NetSE: Medium: Collaborative Research: Towards Human- Network Interaction (HNI) for the Home

随着网络从专业管理的环境转移到最终用户，他们的任务是部署、管理、保护和排除网络故障。有证据表明，最终用户无法管理网络，他们拒绝这些技术是采用高级应用程序的重大障碍。这项研究将通过展示如何用新的技术方法解决人与网络互动的挑战来降低障碍。通过实证方法，我们将生成数据集，详细说明管理和使用此类网络的用户的挑战和需求，以及网络设计的机会。我们将开发一个集中许多网络功能的初始架构。这项研究将扩展这种架构，并部署和评估它的人？的家。结果将为更可用的网络设计产生合理的、普遍适用的原则。这些原则特别适用于没有正式网络管理员的情况。我们的工作以三种不同的方式造福社会。可用的家庭网络是计算研究创新的关键路径。研究结果将教会下一代工程师如何设计可用的网络。将可用性问题整合到计算的核心中反映了IT职业的日益多样性，并开辟了增加女性和少数族裔参与计算的可能性。

As networks move outside professionally-managed environments to end-users become tasked with deploying, managing, securing, and troubleshooting their networks. Evidence shows that end-users cannot manage networks, and their rejection of these technologies represents a significant barrier to the adoption of advanced applications. This research will lower the barrier, by demonstrating how the challenges of human-network interaction must be solved with new technical approaches. Through empirical methods, we will produce datasets detailing the challenges, the needs of the users who both manage and live with such networks, and the opportunities for network design. We will develop an initial architecture that centralizes many network functions. This research will extend this architecture and deploy and evaluate it in people?s homes. The results will produce sound, generally-applicable principles for more usable network design. These principles will be particularly applicable to contexts where no formal network administrator is present.Our work benefits society in three distinct ways. Usable home networking is on the critical path for computing research innovation. Research results will teach the next generation of engineers how to design usable networking. The integration of usability concerns into the core of computing reflects the growing diversity of careers in IT, and opens up the possibility of increasing the participation of women and minorities in computing.