AIAA SF, P.O. Box 1548, Mountain View, CA 94042-1548
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AIAA SF, P.O. Box 1548, Mountain View, CA 94042-1548 |
Monday, January 16, 2012; 6:30pm-9:00pm
Michael's at Shoreline, Mountain View
Dr. Robert McCann
Human-System Integration Division, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field
As we look beyond the Shuttle era, NASA has accumulated over 50 years of experience with developing and implementing operations concepts for human missions into space. However, no crewed mission has ever been mounted to a destination beyond the Earth-Moon system. One of the grandest challenges that NASA must meet in order to enable journeys to more distant destinations, such as Mars, is how to “re-tool” mission operations to adapt to the fact that speed-of-light limitations are going to force astronauts to deal with unplanned mission problems, such as systems malfunctions and equipment failures, without real-time assistance from the Earth. Dr. Robert McCann, of NASA Ames, will identify the scope of this problem using examples from Apollo missions, and discuss the various technologies that must be developed, tested, and built to provide the astronauts with the capabilities they will need to manage their missions when they are millions of miles from home.
Dr. Robert McCann has been a human factors researcher in the
Human-System Integration Division of NASA Ames Research Center (ARC)
since completing his Ph.D. at the University of Waterloo in 1987.
He is currently Group Lead of the ARC Intelligent Spacecraft Interface
Systems Laboratory, conducting research into human multi-tasking
capabilities and limitations in the complex operational environment of
a spacecraft cockpit.
In 2004, he served as the deputy for the Human-Centered Integrated
Discipline Team for Project Constellation.
From 2000 to 2004, he was the ARC lead and Point-of-Contact for the JSC
Cockpit Avionics Upgrade Project.
From 1990 to 1999, he co-lead a number of cockpit display development
and evaluation projects for aircraft surface operations.
He is the co-author of over 60 professional publications that have
been cited in over 700 peer-reviewed journal articles in the cognitive
psychology and human factors literatures.
Dr. McCann participates in various NASA planning and strategy activities
as a subject matter expert on the design of user interfaces with
intelligent onboard automation.
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Registration and no-host cocktails at 6:30 pm;
buffet dinner at 7:00 pm;
program starts at 7:30 pm;
program ends at 9:30 pm.
This meeting is open to the general public.
Michael's at Shoreline
2960 N Shoreline Blvd
Mountain View, CA,94043
650-962-1014
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For more information about this meeting, contact AIAA SF Chair Sylvee Walenczewski or Technical Development Director Rick Kwan.
Registration and no-host cocktails at 6:30 pm;
buffet dinner at 7:00 pm;
program starts at 7:30 pm;
program ends at 9:30 pm.
This meeting is open to the general public.