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Joan DiMicco

Group Manager, Researcher

Joan DiMicco is a research scientist whose expertise is in understanding the impact of technology on human behavior, taking a hybrid approach of designing and engineering systems followed by analysis of the altered social dynamics. In leading the Visual Communication Lab, she views visualization as a method for collaborative sensemaking and for communicating complex ideas.

Joining IBM in 2006, she first focused on the use of social networking tools in the workplace and how they change the nature of employee communication. Prior to IBM, she worked at Sun Microsystems Labs and at two early-Internet startups: First Virtual Holdings and Open Sesame.

Joan holds a BS in Applied Math from Brown University and a Ph.D. and M.S. from the Media Lab at MIT.

For more information, see www.joandimicco.com.