Student communication challenges in distributed software engineering environments

Authors:
D. Woit;K. Bell
Affiliations:
Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada;Seneca College, Toronto, Canada
Venue:
ITiCSE '05 Proceedings of the 10th annual SIGCSE conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education
Year:
2005

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Abstract

We investigate Non-Face-to-Face (NFtF) distributed collaboration in a population for which technology poses no barrier-students involved in distributed software engineering via Distance Learning. Our study finds students believe themselves significantly less effective in this environment because of lack of traditional non-verbal cues, in partial agreement with previous work. Based on our results, we identify potential problems and present activities to mitigate these so that NFtF oriented interactions may be made more effective for this group.