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Spaceflight Habitability Acceptability Questionnaire (SHAQ) Development and Validation

Last Published: 11/23/20 11:55:12 AM (Central)

Task Book: Entry Unavailable
Principal Investigator: Roma, Peter

Short Title: SHAQ Development and Validation

Responsible HRP Element: Human Factors and Behavioral Performance

Collaborating Org(s):

Funding Status: Active - Currently funded and in progress

Procurement Mechanism(s):

Directed

Aims:
This task is in response to an urgent need to develop and validate a Space Flight Habitability and Acceptability Questionnaire (SHAQ) to assess the behavioral health and performance impacts of volume, layout, and other design features of vehicles and habitats for long-duration exploration spaceflight and other operational environments.

Aim 1: Conduct a review to identify primary constructs and themes relevant to habitability effects on individual and team behavioral health and performance in operational environments.
Aim 2: Develop candidate questionnaire items based on the constructs and themes identified in the literature review and validated against coded videos from the ISS Habitability Study (PI: Greene) and in consultation with Subject Matter Experts.
Aim 3: Empirically assess the initial sensitivity, construct validity, divergent validity, and concurrent validity of SHAQ in HERA C5.
Aim 4: Refine SHAQ based on the results of the HERA validation study.
Aim 5: Draft a NASA Technical Report and/or manuscript for publication that (a) provides the results of SHAQ research and development efforts and (b) offers habitability recommendations for future deep space exploration missions.
Aim 6: Author a SHAQ User Guide for public dissemination providing details on administration, scoring, and data management and interpretation.

Resources (Ground Analog)

Deliverables (3)

Category: Risk Characterization, Quantification
Subcategory: Evidence or Risk Characterization

Description:
This task will provide evidence regarding changes in behavioral health and performance, relative to changes in habitable volume, layout, and design, in isolation and confinement. A final report will summarize findings from our experimental protocol in HERA.

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

Category: Standard
Subcategory: Update

Description:
This task may result in information that could inform a standard in the NASA Habitability Standards 3001 Vol. 2. As an example, standards relative to private crew quarters may be informed in part by the results of this investigation. If applicable, we will update relevant standards.

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

Category: Technology or Tool
Subcategory: Informatics

Description:
We will deliver the HERA validated Spaceflight Habitability Acceptability Questionnaire (SHAQ) along with an accompanying manual (outlining the psychometric properties of the measure along with considerations for format for delivery).

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

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Risk of Adverse Cognitive or Behavioral Conditions and Psychiatric Disorders

BMed-104: Given the potentially negative spaceflight associated CNS changes and behavioral experiences of stressors during long-duration missions (e.g., isolation, confinement, reduced sensory stimulation, altered gravity, space radiation), what are validated modifications to habitat/vehicle to mitigate stressors impacting on CNS / cognition / behavioral health?

BMed-105: Given the potentially negative spaceflight associated CNS/cognitive changes and behavioral experiences of stressors during long-duration missions (e.g., isolation, confinement, reduced sensory stimulation, altered gravity, space radiation), what are validated medical or dietary countermeasures to mitigate stressors impacting on CNS / cognition / behavioral health?

Spaceflight Habitability Acceptability Questionnaire (SHAQ) Development and Validation

Risk of Adverse Outcome 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-301: We need to determine the on-board, intelligent systems that will support crew health and performance, and we need to establish the thresholds that will define how these systems should be implemented (including in-mission and at landing).

HSIA-401: We need to determine how HSI can be applied in the vehicle/habitat and computer interface Design Phase to mitigate potential decrements in operationally-relevant performance (e.g. problem-solving, execution procedures), during increasingly earth-independent, future exploration missions (including in-mission and at landing).

Spaceflight Habitability Acceptability Questionnaire (SHAQ) Development and Validation

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.

Spaceflight Habitability Acceptability Questionnaire (SHAQ) Development and Validation

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	Risk of Adverse Outcome Due to Inadequate Human Systems Integration Architecture