ABSTRACT
A warm summer night with heavy rain in the archipelago of southern Norway. After midnight, a water scooter at full speed is heading home after a late-night concert in a small coastal town. But the driver never returns home to the summer cabin where the family wait. The ability to focus and sustain attention on a task is crucial for the achievement of one’s goals. Although attention span is a complex concept and measures depend on a lot of different things, a common agreement among researchers is that the time span healthy teenagers and adults can concentrate to handle tasks without being distracted is limited to 10–20 minutes. “Sensemaking can be seen as the process to establish situational awareness based on cues”. The purpose was to develop an application for ordinary smartphones to increase safety and possibly decrease the number of groundings by leisure boats in Norwegian waters.
