SIG Cognitive Research (formerly IS-CoRE) is intended to represent and support researchers in information systems who view understanding human cognition as a critical component to the successful design and implementation of information systems.
Within this unifying theme, a range of diverse topics are of interest, including (but by no means limited to):
- Situated, shared, social, distributed, and team cognition
- Collaborative work
- Group and individual decision support systems
- Group and individual group problem-finding, problem-solving
- Cognitive perspectives on human or computer-mediated knowledge-sharing
- Cognitive perspectives on decision processes
- Cognitive perspectives on knowledge management
- Cognitive perspectives on the design or use of information systems
- Cognitive processes of programmers/systems developers
- Cognitive aspects of learning and innovation
- Creativity and creative cognition
- Design of user learning and training interventions
- Human factors in information environments
- Human-computer interaction or human factors perspectives involving cognition or perception
- Research methods to investigate cognitive issues in IS