Human error and e-navigation: Developing the nautical chart as resilient decision support

Abstract

Recent development of HCI on the ship bridge has led to a discussion of deskilling and out of the loop syndrome; of the “navigating navigator” versus the “monitoring navigator”. In this paper work done on some new design concepts for decision-support systems on the ship’s bridge is presented. The work has focused on keeping the navigator in the loop while sharing information to the wider maritime system: route exchange. The paper offers an overview of the route exchange concept developed in the ACCSEAS and MONALISA projects as well as the results of recent tests done in a ship handling simulator at Chalmers University of Technology and in ship trials in Korea. The results of the concept development have so far been mostly positive and professional actors participating in user tests have mainly been positive.