Short Title:
INERTIA: Functional Work Shifts in Astronaut Crews
Responsible HRP Element:
Human Factors and Behavioral Performance
Funding Status:
Active - Currently funded and in progress
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Procurement Mechanism(s):
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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.
Ground Analog Resources
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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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| Number of Subjects
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54
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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