TY - JOUR
T1 - Team performance in space crews
T2 - 69th International Astronautical Congress: #InvolvingEveryone, IAC 2018
AU - Larson, Lindsay
AU - Gokhman, Ilya
AU - Wojcik, Harrison
AU - DeChurch, Leslie
AU - Bell, Suzanne
AU - Contractor, Noshir
N1 - Funding Information:
This research is based upon work supported by NASA under awards NNX15AM32G and 80NSSC18K0221. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. We thank Gabriel Plummer, Ashley Niler, and Alexa Harris for their assistance with this research.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 International Astronautical Federation, IAF. All rights reserved.
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - Space crews venturing beyond low Earth orbit will experience unprecedented levels of autonomy and unpredictable challenges. Mission success will require effective teamwork. How do teamwork capabilities change over time in isolation and confinement? To explore this question, we observed the 4, 4-member crews who participated in the 30-day campaign of NASA's Human Exploration Research Analog (HERA). Crews endured isolation, confinement, and communication delays. We tracked teamwork capabilities along three critical dimensions: generate (creativity tasks), choose (problem solving tasks), and negotiate (ethical decision-making tasks). To assess these capabilities, we administered a battery of three tasks, one requiring the crew “generate�, one to “choose�, and one to “negotiate.� Team task batteries were performed on Mission Days 11, 16, and 30. Results indicated that crew performance declined over time; however, there were differences across team performance dimensions. All 4 crews showed declining abilities to “generate� and to “choose.� However, though the 4 crews differed in their ability to “negotiate,� their capacity was relatively stable during the mission. We consider the implications of these results for the design of countermeasures that support crew functioning.
AB - Space crews venturing beyond low Earth orbit will experience unprecedented levels of autonomy and unpredictable challenges. Mission success will require effective teamwork. How do teamwork capabilities change over time in isolation and confinement? To explore this question, we observed the 4, 4-member crews who participated in the 30-day campaign of NASA's Human Exploration Research Analog (HERA). Crews endured isolation, confinement, and communication delays. We tracked teamwork capabilities along three critical dimensions: generate (creativity tasks), choose (problem solving tasks), and negotiate (ethical decision-making tasks). To assess these capabilities, we administered a battery of three tasks, one requiring the crew “generate�, one to “choose�, and one to “negotiate.� Team task batteries were performed on Mission Days 11, 16, and 30. Results indicated that crew performance declined over time; however, there were differences across team performance dimensions. All 4 crews showed declining abilities to “generate� and to “choose.� However, though the 4 crews differed in their ability to “negotiate,� their capacity was relatively stable during the mission. We consider the implications of these results for the design of countermeasures that support crew functioning.
KW - Confinement
KW - Isolation
KW - Space simulation
KW - Team performance
KW - Team process
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M3 - Conference article
AN - SCOPUS:85065340771
VL - 2018-October
JO - Proceedings of the International Astronautical Congress, IAC
JF - Proceedings of the International Astronautical Congress, IAC
SN - 0074-1795
Y2 - 1 October 2018 through 5 October 2018
ER -