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DebugAR: Mixed Dimensional Displays for Immersive Debugging of Distributed Systems

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Patrick Reipschläger,

Burcu Kulahcioglu Ozkan,

Aman Shankar Mathur,

Stefan Gumhold,

Rupak Majumdar,

Raimund DachseltAuthors Info & Claims

CHI EA '18: Extended Abstracts of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Paper No.: LBW117, Pages 1 - 6

https://doi.org/10.1145/3170427.3188679

Published: 20 April 2018 Publication History

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Distributed systems are very complex and in case of errors hard to debug. The high number of messages with non deterministic delivery timings, as well as message losses, data corruption and node crashes cannot be efficiently analyzed with traditional GUI tools. We propose to use immersive technologies in a multi-display environment to tackle these shortcomings. Our DebugAR approach shows a representation of the current systems state, message provenance, and the lifetime of participating nodes and offers layouting techniques. By providing a screen that shows a traditional text-log, we bridge the gap to conventional tools. Additionally, we propose an interactive 3D visualization of the message flow, combining an interactive tabletop with augmented reality using a head-mounted display. We are confident that our proposed solution can not only be used to analyze distributed system, but also for other time-dependent networks.

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DebugAR: Mixed Dimensional Displays for Immersive Debugging of Distributed Systems
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)

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CHI EA '18: Extended Abstracts of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

April 2018

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ISBN:9781450356213

DOI:10.1145/3170427

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https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3607822.3614516
Fonnet APrie Y(2021)Survey of Immersive AnalyticsIEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics10.1109/TVCG.2019.292903327:3(2101-2122)Online publication date: 1-Mar-2021
https://doi.org/10.1109/TVCG.2019.2929033
Baum DBechert SEisenecker UMeichsner IMuller R(2020)Identifying Usability Issues of Software Analytics Applications in Immersive Augmented Reality2020 Working Conference on Software Visualization (VISSOFT)10.1109/VISSOFT51673.2020.00015(100-104)Online publication date: Sep-2020
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