What Is NASA SUITS?
NASA SUITS is a collaborative design competition offered to universities across the nation. The challenge has teams from each competing school design an Augmented Reality UI using the Microsoft Hololense 2. This UI will aid astronauts in daily activities while on the 2024 Artemis Mission.
The Problem
What's Required
This project aims to investigate how an augmented reality heads-up display (HUD) can minimize the current physiological and psychological challenges that astronauts face. The team hypothesized that providing astronauts with a detailed and user-friendly visual interface using augmented reality will improve performance in the high-stress environment of human spaceflight operations.
Our Solution
User Flows
Onboarding
Navigation
Science Sampling
Our Design
For the 2021 competition, we began iterating on the previous years’ design based on the feedback we received from NASA. This year’s competition focused on developing navigation and science sampling features for the upcoming Artemis Mission. It was important to have the UI give the user
more information than was necessary in case something was wrong with the spacesuit.
This information was then organized in a way to optimize user readability and visual awareness. Over the course of the year, I designed the User Onboarding and Outreach sections of the application. I also played a role in designing the UIA parts of the application.
