Research Topic Areas

  • Mass Disaster
    • Subtopics include:
      • Crisis Informatics
      • Community engagement in disasters
      • Hurricanes
      • Island impact (e.g. Puerto Rico)
      • Hospitals & healthcare systems
      • Command & control, decision making
      • Simulation based training for disasters

  • Veterans Studies
    • Subtopics
      • PTSD and combat trauma
      • Heart of combat
      • Information systems for veteran mental health (mobile, sensors, etc.)
      • Community based social services delivery for veterans
      • Moral injury
      • Heroic action in military contexts
      • Peer-to-peer (para-professional) veteran support
      • Early warning signs of mental health crisis
      • Veteran anger / rage

  • Heroism & Heroic Action (Social Psychology)
    • Subtopics:
      • Heroism as a form of crisis decision making
      • Embodiment
      • Morality & ethics
      • Philosophy
      • Psychological theory construction

  • Community Engagement
    • Subtopics:
      • Multi-agency collaboration
      • Organizational network analysis of community projects
      • Community informatics
      • Engagement as a form of virtue ethics
      • Cultural adaptation
      • Public understanding of science
  • Methodological Approaches
    • Social/organizational network analysis
    • Sensor based data collection
    • Computational psychology
    • Longitudinal data collection/EMA
    • Data capture with hard to reach populations
    • Community collaborative information systems design

  • Computer science (healthcare, disaster management)
    • Machine learning
    • Community collaborative information systems design
    • EHR data extraction
    • Workflow & logistics management
    • Command and control simulation
    • Culturally tailored UI/UX design

  • Articles for these topic areas can be on my Google Scholar profile

Students monitoring sensor data capture from actors simulating anger.