Recent investigations emphasized the role of communication features on behavioral trust and reciprocity in economic decision making but no studies have been focused on the effect of communication on affective states in such a context. Thanks to advanced methods of computational psychometrics, in this study, affective states were deeply examined using simultaneous and synchronized recordings of ...

An increasing number of elections have been performed using Online Voting. Due to these experiences, the technical research topics have changed: While voting protocols have been well analysed in the past, now, the security and trustworthiness of the client platforms come to the fore. Malware could cause arbitrary damages regardless how secure the underlying voting scheme is. Moreover, corrupt v...

Trust in physicians is the patient's optimistic acceptance of vulnerability and the expectation that the physician will do what is best for his/her welfare. This study was undertaken to develop a conceptual understanding of the dimensions and determinants of trust in physicians in healthcare settings in resource-poor, developing countries. A cross-sectional household survey was conducted on a s...

Media researchers are adopting personalisation in diverse ways to deliver increasingly context-sensitive and customised media experiences. This paper explores user attitudes towards a personalised Electronic Programme Guide which tailors media recommendations based on users’ personal data. We used scenario based exploration enabled by the use of probes to convey the functionalities of data-driv...

Recently, trust emerged as a momentous aspect to evaluate resources, services or persons. In our work, the trust notion focuses on a system as a whole and from the point of view of a particular user to do a particular digital activity as editing a document, mailing, chatting, etc. Our general goals are (i) to enable users to have a personal comparison of applications allowing them to do an acti...

An increasing number of elections have been performed using Online Voting. Due to these experiences, the technical research topics have changed: While voting protocols have been well analysed in the past, now, the security and trustworthiness of the client platforms come to the fore. Malware could cause arbitrary damages regardless how secure the underlying voting scheme is. Moreover, corrupt v...

The authors report results from 5 experiments that describe the influence of emotional states on trust. They found that incidental emotions significantly influence trust in unrelated settings. Happiness and gratitude--emotions with positive valence--increase trust, and anger--an emotion with negative valence--decreases trust. Specifically, they found that emotions characterized by other-person ...

A typology of trust concepts would enable researchers to compare results and communicate results more clearly. The typology would be especially valuable if the types of trust are shown to relate to each other. This paper justifies such an interdisciplinary typology and relates the trust constructs to e-commerce actions. It defines both conceptual level and operational level trust constructs. Th...

Recent advances in networking technology have increased the potential for dynamic enterprise collaborations between an open set of entities on a global scale. The security of these collaborations is a major concern, and requires novel approaches suited to this new environment to be developed. Trust management appears to be a promising approach. Due to the dynamic nature of these collaborations,...

Interpersonal trust is an essential ingredient of many social relationships but how stable is it actually, and how is it controlled? There is evidence that the degree of trust into others might be rather volatile and can be affected by manipulations like drawing attention to personal interdependence or independence. Here we investigated whether the degree of interpersonal trust can be biased by...