Sociocognitive orsocio-cognitive is a term especially used whencomplex cognitive and social properties are reciprocally connected and essential for a given problem.
It has been used in academic literature with three different meanings:[1]
Socio-cognitive research ishuman factor and socio-organizational factor based, and assumes an integratedknowledge engineering, environment andbusinessmodeling perspective, therefore it is notsocial cognition which rather is a branch ofpsychology focused onhow people process social information.
Socio-cognitive engineering (SCE) includes a set of theoretical interdisciplinary frameworks, methodologies, methods and software tools for the design ofhuman centred technologies,[2] 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-IntelligentDecision Support Systems (IDSS),[3] for the operators and managers of large socially critical systems, for high-risk tasks, such as different types ofemergency anddisaster management, wherehuman errors and socio-cognitive organizationvulnerability can be the cause of serious losses.[4]
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