Workshop Report - Pervasive Technology Institute - Indiana University

• other users
• our own indisciplinary group
• peer networks (eg im and social networking)
• Productive graduate students
• public web sites
• quick responses to questions
• The HELP buttons
• Trial and error
• use cases, examples, tutorials
• well-defined user interface
• word of mouth
The respondents were asked about barriers to using CI. Specifically, they were presented with a list
of seven potential barriers and asked to rank them from most important (1) to least important (7).
The table below indicates that 51 respondents noted “allocation policies of remote resource” as the
number 1 barrier to using CI, and that for 75 respondents, this particular barrier was not in their list
of top 3 (i.e., 24+29+17+5).
Answer 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Allocation policies of remote resource 51 30 27 24 29 17 5
Access control/ identity management issues
(e.g., keeping track of accounts and passwords,
different accounts and passwords
Ability to get support for remote resources
locally
Ability to get support for remote resources from
the resource provider
36 54 23 25 24 20 1
34 24 65 26 24 8 2
7 31 29 74 20 21 1
Local network throughput 17 16 16 11 56 55 12
Software compatibility with remote resource 18 23 19 22 30 61 10
Other (explain) 20 5 4 1 0 1 152
30