The daily job of the navigator has changed
significantly with the introduction of electronic navigation
and integrated navigation systems. The navigator has
progressed from using most of his time to find and fix the
position, to understand and control complex system design
to increase situation awareness and facilitate safe
navigation for the officer of the watch. This article
presents Eye Tracking data that has been collected on
board the world’s fastest littoral combat ship, compared
with similar datasets collected in a bridge navigation
simulator. The data has been analyzed to determine how
we better can use maritime navigation simulators and
develop bridge design and general user interface to ease
the burden of the navigator
