Thomas B Sheridan Author

Thomas B Sheridan is currently Professor Emeritus in the Departments of Mechanical Engineering and Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics MIT.

He was co-editor of the MIT Press journal Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments and served on several editorial boards; and was editor of IEEE Transactions on Man-Machine Systems.

Sheridan chaired the National Research Council’s Committee on Human Factors, and has served on numerous government and industrial advisory committees. He is principal of Thomas B. Sheridan and Associates, a consulting firm. He was President of HFES, and is a member of the National Academy of Engineering.