EIC WORKSHOP 2025
From Oral Traditions to ai
The Interplay of Language, Culture
& Emerging Technologies
Source: CNN BLOG UK (2024)
This workshop explores how emerging technologies, such as AI, AR, VR, XR, and digital storytelling, can be leveraged to support globally inclusive learning experiences across sectors.
With a focus on global education, the session examines how language and cultural knowledge systems, including oral traditions, can shape more equitable, relevant, and culturally aware technology applications. Participants from diverse fields will consider how to design and deploy technologies that inform and connect communities across linguistic and cultural boundaries.
DESCRIPTION
Preserving Oral Traditions in the Digital Age:
Training AI on Cultural Narratives:
Voice, Language, and Accent Bias in AI Systems:
How AI, NLP, and audio archiving tools can capture and preserve endangered languages and oral storytelling. Case studies in digitizing folk tales, chants, or community knowledge.
Opportunities and Risks: The ethics of feeding cultural content into machine learning models. Risks of misrepresentation, erasure, or commodification of community-based knowledge
​How voice assistants and speech recognition tools exclude or misinterpret non-standard dialects. Designing for linguistic diversity and accent inclusivity.
​Storytelling in the Metaverse: XR as a Tool for Cultural Transmission:
Using immersive storytelling to share cultural myths, rituals, or histories. Designing culturally grounded VR/AR experiences with local collaborators.
From Proverbs to Prompts: Cultural Logics in Generative AI:
Exploring how idioms, metaphors, and moral frameworks from oral cultures might inform prompt engineering or chatbot design.
Strategies for Inclusive, Multilingual Engagement in International Education and Beyond:
Discusses practical approaches to incorporating multiple languages and cultural logics in global collaboration, virtual exchange, and educational technology platforms.
​Designing Culturally Responsive Global Learning Environments Using Emerging Technologies:
Explores how digital platforms, AI, and XR can be tailored to reflect diverse cultural narratives, communication styles, and learning traditions in global contexts.
Leveraging AI and Immersive Tools to Amplify Underrepresented Cultural Perspectives:
Examines how technologies like generative AI, VR, and AR can be used to showcase stories, languages, and traditions from marginalized or less-represented communities.
Reviewers
LISA FACEY-SHAW (PHD)
Dr. Shaw is an Assistant Teaching Professor in Jamaica with a demonstrated history of excellence in higher education.
Her focus areas include advanced gamification, promoting innovative teaching cases, and mastering online content delivery. Additionally, Dr. Shaw is a keen creative writer.
About
Program Commitee Chair: Dr Kimberely Hemmings-Jarrett
Dr. Hemmings-Jarrett is an assistant teaching professor at Penn State university, Abington campus. She teaches courses related to Management Information Systems and Social Media Analytics and is a Human Centered researcher focused on areas related to Virtual Reality, Digital Divide and Social Media.
Important Dates
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Conference Dates (November 11-14th, 2025)
Workshop dates: TBA
Round 1-Due July 6th
Notification of Acceptance-July 21st