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User-centred analysis to inform the development of ice navigation decision support technologies

2025· article· en· W7132418669 on OpenAlexvenueaboutno aff
Rebecca Thistle, Jennifer Smith, Brian Veitch

Bibliographic record

VenueNPARC · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicMaritime Navigation and Safety
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsDecision support systemThematic mapCrewCoast guardTask (project management)AutomationThematic analysis
DOInot available

Abstract

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A growing interest in northern shipping routes and the transition to autonomous shipping has created an influx of decision support systems and low-level automation technologies for navigation crews in sea ice. While these technologies are intended to support decision-making, they often cause frustration for crews. Researchers theorize that using a user-centred design approach will lead to technologies that are more effective in supporting crew decision-making. This research aims to provide user-centred insights to inform the development of future ice navigation decision support technologies. The study reports a thematic analysis of unstructured interviews conducted with crew onboard a Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker. The interviews focused on the question: How do navigators decide on route planning and navigation in sea ice? The thematic analysis codes are used to create a Hierarchical Task Analysis (HTA) that models the process of route planning and ice navigation onboard this vessel. The HTA is used to identify potential issues and areas where technology can better support ice navigation decision-making.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Other design · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.969
Threshold uncertainty score0.208

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.010
GPT teacher head0.249
Teacher spread0.240 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designOther design
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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