Effects of caffeine and blue-enriched light on spare visual attention during simulated space teleoperation
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Liu, Andrew M.; Galvan-Garza, Raquel C.; Flynn-Evans, Erin E.; Rueger, Melanie; Natapoff, Alan; Lockley, Steven W.; Oman, Charles M.; ... Show more Show less
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Safe and successful operation of the International Space Station robotic arm is a complex task requiring difficult bimanual hand coordination and spatial reasoning skills, adherence to operating procedures and rules, and systems knowledge. These task attributes are all potentially affected by chronic sleep loss and circadian misalignment. In a randomized, placebo-controlled, cross-over trial examining the impact of regularly timed low-dose caffeine (0.3 mg kg<jats:sup>−1</jats:sup> h<jats:sup>−1</jats:sup>) and moderate illuminance blue-enriched white light (~90 lux, ~88 melEDI lux, 6300 K), 16 participants performed 3 types of realistic robotic arm tasks using a high-fidelity desktop simulator overnight. Our goal was to determine how these countermeasures, separately and combined, impacted telerobotic task performance and the ability to allocate attention to an unrelated secondary visual task. We found that all participants maintained a similar level of robotic task performance throughout the primary task but the application of caffeine separately and with blue-enriched light significantly decreased response time to a secondary visual task by −9% to −13%, whereas blue-enriched light alone changed average response times between −4% and +2%. We conclude that, for sleep-restricted individuals, caffeine improved their ability to divide their visual attention, while the effect of blue-enriched light alone was limited. Light and caffeine together was most effective. Use of these countermeasures should improve the margin of safety if astronauts perform familiar tasks under degraded conditions or novel tasks where task workload is increased.
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2023-12-19Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Human Systems LaboratoryJournal
npj Microgravity
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Springer Science and Business Media LLC
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Liu, A.M., Galvan-Garza, R.C., Flynn-Evans, E.E. et al. Effects of caffeine and blue-enriched light on spare visual attention during simulated space teleoperation. npj Microgravity 9, 94 (2023).
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2373-8065
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Space and Planetary Science, Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (miscellaneous), Materials Science (miscellaneous), Medicine (miscellaneous)
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