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User Interface Design Guidelines for Marine Autonomous Operations Involving a Large Number of Actors, Devices and Sensors

Abstract

User interface (UI) is a platform that enables interaction between a human and a machine, a visual part of an information device, such as a computer or software, which user interacts with. A good user interface design makes operating a machine efficient, safe and user friendly in a way that gives the desired result.

This paper describes a set of guidelines defined for marine autonomous operations where many actors, devices and sensors are interacting. The UI should manage and present in a user-friendly manner a large amount of data, ensuring situation awareness for the operator/user. The design guidelines of the user interface consist of both a work process part and a content part, also called user experience design (UX). The work process consists of four sections: manage, plan, operate and evaluate, while the content part focuses on how to show the information. Both parts will be detailed and discussed and can be taken as a reference for designing user interfaces in particular for marine autonomous operations.

Category

Academic chapter/article/Conference paper

Client

  • EC/FP7 / 662107

Language

English

Author(s)

Affiliation

  • Diverse norske bedrifter og organisasjoner
  • SINTEF Digital / Mathematics and Cybernetics

Year

2018

Publisher

The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)

Book

ASME 2018 37th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering, Madrid, Spain, June 17–22, 2018 - Volume 7A: Ocean Engineering

Issue

Ocean Engineering

ISBN

978-0-7918-5126-5

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