hastened the need to face up to this challenge and has furthered the need to approach the issue from the perspective of dig...
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DESCRIPCIÓN DEL PROYECTO Situación actual del estado de la cuestión (estado del arte) y del proyecto La utilización de técnicas que faciliten el aprendizaje autorregulado (Self Regulated Learning-SRL-) se ha mostrado muy útil para el desarrollo de procesos de aprendizaje efectivos (Azevedo y Gašević, 2019). La autorregulación va a potenciar, por un...
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Situación actual del estado de la cuestión (estado del arte) y del propio tema o asignatura para la que se plantea el proyecto La actualización en la formación de profesionales dentro del ámbito de la atención temprana (atención a niños y niñas con edades de 0-6 años y a sus familias) es una necesidad que se ha visto incrementada en los últimos año...
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Higher education is one of the driving forces behind the social and economic development of countries, with the ultimate aim of providing quality academic training. At present, teaching-learning models in virtual environments face a number of important challenges, particularly in the current situation caused by COVID-19. Some of these challenges wi...
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Contexto: El avance de las nuevas formas y canales de comunicación relacionados con nuevas tecnologías está transformando las formas de transmisión del conocimiento científico. Durante el último año, en el contexto de la actual crisis sanitaria, se han evidenciado las necesidades de maximizar las posibilidades que ofrecen estas técnicas para mejora...
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Contexto: La utilización de Advance Learning Technologies (ALT) están posibilitando un nuevo escenario tanto referente a la medición como la interpretación de los resultados del proceso de enseñanza-aprendizaje y por ende a la intervención del docente en espacios de aprendizaje que cada vez con más frecuencia se realizan en espacios virtuales en lo...
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La visualización de entornos inmersivos en 360° se ha ido consolidando como una herramienta emergente en el ámbito de las nuevas tecnologías del audiovisual, debido a la evolución tanto de hardware como de software, aunque aún se necesitan más investigaciones sobre cómo optimizar el uso de esta herramienta en la educación. Se entiende por entornos...
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Contexto: Las tradicionales formas de enseñanza de las Ciencias Sociales se han modificado durante los últimos años como consecuencia de la integración de nuevas formas de comunicación, herramientas y tecnologías. La utilización de la Realidad Virtual se ha revelado como una técnica especialmente interesante para el aprendizaje de diferentes conten...
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Contexto: La utilización de Advance Learning Technologies (ALT) está posibilitando la inclusión de distintos recursos interactivos en los entornos de aprendizaje virtual. Entre dichos recursos se encuentra la utilización de avatares interactivos que facilitan la autorregulación del aprendizaje a través de la voz. La utilización de dichos avatares i...
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Contexto: La historia industrial es una gran desconocida para muchos de los ciudadanos y, en ocasiones, incluso para los propios trabajadores de las empresas. La dinámica cotidiana del trabajo no conlleva un aprendizaje específico sobre la evolución empresarial y la historia de las compañías industriales. Diagnóstico: Las nuevas técnicas de realid...
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Contexto: En las últimas décadas, el avance en el proceso de geolocalización de la información ha sido vertiginoso. Actualmente, prácticamente cualquier información, noticia o hecho tiene su correspondiente georreferenciación en dispositivos electrónicos. Este proceso se ha extendido a la educación y las tradicionales formas de enseñanza de la Geog...
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Contexto: La docencia online está extendiéndose de forma cada vez más evidente y se ha incorporado en varias Universidades a la enseñanza superior en modalidad reglada. Se imparten Grados y Másteres en diversas áreas de conocimiento utilizando técnicas y herramientas en línea para la enseñanza asíncrona. Diagnóstico: Esta nueva modalidad docente h...
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Monitoring students in Learning Management Systems (LMS) throughout the teaching–learning process has been shown to be a very effective technique for detecting students at risk. Likewise, the teaching style in the LMS conditions, the type of student behaviours on the platform and the learning outcomes. The main objective of this study was to test t...
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Teaching in higher education in the 21st century is moving towards e-Learning or b-Learning teaching models. This situation has increased due to the SARS CoV-2 health crisis. Therefore, teaching–learning models must be based on the use of active methodologies that facilitate students’ motivation to work in learning management systems (LMS). One of...
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: The use of advanced learning technologies (ALT) techniques in learning management systems (LMS) allows teachers to enhance self-regulated learning and to carry out the personalized monitoring of their students throughout the teaching–learning process. However, the application of educational data mining (EDM) techniques, such as supervised and uns...
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Abstract Higher education is one of the driving forces behind the social and economic development of countries, with the ultimate aim of providing quality academic training. At present, teaching-learning models in virtual environments face a number of important challenges, particularly in the current situation caused by COVID-19. Some of these ch...
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Los modelos de enseñanza-aprendizaje universitarios están siendo afectados por la crisis originada por la COVID-19. Para atender a esta crisis desencadenada se diseñó de urgencia una propuesta de ecología de aprendizaje autorregulado virtualizada durante el confinamiento de 2020 en la asignatura de Ciencias de la Naturaleza y su Didáctica I del Gra...
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In recent decades, the use of technological resources such as the eye tracking methodology is providing cognitive researchers with important tools to better understand the learning process. However, the interpretation of the metrics requires the use of supervised and unsupervised learning techniques. The main goal of this study was to analyse the r...
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The teaching of STEAM has been gaining ground in the world of education for some years now. This article presents two fundamental contributions to STEAM literature. The first contribution is the detailed description of a STEAM work experience with secondary school students using Project Based Learning, in which the disciplines of science and art ar...
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In this study, we used a module for monitoring and detecting students at risk of dropping out. We worked with a sample of 49 third-year students in a Health Science degree during a lockdown caused by COVID-19. Three follow-ups were carried out over a semester: an initial one, an intermediate one and a final one with the UBUMonitor tool. This tool i...
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En las últimas décadas se está utilizando la metodología de investigación mixta en contextos naturales. Los diseños mixtos aúnan las ventajas de los métodos cuantitativos y cualitativos. Esto facilita la implementación de programas de intervención en contextos naturales. En este estudio, se presenta la utilización de métodos mixtos para el análisis...
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Teaching in Higher Education is with increasing frequency completed within a Learning Management System (LMS) environment in the Blended Learning modality. The use of learning objects (activities and resources) offered by LMS means that both teachers and students require training. In addition, gender differences relating to the number of students i...
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The development of 21st century skills allows the training of competent students prepared for work and social life. The improvement of these skills, necessary for engineering students and future engineers, can be favored with training in Secondary Education Stage. Specifically, the Project-Based Learning (PBL) methodology includes the performance o...
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Entre las dificultades en el aprendizaje de la química por parte del alumnado de Enseñanza Secundaria Obligatoria se apunta a la descontextualización en la enseñanza de esta disciplina, así como la no utilización de metodologías activas y constructivistas. En este artículo se implementan en el aula actividades de indagación siguiendo la metodología...
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La historia industrial es una gran desconocida para muchos de los ciudadanos y, en ocasiones, incluso para los propios trabajadores de las empresas. La dinámica cotidiana del trabajo no conlleva un aprendizaje específico sobre la evolución empresarial y la historia de las compañías industriales, si bien a menudo coinciden en el tiempo con la transf...
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The general objectives are 1) the design of an intelligent learning environment in the field of Art Historand based on self-regulated learning design and the use of handpermedia resources to achieve personalized learning.2). To increase the motivation towards learning Art Historand, especialland in adults, from the inclusion of digitization tools a...
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Hoy en día, la sociedad avanza hacia nuevas formas de educación, tanto formal como no formal, basadas en la realización de cursos de formación continua sobre diferentes temas fundamentalmente en entornos de aprendizaje virtual. Desde este marco se ha comprobado la necesidad formación no reglada en línea que facilite el aprendizaje de personas adult...
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En este marco, es muy oportuno realizar iniciativas para fomentar la transferencia de conocimiento sobre el valor patrimonial que tiene la industria, mediante recursos tecnológicos que generen dinámicas innovadoras de aprendizaje. Esta investigación parte de la hipótesis de considerar que el uso de nuevas tecnologías aplicadas a la enseñanza de la...
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BACKGROUND Technological advances together with artificial intelligence and data mining techniques give health science disciplines tools that can improve the accuracy of evaluation and diagnosis. OBJECTIVE The objective of this study is to present a pilot project carried out as part of the eEarlyCare project. It involves a computer application wit...