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Visualizing personal emotional data through a humanistic approach enhances reflective learning, supports emotional literacy, and improves students' ability to interpret subjective data. Novelty: ClaimNovelty.INCREMENTAL. Consensus alignment: ConsensusAlignment.NEUTRAL.

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Evaluate how a problem-based learning project using data humanism principles enables students to systematically map, visualize, and interpret their subjective emotional experiences.

August 29, 2026The International Journal of Design EducationOpen Access

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Evaluate how a problem-based learning project using data humanism principles enables students to systematically map, visualize, and interpret their subjective emotional experiences.
Implemented a problem-based learning (PBL) exercise where university design students in Lisbon, Portugal, tracked, categorized, and structured personal emotion data across one week based on valence, intensity, time, place, and social context.
Instructed students to combine information visualization frameworks with a data humanism approach to translate internal mental states into individual visual representations.
Visual mapping of contextual emotional data enhanced student self-awareness and facilitated deeper reflective learning.
The exercise advanced students' emotional literacy and strengthened their qualitative analytical skills in structuring and communicating subjective, human-centered information.

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Educational study demonstrates that visual emotion tracking enhances reflective learning and emotional literacy in university students, indicating the utility of humanistic information design.

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Duque et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a92997e8e5d7d1fc0c11897 https://doi.org/10.18848/2325-128x/cgp/a347

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Educational study demonstrates that visual emotion tracking enhances reflective learning and emotional literacy in university students, indicating the utility of humanistic information design.

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