We present a feedback design solution for a user interface about a dynamic web service recomposition, which exhibited trust issues in an accompanying questionnaire study. By examining the design in detail and identifying the factors (as well as their interrelations) that caused the distrust, we discuss what could be done to avoid distrust through design in the future.

Trading on peer-to-peer tourist accommodation platforms requires a sufficient level of trust between individual consumers and service providers. This is often achieved by using mutual consumer–provider evaluations, which are perceived as trustworthy resource for information about upcoming stays. A variety mechanisms metrics used to facilitate building platforms; however, itself being establishe...

Trust is a vital lubricant that increases the sense of security in social interactions. In this study, we investigated the intergroup trust between the Uyghur and the Han, the two largest ethnic groups in Xinjiang, China, with a Go/No-Go Association Task. Specifically, we instructed Uyghur and Han participants to respond to ethnic faces (Uyghur vs. Han) and trust/distrust words and measured the...

The aim of this article is to explore some critical moments in the formation of ‘popular’ culture studies. This objective is not exhaustive, cannot be exhaustive in the space of a single article, since popular cultural studies have grown into an academic industry which not even five live-times of academic work by any individual can exhaust! This article is therefore, a rapid but hopefully, prov...