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...

Towards trustworthy blockchains: normative reflections on blockchain-enabled virtual institutions

This paper proposes a novel way to understand trust in blockchain technology by analogy with trust placed in institutions. In support of the analysis, a detailed investigation of institutional trust is provided, which is then used as the basis for understanding the nature and ethical limits of blockchain trust. Two interrelated arguments are...

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,...