- Source: Sociocognitive
Sociocognitive or socio-cognitive is a term especially used when complex cognitive and social properties are reciprocally connected and essential for a given problem.
It has been used in academic literature with three different meanings:
It can indicate a branch of science, engineering or technology, such as socio-cognitive research, or socio-cognitive interactions,
It can refer to the integration of the cognitive and social properties of systems, processes, functions, as well as models, or
It can describe how processes of group formation effect cognition, studied in cognitive sociology.
Socio-cognitive engineering
Socio-cognitive research is human factor and socio-organizational factor based, and assumes an integrated knowledge engineering, environment and business modeling perspective, therefore it is not social cognition which rather is a branch of psychology focused on how people process social information.
Socio-cognitive engineering (SCE) includes a set of theoretical interdisciplinary frameworks, methodologies, methods and software tools for the design of human centred technologies, as well as, for the improvement of large complex human-technology systems.
Both above approaches are applicable for the identification and design of a computer-based semi-/proto-Intelligent Decision Support Systems (IDSS), for the operators and managers of large socially critical systems, for high-risk tasks, such as different types of emergency and disaster management, where human errors and socio-cognitive organization vulnerability can be the cause of serious losses.
Integration of cognitive social properties of systems
Group formation effect cognition
See also
Cognitive science
Cognitive sociology
Memetics
Situated cognition
Socio-cognitive complexity in complex systems
Socio-cognitive systems in systemics – they can be intelligence-based systems including humans, their culture, technologies and the environment.
Sociology
Systemics
References
External links
Towards a cognitive memetics (2001), Cristiano Castelfranchi - Web pages.
The socio-cognitive model of trust (2004–06) - Web pages of the Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies (ISTC).
Human Factors in Nuclear Power Plant Safety Management: A Socio-Cognitive Modeling Approach using TOGA Meta-Theory. (2011) International Congress on Advances in Nuclear Power Plants.