CATS 2013 - 4th International Workshop on Culturally-Aware Tutoring Systems

CATS2013 proposes to consider interconnections between culture and AIED from three different perspectives:
Designing AIED systems to teach cultural knowledge and intercultural skills;
Enculturating AIED systems (i.e. developing AIED mechanisms that incorporate cultural features);
Considering cultural biases in the AIED research production, and ways to deal with them.
Research at varying levels of development as well as position papers will be considered. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
AIED systems for learning about cultures
AIED systems for learning intercultural skills
Digitization of cultural knowledge and cultural skills for AIED
Collaborative learning and cultural diversity
Identification of cultural variations that are relevant for AIED
Enculturation of adaptive mechanisms for AIED activities and systems
Relations between cultured and educational features
Assessment of cultural features of AIED systems
Cultural influences on the AIED research production
When stressing a link with education/adaptive educational technologies…
Computational modeling of past and present cultural contexts
Computational modeling of past and present cultural groups
Computational modeling of dynamics between varying socio-cultural groups
Computational modeling of individual cultural traits
Relations between culture and Human-Computer Interaction
Relations between culture and cognition
Relations between culture and affect
Relations between culture and motivation
Solutions related to these topics can be framed in terms of:
Cross-cultural evaluation of AIED systems
System architecture
Machine learning techniques
Case-based reasoning
Educational data Mining
Computer simulations for learning purpose
Physiological and neurophysiological measurements
Intelligent and conversational agents
Multi-agent systems
Learning companions
Serious games
Virtual learning environments
Semantic or formal ontology engineering
Adaptive hypermedia
Pervasive, context-aware, and ubiquitous computing
Innovative human-computer interaction
Authoring tools
Etc.