September 20, 2013
Dava Newman at #BIF9: Thinking big and floating in zero-G
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About this video
Dava Newman tells the Tale of Three Suits. The space suits she has designed for NASA help astronauts maintain bone density and to be as efficient as possible. Newman hopes the space developed technology is also used to empower people with disabilities to complete daily activities to help them live happy lives.
ABOUT DAVA NEWMAN
Dava Newman is professor of aeronautics and astronautics and engineering systems at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She is also the director of the Technology and Policy Program and a Margaret MacVicar faculty fellow. Her expertise is in multidisciplinary research that combines aerospace biomedical engineering, human-in-the-loop modeling, biomechanics, human-interface technology, life sciences, systems analysis, design, and policy.
TOTAL RUNNING TIME
16:58
About the Summit
The BIF Summit blends storytelling, co-creation, and random collisions of unusual suspects, creating the conditions for us together to imagine a better future. A future that represents a diversity of perspectives, views, identities and experiences across industries, sectors and disciplines.
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