BARRETT
S. CALDWELL, PHD
ABBREVIATED BIOGRAPHY
EDUCATION
1990 Ph.
D., Social Psychology, University of California, Davis, June, 1990. Dissertation: Social Processes in
Isolated Groups of US National Park Rangers.
Advisor:
Dr. Albert A. Harrison.
1987 Master of Arts, Social Psychology, University of California, Davis, September, 1987.
1985 Bachelor of Science, Aeronautics
and Astronautics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT),
Cambridge, MA,
February, 1985.
1985 Bachelor
of Science, Humanities (Psychology), MIT, Cambridge, MA, February, 1985.
PURDUE AFFILIATIONS
Professor, School of Industrial Engineering
Professor, School of Aeronautics and Astronautics (by Courtesy)
Director, Indiana Space Grant Consortium
Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS)
SERVICE
TO ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL COMMUNITIES
Executive Committee,
National Council of Space
Grant Directors, 2006-2011
Co-Organizer, Cognitive Engineering Track, US
Frontiers of Engineering Conference 2008
Chair, Technical
Program Committee, Human Factors and
Ergonomics Society, 2003-2008
Advisory Board,
Society for Human Performance
in Extreme Environments
Advisory Board,
Students for the Exploration
and Development of Space
AWARDS
AND HONORS
University
Faculty Scholar, Purdue University, 2011-16
Fellow,
Human Factors and Ergonomics Society,
2008
Certified
Human Factors Professional, Board
of Certification of Professional Ergonomists, 2008
Track Co-Chair, Cognitive
Engineering, National Academy of Engineering US Frontiers of
Engineering, 2008
Participant, National Academy of Engineering US Frontiers of Engineering (FOE), 2003; German-American FOE, 2006
Purdue
"Seeds of Success" Award, 2005
Who's
Who in Science & Engineering / in
Engineering Education / in America / in the World
RESEARCH OVERVIEW
Prof. Caldwell conducts research in applying human factors and industrial engineering principles to team performance in complex task environments. His early research examined the potential social and technological effects of internet multimedia communications, even before the release of the Mosaic browser in 1993. Prof. Caldwell's discovery of the importance of information delay with increasing bandwidth has been meaningful since the growth of internet file sharing, which demonstrated that delay remains a concern to ensuring satisfactory quality of service. A central and fundamental component of Prof. Caldwell's work in this area was the application of engineering feedback control models of information freshness, cost of access, and value of information gain.
Prof. Caldwell's research group is known as the Group Performance Environments Research (GROUPER) Laboratory. The mission of the GROUPER Lab is to be a premier research group in the areas of analysis, design and improvement of how humans work with, and share knowledge through, information and communication technology systems on Earth and in space. His work, and that of GROUPER, is internationally recognized for integrating social and technical considerations in human task coordination and team performance. Over 25 of his former graduate students (MS and PhD) have achieved success in academic, government, industry, and military positions.
Primary GROUPER
Streams
- Performance Enhancement Resources for Comprehensive Healthcare (PERCH)
The
primary mission of the PERCH research stream is to improve the
efficient and
timely availability of information, to enhance the quality and safety
of
healthcare delivery among healthcare consumers, providers, and services. Over the past 10 years, Prof.
Caldwell's efforts in this research area have generated over
$200,000 in
principal investigator funding, ongoing participation in the
development
and activity of the Regenstrief Center for Healthcare Engineering, and
lecturing and advising with the Canadian Organisation of Medical
Physicists.
Sample projects from recent student theses:
- Impact of Contextual Metadata
on the Perceived Effectiveness and Efficiency of Team Coordination
Processes in Healthcare Operations (K. Boustany, PhD)
- Effect of Workload Transitions on Stress and Performance in a Hospital Inpatient Pharmacy (L. (Ignacio) Byrd, MS)
- Development of a Health Report that Better Communicates Health Information to Individuals (S. Douglas, MS)
Selected Publications Since
2006
Avery, G.
H., Lawley, M., Garrett,
S., Caldwell, B., Durr, M. P., Abraham, D., Lim, F., DeLaurentis,
P-C., and
Peralta, M. L. (2008). Planning
for Pandemic Influenza: Lessons from the Experiences of Thirteen
Indiana
Counties. Journal of Homeland
Security and Emergency Management, 5 (1), art. 29. Available at: http://www.bepress.com/jhsem/vol5/iss1/29
Boustany, K.C. and Caldwell, B. S. (2007). Dimensions of Information and Resource Flow in Healthcare Systems. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 51st Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD, October 1-7, 1268-1271. Santa Monica, CA: Human Factors and Ergonomics Society.
Boustany, K. C., and Caldwell, B.S. (2007). Information Coordination in Healthcare Providers. In Bayraksan, G., Lin, W., Son, Y., and Wysk, R. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 2007 Industrial Engineering Research Conference.
Caldwell,
B.S. (2008).
Tools for Developing a QM Program: Human Factors and Systems
Engineering
Tools. International Journal
of Radiation Oncology * Biology * Physics, 71
(1, Supplement), S191-S194 [Invited
paper for Special Issue on "Quality Assurance of Radiation
Therapy and the
Challenges of Advanced Technologies"].
Caldwell, B.S., and Garrett,
S. K. (2007). Team-Based
Coordination of Event Detection and Task Management in Time-Critical
Settings. 8th International Conference on Naturalistic
Decision Making, Pacific Grove, CA, June 4-6.
Caldwell, B.S., and Garrett,
S.K. (2010). Coordination of Event Detection and Task
Management in Time-Critical Settings. In Mosier, K., and Fischer,
U. (Eds.), Informed by Knowledge:
Expert Behavior in Complex Settings, ch. 22. Florence, KY:
Psychology Press / Taylor & Francis.
Caldwell, B. S., Garrett, S.
K., and Boustany, K.
C. (2010). Healthcare Team Performance in Time Critical
Enviornments: Coordinating Events, Foraging, and System
Processes. Journal of
Healthcare Engineering, 1
(20), pp 255-276.
Garrett, S.K., and Caldwell, B.S. (2009) Human Factors Aspects of Planning and Response to Pandemic Events. IIE Industrial Engineering Research Conference, Miami, FL, May 31-June 3.
- Spaceport Tools and Information for Near-earth and Ground Resource AnalYsis (STINGRAY)
The primary mission of the STINGRAY research stream is to analyze, develop, and enhance documentation, mission planning, management, and monitoring of checkout, launch, and in-space phases of human spaceflight missions. Over the past 10 years, this research area has generated over $400,000 in principal investigator funding (and co-investigator participation in over $300,000 in additional funding) by Prof. Caldwell, from sources such as NASA and the United Space Alliance.
Sample projects from recent student theses:
- Examining the Effect of Decreasing Mobile Device Information Display Size on Procedural Task Performance (K. Byrd, PhD)
- Simulating Real-time Coordination
of Event Response in a Safety-critical, Distributed-expertise Network
{in process} (J. Onken, PhD)
Selected Publications Since
2006
Caldwell, B. S. (2008) A Community-Based Information Technology Services Determination of GIS User Information Needs, Journal of Terrestrial Observation: 1, (2), art 7. Available at: http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/jto/vol1/iss2/art7
Caldwell, B.S. (2008). Information Alignment and Knowledge Synchronization in Spaceflight Operations. International Conference on Environmental Systems, San Francisco, June 29-July 3.
Caldwell, B.S. (2008).
Team Performance, Error Recovery, and Increasing System
Robustness in
NASA Operations. Applied Human
Factors and Ergonomics
International Conference, (CD ref. 212, 7 pp). Las Vegas, July 2008.
Caldwell, B.S. and Onken, J.D. (2009). Modeling Mission Operations Trade Spaces and Lunar C3I Capabilities. SAE International Conference on Environmental Systems, Savannah, GA, July 12-16.
Caldwell, B.S., Sindiy, O.V., Ezra, K. L., and DeLaurentis, D. D. (2008). Use of System of Systems Engineering Methods and Human Performance Analogues Environments to Examine Lunar Command, Control, Communication, and Information (C3I) Architecture Considerations. 6th Conference on Human Performance in Extreme Environments, New York, September 2008.
Perl, S., M., DeLaurentis, D. A., Caldwell, B.S., and Crossley, W.A. (2009). Adapting System-of-Systems Engineering for the Advancement of the Mars Exploration Program. 40th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, The Woodlands, TX, March 2009.
Sindiy, O.V., Ezra, K.L., DeLaurentis, D.A., Caldwell, B.S., Simpson, K.A., and McVittie, T.I. (2009). Use of Analogous Projects for Trade Space Analysis for Lunar Command, Control, Communication, and Information Architectures. AIAA Infotech@Aerospace Conference, Seattle, April 2009.
- Systems for Human-centered Access to Resources and Knowledge (SHARK)
The primary mission of the SHARK research stream is to develop useful analytical models of how people can access, coordinate, and enhance information resources in complex environments. This basic and fundamental research area has nonetheless resulted in over $150,000 in principal investigator funding for Prof. Caldwell's work.
Sample
projects from recent student theses:
-
Human-Computer
Network Interaction: Delay Effects and Its Mediators (E. Wang, PhD)
- How Can Meetings Hinder Productivity? Information Alignment and Production System Consequence (R. Palmer, MS)
Selected Publications Since 2006
Caldwell,
B.S. (2008).
Distributed Expertise and Knowledge Coordination during Dynamic
Events. Applied Human Factors
and Ergonomics International Conference, (CD
ref 333, 6 pp). Las Vegas, July
2008.
Caldwell,
B.S. (2008). Knowledge Sharing and Expertise
Coordination of Event Response in Organizations. Applied
Ergonomics 39,
427-438 [Special Issue on Macroergonomics].
Caldwell, B. S., and Grouper,
P.U. (2011). Context and Expertise Conceptualized as
Localized Metadata. Proceedings
of the 10th International Symposium on Human Factors in Organizational
Design and Management, Grahamstown, South Africa, April 4-6.
Caldwell,
B.S., Palmer, R. C. III, and Cuevas, H. (2008).
Information Alignment and Task Coordination in Organizations: An
'Information
Clutch' Metaphor. Information
Systems Management, 25 (1), 33-44 [Special Issue
on "Collaboration Challenges: Bridging the IT Support Gap"].
Caldwell, B. S., and Wang,
E. (2009). Delays and User Performance in
Human-Computer-Network Interaction Tasks. Human Factors, 51 (6), pp 813-830.
Cuevas,
H.M., Fiore, S.M., Caldwell, B.S., and Strater, L.
(2007). Augmenting Team Cognition
in Human-Automation Teams Performing in Complex Operational
Environments. Aviation, Space, and Environmental Medicine, 78 (5, Supp Section II), B63-70 (Special Supplement on Operational Applications of
Cognitive
Performance Enhancement Technologies).
Garrett,
S.K., Caldwell, B.S., Harris,
E.C., and Gonzalez, M. C. (2009).
Six Dimensions of Expertise: A More
Comprehensive Definition of Cognitive Expertise for Team Coordination. Theoretical
Issues in Ergonomics Science 10
(2), 93-105.
Palmer,
R.C. III, and Caldwell, B.S.
(2009). "Improving
Computer-Mediated Information Alignment in Production Organizations". Journal
of Intelligent Manufacturing, online reference DOI:
10.1007/s10845-009-0281-y.