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A Multi-faceted Approach to Examine Team Adaptation & Resilience within Isolated, Confined, and Extreme Environments

Last Published: 07/31/19 10:05:33 AM (Central)

Task Book: Entry
Principal Investigator: Tannenbaum, Scott

Short Title: Team Adaptation & Resilience

Responsible HRP Element: Human Factors and Behavioral Performance

Collaborating Org(s):

Other:

Funding Status: Active - Currently funded and in progress

Procurement Mechanism(s):

Solicited

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.

Resources (Ground Analog)

Deliverables (2)

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

Mappings

Risk of Adverse Cognitive or Behavioral Conditions and Psychiatric Disorders

CBS-BMed3: We need to identify and quantify the key threats to and promoters of mission relevant behavioral health and performance during autonomous, long duration and/or long distance exploration missions.

A Multi-faceted Approach to Examine Team Adaptation & Resilience within Isolated, Confined, and Extreme Environments

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

Team Gap 1: We need to understand the key threats, indicators, and evolution of the team throughout its life cycle for autonomous, long duration and/or distance exploration missions.

Team Gap 3: We need to identify a set of countermeasures to support team function for all phases of autonomous, long duration and/or distance exploration missions.

Team Gap 4: We need to identify psychological measures that can be used to select individuals most likely to maintain team function for autonomous, long duration and/or distance exploration missions.

Team Gap 8: We need to identify psychological and psychosocial factors, measures, and combinations thereof that can be used to compose highly effective crews for autonomous, long duration and/or distance exploration missions.

A Multi-faceted Approach to Examine Team Adaptation & Resilience within Isolated, Confined, and Extreme Environments

Related Tasks (519)

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]
Number of Subjects	42

Common Item(s)
	Risk of Adverse Cognitive or Behavioral Conditions and Psychiatric Disorders
	CBS-BMed3: We need to identify and quantify the key threats to and promoters of mission relevant behavioral health and performance during autonomous, long duration and/or long distance exploration missions.