Analysis of Crew Functions as an Aid in Space Station Interior Layout

860934

07/14/1986

Event
Intersociety Conference on Environmental Systems
Authors Abstract
Content
The Space Station must be designed to facilitate all of the functions that its crew will perform, both on-duty and off-duty, as efficiently and comfortably as possible. This paper examines the functions to be performed by the Space Station crew in order to make inferences about the design of an interior layout that optimizes crew productivity. Twenty-seven crew functions were defined, as well as five criteria for assessing relationships among all pairs of those functions. Hierarchical clustering and multidimensional scaling techniques were used to visually summarize the relationships. A key result was the identification of two dimensions for describing the configuration of crew functions: “Private-Public” and “Group-Individual”. Seven specific recommendations for Space Station interior layout were derived from the analyses.
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DOI
https://doi.org/10.4271/860934
Pages
10
Citation
Steinberg, A., Tullis, T., and Bied, B., "Analysis of Crew Functions as an Aid in Space Station Interior Layout," SAE Technical Paper 860934, 1986, https://doi.org/10.4271/860934.
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Published
Jul 14, 1986
Product Code
860934
Content Type
Technical Paper
Language
English