Software development tends more and more to be a distributed or global process where participants are geographically dispersed. This scenario requires paying attention to three aspects identified as physical distance, temporal distance and cultural distance. It is acceptable to argue that these new features will impact the software process, especially in those phases where there are demands for greater communication and collaboration among team members. This paper presents a controlled experiment carried out in a university setting which tries to acquire a better knowledge elicitation stage distributed software requirements, as well as analyzes the use of university settings to perform these validations.