User Science and Engineering Laboratory
The focus of the USE lab is the interdisciplinary work domain of emergency crisis management/crisis planning as researchers are developing:
- a scaled-world simulation
- computer-aided support/intelligent systems to provide user-centered assistance for complex operations
- collaborative suites intended to enhance and facilitate the coordination, communication, and sharing of information when team members are required to be distributed across space and time.
The current spotlight of our interdisciplinary research quest focuses on the socio-cognitive factors that are involved in homeland security and defense, viewed as a complex system of systems. Our most recent research projects investigate intelligence analysts, image analyst work, social-technical design of humanitarian logistics, hurricane management and geo-collaborative systems, 911 emergency crisis management centers, Tsunami disaster management web portal support systems, information visualization for terrorist interdiction and decision making, and C3I operations.
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