• From captain to button-presser: operators’ perspectives on navigating highly automated ferries 

      Veitch, Erik Aleksander; Christensen, Kim Alexander; Log, Markus Metallinos; Valestrand, Erik Thule; Lundheim, Sigurd Hilmo; Nesse, Martin; Alsos, Ole Andreas; Steinert, Martin (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      Teaming with Artificial Intelligence (AI) is changing the way seafarers work. We show that a new kind of seafaring is emerging, characterized by cooperation with AI systems. In this format of seafaring, navigation tasks ...
    • Gorillas on a boat: Inattentional blindness during supervisory control of autonomous vessels 

      Veitch, Erik Aleksander; Alsos, Ole Andreas (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      When focused on a task, unexpected visual stimuli can go by unnoticed. Inattentional blindness may be problematic for supervisory controllers of autonomous vessels, because this role specifically relies on identifying ...
    • NTNU Shore Control Lab: Designing shore control centres in the age of autonomous ships 

      Alsos, Ole Andreas; Veitch, Erik Aleksander; Pantelatos, Leander Spyridon; Vasstein, Kjetil; Eide, Egil; Petermann, Felix-Marcel; Breivik, Morten (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      As highly automated ships become unmanned, their operators will move into shore-based control centers. In the last years, NTNU has built an advanced and flexible research infrastructure for performing research on autonomous ...