Student mental health is a critical issue that institutions are struggling to tackle proactively. The wellbeing of students is largely invisible to institutions unless specific mental health conditions are diagnosed and disclosed. In comparison to the importance placed on academic aspects, the affective experiences of education throughout the study journeys of students are rarely acknowledged. Approaches for students to develop emotional awareness, through which they learn to understand and manage their emotions, are limited. In this article, we describe the design and evaluation of Our Journey, a platform for students to represent their study journeys through describing the events and emotions they experience. The conceptual and user experience design of the platform was derived from participatory activities with students and staff and has been further refined via several physical and online iterations. In this paper, we report findings from an exploratory pilot trial of Our Journey with 54 students studying for a range of qualifications at an online learning institution. Through an analysis of the journeys that the students produced and a post-trial survey, we found that Our Journey can support representations of emotional awareness in relation to study events which prompted students to reflect on important aspects of their study and personal development. The design and use of the platform have also prompted important considerations around how emotion is represented, as well as how the privacy and ownership of these representations of personal experiences can be managed to support students and institutions to potentially benefit from novel tools such as Our Journey.

学生心理健康是各机构正在努力积极解决的一个关键问题。除非诊断并披露特定的心理健康状况，否则学生的福祉在很大程度上对机构来说是不可见的。与对学术方面的重视相比，学生整个求学历程中的情感教育体验却很少受到重视。学生培养情绪意识、学习理解和管理情绪的方法是有限的。在本文中，我们描述了“我们的旅程”的设计和评估，这是一个让学生通过描述他们经历的事件和情感来展示他们的学习旅程的平台。该平台的概念和用户体验设计源自学生和教职员工的参与活动，并通过多次物理和在线迭代进一步完善。在本文中，我们报告了“我们的旅程”探索性试点试验的结果，该试验有 54 名学生在在线学习机构学习一系列资格证书。通过对学生制作的旅程的分析和试验后调查，我们发现我们的旅程可以支持与学习事件相关的情感意识的表达，从而促使学生反思他们的学习和个人发展的重要方面。该平台的设计和使用还引发了关于如何表达情感的重要考虑，以及如何管理这些个人经历​​表达的隐私和所有权，以支持学生和机构从“我们的旅程”等新颖工具中潜在受益。