A New Age of Emotion in Space: Launching the ERAs Experiment at DLR/ESA
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...
WBA Space Analog Mission Data Collection Complete
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...
WBA First Week Reflections
Its an absolute pleasure being involved in this global space analog experiment. Overall, everything is going smoothly with the WBA mission. Just a few data anomalies, as is normal in any science project. Its all getting smoothed out. I’m keeping a spreadsheet which is like an inventory of data....