Workload experiment with tug captains


Exploring the mysteries of the human factor to work towards a safer maritime environment


MARIN’s overriding aim is to help increase the safety and effectiveness of maritime operations. The outcome of any operation at sea is the result of vessel characteristics, hydrodynamic forces, human decisions and the interaction between man, vessel and the environment.


total system. This is why we have extended our hydrodynamic and nautical expertise with the addition of the human factor. For hydrodynamic specialists like us, it is a big step to explore the less predictable and complex discipline of social science.


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Of course, we have considerable experience of working with seafarers on our simulators. This provides a perfect platform to observe


o understand and intervene in such a ‘socio-technical’ system requires an understanding of the


and measure human behaviour, but quanti- fying and measuring fatigue, mental work- load or situational awareness is still work in progress.


Our goal is to express human behaviour in a more structured and objective way. But be- fore we can do this, we have to understand why human behaviour is so complex.


Decision-making process Human performance is the result of a cognitive process. This process starts with the collection of


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