Gutenberg Open Science: Human performance in a realistic instrument-control task during short-term microgravity

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dc.contributor.author	Steinberg, Fabian	-
dc.contributor.author	Kalicinski, Michael	-
dc.contributor.author	Dalecki, Marc	-
dc.contributor.author	Bock, Otmar	-
dc.date.accessioned	2022-10-05T09:36:12Z	-
dc.date.available	2022-10-05T09:36:12Z	-
dc.date.issued	2015
dc.identifier.uri	https://openscience.ub.uni-mainz.de/handle/20.500.12030/7870	-
dc.description.abstract	Previous studies have documented the detrimental effects of microgravity on human sensorimotor skills. While that work dealt with simple, laboratory-type skills, we now evaluate the effects of microgravity on a complex, realistic instrument-control skill. Twelve participants controlled a simulated power plant during the short-term microgravity intervals of parabolic flight as well as during level flight. To this end they watched multiple displays, made strategic decisions and used multiple actuators to maximize their virtual earnings from the power plant. We quantified control efficiency as the participants’ net earnings (revenue minus expenses), motor performance as hand kinematics and dynamics, and stress as cortisol level, self-assessed mood and self-assessed workload. We found that compared to normal gravity, control efficiency substantially decreased in microgravity, hand velocity slowed down, and cortisol level and perceived physical strain increased, but other stress and motor scores didn’t change. Furthermore, control efficiency was not correlated with motor and stress scores. From this we conclude that realistic instrument control was degraded in short-term microgravity. This degradation can’t be explained by the motor and/or stress indicators under study, and microgravity affected motor performance differently in our complex, realistic skill than in the simple, laboratory-type skills of earlier studies.	en_GB
dc.description.sponsorship	DFG, Open Access-Publizieren Universität Mainz / Universitätsmedizin	de
dc.language.iso	eng	de
dc.rights	CC BY	*
dc.rights.uri	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/	*
dc.subject.ddc	150 Psychologie	de_DE
dc.subject.ddc	150 Psychology	en_GB
dc.title	Human performance in a realistic instrument-control task during short-term microgravity	en_GB
dc.type	Zeitschriftenaufsatz	de
dc.identifier.doi	http://doi.org/10.25358/openscience-7855	-
jgu.type.dinitype	article	en_GB
jgu.type.version	Published version	de
jgu.type.resource	Text	de
jgu.organisation.department	FB 02 Sozialwiss., Medien u. Sport	de
jgu.organisation.number	7910	-
jgu.organisation.name	Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz	-
jgu.rights.accessrights	openAccess	-
jgu.journal.title	PLoS one	de
jgu.journal.volume	10	de
jgu.journal.issue	6	de
jgu.pages.alternative	e0128992	de
jgu.publisher.year	2015	-
jgu.publisher.name	PLoS	de
jgu.publisher.place	Lawrence, Kan.	de
jgu.publisher.uri	http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0128992	de
jgu.publisher.issn	1932-6203	de
jgu.organisation.place	Mainz	-
jgu.subject.ddccode	150	de
opus.date.modified	2018-09-05T09:06:06Z
opus.subject.dfgcode	00-000
opus.organisation.string	FB 02: Sozialwissenschaften, Medien und Sport: Institut für Sportwissenschaft	de_DE
opus.identifier.opusid	51185
opus.institute.number	0208
opus.metadataonly	false
opus.type.contenttype	Keine	de_DE
opus.type.contenttype	None	en_EN
opus.affiliated	Steinberg, Fabian
jgu.publisher.doi	10.1371/journal.pone.0128992	de
jgu.organisation.ror	https://ror.org/023b0x485	-
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