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Using Analog Missions to Develop Effective Team Composition Strategies for Long Duration Space Exploration

Last Published: 07/30/21 01:05:34 PM (Central)

Task Book: Entry
Principal Investigator: Binsted, Kim

Short Title: Team Composition

Responsible HRP Element: Human Factors and Behavioral Performance

Collaborating Org(s):

Funding Status: Active - Currently funded and in progress

Procurement Mechanism(s):

Solicited

Aims:

Aim 1: Collect, develop, and verify a set of individual, dyad and crew characteristics that are expected (based on past investigations) to be relevant to crew composition.

Aim 2: Identify correlations, if any, between those characteristics and crew function/performance, using data from a series of simulated missions of various lengths at analog sites.

Aim 3: Data mining of all HI-SEAS data (Missions I-V) related to team, composition, including investigation of individual personalities, cognitive function and behavioral health changes, as it influences team performance and functioning in fulfillment of the aims of the Team Composition grant

Aim 4: Develop a database of all HI-SEAS data funded by NASA (including HI-SEAS opportunistic research collaborators).

Aim 5: Develop a set of tools (e.g. rubric, implemented model, best practices) NASA can use to optimize crew composition.

Resources (Ground Analog)

Deliverables (2)

Category: Countermeasure
Subcategory: Protocol

Description:
A set of tools NASA and other agencies can use to improve crew function and performance via optimized crew composition. This could include a crew composition rubric, an implementation (e.g. computer program) of the model developed, a set of best practices for crew composition, crew training strategies, and/or countermeasures for use during a long-duration mission.
Also, the predictive model itself, which could be used to a) compose crews more effectively and b) detect problems during a long duration mission.

Internal Customers:
None External Customers:
Med Ops - Medical Operations

Is a Customer-Supplier Agreement (CSA) Required? No

Category: Study Results
Subcategory: Customer Requested Study or Analysis

Description:
1. Report on the following:
a. The results of the study described in this proposal, showing the effects (if any) of crew composition on performance over a series of mission simulations;
b. The developed predictive model, including the key factors connecting crew composition and crew function/performance on long-duration missions;
c. A set of concrete data-based recommendations for crew composition for long duration missions, including a rubric (or similar) for optimally selecting crew members to best maintain and regulate crew function and performance; and
d. The reliability, validity and impact of the set of tools.

Internal Customers:
Human Factors and Behavioral Performance
External Customers:
None

Mappings

Risk of Performance and Behavioral Health Decrements Due to Inadequate Cooperation, Coordination, Communication, and Psychosocial Adaptation within a Team

Team-101: We need to understand the key threats, indicators, and evolution of the team throughout its life cycle for shifting autonomy and interface with automation in increasingly earth independent, long duration exploration missions.

Team-103: We need to identify psychological and psychosocial factors, measures, and combinations thereof for use in selecting individuals and composing highly effective crews most likely to maintain team function during shifting autonomy in increasingly earth independent, long duration exploration missions.

Using Analog Missions to Develop Effective Team Composition Strategies for Long Duration Space Exploration

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Ground-Based Flight Analogs ICE Field Analog, Long Duration (4 months or more) – isolated, confined and extreme; may not have spaceflight mission scenario [e.g., Antarctica]
Number of Subjects	6

Common Item(s)
	Risk of Performance and Behavioral Health Decrements Due to Inadequate Cooperation, Coordination, Communication, and Psychosocial Adaptation within a Team
	Team-101: We need to understand the key threats, indicators, and evolution of the team throughout its life cycle for shifting autonomy and interface with automation in increasingly earth independent, long duration exploration missions.
	Team-103: We need to identify psychological and psychosocial factors, measures, and combinations thereof for use in selecting individuals and composing highly effective crews most likely to maintain team function during shifting autonomy in increasingly earth independent, long duration exploration missions.