Streams

Theoretical Streams

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.

Delays, Organizational Lags, and Productivity in Human Information Networks (DOLPHIN):

The mission of the DOLPHIN research stream is to study the impact of information delay and degradation on information technology use and performance. DOLPHIN research addresses both theoretical issues of feedback control models of tolerance for delays in human-human communication, and operational questions of information coordination in production systems.

Communication Optimization within Resource Allocation Limits (CORAL):

The mission of the CORAL research stream is to improve team coordination in, high consequence environments. CORAL research examines interface design and cognitive engineering capabilities to improve information presentation and display to support users' access to and interpretation of the information they need, when they need it, in ways that are useful in time-critical and other resource limited situations.

Application Streams

Performance Enhancement Resources for Comprehensive Healthcare (PERCH):

PERCH work helps improve provider knowledge sharing and event response in healthcare delivery. GROUPERs conduct studies with hospitals, pharmacies, and public health organizations to ensure connection to clinical realities.

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.

Mobile Aviation Resources supporting Latency, Information, and Navigation (MARLIN):

An FAA-funded project to identify weather information in the cockpit affecting pilot decision-making.The primary mission of the MARLIN research stream is to understand and enhance pilot interactions with dynamic weather information, and help mitigate adverse weather-related incidents, in general aviation aircraft (both fixed wing and rotorcraft operations). The MARLIN stream has been supported since 2015 as part of the FAA Center of Excellence Partnership to Enhance General Aviation Safety, Accessibility, and Sustainability (PEGASAS). Prof. Caldwell has been PI for over $1.25 million of PEGASAS funding related to MARLIN efforts to reduce unintended pilot incursions into adverse weather.

Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Learning Technologies (SMELT):

The mission of the SMELT research stream is to provide improved access, awareness, and integration of electronic information resources for STEM education, ranging from modules for students in grades 4-12 through use of emerging information and computing technologies to support distributed scholars worldwide. Prof. Caldwell's work in the SMELT stream is closely tied to his role as Director of the Indiana Space Grant Consortium.

Current Project Activity within the Streams