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An Examination of Remote Access Help Desk Cases
A. Steinfeld, R. Sanghi, J.A. Giampapa, D. Siewiorek, and K. Sycara
tech. report CMU-CS-03-190, Computer Science Department, Carnegie Mellon University, September, 2003.

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As a precursor to explorations on future network interoperability problem resolution methods and tools, it is necessary to obtain an understanding of problems in the present day. The remote network access application area was chosen as a case study due to rich sources of information, frequent problems, and considerable detrimental impact on user efficiency. To this end, existing remote network access help desk data was acquired and analyzed. The data was used to characterize remote network access interoperability problems and identify key issues. For the data examined, the two largest problems specific to remote end users were obtaining modem phone numbers for their location and adequate user rights upon connection. Potential for better knowledge re-use and dissemination of solutions to common problems to the general population was also observed.

Sponsor: Office of Naval Research
Grant ID: N0014-02-1-0438

Associated centers: CIMDS, VASC, SRI, MRTC, and FRC
Associated labs/groups: Intelligent Software Agents and Human-Robot Interaction Group
Associated projects: Reusable Environment for Task Structured Intelligent Network Agents and Interoperability of Future Information Systems

Number of pages: 13

Note: Also appears as CMU-HCII-03-100.

A. Steinfeld, R. Sanghi, J.A. Giampapa, D. Siewiorek, and K. Sycara, An Examination of Remote Access Help Desk Cases, tech. report CMU-CS-03-190, Computer Science Department, Carnegie Mellon University, September, 2003.

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   year = "2003",
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   address = "Pittsburgh, PA",
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