Tracee Vetting Wolf
Tracee is a designer (more technically, Staff Software Product Design
Professional) at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center in Hawthorne, NY. She
has nearly 14 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 over three years, during which
time she has been the lead designer on the Social Computing Group team
(involving concept development, visual communication, interface design,
interaction design, visualization/information design, some ethnography,
and some usability studies).
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 focuses 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.
Contact information:
Email: tlwolf@us.ibm.com
Internal Address: 1N-F15, Hawthorne
External Address:
 IBM
T.J. Watson Research Center,
19
Skyline Drive, Hawthorne, NY 10532 USA
Publications: (Also see
group papers)
 Wolf,
Tracee. Creating
Virtual Places for Community Involvement. Position paper for CSCW
2000.
Wolf,
Tracee. The Hill Monastic Manuscript Library & Museum: A Critical
Study of Visual Communication in Medieval Representation and Architecture.
University of Minnesota Masters of Architecture thesis document. January
2000.
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