Abstract
This research is part of the Human Autonomy Enable (HUMANE) project, addressing human factors in autonomous shipping. The maritime industry is facing a technological evolution that will restructure existing sociotechnical systems. In this highly automated future the role of the human is still unclear. What skills or qualities are needed to interact with advanced technology, both on board and ashore? To explore this issue, and unpack the views of the maritime cluster, we use expert workshops organised in focus group style. The first two workshops invited stakeholders specialising in system safety, cybersecurity and law. Over and above these themes, the discussions also produced a large set of data regarding skills. These data were analysed and used as input values for a third workshop, with maritime education and training experts. This allowed validation of the previously collected data, and a further operationalisation and expansion of the concepts. This paper presents seven sets of skills considered by experts as the most important to make the future sociotechnical systems ‘work’.
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