What is it about?
Efficient route planning is crucial in seafaring, where navigating requires consideration of various factors such as environmental conditions, vessel capabilities, safety, and arrival time constraints. Can we improve the routing query interaction by providing interactive visualisation for arrival time window (re)negotiation? Seafarers and individuals with expertise in Marine Engineering, Maritime Transport, Nautical Sciences, and Logistics were recruited for this focused in-depth remote expert evaluation study.
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Why is it important?
The first results of this ongoing study are relevant for route planning in multi-objective optimisation scenarios beyond the maritime context: (1) Stop dumbing it down—Query interfaces should not conceal too much of the inherent complexity. (2) Hitting the sweet spot of controllability is not (so much) a case of individual preferences. (3) Be realistic—Critical design challenges emerge only with a realistic or plausible fictitious scenario.
Perspectives
Conducting this study together with my co-authors was a great pleasure—we could build on 3+yrs of collaboration in the MariData project. This project has a big significance for me as it combines perspectives of Psychology, Informatics, Nautical Sciences and Engineering and the role of Interface Design as a transdisciplinary driver was appreciated throughout.
Benjamin Schwarz
Universitat zu Lubeck
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This page is a summary of: Design and Evaluation of a Visual Query Interface for Maritime Route Planning, October 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery),
DOI: 10.1145/3677045.3685420.
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