At the end of July, data collection for the European Space Agency’s SOLIS100 mission was completed. Alongside the pre-experiment interviews and diary data, I conducted post-mission interviews with all of the astronauts. The indicative findings are extremely insightful and, in many ways, bring me full circle in my 20-year research career with respect to some […]
Read article ↗Tomorrow I will be training analogue astronauts at DLR/ESA as we begin our Emotional Responses of Astronauts (ERAs) experiment. This feels especially timely. The recent Artemis 2 mission has highlighted just how important this area of research is. As the crew described their views of the Moon, their observations were not only technical or operational. They were […]
Read article ↗This experiment on the emotional responses of astronauts (ERAs) went even better than I could’ve imagined! I have almost 400 5-minute files of audiovisual diary data! The next steps involve cleaning and redacting the data as I prepare for the analytical pipeline – this will involve topic modelling and sentiment analysis. However, what is the […]
Read article ↗After 18 months of preparation, my WBA experiment examining the emotional responses of astronauts (ERAs) finally kicks-off. Tonight I am on a call to meet and brief an international crew – 12 space habitats are participating in a variety of science aaround the world from Australia to Brazil 🧑🚀🚀👩🚀 hashtag#crewmeeting hashtag#spacehabitats hashtag#astronauts hashtag#emotionalresponses hashtag#spacepsychology hashtag#emotionalhealth […]
Read article ↗Hello from Dr Patrick Stacey! What have I/we been up to? Quite alot! First, we have submitted a paper on the emotional health of astronauts as depicted in movies to a prestigious journal! Now work begins on a paper which focuses on socialized emotion in small astronaut crews/teams. We uploaded our paper on astronaut Twitter […]
Read article ↗I am delighted to announce that our experiment has accepted by the European Space Agency (ESA). This was a competitive bid. It has been selected for ESA’s Analog Astronaut mission, hosted in Germany. It will produce a massive dataset and will feature audio-visual computational analytics of astronaut diaries concerning their emotional health under isolation conditions. […]
Read article ↗we are very excited to announce that our experiment has accepted by the international body which governs space analog missions, the WBA. This was a competitive bid. In this experiment we will be conducting pre-and post-mission interviews with astronauts as well as capturing daily diary data from them in an audio visual format. The videos […]
Read article ↗We have been working away, secretly in our caves, submitting proposals here and there. For example, the World’s Biggest Analog, Space-Expo (Bremen), and soon to the AHRC, and ESA. Alot of exciting moves and we look fwd to sharing more in the future.
Read article ↗Over the past year having attended various space Industry conferences and academic events we have been building up a wonderful network of parties interested in the human factors of space flight. We are pleased to announced we are forming an international network of research partners to investigate the mental health of astronauts, with a specific […]
Read article ↗We are proud Nina is presenting our paper on “Is there a place for emotions in space? An analysis of astronauts’ Twitter profiles“. Here is the abstract: This paper explores the emotional experiences of astronauts during space missions by analysing tweets using the notion of ‘scripts’. While space research traditionally understands emotions as isolated and […]
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