Make partners' AI use visible through transparency mechanisms in early collaborative programming phases¶

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Description¶

The article recommends designing learning analytics and pedagogical scaffolds that make AI use visible or interpretable to collaborators, suggesting "lightweight mechanisms such as shared prompt histories, AI-use annotations, or peer-visible records of AI-supported work". The aim is to improve partner understanding by making otherwise private AI use more accountable and interpretable, particularly in early phases of remote collaborative work where misalignment is most consequential. The authors frame this as reframing AI transparency as a coordination resource.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• Requires choosing an appropriate awareness signal, such as usage-type-level disclosure, analytics, or code-level signals integrated into the shared repository, which the authors state is yet to be identified

Constraints¶

• Whether such interventions would improve coordination in practice remains an open empirical question
• Awareness support should particularly target teams with lower prior performance, where misaligned perceptions carry the highest performance cost

Target Learners¶

• undergraduate student teams in collaborative programming projects

Target Learning Goals¶

• accurate partner models of AI use
• effective coordination and task allocation in student teams

Affordances¶

• Heuristic Inference Partner Ai Use Beliefs

Related Strategies¶

• Use lightweight transparency cues about AI fallibility to encourage more cautious, help-seeking interaction strategies
• Add an approval/confirmation function to RTC so learners choose whether to accept a collaborator's change

Examples¶

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Key Sources¶

• Laura Graf, Ramona Beinstingel, Stephan Krusche, Oleksandra Poquet. (2026). Students' Perception Accuracy of Partners' AI Use and its Relation to Collaboration Performance. Preprint, Technical University of Munich. https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.23237