Establishing Trust When Assessing Learners

Establishing Trust with Privacy

With the advent of self-organizing systems such as ad hoc networks or ubiquitous computing, security protocols have to meet a new requirement for establishing trust among parties that have no a priori relationship like a shared naming structure or a common organization. Trust establishment in this context calls for a brand new paradigm with respect to classical scenarios whereby entities build ...

Measuring patients' trust in physicians when assessing quality of care.

Trust is a fundamentally important aspect of medical treatment relationships. Studies have established that patient trust predicts instrumental variables such as use of preventive services, adherence, and continued enrollment at least as well as satisfaction does, and is more salient for measuring the quality of ongoing relationships. Measuring trust would help to inform public policy deliberat...

Incremental approaches to establishing trust

We investigate cooperation using an incremental investment game in which the first-mover has the ability to make small, but increasing incremental investments in their counterpart. Our experiment is designed to test whether establishing trust in small increments is more effective than alternatives, including a one-shot investment game, a decrease only condition where the amount the first-mover ...

Assessing Learners Through the WWW

Conex - establishing trust into data repositories

Opam is a software update system, responsible for discovering, downloading, building, and installing packages from community repositories. The data and metadata at each step should be authenticated to originate from a (transitively) trusted author. Opam does not include any mechanism to authenticate any step at the moment. We propose conex, which establishes digital signatures from the package ...