Tracee Wolf

Tracee is a designer (more technically, Staff Software Product Design Professional) at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, NY. She has nearly 16 years of combined professional design experience in the areas of graphic (visual communication) design, architecture and interaction design. She has been with IBM Research for six years, during which time she has been the lead designer in the Social Computing Group (involving concept development, visual communication, interface design, interaction design, visualization/information design, some ethnography, and some usability studies). More recently, she has joined an Adventurous Research Project called PASTEL, designing adaptive learning simulations.

Tracee relies on design principles and doctrines of online sociability to imbue her designs with meaning. As a part of the Social Computing Group, her attention has focused on visualizing people and their activity in online spaces. A regular part of her practice includes creating design explorations (typically interactive demos) that work out conceptual issues of computer mediated social interaction. Her research interests include understanding how to create a sense of place in online environments, and how to support interactions appropriately within such spaces. She brings a unique perspective on virtual online communities and their activities/interactions that is evident in her design work on how people experience space, whether two-dimensional, three-dimensional or virtual. Recent emphasis has been on collaborative experiences in an online social setting. Tracee holds a B.A. in graphic design and an M.Arch. degree (Masters of Architecture) from the University of Minnesota.




Last updated 9 Jun 2006

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