Defining Culture-Bound User Characteristics as a Starting-Point for the Design of Adaptive Learning Systems

Elisabeth Kamentz; Christa Womser-Hacker

doi:10.3217/jucs-009-07-0596

JUCS - Journal of Universal Computer Science 9(7): 596-607, doi: 10.3217/jucs-009-07-0596

Defining Culture-Bound User Characteristics as a Starting-Point for the Design of Adaptive Learning Systems

Elisabeth Kamentz^‡, Christa Womser-Hacker^‡

‡ University of Hildesheim, Germany

Corresponding author: Elisabeth Kamentz ( ekam0028@rz.uni-hildesheim.de )

This article is freely available under the J.UCS Open Content License.

Citation: Kamentz E, Womser-Hacker C (2003) Defining Culture-Bound User Characteristics as a Starting-Point for the Design of Adaptive Learning Systems. JUCS - Journal of Universal Computer Science 9(7): 596-607. https://doi.org/10.3217/jucs-009-07-0596

Abstract

In our study we set the goal to consider culture as a crucial factor of learning system design. This culture oriented approach is put in concrete terms by comparing US-American and German learning programs on four different levels: layout, interaction and navigation, presentation of content, and the didactic approach. The results of a questioning on culturally specific approaches to computers complete this investigation.

Keywords

academic style, adaptivity, cultural dimensions, discourse structures, evaluation, HCI-usability, learning style, learning software, user modeling