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Here, progress is an expectation - for you, your team, and the world. As a global market leader, we’ll give you what you need to make it happen. It won’t always be easy, growing takes grit. But at ABB, you’ll never run alone. Run what runs the world.\nThis Position reports to:\nR&D Team LeadYour role and responsibilities\nCurrent research and industrial solutions in maritime route planning, optimization, and visual analytics reflect a clear transition from static pathfinding heuristics to dynamic, human-centered decision support platforms. Modern ship navigation interfaces bring together real-time AI weather forecasts, trade-off optimization algorithms, and detailed engine-tracking data into a single interactive dashboard. A central challenge is how complex information can be visualized so that ship personnel can understand route alternatives and make safe, efficient decisions.\nVisual analytics plays a pivotal role in this ecosystem, transforming these complex back-end computations and multi-dimensional sensor feeds into clear visual analytics so ship personnel can easily explore alternatives and make safe, efficient decisions.\nThe thesis will investigate how ship personnel, such as captains and navigation officers, can better understand and evaluate route recommendations that combine weather, safety constraints, voyage time, cargo and fuel/energy efficiency etc.. It will focus on how route alternatives, trade-offs, uncertainty, and optimization rationale should be visualized to support confident onboard decision-making, followed by concept development, prototyping, and initial user evaluation.\nRecommended research questions are (can be some of the following)\nHow can route planning, weather forecasting, route adaptation, vessel performance and actual ship motion be visualized as a continuous decision-support workflow?Would Gen AI be an appropriate tool to facilitate those tasks?\n\nHow should route visualizations evolve when forecasts change during voyage execution?\nHow should future uncertainty be communicated to support users’ understanding and decision-making without creating unnecessary complexity?\nHow can visual analytics help crews assess when changing conditions warrant adaptation of the current route plan?\nDetails:\nSpring 2027, commonly between Jan-July \n30 ECTS/högskolepoäng (hp) \n1 - 2 students\nIn Västerås, possibility for hybrid workplace \nYour responsibilities\nLiterature review on user needs for route planning and optimization at sea (particularly on managing changes and dynamic situations), multi-objective voyage optimization, AI-assisted solutions and UI design.\nPotentially conduct expert or user interviews (ABB internal experts)\nCreate concepts based on learning and existing materials within ABB\nImplement prototypes (fidelity can be flexible)\nConduct user evaluation (optional)\nSummarize results and identify design implications on data visualization for continuous route planning, updating and optimization. \nYour background\nWe are looking for motivated master's students with a strong interest in human-centered design and automation.\nCandidates could have:\n Academic Background in one or more of the following fields:Interaction Design\nHuman-Computer Interaction (HCI)\nData Visualization and Engineering\nHuman Factors Engineering\nMedia Technology\n\nAbility to conduct contextual research and 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