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"Why SuaCode?": Understanding African Students' Motivations for Taking a Smartphone-Based Online Coding Course
Michael Addo, Nana Maryam Munagah, Victor Kumbol +2
Computer programming MOOCs are instrumental in providing students with high-quality instruction in areas where there is limited access. They are especially beneficial to post-secon…
Eskwai for Students: Generative AI Assistant for Legal Education in Ghana
George Boateng, Philemon Badu, Patrick Agyeman-Budu +6
Recent advances in generative AI have shown their potential to be leveraged for legal education. Yet, work on the development and deployment of such systems for legal education in…
Adesua: Development and Feasibility Study of an AI WhatsApp Bot for Science Learning in West Africa
George Boateng, Evans Atompoya, Philemon Badu +4
Sub-Saharan Africa faces persistently high student-teacher ratios and shortages of qualified teachers, limiting students' access to personalized learning support and formative asse…
NSMQ Riddles: A Benchmark of Scientific and Mathematical Riddles for Quizzing Large Language Models
George Boateng, Naafi Ibrahim, Samuel John +8
Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown good performance on various science educational benchmarks, demonstrating their potential for use in science and mathematics education. Yet,…
Kwame 2.0: Human-in-the-Loop Generative AI Teaching Assistant for Large Scale Online Coding Education in Africa
George Boateng, Samuel Boateng, Victor Kumbol
Providing timely and accurate learning support in large-scale online coding courses is challenging, particularly in resource-constrained contexts. We present Kwame 2.0, a bilingual…
AfricAIED 2024: 2nd Workshop on Artificial Intelligence in Education in Africa
George Boateng, Victor Kumbol
Recent AI advancements offer transformative potential for global education, yet their application often overlooks Africa's unique educational landscape. AfricAIED 2024 will address…
Brilla AI: AI Contestant for the National Science and Maths Quiz
George Boateng, Jonathan Abrefah Mensah, Kevin Takyi Yeboah +4
The African continent lacks enough qualified teachers which hampers the provision of adequate learning support. An AI could potentially augment the efforts of the limited number of…
Leveraging AI to Advance Science and Computing Education across Africa: Challenges, Progress and Opportunities
George Boateng
Across the African continent, students grapple with various educational challenges, including limited access to essential resources such as computers, internet connectivity, reliab…
Towards an AI to Win Ghana's National Science and Maths Quiz
George Boateng, Jonathan Abrefah Mensah, Kevin Takyi Yeboah +4
Can an AI win Ghana's National Science and Maths Quiz (NSMQ)? That is the question we seek to answer in the NSMQ AI project, an open-source project that is building AI to compete l…
Real-World Deployment and Evaluation of Kwame for Science, An AI Teaching Assistant for Science Education in West Africa
George Boateng, Samuel John, Samuel Boateng +3
Africa has a high student-to-teacher ratio which limits students' access to teachers for learning support such as educational question answering. In this work, we extended Kwame, a…
Can an AI Win Ghana's National Science and Maths Quiz? An AI Grand Challenge for Education
George Boateng, Victor Kumbol, Elsie Effah Kaufmann
There is a lack of enough qualified teachers across Africa which hampers efforts to provide adequate learning support such as educational question answering (EQA) to students. An A…
Multimodal Emotion Recognition among Couples from Lab Settings to Daily Life using Smartwatches
George Boateng
Couples generally manage chronic diseases together and the management takes an emotional toll on both patients and their romantic partners. Consequently, recognizing the emotions o…
"Are you okay, honey?": Recognizing Emotions among Couples Managing Diabetes in Daily Life using Multimodal Real-World Smartwatch Data
George Boateng, Xiangyu Zhao, Malgorzata Speichert +6
Couples generally manage chronic diseases together and the management takes an emotional toll on both patients and their romantic partners. Consequently, recognizing the emotions o…
Kwame for Science: An AI Teaching Assistant Based on Sentence-BERT for Science Education in West Africa
George Boateng, Samuel John, Andrew Glago +2
Africa has a high student-to-teacher ratio which limits students' access to teachers. Consequently, students struggle to get answers to their questions. In this work, we extended K…
Development, Deployment, and Evaluation of DyMand -- An Open-Source Smartwatch and Smartphone System for Capturing Couples' Dyadic Interactions in Chronic Disease Management in Daily Life
George Boateng, Prabhakaran Santhanam, Elgar Fleisch +4
Dyadic interactions of couples are of interest as they provide insight into relationship quality and chronic disease management. Currently, ambulatory assessment of couples' intera…
Emotion Recognition among Couples: A Survey
George Boateng, Elgar Fleisch, Tobias Kowatsch
Couples' relationships affect the physical health and emotional well-being of partners. Automatically recognizing each partner's emotions could give a better understanding of their…
SuaCode Africa: Teaching Coding Online to Africans using Smartphones
George Boateng, Prince Steven Annor, Victor Kumbol
There is a burgeoning trend of smartphone ownership in Africa due to the low costs of Android smartphones and the global increase in social media usage. Building upon previous work…
AutoGrad: Automated Grading Software for Mobile Game Assignments in SuaCode Courses
Prince Steven Annor, Samuel Boateng, Edwin Pelpuo Kayang +1
Automatic grading systems have been in existence since the turn of the half-century. Several systems have been developed in the literature with either static analysis and dynamic a…
BERT meets LIWC: Exploring State-of-the-Art Language Models for Predicting Communication Behavior in Couples' Conflict Interactions
Jacopo Biggiogera, George Boateng, Peter Hilpert +5
Many processes in psychology are complex, such as dyadic interactions between two interacting partners (e.g. patient-therapist, intimate relationship partners). Nevertheless, many…
"You made me feel this way": Investigating Partners' Influence in Predicting Emotions in Couples' Conflict Interactions using Speech Data
George Boateng, Peter Hilpert, Guy Bodenmann +2
How romantic partners interact with each other during a conflict influences how they feel at the end of the interaction and is predictive of whether the partners stay together in t…
Kwame: A Bilingual AI Teaching Assistant for Online SuaCode Courses
George Boateng
Introductory hands-on courses such as our smartphone-based coding course, SuaCode require a lot of support for students to accomplish learning goals. Online environments make it ev…