eCUTE
Education in Cultural Understanding, Technologically-Enhanced
| Coordinatore | HERIOT-WATT UNIVERSITY
Organization address
address: Scott Russell Building contact info |
| Nazionalità Coordinatore | United Kingdom [UK] |
| Totale costo | 3˙297˙014 € |
| EC contributo | 2˙400˙000 € |
| Programma | FP7-ICT
Specific Programme "Cooperation": Information and communication technologies |
| Code Call | FP7-ICT-2009-5 |
| Funding Scheme | CP |
| Anno di inizio | 2010 |
| Periodo (anno-mese-giorno) | 2010-09-01 - 2013-12-31 |
Partecipanti
| # | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
HERIOT-WATT UNIVERSITY
Organization address
address: Scott Russell Building contact info |
UK (Edinburgh) | coordinator | 0.00 |
| 2 |
GAKO HOJIN SEIKEI GAKUEN
Organization address
address: KICHIJOJI KITA-MACHI 3 3 contact info |
JP (MUSASHINO TOKYO) | participant | 0.00 |
| 3 |
INESC ID - INSTITUTO DE ENGENHARIADE SISTEMAS E COMPUTADORES, INVESTIGACAO E DESENVOLVIMENTO EM LISBOA
Organization address
address: Rua Alves Redol contact info |
PT (LISBOA) | participant | 0.00 |
| 4 |
JACOBS UNIVERSITY BREMEN GGMBH
Organization address
address: Campus Ring contact info |
DE (BREMEN) | participant | 0.00 |
| 5 |
National University Corporation, Kyoto University
Organization address
address: Yoshida-Honmachi, Sakyo-ku contact info |
JP (Kyoto) | participant | 0.00 |
| 6 |
UNIVERSITAET AUGSBURG
Organization address
address: UNIVERSITAETSSTRASSE contact info |
DE (AUGSBURG) | participant | 0.00 |
| 7 |
UNIVERSITY OF SUNDERLAND
Organization address
address: Edinburgh Building, Chester Road contact info |
UK (Sunderland) | participant | 0.00 |
| 8 |
WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY
Organization address
address: DROEVENDAALSESTEEG contact info |
NL (WAGENINGEN) | participant | 0.00 |
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Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)
In 21stC Europe, many cultural, ethnic and religious groups must live and work together. This is not always a smooth process; cultural differences can lead to social stresses and sometimes outright conflict. Thus education in cultural awareness and understanding has a very significant role. This is an educational domain in which attitudes and behaviours count much more than knowledge alone, and where developing empathy is a key pedagogical mechanism. Experiential approaches using role-play and case-studies have been shown to be highly effective, but can be difficult and expensive to organise. eCUTE will develop innovative technologically-enhanced learning approaches in cultural awareness and understanding that will help with these problems, based on virtual world simulations with intelligent interactive graphical characters embodying models of culturally-specific behaviour and interaction in scenarios developed via a user-centred design process. It will target two contrasting learner types-late primary-age children (9-11) and young adults (18-25) .nWe will: a) Develop pedagogical approaches to education in cultural understanding grounded in psychological and educational theory; b) Create believable cultural learning scenarios based on theoretical approaches that connect with the experiences of the target learner groups c) Establish an operational parameterisation of theoretically derived cultural behaviour and use it to create synthetic cultures and characters that behave as if they live within such cultures; d) Develop expressive behaviour for synthetic characters that is culturally appropriate; e)Create two cultural Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs), one for late-primary children and the other for young adults based on virtual dramas using synthetic characters with culturally-specific interaction behaviour; f)Evaluate the created systems with stakeholder, teacher and learner groups, demonstrating their learning efficacy.