{"id":156637,"date":"2026-11-06T09:00:07","date_gmt":"2026-11-06T14:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/?p=156637"},"modified":"2026-11-05T12:15:25","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T17:15:25","slug":"a-digital-twin-for-mental-health-wins-ucf-space-hospitality-student-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/a-digital-twin-for-mental-health-wins-ucf-space-hospitality-student-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"A Digital Twin for Mental Health Wins UCF Space Hospitality Student Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seeing Earth from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/space\/\">space<\/a> might be the thrill of a lifetime. But what happens if anxiety hits when you\u2019re in the darkness of space, far from home and everyone you know?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The StellarSync project proposes a digital twin of a clinical psychologist that would provide personalized psychological support to future space travelers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A team of UCF graduate students and alums took on that question with StellarSync: Your Anchor Beyond Earth. Their project proposes a digital twin of a clinical psychologist that would provide personalized psychological support to future space travelers.<\/p>\n<p>StellarSync won first place in the <a href=\"https:\/\/hospitality.ucf.edu\/space-hospitality-student-challenge\/\">UCF Space Hospitality Student Challenge<\/a>, hosted by <a href=\"https:\/\/hospitality.ucf.edu\/\">UCF\u2019s Rosen College of Hospitality Management<\/a>. This competition asked students across disciplines to design an unforgettable guest experience for space tourists around the theme \u201cLife Support and Human Experience in Space Hospitality.\u201d The team saw a chance to make mental health and psychological well-being part of that experience from the start, since it\u2019s a topic not normally discussed in conversations about <a href=\"https:\/\/hospitality.ucf.edu\/spacetourism\/\">space tourism<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cAs space tourism continues to grow, we believe taking care of someone\u2019s mental health should be just as important as ensuring their physical safety.\u201d \u2014 <strong>Jalyssa Cardell \u201915<\/strong>, UCF alum and licensed mental health counselor<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cSpace travel is an incredible opportunity, but we don\u2019t always know how someone will emotionally respond to an experience they\u2019ve never had before,\u201d says <strong>Jalyssa Cardell \u201915<\/strong>, a licensed mental health counselor. Cardell earned her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/degree\/psychology-bs\/\">psychology degree<\/a> from UCF and is now a graduate student in modeling and simulation. \u201cEven something as exciting as seeing Earth from space can come with unexpected feelings of anxiety, fear or isolation. As space tourism continues to grow, we believe taking care of someone\u2019s mental health should be just as important as ensuring their physical safety.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cardell and her teammates David Kirkendall, <strong>Daniela Martinez \u201926<\/strong>, <strong>Milouni Patel \u201924<\/strong>, Ritthikha Ragavan, <strong>Leighton Roberts \u201925<\/strong> and <strong>Raajsria Thoppay \u201921<\/strong> are students in the <a href=\"https:\/\/simulation.ucf.edu\/SMART\/\">SMART (Study of Metacognition and Advanced Learning Technologies) Lab<\/a>, which focuses on understanding interactions between humans and intelligent learning\/training systems. UCF Pegasus Professor Roger Azevedo leads the lab and brings a background in psychology to his work in the <a href=\"https:\/\/simulation.ucf.edu\">School of Modeling, Simulation and Training<\/a>. The students drew on their own backgrounds in psychology, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/artificial-intelligence\/\">artificial intelligence<\/a> and simulation to develop StellarSync and apply it to the future of space travel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEach member brought something unique to StellarSync, and the project became stronger because of that collaboration,\u201d Cardell says. \u201cWe also learned the importance of communicating <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/research\/\">complex research<\/a> in a way that people from different backgrounds can understand and connect with.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The win surprised the team. Cardell says the students were already excited to be named one of the top three finalists. 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