What is Maritime Uncrewed Systems

Serious Games (SGs) are emerging as a means to support technology development. They can be powerful approaches when clear technology uptake pathways are not yet defined. This might be exacerbated when the technology itself and the capabilities that allow their use (e.g., planning systems or monitoring and surveillance systems) are still under development or in early stages of adoption. In this chapter the authors discuss how SGs can be used as a technique to support technology development and adoption. Specifically, the use case of the Maritime Unmanned Systems Trust (MUST) Game is presented. This game aims at increasing the understanding of the context of use of emerging and disruptive technologies (i.e., automation and autonomy) in future maritime operational environments and at steering future scientific developments (i.e., the design of advanced decision support systems to optimize their use).