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John Patterson is a Distinguished Engineer (DE) in the Collaborative User Experience Research Group. He joined the Research staff in September of 1994. John received his Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology from the University of Michigan in 1979. Since then he has worked at Decisions & Designs, Inc., Bell Laboratories, Bellcore, and SunSoft, Inc. on both research and development projects. These efforts included videodisc-based prototypes of mapping and surrogate travel, an application generator for phone-based applications, prototypes and experimental studies of pictorial browsing, a shared windowing system, a system for implementing multi-user synchronous applications, and human factors support for the development of system administration applications.
John's research at Lotus/IBM has embraced a wide variety of groupware projects. John was one of the principle designers and developers on the Notification Service Transfer Protocol (NSTP) project, an Internet-based state synchronization capability for synchronous groupware. On the OverViews project, John and Steven Rohall developed a set of alternative viewers for Notes, so that Notes data could be viewed via Scatterplots, Maps, and other vizualizations. In the Carlisle Community Center project, John developed and operated a community Web site for the town of Carlisle, MA. This case study was designed to assess the value of the Internet for promoting Social Capital within a community.
Now, John's efforts have taken a different turn. In an effort to understand contextual collaboration and the componentry needed to enable it, John is leading an effort to introduce collaborative tooling into the Eclipse application development environment. The name of this project is Jazz.
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