Investigating the Effect of Language and Culture on Student Interaction with and in Webct

Devlin, Siobhan

doi:10.11120/ital.2007.06020022

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“…According to Hoft (1996), culture can be represented in terms of text orientation, metaphor, date and number formats, page layout, colour and language. Devlin (2007) stated that language and culture may have an influence on the individual's experience of a system and, therefore, they should not be examined separately as they are intertwined. This has been further supported by Petrie et al (2009), who reported that language and culture can shape users' preferences for the navigation layout of websites.…”

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Culture in the design of mHealth UI

Alsswey

Al-Samarraie

El-Qirem

et al. 2020

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Purpose Designers of mobile applications have long understood the importance of users’ preferences in making the user experience easier, convenient and therefore valuable. The cultural aspects of groups of users are among the key features of users’ design preferences, because each group’s preferences depend on various features that are culturally compatible. The process of integrating culture into the design of a system has always been an important ingredient for effective and interactive human computer interface. This study aims to investigate the design of a mobile health (mHealth) application user interface (UI) based on Arabic culture. It was argued that integrating certain cultural values of specific groups of users into the design of UI would increase their acceptance of the technology. Design/methodology/approach A total of 135 users responded to an online survey about their acceptance of a culturally designed mHealth. Findings The findings showed that culturally based language, colours, layout and images had a significant relationship with users’ behavioural intention to use the culturally based mHealth UI. Research limitations/implications First, the sample and the data collected of this study were restricted to Arab users and Arab culture; therefore, the results cannot be generalized to other cultures and users. Second, the adapted unified theory of acceptance and use of technology model was used in this study instead of the new version, which may expose new perceptions. Third, the cultural aspects of UI design in this study were limited to the images, colours, language and layout. Practical implications It encourages UI designers to implement the relevant cultural aspects while developing mobile applications. Originality/value Embedding Arab cultural aspects in designing UI for mobile applications to satisfy Arab users and enhance their acceptance toward using mobile applications, which will reflect positively on their lives.

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Section: Languagementioning

confidence: 99%

Culture in the design of mHealth UI

Alsswey

Al-Samarraie

El-Qirem

et al. 2020

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“…This view is supported by other research, which shows that where students are learning using a second language, sufficient opportunities need to be accorded for adequate translation. (Devlin, 2007;Dillon et.al. 2007;Smith et.al.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Considerations about language in the design of distance learning courses are important: various studies have shown that for students whose first language is not the language of the learning being delivered, more time is needed to learn than for other students (Devlin, 2007;Dillon et.al. 2007;Smith et.al.…”

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confidence: 99%

Distance Learning Course Design Expectations in China and the United Kingdom

Rees

2016

American Journal of Distance Education

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Many British Universities are establishing joint academic programmes with foreign partners. In some cases, delivery is by distance learning mode. Studies comparing distance learning to face-to-face learning are many, but are generally contextualised within a single academic culture and little reference is given to differences in academic culture between deliverers and receivers where they are continents apart. This paper aims to shed some light on the issue by providing insight into the implications of differences between Chinese and UK academic culture for distance learning. The paper is based on a pedagogic research project, a case study, and is centred on a distance learning course in maritime law proposed by a British university for a university in China. Some important commonalities and gaps between perceptions of deliverers and receivers of the proposed course were identified that are specifically attributable to issues of culture. These cannot be dismissed as trivial and unimportant. Therefore, based on the data from two focus groups, Chinese students and UK academics, the authors include recommendations about how one might enhance the effectiveness of distance learning where such cultural issues exist.

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“…Self-adaptive learning system can provide learners with personalized learning services, adopt corresponding teaching strategies, and provide learners with adaptive learning content and navigation support functions to meet personalized needs of learners [1]. Its advantage is that it can make up for the defects of network teaching systems such as Moodle [2], Blackboard [3], Sakai [4], WebCT [5] and so on. Brusilovsky and others at the University of Pittsburgh have successively developed adaptive learning systems such as InterBook, Knowledge Sea II, AnnotatEd and ELM-ART [6][7][8][9].…”

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Towards Self-Adaptive Learning Platform in Future Classroom Based on Emotion Computing

Wang

2023

JREAS

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The accurate recognition of the emotion of learners is the basis of harmonious emotional interaction in the intelligent learning environment of the future classroom. This project focuses on the lack of research and practical exploration on harmonious emotional interaction in the future classroom, and constructs the database of learning pictures and expression pictures of learners by employing Convolution Neural Network. Endowing the future classroom with a self-adaptive interaction property at the emotional level by emotion computing can promote to learn effectively. The proposed platform can self-adaptively adjust the visual characteristics of learning picture according to the expression of learners, visual emotion preference and learning picture emotion, and then present the adapted learning picture to learners in real time, so as to realize the adaptive interaction at the emotional level in the future classroom.

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Investigating the Effect of Language and Culture on Student Interaction with and in Webct

Cited by 4 publications

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Culture in the design of mHealth UI

Culture in the design of mHealth UI

Distance Learning Course Design Expectations in China and the United Kingdom

Towards Self-Adaptive Learning Platform in Future Classroom Based on Emotion Computing

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