neuroscience and the mariner

Saw this via the linked in eNavigation news group (yes, I'm still severely bothered by the official definitions of eNav). I just had to comment. It's important to make sure that related research gets linked together so that the community can collectively make progress and avoid silo'ing.

Eye on the Future of eNavigation

...
His group focuses mainly on using a specially-designed helmet to track
the gaze of a s eyes across bridge equipment as well as employing
speech recorders to process voice commands onboard.

Capturing the needs of the user is at the heart of e-Navigation and Dr
Nikitakos believes usability will be key to getting personnel to adapt
to the new equipment and systems they might be using.
...

However interesting, this statement confuses the heck out of me:

We are defining usability in terms of ISO standards as the extent to
which equipment can be used to achieve specific goals effectively and
efficiently.

So here was the comment that I posted:

This kind of research has been done for quite a while at UNH Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping (CCOM). Roland Arsenault, Dan Pineo, Matt Plumlee, Colin Ware and others there have done eye tracking, modeling the human vision system task performance, and much more with a strong bent towards what tasks mariners perform. (note: I worked at CCOM from 2005-11 and am still Affiliate Faculty w/ CCOM). Check out the AR Simulator and Flow Vis projects for starters and PhD theses from Matt Plumlee and Dan Pineo.

It's great to see more people getting into the topic!

See more at: CCOM VisLab.