Pair research: matching people for collaboration, learning, and productivity

To increase productivity, informal learning, and collaborations within and across research groups, we have been experimenting with a new kind of interaction that we call {em pair research}, in which members are paired up weekly to work together on each other's projects. In this paper, we present a system for making pairings and present results from two deployments. Results show that members used pair research in a wide variety of ways including pair programming, user testing, brainstorming, and data collection and analysis. Pair research helped members get things done and share their expertise with others.

• Publication year

  2014

• Venue

  Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work

• Publication date

  2014-02-15

• Fields of study

  Computer Science, Education

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1145/2531602.2531703
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar

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• No concepts are published for this paper.

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