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Culture and E-Learning: Automatic Detection of a Users’ Culture from Survey Data

Kamentz, Elisabeth and Mandl, thomas (2005) Culture and E-Learning: Automatic Detection of a Users’ Culture from Survey Data. In Evers, Vanessa and Röse, Kerstin and Honold, Pia and Coronado, Jose and Day, Donald, Eds. Proceedings Fifth International Workshop on Internationalization of Products and Systems (IWIPS 2003) Designing for Global Markets 5: Proceedings of the Fifth International Workshop on Internationalization of Products and Systems (IWIPS 2003), pp. 227-239, Berlin, Germany.

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Abstract

Knowledge about the culture of a user is especially important for the design
of e-learning applications. In the experiment reported here, questionnaire
data was used to build machine learning models to automatically predict the
culture of a user. This work can be applied to automatic culture detection
and subsequently to the adaptation of user interfaces in e-learning.

Keywords:usability, e-learning, internationalization
Subjects:G. Industry, profession and education. > GH. Education.
C. Users, literacy and reading. > CB. User studies.
D. Libraries as physical collections. > DA. World libraries.
ID Code:7083
Deposited By:Mandl, Thomas
Deposited On:28 August 2006
All fields:Show all fields

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