Design Thinking Research: Innovation - Insight - Then and Now

Christoph Meinel is head of the Department of Internet Technologies and Systems at the Hasso Plattner Institute for Digital Engineering gGmbH (HPI), Potsdam, Germany, where he previously served as Director and CEO. A former Dean and Vice Dean of the Digital Engineering Faculty of the University of Potsdam, he currently teaches at the HPI School of Design Thinking and at HPI Internet Technologies and Systems. Meinel is an honorary professor at the Department of Computer Sciences at Beijing University of Technology, guest professor at Shanghai University and concurrent professor at Nanjing University. He is a member of acatech, the German "National Academy of Science and Engineering," and numerous scientific committees and supervisory boards. Together with Larry Leifer, he was program director of the HPI-Stanford Design Thinking Research Program from 2008 to 2022.

Larry Leifer is a former professor of Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University, CA, USA. Dr. Leifer's engineering design thinking research is focused on helping design teams to understand, support, and improve design practice and theory. Specific issues include: design-team research methodologies, global team dynamics, innovation leadership, interaction design, design-for-wellbeing, and adaptive mechatronic systems. Leifer has launched various design initiatives at Stanford including the Smart-Product Design Program, Stanford-VA Rehabilitation Engineering Center, Stanford Learning Laboratory, and most recently the Center for Design Research (CDR). Together with Christoph Meinel, he was program director of the HPI-Stanford Design Thinking Research Program from 2008 to 2022.

Christoph Meinel 是德國波茨坦哈索·普拉特納數位工程研究所 (HPI) 網際網路技術與系統系的負責人，曾擔任該所的主任和執行長。他曾是波茨坦大學數位工程學院的院長和副院長，目前在 HPI 設計思維學院和 HPI 網際網路技術與系統教授課程。Meinel 是北京工業大學計算機科學系的名譽教授，上海大學的客座教授，以及南京大學的兼任教授。他是德國「國家科學與工程學院」acatech 的成員，並參與多個科學委員會和監事會。從 2008 年到 2022 年，他與 Larry Leifer 一起擔任 HPI-史丹佛設計思維研究計畫的計畫主任。

Larry Leifer 是美國加州史丹佛大學的前機械工程教授。Leifer 博士的工程設計思維研究專注於幫助設計團隊理解、支持和改善設計實踐與理論。具體議題包括：設計團隊研究方法論、全球團隊動態、創新領導、互動設計、為福祉設計以及自適應機電系統。Leifer 在史丹佛大學啟動了多個設計倡議，包括智慧產品設計計畫、史丹佛-退伍軍人事務部康復工程中心、史丹佛學習實驗室，以及最近成立的設計研究中心 (CDR)。從 2008 年到 2022 年，他與 Christoph Meinel 一起擔任 HPI-史丹佛設計思維研究計畫的計畫主任。