Space Voodoo: Reflex Reality Check

Find a way to adapt common gym tools for a reduced gravity environment and design a workout routine that can minimize bone and muscular loss while being fun and easy to use during a long term mission. In doing so consider constraints regarding weight (equipment should weigh less than 500kg) and dimensions. Consider incorporating virtual reality to simulate a jog through an astronaut’s favorite Earth destinations or incorporate gaming to motivate users.

Problem: Astronauts have problems maintaining their reflexes, hand-eye coordination and perception of relative speed while in space.

Solution: A fun, interactive game that encourages astronauts to challenge each other and family members back home while keeping their motor skills in check. This game utilizes mobile application technology, Unity visual rendering, Microsoft HoloLens for viewing, Microsoft Kinnect to sense motion, Intel sensors for physical and audio feedback, and Microsoft Azure to bring it all together. Space Voodoo helps astronauts recover faster back home.

• Interview with Astronaut Doug Wheelock
• Microsoft Azure to host our web app
• Microsoft Kinnect
• Microsoft HoloLens
• Intel Sensors
• Wordpress for webapp
• NASA website: PMDIS (Perceptual Motor Deficits in Space): http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/275.html