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Cube management system: a tangible interface for monitoring large scale systems

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CHIMIT '07: Proceedings of the 2007 symposium on Computer human interaction for the management of information technology

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https://doi.org/10.1145/1234772.1234778

Published: 30 March 2007 Publication History

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Data Centers and Network Operation Centers focus on the challenge of monitoring thousands of devices. They attempt to quickly identify unusual or aberrant behavior. Once the device or problem area has been identified, it is handed off to another team for further investigation and repair. In this paper we present a monitoring system for large-scale installations which uses a tangible interface to reduce the cognitive demand on the administrators and which provides a natural mechanism for handling multiple failures and for delegating tasks among several administrators.

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Schiettecatte BVanderdonckt JSchmidt AGellersen Hvan den Hoven EMazalek AHolleis PVillar N(2008)AudioCubesProceedings of the 2nd international conference on Tangible and embedded interaction10.1145/1347390.1347394(3-10)Online publication date: 18-Feb-2008
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1347390.1347394
Chakraborty PUllmer BLarkin JWiley-Patton SKatz DLee C(2008)Architecture of a tangible interface for modeling plant cell cycleProceedings of the 15th ACM Mardi Gras conference: From lightweight mash-ups to lambda grids: Understanding the spectrum of distributed computing requirements, applications, tools, infrastructures, interoperability, and the incremental adoption of key capabilities10.1145/1341811.1341836(1-1)Online publication date: 29-Jan-2008
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1341811.1341836

Index Terms

Cube management system: a tangible interface for monitoring large scale systems
1. Applied computing
  1. Computers in other domains
2. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Management of computing and information systems
      1. File systems management
      2. System management

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Schiettecatte BVanderdonckt JSchmidt AGellersen Hvan den Hoven EMazalek AHolleis PVillar N(2008)AudioCubesProceedings of the 2nd international conference on Tangible and embedded interaction10.1145/1347390.1347394(3-10)Online publication date: 18-Feb-2008
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1347390.1347394
Chakraborty PUllmer BLarkin JWiley-Patton SKatz DLee C(2008)Architecture of a tangible interface for modeling plant cell cycleProceedings of the 15th ACM Mardi Gras conference: From lightweight mash-ups to lambda grids: Understanding the spectrum of distributed computing requirements, applications, tools, infrastructures, interoperability, and the incremental adoption of key capabilities10.1145/1341811.1341836(1-1)Online publication date: 29-Jan-2008
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1341811.1341836

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