Maritime safety and the human factor: final report of SÄSAM - safety and human-machine interaction in waterborne transport

The purposes and goals of the project were: To describe the ship operator system from a judgement and decision making perspective based on a control model; To develop a method for identification and examination of the confidence that the operators of high speed craft have in their own judgements and de-cisions; To develop prototypes of systems on the bridge that can facilitate the judgement and decision making process, based on how the work tasks on the bridge are carried out in reality. Special design focus is on the integration at the human level, not on the technical level. The integration of information from radar, AIS (Automatic Identification System) and ECDIS (Electronic Chart Display and Information System) is studied; To investigate and evaluate in a simulator the use of the technique "augmented reality" for steering of ships; To develop a ship manoeuvring margin index for objective comparisons of different manoeuvring procedures in restricted fairways for use both in simulator and in real life; To develop and test MarMet, which is a tool for human factors and MTO (Man, Technology, Organisation) based design processes, methods and templates to be used for requirement specification, design development and evaluation of man-machine communication in maritime systems and applications; To investigate the attitudes towards safety related issues amongst Swedish officers and cadets.