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The success of space flight missions relies on support provided to astronauts through specialist knowledge of ground-based personnel. One of the many essential tasks that ground personnel provide is the scheduling of flight crew daily activities. Future long duration exploration missions will require astronauts to assume planning and scheduling responsibilities in order to facilitate increased autonomy from ground support. Although situation awareness is critical to the scheduling task, a sufficient measure for this domain has not been developed. This paper documents the approach and process by which the authors developed a framework for measuring situation awareness in space mission schedulers and presents the measure applications’ initial results.
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This research was funded by the NASA Human Research Program’s Human Factors and Behavior Performance Element (NASA Program Announcement number 80JSC017N0001-BPBA) Human Capabilities Assessment for Autonomous Missions (HCAAM) Virtual NASA Specialized Center of Research (VNSCOR) effort. The authors would like to thank Candice Lee, Megan Shyr, Casey Miller and John Karasinski for their assistance in collecting this research data.
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Edwards, T., Brandt, S.L., Marquez, J.J. (2021). Towards a Measure of Situation Awareness for Space Mission Schedulers. In: Ayaz, H., Asgher, U., Paletta, L. (eds) Advances in Neuroergonomics and Cognitive Engineering. AHFE 2021. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 259. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80285-1_5
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