For each mission, certain astronauts receive training as Crew Medical Officers (CMOs) to provide emergency medical care to crew members without guidance from flight surgeons on the ground. On long-duration missions, it is critical that just-in-time training provided to the CMO be efficient, concise, complete and as effective as possible. Dr. F. Jacob Seagull is working to improve current paper-based medical guidance with new technologies such as animation and video. His research will analyze specific medical procedures to generate multimedia design guidelines and use the results to design high- and low-resolution multimedia-based emergency medical procedure instructions. He will test the newly developed multimedia-based instructions through simulation of emergency procedures and pilot their integration into advanced technologies such as handheld computing and hands-free support systems.

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