Advanced Research Workshop 2008
Human Systems Integration to Enhance Maritime Domain Awareness for Port/Harbour Security Systems
Opatija, Croatia (December 8-12)
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To bring together Port Security Domain Experts, Human Factors and Human Systems Integration Experts as well as Decision Support Technology Experts to discuss and analyse how an enhanced Maritime Domain Awareness can be achieved through application of principles of human factors and cognition to the design of tools, automation, systems, procedures, and work environments in Port/Harbour Security Systems.
This ARW proposes to focus on the requirement to apply Cognitive Engineering to develop harbour security systems, to provide training, and other products that support cognitive functions in decision-making, situation assessment, course-of-action selection, resource allocation and other information processing tasks by bringing together Port Security Domain Experts, Human Factors and Human Systems Integration Experts as well as Decision Support Technology Experts to discuss and analyse how an enhanced Maritime Domain Awareness can be achieved through application of principles of human factors and cognition to the design of tools, automation, systems, procedures, and work environments in Port/Harbour Security Systems. The proposed workshop will be structured to include lectures by the experts in all the domains as well as working group discussions where smaller groups of mixed backgrounds will hold brain storming sessions on topics such as:
- What information should be provided to system operators?
- How to present the information that will support the goals and decision-making objectives?
- How can tasks be effectively distributed across team members and system automation?
- How can systems support humans so that human-system performance is better than either systems or humans could achieve in isolation?
Systems engineers are not always familiar with the issues of human-system integration. Systems engineering processes mostly emphasize hardware and software issues, leaving human systems issues scantily addressed. Human factors engineers/engineering psychologists and systems engineers also speak different technical languages. A process articulated in a common language is required to bridge this gap. In addition, an integrated design environment that supports this process must be available. Through the working group discussions the participants of this workshop will be able to become familiar with the approaches, methodology and also technical language used in various disciplines. These discussions will be put in the framework of maritime security and will be built upon the lessons learned during the previous ARW (ARW981703).
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