Publications — Vikram Kamath CannanureI design Thoughtful AI: LLM-based chatbots for teacher learning, AI in education and communities in the Global South. HCI, HCI4D and ICTD researcher; postdoctoral fellow at Saarland University.https://kmarkiv.com/publications.xml2026-06-27T00:00:00ZVikram Kamath Cannanurehttps://kmarkiv.comTeacher Professional Development on WhatsApp and LLMs: Early Lessons from Cameroonhttps://kmarkiv.com/papers/teacher-development-whatsapp-llms-cameroon/2026-06-27T00:00:00Z2026-06-27T00:00:00ZVikram Kamath Cannanure, Bruno Yinkfu, Douglas Bryan, Mati Amin, and Ingmar WeberArtificial Intelligence in Education (AIED 2026), Communications in Computer and Information Science, 249-261, 2026. 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 contexts, where everyday mobile platforms like WhatsApp serve as primary digital infrastructure. To address this gap, we present a field pilot in Cameroon that deploys a WhatsApp-based chatbot with LLM-supported content ...Designing Safe and Accountable GenAI as a Learning Companion with Women Banned from Formal Educationhttps://kmarkiv.com/papers/safe-accountable-genai-learning-companion/2026-06-25T00:00:00Z2026-06-25T00:00:00ZHamayoon Behmanush, Freshta Akhtari, Ingmar Weber, and Vikram Kamath CannanureProceedings of the 2026 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT), 6203-6225, 2026. 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 excluded from schools and universities, they often turn to online self-learning and generative AI (GenAI) to pursue their educational and career aspirations. However, we know little about what safe and accountable GenAI...Impacts of Targeted Instruction with Mobile-Based Support on Teachers and Students in Rural Côte d’Ivoirehttps://kmarkiv.com/papers/targeted-instruction-mobile-support-cote-divoire/2026-04-09T00:00:00Z2026-04-09T00:00:00ZSharon Wolf, Amy Ogan, Kaja K. Jasińska, Samuel Kembou, Vikram Kamath Cannanure, Hannah Whitehead, Julianna Corbett, Fabrice Tanoh, Brooke Wortsman, Joshua Lim, Hui Zhao, and Anahita KumarAmerican Educational Research Journal, 2026. We report results from a school-randomized trial examining a targeted instruction program (Teaching at the Right Level) in Côte d’Ivoire implemented by teachers (N = 167 schools, 303 teachers, and 3,808 students). The program modestly improved literacy and numeracy learning levels (d_w = .13, q = .013 and .27, q = .001) but had no statistically significant impacts on functional literacy and num...A Design-Based Research Approach to Bridge Teacher Aspirations and Goal-Settinghttps://kmarkiv.com/papers/design-based-research-teacher-aspirations/2025-11-24T00:00:00Z2025-11-24T00:00:00ZVikram Kamath Cannanure, Tricia J. Ngoon, Sharon Wolf, Kaja K. Jasińska, Tim Brown, and Amy OganACM Journal on Computing and Sustainable Societies, 3(4), 1-23, 2025. ICTD research has often faced challenges in transferring findings across different projects or general HCI due to its specificity to local communities. Theory-driven research, such as aspirations, can bridge work across communities. However, designing technology for emerging theories like aspirations is inherently complex. This study employs a Design-Based Research methodology to explore design...Exploring AI in Education: Child-Computer Interaction in the Global Southhttps://kmarkiv.com/papers/ai-education-child-computer-interaction-global-south/2025-07-15T00:00:00Z2025-07-15T00:00:00ZRiti Verma, Ingmar Weber, and Vikram Kamath CannanureACM Journal on Computing and Sustainable Societies, 3(3), Article 20, 1-23, 2025. Recent artificial intelligence advancements promise to enhance children’s education through well-planned interventions. However, designing AI interventions for the Global South is challenging due to limited literature on children’s interactions with AI-based educational tools. This survey paper identified 18 studies from 2014 to 2025 that explicitly focus on child-computer interaction when inte...Learn, Explore and Reflect by Chatting: Understanding the Value of an LLM-Based Voting Advice Application Chatbothttps://kmarkiv.com/papers/llm-voting-advice-chatbot/2025-07-07T00:00:00Z2025-07-07T00:00:00ZJianlong Zhu, Manon Kempermann, Vikram Kamath Cannanure, Alexander Hartland, Rosa M. Navarrete, Giuseppe Carteny, Daniela Braun, and Ingmar WeberProceedings of the 7th ACM Conference on Conversational User Interfaces (CUI), 2025. Voting advice applications, which have become increasingly prominent in European elections, are seen as a successful tool for boosting electorates’ political knowledge and engagement. However, their complex language and rigid presentation constrain their utility to less-sophisticated voters. While previous work enhanced click-based interaction with scripted explanations, a conversational chatbo...Exploring LLMs for Automated Generation and Adaptation of Questionnaireshttps://kmarkiv.com/papers/llms-questionnaire-generation-adaptation/2025-07-07T00:00:00Z2025-07-07T00:00:00ZDivya Mani Adhikari, Alexander Hartland, Ingmar Weber, and Vikram Kamath CannanureProceedings of the 7th ACM Conference on Conversational User Interfaces (CUI), Article 70, 1-23, 2025. Effective questionnaire design improves the validity of the results, but creating and adapting questionnaires across contexts is challenging due to resource constraints and limited expert access. Recently, the emergence of LLMs has led researchers to explore their potential in survey research. In this work, we focus on the suitability of LLMs in assisting the generation and adaptation of questi...Understanding the Longitudinal Impact of a Chatbot to Facilitate a Virtual Community of Practice for Teachers in Rural Côte d’Ivoirehttps://kmarkiv.com/papers/longitudinal-chatbot-community-of-practice/2024-09-16T00:00:00Z2024-09-16T00:00:00ZVikram Kamath Cannanure, Tricia Ngoon, Sharon Wolf, Kaja Jasińska, Timothy X. Brown, and Amy OganACM Journal on Computing and Sustainable Societies, 2(3), Article 37, 1-37, 2024. Communities of practice can improve teachers’ professional development through informal in-person discussions among community members. However, infrastructural challenges pose difficulties in fostering in-person connections, particularly in rural communities in the Global South. The emergence of social media and chatbots has presented an avenue for creating virtual communities for teachers, esp...“I Believe I Did Not Preach into the Desert”: Opportunities and Challenges in Scaling Teacher Mentorship through Mobile Technology in Rural Côte d’Ivoirehttps://kmarkiv.com/papers/scaling-teacher-mentorship-mobile-technology/2024-07-15T00:00:00Z2024-07-15T00:00:00ZTricia J. Ngoon, Vikram Kamath Cannanure, Kaja Jasińska, Sharon Wolf, and Amy OganProceedings of the Eleventh ACM Conference on Learning @ Scale (L@S), 232-242, 2024. Mentoring is crucial for teachers’ professional development, but challenges of access, resources, and capacity make regular in-person mentorship difficult in low-infrastructure contexts. Mobile technologies such as social media have the potential to scale teacher professional development and communities. This paper explores the culture of teacher mentorship in rural Côte d’Ivoire and the motiva...“We dream of climbing the ladder; to get there, we have to do our job better”: Designing for Teacher Aspirations in rural Côte d’Ivoirehttps://kmarkiv.com/papers/teacher-aspirations-rural-cote-divoire-2022/2022-06-29T00:00:00Z2022-06-29T00:00:00ZVikram Kamath Cannanure, Eloísa Ávila-Uribe, Tricia Ngoon, Yves Thierry Adji, Sharon Wolf, Kaja Jasińska, Timothy X. Brown, and Amy OganACM SIGCAS/SIGCHI Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies (COMPASS), 122-138, 2022. As governments in developing countries race to solve the global learning crisis, a key focus is on novel teaching approaches taught in pedagogical programs. To scale, these programs rely on government teacher training infrastructure. However, they face challenges in rural parts of Africa where there is a lack of advisor support, teachers are isolated, and technology infrastructure is still emer...DIA: A Human AI Hybrid Conversational Assistant for Developing Contextshttps://kmarkiv.com/papers/dia-human-ai-hybrid-conversational-assistant/2020-06-17T00:00:00Z2020-06-17T00:00:00ZVikram Kamath Cannanure, Timothy X. Brown, and Amy OganProceedings of the 2020 International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD), Article 24, 1-5, 2020. Social media messaging applications such as WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger reached 2.3 billion users in 2019, with the majority of users emerging from developing countries. This high usage opens possibilities for designing text-based interventions for social change, but such interventions rely on expert knowledge that is scarce in developing contexts. Expert knowledge can be scaled using chatb...“I’m Fine Where I Am, but I Want to Do More”: Exploring Teacher Aspirations in Rural Côte d’Ivoirehttps://kmarkiv.com/papers/teacher-aspirations-rural-cote-divoire-2020/2020-06-15T00:00:00Z2020-06-15T00:00:00ZVikram Kamath Cannanure, Justin Souvenir Niweteto, Yves Thierry Adji, Akpe Yapo Hermann, Kaja K. Jasińska, Timothy X. Brown, and Amy OganACM SIGCAS Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies (COMPASS), 1-12, 2020. Teaching is challenging in rural areas in developing countries because of large classroom sizes, limited basic infrastructure, and lack of teacher training. Teachers’ impact on educational outcomes can be improved by teacher training programs, but these programs are limited by poor infrastructure in rural areas. Although infrastructural challenges can be overcome by information technology, it i...HCI Across Borders and Sustainable Development Goalshttps://kmarkiv.com/papers/hci-across-borders-sustainable-development-goals/2020-04-25T00:00:00Z2020-04-25T00:00:00ZNeha Kumar, Vikram Kamath Cannanure, Dilrukshi Gamage, Annu Sible Prabhakar, Christian Sturm, Cuauhtémoc Rivera Loaiza, Dina Sabie, Md. Moinuddin Bhuiyan, and Mario A. Moreno RochaExtended Abstracts of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA), 1-8, 2020. As HCI Across Borders aspires to celebrate its fifth year at CHI, and the CHI 2020 venue of Hawaii signifies a coming together of four continents, the goal of the 2020 symposium is to bring our focus to themes that unify and foster solidarity across borders. Thus we select the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals as our object of study. Many communities within CHI focus on the constrai...