Problem: For maritime safety, it is crucial to have high-quality collaboration between crew members and with crews onshore or on other units (e.g., other vessels, ports, and wind farms). A challenge to collaboration may be that each crew member has different perspectives and different information available (e.g. what they observe directly, observe through instrumentation, or draw from their memory or mental models). Augmented Reality (AR) may improve maritime collaboration. My Ph.D. project aims to identify how AR can facilitate collaboration in marine operations.

Approach: A literature review, a lab experiment, and a field study research how different AR applications can support (shared) situation awareness, (team) decision-making, and communication among crew members.

Methodology: The literature review was done according to the PRISMA statement. The lab experiment used Virtual Reality scenes simulating ship operations. Participants were on the bridge and carried out information-gathering tasks. Half the time they had AR and half the time they did not. I collected data on situation awareness, communication, usability, and advantages and disadvantages. The field study tested an AR prototype for collaborative ship navigation on three voyages in Norwegian coastal waters. Data was collected through interviews, observations, and questionnaires about (shared) situation awareness, (team) decision-making, communication, usability, technology acceptance, and advantages and disadvantages. 

Contributions: Findings aim to inform the development and research of AR applications for collaboration in safety-critical operations like ship navigation and facilitate improvement of the integration and usability of user interfaces.

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I work in operational psychology, design, climate psychology, and sustainability.

Teaching/taught:

MAPSYK303: Anvendt sosial og kognitiv psykologi: Menneskelege faktorar i kritiske situasjonar og kulturelt mangfald i samf. og arb.

INFO162: Introduction to Human-Computer Interaction

MIX350: Master's Thesis in Interaction and Media Design

Supervising/supervised:

MAPSYK360: Masteroppgåve i psykologi

PROPSY305: Cognitive Psychology

MAPSYK303: Anvendt sosial og kognitiv psykologi: Menneskelege faktorar i kritiske situasjonar og kulturelt mangfald i samf. og arb.

Van den Oever, F., Fjeld, M., & Sætrevik, B. (2023). As systematic literature review of augmented reality for maritime collaboration. International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction, 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1080/10447318.2023.2209838 

Van den Oever, F., Gorobets, V., Sætrevik, B., V., Fjeld, M., & Kunz, A. (2022, October). Comparing Visual Search between Physical Environments and VR. In 2022 IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality Adjunct (ISMAR-Adjunct) (pp. 411-416). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/ISMAR-Adjunct57072.2022.00089 

Van Den Oever, F., Fjeld, M., Nordby, K., & Sætrevik, B. (2023). A Virtual Reality Experiment shows that Augmented Reality can Improve Collaboration in Ship Navigation [Manuscript submitted for publication]. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/ts5wx 

Van Den Oever, F., Fjeld, M., Orthmann, B., Van Beek, A., Nordby, K., & Sætrevik, B. (2024). A Field Study Shows that AR Can Facilitate Collaboration in Ship Navigation [Preprint]. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/9jz3w 

Van den Oever, F., & Schraagen, J. M. (2021). Team Communication Patterns in Critical Situations. Journal of Cognitive Engineering and Decision Making, 15(1), 28–51. https://doi.org/10.1177/1555343420986657

Van Den Oever, F. (2024a, March 7). Startpunt voor de Psycholoog: Emoties en de Klimaatcrisis. Stichting Klimaatpsychologie. https://www.klimaatpsychologie.com/emoties-en-de-klimaatcrisis 

Van Den Oever, F. (2024b, March 7). Startpunt voor de Psycholoog: Gedrag en de Klimaatcrisis. Stichting Klimaatpsychologie. https://www.klimaatpsychologie.com/gedrag-en-de-klimaatcrisis 

Van den Oever, F. (2019). Changes in team communication patterns in critical situations: Using REM to study the difference in communication patterns between critical and non-critical situations. University of Twente. https://essay.utwente.nl/79340/ 

Diepeveen, H., van Miltenburg, M., van Drongelen, A., Van den Oever, F., & van Dijk, H. (2021). Fatigue-Indicator in Operational Settings: Vocal Changes. In N. L. Black, W. P. Neumann, & I. Noy (Eds.), Proceedings of the 21st Congress of the International Ergonomics Association (IEA 2021) (Vol. 221, pp. 128–135). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-74608-7_17