The future of seafaring: designing an on-board user-interface to predict engine faults on marine vessels, lowering fuel costs and emissions

Simone Gumtau

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    Abstract

    This paper describes a collaboration between a communication designer and data scientists and engineers at the University of Portsmouth, to work with a consortium of companies in the marine industry around the Solent in South East England. The change affected here was economic and environmental: to add value to marine engineering services in order to retain market competitiveness, to comply with international standards to reduce fuel consumption and emission through innovation, and also to provide a better user experience through design.
    In particular, the design research for a user interface on board the ship to assist non-experts in monitoring engineering data will be described. The design visualises sensor data taken from various engine components by utilising body schema like movement and rotation. Theoretically, this design approach draws on phenomenology, embodied cognition and metaphor.
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationDesign Research for Change
    Subtitle of host publicationSymposium Papers Presented at the Design Museum 11-12 December 2019
    EditorsPaul A. Rodgers
    PublisherUniversity of Lancaster
    Chapter7
    Pages129-148
    Number of pages22
    ISBN (Print)9781862203693
    Publication statusPublished - 11 Dec 2019
    EventDesign Research for Change 2019 - London, United Kingdom
    Duration: 11 Dec 201912 Dec 2019

    Conference

    ConferenceDesign Research for Change 2019
    Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
    CityLondon
    Period11/12/1912/12/19

    Keywords

    • data visualization
    • marine engineering
    • design
    • Interface design
    • marine industries
    • designing change
    • metaphor
    • Embodiment
    • Image Schemata
    • intelligent data
    • sensor data

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