6 papers
Designing Safe and Accountable GenAI as a Learning Companion with Women Banned from Formal Education
Hamayoon Behmanush, Freshta Akhtari, Ingmar Weber +1
In gender-restrictive and surveilled contexts, where access to formal education may be restricted for women, pursuing education involves safety and privacy risks. When women are ex…
Teacher Professional Development on WhatsApp and LLMs: Early Lessons from Cameroon
Vikram Kamath Cannanure, Bruno Yinkfu, Douglas Bryan +2
AI in education is commonly delivered through web-based systems such as online forms and institutional platforms. However, these approaches can exclude teachers in low-resource con…
Hope, Aspirations, and the Impact of LLMs on Female Programming Learners in Afghanistan
Hamayoon Behmanush, Freshta Akhtari, Roghieh Nooripour +2
Designing impactful educational technologies in contexts of socio-political instability requires a nuanced understanding of educational aspirations. Currently, scalable metrics for…
Exploring LLMs for Automated Generation and Adaptation of Questionnaires
Divya Mani Adhikari, Alexander Hartland, Ingmar Weber +1
Effective questionnaire design improves the validity of the results, but creating and adapting questionnaires across contexts is challenging due to resource constraints and limited…
Learn, Explore and Reflect by Chatting: Understanding the Value of an LLM-Based Voting Advice Application Chatbot
Jianlong Zhu, Manon Kempermann, Vikram Kamath Cannanure +5
Voting advice applications (VAAs), which have become increasingly prominent in European elections, are seen as a successful tool for boosting electorates' political knowledge and e…
Applying Think-Aloud in ICTD: A Case Study of a Chatbot Use by Teachers in Rural Côte d'Ivoire
Vikram Kamath Cannanure, Sharon Wolf, Kaja JasiÅska +2
Think-alouds are a common HCI usability method where participants verbalize their thoughts while using interfaces. However, their utility in cross-cultural settings, particularly i…