25-10-2012, 01:14 PM
Development of Next-generation IP Network Design Tools Using Novel User Interfaces
ABSTRACT
The Research and Development Department of NTT Comware Corporation has developed visual and intuitive support
tools for designing IP networks in collaboration with the MIT Media Laboratory. This system, which features the use of a
‘tangible user interface’ (TUI), aims to simplify the complicated and time-consuming task of network design and has the
potential to stimulate innovation in fields other than communications. We asked Atsunobu Narita, Manager of the Research
and Development Department at NTT Comware (http://www.nttcom.co.jp/ english/), to describe this revolutionary system to
us and explain its outlook for the future.