Exploring the Effect of Automation Failure on the Human’s Trustworthiness in Human-Agent Teamwork

Collaboration in teams composed of both humans and automations has an interdependent nature, which demands calibrated trust among all the teammembers. For building suitable autonomous teammates, we need to study how trust and trustworthiness function in such teams. In particular, automations occasionally fail to do their job, which leads to a...

Design for Calibrated Trust For Acceptance of Autonomous Vehicles

The advent of a society in which autonomous technology coexists with humans is an inevitability. The project focuses on one such autonomous technology in the form of autonomous vehicles or self driving cars. The benefits of such automation is well documented in academia and is supported by the investment by some of the biggest automobile and...

Blockchain: A Proof of Trust

This report explores the topic of ‘designing for trust in blockchain solutions’ as part of the technology’s adoption by clients of Cognizant. The result is a game that provides clients with a first insight into the new form of trust relationships that blockchain brings. <br/><br/>In recent years blockchain has gotten attention from public,...