The Planetary Human Mission Habitat Designed as an Information Space for Interactive Support for Living and Exploration
- Paper number
IAC-07-E5.4.05
- Author
Mr. Marcus von Euler-Chelpin, Faculty of Engineering, Sweden
- Coauthor
Dr. Maria Nyström, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
- Year
2007
- Abstract
A base for long duration living and exploring on the surface of another planet than the Earth would have to represent a rather high degree of self-sufficiency regarding more or less all aspects of life and could be considered being an autonomous micro-society-biosphere. This paper examines possibilities of approaching the design of a human planetary mission habitat by considering the habitat as being a digital and analogue information space and the inhabitation of the space as being part of continuous interaction processes. These processes run between habitat and dwellers as well as in between the dwellers with the possibility for the dwellers to use the habitat as medium for communication and re-negotiation of their interrelationships. The design approach presented suggests the considering of human needs on multiple levels, from the physiological and anthropometrical levels to the sociological and anthropological levels. To meet these needs the system of the interior environment and objects must be both flexible as well as evolvable over time and involve physiological, cognitive, and cultural ergonomics considerations, incorporating theory on affordances and product semantics.
- Abstract document
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