Short Title:
Problem Solving Skills Training
Responsible HRP Element:
Human Factors and Behavioral Performance
Funding Status:
Planned-Funded - Task expected to be within budget
Procurement Mechanism(s):
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Aims:
NASA’s “mission teams” are composed of astronauts and Earth-based support staff (flight crews, Mission Control Center, flight controllers, flight control teams, etc.) who work closely together to ensure both individual and crew performance. Future Long Duration Spaceflight Exploration (LDSE) missions, potentially including planetary surface missions on Mars, will demand the support and ability of these teams to manage shifting levels of autonomy when crew health, performance and/or mission success are threatened by unanticipated problems.
This task will provide standards and guidelines for training individual and team problem-solving skills across all team, medical, and technical domains for both work and non-work situations throughout a long-duration mission.
1. Determine how problem-solving skills are developed and used in operational settings such that there is generalization across many tasks and situations.
2. Identify which individual and team skills are most important to performing tasks in normal conditions and surviving in emergency conditions for LDEM.
3. Determine the relationship of individual cognitive processes/skills (e.g., attention, reasoning) to team cognitive processes/skills (e.g., collaborative problem solving, decision making).
4. Describe how these skills change over time and what may trigger these shifts.
5. Validate measurement, particularly unobtrusive measurement, of these skills for both individuals and teams.
6. Develop validated training guidelines and recommendations to develop and maintain individual and team cognitive skills throughout an LDSE mission, and allow them to be trained efficiently to maintain performance across tasks and situations in mission.
Ground Analog Resources
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]
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Number of Subjects
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Category:
Risk Characterization, Quantification
Subcategory:
Evidence or Risk Characterization
Description:
Risk characterization describing which individual and team skills related to problem-solving are most important in both nominal and off-nominal tasks/situation, how these skills may generalize across tasks/situations, and how these skills change over time and, if so, what may trigger these shifts.
Internal Customers:
Human Factors and Behavioral Performance
External Customers:
None
Category:
Standard
Subcategory:
Update
Description:
Standards and Guidelines recommendations related to training and other countermeasures to develop and maintain individual and team problemsolving skills
Internal Customers:
Human Factors and Behavioral Performance
External Customers:
None
Category:
Countermeasure
Subcategory:
Protocol
Description:
Corresponding countermeasure prototypes and training protocols supporting the recommended Standards and Guidelines.
Internal Customers:
Human Factors and Behavioral Performance
External Customers:
None