Thomas Porathe
About
Dr Thomas Porathe is professor of interaction design at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, Norway. He is specialising in maritime human factors and design of maritime information systems. He has an Information Design PhD from Malardalen University in Sweden on the work “3-D Nautical Charts and Safe Navigation.” After working with the Maritime Human Factors group at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden he 2014 joined the Department of Design at NTNU. He has been working with e-Navigation since 2006 in EU-projects like BLAST, EfficienSea, MONALISA, ACCSEAS, SESAME II and the unmanned ship projects MUNIN, SAREPTA, LOAS and IMAT.
Resent conference presentation (video ):
VTS and e-Navigation: Traffic Organization using Moving Havens, IALA 2021 VTS symposium (Rotterdam/online) 12-16 Aril 2021
Human Factors, autonomous ships and constrained coastal navigation, ICMASS 2020 Conference (Korea/online) 11 November 2020
Deconflicting Maritime Autonomous Surface Ship traffic using Moving Havens ESREL 2020 con, ference, Venice/on-line 1-5 November 2020.
Previous positions
Professor Porathe has a Ph.D. in information design from Malardalen University in Sweden. His dissertation was titled “3-D Nautical Charts and Safe Navigation” and published in 2006.
2000-2009 Assistant professor of Information Design at Malardalen University, Sweden
2009-2014 Associate professor of Maritime Human Factors at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
Present positions
2014- full professor of Interaction Design at Norwegian University of Science And Technology in Trondheim, Norway
At NTNU he is teaching courses in Human Centred Design and Information Visualisation
Research interests
Interaction and Information Design
Maritime Human Factors
e-Navigation
Human factors in unmanned navigation
3D Nautical Charts
Dynamic NoGo Areas
Route Exchange
Maritime Safety Information (MSI)
Ongoing research projects
- SFI AutoShip, (Centre of research driven innovation). Responible for WP3: Human Factors and Remote Operation Centre. Norwegian Research Council 2020-2028.
- LASH FIRE (Legislative Assessment for Safety Hazards of Fire and Innovations in Ro-ro ship Environment), EU H2020 project 2019-2023.
- IMAT (Integrated Maritime Autonomous Transport Systems) Norwegian Research Council project 2019-2022.
- LOAS (Land-based Monitoring of Autonomous Ships) Norwegian Research Council project 2019-2022.
- ConSense (Sensing and Predicting Concrete Maturity), EU EuroStar project 2019-2021
- AutoFerry (Autonomous all-electric passenger ferries for urban water transport). NTNU project. Superviced Ph.D.student Dag Rutledal (starting 2019). 2018-2019.
- HUMANE (Human Maritime Autonomy Enable). Norwegian Research Council project 2018-2020.
- SAREPTA (Safety, autonomy, remote control and operations of industrial transport systems). Norwegian Research Council project 2018-2021. Superviced Ph.D.student Åsa Snilstveit Hoem.
- SESAME Solution II (Secure, Efficient and Safe maritime traffic Management in the Straits of Malacca and Singapore). Norwegian Research Council project 2018-2020.
- SMACS (Project description: Sensemaking in safety-critical situations). Norwegian Research Council project 2018-2021. Superviced Ph.D.student Brit-Eli Danielsen.
Passed EU-Projects
BLAST (2006-2009) e-Navigation, environment, North Sea
EfficienSea (2009-2012) e-Navigation, Baltic Sea
MONALISA (2010-2013) e-Navigation, route exchange, Baltic Sea
ACCSEAS (2012-2015) e-Navigation,route exchange, NorthSea
MONALISA 2 (2012-2015) e-Navigation, Sea Traffic Management
MUNIN (2012-2015) e-Navigation, unmanned ships
EfficienSea 2 (2015-2018) e-Navigation, Baltic Sea
Recent video recorded conference presentations
Porathe, Thomas. (2020) Deconflicting Maritime Autonomous Surface Ship traffic using Moving Havens. In the online version of the 30th European Safety and Reliability Conference and 15th Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Management Conference (ESREL2020 PSAM15).
Publications
2022
- Alsos, Ole Andreas; Hodne, Philip; Skåden, Oskar Kristoffer; Porathe, Thomas. (2022) Maritime Autonomous Surface Ships: Automation Transparency for Nearby Vessels. Journal of Physics: Conference Series (JPCS).
- Danielsen, Brit-Eli; Lützhöft, Margareta; Haavik, Torgeir Kolstø; Johnsen, Stig Ole; Porathe, Thomas. (2022) “Seafarers should be navigating by the stars”: barriers to usability in ship bridge design. Cognition, Technology & Work.
- Porathe, Thomas. (2022) Collision Avoidance for autonomous ships (MASS): making assumptions about other ships intended routes. Proceedings of the 32nd European Safety and Reliability Conference (ESREL 2022).
- Porathe, Thomas. (2022) Programming “The ordinary practice of seamen” into the AI-navigator: friendly and communicative interaction design between autonomous and manned vessels. Necesse. volum 7 (1).
2021
- Danielsen, Brit-Eli; Lützhöft, Margareta; Porathe, Thomas. (2021) Still Unresolved After All These Years: Human-Technology Interaction in the Maritime Domain. Advances in Human Aspects of Transportation: Proceedings of the AHFE 2021 Virtual Conference on Human Aspects of Transportation, July 25–29, 2021, USA.
- Johnsen, Stig Ole; Porathe, Thomas. (2021) Sensemaking in Safety Critical and Complex Situations: Human Factors and Design. CRC Press. 2021. ISBN 9780367435189.
- Porathe, T.. (2021) Human-automation interaction for autonomous ships: Decision support for remote operators. TransNav, International Journal on Marine Navigation and Safety of Sea Transportation. volum 15 (3).
- Porathe, Thomas. (2021) Autonomous ships: A research strategy for Human Factors research in autonomous shipping. Advances in Human Aspects of Transportation: Proceedings of the AHFE 2021 Virtual Conference on Human Aspects of Transportation, July 25–29, 2021, USA.
- Porathe, Thomas. (2021) Human-Automation Interaction for a small Autonomous Urban Ferry: a concept sketch. Proceedings of the 31st European Safety and Reliability Conference.
- Porathe, Thomas. (2021) No-one in control: unmanned control rooms for unmanned ships?. 20th Conference on Computer and IT Applications in the Maritime Industries, COMPIT’21.
- Porathe, Thomas. (2021) Sensemaking in practical design: A navigation app for fast leisure boats. Sensemaking in Safety Critical and Complex Situations: Human Factors and Design.
- Porathe, Thomas. (2021) Your friendly and communicative MASS: interaction design between autonomous and manned vessels. ERGOSHIP 2021 2-3 September 2021 Korea Institute of Maritime and Fisheries Technology (KIMFT) Busan, Republic of Korea.
2020
- Porathe, Thomas. (2020) Deconflicting Maritime Autonomous Surface Ship traffic using Moving Havens. e-proceedings of the 30th European Safety and Reliability Conference and 15th Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Management Conference (ESREL2020 PSAM15).
- Porathe, Thomas. (2020) Moving Havens: an application of the e-Navigation service route exchange. Proceedings of the International Conference on Human Factors, 19-20 February 2020, The Royal Institution of Naval Architects, London.
- Porathe, Thomas. (2020) Proceedings of the International Conference on Human Factors, 19-20 February 2020, The Royal Institution of Naval Architects, London. Royal Institution of Naval Architects. 2020. ISBN 978-1-911649-03-8.
- Porathe, Thomas. (2020) Ship Traffic Organization with Moving Havens: Ship and Shore Perspective. 2020 European Navigation Conference (ENC).
- Porathe, Thomas; Fjørtoft, Kay Endre; Bratbergsengen, Inger Lill. (2020) Human Factors, autonomous ships and constrained coastal navigation. IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering. volum 929.
2019
- Hareide, Odd Sveinung; Porathe, Thomas. (2019) Maritime augmented reality. Coordinates : a monthly magazine on positioning, navigation and beyond. volum February.
- Metlay, Daniel; St. Clair, Asun Lera; Twomey, Bernhard; Bremnes, Jens Einar; Rødseth, Ørnulf Jan; Massaiu, Salvatore; Carson, Siri Granum; Johnsen, Stig Ole; Porathe, Thomas. (2019) Autonomous Transportation Technologies: Society and Individuals in the Loop. Report of the Discussions of Breakout Session. Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Autonomous Systems Safety.
- Porathe, Thomas. (2019) Autonomous ships and the COLREGS: Automation Transparency and Interaction with Manned Ships. 18th International Conference on Computer and IT Applications in the Maritime Industries - COMPIT’19.
- Porathe, Thomas. (2019) Interaction Between Manned and Autonomous Ships: Automation Transparency. SINTEF proceedings. volum 3.
- Porathe, Thomas. (2019) Maritime Autonomous Surface Ships (MASS) and the COLREGS: Do We Need Quantified Rules Or Is “the Ordinary Practice of Seamen” Specific Enough?. TransNav, International Journal on Marine Navigation and Safety of Sea Transportation. volum 13 (3).
- Porathe, Thomas. (2019) Safety of autonomous shipping: COLREGS and interaction between manned and unmanned ships. Proceedings of the 29th European Safety and Reliability Conference(ESREL). 22 – 26 September 2019 Hannover, Germany.
- Porathe, Thomas; Rødseth, Ørnulf Jan. (2019) Simplifying interactions between autonomous and conventional ships with e-Navigation. Journal of Physics: Conference Series (JPCS). volum 1357:012041 (1).
2018
- Porathe, Thomas. (2018) Workload and navigational control : The control levels of COCOM as framework for ship bridge HMI design. Proceedings of the European Navigation Conference 2018 (ENC 2018).
- Porathe, Thomas; Ekskog, Jonas. (2018) Egocentric Leisure Boat Navigation in a Smartphone-based Augmented Reality Application. Journal of navigation.
- Porathe, Thomas; Hoem, Åsa Snilstveit; Rødseth, Ørnulf Jan; Fjørtoft, Kay Endre; Johnsen, Stig Ole. (2018) At least as safe as manned shipping? Autonomous shipping, safety and “human error”. Safety and Reliability – Safe Societies in a Changing World. Proceedings of ESREL 2018, June 17-21, 2018, Trondheim, Norway.
- Porathe, Thomas; Lutzhoft, Margareta. (2018) A harmonized display of e-navigation information: Workload and navigational control; Contextual control levels. The Royal Institution of Naval Architects Human Factors Papers 2018.
2017
- Porathe, Thomas. (2017) Is COLREG enough? Interaction between manned and unmanned ships. Marine Navigation: Conference Proceedings 12th International Conference on Marine Navigation and Safety of Sea Transportation, TransNav 2017.
- Porathe, Thomas. (2017) Ship navigation. Information integration in the maritime domain. Information Design: Research and Practice.
2016
- Porathe, Thomas. (2016) A Navigating Navigator Onboard or a Monitoring Operator Ashore? Towards Safe, Effective, and Sustainable Maritime Transportation: Findings from Five Recent EU Projects. Transportation Research Procedia. volum 14.
- Porathe, Thomas. (2016) Human-Centred Design in the Maritime Domain. Proceedings of NordDesign 2016.
- Porathe, Thomas. (2016) Information design in nautical charts: Dynamic NoGo areas. Information Design Journal. volum 22 (2).
2015
- Brödje, Anders; Weber, R; Camre, David; Borup, Ole; Porathe, Thomas. (2015) Supporting Voice Communication Between Navigator and VTS by Visual Solutions-Exploring the Use of the" Route Suggestion" Functionality within VTS. Information, Communication and Environment: Marine Navigation and Safety of Sea Transportation.
- Man, Yemao; Lundh, Monica; Porathe, Thomas; MacKinnon, Scott. (2015) From Desk to Field - Human Factor Issues in Remote Monitoring and Controlling of Autonomous Unmanned Vessels. Procedia Manufacturing. volum 3.
- Porathe, Thomas. (2015) Human Error and e-Navigation: Developing the Nautical Chart as Resilient Decision Support. Human Interface and the Management of Information: Information and Knowledge in Context (Part II).
- Porathe, Thomas; Bentzen Billesø, Mads; Borup, Ole; Pedersen, Peder. (2015) Distribution and Display of Maritime Safety Information in an e-Navigation Context. Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Ships and Shipping Research.
- Porathe, Thomas; Brödje, Anders. (2015) Human Factor Aspects in Sea Traffic Management. 14th Conference on Computer and IT Applications in the Maritime Industries - COMPIT'15.
- Porathe, Thomas; Brödje, Anders; Weber, Reto; Camre, David; Borup, Ole. (2015) Supporting Situation Awareness on the bridge: testing route exchange in a practical e-Navigation study. Information, Communication and Environment: Marine Navigation and Safety of Sea Transportation.
- Porathe, Thomas. (2015) Electronics: Some friendly advice on bridge work. Navigation Accidents and their Causes.
- Porathe, Thomas. (2015) Human-machine interaction between unmanned, autonomous, ships and manned non-SOLAS vessels in confined and inshore waters: research needs. Proceedings of International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Maritime Safety and Technology.
- Porathe, Thomas; Bentzen Billesø, Mads. (2015) Human Factors in e-Navigation: a study of Dynamic NoGo Area Visualization in Electronic Nautical Charts. Proceedings of International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Maritime Safety and Technology.
2014
- Burmeister, Hans-Christoph; Bruhn, Wilco C.; Rødseth, Ørnulf Jan; Porathe, Thomas. (2014) Autonomous Unmanned Merchant Vessel and its Contribution towards the e-Navigation Implementation: The MUNIN Perspective. International Journal of e-Navigation and Maritime Economy. volum 1 (1).
- Porathe, Thomas; Eklund, Peter; Göransson, Henrik. (2014) Voice and Text Messaging in Ship Communication. Advances in Human Aspects of Transportation, Part I; Proceedings of the 5th Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics Conference 19-23 July 2014.
2006
- Porathe, Thomas. (2006) 3-D Nautical Charts and Safe Navigation. 2006. ISBN 91-85485-12-8.
Journal publications
- Alsos, Ole Andreas; Hodne, Philip; Skåden, Oskar Kristoffer; Porathe, Thomas. (2022) Maritime Autonomous Surface Ships: Automation Transparency for Nearby Vessels. Journal of Physics: Conference Series (JPCS).
- Danielsen, Brit-Eli; Lützhöft, Margareta; Haavik, Torgeir Kolstø; Johnsen, Stig Ole; Porathe, Thomas. (2022) “Seafarers should be navigating by the stars”: barriers to usability in ship bridge design. Cognition, Technology & Work.
- Porathe, Thomas. (2022) Programming “The ordinary practice of seamen” into the AI-navigator: friendly and communicative interaction design between autonomous and manned vessels. Necesse. volum 7 (1).
- Porathe, T.. (2021) Human-automation interaction for autonomous ships: Decision support for remote operators. TransNav, International Journal on Marine Navigation and Safety of Sea Transportation. volum 15 (3).
- Porathe, Thomas; Fjørtoft, Kay Endre; Bratbergsengen, Inger Lill. (2020) Human Factors, autonomous ships and constrained coastal navigation. IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering. volum 929.
- Hareide, Odd Sveinung; Porathe, Thomas. (2019) Maritime augmented reality. Coordinates : a monthly magazine on positioning, navigation and beyond. volum February.
- Porathe, Thomas. (2019) Interaction Between Manned and Autonomous Ships: Automation Transparency. SINTEF proceedings. volum 3.
- Porathe, Thomas. (2019) Maritime Autonomous Surface Ships (MASS) and the COLREGS: Do We Need Quantified Rules Or Is “the Ordinary Practice of Seamen” Specific Enough?. TransNav, International Journal on Marine Navigation and Safety of Sea Transportation. volum 13 (3).
- Porathe, Thomas; Rødseth, Ørnulf Jan. (2019) Simplifying interactions between autonomous and conventional ships with e-Navigation. Journal of Physics: Conference Series (JPCS). volum 1357:012041 (1).
- Porathe, Thomas; Ekskog, Jonas. (2018) Egocentric Leisure Boat Navigation in a Smartphone-based Augmented Reality Application. Journal of navigation.
- Porathe, Thomas. (2016) A Navigating Navigator Onboard or a Monitoring Operator Ashore? Towards Safe, Effective, and Sustainable Maritime Transportation: Findings from Five Recent EU Projects. Transportation Research Procedia. volum 14.
- Porathe, Thomas. (2016) Information design in nautical charts: Dynamic NoGo areas. Information Design Journal. volum 22 (2).
- Man, Yemao; Lundh, Monica; Porathe, Thomas; MacKinnon, Scott. (2015) From Desk to Field - Human Factor Issues in Remote Monitoring and Controlling of Autonomous Unmanned Vessels. Procedia Manufacturing. volum 3.
- Porathe, Thomas. (2015) Human-machine interaction between unmanned, autonomous, ships and manned non-SOLAS vessels in confined and inshore waters: research needs. Proceedings of International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Maritime Safety and Technology.
- Porathe, Thomas; Bentzen Billesø, Mads. (2015) Human Factors in e-Navigation: a study of Dynamic NoGo Area Visualization in Electronic Nautical Charts. Proceedings of International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Maritime Safety and Technology.
- Burmeister, Hans-Christoph; Bruhn, Wilco C.; Rødseth, Ørnulf Jan; Porathe, Thomas. (2014) Autonomous Unmanned Merchant Vessel and its Contribution towards the e-Navigation Implementation: The MUNIN Perspective. International Journal of e-Navigation and Maritime Economy. volum 1 (1).
Report/dissertation
- Porathe, Thomas. (2006) 3-D Nautical Charts and Safe Navigation. 2006. ISBN 91-85485-12-8.
Part of book/report
- Porathe, Thomas. (2022) Collision Avoidance for autonomous ships (MASS): making assumptions about other ships intended routes. Proceedings of the 32nd European Safety and Reliability Conference (ESREL 2022).
- Danielsen, Brit-Eli; Lützhöft, Margareta; Porathe, Thomas. (2021) Still Unresolved After All These Years: Human-Technology Interaction in the Maritime Domain. Advances in Human Aspects of Transportation: Proceedings of the AHFE 2021 Virtual Conference on Human Aspects of Transportation, July 25–29, 2021, USA.
- Porathe, Thomas. (2021) Autonomous ships: A research strategy for Human Factors research in autonomous shipping. Advances in Human Aspects of Transportation: Proceedings of the AHFE 2021 Virtual Conference on Human Aspects of Transportation, July 25–29, 2021, USA.
- Porathe, Thomas. (2021) Human-Automation Interaction for a small Autonomous Urban Ferry: a concept sketch. Proceedings of the 31st European Safety and Reliability Conference.
- Porathe, Thomas. (2021) No-one in control: unmanned control rooms for unmanned ships?. 20th Conference on Computer and IT Applications in the Maritime Industries, COMPIT’21.
- Porathe, Thomas. (2021) Sensemaking in practical design: A navigation app for fast leisure boats. Sensemaking in Safety Critical and Complex Situations: Human Factors and Design.
- Porathe, Thomas. (2021) Your friendly and communicative MASS: interaction design between autonomous and manned vessels. ERGOSHIP 2021 2-3 September 2021 Korea Institute of Maritime and Fisheries Technology (KIMFT) Busan, Republic of Korea.
- Porathe, Thomas. (2020) Deconflicting Maritime Autonomous Surface Ship traffic using Moving Havens. e-proceedings of the 30th European Safety and Reliability Conference and 15th Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Management Conference (ESREL2020 PSAM15).
- Porathe, Thomas. (2020) Moving Havens: an application of the e-Navigation service route exchange. Proceedings of the International Conference on Human Factors, 19-20 February 2020, The Royal Institution of Naval Architects, London.
- Porathe, Thomas. (2020) Ship Traffic Organization with Moving Havens: Ship and Shore Perspective. 2020 European Navigation Conference (ENC).
- Metlay, Daniel; St. Clair, Asun Lera; Twomey, Bernhard; Bremnes, Jens Einar; Rødseth, Ørnulf Jan; Massaiu, Salvatore; Carson, Siri Granum; Johnsen, Stig Ole; Porathe, Thomas. (2019) Autonomous Transportation Technologies: Society and Individuals in the Loop. Report of the Discussions of Breakout Session. Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Autonomous Systems Safety.
- Porathe, Thomas. (2019) Autonomous ships and the COLREGS: Automation Transparency and Interaction with Manned Ships. 18th International Conference on Computer and IT Applications in the Maritime Industries - COMPIT’19.
- Porathe, Thomas. (2019) Safety of autonomous shipping: COLREGS and interaction between manned and unmanned ships. Proceedings of the 29th European Safety and Reliability Conference(ESREL). 22 – 26 September 2019 Hannover, Germany.
- Porathe, Thomas. (2018) Workload and navigational control : The control levels of COCOM as framework for ship bridge HMI design. Proceedings of the European Navigation Conference 2018 (ENC 2018).
- Porathe, Thomas; Hoem, Åsa Snilstveit; Rødseth, Ørnulf Jan; Fjørtoft, Kay Endre; Johnsen, Stig Ole. (2018) At least as safe as manned shipping? Autonomous shipping, safety and “human error”. Safety and Reliability – Safe Societies in a Changing World. Proceedings of ESREL 2018, June 17-21, 2018, Trondheim, Norway.
- Porathe, Thomas; Lutzhoft, Margareta. (2018) A harmonized display of e-navigation information: Workload and navigational control; Contextual control levels. The Royal Institution of Naval Architects Human Factors Papers 2018.
- Porathe, Thomas. (2017) Is COLREG enough? Interaction between manned and unmanned ships. Marine Navigation: Conference Proceedings 12th International Conference on Marine Navigation and Safety of Sea Transportation, TransNav 2017.
- Porathe, Thomas. (2017) Ship navigation. Information integration in the maritime domain. Information Design: Research and Practice.
- Porathe, Thomas. (2016) Human-Centred Design in the Maritime Domain. Proceedings of NordDesign 2016.
- Brödje, Anders; Weber, R; Camre, David; Borup, Ole; Porathe, Thomas. (2015) Supporting Voice Communication Between Navigator and VTS by Visual Solutions-Exploring the Use of the" Route Suggestion" Functionality within VTS. Information, Communication and Environment: Marine Navigation and Safety of Sea Transportation.
- Porathe, Thomas. (2015) Human Error and e-Navigation: Developing the Nautical Chart as Resilient Decision Support. Human Interface and the Management of Information: Information and Knowledge in Context (Part II).
- Porathe, Thomas; Bentzen Billesø, Mads; Borup, Ole; Pedersen, Peder. (2015) Distribution and Display of Maritime Safety Information in an e-Navigation Context. Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Ships and Shipping Research.
- Porathe, Thomas; Brödje, Anders. (2015) Human Factor Aspects in Sea Traffic Management. 14th Conference on Computer and IT Applications in the Maritime Industries - COMPIT'15.
- Porathe, Thomas; Brödje, Anders; Weber, Reto; Camre, David; Borup, Ole. (2015) Supporting Situation Awareness on the bridge: testing route exchange in a practical e-Navigation study. Information, Communication and Environment: Marine Navigation and Safety of Sea Transportation.
- Porathe, Thomas. (2015) Electronics: Some friendly advice on bridge work. Navigation Accidents and their Causes.
- Porathe, Thomas; Eklund, Peter; Göransson, Henrik. (2014) Voice and Text Messaging in Ship Communication. Advances in Human Aspects of Transportation, Part I; Proceedings of the 5th Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics Conference 19-23 July 2014.
Books
- Johnsen, Stig Ole; Porathe, Thomas. (2021) Sensemaking in Safety Critical and Complex Situations: Human Factors and Design. CRC Press. 2021. ISBN 9780367435189.
- Porathe, Thomas. (2020) Proceedings of the International Conference on Human Factors, 19-20 February 2020, The Royal Institution of Naval Architects, London. Royal Institution of Naval Architects. 2020. ISBN 978-1-911649-03-8.