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  • Project Professor
  • Soichi NOGUCHI
  • Tojisha-Kenkyu
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Biography

March 1991 MS, School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo (UTokyo)
April 1991 Researcher, IHI Co. Ltd. R&D devision
June 1996 Astronaut, Japanese Space Exploration Agency
August 1996 Astronaut, NASA Johnson Space Center
April 2011 Part-time Lecturer, Faculty of Engineering, UTokyo
April 2016 Project Research Associate, RCAST, UTokyo
March 2020 Ph.D., School of Engineering, UTokyo
December 2021 Associate Professor, RCAST, UTokyo

Research Interests

It has been over 60 years since mankind travelled in to outer space. The purpose of this study is to investigate how behavioral adaptation to space environment changes the human perspective (reference frame of self) and senses　with "Tojisha" research approach.
After leaving the terrestrial globe, the astronaut experienced drastic perceptual disturbance (temporal loss of the senses of spatial- and self-orientation), however he gradually learned to adapt to the novel environment by developing new perceptual and behavioral skills.
The changes in his expression seemed to reflect the process of re-attunement of his basic orienting system, suggesting that the present study would be one of the possible approaches to understanding the practical senses and skills that the astronaut developed.

  • Astronauts group
  • Astronauts group
  • Spacewalk
  • Spacewalk

Award

  • 2005　NASA Space Flight Medals
  • 2005　NASA Distinguished Public Service Medals
  • 2005　Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Special Award
  • 2005　JAXA Outstanding Service Award
  • 2005　Kanagawa Prefectural Honor Award
  • 2005　PR Person of the year, Public Relations Society of Japan
  • 2006　Vladimir Komarov Diploma from the Federation Aronautique Internationale
  • 2006　Eagle on the World award, Japanese Chamber of Commerce New York
  • 2006　Boy Scout of Japan Outstanding Achievement Award
  • 2006　Chigasaki Honorary citizenship award
  • 2006　Taishi Honorary citizenship award
  • 2010　Medal of Friendship from the Russian Federation
  • 2011　The Medal for Merits in Space Exploration, awarded by the President of Russia
  • 2017　Japanese Association of Qualitative Psychology Distinguished Paper Award
  • 2021　Guinness World Records

Keywords

Tojisha research, Astronaut, Text mining, Cognition, Inclusive study

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