Towards the wellbeing in space: measuring and monitoring the emotions of users immersed in meaningful virtual reality experiences
The Team: Associate Professor Nakisa Bahahreh, Kaja Antlej, Tyson Yunkaporta, Gabrielle Fletcher, John David, Ben Horan, Pubudu Pathirana, Annahita Nezami, Kaori Becceril, Julia Low
This interdisciplinary research initiative investigates how to design meaningful heritage-based extended reality (XR) experiences to support wellbeing of astronauts on long-duration space missions in Low Earth Orbit (LEO), to the Moon and Mars and those in isolated, confined, and extreme (ICE) environments on Earth. As a part of the immersive system, an AI-based platform will be designed and developed to measure, monitor, and regulate affective stress of the users. The team consists of researchers from STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) and HASS (humanities and social sciences) disciplines with Indigenous and non-Indigenous backgrounds.
The Team: Associate Professor Nakisa Bahahreh is joined by Kaja Antlej, Tyson Yunkaporta, Gabrielle Fletcher, John David, Ben Horan, Pubudu Pathirana, Annahita Nezami, Kaori Becceril and Julia Low.