Virtual learning environment with emotional design elements for UiTM student (EmoViLE) / Muhammad Syimir Idris

Emotion plays an important role in education especially the positive emotion. Previous studies have underlined the importance of positive emotion for effective learning. Although the benefits of emotion in education has become clear, people tend to overlook this element in learning especially in virtual learning environment (VLE). Based on a preliminary study of current VLE (i-Learn), in Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM) the system neglects the proper design elements which can affect the student emotions while using the system. The system has poor user interface design and information architecture. There is also less interaction between the student and lecturer in the current system. Therefore, by integrating the emotional design elements to the VLE, it perhaps can change and improve the current practices of the VLE. The objective of this project are to identify the user requirements, to design the user interface and develop the new VLE with emotional design elements. The target user for this project are students and lecturers in Faculty of Computer and Mathematical Sciences in UiTM Shah Alam. This project was developed using the Web Development Life Cycle (WDLC) methodology consisting of planning, requirement analysis, design, and implementation and testing. Several emotional design elements will be gathered and used in the development of this project based on the data gathering from the user and the study of previous research and existing system. The emotional design elements will be choose and implement on the VLE system. This project tends to improve the overall user experience when using VLE and provide a new method of emotional feedback and emotion monitoring of the students.