Over more than a decade, IS research has examined the role of trust in the context of technology adoption such as website acceptance (Gefen et al. 2003), successful online interactions (Coppola et al. 2004) and recommendation agents usage (Wang and Benbasat 2005). The primary antecedent of trust in the line of research is often trustee’s trustworthiness. However, Dashiti et al. (2011) articulat...

The rapid growth of personal email communication, instant messaging and online communities has brought attention to the important role of interpersonal trust in online communication. An empirical study was conducted focusing on the effect of empathy on online interpersonal trust in textual IM. To be more specific, the relationship between empathic accuracy, response type and online interpersona...

This paper describes new security architecture for personal area networks (PANs). We give an overview of the PAN model we have used and the PAN security problems that we have tackled. The problem area is illustrated with a business meeting example. We base the security architecture on a new PAN reference model, which we describe. The trust model on which the security architecture is based is al...

We analyze empirical data of Germany’s largest online social lending platform Smava.de to exemplarily study the contribution of unstructured, ambiguous, or unverified information to trust building in online communities. After controlling for the influence of hard information, we find that textual statements that appeal to social behavior actually affect trust building. However, the evidence is ...

Widespread use of sensors and multisensory personal devices generate a lot of personal information. Sharing this information with others could help in various ways. However, this information may be misused when shared with all. Sharing of information between trusted parties overcomes this problem. This paper describes a model to share information based on interactions and opinions to build trus...

Tharam Dillon Faculty of IT University of Technology.S ydney Broadway NSW 2007, Australia tharam@ it.uts. edu. au Trust between two communicating peers is increasingly catching the attention of the research community. Several trust models and trust management protocols have been proposed to assist the task of establishing trust between two communicating peers. Allt he proposed trustm odels make...

trust in god is a key concept in islamic ethics and mysticism. relying on the qur`an, the ethicists have advised muslims to realize this concept in their personal and social life. mystics treat it as one of the mystical stages passing through which is a must for every wayfarer. our written literature on ethics and mysticism frequently repeats the necessity of taking it into consideration. the n...

The present contribution analyses the connection between privacy and trust, with regard to data protection. In particular, it shows how the need to facilitate trust-based relationships may justify some limitations of privacy (in the sense of a right to self-determination over personal data), but may also provide some grounds for the protection of privacy.

background: congruity of values in workplace has a determining effect on personal and organizational outcomes. on the other hand, nurses provide invaluable services during the difficult times of sickness. the aim of this research was thus to investigate the relationship between personal and professional values among nurses working in hospitals affiliated to isfahan university of medical science...

In this paper we claim the importance of a cognitive view of trust (its articulate, analytic and founded view), in contrast with a mere quantitative and opaque view of trust supported by Economics and Game Theory. We argue in favour of a cognitive view of trust as a complex structure of beliefs and goals, implying that the trustor must have a “theory of the mind” of the trustee. Such a structur...