title: "Wait-Learning: Leveraging Wait Time for Second Language Education"
authors: Carrie J. Cai, Philip J. Guo, James Glass, Robert C. Miller
venue: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI)
year: 2015
links:
- <a href="http://news.mit.edu/2015/learn-language-while-you-text-0514">Press release</a>

tweet: WaitChatter lets people learn foreign languages during brief pause times when instant messaging

abstract: >
  Competing priorities in daily life make it difficult for those with a
  casual interest in learning to set aside time for regular practice. In
  this paper, we explore <i>wait-learning</i>: leveraging brief moments of
  waiting during a person's existing conversations for second language
  vocabulary practice, even if the conversation happens in the native
  language. We present an augmented version of instant messaging,
  WaitChatter, that supports the notion of wait-learning by displaying
  contextually relevant foreign language vocabulary and micro-quizzes
  just-in-time while the user awaits a response from her conversant.
  Through a two week field study of WaitChatter with 20 people, we found
  that users were able to learn 57 new words on average during casual
  instant messaging. Furthermore, we found that users were most receptive
  to learning opportunities immediately after sending a chat message, and
  that this timing may be critical given user tendency to multi-task
  during waiting periods.

bibtex: >
  @inproceedings{CaiCHI2015,
   author = {Cai, Carrie J. and Guo, Philip J. and Glass, James R. and Miller, Robert C.},
   title = {Wait-Learning: Leveraging Wait Time for Second Language Education},
   booktitle = {Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems},
   series = {CHI '15},
   year = {2015},
   isbn = {978-1-4503-3145-6},
   location = {Seoul, Republic of Korea},
   pages = {3701--3710},
   numpages = {10},
   url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2702123.2702267},
   doi = {10.1145/2702123.2702267},
   acmid = {2702267},
   publisher = {ACM},
   address = {New York, NY, USA},
   keywords = {micro-learning, second language learning, wait-learning},
  }