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Team Task Switching in Astronaut Crews on the International Space Station: Integrating Multiteam Membership, Multiteam Systems, Multitasking, & Multidimensional Networks to Monitor & Enable Functional Work Shifts in Astronaut Crews

Last Published: 04/20/22 11:43:24 AM (Central)

Task Book: Entry
Principal Investigator: DeChurch, Leslie

Short Title: INERTIA: Functional Work Shifts in Astronaut Crews

Responsible HRP Element: Human Factors and Behavioral Performance

Collaborating Org(s):

Funding Status: Active - Currently funded and in progress

Procurement Mechanism(s):

Solicited

Aims:
The purpose of the project is to: a) develop a comprehensive understanding of team task switching as an adaptive and vital process in LDSE; and b) provide evidence-based recommendations for countermeasures, team-based interventions, and other psychological and psychosocial factors and measures that can be used to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of task switching in LDSE.

Additionally, this research team will collaborate and work together with the corresponding research team (Dr. Jeffery LePine) for the other Team Task Switching project (Understanding and Preventing Crew Member Task Entrainment) for the ISS portion of their tasks.

Resources (Ground Analog, Flight)

Deliverables (4)

Category: Requirement
Subcategory: Guidelines/Criteria

Description:
Recommendations for crew composition that maximize crew capability to team task switch.

Recommendations for Crew Training – guidelines for ground-based and ongoing training
that specify the behavioral, cognitive, and motivational instructional objectives that must be
addressed in training, and also the criteria that should be used in training evaluation.

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

Category: Technology or Tool
Subcategory: Computational Models or Simulations

Description:
Agent-based Model of Team Task Switching –a validated agent-based model of team task switching. The model can be used to conduct virtual experiments and evaluate various scenarios beyond those directly tested by the current research.

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

Category: Countermeasure
Subcategory: Protocol

Description:
Countermeasure Protocol – a protocol for using a specific set of unobtrusive measures to
employ one or more specific countermeasures.

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

Category: Study Results
Subcategory: Customer Requested Study or Analysis

Description:
Evidence based study results.

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

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Risk of Adverse Outcomes Due to Inadequate Human Systems Integration Architecture

HSIA-101: We need to identify the Human Systems Integration (HSI) – relevant crew health and performance outcomes, measures, and metrics, needed to characterize and mitigate risk, for future exploration missions.

HSIA-601: We need to determine individual and team-based Human System Integration (HSI) training procedures, regimens, and standards that are required pre- and in-mission, and post-landing to help reduce demands on crew (e.g., neurocognitive, time); support meaningful work during long-duration missions; and mitigate potential decrements in operationally-relevant performance (e.g., training retention, problem-solving, procedure execution) during increasingly earth-independent, future exploration missions.

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-105: We need to identify a set of countermeasures to support team function and enable multiple distributed teams to manage shifting levels of autonomy for all phases of increasingly earth independent, long duration exploration missions.

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Ground-Based Flight Analogs Controlled Research Analog, Long Duration (4 months or more) – isolated and confined with spaceflight mission scenario [e.g., NEK/Russian Chamber] Controlled Research Analog, Short Duration (2 months or less) – isolated and confined with spaceflight mission scenario [e.g., HERA, NEEMO]
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	Risk of Adverse Outcomes Due to Inadequate Human Systems Integration Architecture