TAKE PART IN OUR RESEARCH

Route Planing for low fuel consumption - worth the effort?

Online Survey


Have you ever planned a route in shipping? Tell us what works and what doesn’t when it comes to reducing fuel consumption during route planing! We want to understand your day-to-day work experience and hear your opinion! Your perspective will help us develop technical systems which actually support efficient navigation onboard (instead of just adding one more tool).

For taking part in our 20-30 minute online survey, participants living in the EU will receive a 20€ money transfer.

OUR WORK

Energy efficiency has always been a central concern for shipbuilding and shipping. In the past, mainly economic considerations motivated the search for low power requirements for a ship. Today, environmental concerns and compliance with legal regulations to reduce emissions are coming to the foreground in at least equal measure. These demand a consistent strategy of energy efficiency as well as a significant reduction of emissions not only in the construction but especially in the operation of ships.

In the MariData project, we are developing a future-oriented energy management and decision support system based on rational methods. However, the actual benefit of any human-technology system is an interplay of technical potential and user behaviour. To this end, MariData prototypes of the front end are being developed in the sense of user-centred design. We lay a strong focus on factors such as user acceptance and trust and evaluations through user studies.

Exploring Crews’ Motivation & Influence

YouTube Video

“We go fast - It's their fuel”

Research Paper

What is Engineering Psychology?

YouTube Video

RESEARCHERS

Thomas Franke

Lead


User Studies

Hans-Christian Jetter

Lead


Development

Benjamin Schwarz

Coordinator


Design

Jan Heidinger

Researcher


Development

Marthe Gruner

Researcher


Psychology

Mourad Zoubir

Researcher


Psychology

STUDENT RESEARCHERS

Paul-Luis Derwort

Development

Sophia von Elbwart

Design

Thilo Hemmie

Development

Bennet Hut

Development

Lola Mühl

Psychology

Sven Peper

Nautical Consulting

Former Student Researchers

Nikola Beiler

Psychology

Tobias Reins

Development

Hanna Ritter

Psychology

Christopher Rock

Design

Niklas Tasche

Design

Linea Walker-Friedrichs

Design