Situation awareness for engine room monitoring at future shore control centre

Abstract

Situation Awareness (SA) is a cornerstone for system verification and validation, particularly vital at the future Shore Control Centre (SCC). However, engine room monitoring (ERM) receives little attention regarding the SA. This research conducted two Likert-type surveys with 201 marine engineers and employed a descriptive statistic and the Mann–Whitney U test to investigate cue strengths in forming comprehension around the engine room and generality in cue strengths by ship types, experience and ranks of respondents. The importance varies to different extents, and their perspectives seem not to deviate much, with the max disagreement rate at 12% by ship types and the ranks of respondents. The extent of disagreement tends to reduce with the increment of experience thresholds. The outcomes offer a promising strategy for developing a human-centred monitoring system to mitigate the potential risk of information overload and incorrect schema instantiation at the future SCC.