Final Hypothesis: The negative physical and mental health effects of cramped conditions and isolation experienced during long duration space missions can be mitigated by a combination of ergonomic design of interior space, and electronic diversions such as computer games and digital literature. Methods: I would like to have those who are being considered for potential missions … Continue reading Week 14 Final Hypothesis
My research topic is “The impact of Prolonged Isolation in Relation to Space Travel”. Since there is not a good way to conduct an actual experiment studying this without sending humans on a long duration space flight I decided that the best way to study this is to gather information that studies confinement effects on … Continue reading Week 13 Research
The database I used for my next three searches was Biomed Central also known as BMC. My first search was for “Isolation and mental health confinement”. This returned 132 results. The Boolean operator I used was “and”. I found an article near the top of the search that might have useful data it was detailing … Continue reading Week 11 Refining my search Jared Hornbaker
The first three searches that I did were in CORE. The time frame for the first search was between 2001 and 2020. The keywords I used were “Space Travel”. This search returned 9,566,031 articles. 3,702,995 were in English. This told me that I needed to refine my search more. The second search was for the … Continue reading Week 10 Research Results
My current idea for research is the same one I started with at the beginning with a slight title change to make it easier to understand the direction that the research will take. I want to look at the possible mental health problems associated with prolonged isolation and cramped conditions as a way to determine … Continue reading The Impact of Prolonged Isolation in Relation to Space Travel.