Abstract
It has been suggested that the captain of a merchant ship requires
decision support in the initial phase of an emergency until help
from shore or nearby ships is available. Theories of human error
and human factors knowledge claims that requirements to support
can be modelled as a number of error prone cognitive mechanisms on
different organisational levels. This paper presents Human Factors
studies, conducted as part of the requirements definition to a
decision support system for officers on the bridge of a ship in a
critical situation, such as damage to the hull or fire on board.
The studies addressed on which organisational levels captains
required support in case of an emergency. The first study was a
straightforward observational study of a fire control situation on
board a simulated cargo ship, showing that in the initial phase of
an emergency the captain's cognition has to do with the people on
board, not the structure of the ship. The second study widened the
organisational scope, and was a qualitative analysis of a few
minutes of a protocol from a simulated critical situation. It came
out strongly from the studies that the captain's decisions on any
organisational level are embedded in structures for communication
on and off board. The discussion focus on implications for a
prototype of a computer based emergency management system, and for
simulator training of ship officers working on the bridge in case
of damage to the hull of the ship.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Marine Simulation and Ship Manoeuvrability |
| Place of Publication | Rotterdam |
| Publisher | CRC Press/Balkema |
| Publication date | 1996 |
| Pages | 177-189 |
| Publication status | Published - 1996 |
| Event | Marine Simulation and Ship Manoeuvrability (MARSIM'96) - Copenhagen, Denmark Duration: 1 Jan 1996 → … |
Conference
| Conference | Marine Simulation and Ship Manoeuvrability (MARSIM'96) |
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| City | Copenhagen, Denmark |
| Period | 01/01/1996 → … |