Human-computer trust has shown to be a critical factor in influencing the complexity and frequency of interaction in technical systems. Particularly incomprehensible situations in human-computer interaction may lead to a reduced users trust in the system and by that influence the style of interaction. Analogous to human-human interaction, explaining these situations can help to remedy negative ...

In China, major C2C websites are focusing on increasing their customer bases by converting members of their virtual communities (VCs) into C2C buyers and sellers. This phenomenon is called e-commerce based on social networks (ENS). The current research analyzes what factors affect trust building among VC members and how this trust influences the trust in the C2C website or vendor. We propose an...

BACKGROUND It is widely accepted that patient generates overall satisfaction with medical service and sub satisfaction on the basis of response to patient's trust in medical service and response to patient's attitude towards health policy in China. This study aimed to investigate the correlations between patient's trust in medical service/patient's attitude towards health policy and patient's o...

This paper studies trust and social capital through the writings of three eighteenth-century philosopher-economists-Hume, Smith, and Genovesi. It compares their accounts of the sense in which trust can be said to be rational, the conditions under which rational trust is possible, and the economic and social institutions which reproduce those conditions. These accounts are related to the modern ...

OBJECTIVES This study was conducted to investigate the effect of trust on work stress. Trust can be classified into three dimensions; social trust, institutional trust, and trust in others. The relationship between work stress and trust is regarded as having three components. First, trust has an influence on work stressors as an antecedent variable; secondly, trust modifies the effect of the va...

A fundamental question in the study of concepts is what makes sets of examples cohere as categories. We present results of three studies designed to compare standard taxonomic categories with categories that take their meaning from relationships extending outside of the individual example. An exemplar generation task is used to differentiate relational categories from taxonomic kinds and to com...

In pervasive computing environments, resources and services are usually provided by a variety of different suppliers with multiple computing devices and from heterogeneous networks. Accordingly, various privacy protection methods with lots of privacy policies were used. Before some meaningful interaction starts or services offers, a certain level of trust must be established, this trust establi...

The Semantic Web is a decentralized forum on which anyone can publish structured data or extend and reuse existing data. This inherent openness of the Semantic Web raises questions about the trustworthiness of the data. Data is usually deemed trustworthy based on several factors including its source, users’ prior knowledge, the reputation of the source, and the previous experience of users. How...

The two pillars of trust analysis and dependence algebra form the foundation of this thesis. Trust analysis is a static analysis of the run-time trustworthiness of data. Dependence algebra is a rich abstract model of data dependences in programming languages, applicable to several kinds of analyses. We have developed trust analyses for imperative languages with pointers as well as for higher or...

Trust can be applied to knowledge sharing on a distributed network of knowledge source agents. Each agent represents a person who trusts some other agents. Based on these trust-relationships, an agent can infer the trustworthiness of an unknown agent by asking trusted agents for recommendations. However, the person represented by an agent may not be willing to share his or her individual opinio...