{"id":10754,"date":"2018-10-18T13:13:27","date_gmt":"2018-10-18T17:13:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/?p=10754"},"modified":"2018-10-18T14:40:33","modified_gmt":"2018-10-18T18:40:33","slug":"virtual-reality-research-supports-expeditions-in-antarctica-explorations-in-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/2018\/virtual-reality-research-supports-expeditions-in-antarctica-explorations-in-space\/","title":{"rendered":"Virtual Reality Research Supports Expeditions in Antarctica, Future Explorations in Space"},"content":{"rendered":"

Australia\u2019s Antarctic stations are among the most isolated, confined, and extreme places on earth.<\/p>\n

That makes them ideal sites to conduct research on how tools can help expedition teams\u2014which must cope with isolation and confinement for up to nine months of the year\u2014perform better in extreme environments like Antarctica or in space.<\/p>\n

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Investigators at Dartmouth\u2019s Geisel School of Medicine and the Australian Antarctic Division<\/a> are collaborating on a project to do just that. Expeditioners working at the Mawson and Davis research sites are testing a virtual reality tool-kit (which immerses them in different natural settings) as well as a suite of web-based psychosocial support programs developed collaboratively with Dartmouth\u2014with the goal of enhancing their well-being and behavioral health.<\/p>\n

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\u201cBeing in an isolated, confined environment with a limited number of people is challenging for anybody, and it can lead to a number of psychosocial problems,\u201d says astronaut and physician Jay Buckey, Jr., MD, a professor of medicine at Geisel, who hopes that what is learned from the project can help inform future space missions, such as those to Mars.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese are tools that people can use either on their own or with the help of somebody else to improve their skills at stress management, to get better at conflict resolution, or to treat depression,\u201d says Buckey. \u201cThe next steps will be to get the results from this current winter-over and see how things are going. Then we\u2019ll see if we can optimize the program for the next season.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Researchers from Geisel and the Australian Antarctic Division are collaborating to understand how virtual reality can help expeditioners, and in the future, astronauts, cope with their isolated, confined, and extreme environments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":10756,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,8],"tags":[917,518,847,644,154,665,916],"class_list":["post-10754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-research","tag-astronauts","tag-collaboration","tag-home-feature","tag-jay-buckey","tag-video-2","tag-virtual-reality","tag-vr","author-26"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/10\/jb-antarctic-VR1-nc.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4r3h1-2Ns","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10754"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10762,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10754\/revisions\/10762"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}