Cognitive Engineering for Long Duration Missions: Human-Machine Collaboration on the Moon and Mars

New methodology to explore the role of visualisation in aircraft design tasks

“…Such tools should complement the efforts to improve the IDL as a collaborative design facility (Bachmann et al, 2012) and to provide a supportive working environment (Dineva et al, 2013). Finally, good interactive tools can also be incorporated into a project-driven educational programme to help teach collaboration early on (Dowling and Hadgraft, 2011;Mathers et al, 2012;Neerincx et al, 2006).…”

“…Support of multidisciplinary working projects range from visualisation techniques (Eppler and Lengler, 2007) and knowledge-based support tools (Elgh, 2013;Fruchter et al, 1996;la Rocca and van Tooren, 2008;Oellrich and Mantwill, 2013;Patel et al, 2012) to entire facilities (Bachmann et al, 2012;Dineva et al, 2013;Schubert et al, 2010;Xu et al, 2013). Noteworthy is a tool for visualisation of airline disruption data that was developed based on extensive interviews of airline operations controllers, (Rosenthal et al, 2013).…”

Game-based versus storyboard-based evaluations of crew support prototypes for long duration missions

“…To assess the quality of the feedback provided by the participants on missing system functionalities, the participants were given a quality rating by a usability evaluation expert. All overall effect variables were converted to a range between 0 and 1, for the user feedback variables this involved converting the values relative to the minimum (0) and maximum (1) values scored in the experiment. The results for these variables were compared between conditions, and tested for significance using Mann-Whitney tests.…”

“…The Mission Execution Crew Assistant (MECA) project aims at a distributed system of electronic partners (ePartners) to enhance astronauts' self-management of nominal and off-nomical actions in long duration missions. In this project, we derived a first set of requirements for such support and developed a corresponding prototype [1]. This prototype should prove to adequately deal with the dynamics of the context, operations, team and personal conditions, which will change over time substantially.…”

Entertainment Computing in the Orbit

“…Based on empirical research, diagnostic relevant characteristics of commercially available desktop virtual reality applications will be extracted, and the results will be implemented into the new AMHA. The virtual agent (buddy) will be adaptive in its communication behaviour to serve the following two main purposes: (1) establishing a trustworthy and private relationship to the particular crew member (Neerincx and Streefkerk 2003), and (2) providing an indirect communication channel to other 'buddies' and crew members (Neerincx et al 2006). …”