The members and collaborators of the Ateneo Laboratory for the Learning Sciences participated in the Festival of Learning (FoL) held at COEX, Seoul, Republic of Korea from June 27 to July 3, 2026. The FoL was an umbrella event that co-located three major conferences: Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED), Educational Data Mining (EDM), and Learning at Scale (L@S). The first two days of the FoL were devoted to workshops and tutorials, while the main conference paper and poster presentations were scheduled for the last five days.
During the workshop days, ALLS had two presentations. The poster Design of Culturally Appropriate Virtual Patient Personas for Philippine Medical Education by Joi Marie Angelica (Smile) Indias, Samantha Castaneda, Reynan B. Hernandez, and Maria Mercedes T. Rodrigo, was presented at the Culturally-Aware Tutoring Systems Workshop. Meanwhile, the paper Modeling Student Well-Being from Experience Sampling Data by Fr. Arthur Nebrao, SJ, and Dr. Rodrigo, was presented at the Multimodal Affect in AI for Education Workshop.
Additionally, Dr. Rodrigo and Fr. Joseph Patrick Echevarria, SJ also served as panelists at the I Workshop on AIED Unplugged 2026. During the main conference, Dr. Rodrigo was also on the panel entitled Old AIED, New AI: What has Changed? What still Matters?
Finally, the paper entitled Can you help me also to write? Using LLMs to evaluate essays that contain Filipino English features by Jaclyn Ocumpauh, Xiner Liu, Dr. Rodrigo, Shimin Kai, and Juliana Maria Alexandra Andres was presented during the WIDE AIED session.
Dr. Rodrigo was happy to serve as program co-chair of EDM alongside Anthony Botelho of the University of Florida, USA and Adish Singla of MPI-SWS, Germany.
Ms. Smile Indias presents our poster entitled “Design of culturally-appropriate virtual patient personas for Philippine medical education.”
Fr. Arthur Nebrao, SJ presents his paper entitled “Modeling student well-being from experience sampling data.”
Dr. Rodrigo and Fr. Joseph Patrick Echevarria, SJ serve as panelists in the I Workshop on AIED Unplugged.
Dr. Rodrigo serves as a panelist on the topic, “Old AIED, New AI: What has Changed? What still Matters?“
Dr. Jaclyn Ocumpaugh presents the paper entitled “Can you help me also to write? Using LLMs to evaluate essays that contain Filipino English features.”
The organizers are acknowledged during the opening ceremony.
