Paper Info
Title
Scalability in system management GUIs: a designer's nightmare
Abstract
As Information Technology (IT) advances, traditional concerns over performance are being overtaken by concerns over manageability and scalability in system management interfaces [1]. Designing effective interactions and representations of large complex systems with intricate relationships among components is a formidable challenge. In this paper we describe the design of a topology viewer application for enterprise-scale storage systems. A key issue in this design effort was to create a graphical topology viewer that would scale to the complexity of typical storage environments and support administrators effectively in various activities. Our approach to address these issues was to use semantic zooming and progressive information disclosure techniques extensively; thus essentially shifting the scalability challenge from purely visual design to mostly interaction design.
Year
DOI
Venue
2006
10.1145/1125451.1125477
CHI Extended Abstracts
Keywords
Field
DocType
scalability challenge,graphical topology viewer,information technology,interaction design,topology viewer application,typical storage environment,enterprise-scale storage system,visual design,formidable challenge,design effort,system management guis,user experience,system management,storage system,complex system,visualization
Communication design,User experience design,Interaction design,Information technology,Visualization,Computer science,Zoom,Human–computer interaction,Systems management,Scalability
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
1-59593-298-4
2
0.40
References 
Authors
3
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Andreas Dieberger119328.98
Eser Kandogan269864.49
Cheryl A. Kieliszewski3102.79