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Experiment Overview


Information provided courtesy of the Japan Aerospace and Exploration Agency (JAXA).
Brief Summary

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Principal Investigator(s)

Nobuyoshi Muroi, Japan

Takao Yamaguchi, Japan

Co-Investigator(s)/Collaborator(s)

Hajime Yamada, Japan

Developer(s)
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Sponsoring Space Agency

Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)

Sponsoring Organization

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Research Benefits

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ISS Expedition Duration

March 2009 - October 2009

Expeditions Assigned

19/20

Previous ISS Missions

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Experiment Description

Research Overview

• The major objectives of this research are to verify the system performance of the JAXA-developed Head-Mounted Display (HMD) and to ensure that our HMD does not induce any stress in astronaut musculoskeletal systems or visual systems in a microgravity environment.



• The HMD system performance in a 1G environment has been verified, but no data is available to confirm that the HMD exhibits the same performance in a microgravity environment.



• The posture of an astronaut in microgravity is quite different from that in 1G. Furthermore, much evidence suggests that head, neck and eye position of those wearing the HMD are causal factors of stress to their musculoskeletal system and visual system in experiments on the ground. Therefore, we need to determine if the HMD induces any stress in astronauts in microgravity before we employ the HMD practically on ISS.

Description

To demonstrate performance of HMD System. Wearing the HMD, crew can see electronic documents or movies.

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Applications

Space Applications

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Earth Applications

The place is not chosen when it is necessary, and tonal information and the visual information (textual information, still picture, and animation) can be presented selectively by "Hands-Free". Be it to small, to light, not to use both hands, and a function characteristic very effective on the work improving to be able to operate it.

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Operations

Operational Requirements

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Operational Protocols

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Results/More Information

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Imagery

Test subject wearing the HMD. Image courtesy of JAXA.
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