Larry Leifer

Professor
Design Division, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Director, Center for Design Research
Director, Stanford Design Affiliates Program
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Degrees
B.S. Stanford University - General Engineering (1962)
M.S. Stanford University - Mechanical Engineering (1963)
Ph.D. Stanford University - Biomedical Engineering (1969)

Research Interests
Professor Leifer's research interests include rehabilitation engineering, design methodology, and programmable electromechanical systems, among others. He has published in the areas of diagnostic electrophysiology, functional assessment of voluntary movement, human operator information processing, rehabilitation robotics, design team protocol analysis, design knowledge capture and concurrent engineering.

Recent Publications
Toye, G. and Leifer, L.J., "Hellenic Fault Tolerance for Robots", Computers Elect. Engng, Vol. 20, No. 6, pp 479-497, 1994.

Toye, G., Cutkosky, M., Leifer, L., Tenenbaum, M., and Glicksman, J. SHARE: A methedology and environment for collaborative product development", International Journal of Intelligent and Cooperative Information Systems, vol 3, No. 2 (1994), 129-153.

Brereton, M.F. and Leifer, L.J., "Synalysis Exercises: Integrating Problem Formulation, Analysis and Synthesis", Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Design Theory and Methodology, ASME Des. Tech. Conf., Albuquerque, NM, Sept 19-22, 1993.

Van der Loos, H.F., Machiel, Hammel, Joy, Leifer, Larry J., "The Palo Alto VA/Stanford Rehabilitation Robotics Program", Proceedings of the Workshop: Toward Physical Interaction and Manipulation, American Assoc of Artifical Intelligence Spring Symposium Series, Stanford University, March 21-23, 1994, pp 66-67.

Brereton, M. F., et al. "Collaboration in Design Teams: Mediating Design Progress through Social Interaction."
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Fruchter, R. et al. "Collaborative Mechatronic System Design." CERA 1995 Conference.
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Hong, J., Leifer, L. J. "Using the WWW to Support Project-Team Formation." FIE '95.
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Leifer, L. J. "Evaluating Product-Based-Learning Education." Osaka '95 Conference.
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Projects
Synthesis "A National Science Foundation Education Coalition"

NASA-ARC "Generation and Conservation of Design Knowledge"

SIMA "Multidisciplinary Concurrent Engineering through Shared Graphics"

ARPA "SHARE: A Scalable Methodology and framework for Concurrent Engineering"

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