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Proceedings of Refereed Conferences by Dava J. Newman Margaret MacVicar Faculty Fellow Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Engineering Systems Director, Technology and Policy Program Harvard-MIT Health, Sciences and Technology Lead, Bio-Engineering Systems Focus Area, MIT Portugal Program   Newman, D.J. and T.B. Hawley, "The International Lunar Initiative: The 1988 Design Project of the International Space University," Lunar Bases & Space Activities in the 21st Century Symposium, Paper No. LBS 88-152, Houston, TX, April 1988. Newman, D.J. and B.W. Webbon, "Human Locomotion and Workload for Extravehicular Activity (EVA): Simulated Partial Gravity Environments," International Academy of Astronautics (IAA) 9th Man in Space Symposium, Köln, Germany, June 1991. Newman, D.J., "A Submersible Partial Gravity Simulator for Lunar and Martian Locomotion," International Design for Extreme Environments Assembly (IDEEA), Houston, TX, November 1991. Newman, D.J., "Biodynamics Modeling of Human Movement," World Congress on Computational Medicine, Public Health, and Biotechnology, Women in Mathematical Modeling: A Showcase, Austin, TX, April 1994. Newman, D.J. and S.C. Fox, "Posture Control in the Partial Gravity Environment As Assessed by Proprioception," 65th Aerospace Medical Association Meeting, San Antonio, TX, May 1994. Newman, D.J., "Tuning Muscle Stiffness to Accomplish Neuromuscular Control in Hypogravity," 2nd World Congress of Biomechanics, Amsterdam, he Netherlands, July 1994. Lathan, C.E. and D.J. Newman, "Memory Processes and Motor Control for Teleoperation Applications," AIAA Life Sciences and Space Medicine Conference, Houston, TX, April 1995. Jackson, D.K., Newman, D.J. and J.J. Bloomberg, "Changes in Astronaut Lower Limb and Body Mass-Center Kinematics in Downward Jumping Following Space Flight," 66th Aerospace Medical Association Meeting, Anaheim, CA, May 1995. Newman, D.J., "Human Posture Modeling: An Assessment of Altered Gravity Adaptation," Biomedical Engineering Society Annual Fall Meeting, Boston, MA, October 1995. Jackson, D.K., Newman, D.J., Bloomberg, J.J., Peters, B. and S. Smith, "Astronaut Lower-Limb and Mass Center Kinematics in Downward Jumping Following Spaceflight," AIAA Life Sciences and Space Medicine Conference, Houston, TX, April 1996. Newman, D.J. and K.U. Schultz, "Estimator Based Model of Human Posture Following Reduced Gravity Exposure," Engineering Foundation Conference on Neural Control of Human Movement, Mt. Sterling, OH, June 1996. Schaffner, G., Newman, D.J. and S. Robinson, "Inverse Dynamic Simulation and Computer Animation of EVA," AIAA-97-0232, AIAA 35th Aerospace Sciences Meeting, Reno, NV, January 1997. Rochlis, J. and D.J. Newman, "EVA Navigation in Space: A Demonstration of he Tactile Situation Awareness System," 68th Aerospace Medical Association Meeting, Chicago, IL, May 1997. Raj, A.K., McGrath, B.J., Rochlis, J.L., Newman, D.J. and A.H. Rupert, "The Application of Tactile Cues to Enhance Situation Displays," Proceedings for the Third Annual Symposium and Exhibition on Situational Awareness in the Tactical Air Environment, Piney Point, MD, June 1998, pp. 77-84. Newman, D.J. and A.R. Amir, "Innovative Aerospace Design Course at MIT," ASEE Annual Conference, Seattle, WA, July 1998. Nominated for Best Paper. Newman, D.J., "Interactive Web-based and Hands-on Engineering Education: A Freshman Aerospace and Design Course at MIT," ICEE '98 International Conference on Engineering Education, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, August 1998. Newman, D.J., Beck, S., Amir, A.R., Baroni, G., Ferrigno, G. and A. Pedotti, "Measuring Astronaut Performance in Microgravity: Loads and Modeling," Proceedings of the First Biennial Space Biomedical Investigators' Workshop, League City, TX, January 1999. Ruff, C.B., Beck, T.J., Newman., D.J., Oden, Z.M., Schaffner, G., LeBlanc, A., Shackelford, L. and N. Rianon, "Skeletal Structural Consequences of Reduced Gravity Environments," Proceedings of the First Biennial Space Biomedical Investigators' Workshop, League City, TX, January 1999. Amir, A.R., Baroni, G., Pedrocchi, A., Newman, D.J., Ferrigno, G. and A. Pedotti, "Measuring Astronaut Performance on the ISS: Advanced Kinematic and Kinetic Instrumentation," Proceedings of the 16th IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference: Measurement for the New Millennium, Special Session on Instrumentation and Measurement on the International Space Station, Venice, Italy, May 1999. Baroni, G., Rigotti, C., Amir, A.R., Ferrigno, G., Newman, D.J. and A. Pedotti, "Multifactorial Movement Analysis in Weightlessness: A Ground Based Feasibility Study," Proceedings of the 16th IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference: Measurement for the New Millennium, Special Session on Instrumentation and Measurement on the International Space Station, Venice, Italy, May 1999. Bishop, R.H., Byrnes, D.V., Newman, D.J., Carr, C.E., and B. Aldrin, "Earth-Mars Transportation Opportunities: Promising Options for Interplanetary Transportation," Paper AAS 00-255, Proceedings of the Richard H. Battin Astrodynamics Conference, College Station, TX, March 2000. Neogi, N. and D.J. Newman, "Estimation of the Transfer Function for the Russian Space Station Mir Due to Astronaut Loads," Proceedings of the 41st AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics, and Materials Conference, AIAA-2000-1736, Atlanta, GA, April 2000. Wu, R., D.J. Newman, "Astronaut Adaptation Across the Spectrum of Gravity," Proceedings of the 13th Humans in Space Symposium, Santorini, Greece, May 2000. Nghiem, D. and D.J. Newman, " Considerations for a Future Martian Spacesuit Design - What Does It Mean to You?," Intelligent Textiles Conference: A Look at he Future, Providence, RI, June 2000. Lathan, C.E, Newman, D.J., et al, "Promoting Leadership in Girls in an Informal Education Environment: The FAIHM Program," (Selected as Best Paper) Proceedings of the Society of Women Engineers National Conference, Washington, DC, June/July 2000. Newman, D.J., Schmidt, P., Rahn D.B., Metaxas, D., and Badler, N., "Modeling he Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU) Space Suit: Physiological Implications for Extravehicular Activity (EVA)," AIAA and SAE International Conference on Environmental Systems, Toulouse, France, July 2000. White, R.J., Bassingthwaighte, J.B., Charles, J.B., Kushmerick, M.J. and D.J. Newman, "Issues of Exploration: Human Health and Wellbeing During a Mission to Mars," 33rd Committee on Space Research Scientific Assembly (COSPAR 2000), Paper Number FO.1-0002, Warsaw, Poland, July 2000. Carr, C.E., and D. J. Newman, "Application of Wearable Computing to Exploration in Extreme Environments," 3rd Annual International Mars Society Conference, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, August 2000. Baroni, G., Newman, D., Pedrocchi, A., Ferrigno, G., Cotronei, V., Bracciaferri, F., and A. Pedotti, "Kinematic and Kinetic Analysis in Weightlessness: the Parabolic Flight Campaign of the Micro-G Project," Workshop Nazionale: La Scienza e la Tecnologia sulla Stazione Spaziale Internazionale (ISS), Turin, Italy, May 2001. Schmidt, P., Newman, D., and E. Hodgson, "Modeling Spacesuit Mobility: Applications to Design and Operations," AIAA and SAE International Conference on Environmental Systems (ICES 2001), Orlando, FL, June 2001. Saleh, J.H., Kaliardos, W.N., Hastings, D.E., Hansman, R.J., and D.J. Newman, "On Flexibility in System Design," 11th Annual INCOSE International Systems Engineering Symposium (INCOSE 2001), Melbourne, Australia, July 2001. Saleh, J.H., Hastings, D.E., and D.J. Newman, "Extracting the Essence of Flexibility in System Design," 3rd NASA/DoD Workshop on Evolvable Hardware, Long Beach, CA, July 2001. Saleh, J.H., Hastings, D.E., and D.J. Newman, "Extracting the Essence of Flexibility in System Design," 3rd NASA/DoD Workshop on Evolvable Hardware, Long Beach, CA, July 2001. Carr, C.E., and D. J. Newman, "Supporting Martian Field Geology," Geological Society of America Annual Meeting & Exposition, Boston, MA, October 2001. Saleh, J.H., Lamassoure, E.S., Hastings, D.E., and D.J. Newman, "Flexibility and the Value of On-Orbit Servicing: A New Customer-Centric Perspective," 2001 Core Technologies for Space Systems Conference, Colorado Springs, CO, November 2001. Frazer, A., Pitts, B., Schmidt, P., Hodgson, E., and Newman, D. "Quantifying Astronaut Tasks: Robotic Technology and Future Space Suit Design", abstract, Second Biennial Space Human Factors Workshop, Houston, TX, January 2002 Saleh, J.H., Mariais, K.S., Hastings, D.E., and D.J. Newman, "The Case for Flexibility in System Design," 12th Annual INCOSE International Systems Engineering Symposium (INCOSE 2001), Las Vegas, NV, July-August 2002. Gustafsson, G., Newman, D.J., Stafstrom, S., and H.P. Wallin, "First-Year Introductory Courses as a Means to Develop Conceive - Design - Implement - Operate Skills in Engineering Education Programmes," 30th European Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference (SEFIrenze2002), Florence, Italy, September 2002. Gustafsson, G., Malmqvist, J., Newman, D.J., Stafstrom, S., an H.P. Wallin, "Towards a New Model for First-Year Introductory Courses in Engineering Education Programmes," Design Society 4th NordDesign Seminar (NordDesign 2002), Trondheim, Norway, August 2002. Frazer, A. L., Pitts, B. M., Schmidt, P. B., Hofman, J. A. and Newman, D. J., "Astronaut Performance: Implications for Future Spacesuit Design", 53rd International Astronautical Congress, Paper No. IAC-02-6.5.03, Houston,TX, October 2002. Baroni, G., Pedrocchi, A., Ferrigno, G., Pedotti, A., Newman, D. J., "Human Body Orientation in Transient Microgravity", abstract, 14th IAA Humans in Space Symposium, Banff, Alberta, Canada, May 2003. Carr, C.E., Hodges, K.V. Hodges, Newman, D.J., "Geologic Traverse Planning for Planetary EVA", AIAA and SAE International Conference on Environmental Systems (ICES 2003), Vancouver , B.C., Canada, (to be presented) July 2003. Blaya, J.A., Newman, D.J., Herr, H.M., "Comparison of a variable impedance control to a free and rigid ankle foot orthoses (AFO) in assisting drop foot gait", (Paper #44) Proceedings of the International Society of Biomechanics (ISB) XIXth Congress, Dunedin, New Zealand, July 10, 2003.** Ferguson, P.A., Carr, C.E., Pitts, B., Newman, D.J., "Adaptation and Performance Analysis of Human Motion During Intra- and Extra-vehicular Activities," Proceedings of the Habitation 2004 Conference, Orlando, FL, January, 2004.** Saleh, J. H., Padilla, P. T., Newman, D. J., "To Reduce or to Extend a Complex Engineering System Design Lifetime? What is at Stake and how to Resolve the Dilemma," Engineering Systems Symposium, MIT, Cambridge, MA, (accepted) March 2004. Saleh, J. H., Torres, J.P., Hastings, D., Newman, D. J., "To Reduce or to Extend a Spacecraft Design Lifetime", AIAA International Communications Satellite Systems Conference and Exhibit. Monterey, CA , May 2004 Newman, D.J., Marquez, J., Brown Wagner, E., Trotti, G., Merfeld, D., Oman, C. "Integrating Engineering Education and Research Through Space Exploration", ICEER 2004International Conference on Engineering Education and Research"Progress Through Partnership", Olomouc, Czech Republic (abstract) June, 2004. Newman, D.J. and Trotti, G., "Space Exploration: Inspiration from Nature and Design" Design & Nature 2004, Second International Conference: Comparing Design in Nature with Science and Engineering, Rhodes, Greece (abstract), June 2004. Bethke, K., Carr, C. E. Pitts,B. M., Newman, D.J., "Bio-Suit Development: Viable Options for Mechanical Counter Pressure?", AIAA and SAE International Conference on Environmental Systems (ICES 2004), Colorado Springs, CO, July 2004.** Saleh, J. H., Torres, J.P., Hastings, D., Newman, D. J., "To Reduce or to Extend a Spacecraft Design Lifetime?", AIAA Space 2004 Conference and Exhibit, San Diego, CA, Sept. 2004. Ferguson, P. A., Coleman, C. P., Newman, D. J., "Characterization of Human Locomotor Control Strategies and Adaptation Across a Spectrum of Gravitational Environments", #IAC-04-Q.6/T.5.07, 55th International Astronautical Congress, Vancouver BC, Canada. October 2004.** Newman, D. J., Marquez, J.J., Wagner, E. B., Merfeld, K., Trotti, G., "Explore Space: Integrating Space Biomedical Engineering Education and Research?", #IAC-04-P.3.09, 55th International Astronautical Congress, Vancouver BC, Canada. October 2004.** Newman, D.J., Bethke, K., Hoffman, J., Carr, C. , Trotti, G.,"Astronaut Bio-Suit System to Enable Planetary Exploration." #IAC-04-U.1.03, 55th International Astronautical Congress, Vancouver BC, Canada. October 2004.** Carr, C. Newman, D. J., "When is running more efficient than walking in a space suit?", AIAA and SAE International Conference on Environmental Systems (ICES 2004), Rome, Italy, July 2005. Newman, D. J., "Communicating the Excitement and Significance of Bioastronautics Research to National and International Audiences, Teachers, Students and Families", #05ICES-52, International Conference on Environmental Systems and European Symposium on Space Environmental Control Systems, Rome, July 2005. Sim, Z. L., Bethke, K., Jordan, N., Dube, C., Hoffman J., Brensinger, C., Trotti, G., Newman, D.J., “Implementation and Testing of a Mechanical Counterpressure Bio-Suit System”, # 2005-01-2968, AIAA and SAE International Conference on Environmental Systems (ICES 2005), Rome, Italy, July 2005. Best Paper Citation.** MacLeish, M. Y., Thomson, W. A., Coulter, G., Newman, D. J., Gannon, P. J., Smith, R. B., “The National Space Biomedical Research Institute Education and Public Outreach Program: Engaging the Public and Inspiring the Next Generation of Space Explorers.” International Conference on Environmental Systems (ICES), Paper number 2005-01-3105, Rome, Italy, 2005. Newman, D. J., Marquez, J., Trotti, G., “Explore Space; An Interactive Science and Technology Multimedia Experience”, SIGGRAPH 2005 Los Angeles, CA July 31-Aug. 4, 2005 Jordan, N. C., Saleh, J. H., and Newman, D. J., "The Extravehicular Mobility Unit: Case Study in Requirements Evolution," 13th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE05), Paris, France, Aug. 29 - Sept. 2, 2005.** Bethke, K. Newman, D.J., and Radovitzky, R., “Creating a Skin Strain Field Map with Application to Advanced Locomotion Spacesuit Design”, XXth Congress of the International Society of Biomechanics, Cleveland, OH, August, 2005. Marquez, J. J., Cummings, M. L., Roy, N., Kunda, M., Newman, D. J., “Collaborative Human- Computer Decision Support for Planetary Surface Traversal”, AIAA 5th Aviation, Technology, Integration, and Operations Conference (ATIO), Arlington, Virginia, September 26 – 29, 2005.** Saleh, J. H., Jordan, N. C., Newman, D. J., “Shifting the emphasis: from cost models to satellite utility or revenue models”, 56th International Astronautical Congress (IAC), Fukuoka, Japan, October 17-21, 2005.** Smith, C. A., Jordan, N. C., Hassan, R. A., Saleh, J. H., and Newman, D. J., “Multi-Objective Optimization Approaches in Spacesuit Design”, 44th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit AIAA-2006-0338, Reno, Nevada, Jan., 2006.** Jordan, N. C., Smith, C. A., Saleh, J. H., and Newman, D. J., “Development and Validation of a Multidisciplinary Spacesuit Model”, 44th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit, Reno, Nevada, Jan., 2006.** Ferguson, P. A., Krebs, C. P., Stirling, L. A., Newman, D. J., “Kinetic and Kinematic Sensing System for the MICRO-G/Adapt International Space Station Experiment”, IEEE Conference, Houston, Texas, Feb. 8-9, 2006.** Ferguson, P. A., Stirling, L. A., Willcox, K., Metaxas, D., Newman, D. J., “Modeling Strategies for Predicting and Measuring Astronaut Locomotor Control Adaptation”, Habitation 2006 Conference, Orlando, FL, Feb. 2006 Wolfrum, N., Newman, D.J., Bethke, K. "An automatic procedure to map the skin strain field with application to advanced locomotion space suit design", Proceedings of the 5th World Congress of Biomechanics, Munich, Germany, July, 2006. Marquez, J.J. and Newman, D.J. “Mission Planning and Re-planning for Planetary Extravehicular Activities: Analysis of Excursions in a Mars-Analog Environment and Apollo Program.” Proc. International Conference on Environmental Systems. Norfolk, VA, July 16 – 20, 2006. Canina, M., Newman, D. J., Trotti, G. L., "Preliminary considerations for wearable sensors for astronauts in exploration scenarios", 3rd IEEE-EMBS International Summer School and Symposium on Medical Devices and Biosensors (ISSS-MDBS 2006), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, September 4-6, 2006. Newman, D.J., Canina, M. Trotti, G.L., “Revolutionary Design for Astronaut Exploration – Beyond the Bio-Suit”, 4th Symposium on New Frontiers and Future Concepts, Space Technology and Applications International Forum (STAIF), Albuquerque, NM, February 11-15, 2007     Publications by Dava J. Newman Papers in Refereed Journals by Dava J. Newman Proceedings of Refereed Conferences Other Major Publications by Dava J. Newman Internal Memoranda and Progress Reports by Dava J. Newman