Innovation Services and human-centered insight
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.
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.
pixel-level labeling of document image content for providing large-scale groundtruth data for document image recognition programs
a social-tag based cross between a search engine and a recommendation engine for exploring topics quickly and efficiently on the web
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.
a visualization tool for providing social transparency and dynamics for Wikipedia
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.
an easy-to-use image editing tool for manipulating meaningful image objects in scanned documents or screenshots
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.
Innovation Services and human-centered insight
Online Communities and Virtual Worlds
Innovation Services and human-centered insight
A Social Dashboard Tool for Online Communities
Innovation Services and human-centered insight
Printed Interconnects for Novel Electronics
Printed and Flexible Electronics
Optoelectronics and Optics
Printed and Flexible Electronics
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.
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.
Parallel Grammar Project (ParGram)
producing wide coverage grammars for a variety of languages
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.
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.
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.
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.
2013
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
2013 SIGCHI Awards - CHI Academy
28 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
2012
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.
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
BiasTrust: teaching biased users about controversial topics
21st ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM)
29 October 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
Unbiased learning of controversial topics
75th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science & Technology (ASIST 2012)
26 October 2012
2012 Technology Innovation Award
19 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
Detection of scene obstructions and persistent view changes in transportation camera systems
IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems 2012
16 September 2012
Reference image-independent fault detection in transportation camera systems for nighttime scenes
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
Diagnosing heterogeneous Hadoop clusters
23rd International Workshop on the Principles of Diagnosis (DX2012)
31 July 2012
Collective intelligence in organizations: tools and studies
Introduction to a special issue of Computer Supported Cooperative Work
27 July 2012
9th International Symposium on Semiconductor Light Emitting Devices
23 July 2012
Parallel model checking using abstraction
To be presented at the 19th International SPIN Workshop on Model Checking of Software
23 July 2012
Towards a cognitive system that can recognize spatial regions based on context
26th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
22 July 2012
Inferring personality of online gamers by fusing multiple-View predictions
20th International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 2012)
16 July 2012
Using anchor points to define and transfer spatial regions based on context
26th International Workshop on Qualitative Reasoning
16 July 2012
Placing qualitative reasoning in the design process
26th International Workshop on Qualitative Reasoning
16 July 2012
PiCoDa: privacy-preserving smart coupon delivery architecture
5th Workshop on Hot Topics in Privacy-Preserving Technologies (HotPETS 2012)
13 July 2012
CCN: Applications for Medical Devices and Healthcare Management Systems
12 July 2012
This is a proposition for the design and deployment of a communication platform for medical devices and healthcare management systems based on PARC’s Content-Centric Networking (CCN) technology. It includes use case scenarios and innovation propositions for medical device and healthcare provisioning companies.
Les jeux vidéo en ligne, un miroir de la personnalité des internautes?
Questions de Communication
1 July 2012
Custodian-based information sharing
IEEE Communications Magazine special issue on Information-Centric Networking
July 2012
A maximum-power-point-tracking control system for thermoelectric generators
The 3rd International Symposium on Power Electronics for Distributed Generation Systems (PEDG 2012)
25 June 2012
The identification of recombination centers in organic solar cells
TechConnect World 2012
21 June 2012
Large-area, Organic and Printed Electronics Convention (LOPE-C)
20 June 2012
Co-extrusion printing for low cost and high performance energy devices
TechConnect World
19 June 2012
Interactions of rocks with supercritical CO2 and water in enhanced geothermal systems and beyond
To be presented at TechConnect World 2012
18 June 2012
Improvement of silicon solar cell metallization with printed nickel nanoparticle ink
TechConnect World 2012
18 June 2012
Acoustic power recovery system for thermoacoustic cooling
To be presented at TechConnect World 2012
18 June 2012
search resources:
