Situation Awareness Sharing: A Link of Cognitive Vulnerability

Curator note

Building and maintaining a common situational awareness is one of the most difficult cognitive activities faced by team partners. It is also one of the most fragile areas of team and collaborative work. At the individual and collective levels, representation is at the heart of the cognitive decision-making process.
The sharing of a common understanding of the situation, i.e., similar between team members, is necessary for the coherence of the decision.
Situation Awareness (SA) and its sharing are particularly sensitive to contextual influences, and it is necessary to provide all the required technological support, both in terms of its facilitation and its security in the management of potential errors.
This partnership can be the target of cognitive warfare. It is a question, for the attackers, of influencing the individual representation by acting on all the tools for sharing them, whether they are technological or social.
Faced with a threat of influence or manipulation, the defender must deal with this risk and facilitate the conditions of a robust situation awareness sharing.