AI-Powered XR Health Application for Diagnostics and Health Management

This proposal from Buendea and University of Central Florida leverages XR to address known physical and mental health risks associated with long-distance and long-duration human missions to the Moon, Mars, and beyond. For these missions, communications delays or disruption could have a devastating effect in treatments for crew members who encounter traumatic injuries, chronic pains, infections, or mental health crises. Even if a physician is selected for a mission, it is unlikely that they will have the breadth of training to address every possible condition that could afflict their crewmates. For Phase I, this proposal will demonstrate the technical feasibility for in-flight usage of XR technologies to address physical, mental, and nutritional health concerns for long duration and long distance human space travel. This proposal will focus on developing a spatial health application using real-time rendering solutions to enable its use in both XR virtual environments and support for passthrough integration to demonstrate its use in the real-world. Use case number 1 includes a comprehensive imaging, diagnostic, and treatment interface using assumed onboard equipment, materials, and medications to treat injuries, dental emergencies, and other physical ailments. Use case number 2 employs emerging AI applications for continuous in-flight mental health treatment. Use case number 3 identifies an innovative onboard XR platform to improve nutrition and relieve menu fatigue, which is a known contributor to mental health among astronauts. Use case number 4 will address using resistance devices with augmented displays that help improve physical training performance. Each use case will demonstrate integrated spatial application for use in multi-user Lunar and Mars environments and will be based off of real life procedures developed in collaboration with medical professionals in their respective fields.