ONSITE Design driven Field Studies for Safer Demanding Marine Operations

ONSITE Designdrevne feltstudier for sikre avanserte marine operasjoner. Prosjektet vil styrke den norske maritime industrien ved å sikre en effektiv feedback loop mellom feltstudier i maritime operasjoner og design prosesser for nye skip og utstyr på land. Det er behov for standardiserte og effektive prosesser, metoder og verktøy for å gjennomføre feltstudier på avanserte operasjoner for å støtte design prosesser på land. Derfor vil ONSITE integrere feltstudier (gjennomført av designere trent i både marin design og feltstudiemetodikk) i skips design prosesser. For å gjøre dette må vi gjøre det mulig å anvende kunnskap fra marine operasjoner til sjøs i designprosesser og la det bli en plattform for kunnskapsbygging og deling i marin design. Disse prosessene involverer evnen til å gjøre feltstudier med korte tidsrammer, organisere data effektivt i forhold til tidligere studier, utvikle kunnskap hos design team og å bygge en langsiktig kultur for kunnskapsbygging. Prosjektet vil utvikle rammeverk, metoder og dataverktøy som vil sikre en effektiv feedback loop mellom feltstudier i avanserte marine operasjoner og skipsdesign på land. Vi vil se på de følgende temaene: 1. Hvilken data trenger man i skips design prosesser? 2. Hvordan kan man effektiv samle og organisere data for design? 3. Hvordan kan man effektivt dele data for design? 4. Hvordan kan vi skape en systemisk forståelse for operasjoner gjennom å effektivt samle data fra flere feltstudier? 5. Hvordan kan vi bruke dataverktøy for å gjøre feltstudier mer effektive ved å legge til rette for og delvis automatisere innhenting, deling og rapportering av data. Prosjektet er ledet av Arkitektur- og Designhøgskolen i Oslo.

The project have resulted in multidisciplinary collaboration between AHO and NTNU, which have generated shared knowledge across design practice and engineering disciplines. We contributed to the development of expertise by introducing all design students at AHO to the field of ship design and maritime engineering through the field study course. We added to the competitiveness of maritime industry by streamlining field-based, operational knowledge into innovation processes carried out ashore. The project has increased competency in human centred design in partner companies and changes in their design processes. We expect the project to have a long-term impact in contributing to more human centered design processes for ships in Norway. This may ultimately lead to safer and more efficient ships and a reduction in accidents resulting from human error.

ONSITE Design Driven Field Studies for Safer Demanding Marine Operations The project will develop frameworks, methods and software tools that will enable an efficient feedback loop between field studies in demanding marine operations and the onshore ship design process. Currently there is a need for standardised processes, methods and tools for performing field studies of demanding operations to inform design processes. ONSITE will therefore integrate field studies (carried out by designers trained both in marine design and field study methods) into ship design processes. To do so, we must enable field knowledge to be applied in design processes efficiently as a platform for knowledge building and sharing for marine design. Such process involve the capability to do field studies within short time frames, to effectively organise the data in line with other existing studies, to transfer the knowledge to the design team and to build a culture for long-term knowledge building. Key topics areas of the project include: 1. What data are needed in ship design processes? 2. How can field data be effectively captured and annotated for design purposes? 3. How can field data be shared effectively in ship design processes? 4. How can a systemic understanding of operations be captured by efficiently combining the results from multiple field studies? 5. How can software make field studies more effective by facilitating and partly automating data harvest, sharing and retrieval? The ONSITE research group, crossing technical and humanist disciplines, forms a knowledge community that is essential for strengthening the multidisciplinary innovation processes related to ship design. The project will have one PhD and one Postdoc involved.