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The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is conducting an investigation into the design of a medical workstation for an upcoming mission to Mars and other long duration crewed spaceflight missions. To help ensure the safety and well-being of astronauts on long duration exploration missions, this medical workstation represents a crucial capability for the overall success of future interplanetary missions. This research may benefit from another analogous NASA effort where researchers are currently generating requirements for a predictive space radiation risk model that will be used to plan crewed spaceflight missions beyond Low Earth Orbit (LEO). This activity includes a series of knowledge elicitation activities and the completion of a Cognitive Task Analysis (CTA) to inform the generation of design requirements. This paper is focused on how these methods and techniques can be adapted to the design of a medical workstation for the mission to Mars.
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Daiker, R., Harrivel, A., Ghatas, R., Lake, R., Maddock, S. (2021). Cognitive Task Analysis and Knowledge Elicitation to Inform Medical Workstation Requirements for Long Duration Space Missions. In: Ayaz, H., Asgher, U. (eds) Advances in Neuroergonomics and Cognitive Engineering. AHFE 2020. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1201. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51041-1_23
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