Taming Information Technology: Lessons From Studies Of System Administrators (Human Technology Interaction) - Softcover

Kandogan, Eser

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0195374126 ISBN 13: 9780195374124

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2012

Synopsis

Tells the story of system administration through the narratives of real system administrators.

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About the Author

Eser Kandogan is a research staff member at IBM Research - Almaden and manages a group conducting research on visual interfaces to data. He served as the general chair and program chair for ACM CHIMIT symposium and was a member of the program committee for several conferences including ACM CHI, USENIX LISA, and IEEE Policy. Dr. Kandogan has over 50 publications in areas such as human-computer interaction and information visualization.



Paul P. Maglio is a research scientist and manager at IBM Research - Almaden. Dr Maglio serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Service Research and Service Science, and was lead editor of the Handbook of Service Science. Dr Maglio has published more than 100 papers in computer science, cognitive science, and service science, and is an Associate Adjunct Professor at UC Merced, where he has taught service science since 2007.

Eben Haber is a research staff member at IBM Research - Almaden, where he has worked on topics including IT System Administration (including studies of sysadmins, developing prototype administration tools, and designing new features for middleware management products), as well as research on end-user programming and information visualization.

John Bailey is a Director of Product Design at CA Technologies, where he creates leading-edge product user experiences for the management of information technology. Previously, John was a research scientist at IBM Research - Almaden, where he did research on service systems, specializing in human factors in information technology service engagement and delivery. Prior to working at IBM, John was a Research Fellow with The Consortium of Universities of the Washington Metropolitan Area, conducting research in simulation, training, and virtual reality at the US Army Research Institute.

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0195374126
• ISBN 13: 9780195374124
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 312