Thomas Erickson is a social scientist and designer who retired from IBM in 2018, having joined IBM in 1997. Earlier he worked at Apple, contributing to the Macintosh user interface and developing prototypes in the Advanced Technology Group. At IBM Research he studied technologies for groups and organizations and, with Wendy Kellogg, proposed social translucence as an approach to designing systems that support social processes. He holds fifty-four patents and was named an ACM Fellow in 2009.
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