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Individual and Team Problem-Solving Skills Training for Exploration Missions

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

Task Book: Entry Unavailable
Principal Investigator: TBD

Short Title: Problem Solving Skills Training

Responsible HRP Element: Human Factors and Behavioral Performance

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Funding Status: Planned-Funded - Task expected to be within budget

Procurement Mechanism(s):

Solicited

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.

Resources (Ground Analog, Flight)

Deliverables (3)

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

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Risk of Adverse Cognitive or Behavioral Conditions and Psychiatric Disorders

CBS-BMed1: We need to identify and validate countermeasures that promote individual behavioral health and performance during exploration class missions.

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.

Individual and Team Problem-Solving Skills Training for Exploration Missions

Risk of Inadequate Mission, Process and Task Design

MPTASK-01: We need methods and tools to collect measures of missions, process, and task performance. (Previous title: SHFE-TASK-01)

Individual and Team Problem-Solving Skills Training for Exploration Missions

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 2: We need to identify a set of validated measures, based on the key indicators of team function, to effectively monitor and measure team health and performance fluctuations during autonomous, long duration and/or distance exploration missions.

Team Gap 5: We need to identify validated ground-based training methods that can be both preparatory and continuing to maintain team function in autonomous, long duration, and/or distance exploration missions.

Individual and Team Problem-Solving Skills Training for Exploration Missions

Risk of Performance Errors Due to Training Deficiencies

TRAIN-01: We do not know which validated objective measures of operator proficiency and of training effectiveness should be used for future long-duration exploration missions. (Previous title: SHFE-TRAIN-01)

TRAIN-04: We do not know the types of skills and knowledge that can be retained and generalized across tasks for a given mission to maximize crew performance. (Previous title: SHFE-TRAIN-04)

Individual and Team Problem-Solving Skills Training for Exploration Missions

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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.