Nominated for Best Full Paper and Best Student Paper at CSCL 2025

Created on June 11, 2025

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Excited to share that our paper, “Jupyter-Notebook-as-Script: Investigating the Nature and Impact of Implicit Collaboration Scripts in Computational Notebooks,” has been nominated for both Best Paper and Best Student Paper at CSCL 2025!

Presentation details
• Presenter: Zhenyu Cai (lead author, PhD student)
• When: Wednesday, June 11 @ 10:30
• Session: “Seminal advancements for the Design and Development of CSCL”
• Where: Helsinki, Finland

If you’ll be at the conference, be sure to attend the talk and say hi to Zhenyu!

In this paper—co-authored with Pierre Dillenbourg and Roland Tormey—we introduce the concept of implicit scripts, expanding collaborative scripting theory with a new implicit–explicit dimension. By analyzing collaborative interactions within computational notebooks, our findings show that structured planning phases significantly improve students’ alignment with these implicit scripts, supporting collaboration without the need for explicit scripting.

A huge thanks to the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) for supporting the Uni Analytics project as part of NRP77.

📄 Read the paper here: https://repository.isls.org/handle/1/11847

Post based on my LinkedIn announcement.