UNDERSTANDING WOMEN’S REMOTE COLLABORATIVE PROGRAMMING EXPERIENCES: THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN DIALOGUE FEATURES AND REPORTED PERCEPTIONS

WIP, notes, not a real text yet.

Why use text? “This feature in particular is useful in a problem-solving context such as programming.” Citation needed!

My theory: Not having visual and audial feedback is extra damaging to people used to rely on those Taking one of the advantages women have away from them.

Loosing all the important back-channeling!

Are there people out there doing pairing over text messages? I start to suspect that they are only too lazy to analyze the data. Written text is easier to grade automatically.

Is VADER allistic?

Is this really pair-programming?

“Future studies should include longer collaboration sessions so that participants have time to familiarize themselves with the collaboration software.” No, future studies should use voice (text to speech if necessary)

“However, the higher average SUS score given by men and the lower average score by women support findings from prior remote collaborative work that men tend to prefer remote collaboration while women prefer to collaborate when co-located.” Or, they prefer to see and hear the other person!

“We removed four men from this analysis because they belonged to pairs in which at least one person did not send any messages during the study, leaving 30 male participants. There were no significant differences detected in these dialogue features between men and women, according to Wilcoxon rank sum tests. “

More text -> more information -> not flying blind

The conversations were balanced in volume, over all, but the correlations are still different in table 11

Did the women and men interpret the collaboration as part of the assignment in the same way?

“By detecting collaborators’ outcomes early, we can offer timely support such as scaffolding collaborations to foster the dialogue features that are positively correlated with women’s experiences, while potentially reducing dialogue features that are negatively correlated with women’s experiences” Or, just add video and audio.

They seem to believe that the negative effect of racism and sexism would be greater than the positive effect of visual and audial cues.