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Erik Aleksander Veitch

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Erik Aleksander Veitch

Senior Researcher
Department of Design
Faculty of Architecture and Design

erik.a.veitch@ntnu.no
Produktdesign, Gløshaugen
Google Scholar Shore Control Lab
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What does the future of maritime transportation look like? Highly automated ships will enhance transportation capabilities, but how to we ensure they are safe, reliable, and trustworthy for real-world operations?

I am co-founder and Scientific Manager of the NTNU Shore Control Lab at Nyhavna, where we are designing the future of maritime transportation.

Our work focuses on interfaces and remote operations for improved situation awareness of highly automated ships. 

Some highlights:

  • Project manager NRC project "Autoteaming" (2023-2027), co-supervising two PhDs
  • Defended PhD entitled "Designing for Land-based Control of Autonomous Ships" in 2023
  • "Design Group Lead" in the Autoferry project (2018-2023), whose mission was to build the world's first urban autonomous ferry (see the video of the maiden voyage from 2022)
  • Co-supervised many Master's students from ID and IDI. Examples inlcude design of the "milliAmpere2" autonomous ferry, design of autonomous ferry docks, and development of the open-source autonomous ferry simulator Gemini. 

Background:

  • PhD in Industrial Design Engineering from NTNU, thesis entitled "Designing for Land-based Control of Autonomous Ships" (2023)
  • Master's Degree in Ocean and Naval Architectural Engineering from Memorial Unversity of Newfoundland (2018)
  • Four years of industry experience in naval architecture, marine hydrodynamics, and marine technology development in Canada, UK, and USA (2016)

Erik Veitch on ResearchGate

Publications

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2025

  • Eide, Egil Sverre; Breivik, Morten; Brekke, Edmund Førland; Eriksen, Bjørn-Olav Holtung; Wilthil, Erik Falmår; Helgesen, Øystein Kaarstad. (2025) The Autonomous Urban Passenger Ferry milliAmpere2: Design and Testing. Journal of Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering
    Academic article
  • Veitch, Erik Aleksander; Sitompul, Taufik Akbar; Alsos, Ole Andreas. (2025) Dataset on passenger experience after riding an autonomous ferry. Data in Brief
    Academic article
  • Alsos, Ole Andreas; Saghafian, Mina; Veitch, Erik Aleksander; Sitompul, Taufik Akbar; Petermann, Felix-Marcel; Papachristou, Eleftherios. (2025) Mind the Kayak! Informing UX Design of Autonomous Vehicles through Edge Case Testing in the Field. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
    Academic chapter/article/Conference paper

2024

  • Alsos, Ole Andreas; Steen-Johnsen, Ferdinand; Veitch, Erik Aleksander. (2024) Exploring Coastal Norway: An Interactive Approach to Enhance Educational Tourism on Cruises. NTNU
    Masters thesis
  • Meland, Ådne; Veitch, Erik Aleksander; Petermann, Felix-Marcel. (2024) Design Research and Concept of Silent Alarms. NTNU
    Masters thesis
  • Alsos, Ole Andreas; Saghafian, Mina; Veitch, Erik Aleksander; Petermann, Felix-Marcel; Sitompul, Taufik Akbar; Park, Jooyoung. (2024) Erfaringer fra prøvedriften av en selvkjørende byferge: Implikasjoner og anbefalinger for en selvkjørende fergetjeneste i Trondheim . Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
    Report
  • Aarset, Lars Bugge; Alsos, Ole Andreas; Veitch, Erik Aleksander; Gusev, Alexey. (2024) Remotely Controlled Ferry Demonstrated at Nyhavna – Successful Test of Groundbreaking Technology.
    Website (informational material)
  • Cheng, Tingting; Veitch, Erik Aleksander; Utne, Ingrid Bouwer; Ramos, Marilia Abilio; Mosleh, Ali; Alsos, Ole Andreas. (2024) Analysis of human errors in human-autonomy collaboration in autonomous ships operations through shore control experimental data. Reliability Engineering & System Safety
    Academic article
  • Veitch, Erik Aleksander; Alsos, Ole Andreas; Saghafian, Mina; Petermann, Felix-Marcel; Sitompul, Taufik Akbar; Park, Jooyoung. (2024) Dataset on passenger acceptance during autonomous ferry public trials: Questionnaires and interviews. Data in Brief
    Academic article
  • Petermann, Felix-Marcel; Alsos, Ole Andreas; Veitch, Erik Aleksander; Eide, Egil Sverre; Breivik, Morten. (2024) Touchpoints and systems for unmanned autonomous urban ferry operation. Journal of Physics: Conference Series (JPCS)
    Academic article
  • Veitch, Erik Aleksander; Alsos, Ole Andreas. (2024) Boredom, vigilance, and repetition during remote control room work for autonomous ships. Journal of Physics: Conference Series (JPCS)
    Academic article
  • Veitch, Erik Aleksander; Alsos, Ole Andreas; Cheng, Tingting; Senderud, Kristine; Utne, Ingrid Bouwer. (2024) Human factor influences on supervisory control of remotely operated and autonomous vessels. Ocean Engineering
    Academic article
  • Alsos, Ole Andreas; Saghafian, Mina; Veitch, Erik; Petermann, Felix-Marcel; Sitompul, Taufik Akbar; Park, Jooyoung. (2024) Lessons learned from the trial operation of an autonomous urban passenger ferry. Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives (TRIP)
    Academic article

2023

  • Soper, Jonathan; Veitch, Erik Aleksander; Thistle, Rebecca; Smith, Jennifer; Veitch, Brian. (2023) An Analysis of Factors Influencing Ice Management Performance in an Experimental Marine Simulator and Their Application to Decision Support System Design. Journal of Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering
    Academic article
  • Veitch, Erik Aleksander; Alsos, Ole Andreas. (2023) Gorillas on a boat: Inattentional blindness during supervisory control of autonomous vessels. Journal of Physics: Conference Series (JPCS)
    Academic article

2022

  • Brekke, Edmund Førland; Eide, Egil; Eriksen, Bjørn-Olav Holtung; Wilthil, Erik Falmår; Breivik, Morten; Skjellaug, Even. (2022) milliAmpere: An Autonomous Ferry Prototype. Journal of Physics: Conference Series (JPCS)
    Academic article
  • Hoem, Åsa Snilstveit; Veitch, Erik Aleksander; Vasstein, Kjetil. (2022) Human-centred risk assessment for a land-based control interface for an autonomous vessel. WMU Journal of Maritime Affairs (JoMA)
    Academic article
  • Alsos, Ole Andreas; Veitch, Erik Aleksander; Pantelatos, Leander Spyridon; Vasstein, Kjetil; Eide, Egil; Petermann, Felix-Marcel. (2022) NTNU Shore Control Lab: Designing shore control centres in the age of autonomous ships. Journal of Physics: Conference Series (JPCS)
    Academic article
  • Veitch, Erik Aleksander; Christensen, Kim Alexander; Log, Markus Metallinos; Valestrand, Erik Thule; Hilmo Lundheim, Sigurd; Nesse, Martin. (2022) From captain to button-presser: operators’ perspectives on navigating highly automated ferries. Journal of Physics: Conference Series (JPCS)
    Academic article
  • Veitch, Erik Aleksander; Dybvik, Henrikke; Steinert, Martin; Alsos, Ole Andreas. (2022) Collaborative Work with Highly Automated Marine Navigation Systems. Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW)
    Academic article
  • Mallam, Steven; Nordby, Kjetil; Van de Merwe, Gertjan Koen; Veitch, Erik Aleksander; Nazir, Salman; Veitch, Brian. (2022) Empathy from Afar? Towards Empathy for Future Maritime Designers and Remote Operators. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting.
    Academic article
  • Hanssen, Mikael Røsbak; Dahl, Yngve; Alsos, Ole Andreas; Veitch, Erik Aleksander. (2022) Developing a video game for research and prototyping of unmanned maritime vessels. NTNU
    Masters thesis
  • Fossum, Knut Robert; Honoré-Livermore, Evelyn; Veitch, Erik Aleksander; Haskins, Cecilia; Palmer, Erika. (2022) Toward an integrated project complexity narrative – A case study of academic organizations. Systems Engineering
    Academic article
  • Veitch, Erik Aleksander; Alsos, Ole Andreas. (2022) A systematic review of human-AI interaction in autonomous ship systems. Safety Science
    Academic article

2021

  • Honoré-Livermore, Evelyn; Fossum, Knut Robert; Veitch, Erik Aleksander. (2021) Academics' perception of systems engineering and applied research projects. Systems Engineering
    Academic article
  • Veitch, Erik; Alsos, Ole Andreas. (2021) Human-centered explainable artificial intelligence for marine autonomous surface vehicles. Journal of Marine Science and Engineering (JMSE)
    Academic article
  • Veitch, Erik Aleksander; Kaland, Thomas Colin Guo; Alsos, Ole Andreas. (2021) Design for Resilient Human-System Interaction in Autonomy: The Case of a Shore Control Centre for Unmanned Ships. Proceedings of the Design Society
    Academic article

2020

  • Dybvik, Henrikke; Veitch, Erik Aleksander; Steinert, Martin. (2020) Exploring Challenges with Designing and Developing Shore Control Centres (SCCs) for Autonomous Ships. Proceedings of the Design Society: DESIGN Conference
    Academic article

Journal publications

  • Eide, Egil Sverre; Breivik, Morten; Brekke, Edmund Førland; Eriksen, Bjørn-Olav Holtung; Wilthil, Erik Falmår; Helgesen, Øystein Kaarstad. (2025) The Autonomous Urban Passenger Ferry milliAmpere2: Design and Testing. Journal of Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering
    Academic article
  • Veitch, Erik Aleksander; Sitompul, Taufik Akbar; Alsos, Ole Andreas. (2025) Dataset on passenger experience after riding an autonomous ferry. Data in Brief
    Academic article
  • Cheng, Tingting; Veitch, Erik Aleksander; Utne, Ingrid Bouwer; Ramos, Marilia Abilio; Mosleh, Ali; Alsos, Ole Andreas. (2024) Analysis of human errors in human-autonomy collaboration in autonomous ships operations through shore control experimental data. Reliability Engineering & System Safety
    Academic article
  • Veitch, Erik Aleksander; Alsos, Ole Andreas; Saghafian, Mina; Petermann, Felix-Marcel; Sitompul, Taufik Akbar; Park, Jooyoung. (2024) Dataset on passenger acceptance during autonomous ferry public trials: Questionnaires and interviews. Data in Brief
    Academic article
  • Petermann, Felix-Marcel; Alsos, Ole Andreas; Veitch, Erik Aleksander; Eide, Egil Sverre; Breivik, Morten. (2024) Touchpoints and systems for unmanned autonomous urban ferry operation. Journal of Physics: Conference Series (JPCS)
    Academic article
  • Veitch, Erik Aleksander; Alsos, Ole Andreas. (2024) Boredom, vigilance, and repetition during remote control room work for autonomous ships. Journal of Physics: Conference Series (JPCS)
    Academic article
  • Veitch, Erik Aleksander; Alsos, Ole Andreas; Cheng, Tingting; Senderud, Kristine; Utne, Ingrid Bouwer. (2024) Human factor influences on supervisory control of remotely operated and autonomous vessels. Ocean Engineering
    Academic article
  • Alsos, Ole Andreas; Saghafian, Mina; Veitch, Erik; Petermann, Felix-Marcel; Sitompul, Taufik Akbar; Park, Jooyoung. (2024) Lessons learned from the trial operation of an autonomous urban passenger ferry. Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives (TRIP)
    Academic article
  • Soper, Jonathan; Veitch, Erik Aleksander; Thistle, Rebecca; Smith, Jennifer; Veitch, Brian. (2023) An Analysis of Factors Influencing Ice Management Performance in an Experimental Marine Simulator and Their Application to Decision Support System Design. Journal of Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering
    Academic article
  • Veitch, Erik Aleksander; Alsos, Ole Andreas. (2023) Gorillas on a boat: Inattentional blindness during supervisory control of autonomous vessels. Journal of Physics: Conference Series (JPCS)
    Academic article
  • Brekke, Edmund Førland; Eide, Egil; Eriksen, Bjørn-Olav Holtung; Wilthil, Erik Falmår; Breivik, Morten; Skjellaug, Even. (2022) milliAmpere: An Autonomous Ferry Prototype. Journal of Physics: Conference Series (JPCS)
    Academic article
  • Hoem, Åsa Snilstveit; Veitch, Erik Aleksander; Vasstein, Kjetil. (2022) Human-centred risk assessment for a land-based control interface for an autonomous vessel. WMU Journal of Maritime Affairs (JoMA)
    Academic article
  • Alsos, Ole Andreas; Veitch, Erik Aleksander; Pantelatos, Leander Spyridon; Vasstein, Kjetil; Eide, Egil; Petermann, Felix-Marcel. (2022) NTNU Shore Control Lab: Designing shore control centres in the age of autonomous ships. Journal of Physics: Conference Series (JPCS)
    Academic article
  • Veitch, Erik Aleksander; Christensen, Kim Alexander; Log, Markus Metallinos; Valestrand, Erik Thule; Hilmo Lundheim, Sigurd; Nesse, Martin. (2022) From captain to button-presser: operators’ perspectives on navigating highly automated ferries. Journal of Physics: Conference Series (JPCS)
    Academic article
  • Veitch, Erik Aleksander; Dybvik, Henrikke; Steinert, Martin; Alsos, Ole Andreas. (2022) Collaborative Work with Highly Automated Marine Navigation Systems. Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW)
    Academic article
  • Mallam, Steven; Nordby, Kjetil; Van de Merwe, Gertjan Koen; Veitch, Erik Aleksander; Nazir, Salman; Veitch, Brian. (2022) Empathy from Afar? Towards Empathy for Future Maritime Designers and Remote Operators. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting.
    Academic article
  • Fossum, Knut Robert; Honoré-Livermore, Evelyn; Veitch, Erik Aleksander; Haskins, Cecilia; Palmer, Erika. (2022) Toward an integrated project complexity narrative – A case study of academic organizations. Systems Engineering
    Academic article
  • Veitch, Erik Aleksander; Alsos, Ole Andreas. (2022) A systematic review of human-AI interaction in autonomous ship systems. Safety Science
    Academic article
  • Honoré-Livermore, Evelyn; Fossum, Knut Robert; Veitch, Erik Aleksander. (2021) Academics' perception of systems engineering and applied research projects. Systems Engineering
    Academic article
  • Veitch, Erik; Alsos, Ole Andreas. (2021) Human-centered explainable artificial intelligence for marine autonomous surface vehicles. Journal of Marine Science and Engineering (JMSE)
    Academic article
  • Veitch, Erik Aleksander; Kaland, Thomas Colin Guo; Alsos, Ole Andreas. (2021) Design for Resilient Human-System Interaction in Autonomy: The Case of a Shore Control Centre for Unmanned Ships. Proceedings of the Design Society
    Academic article
  • Dybvik, Henrikke; Veitch, Erik Aleksander; Steinert, Martin. (2020) Exploring Challenges with Designing and Developing Shore Control Centres (SCCs) for Autonomous Ships. Proceedings of the Design Society: DESIGN Conference
    Academic article

Part of book/report

  • Alsos, Ole Andreas; Saghafian, Mina; Veitch, Erik Aleksander; Sitompul, Taufik Akbar; Petermann, Felix-Marcel; Papachristou, Eleftherios. (2025) Mind the Kayak! Informing UX Design of Autonomous Vehicles through Edge Case Testing in the Field. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
    Academic chapter/article/Conference paper

Report

  • Alsos, Ole Andreas; Steen-Johnsen, Ferdinand; Veitch, Erik Aleksander. (2024) Exploring Coastal Norway: An Interactive Approach to Enhance Educational Tourism on Cruises. NTNU
    Masters thesis
  • Meland, Ådne; Veitch, Erik Aleksander; Petermann, Felix-Marcel. (2024) Design Research and Concept of Silent Alarms. NTNU
    Masters thesis
  • Alsos, Ole Andreas; Saghafian, Mina; Veitch, Erik Aleksander; Petermann, Felix-Marcel; Sitompul, Taufik Akbar; Park, Jooyoung. (2024) Erfaringer fra prøvedriften av en selvkjørende byferge: Implikasjoner og anbefalinger for en selvkjørende fergetjeneste i Trondheim . Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
    Report
  • Hanssen, Mikael Røsbak; Dahl, Yngve; Alsos, Ole Andreas; Veitch, Erik Aleksander. (2022) Developing a video game for research and prototyping of unmanned maritime vessels. NTNU
    Masters thesis

Information material

  • Aarset, Lars Bugge; Alsos, Ole Andreas; Veitch, Erik Aleksander; Gusev, Alexey. (2024) Remotely Controlled Ferry Demonstrated at Nyhavna – Successful Test of Groundbreaking Technology.
    Website (informational material)

Teaching

Courses

  • PD6017 - Human Factors and Design for Remote Operations

Outreach

2024

  • Lecture
    Veitch, Erik Aleksander; Eide, Egil Sverre. (2024) Presentation of NTNU Shore Control Lab and Radar Network. Visit by Furuno Japan during Nor-Shipping 2024-08-23 - 2024-08-23
  • Academic lecture
    Veitch, Erik Aleksander; Gusev, Alexey. (2024) Presentation of Shore Control Lab and 5G Remote Operations. NTNU Tour for Havforskningsinstituttet , Trondheim 2024-09-26 - 2024-09-26
  • Lecture
    Alsos, Ole Andreas; Veitch, Erik Aleksander; Petermann, Felix-Marcel. (2024) Presentation of NTNU Shore Control Lab. Sintef Ocean International Conference on Autonomous Maritime Surface Ships (ICMASS) , Trondheim 2024-10-28 - 2024-10-28
  • Lecture
    Veitch, Erik Aleksander; Simic, Vedran. (2024) Presentation of NTNU Shore Control to delegation from Croatian maritime authority and ministry of transportation. Ocean Autonomy Cluster , Trondheim 2024-11-28 - 2024-11-28
  • Lecture
    Veitch, Erik Aleksander. (2024) Presentation of NTNU Shore Control Lab to Poseidon Simulation AS. Ocean Autonomy Cluster , Trondheim 2024-11-29 - 2024-11-29
  • Academic lecture
    Veitch, Erik Aleksander. (2024) Being backup is hard work: Experimental results from a simulated Remote Operating Centre for autonomous vessels . DNV DNV Nordic Maritime Universities Workshop , Helsinki 2024-01-25 - 2024-01-26
  • Academic lecture
    Veitch, Erik Aleksander; Gusev, Alexey; Tufte, Andreas Gudahl; Petermann, Felix-Marcel; Hinostroza, Miguel. (2024) Demonstration of live tele-drive of urban ferry during conference presentation "Boredom, vigilance, and repetition during remote control room work for autonomous ships". MTEC and ICMASS 6th International Conference on Maritime Autonomous Surface Ship (ICMASS) 2024 , Scandic Nidelven, Trondheim 2024-10-30 - 2024-10-30

2023

  • Academic lecture
    Eide, Egil Sverre; Breivik, Morten; Brekke, Edmund Førland; Eriksen, Bjørn-Olav Holtung; Wilthil, Erik Falmår; Thyri, Emil Hjelseth. (2023) Development and operation of the autonomous urban passenger ferry milliampere2. ICMASS 2023 , Rotterdam 2023-11-07 - 2023-11-09
  • Academic lecture
    Alsos, Ole Andreas; Petermann, Felix-Marcel; Saghafian, Mina; Sitompul, Taufik Akbar; Porathe, Stig Thomas; Aminoff, Hedvig. (2023) Presentation of the Shore Control Lab (SCL) and Lashfire. NTNU Department of Design Seminar: Maritime Human Factors , NTNU Nyhavna 2023-06-08 - 2023-06-08
  • Academic lecture
    Alsos, Ole Andreas; Veitch, Erik Aleksander; Petermann, Felix-Marcel; Sitompul, Taufik Akbar; Porathe, Stig Thomas; Braseth, Alf Ove. (2023) Presentation of the Shore Control Lab (SCL) and Lashfire. NTNU Department of Design Seminar: Designing for Landbased Control of Autonomous Ship , NTNU Nyhavna 2023-09-17 - 2023-09-17
  • Lecture
    Wennersberg, Lars Andreas Lien; Holte, Even Ambros; Veitch, Erik Aleksander; Alsos, Ole Andreas. (2023) A system architecture definition for remote operations of autonomous passenger vessels. SMASH!, NFAS, INAS, RAS and TU Delft The 5th International Conference on Maritime Autonomous Surface Ship - ICMASS 2023 , Rotterdam 2023-11-08 - 2023-11-09

2022

  • Lecture
    Veitch, Erik Aleksander; Petermann, Felix-Marcel; Alsos, Ole Andreas. (2022) Presentation of the Shore Control Lab and LASH FIRE. NTNU Department of Marine Technology Visit from Japanese students , Trondheim 2022-09-01 - 2022-09-01

2021

  • Interview
    Alsos, Ole Andreas; Lundteigen, Mary Ann; Eide, Egil; Veitch, Erik Aleksander. (2021) Tar kontroll over førerløse fartøy til havs . Gemini Gemini [Business/trade/industry journal] 2021-02-24
  • Interview
    Lundteigen, Mary Ann; Eide, Egil; Alsos, Ole Andreas; Veitch, Erik Aleksander. (2021) Interview: Developing Command and Control for Unamnned Vessels . The Maritime Executive The Maritime Executive [Business/trade/industry journal] 2021-04-25

2020

  • Academic lecture
    Veitch, Erik Aleksander; Hynnekleiv, Agnieszka Urszula; Lützhöft, Margareta Holtensdotter. (2020) The operator's stake in shore control centre design: a stakeholder analysis for autonomous ships. Royal Institution of Naval Architects RINA Human Factors , London 2020-02-19 - 2020-02-20

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