Assoc. Prof. Noemi Bitterman

Research Area / Fields

Design and Human Factors in Healthcare: Medical technology, transfer of technology, Smart Home, Digital Health (EMR), hospital design, Operating Room of the Future, Biosensors, smart assistive technology, adherence to medications, home healthcare.

Personalized Design: Design for older adults and people with special needs, gender design, multisensory design, Natural User Interface (NUI), participatory design,

Human Factors and Design in Extreme conditions: performance in extreme environments, infrastructure for disasters, high pressures (diving and underwater), stressful environments (operating room), underwater architecture (Aquatecture).

Climate change and health: Global warming & health, natural disasters, cascading disasters, design for climate change, deployable

Evidence Based Design (EBD) Methodologies: Developing quantitative measures for design research, “experiments in the wild “, multimodal design, nature inspirated design, simulation methods

bio

Short Bio

Noemi bitterman is an Associate Professor (Ret.) from the Faculty of Architecture & Town Planning. She holds a PhD in Medical Sciences (Neurophysiology) and M.Sc in Industrial Design from the Technion and a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania (physiology), USA.

Former positions: Founder and Chair of Master of Industrial Design (MID) with focus on Medical and Social Design, Technion, Tel Aviv, Chair of Industrial Design at the Faculty of Architecture & Town Planning, Haifa (2003 – 2016), Head of Research Unit of the Israeli Naval Hyperbaric Institute (INHI) (1982- 1999).

Visiting Prof. at University of Venice IUAV, Italy,

Academic positions: Mentor at the BIODesign Rambam- Stanford program; Member of Management Committee of COST Action CA 22167 “Participatory Approaches with Older Adults” ; Member of Management Committee of CA19132 action. “European Network to Advance Best practices & technoLogy on medication adherence” (ENABLE); Member of the Center for National Knowledge and Research in Emergency Preparedness; Member of the TASP – Technion Autonomous Systems Program; Founding member of international research cluster of MEDLAB, IUAV University of Venice.

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