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Comparing Automated vs. Manual Data Analytic Processing of Long Duration International Space Station Post Mission Crew Feedback

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Qualitative data collected from International Space Station (ISS) postflight crew debriefs was used to evaluate the performance of a convolutional neural network (ConvNet) model. While the ISS postflight debriefs cover a broad range of spaceflight and on-orbit operations related topics, this model was specifically trained and tested to classify debrief comments as safety related or not, based on a previously coded subset of debrief comments that were manually evaluated by human factors engineers to determine if a comment had safety implications. This evaluation revealed that a ConvNet can adequately determine whether textual debrief comments contain safety data. These methods can potentially save large amounts of manual effort on the part of human factors engineers and improve the ability to identify and act on crew knowledge that informs or identifies risk to spaceflight crew.

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The authors thank Katherine Vasser of MEI Technologies (NASA JSC contractor) and Rhonda Russo of JES Tech (NASA JSC contractor) for their expertise and assistance with collection and processing of the ISS Crew Comments data. The authors also thank Laura Duvall and John McBrine of NASA JSC for their guidance and support concerning the Crew Comments data.

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Bryant, C., Schoenstein, N., Schuh, S., Meza, D. (2019). Comparing Automated vs. Manual Data Analytic Processing of Long Duration International Space Station Post Mission Crew Feedback. In: Stanton, N. (eds) Advances in Human Aspects of Transportation. AHFE 2018. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 786. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93885-1_20

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