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DOI: 10.4230/OASIcs.SpaceCHI.2025.18
Advancing Intelligent Personal Assistants for Human Spaceflight

Authors: Leonie Bensch, Oliver Bensch, and Tommy Nilsson

Published in: OASIcs, Volume 130, Advancing Human-Computer Interaction for Space Exploration (SpaceCHI 2025)

Abstract
The Artemis program and upcoming missions to Mars mark a new era of human space exploration that will require new tools to support astronaut autonomy in the absence of real-time communication with Earth. This paper investigates the role of voice-based intelligent personal assistants (IPAs) in future crewed space missions. Through semi-structured interviews with astronauts (n=3) and spaceflight experts (n=12), we identify key user-centered design requirements for IPAs in this uniquely constrained and safety-critical environment. Our thematic analysis reveals core requirements for flexibility, reliability, offline capability, and multimodal interaction. Drawing on these findings, we outline design guidelines for next-generation IPAs and discuss how technologies such as retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), knowledge graphs, and augmented reality should be combined to support flexible, reliable, and multimodal IPAs for future human spaceflight missions.
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Leonie Bensch, Oliver Bensch, and Tommy Nilsson. Advancing Intelligent Personal Assistants for Human Spaceflight. In Advancing Human-Computer Interaction for Space Exploration (SpaceCHI 2025). Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs), Volume 130, pp. 18:1-18:18, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)

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@InProceedings{bensch_et_al:OASIcs.SpaceCHI.2025.18,
  author =	{Bensch, Leonie and Bensch, Oliver and Nilsson, Tommy},
  title =	{{Advancing Intelligent Personal Assistants for Human Spaceflight}},
  booktitle =	{Advancing Human-Computer Interaction for Space Exploration (SpaceCHI 2025)},
  pages =	{18:1--18:18},
  series =	{Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-384-3},
  ISSN =	{2190-6807},
  year =	{2025},
  volume =	{130},
  editor =	{Bensch, Leonie and Nilsson, Tommy and Nisser, Martin and Pataranutaporn, Pat and Schmidt, Albrecht and Sumini, Valentina},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/OASIcs.SpaceCHI.2025.18},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-240082},
  doi =		{10.4230/OASIcs.SpaceCHI.2025.18},
  annote =	{Keywords: Conversational Assistant, Intelligent Personal Assistant, Artificial Intelligence, Astronaut, Human Spaceflight, Generative Pre-Trained Transformer (GPT), Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), Knowledge Graphs, Augmented Reality, Voice Assistant, Long Duration Spaceflight}
}
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