Analysis of Crew Functions as an Aid in Space Station Interior Layout
860934
07/14/1986
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- 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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- 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.