Designing for Social Inclusion: Computer Mediation of Trust Relations Between Citizens and Public Service Providers

Abstract

Trust has a direct impact on the extent to which citizens engage with public and community services. This paper advances a framework which seeks to support HCI designers and managers in promoting ICT-mediated citizen engagement with public services through a strategy of trust promotion. The framework is based upon an analysis of evidence from large-scale community surveys which demonstrate a significant relationship between levels of user trust and users’ experience of public services and reveals experiential factors that promote users’ trust.