Reference Information
Title Eden: Support Home Network Management Through Interactive Visual Tools
Authors: Jeongwa Yang, Keith Edwards, David Haslem
Summary
The main idea behid this paper was making network management easy for non-techical users. Eden's goal was to make it easier for user to manage networks by simplifying the process. The interface is actually modeled after a home. It seperates into different rooms with "walls" in between them. The interface also shows connections with physical wires in between connected computers. Also, it is very easy to manage these networks by simply dragging and dropping different features.
Discussion
I really enjoyed this article about Eden. This could be extremely useful to people with little or no technical networking knowledge. This would be ideal for our parents/grandparents who didn't grow up with computers. I like the idea of the drag and drop feature to the system. This allows for extremely easy preference manipulation. Also, the physical splitting up of rooms is a good idea. This way users will not get confused with which computer is in which room at any time.
Networking is something that a lot of people really struggle with. I feel like a system like this would be really great for those people. The abstraction of that layer could go a really long way.
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