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Career

· Founding Director, Stanford Center for Innovation and Design Research (SCIDR)2019–
· Founding Director, NeuroDesign Research2018–
· Founding Co-director, Hasso Plattner Design Thinking Research Program at Stanford2007–
· Founding Director, Stanford Center for Design Research (CDR)1984–
· Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Emeritus, Stanford University1976–

Publications (287)

Engineering design thinking, teaching, and learning
IEEE Engineering Management Review · 2005
3,042
cited
Why did my car just do that? Explaining semi-autonomous driving actions to improve driver understanding, trust, and performance
International Journal on Interactive Design and Manufacturing (IJIDeM) · 2014
474
cited
Design Thinking: Understand - Improve - Apply
2010
392
cited
Design Thinking Research
2012
287
cited
SHARE: A Methodology and Environment for Collaborative Product Development
International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems · 1994
257
cited
Dancing with ambiguity: Causality behavior, design thinking, and triple-loop-learning
Information, Knowledge, Systems Management · 2011
191
cited
The Design of Implicit Interactions: Making Interactive Systems Less Obnoxious
Design Issues · 2008
190
cited
Enabling Engineering Student Success: The Final Report for the Center for the Advancement of Engineering Education. CAEE-TR-10-02.
2010
178
cited
A framework for understanding the workspace activity of design teams
Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work · 1988
154
cited
Applications of Damped Least-Squares Methods to Resolved-Rate and Resolved-Acceleration Control of Manipulators
1988
132
cited
Using Wikis and Weblogs to Support Reflective Learning in an Introductory Engineering Design Course
2005
128
cited
Empirical Studies of Designer Thinking: Past, Present, and Future
2015
127
cited
Clinical evaluation of a desktop robotic assistant.
Journal of rehabilitation research and development · 1989
101
cited
Is the contingent negative variation contingent on a motor response?
Psychophysiology · 1972
94
cited
SHARE: a methodology and environment for collaborative production development
[1993] Proceedings Second Workshop on Enabling Technologies@m_Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises · 1993
92
cited
‘Finding one’s way’: Re-discovering a hunter-gatherer model based on wayfaring
2012
78
cited
Scrutinizing Gartner's hype cycle approach
PICMET 2010 TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT FOR GLOBAL ECONOMIC GROWTH · 2010
77
cited
Stanford’s ME310 Course as an Evolution of Engineering Design
2009
76
cited
ProVAR assistive robot system architecture
Proceedings 1999 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (Cat. No.99CH36288C) · 1999
72
cited
Understanding driver responses to voice alerts of autonomous car operations
2016
71
cited
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