People around the world experience different symptoms derived from isolation and quarantine by COVID-19 and also astronauts experience the same phenomenon in their confinement during their missions in space.
This parallel gives us a meaningful analysis. How does this affect them? What can we do to counteract the negative effects?
NASA has studied isolation and confinement (HERAon Earth, like an example) in astronauts and how it affects their health, performance, and interaction with others in limited spaces to mitigate any negative effects. As long as they are preparing more ambitious missions farther away to the Moon and Mars, that generates stress on the human body and emotional conflicts that we hope they don't happen in the future.
The Psychomotor, Health, and Abilities Self Test or PHAST fits the challenge bringing a 24-day personal tool to which every citizen of any country can have access without distinction or discrimination. The test provides daily information on psychomotor development, health, cognitive abilities, and an open question about feelings/factors that influence their development.
PHAST converts human factors and behaviors in information and quantitative data concerning study issues in an extended period of isolation, quarantine, or space operations or explorations.
The most important idea related to other tests in addition to its integrated study axes is the feedback. After the daily test, PHAST recommends exercises to improve the psychomotor aspect, provides a list of medical verifications, cognitive skillsexercises, and a guide to improving coexistence in limited space. All in various age ranges to be properly distributed and to collect the most fidelity information as a way to improve people’s quality of life.
The Psychomotor, Health, and Abilities Self Test or PHAST will apply as an app for smartphones, tablets, laptops, and computers. Also people in rural zones or that not have digital devices will receive The Test printed and delivered by the authorities in the places that they live only if those authorities don't have the resources to have a digital device that serves their community, until restitution to normal conditions of life such as before COVID-19.
With their technological resources NASA will improve the app to the astronauts' operations and explorations with essential results. PHAST is an effective test that identifies the variables that require reinforcements in their astronauts and reflect the frequency of an idea that is mention in the open question category about feelings/factors that influence their development. The tone of this last part indicates an important issue to evaluate. All the cycle finish with the feedback two paragraphs above described.
What inspires us to agree on this challenge and create The Psychomotor, Health, and Abilities Self Test or PHAST is to redefine the ways to aboard the isolation, quarantine, and confinement issues in people on COVID-19 and space mission context. We propose people tools to improve their lives during this period before coming back to normal circumstances so their performance may not change dramatically during this transit.
We use references of NASA studies and resources of our professional knowledge to uniform the project and give it a global an integral solution. NASA data was essential within the Theoretical Framework in which tools of Scientific Method were used. We read NASA data, studies, links, and compared them with our medical books to have more powerful research to built PHAST.
To develop PHAST in this prototype and sample stage we used design tools that we attach to this document.
The real effect will be the creation of an application and a website with the test that provides daily information on psychomotor development, health, cognitive abilities, and an open question about feelings/factors that influence the development of thousands of people around the world and in space. And the feedback, with self recommendations and clear objectives to achieve improvement in people's quality of life.
Finally, the problems and achievements that our team has reached is the low electronic bibliography (books) about the theme.
We provide a presentation divide in 5 PPT attached to this link. Also, watch our vídeo in this YouTube link and look to our infographic work.
Theoretical Framework includes:
1. The Challenge
2. The Project
3. The App
4. Our Solution
5. Tracing