A study on Usability for Oscillating Motion of the Pleasure Boats

Abstract

This paper studies relationship between hull motion and usability for pleasure boats. A ship simulator with a stewart platform to reproduce hull motion is developed. In our experiments with the ship simulator, slalom to avoid obstacles arranged at regular intervals on a straight line is defined as a task. Four type conditions of reproducing hull motion, such as nothing to reproduce, the only rolling, the only pitching and both rolling and pitching are carried out for four subjects. As a result of experiment, it can be seen that the relationship between the degree of reproduction the motion and the usability is a trade-off..