Presentation
Deriving Human-Centered Engineering Design Requirements for Exploration Extravehicular Activity Work Aids through Narrative-Rich Use Case Scenarios
DescriptionUpcoming Lunar and Martian exploration extravehicular activity (EVA) will require crew to perform field geology to accomplish overarching mission science goals. To support crew during science operations, technological work aids are currently in the process of being developed. However, deploying novel technologies inherently changes the characteristics of a work domain, which may introduce undesired work demands on operators, leading to an increased risk of injury or compromised performance. In this study, terrestrial field geologists were interviewed to derive human-centered engineering design requirements that help guide ongoing system development efforts in order to mitigate the human spaceflight risks of (1) adverse mission outcomes due to Earth independent human-systems operations and (2) risk of injury and compromised performance during EVA operations. Engineering design requirements were synthesized from geologist feedback on narrative-rich use cases. These cases presented different contextual scenarios of proposed technological work aids and function allocations between human and robotic agents within the exploration EVA environment to elicit different decision-making influences. Engineering design requirements synthesized from this study can be adopted by analogous systems to those presented in the use cases to improve future human health and performance during planetary science operations.
Event Type
Lecture
TimeThursday, October 16th1:30pm - 1:50pm CDT
LocationGrand Hall J
Cognitive Engineering & Decision Making