PurdueUniversity : School of IndustrialEngineering : Barrett S. Caldwell : GROUPERLab Research

Barrett S. Caldwell Associate Professor, Schools of Industrial Engineering and Aeronautics & Astronautics  Director, Indiana Space Grant Consortium (INSGC) Purdue University 315 N. Grant St. #228D West Lafayette, IN 47907-2023 E-mail: bscaldwell@purdue.edu Tel: 765/494-5412 Fax: 765/494-1299 Office: Room 228D Grissom Hall

Professor Caldwell's research is focused on how people get, share, and use information in complex task settings. His work is especially relevant to team performance in time critical environments such as space flight operations,  healthcare operations, and other tasks where distributed human experts manage complex systems.  He has worked with state government agencies, companies, hospitals, and NASA research centers, and has been an invited participant in several programs of the National Research Council / National Academy of Engineering. 

• human factors and sociotechnical systems engineering
• distributed supervisory control
  
• team coordination and task performance
• knowledge management and decisionmaking
• information flow and information technology use
  

• 2007 -- present   Associate Professor, Aeronautics & Astronautics, Purdue University
• 2002 -- present   Director, NASA Indiana Space Grant Consortium, Purdue University
  
• 2000 -- present   Associate Professor, Industrial Engineering, Purdue University
• 1998 -- 2000       Co-Director, National Institute for Science Education, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• 1997 -- 2000       Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• 1990 -- 1997       Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  

• Ph.D., University of California-Davis,Social Psychology, 1990
• M.A., University of California-Davis,Social Psychology, 1987
• B.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, 1985
• B.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Humanities, 1985

• Tools for Developing a QM Program: Human Factors and Systems Engineering Tools.  International Journal of Radiation Oncology * Biology * Physics  (in press, 2007).
• Digital Modeling of Behaviors and Interactions in Teams.  In Duffy, V. (Ed.), Handbook of Digital Human Modeling.  Taylor & Francis (in press, 2007)
  
• Information Alignment and Task Coordination in Organizations: An "Information Clutch" Metaphor (with Ralph C. Palmer, III, and Haydee M. Cuevas), Information Systems Management (in press, 2007).
• Dimensions of Information and Resource Flow in Healthcare Systems (with Karim C. Boustany), Proceedings of the 51st Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, Baltimore, 1268-1271 (2007).
• Team Cognition in Human-Automation Teams (with Haydee M. Cuevas), 8th International Conference on Naturalistic Decision Making, Pacific Grove, CA (2007).
• Team-Based Coordination of Event Detection and Task Management in Time-Critical Settings (with Sandra K. Garrett), 8th International Conference on Naturalistic Decision Making, Pacific Grove, CA (2007).
• Group Performance and Space Flight Teams.  In Bowers, C., Salas, E., and Jentsch, F. (Eds.) Creating High-Tech Teams.  Washington, DC: American Psychological Association, pp 161-182 (2006).
  
• Analysis and Modeling of Information Flow and Distributed Expertise in Space Related Operations.  Acta Astronautica, 56, 996-1004 (2005).
  
• Forecasting Multiple Generations of Technology Evolution: Challenges and possible solutions (with Enlie Wang, Sudip Ghosh, Chulwoo Kim, and Raghuvir Rayalu), International Journal of Technology Intelligence and Planning, 1(2), 131-149 (2005).
• Describing Functional Requirements for Knowledge Sharing Communities (with Sandra K. Garrett), Behaviour and Information Technology, 21 (5), 359-364 (2002).

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Last update: October 16, 2007