CATS 2014 - 5th International Workshop on Culturally-Aware Tutoring Systems

The CATS2014 workshop is a follow-up to a series of successful CATS workshop editions, organized in conjunction to ITS2008, AIED2009, ITS2010, and AIED2013.
A deeper consideration of culture has now become a recognized topic in many technology domains (e.g. HCI, autonomous agents, robotics, usability) including the ITS research field, and over the years, the CATS workshop series has clearly established itself as the premier venue for presentations and discussions of research bridging culture and educational technologies.
Culture is indeed a critical consideration in research on ITS since it has a strong impact on many cognitive and affective processes, including those related to learning. In the past few years, dedicated culturally-aware technologies, guidelines and methods have been proposed. Promising results are now emerging along with new exciting challenges for our community.
CATS-AT-ITS2014 will thus be a great occasion to continue investigating the place of culture in the ITS research field. It proposes to consider culture and ITS from three perspectives:
designing ITS systems to teach cultural knowledge and intercultural skills;
enculturating ITS systems (i.e. developing both pedagogical strategies and system infrastructure mechanisms that incorporate cultural features);
considering cultural challenges in the ITS research cycle, and ways to address them.
In addition to offering a forum to state-of-the-art research of this domain, CATS2014 intends to engage participants in working to expand the reach of ITS research to a greater global audience, including those disadvantaged due to a lack of resources or other obstacles.
Research at varying levels of development as well as position papers will be considered. Papers to support in-situ demonstrations of CATS systems are also welcome (if you want to submit such a paper, please contact the workshop organizers at cats.workshop-AT-gmail.com).