Exploring pressure in microgravity

Deep-pressure comfort wearables depend on a question no one had answered cleanly: how does applied pressure on the body actually behave, and how is it perceived, once gravity is gone?

Study pressure application, distribution, and perception in microgravity as the foundation for the next generation of crew-health wearables.

We connected wearable design to measurable human response, examining how evenly pressure can be applied and how the body reads it without gravitational load.

The work was carried out with the Aurelia Institute aboard a Horizon parabolic research flight, where repeated windows of true microgravity let us test how pressure actually sits on the body once gravity lets go.

Evidence that directly informs pressure-based wearables like Space Hug, replacing intuition with data.