Short Title:
Team Adaptation & Resilience
Responsible HRP Element:
Human Factors and Behavioral Performance
Funding Status:
Active - Currently funded and in progress
Procurement Mechanism(s):
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Aims:
This research directly tackles the needs in the research road map by categorizing and quantifying environmental challenges or triggers (i.e., threats) that create a need for adaptation; examining how teams adapt (i.e., adjusting their team and taskwork processes) or fail to adapt in response to such challenges; and clarifying how specific types of team adaptations affect team performance, resilience, and well-being.
The research team will examine these relationships first using archival data from HERA and then by conducting a longitudinal empirical study of Saturation Dive (SAT) teams operating in isolated, confined and dangerous
conditions for 28-day periods – an environment with tremendous similarities to those that future
space crews will face.
They will also develop and test one or more countermeasures, first with the SAT teams and then in an empirical usability study with teams in a NASA analog environment. Collectively, this series of studies will help clarify key risks (adaptation triggers), improve NASA’s understanding of team adaptation dynamics, produce one or more validated countermeasures for enhancing team adaptation, and offer recommendations for composing and
preparing highly adaptive crews.
Ground Analog Resources
Ground-Based Flight Analogs
- Controlled Research Analog, Short Duration (2 months or less) – isolated and confined with spaceflight mission scenario [e.g., HERA, NEEMO]
- ICE Field Analog, Long Duration (4 months or more) – isolated, confined and extreme; may not have spaceflight mission scenario [e.g., Antarctica]
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Number of Subjects
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42
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Category:
Risk Characterization, Quantification
Subcategory:
Evidence or Risk Characterization
Description:
Report with critical factors for team adaptation and resilience in long-duration spaceflight.
Internal Customers:
Human Factors and Behavioral Performance
External Customers:
None
Category:
Countermeasure
Subcategory:
Protocol
Description:
Specific countermeasures, materials, and measures, including methods for categorizing
and tracking adaptation triggers and assessing resilience.
Internal Customers:
Human Factors and Behavioral Performance
External Customers:
None