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41
Citations
11007
World Ranking
8641
National Ranking
3705

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2009 - ACM Fellow For contributions to interaction design and social computing and for outstanding service to ACM.

Overview

Thomas Erickson is an independent scientist and consultant based in the United States. Their professional affiliation is listed as Independent Scientist / Consultant, indicating involvement in research and advisory roles outside conventional academic or institutional settings.

Erickson's recognized contributions lie in the areas of interaction design and social computing. These areas reflect a focus on the ways people interact with technologies and with each other through computational systems.

In 2009, Erickson was named an ACM Fellow, an award given for specific achievements in the field of computing. The citation for this recognition highlights their work in interaction design and social computing, as well as their service contributions to the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).

Thomas Erickson's career has not been associated with a distinct body of frequent publications in particular venues, nor a network of frequent co-authors. There is no record of recent papers or book publications specifically attributed to them in the provided data.

The scientist's research does not list specific main fields of study, subfields, or defined main topics of work according to the available information. However, the award citation and affiliation suggest expertise oriented toward human-computer interaction, social computing, and design methodologies.

Best Publications

  • Social translucence: an approach to designing systems that support social processes

    Thomas Erickson;Wendy A. Kellogg

  • User interface system having programmable user interface elements

    Thomas D. Erickson;Kathleen M. Gomol;Eric A. Hulteen;S. Joy Mountford

  • From words to meaning: A semantic illusion

    Thomas D. Erickson;Mark E. Mattson

  • The knowledge management puzzle: human and social factors in knowledge management

    J. C. Thomas;W. A. Kellogg;T. Erickson

  • Socially translucent systems: social proxies, persistent conversation, and the design of “babble”

    Thomas Erickson;David N. Smith;Wendy A. Kellogg;Mark Laff

  • Working with interface metaphors

    Thomas D. Erickson

  • "I'd be overwhelmed, but it's just one more thing to do": availability and interruption in research management

    James M. Hudson;Jim Christensen;Wendy A. Kellogg;Thomas Erickson

  • Social interaction on the Net: virtual community as participatory genre

    T. Erickson

  • The adoption and use of 'BABBLE': a field study of chat in the workplace

    Erin Bradner;Wendy A. Kellogg;Thomas Erickson

  • Lingua Francas for design: sacred places and pattern languages

    Thomas Erickson

  • Social translucence: designing social infrastructures that make collective activity visible

    Thomas Erickson;Christine Halverson;Wendy A. Kellogg;Mark Laff

  • Notes on design practice: stories and prototypes as catalysts for communication

    Thomas Erickson

  • How Data Science Workers Work with Data: Discovery, Capture, Curation, Design, Creation

    Michael Muller;Ingrid Lange;Dakuo Wang;David Piorkowski

  • Next Steps for Human-Computer Integration

    Florian Floyd Mueller;Pedro Lopes;Paul Strohmeier;Wendy Ju

  • Some problems with the notion of context-aware computing

    Thomas Erickson

  • Putting it all together: towards a pattern language for interaction design: A CHI 97 workshop

    Elisabeth Bayle;Rachel Bellamy;George Casaday;Thomas Erickson

  • Social translucence: using minimalist visualisations of social activity to support collective interaction

    Thomas Erickson;Wendy A. Kellogg

  • The World-Wide-Web as social hypertext

    Thomas Erickson

  • Making sense of computer-mediated communication (CMC): conversations as genres, CMC systems as genre ecologies

    T. Erickson

  • Persistant Conversation: An Introduction

    Thomas Erickson

  • SOCIAL TRANSLUCENCE DESIGNING SOCIAL INFRASTRUCTURE THAT MAKE COLLECTIE ACTIVITY VISIBLE

    Tracee Wolf;Mark Laff;Thomas Erickson;Christine Halverson

Frequent Co-Authors

David W. McDonald
David W. McDonald University of Washington
Wendy A. Kellogg
Wendy A. Kellogg IBM (United States)
Clifford A. Pickover
Clifford A. Pickover IBM (United States)
Rachel K. E. Bellamy
Rachel K. E. Bellamy IBM (United States)
Susan C. Herring
Susan C. Herring Indiana University
Mark S. Ackerman
Mark S. Ackerman University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Amy Bruckman
Amy Bruckman Georgia Institute of Technology
Philip S. Yu
Philip S. Yu University of Illinois at Chicago
Barry Wellman
Barry Wellman University of Toronto
Milind R. Naphade
Milind R. Naphade Nvidia (United States)

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