Adapting performance and emotional support feedback to cultural difference

Muhammad Adamu Sidi-Ali, Judith Masthoff, Matt Dennis, Jacek Kopecky, Nigel Beacham

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Abstract

This paper investigates adaptation of feedback to learners' cultural backgrounds. First, we investigate how to portray the cultural background of a learner. Second, we present a qualitative focus-group study, investigating how participants from different cultures believe culture affects the kind of feedback given to a learner. Finally, we present an empirical study on how humans adapt feedback based on the cultural background of learners to inspire an algorithm. Our investigations resulted in a set of stories which can be used to reliably portray a person's culture when investigating cultural adaptation in indirect experiments and user as wizard studies. They also provided insights into the adaptations people make to cultural differences.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationACM UMAP 2019 - Proceedings of the 27th ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery
Pages318-326
Number of pages9
ISBN (Electronic)9781450360210
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 7 Jun 2019
Event27th ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization, UMAP 2019 - Larnaca, Cyprus
Duration: 9 Jun 201912 Jun 2019

Conference

Conference27th ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization, UMAP 2019
Country/TerritoryCyprus
CityLarnaca
Period9/06/1912/06/19

Keywords

  • Adaptation
  • Culture
  • E-learning
  • Feedback

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