Abstract
The important ship navigation systems radar and ECDIS (Electronic Chart Display and Information System) offer a large amount of both route monitoring and collision avoidance functionalities to navigators. We conducted an online survey to investigate if navigators really need all functionalities assuming that route monitoring functionalities are mainly needed on ECDIS and collision avoidance functionalities are mainly needed on radar systems. N = 80 experienced nautical officers completed the online survey and evaluated the functionalities according to their importance and their frequency of use. As expected, the need for functionalities was task dependent, indicating that functionalities on ECDIS and radar systems should be prioritized accordingly. Thus, the results of this survey can be used to guide display design of modern ECDIS and radar systems by considering user needs.
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The study was part of a project funded by the German Federal Ministry of Transport, and Digital Infrastructure. We would like to thank Bergmann Marine and the Fraunhofer CML for their support. Especially, we would like to thank all the mariners that were kind enough to participate in the survey.
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Hochgeschurz, S., Motz, F., Kretzer, S., Thiele, L. (2021). Task Oriented Use of Functionalities on Ship Navigation Systems. In: Stanton, N. (eds) Advances in Human Aspects of Transportation. AHFE 2021. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 270. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80012-3_54
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