Groke: A situational awareness system to make seafaring safer

Interesting seeing similar trends in industrial Human Machine Interfaces (HMI) for industrial control systems (ICS&#x2F;SCADA). Is there a set of standards that maritime navigation systems follow for abnormal situation management (i.e., alarming&#x2F;notifications)?<p>ICS is trending towards ISA101 - which is a very grayscale screen for operator control with specific colors for various alarms, events, and notifications for operators.<p>An interesting difference between operating ships and industrial control systems - both huge pieces of complex machinery with interconnected systems - is that humans have been operating ships without electricity, screens, and standards bodies for millennia.

Slight aside: anyone who grew up reading Tove Jansson‘s Moomin books will remember the Groke—the closest thing that the Moomin world had to a monster. She spent all of her time wandering the world looking for warmth and (mostly inadvertently) terrifying people.<p>It’s interesting to me that they named their company after her.

&gt; In our research, we found that they’re usually turned off because the frequent beeping causes annoyance or confusion. We sought to design a series of sounds that are audible on the loud bridge, striking a balance between being pleasing and calling for attention at just the right times.<p>High pitch&#x2F;fast tempo audio feedback is a pretty common design approach for warnings in medical devices.<p>If the AQ guys read this thread, I would be pretty curious on a more detailed write-up specifically on your research findings regarding audio feedback?<p>(And how it lead to these more pleasant lower pitch tones)

I&#x27;m curious what the defaults are in terms of ship instrumentation, I have an (aviation) pilot&#x27;s license so am familiar with aviation&#x27;s default UIs, but not a boat.<p>Aviation&#x27;s are in many cases what we would call &quot;crap&quot; and have seen improvements by leaps and bounds since GPS-enabled multi-function displays have become available.<p>What&#x27;s the difference in a boat and an airplane, in UI terms?