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Various stressors such as microgravity, vibration, radiation, restriction, and isolation in manned spaceflight environments can cause a variety of negative psycho-physiological effects. At the emotional level, for example, they may provoke anxiety and depression, which affects the astronauts’ operational efficiency and overall mission performance. The colour design of a spaceflight environment could positively affect a person’s emotional level and thus help to counteract such negative psycho-physiological effects. This paper presents a new model for validating the colour design of spaceflight environments at the psycho-physiological and emotional level in order to increase the quality of emotional habitability and support efficiency and performance. Psycho-physiological experiments were tested on six coloured light in a dedicate physical mockup of a specific spaceflight environment. In particular the sanitary area of the space station was used as a case study. As result the highest quality of emotional habitability was achieved in a yellow coloured light environment, that is very close to the natural solar condition. Note: In order to support the confidentiality in this paper is not mentioned the name of the space station.
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This work is supported by a scholarship from the China Scholarship Council and the University of Leeds (No. 201908430166), a scientific research project of the Hunan Provincial Department of Education (No. 19B568), as well as a research project of the China Astronaut Research and Training Centre (No. 2018111400419).
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Jiang, A., Yao, X., Schlacht, I.L., Musso, G., Tang, T., Westland, S. (2020). Habitability Study on Space Station Colour Design. In: Stanton, N. (eds) Advances in Human Aspects of Transportation. AHFE 2020. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1212. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50943-9_64
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