8th International Workshop on Culturally-Aware Tutoring Systems (CATS2026)

With the growing adoption of educational technologies, culture has become an increasingly important consideration for the AIED community. This year’s AIED conference calls for AI to co-evolve with learners, enabling richer human-AI interaction and synergy. As prior work has mainly focused on general technology adoption for education, greater attention is needed to understand how learners can draw on their lived experiences, contexts, culture, and realities in their interactions with AI-mediated technologies. Therefore, the 2026 edition of the CATS workshop aims to engage interested researchers in a conversation on how to take culture and context into account in the design and operations of learner-AI interactions.