Designing software for consumers to easily set up a secure home network

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1735-1740

  Elmore, Brenton ^a   Hamilton, Stuart ^a   Ivaturi, Subbarao ^b  

^a Cisco Linksys LLC   (United States)

^b CISCO SYSTEMS   (United States)

Author keywords

Animation; Digital home; Graphical user interface; Home network; Network configuration; Network devices; Personas

Indexed keywords

ANIMATION; COMPUTER NETWORKS; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES;

DIGITAL HOMES; HOME NETWORKING; NETWORK CONFIGURATIONS; NETWORK DEVICES; PERSONAS;

SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 35348907388     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1240866.1240892     Document Type: Conference Paper

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