Do friends collaborate and perform better?: A pair program tracing and debugging eye-tracking experiment

• Main Authors: Villamor, Maureen, Rodrigo, Ma. Mercedes T
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2018
• Subjects: Eye-tracking; collaboration; cross-recurrence quantification; Computer Sciences
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/discs-faculty-pubs/152; https://sites.google.com/site/2018pcsc/proceedings

We characterize the extent of collaboration of pairs of novice programmers as they trace and debug fragments of code using cross-recurrence quantification analysis (CRQA). Specifically, we compare the collaboration of pairs whose composition is based solely on degree of acquaintanceship and look how...