Paper Info
Title
On the Effectiveness of a Collaborative Virtual Pair-Programming Environment.
Abstract
In this paper, we assess the effectiveness of an extension of Alice, named AliCe-VilLagE, which allows two students to work on the same project, with synchronous communication mechanisms and shared view of the same virtual working environment. The virtual environment supports multi-modal interactions among students (e.g., video, instant messaging). AliCe-ViLlagE collects statistics about each team members contributions, allowing for evaluation of the effectiveness of the collaborative environment, and supporting teacher's assessment of the team work. The paper describes the first formal evaluation of the AliCe-ViLlagE platform with a group of undergraduate students. The results show impressive results in terms of number of interactions between the students, enabled by the AliCe-ViLlagE framework, levels of satisfaction of the students, and completion time.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1007/978-3-319-39483-1_53
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Field
DocType
Volume
Asynchronous communication,Teamwork,Pair programming,Virtual machine,Instant messaging,Computer science,Communication channel,Human–computer interaction,Multimedia,Code development,Idle time
Conference
9753
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0302-9743
0
0.34
References 
Authors
10
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ahmad Al-Jarrah100.34
Enrico Pontelli21901181.26