Tom Erickson: Papers & Patents

	Peer-reviewed papers, position papers, reports, and patents; with links to copies.
2020	Florian Floyd Mueller, Pedro Lopes, Paul Strohmeier, Wendy Ju, Caitlyn Seim, Martin Weigel, Suranga Nanayakkara, Marianna Obrist, Zhuying Li, Joseph Delfa, Jun Nishida, Elizabeth Gerber, Dag Svanes, Jonathan Grudin, Stefan Greuter, Kai Kunze, Thomas Erickson, Steven Greenspan, Masahiko Inami, Joe Marshall, Harald Reiterer, Katrin Wolf, Jochen Meyer, Thecla Schiphorst, and Pattie Maes. Next Steps in Human-Computer Integration. Proc. CHI 2020. ACM Press, May 2020.
2019	Muller, M., Lange, I., Wang, D, Piorkowski, D., Tsay, J. Liao, Q.V., Dugan, C., and Erickson, T. How Data Science Workers Work with Data: Discovery, Capture, Curation, Design, Creation. Proc. CHI 2019. ACM Press, May 2019. . . . Erickson, T. Pickover, C., Walcott, A., Weldemariam, K. US US 10,691,505B2. Software Bot Conflict-Resolution Service Agent. Issued June 23, 2020. Filed January 18, 2019. Erickson, T. Fleming, K. Pickover, C. Weldemariam, K. US 10,831,197. Personality Sharing among Drone Swarm. Issued November 10, 2020. Filed June 27, 2019. Erickson, T. Fleming, K. Pickover, C. Weldemariam, K. US 10,696,399. Maintenance of a Machine (AKA: Deployment of Lubricant with an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle). Issued June 30, 2020. Filed November 12, 2019.
2018	Shamekhi A. Liao, Q. V., Wang, D., Bellamy, R. and Erickson, T. Face Value? Exploring the Effects of Embodiment for a Group Facilitation Agent. Proc. CHI 2018., April 2018. . . . Erickson, T. The Virtual Side of Large-scale Hybrid Events: Reflections from a Study of a Large Virtual Conference. A position paper for the CSCW 2018 workshop on Hybrid Events. November 2018. Muller, M. and Erickson, T. In the Data Kitchen: A Review (a design fiction on data science). Proc. CHI 2018 – Extended Abstracts (alt.CHI). April 2018. . . . Erickson, T. Lenchner, J., Pickover, Weldemariam, K. US15/868,561. Generating selectable control items for a learner based on context and cohort. Filed January 11, 2018. Erickson, T. Pickover, C. Vukovic, M. US 10,678,266. Method and System for Continued Navigation of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Beyond Restricted Airspace Boundaries. Issued June 9, 2020. Filed July 26, 2018. Bellamy, R. K. E., and Erickson, T. US16/248,927. System and Method for Promoting Reflective Engagement with Ranked Alternatives Produced by an AI System. Filed December 2018.
2017	Niemanstverdreit, and Erickson, T. Recurring Meetings: An Experiential Account of Repeating Meetings in a Large Organization. Proc. of the ACM on CSCW, November 2017. Muller, M., Dugan, C., Sharma, A., Geyer, W. and Erickson, T. A Stick with a Handle at Each End: Socially Implicated Objects for Design of Collaborative Systems. Proc. ECSCW 2017, August 2017. Xu, Bin., Ellis, J., and Erickson, T. Attention from Afar: Simulating the Gazes of Remote Participants in Hybrid Meetings. Proc. DIS 2017, June 2017. . . . Bellamy, Rachel KE and Andrist, Sean and Bickmore, Timothy and Churchill, Elizabeth F and Erickson, Thomas. Human-Agent Collaboration: Can an Agent be a Partner? Proc. CHI: Extended Abstracts, 1289-1294, 2017. . . . Erickson, T. Fleming, K. Pickover, C. Weldemariam, K. US 10,569,872. Maintenance of a Machine (AKA: Deployment of Lubricant with an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle). Issued 25 February 2020. Filed January 2017. Erickson, T. Pickover, C. Vukovic, M. Weldemariam, K. US 10,345,825. Detecting an Illumination Need AKA: System and Method for Drone Swarm Road Lighting. Issued July 9, 2019. Filed January 3, 2017. Erickson, T., Kundu, A., Pickover, C., and Vukovic, M. US 10,335,952. Monitoring and Controlling the Movement of Mobile Robots. Issued July 2, 2019. Filed January 17, 2017. Erickson, T. Pickover, C., Walcott, A., Weldemariam, K. US 10,289,456B2. Software Bot Conflict-Resolution Service Agent. Issued May 14, 2019. Filed June 1, 2017. Erickson, T. Fleming, K. Pickover, C. Weldemariam, K. US 10,324,466. Personality Sharing among Drone Swarm. Issued June 18, 2019. Filed January 27, 2017. Ellis, J. Erickson, T. Niemantsverdriet, K. Xu, B. US 10,009,568. Displaying the Simulated Gazes of Multiple Remote Participants to Participants Collocated in a Meeting Space. Issued June 26, 2018. Filed April 2017. Erickson, T. Pickover, C. Vukovic, M. Weldemariam, US15/396,908. System, Method and Computer Program Product for Locust Swarm Amelioration. Filed March 1, 2017. Erickson, T. Pickover, C. Vukovic, M. Weldemariam, K. US15/396,927. Drone Hotel and System, Method and Computer Program Product for a Drone Hotel. Filed January 3, 2017. Erickson, T., Ferris, R., Pickover, C. US 10,163,355. Dynamic Management System, Method and Recording Medium for Cognitive Drone Swarms. Issued December 25, 2018. Filed January30, 2017.
2016	Farrell, R., Lenchner, J., Kephart, J., Webb, A., Muller, M., Erickson, T., Melville, D., Bellamy, R., Gruen, D. Connell, J. Soroker, D., Aaron, A., Trewin, S., Ashoori, M., Ellis, J., Gaucher, B. and Gil, D. Symbiotic Cognitive Computing. AI Magazine, Vol. 37, #3, Fall 2016. Hill, C., Bellamy, R., Erickson, T. and Burnett, M. Trials and Tribulations of Developers of Intelligent Systems: A Field Study. Proc VL/HCC, Fall 2016. Chen, D., Bellamy, R.K.E., Malkin, P.K., and Erickson, T. Diagnostic Visualization for Non-expert Machine Learning Practitioners: A Design Study. Proc VL/HCC, Fall 2016. . . . Erickson, Thomas. A Distributed Cognition Perspective on Symbiotic Cognitive Systems: External Representations as a Medium for Symbiosis. Position paper. AAAI Workshop: Symbiotic Cognitive Systems, Spring 2016. . . . Erickson, T. Fleming, K. Pickover, C. Vukovic, M. Weldemariam, K. US15/285,189. Autonomous Mobile Beehives. Filed October 4, 2016. Erickson, T. Fleming, K. Pickover, C. Weldemariam, K. US 9,875,592. Drone Used for Authentication and Authorization for Restricted Access via an Electronic Lock. Issued January 23, 2018. Filed August 20, 2016. Erickson, T., Baughman, A. K., Gaucher, B. & Kellogg, W. A. US15/132,492. Group Discourse Architecture. Filed April 19, 2016. Erickson, T. Pickover, C. Weldemariam, K. US 10,140,987. Aerial Drone Companion Device and a Method of Operating an Aerial Drone Companion Device. Issued November 27, 2018. Filed September 16, 2016. Erickson, T. Pickover, C. Vukovic, M. US 10,082,802. Method and System for Continued Navigation of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Beyond Restricted Airspace Boundaries. Issued September 25, 2018. Filed August 11, 2016. Erickson, T. Gordon, M. Pickover, C. Vukovic, M. US 10,077,110. Monitoring for Movement Disorders Using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles. September 18, 2018. Issued September 18, 2018. Filed 05/18/2016. Erickson, T. Kim, M. Pickover, C. Vukovic, M. US 10,035,555. Cognitive Stabilizer Wheels for Vehicles. Issued July 31, 2018. Filed July 6, 2016. Erickson, T., Pickover, C., Vukovic, M. Weldemariam, K. US 11,075,992. System and Method for Providing Medical Attention AKA: Unmanned Aerial Vehicle-Based System for Creating Foam Splint. Issued July 27, 2021. Filed July 28, 2016. Erickson, T. Pickover, C. Vukovic, M. US 10,683,088. Unmanned Aerial Vehicle for Crowd Visual Feedback. Issued June 16, 2020. Filed May 27,2016. Erickson, T. Gordon, M. Pickover, C. Vukovic, M. US 10,287,014. Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Coupling Apparatus for Drone Coupling with Vehicles. Issued June 18, 2019. Filed June 9, 2016. Erickson, T. Pickover, C. Walcott, A. Weldemariam, K. US 10,249,194. Modifying Behavior of Autonomous Vehicle Based on Advanced Predicted Behavior Analysis of Nearby Drivers. Issued April 2, 2019. Filed August 30, 2016.
2015	Dugan, C., Laumer, S., Erickson, T., Kellogg, W.A., and Geyer, W. The #selfiestation: Design and Use of a Kiosk for Taking Selfies in the Enterprise. Proc. Interact 2015,, September 2015. Erickson, T. Creating Kairos. Interactions, XXII.4, July/August 2015. . . . Topkara, M., Erickson, T., Topkara, U., and Narayanaswami, C. Enabling Multiple QR Codes in Close Proximity. arXiv:1510.08210, 2015. . . . Erickson, T, Ferris, R., Pickover, C. US 9,651,945. Dynamic Management System, Method and Recording Medium for Cognitive Drone Swarms. Issued May 16, 2017. Issued May 16, 2017. Filed November 3, 2015. Erickson, T. & Farrel, R. US 10,394,861. Natural Language Processor for Providing Natural Language Signals in a Natural Language Output. Issued August 27, 2019. Filed October 22, 2015. Erickson, T. & Farrel, R. US 10,394,963. Natural Language Processor for Providing Natural Language Signals in a Natural Language Output. Issued August 27, 2019. Filed December 10, 2015. Ellis, J. P., Erickson, T. D., Malkin, P. K., and McAuliffe, K. P. US14/974,558. Applying Tacit Knowledge to Iteratively Refine Datasets. Filed December 18, 2015. Erickson, Feris, Pickover & Vukovic. US 10,040,551 Drone Delivery of Coffee Based on a Cognitive State of an Individual.>Issued August 7, 2018. Filed December 22, 2015. Erickson, T. & Bellamy, R. K. E. US 9,881,171. A System and Method for Privacy Protecting Sensing Devices. Issued January 30, 2018. Filed November 16, 2015.
2014	Erickson, T., Ellis, J. B. and McAuliffe, K. P. Supporting Coordinated Care: Designing Social Context Visualizations for Care Teams. The IBM Journal of Research and Development, 2014. . . . Venolia, G., Erickson, T., Tang, J., Mazza, B. and Herring, S. Lifestyle Teleworkers Speak Out! Proc CSCW: Conference Companion, 117-120, 2014
2013	Erickson, T., Li, M., Kim, Y., Deshpande, A., Sahu, S., Chao, T., Sukaviriya, P. and Naphade. The Dubuque Electricity Portal: Evaluation of a City-Scale Residential Electricity Consumption Feedback System. Proc. CHI 2013. ACM Press, 2013. Best paper award and Computational Sustainability award. . . . Erickson, T. A Million Heads are Better than One: The Power of Combining Digital and Social Intelligence. asmarterplanet.com, June 5, 2013. [IBM's Smarter Planet Blog] . . . Erickson, T., Farrell, R. & Kellogg, W. A.. US 9,514,495. Creation and Use of Closely-matched Groups to Aid in Initiating and Sustaining Behavioral Change. Issued December 6, 2016. Filed September 12, 2013.
2012	Erickson, T., Podlaseck, M.E., Sahu, S., Dai, J.D., Chao, T. and Naphade, M. The Dubuque Water Portal: Evaluation of the Uptake, Use and Impact of Residential Water Consumption Feedback. Proc. CHI 2012. ACM Press, 2012. Ding, X., Erickson, T., Kellogg, W. A. and Patterson, D. J. Informing and Performing: Investigating How Mediated Sociality Becomes Visible. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 2012. Erickson, T. Social Computing and the Smart Grid. Generating Insights: Winning in the New Era in Energy (eds. M Valocchi, L. Laplante and V. Gondkar). Kyoto Publishing, 2012. . . . Erickson, T. Empathy or Efficiency: A Tale of Two Parking Meters. asmarterplanet.com [IBM's official Smarter Planet Blog]. August 3, 2012. Erickson, T. Making the Smart Grid Social. Forbes, June 27, 2012. . . . Erickson, T. and Levine, D. US 8,914,859. Managing the Progressive Legible Obfuscation and De-obfuscation of Public and Quasi-public Broadcast Messages. Issued December 16, 2014. Filed Nov 7, 2011.
2011	Erickson, T., Shami, N.S., Kellogg, W.A. and Levine, D.W. Synchronous Interaction Among Hundreds: An Evaluation of a Conference in an Avatar-based Virtual Environment. Proc. CHI 2011. ACM Press, 2011. Best paper award. Shami, N.S., Erickson, T., and Kellogg, W.A. Common Ground and Small Group Interaction in Large Virtual World Gatherings. Proc. ECSCW 2011. Springer, 2011. Erickson, T. Social Computing. In: Soegaard, Mads and Dam, Rikke Friis (eds.). Encyclopedia of Human-Computer Interaction, 2011. Available online at http://www.interaction-design.org/encyclopedia/social_computing.html Farrell, R., Danis, C., Erickson, T., Ellis, J., Christensen, J., Bailey, M. and Kellogg, W.A. A Picture and a Thousand Words: Visual Scaffolding for Mobile Communications in Developing Regions. In D. Y. Jin (Ed.) Global Media Convergence and Cultural Transformation: Emerging Social Patterns and Cultural Characteristics, 165-178. IGI Global, 2011. . . . Erickson, T. Some Thoughts on a Framework for Crowdsourcing. Position paper. Workshop on Crowdsourcing and Human Computation, CHI 2011. . . . Erickson, T. and Levine, D. US 8,914,859. Managing the Progressive Legible Obfuscation and De-obfuscation of Public and Quasi-public Broadcast Messages. Issued December 16, 2014. Filed November 7, 2011.
2010	Panciera, K., Priedhorsky, R., Erickson, T., and Terveen, L. Lurking? Cyclopaths? A Quantitative Lifecycle: Analysis of User Behavior in a Geowiki. Proc. CHI 2010. ACM Press, 2010. Honorable mention award. Farrell, R. G., Danis, C. M., Erickson, T., Ellis, J. B., Christensen, J. E. Bailey, M. and Kellogg, W. A. A Picture and a Thousand Words: Visual Scaffolding for Mobile Communications in the Developing World. International Journal of Handheld Computing Research, 1(4), 51-66, 2010. . . . Erickson, T., Kellogg, W.A, Shami, N.S. and Levine, D. Telepresence in virtual conferences: An empirical comparison of distance collaboration technologies. Proc. CSCW: Conference Companion, 2010. Erickson, T. A Social Proxy for Collective Search. Posiiton Paper. CSCW 2010. Erickson, T. Geocentric Crowdsourcing and Smarter Cities: Enabling Urban Intelligence in Cities and Regions. Position paper. 1st Ubiquitous Crowdsourcing Workshop, UbiComp 2010. . . . Danis, C., Erickson, T., Helander, M., Kellogg, W., Rosenbaum, R., Singer, D. & Swart, C. US 8,959,097. Privacy Preserving Method for Skimming of Data from a Collaborative Infrastructure. Issued February 17, 2015. Filed, March 12, 2010. Bailey, M. Christensen, J. Danis, C. Ellis, J. Erickson, T. Farrell, R. Kellogg, W. A. US 8,903,847. Digital Media Voice Tags in Social Networks. Issued December 2, 2014. Filed March 5, 2010. Bailey, M. Christensen, J. Danis, C. Ellis, J. Erickson, T. Farrell, R. Kellogg, W. A. 12/715921. Social Bookmarking for Interactive Media Services. Filed March 2, 2010.
2009	Erickson, T. ‘Social’ Systems: Designing Digital Systems that Support Social Intelligence. AI and Society, 23:2, 147-166, 2009. Erickson, T. Socio-Technical Design. Handbook of Research on Socio-Technical Design and Social Networking Systems (eds. B. Whitworth and A de Moor), pp 333-334. IGI Global, 2009. Erickson, T. & Herring, S. Persistent Conversation 10, Proc. HICSS 42 (2009), IEEE Computer Society Press, 2009. . . . Farrell, R., Shah, H., Erickson, T, and Kellogg, W.A. A design evaluation of a user interface for tending long-term tasks. Proc. CHI: Extended Abstracts, pp. 4141-4146, ACM, 2009.
2008	Erickson, T., Danis, C., Kellogg, W. A., Helander, M. E.. Assistance: The Work Practices of Human Administrative Assistants and their Implications for IT and Organizations. Proc. CSCW ’08. ACM Press, 2008. Best paper award. Erickson, T. “Knowing the Particulars.” In Erickson, T. and McDonald, D. W. (eds) HCI Remixed: Essays on Works that have Influenced the HCI Community. pp 87-91. MIT Press, 2008. Erickson, T, Halverson, C. A., and Kellogg, W. A. Figuring Out How to Figure Out: Supporting Expertise Sharing in Online Systems. Resources, Co-Evolution and Artifacts: Theory in CSCW, pp. 95-144. Springer, London, 2008. . . . Erickson, T. and McDonald, D. W. (eds) HCI Remixed: Essays on Works that have Influenced the HCI Community. MIT Press, 2008. Edited book. Acerkman, M. S., Halverson, C. A., Erickson, T., and Kellogg, W. A. (eds.) Resources, Co-Evolution and Artifacts: Theory in CSCW. Springer, London, 2008. Edited book. . . . Erickson, T. Social Computation and Temporal Structure: Reflections on PepysDiary.com. Position paper. CSCW 2008 Workshop on Tinkering, Tailoring, & Mashing: The Social and Collaborative Practices of the Read-Write Web. 2008. Erickson, T. & Herring, S. Persistent Conversation 9, Proc. HICSS 41, IEEE Computer Society Press, 2008. . . . Helander, Danis, Rosenbaum, Erickson, Kellogg, Dietrich, Gospodinoff. Articulation Workload Metrics. 12/123743. Filed May 20, 2008. Malkin, P., Erickson, T., Hailpern, B., & Kellogg, W. A.. US 8,214,897. System and Method for Usage-Based Misinformation Detection and Response . Issued July 3, 2012. Filed August 14, 2008.
2007	Ding, X., Erickson, T., Kellogg, W.A., Levy, S., Christensen, J.E., Sussman, J., Wolf, T.V. and Bennett, W.E. An Empirical Study of the Use of Visually Enhanced VoIP Audio Conferencing: The Case of IEAC. The Proceedings of CHI 2007. New York: ACM Press, 2007. Bellamy, R.K.E., Erickson, T., Fuller, B., Kellogg, W.A., Rosenbaum, R., Thomas, J.C., and Vetting Wolf, T. Seeing is Believing: Design Visualizations for Managing Risk and Compliance. IBM Systems Journal, 46:2, 207-218, 2007. Erickson, T. and Herring, S. Persistent Conversation 8: Design and Analysis of CMC Systems. Proc. HICSS40, IEEE Computer Society Press, 2007. . . . Bellamy, R.K.E., Richards, J., Rosenbaum, R. Erickson, T., Kellogg, W.A., Thomas, J., Brezin, J., and Swart, C. Common & particular needs: a challenge to participatory design. Proc. CHI: Extended Abstracts, 1697-1702, 2007. Erickson, T. The Future of the Audience. A 750 word sidebar for HCI 2020. 2007. Unpublished Manuscript.
2006	Kellogg, W. A., Erickson, T., Wolf, T. V., Levy, S., Christensen, J., Bennett, W.E. Leveraging Digital Backchannels to Enhance User Experience in Electronically Mediated Communication. The Proceedings of CSCW ’06. ACM Press. Honorable Mention award. Ivanov, A., Erickson, T., Cyr, D. Plot-polling: Collaborative Knowledge Visualization for Online Discussions. Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Information Visualization. IEEE Press, 2006. Erickson, T., Kellogg, W. A., Laff, M., Sussman, J. Wolf, T. V., Halverson, C. A., Edwards, D. A. A Persistent Chat Space for Work Groups: The Design, Evaluation and Deployment of Loops. The Proceedings of DIS 2006. New York: ACM Press, 2006. Weisz, J. D., Erickson, T., and Kellogg, W.A. Broadcast Synchronous Messaging: The Use of ICT. The Proceedings of CHI 2006. New York: ACM Press, 2006. Erickson, T. Five Lenses: Towards a Toolkit for Interaction Design. Theories and Practice in Interaction Design (ed. S. Bagnara, G. Crampton-Smith, and G. Salvendy.) Lawrence Erlbaum: April, 2006. Erickson, T. From PIM to GIM: Personal Information Management in Group Contexts. [pdf]. Communications of the ACM, January 2006, Vol. 49, No. 1, 74-75. . . . Erickson, T. Cooperation Among Strangers: Visualizing Norms as a Means of Supporting Cooperation in Online Systems. Position paper. Workshop on Reinventing Trust, Collaboration and Compliance in Social Systems. CHI, 2006. Erickson, T. Trust Among Strangers. Position paper. CSCW 2006 Workshop on Revisiting Online Trust. 2006. Ellis, J. Halverson, C. A., ad Erickson, T. Sustaining Community - Incentive Mechanisms in Online Systems. A Report from the Group 2006 workshop. Unpublished Manuscript. Erickson, T. & Herring, S. Persistent Conversation 7, Proc. HICSS 39, IEEE Computer Society Press, 2006. . . . Erickson, Hailpern, Kellogg, Malkin. US20070162908A1/YOR9-2005-0462. Behavior-based Resource Capacity Adjustment Method for Business Processes. Filed January 6, 2006.
2005	Kellogg, W.A. and Erickson, T. Supporting Appropriation Work with Social Translucence, Collective Sensemaking, and Social Scaffolding. In Dittrich, Y., Dourish, P., Mørch, A., Pipek, V., Stevens, G., and Törpel, B. Special Issue on Supporting Appropriation Work, International Reports on Socio-Informatics (IRSI) (2:2) pp. 84-97, 2005. Erickson, T. Inhabited Models: Supporting Coherent Behavior in Online Systems. User Modeling 2005, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol 3538, pp. 5-8. Springer, 2005. Erickson, T. & Herring, S. Persistent Conversation 6, Proc. HICSS 38, IEEE Computer Society Press, 2005. . . . Erickson, T. A. and Halverson, C.A. Intelligent design or felicitous evolution?: Sustaining Order and Activity in Online Communities. Panel description. Proc. Group 2005, 323-323, 2005. . . . Erickson, Hailpern, Kellogg, Malkin, Bergman, Castelli, Oblinger. US 7,962,847 Method for Providing Dynamic Process-Step Annotations. Issued June 14, 2011. Filed October 20, 2005. Christensen, Erickson, Malkin, Richards, Sussman. US11/197,636. System and Method for Interacting with Participants of a Future Event. Filed August 4, 2005.
2004	Halverson, C. A., Erickson, T., and Ackerman, M. S. Behind the Help Desk: Evolution of a Knowledge Management System in a Large Organization. The Proceedings of CSCW 2004. New York: ACM Press, 2004. Erickson, T. Designing Online Collaborative Environments: Social Visualizations as Shared Resources. Proceedings of the Ninth International Workshop on the Language Action Perspective on Communication Modeling (LAP 2004). New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers, pp 143-158. Erickson, T. and Kellogg, W.A. Social Proxy. The Encyclopedia of Human-Computer Interaction. Berkshire Publishing Group, LLC, 2004. Erickson, T., Huang, W., Danis, C., and Kellogg, W. A. A Social Proxy for Distributed Tasks: Design and Evaluation of a Working Prototype. The Proceedings of CHI 2004. New York: ACM Press, 2004. Erickson, T. & Herring, S. Persistent Conversation 5, Proc. HICSS 37, IEEE Computer Society Press, 2004. . . . Voida, A., Mynatt, E. D., Erickson, T. and Kellogg, W.A. Interviewing Over Instant Messaging. Proc. CHI 2004: Extended Abstracts, 1344-1347. ACM Press, 2004. Voida, A., Erickson, T., Kellogg, W.A., Mynatt, E.D. The meaning of instant messaging . Proc. CSCW 2004: Companion Proceedings. CSCW, 6-10, 2004. . . . Malkin, Erickson, Kellogg. US10/707,917. Social Network Surfing. Filed January 23, 2004. Erickson, Kellogg, Malkin and Wolf. CN100388192C. System and Method for Providing Agenda-driven Meetings. Issued May 14, 2008. Filed July 22, 2004.
2003	Halverson, C. A., Erickson, T. & Sussman, J. What Counts as Success? Punctuated Patterns of Use in a Persistent Chat Environment. The Proceedings of GROUP 2003. New York: ACM Press, 2003. Churchill, E. and Erickson, T. Introduction to this Special Issue on Talking about Things in Mediated Conversations In Human Computer Interaction, Vol. 18 Nos. 1&2, pp 1-12. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2003. Erickson, T. and Kellogg, W. A. Knowledge Communities: Online Environments for Supporting Knowledge Management and its Social Context. Sharing Expertise: Beyond Knowledge Management (eds. Ackerman, Mark, Volkmar Pipek, and Volker Wulf). Cambridge, MA, MIT Press, 2003, pp. 299-326. Erickson, T. and Kellogg, W. A. Social Translucence: Using Minimalist Visualizations of Social Activity to Support Collective Interaction. Designing Information Spaces: The Social Navigation Approach (eds. K. Höök, D. Benyon, and A. Munro). Springer, 2003., pp. 17-42. . . . [Edited] Proceedings of the CHI 2003 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI Letters, 5(1), eds. V. Bellotti, T. Erickson, G. Cockton and P. Korhonen, ACM Press: New York, ISBN: 1-58113-630-7, 2003. Edited Volume. [Edited]Video Program, CHI 2003 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, DVD, eds. V. Bellotti, T. Erickson, A. Dey. L. Nigay. ACM: New York, ISBN Number: 1-58113-669-2, 2003. Edited Volume. [Edited] Special Issue on Talking about Things in Mediated Conversations. Human Computer Interaction, Vol. 18 (1&2), eds. Churchill, E. and Erickson, T. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2003. . . . Erickson, T. Designing Visualizations of Social Activity: Six Claims The Proceedings of CHI 2003: Extended Abstracts, pp 846-847. New York: ACM Press, 2003. Erickson, T. Silence, Murmurs and Applause: Reflections on Expressions of Collections. Position paper. CHI 2003 Workshop on Subtle Expressivity in Characters and Robots. Erickson, T. Position paper. ECSCW 2003 Workshop on From Good Practices to Patterns. 2003. [And also a poster version. Erickson, T. and Simmonds, I. In a Glass Darkly: Reflections on the Construction and Co-Evolution of Object and Personal Identity. Unpublished Manuscript. . . . Erickson, T. & Malkin, P. WO2005036421A1. Representations of Queries in Search Spaces as a Resource for Interaction. Filed September 18, 2003.
2002	Erickson, T., Halverson, C., Kellogg, W. A., Laff, M. and Wolf, T. Social Translucence: Designing Social Infrastructures that Make Collective Activity Visible. Communications of the ACM (Special issue on Community, ed. J. Preece), Vol. 45, No. 4, pp. 40-44, 2002. Hudson, J., Christensen, J., Kellogg, W., and Erickson, T. "I'd Be Overwhelmed, But It's Just One more Thing To Do:" Availability and Interruption in Research Management. Human Factors in Computing Systems: The Proceedings of CHI 2002 , ACM Press, 2002. Erickson, T. Some Problems with the Notion of Context-Aware Computing. Communications of the ACM, , Vol. 45, No. 2 , pp 102-104. February, 2002. (Technical Opinion). Erickson, T. & Herring, S. Persistent Conversation 4: A Dialog Between Research and Design, Proc. HICSS 35, IEEE Computer Society Press, 2002. . . . Erickson, T. Theory Theory. Quoted in full in >Coda> by B. Nardi, The Journal of Computer Supported Cooperative Work: Special Issue on Activity Theory (ed. B. Nardi), 11:1-2, 269-270. ACM Press, 2002. Erickson, T., Herring, S. and Sack, W. Discourse Architectures. Proc. CHI 2002: Extended Abstracts. ACM Press, 2002.
2001	Thomas, J., Kellogg, W.A. and Erickson, T. The Knowledge Management Puzzle: Human and Social Factors in Knowledge Management. The IBM Systems Journal, Vol. 40, No. 4, 2001. Erickson, T. and Kellogg, W. Social Translucence: Designing Systems that Support Social Processes. In Human Computer Interaction in the New Millennium (ed. J.. Carroll). Addison-Wesley, 2001. Book chapter: similar but not identical to 2000 TOCHI article. Erickson, T. and Laff, M. The Design of the 'Babble' Timeline: A Social Proxy for Visualizing Group Activity over Time. In Human Factors in Computing Systems: The Proceedings of CHI 2001. ACM Press, 2001. Erickson, T. & Herring, S. Persistent Conversation 3: A Dialog Between Research and Design. Proc. HICSS 34, IEEE Computer Society Press, 2001. . . . Erickson, T., Fisher, D., Bruckman, A. & Lueg, C. Dealing with Community Data: A Report on the CSCW 2000 Workshop. SIGCHI Bulletin. ACM Press: July/August 2001. Halverson, H. Newswanger, J. F., Erickson, T., Wolf, T.L., and Kellogg, W.A. World Jam: Supporting Talk among 50,000+ People. ECSCW 2001. Poster. 2001. Erickson, T. Here and There, Now and Then: Four Views of a Long-Distance Teleworker's Workplace. SIGGROUP Bulletin, Vol 22, No. 3, pp 5-10. December 2001. . . . Erickson, Malkin and Wolf. TW 0561356B. US 20,020,133,548A1. System and Method for a Distributed Social Proxy. March 5, 2004. Filed March 14, 2001. Erickson, T., Malkin, P., and Wolf, T. US 7,895,268. Multiple Perspective Activity Map Display. Issued February 22, 2011 (US) & March, 5, 2004 (TW as NI-190222). Filed October, 31, 2001
2000	Erickson, T. Lingua Francas for Design: Sacred Places and Pattern Languages. In The Proceedings of DIS 2000 (Brooklyn, NY, August 17-19, 2000). New York: ACM Press, 2000, pp 357-368. Erickson, T. & Kellogg, W. Social Translucence: An Approach to Designing Systems that Mesh with Social Processes. In Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction. Vol. 7, No. 1, pp 59-83. New York: ACM Press, 2000. Erickson, T. Making Sense of Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC): Conversations as Genres, CMC Systems as Genre Ecologies. In the Proceedings of the Thirty-Third Hawaii International Conference on Systems Science. (ed. J. F. Nunamaker, Jr. R. H. Sprague, Jr.), January, 2000. IEEE Press. Erickson, Thomas. Towards a Pattern Language for Interaction Design. . In Workplace Studies: Recovering Work Practice and Informing Systems Design. (ed. P. Luff, J. Hindmarsh, C. Heath). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000, pp. 252-261. Erickson, T. & Herring, S. Persistent Conversation 2, Proc. HICSS 33, IEEE Computer Society Press, 2000. . . . Erickson, T. Pattern Languages as Languages. Position paper. CHI 2000 Workshop: Pattern Languages for Interaction Design. 2000. Erickson, T. Putting the there there: visualizing community data. Position paper. CSCW 2000 Workshop on Dealing with Community Data. 2000. Bruckman, A., Erickson, T., Fisher, D. and Lueg, C. Dealing with Community Data. A Report from the CSCW 2000 Workshop. Unpublished manuscript. . . . Erickson and Malkin. US 7,249,180. Method and System for Marketplace Social Proxies. Issued July 24, 2007. Filed November 30, 2000. Bellamy, Ellis, Erickson, Kellogg, Laff, Malkin, Richards, Yu and Wolf. US 6,970,931. Method for Translucent Online Interaction. Issued November 29, 2005; also SG 2/28/05; also TW 8/19/03. Filed September 14, 2000. Bellamy, Ellis, Erickson, Kellogg, Laff, Malkin, Richards, Yu and Wolf. US 6,944,655. User Defined Online Interaction Method and Device. Issued September 13, 2005. Filed April 3, 2000. Erickson, Kellogg, Malkin, Richards, and Yu. US 6,591,265. Dynamic Behavior-based Access Control System and Method. Issued July 8, 2003. Filed April 3, 2000.
1999	Bradner, E., Kellogg, W, & Erickson, T. The Adoption and Use of Babble: A Field Study of Chat in the Workplace. The Proceedings of the European Computer Supported Cooperative Work (ECSCW '99) conference. Erickson, T. Smith, D. N., Kellogg, W. A., Laff, M. R., Richards, J. T., and Bradner, E. Socially Translucent Systems: Social Proxies, Persistent Conversation, and the Design of 'Babble.' In Human Factors in Computing Systems: The Proceedings of CHI '99. ACM Press, 1999. Erickson, Thomas. Rhyme and Punishment: The Creation and Enforcement of Conventions in an On-Line Participatory Limerick Genre. In the Proceedings of the Thirty-Second Hawaii International Conference on Systems Science. (ed. J. F. Nunamaker, Jr. R. H. Sprague, Jr.), January, 1999. Erickson, Thomas. Persistent Conversation: Discourse as Document. [Minitrack Introduction] In the Proceedings of the Thirty-Second Hawaii International Conference on Systems Science. (ed. J. F. Nunamaker, Jr. R. H. Sprague, Jr.), January, 1999. Also republished as Persistent Conversation: An Introduction. >Journal of Computer Mediated Communication, Vol. 4, #4, June 1999. . . . Erickson, T. and Kellogg, W.A. Towards an Infrastructure for Knowledge Communities. Position paper. ECSCW 99 Workshop Beyond Knowledge Management: Managing Expertise. 1999. Bruckman, A., Erickson, T., Kellogg, W.A., Sproull, L., and Wellman, B. Research issues in the design of online communities. Proc CHI 1999: Extended Abstracts, 166-166. ACM Press, 1999.
1998	Bradner, E., Kellogg, W. A. and Erickson, T. ;Babble: Supporting Conversation in the Workplace. Position paper for the CSCW 98 Workshop Designing Virtual Communities for Work, Fall 1998. SIGGROUP Bulletin, Vol. 19, No. 3, December, 1998, pp 8-9. ACM Press. Erickson, Thomas. Some Notes on the Experience of Being a Teleworker, in the Environmental and Architectural Phenomenology Newsletter (ed. David Seamon), vol 9, No. 3, Fall 1998. (A modified version of my contribution to Scholtz, et al., below.) Scholtz, J., Bellotti, V., Schirra, L., Erickson, T., DeGroot, J., & Lund, A. Telework: When Your Job is On The Line. In Interactions, Vol. V.1. January/February 1998. . . . Bayle, E., Bellamy, R., Casaday, G., Erickson, T., Fincher, S., Grinter, B., Gross, B., Lehder, D., Marmolin, H., Potts, C., Skousen, G. & Thomas, J. ;Putting It All Together: Towards a Pattern Language for Interaction Design. Summary Report of the CHI '97 Workshop; SIGCHI Bulletin, ACM: January, 1998. Bradner, E., Kellogg, W., & Erickson, T. Babble: Supporting Conversation in the Workplace<. Position Paper. SIGGROUP Bulletin, Vol. 19, No. 3, Dec. 1998, pp 8-9. ACM Press, 1998.
1997	Erickson, Thomas. Social Interaction on the Net: Virtual Community as Participatory Genre. In Proceedings of the Thirtieth Hawaii International Conference on Systems Science. (ed. J. F. Nunamaker, Jr. R. H. Sprague, Jr.) Vol 6, pp. 23-30. IEEE Computer Society Press: Los Alamitos, CA, 1997. Erickson, Thomas. Designing Agents as if People Mattered. Intelligent Agents (ed. J Bradshaw). AAAI Press: 1997. . . . Bayle, R. Bellamy, G. Casaday, T. Erickson, S. Fincher, B. Grinter, B. Gross, D. Lehder, H. Marmolin, B. Moore, et al. Putting it all together: Towards a pattern language for interaction design. Report on a CHI 97 workshop. SIGCHI Bulletin 30:1, 17-24, ACM, 1998.
1996	Erickson, Thomas. Design as Storytelling. In Interactions, July/August 1996. Erickson, Thomas. The Design and Long-Term Use of a Personal Electronic Notebook. Human Factors in Computing: The Proceedings of CHI '96. April 1996. Erickson, Thomas. The World Wide Web as Social Hypertext. In ;Viewpoints,; Communications of the ACM, Vol. 39, No. 1, pp. 15-17, January, 1996.
1995	Erickson, Thomas. Coherence and Portrayal in Human Computer Interface Design. Dialogue and Instruction (ed. R. J. Beun, M. Baker & M Reiner). Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, 1995. Nardi, B., Anderson, K. & Erickson, T. ;Filing and Finding Computer Files.; [pdf]Proceedings of the East-West HCI Confrerence. July, 1995. McCahill, M. P. & Erickson, T. Design for a 3D Spatial User Interface for Internet Gopher. In Proceedings of ED-MEDIA 95: World Conference on Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia, (ed. H. Maurer) Graz:Austria: 1995. (A longer version is on line as a working paper.) Erickson, Thomas. Notes on Design Practice: Stories and Prototypes as Catalysts for Communication . In Scenario-Based Design: Envisioning Work and Technology in System Development. (ed. J. Carroll). New York: Wiley & Sons, 1995.
1994	Salomon, Gitta, Wong, Yin Yin, Erickson, Thomas., & Kemink, Joost. ;Interfaces for Adaptive Systems: Design of a Personal Wayfinder.; In American Center Report . American Center for Design, 1994.
1993	Erickson, Thomas. From Interface to Interplace: The Spatial Environment as a Medium for Interaction. Proceedings of the European Conference on Spatial Information Theory. Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, 1993. Kahle, B., Morris, H., Davis, F., Erickson, T., Hart, C., & Palmer R. Wide Area Information Servers: An Executive Information System for Unstructured Files. Advisory Group for Aerospace Research and Development Conference Proceedings 544: International High Speed Networks for Scientific and Technical Information. October, 1993. Erickson, Thomas. Artificial Reality and the Visualization of Data. Virtual Reality Applications (ed. A. Wexelblat). Academic Press, 1993.
1992	Kahle, B., Morris, H., Goldman, J., Erickson, T. D. & Curran, J. Interfaces for Distributed Systems of Information Servers. In Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science Conference, (May 1992). . . . Vertelney, Erickson, Mountford, Thompson-Rohrlich, Salomon, Wong, Venolia, Gomoll, Hulteen. US 5,341,293, User Interface Systems having Programmable User Interface Elements. Issued August 23, 1994. Filed September 3, 1992. (Extension of US 5,202,828.)
1991	Erickson, Thomas D. Apple's Approach to Interface Design. Chapter 4 of the Friend21 Committee Report. (Summer 1991). Erickson, Thomas D. & Salomon, Gitta. Designing a Desktop Information System: Observations and Issues. Human Factors in Computing Systems: CHI '91 Proceedings. ACM: 1991. . . . Vertelney, Erickson, Mountford, Thompson-Rohrlich, Salomon, Wong, Venolia, Gomoll, Hulteen. US 5,202,828. User Interface Systems having Programmable User Interface Elements. Issued April 13, 1993. Filed May 15, 1991.
1990	Mercurio, Philip J. & Erickson, Thomas D. Interactive Scientific Visualization: An Assessment of a Virtual Reality System. Human Computer Interaction: Proceedings of Interact '90. Elsevier: 1990. Erickson, Thomas D. Creativity and Design: Introduction. The Art of Human Computer Interface Design (ed. B. Laurel). Addison-Wesley: 1990. Erickson, Thomas D. Working with Interface Metaphors. The Art of Human Computer Interface Design (ed. B. Laurel). Addison-Wesley: 1990. Erickson, Thomas D. Interface and the Evolution of Pidgins: Creative Design for the Analytically Inclined. The Art of Human Computer Interface Design (ed. B. Laurel). Addison-Wesley, 1990.
1989	Erickson, Thomas D. Interfaces for Cooperative Work: An Eclectic Look at CSCW '88. SIGCHI Bulletin, 21: 1, pp. 56-64. ACM: July, 1989. . . . Farrand, A.B., Erickson, T., Hoeber, T., Parkhurst, B. and Wilson, T. My user interface is the best because.... ACM SIGCHI Bulletin 20(SI), 223-225, ACM, 1989.
1984	Perlman, Gary & Erickson, Thomas D. Abstraction Program Aids to Documentation. Asterisk (ACM SIGDOC: 1984).
1983	Perlman, Gary & Erickson, Thomas D. Graphical Abstractions of Technical Documents.Visible Language, 23, #4, Autumn 1983.
1981	Erickson, Thomas D. & Mattson, M. E. From Words to Meaning: A Semantic Illusion. Journal of Verbal Learning and Behavior, 20, 540-551. (1981). Erickson, Thomas. Cocoon. [Science Fiction] Analog (1981).