awards
2013 SIGCHI Awards - CHI Academy
28 January 2013
2012 Technology Innovation Award
19 October 2012
9 May 2012
2012 Power Players in Greentech
8 May 2012
8 February 2012
books
Case-based reasoning research and development
Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning (ICCBR) edited by Ashwin Ram and Nirmalie Wiratunga
September 2011
Making work visible: ethnographically grounded case studies of work practice
Cambridge University Press
2011
Flexible electronics: materials and applications
vol. 11 of the book series: Electronic Materials: Science & Technology
2009
case studies
Uncovering new ways people use technology to connect
7 December 2012
Sony wanted to explore how people use technology to connect and share experiences and what this could mean for future consumer products and experiences.
Turning a laboratory concept into a field-ready prototype
10 December 2008
The U.S. Army had achieved the ability to detect bioagents in lab fluids -- but doing so in dispersed water samples in the field involved greater challenges.
Entering an emerging product market through IP and new technology capability transfer
Dowa had significant materials expertise and in-house R&D, but lacked the knowledge to manufacture and develop an emerging product category of LED-based products.
Enabling value-added offerings for new market
While BASF has significant chemistry expertise, it needed to integrate electronics into its materials to capture value-added opportunities with customers in the display market.
Collaborating to complement expertise and reduce each other's risk
Power Assure wanted to develop its data center software‐as‐a‐service (SaaS) virtualization offerings to enable both greater energy savings and greater quality‐of‐service for customers.
Going beyond usability and incremental innovation to target new markets
The projector industry has matured. Despite the increased number of competitors and need for differentiation, innovations have focused only on incremental improvements or component technologies.
Harnessing communal expertise sharing to enhance services
If Xerox could leverage service technicians' tacit and socially shared experiences into a codified expert system, it would help improve services, revenues, and customer satisfaction.
Incubating cleantech venture to accelerate time to market
2009
Realizing that solar electricity would be widely adopted if it were cost-competitive with fossil fuel-derived electricity, the entrepreneurs behind SolFocus had developed a promising CPV approach -- in their garage -- and were working to advance their technology.
Creating a new media business opportunity and technology platform
2009
While global publishing company DNP had a long history of delivering information on paper and other materials, it wanted to capitalize on the emerging trend of delivering information in digital formats.
Pioneering and deploying a breakthrough consumer product
The founders of startup Powerset, Inc., were convinced that there had to be a better way for consumers to search the web.
Transforming employee learning and customer service practices
To better serve customers, reduce training costs, and increase revenue, a Fortune 500 company wanted to consolidate its fragmented call-center operations to provide a single face to customers.
Using conversational insights to guide new products
Motorola wanted to investigate sharing practices among family and friends, so it could develop personalized communications applications that helped people maintain and enhance their social bonds.
Meeting a high-value, custom application need through low-cost, novel electronics
PARC scientists delivered the key components for a tape-like blast dosimeter with integrated memory, control electronics, and multiple sensors – which could be fabricated through printing techniques or be compatible with roll-to-roll processing (key for enabling the novel form factors and low cost), and be customized to specific application needs.
Designing a more engaging visitor experience
Based on observations of how Filoli visitors naturally engaged with audio guidebooks, PARC ethnographers realized that visitors wanted to listen to descriptive information together and share “listening spaces” with each other.
demos & tools
Parallel Grammar Project (ParGram)
producing wide coverage grammars for a variety of languages
a visualization tool for providing social transparency and dynamics for Wikipedia
a social-tag based cross between a search engine and a recommendation engine for exploring topics quickly and efficiently on the web
an easy-to-use image editing tool for manipulating meaningful image objects in scanned documents or screenshots
pixel-level labeling of document image content for providing large-scale groundtruth data for document image recognition programs
information sheets
30 March 2012
Breakthroughs may be born in the lab or boardroom, but they live or die in the marketplace – where people determine their real-world value through actual use. That's why PARC’s approach to innovation -- including ethnography -- places as much importance on people as it does on technology. Breaking down the silos that commonly separate research, engineering, social science, design, and business strategy, PARC is uniquely suited to help our clients identify unmet needs in the marketplace, recommend innovation practices that work, and introduce products and services that sell.
Hydrodynamic separation: Cost-effective dewatering of microalgae for biofuels
2 March 2012
PARC’s hydrodynamic separation (HDS) innovation provides a compact, low-energy, cost-effective method to dewater microalgae for biofuels and other applications.
Optics and Optical Systems Services
1 March 2012
Companies, both large and small, can now take advantage of PARC’s expertise in leading-edge optics and optical systems development to further their business goals. PARC’s capabilities today include micro and large-area imaging and non-imaging optical system designs, prototyping, process optimization, and transfer to manufacturing.
CoEx for Structured Battery Electrodes:
1 March 2012
PARC offers a proven co-extrusion printing technique, CoEx, that can enhance both the energy and power densities of batteries. A cost-effective way to manufacture structured electrodes, this technique can be applied to both cathodes and anodes for most mature battery chemistries.
1 January 2012
PARC offers a superior combination of world-class technical expertise, fully integrated on-site development and prototyping infrastructure, and the ability to develop new processes in a commercial MOCVD reactor that are readily transferable to high-volume full-production systems.
1 January 2012
PARC offers expertise and advanced designs for compact optofluidic systems that enable point-of-need diagnostics. PARC’s “spatially modulated emission” technique can reduce the cost and size of today’s commercially available flow cytometers while maintaining testing speed and high signal-to-noise discrimination.
Printed and Flexible Electronics Services: Application Development
1 December 2011
Targeted at companies and institutions interested in developing products based on printed or flexible electronics, this suite of services provides design and fabrication of “proof of concept” level demonstrators.
Printed and Flexible Electronics Services: Full System Prototyping
1 December 2011
This suite of services is targeted at clients who require hardened prototypes to demonstrate their materials, fabrication tools or circuit product ideas.
Printed and Flexible Electronics Services: Development and optimization of materials and devices
1 December 2011
Targeted primarily at suppliers and developers of substrate materials and printable semiconductors, dielectrics and metals, this suite of services provides development and optimization of materials and devices for many applications such as displays, sensing, and processing.
Methods for Ethnography: REACT
1 September 2011
Ethnographic insights have the power to fundamentally change perceptions, but it is often difficult to share observation-based insights out of context, and many clients don’t have the time to participate in workshops to absorb insights. PARC's Rapid Ethnographic Assessment and Communication Technique (REACT) compresses the ethnography process into a relatively short period of time and delivers findings that are essentially "self-presenting"…
Hydrodynamic Separation: Enabling next generation wastewater treatment
1 June 2011
PARC’s hydrodynamic separation (HDS) technology provides a compact, low-energy, cost-efficient method of concentrating biomass in wastewater processes
Geothermal Rock-Fluid Interaction System
1 April 2011
PARC’s geothermal rock-fluid interaction system for modeling and evaluating wells and reservoirs could significantly reduce the risks and costs incurred during development of Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS), a potential vast source of base-load renewable energy.
31 December 2010
PARC’s integrated planning + control platform (“Plantrol”) enables enterprises in a number of industries to build modular systems that operate intelligently for higher flexibility and availability, with shorter development and testing timeframes than traditional automation approaches.
Low-cost mobile robotic mapping, localization, navigation
31 December 2010
PARC’s Mobile Entity Localization and Tracking (MELT) enables new indoor service, networking, and surveillance applications.
ClawConnect™ Compliant High-Density Interconnect
1 December 2010
PARC has invented and developed the ClawConnect™ compliant, high-density, interconnect (HDI) platform technology. This technology enables ultra-thin, ultra-small, high-performance solutions -- with low total cost of ownership and without sacrificing quality and reliability.
1 March 2010
PARC is developing a commercially viable approach to making carbon- neutral liquid fuel from sunlight and seawater that has the potential to be cost-effective, scalable, efficient, and, most important, realizable within the existing fuel infrastructure.
Social Analytics and Collaboration Applications
31 December 2009
PARC is modeling people’s behavior in social systems to develop solutions that enhance the usability and value of social analytics and collaboration systems.
Pioneering Ubiquitous Information Services [Fujitsu Journal reprint]
30 March 2006
Fujitsu's report on innovating with PARC-- in English and Japanese.
technical publications
ThroughputScheduler: learning to schedule on heterogeneous Hadoop clusters
International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC '13)
27 June 2013
Invited paper for SPIE Defense, Security and Sensing 2013
29 April 2013
Echoes from the past: how technology mediated reflection improves well-being
ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI2013)
27 April 2013
Persistent photoconductivity effects in printed n-channel organic transistors
Journal of Applied Physics
March 2013
Studies of hole transport in Mg-doped AlGaN layers for deep-ultraviolet light emitters
SPIE Photonics West
7 February 2013
Algorithm design for automated transportation camera image and video quality check modules
SPIE Conference on Electronic Imaging - Video Surveillance and Transportation Imaging Applications
3 February 2013
Microspring characterization and flip chip assembly reliability
IEEE Transactions on Components and Packaging Technologies
February 2013
Kinetics of light induced defect creation in organic solar cells
Applied Physics Letters
30 January 2013
From lab-scale ink-jet to mass-printed circuits
2013 Flextech Flexible Electronics and Displays Conference
29 January 2013
Capturing mobile telepresence through logging and video shadowing: a two-phase study design
Field Methods
January 2013
Comparison of static and dynamic printed organic shift registers
IEEE Electron Device Letters
February 2013
Origin of the tunable open circuit voltage in ternary blend bulk heterojunction organic solar cells
Journal of the American Chemical Society
January 2013
Materials Research Society Fall Meeting 2012
26 November 2012
Handheld flow cytometer for rapid pathogen characterization in water
2012 Materials Research Society Fall Meeting
25 November 2012
The value of rapid ethnography
Advancing Ethnography in Corporate Environments: Challenges and Emerging Opportunities, edited by Brigitte Jordan
November 2012
Solving inverse configuration space problems by adaptive sampling
Symposium on Solid and Physical Modeling (SPM 2012), published in a special issue of Computer-Aided Design
29 October 2012
BiasTrust: teaching biased users about controversial topics
21st ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM)
29 October 2012
Unbiased learning of controversial topics
75th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science & Technology (ASIST 2012)
26 October 2012
In-well pumped blue GaN-based vertical-external-cavity surface-emitting lasers
International Workshop on Nitride Semiconductors
18 October 2012
GenoDroid: are privacy-preserving genomic tests ready for prime time?
International Workshop on Privacy in Electronic Society
15 October 2012
Micro-fluidic based detection platform for rapid pathogen characterization in water
Frontiers in Optics 2012 and Laser Science XXVIII
14 October 2012
Adversaries and countermeasures in privacy-enhanced urban sensing systems
IEEE Systems Journal, Special Issue on Security and Privacy of Complex Systems
Fall 2012
Reference image-independent fault detection in transportation camera systems for nighttime scenes
IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems 2012
16 September 2012
Detection of scene obstructions and persistent view changes in transportation camera systems
IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems 2012
16 September 2012
Flexible large-area electronics made by additive printing
US Frontiers of Engineering Symposium
13 September 2012
Printed circuits and sensors for flexible electronic devices
International Conference on Flexible and Printed Electronics 2012
6 September 2012
Walk&Sketch: create floor plans with an RGB-D camera
ACM International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing
5 September 2012
Scalable printed electronics: an organic decoder addressing ferroelectric nonvolatile memory
Nature Scientific Reports
16 August 2012
A graph grammar based approach to automated manufacturing planning
ASME 2012 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (IDETC/CIE)
12 August 2012
Flexible, large-area sensor circuits fabricated by additive printing
2012 NanoTechnology for Defense Conference
8 August 2012
Ink and substrate interactions in printed field-effect transistors
Printing Electronics - Ink and Substrate Interactions
2 August 2012
Cognitive biases in a geospatial intelligence analysis task: an ACT-R model
Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society
1 August 2012
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