TY - GEN
T1 - Learning to collaboratively design software systems
AU - Richards, Debbie
AU - Kuswara, Andreas U.
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PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - In a study conducted in 2004 we found that our students recognized the need to collaborate but that, due to inadequate communication skills, limited time and lack of experience and training in group work, the extent to which they collaborated was far less than they believed to be ideal. Since the advent of Web 2.0 we were interested to see if these increasingly tech-savvy digital natives were choosing to both collaborate more and to use technology to do so. In particular, we consider how 29 groups in a second year software analysis and design unit utilized a collaboration and project management tool known as TRAC. We suggest that different patterns of usage were observed due to different perceived affordances of the technology driven by students' interests and needs. We characterize the affordances and conclude that while we are seeing an increase in collaboration mediated by technology, more intended intervention is needed to assist students to discover a wider range of affordances.
AB - In a study conducted in 2004 we found that our students recognized the need to collaborate but that, due to inadequate communication skills, limited time and lack of experience and training in group work, the extent to which they collaborated was far less than they believed to be ideal. Since the advent of Web 2.0 we were interested to see if these increasingly tech-savvy digital natives were choosing to both collaborate more and to use technology to do so. In particular, we consider how 29 groups in a second year software analysis and design unit utilized a collaboration and project management tool known as TRAC. We suggest that different patterns of usage were observed due to different perceived affordances of the technology driven by students' interests and needs. We characterize the affordances and conclude that while we are seeing an increase in collaboration mediated by technology, more intended intervention is needed to assist students to discover a wider range of affordances.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=69649083272&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/CSCWD.2009.4968110
DO - 10.1109/CSCWD.2009.4968110
M3 - Conference proceeding contribution
AN - SCOPUS:69649083272
SN - 9781424435357
SP - 510
EP - 515
BT - Proceedings of the 2009 13th International Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design, CSCWD 2009
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
CY - United States
T2 - 2009 13th International Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design, CSCWD 2009
Y2 - 22 April 2009 through 24 April 2009
ER -