From 29 June to 1 July 2026, staff members of the Department of Computer Science at Lublin University of Technology – Karol Łazaruk, MSc Eng., Piotr Tokarski, MSc Eng., Małgorzata Plechawska-Wójcik, PhD Eng., and Marek Miłosz, PhD Eng., Associate Professor – took part in the 18th annual International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies (EDULEARN26), held in Palma de Mallorca, Spain. The conference is one of the world’s largest events devoted to education and new learning technologies, providing an important forum for the international exchange of knowledge and teaching experience.
The conference focused, in particular on pedagogical innovations, technologies supporting teaching (e-learning, m-learning), the impact of artificial intelligence on education, STEM education, as well as inclusive learning and assistive technologies for people with disabilities.
During the conference, the team presented numerous research results in the form of oral presentations and posters:
- Karol Łazaruk, MSc Eng. – the presentation “Bridging Expert and User Perspectives: Comparing MARS and uMARS in Mobile Medical Applications Evaluating in the Context of UX Education” and the poster “Teaching Cognitive Load Analysis in UX Courses Using NASA-TLX and Task Performance Metrics: A Laboratory Scenario”;
- Piotr Tokarski, MSc Eng. – the posters “The Rubik’s Cube in STEM Education: Developing Logical Thinking and Algorithmic Skills” and “From Practice to Performance: The Role of Software Tools in Learning Competitive Speedcubing”;
- Małgorzata Plechawska-Wójcik, PhD Eng. – “Towards Artificial Intelligence in Undergraduate Education: Trends in Computer Science Diploma Theses from the Last Five Years” and “Supporting the Internationalization of the Academic City – the ‘Visiting Professors in Lublin’ Project”;
- Marek Miłosz, PhD Eng., Associate Professor – “T1DCoach – An Educational Game for Young People with Diabetes Type 1” and “The Idea of Universal Design – Implementation in Higher Education”.
The presented works and trip were carried out as part of two projects funded under Lublin University of Technology’s “Investing in Potential” programme: “Study of the usability, accessibility and cognitive load of mobile educational applications of medical nature” (no. 27/IP/2025/F) and “Automatic identification of action patterns in the process of solving the Rubik’s Cube using artificial intelligence” (no. 31/IP/2025/F). The research was conducted in scientific cooperation with Prof. Sergio Luján-Mora (University of Alicante) and Tomáš Nguyen (Czech Technical University in Prague).
Participation in EDULEARN26 enabled the team to compare its own teaching solutions in the area of educating computer science students in UX and interface quality assessment with approaches used at other academic institutions, as well as to disseminate the results of both projects and situate them within an international educational context. In the case of the research on the quality of mobile medical applications, the conference provided an opportunity to demonstrate how the developed methods for assessing usability, accessibility and cognitive load (MARS/uMARS, NASA-TLX, eye-tracking) can be transferred to the process of educating students in the field of UX. Furthermore, in the project devoted to analysing the process of solving the Rubik’s Cube, the educational potential of speedcubing was presented as a tool for developing logical thinking and algorithmic skills in STEM education. The presented works attracted the interest of participants, and the discussions held made it possible to confront the adopted research assumptions with the experience of other teams and to establish contacts opening up prospects for future cooperation and joint research and teaching initiatives.
Link to the conference website: https://iated.org/edulearn/
