Larry Leifer , PhD

Professor
Stanford University
Stanford, CA

Degrees: B.S. Stanford University - General Engineering (1962) M.S. Stanford University - Mechanical Engineering (1963) Ph.D. Stanford University - Biomedical Engineering (1969) Research Interests Rehabilitation engineering. Design methodology. Programmable Electromechanical Systems. 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.