The application to maritime society of patch-type device

Abstract

In the maritime society, especially, we sometime find the news of marine collision accidents. Regarding the education and training of ship handling for safe navigation, it consists of lecture, exercise, ship handling simulator (simulator), and training ship. The some kinds of simulator is making the big impact for the effective education and training tools, and the simulator is used to get the overall skill for the ship handling at sea; however, now we should be confirmed the methodology of how to use, how to assess as a better utilizing the simulator. It deeply depends on the instructor of simulator training. The interesting points are to develop a methodology of effective education and training using ship handling simulator; to assess elements on simulator-based education and training, to develop a new assessment methodology utilizing physiological index. Physiological indices, heart rate variability (R-R interval), salivary amylase/nitric acid, and facial (nasal) temperature, are sufficient to evaluate the mental workload of a ship bridge teammate: a captain, a duty officer, a helmsman and a pilot. The safe navigation keeps with bridge team work, it is not only a duty officer; moreover, the sensor technology is developing day after days, and it is able to measure various kind human data without stress. In this conference, I introduce the applications to maritime society of patch-type device: 1) evaluation of — simulator-based education and training, 2) — teamwork, 3) — performance of sea pilot, 4) — performance of port coordinator who is operator of coastal radio station.