Individuals have to disclose personal information in order to utilize the manifold options of the Internet. Online users frequently trade data for benefits (privacy calculus). Trust in both the Internet and the vendor has been identified as an important antecedent to disclosing personal information online. The authors introduce the perceived risk of disclosing specific data types as an addition...

A Trust Agent is an assembly of software components arranged to provide trusted remote entities access and control over certain aspects of a user's end system, in a privacy preserving manner. The Trust Agent recognising the end user as the platform owner, and consequently the owner of any personal information held on the platform. In this paper we describe two scenarios (one domestic, the other...

Lack of trust is one of the most frequently cited reasons for consumers not purchasing from Internet vendors. During the last four years a number of empirical studies have investigated the role of trust in the specific context of e-commerce, focusing on different aspects of this multi-dimensional construct. However, empirical research in this area is beset by conflicting conceptualizations of t...

The authors show that integrity protection as a technical means towards automated teller machine (ATM) security is not enough to establish trust towards ATM users. The attacks, aiming at getting into possession of users’ bank card details and personal identification numbers (PINs) are manifold. The authors come up with a solution that allows users to establish trust into the ATM integrity prote...

In today’s society, an increasing number of personal and business interactions occur remotely. Much of this collaboration takes place online via the Internet. While not every message may need to be secure, some will, creating a concern as to how one individual can trust another, especially if they have never met. This paper presents an original trust model that can support secure adhoc collabor...

With the introduction of web services, users require an automated way of determining their reliability and even their matching to personal and subjective preferences. Therefore, trust modelling of web services, managed in an autonomous way by intelligent agents, is a challenging and relevant issue. Due to the dynamic and distributed nature of web services, recommendations of web services from t...

Trust stands at the beginning of every meaningful interaction between members of any kind of community – be it in the real world or in a virtual one. But how could an application look like that helps to create or even foster the interpersonal trust of its users? We developed a game – Kokochi – with the goal to positively affect the interpersonal trust level of its players. We evaluated Kokochi ...