Concept Of Trustworthiness Research Articles

A Reputation-Based Trustworthiness Concept for Wireless Networking in Vehicular Social Networks

A Reputation-Based Trustworthiness Concept for Wireless Networking in Vehicular Social Networks

The Effect of Trustworthiness to Increase Brand Trust and Purchase Intention on Social Media Promotion based on Theory of Persuasion in Generation Z

This study aims to examine social media users against the background that the concept of trustworthiness has not been optimized to increase brand trust and purchase intention on social media promotions among generation Z. Trustworthiness positively influences purchase intention, indicating that feeling confident in brand trust and trustworthiness, amak is inclined to make purchase intentions for the promoted product or service. Persuasion Theory is an approach that aims to change a person's beliefs and ways of thinking through strong and effective arguments. The research method uses quantitative with purposive sampling technique and uses 225 respondents to be tested Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) analysis was conducted using IBM SPSS Statistic 27 and SEM AMOS24. The main research results show that all hypotheses have a significant positive relationship. New findings in this study show that social attractiveness has a significant negative relationship with parasocial relationships. The results explain that trust can increase brand trust and purchase intention on social media promotions. This research can provide assistance to companies regarding factors that can create purchase intentions for promotions on social media. This study has an update on the variables, namely the addition of brand trust variables to increase purchase intention.

Tawakal and Endeavors from the Perspective of Qadariyah and Jabariyah Thoughts Responding to the Covid 19 Pandemic

The Covid-19 outbreak is developing so fast in the midst of the life of the world community, and Indonesia is no exception. Its presence causes panic that is so terrible, because of the threat that is not kidding, which can lead to death. All lines take a role to be able to stop the rate of development of the effects of this virus, to stop crowd activities, including worship in houses of worship. With this policy, the community's response varied greatly. Of course this response is the result of the understanding that has been carried out so far. There are three groups in addressing the issue of destiny. First, Jabariyah is a group that only puts their trust in Allah, but denies endeavor. Second, the Qadariyyah are a group that denies destiny, only make endeavors but forget to rely on Allah. The third is the middle group, namely the group that is able to combine the concept of trustworthiness with endeavor in matters of destiny. So to provide a bright spot and be able to understand the problem of destiny, this situation needs to be described, then given a conceptual analysis related to the problem of destiny in the perspective of Qadariyah, Jabariyah and the concepts of endeavor and trust.

A theoretico-methodological understanding of the concept of trustworthiness in sociology and adjacent branches of knowledge

The paper focuses on the understanding of the trustworthiness concept in various realms of academic knowledge, as well as on possible intersections of these interpretations with the understanding of trustworthiness in sociology. Despite quite a frequent usage of the word “trustworthiness” in daily life and a completely “transparent” etymology of this word (“trustworthy”, that is worthy of trust), there is not an established definition of the term “trustworthiness” in academic literature. For example, V. Shlapentokh defines trustworthiness as a property which characterises the degree of adequate reflection of particular features of the social phenomena and processes under study, whereas V. Volovych regards trustworthiness as a degree of correspondence between the gained knowledge and reality. According to Y. Elez, trustworthiness is the way the truth exists “for us”, the way that reflects the correspondence between the truth and its provenness by a cognizing subject. There may be certain difficulties in translating this term. In English, “trustworthiness” literally means “the quality of being worthy of trust”, but we can also come across the word “credibility”, which can be interpreted as “believability” or “cogency”. Besides, there are a number of other concepts such as “truthfulness”, “verifiability”, “consistency”, “certainty”, etc., which are somewhat related to trustworthiness and have similar meanings. In empirical sociological research, trustworthiness mostly relates to validity and reliability. Y. Lincoln and E. Guba developed a set of criteria for assessing the trustworthiness of qualitative research, which are comparable to validity and reliability in quantitative studies. As for factors influencing the trustworthiness of acquired sociological information, they include the following: a) trust between an interviewer and a respondent (A. Irvine, P. Drew and R. Sainsbury); b) the researcher’s awareness of social, cultural and institutional aspects of the issues in question (V. Lub). The given paper does not pretend to provide an exhaustive coverage of the concept of trustworthiness; however, it can give impetus to the discussion on this topic. For instance, designing statistical indicators that allow assessing quantitatively the trustworthiness of sociological research results can be proposed as the first issue to address.

Experiences of patients on cancer treatment regarding decentralization of oncology services at a tertiary hospital in the Eastern Cape

BackgroundThe cancer burden is a global public health concern associated with high morbidities and mortalities. Low and middle-income countries are more affected including South Africa. Limited access to oncology services contributes to the late presentation, late diagnosis, and treatment of cancer. In the Eastern Cape, oncology services were previously centralized with negative effects on the quality of life of the already compromised health status of the oncology patients. To mitigate the situation, a new oncology unit was opened to decentralize oncology services in the province. Little is known about the experiences of patients after this transformation. That prompted this inquiry.AimThis study aims to explore the experiences of cancer patients regarding the decentralization of oncology services at a tertiary hospital in the Eastern Cape.MethodologyA qualitative approach with a descriptive, explorative, and contextual design was undertaken, to obtain the perspective of oncology recipients following the decentralization of oncology services at a selected public tertiary hospital in the Eastern Cape. After obtaining ethical clearance and permission to conduct the study, interviews were conducted with 19 participants. All interviews were transcribed verbatim against their audio recordings. Field notes were taken by the primary researcher. The concept of trustworthiness was used to ensure rigour throughout this study. Thematic analysis was done using Tesch’s approach to open coding in qualitative research.ResultsThree themes emerged from the data analysis: 1) Access to oncology services; 2) Oncology services provided; and 3) Need for improved infrastructural facilities.ConclusionThe majority of patients had positive experiences with the unit. The waiting time was acceptable, and medication was available. Access to services was improved. The staff had a positive attitude towards patients receiving cancer treatment.

Can robots be trustworthy?

Definition of the problemThis article critically addresses the conceptualization of trust in the ethical discussion on artificial intelligence (AI) in the specific context of social robots in care. First, we attempt to define in which respect we can speak of ‘social’ robots and how their ‘social affordances’ affect the human propensity to trust in human–robot interaction. Against this background, we examine the use of the concept of ‘trust’ and ‘trustworthiness’ with respect to the guidelines and recommendations of the High-Level Expert Group on AI of the European Union.ArgumentsTrust is analyzed as a multidimensional concept and phenomenon that must be primarily understood as departing from trusting as a human functioning and capability. To trust is an essential part of the human basic capability to form relations with others. We further want to discuss the concept of responsivity which has been established in phenomenological research as a foundational structure of the relation between the self and the other. We argue that trust and trusting as a capability is fundamentally responsive and needs responsive others to be realized. An understanding of responsivity is thus crucial to conceptualize trusting in the ethical framework of human flourishing. We apply a phenomenological–anthropological analysis to explore the link between certain qualities of social robots that construct responsiveness and thereby simulate responsivity and the human propensity to trust.ConclusionAgainst this background, we want to critically ask whether the concept of trustworthiness in social human–robot interaction could be misguided because of the limited ethical demands that the constructed responsiveness of social robots is able to answer to.

Confucian trustworthiness and communitarian education

ABSTRACT Through the conceptual lens of ‘education-as-moulding’ and ‘education-as-drawing-out,’ this article expounds the Confucian concept of trustworthiness (xin) and its relation with communitarian education. Informed by the Analects, it is argued that Confucius envisions a community of trustworthy members who are motivated and characterised by interpersonal trust. From a Confucian viewpoint, both approaches – education-as-moulding and education-as-drawing-out – are salient for the development of trustworthiness as a moral virtue in students and relational trust in the school community. The paper also addresses a prominent criticism of communitarian education: the imposition of prescribed values and curriculum on students that suppresses their individual identities, interests and voices. From a Confucian perspective, such an imposition over-emphasises education-as-moulding and neglects education-as-drawing out, making the enforcement ineffective in the cultivation of trustworthiness as a moral virtue. What is recommended instead is the harmonisation of the self and others through both education-as-moulding and education-as-drawing-out.

Trust Management in a Friend-to-Friend Network

Trusting a person that one has not had any collaboration with is risky, but when there is a trust relationship the feeling of being vulnerable or that others can take advantage of the trustee will not be there. Moreover, a trusted friend can equally change and become dubious since trust is not immutable and it changes from time to time. There is a need for mechanisms that will guarantee and enforce normative behaviours and at the same time, increase online collaboration by stimulating potential users’ trust towards the friends on the network. This research leveraged on Distributed Hash Table (DHT) and the Symmetric Replication Technique (SRT) to ensure availability of trust data for trust computation. To be able to use the DHT and the SRT, the concept of trustworthiness was conceptualized and operationalized into personal trust, reputational trust and recommendation trust. The architecture of the Trust Aware Model deployed on the F2F network, performed the function of peer trust update with respect to a peer’s collaborating level of trustworthiness thereby enabling effective management of trust in an F2F network that will bring about a robust F2F collaboration. Keywords: Trust Management, Collaborative Model, Distributed Hash Table, Symmetric Replication Techniques CISDI Journal Reference Format Aderibigbe, O.S. (2022): Trust Management in a Friend-to-Friend Network. Computing, Information Systems, Development Informatics & Allied Research Journal. Vol 13 No 2. Pp 73-.80. Available online at www.computing-infosystemsjournal.info CrossREF DOI No - dx.doi.org/10.22624/AIMS/CISDI/V13N2P7

Overtrusting robots: Setting a research agenda to mitigate overtrust in automation

AbstractThere is increasing attention given to the concept of trustworthiness for artificial intelligence and robotics. However, trust is highly context-dependent, varies among cultures, and requires reflection on others’ trustworthiness, appraising whether there is enough evidence to conclude that these agents deserve to be trusted. Moreover, little research exists on what happens when too much trust is placed in robots and autonomous systems. Conceptual clarity and a shared framework for approaching overtrust are missing. In this contribution, we offer an overview of pressing topics in the context of overtrust and robots and autonomous systems. Our review mobilizes insights solicited from in-depth conversations from a multidisciplinary workshop on the subject of trust in human–robot interaction (HRI), held at a leading robotics conference in 2020. A broad range of participants brought in their expertise, allowing the formulation of a forward-looking research agenda on overtrust and automation biases in robotics and autonomous systems. Key points include the need for multidisciplinary understandings that are situated in an eco-system perspective, the consideration of adjacent concepts such as deception and anthropomorphization, a connection to ongoing legal discussions through the topic of liability, and a socially embedded understanding of overtrust in education and literacy matters. The article integrates diverse literature and provides a ground for common understanding for overtrust in the context of HRI.

Analysis of Feedback Evaluation for Trust Management Models in the Internet of Things

The Internet of Things (IoT) is transforming the world into an ecosystem of objects that communicate with each other to enrich our lives. The devices’ collaboration allows the creation of complex applications, where each object can provide one or more services needed for global benefit. The information moves to nodes in a peer-to-peer network, in which the concept of trustworthiness is essential. Trust and Reputation Models (TRMs) are developed with the goal of guaranteeing that actions taken by entities in a system reflect their trustworthiness values and to prevent these values from being manipulated by malicious entities. The cornerstone of any TRM is the ability to generate a coherent evaluation of the information received. Indeed, the feedback generated by the consumers of the services has a vital role as the source of any trust model. In this paper, we focus on the generation of the feedback and propose different metrics to evaluate it. Moreover, we illustrate a new collusive attack that influences the evaluation of the received services. Simulations with a real IoT dataset show the importance of feedback generation and the impact of the new proposed attack.

Factors Influencing Moscow University Students’ Level of Trust in the Russian State Mainstream Media News

In the modern social sciences, the concept of confidence or trust is considered an essential element of the socio-cultural potential of each given society. Trust in the institutions of the socio-political system is the basis and condition for its effectiveness and is the central element of its [the system] legitimation. Many researchers view trust in the media from the point of view of public confidence in the authorities, which is formed by providing the media with this or that information.Trust is based on a cognitive process that discriminates among persons and institutions that are trustworthy, distrusted, and unknown. Therefore, the concept of trustworthiness is central to understanding and predicting trust levels.In this work, we viewed trust as a manifestation of social capital. At the same time, trust antecedents are trustworthiness and propensity to trust.Proceeding from the resource approach, the credibility (trustworthiness) of the media is a set of ideas and attitudes of the audience: reflecting the public’s expectations that the media will implement some of the practices that allow the audience to increase or maintain their social resources.The goal of this work was to establish a causational relationship between the level of trustworthiness (social capital) of the political power (via its administration and mass media) and the level of trust in its messages by youth as they are transmitted via MSM; while the rise of information through the Internet is rising in Russia and the overall propensity to trust is falling.

Social networks and social media: Understanding and managing influence vulnerability in a connected society

Influence vulnerability has recently become a concern across society and in business. Such vulnerabilities increase as social networks are leveraged by different entities, oftentimes through social media, to affect how we think and behave. While many instances of social influence are positive and beneficial, others can be quite negative and lead to harmful outcomes for organizations and individuals such as reputational damage and an inability to control desirable thoughts, narratives, and behaviors. In general, they can decrease people’s freedom of thought and behavior. This article draws on the concepts of social embeddedness and network commitment to outline people’s influence vulnerabilities. It then proposes three guidelines to help reduce influence vulnerabilities based on the concepts of trustworthiness, network commitment, and self-management.

Research on a Trustworthiness Measurement Method of Cloud Service Construction Processes Based on Information Entropy

The popularity of cloud computing has made cloud services gradually become the leading computing model nowadays. The trustworthiness of cloud services depends mainly on construction processes. The trustworthiness measurement of cloud service construction processes (CSCPs) is crucial for cloud service developers. It can help to find out the causes of failures and to improve the development process, thereby ensuring the quality of cloud service. Herein, firstly, a trustworthiness hierarchy model of CSCP was proposed, and the influential factors of the processes were identified following the international standard ISO/IEC 12207 of the software development process.Further, a method was developed combined with the theory of information entropy and the concept of trustworthiness. It aimed to calculate the risk uncertainty and risk loss expectation affecting trustworthiness. Also, the trustworthiness of cloud service and its main construction processes were calculated. Finally, the feasibility of the measurement method were verified through a case study, and through comparing with AHP and CMM/CMMI methods, the advantages of this method were embodied.

Trustworthiness: The Core of Leadership in Islam

This article discusses the concept of trustworthiness as the core of Islamic leadership as well as the crucial elements in trustworthiness in instilling this concept in the present leadership. Trustworthiness can be classified into two which are for Allah and for mankind. There are four elements under the classification for Allah which are Iman, Islam, Ihsan and Taqwa. Meanwhile, under the classification for mankind, there are four elements of trustworthiness. They are just, responsibility, integrity and accountability.

User conceptions of trustworthiness for digital archival documents

Trust is the most important characteristic of digital repositories designed to hold and deliver archival documents that have persistent value to stakeholders. In theoretical models of trust in information, the concept of trustworthiness is emerging as both fundamentally important and understudied, particularly in the domain of digital repositories. This article reports on a qualitative study designed to elicit from groups of end users components of trustworthiness and to assess their relative importance. The study draws on interview data from 3 focus groups with experienced users of the Washington State Digital Archives. Utilizing thematic analysis and micro‐interlocutor analysis to examine a combination of interview transcripts and video recordings, the study provides a realistic picture of the strength and character of emergent themes that underpin the more general concept of trustworthiness. The study reinforces the centrality of trustworthiness at the individual document level, but calls into question the formulation of trustworthiness as a concept in Kelton, Fleischmann, and Wallace's (2008) Integrated Model of Trust in Information.

Truth and Objectivity Regained

There is no greater threat to the relevance of organizational and administrative research, or to effective management, than erosion of confidence in truth and objectivity. The authors warn management and organization researchers against becoming institutionalized into an exaggerated perspective of self-doubt by giving too much credence to discussions of subjectivity and the underdetermination of theory by evidence. The concepts of trustworthiness, integrity, honesty, reliability, competency, fairness, or bias all rest on the concepts of truth and objectivity. The authors urge managers to seek the truth and base decisions on evidence and good theory. In responding to a cluster of recent promising articles on the topic, the authors carefully explicate the notions of truth and objectivity, show how these are attached to the notion of trust, and detail their place in social science and the art of management. The authors demonstrate that it is a mistake to think that one can abandon the notions of truth and objectivity and continue to use normative vocabulary as before.

Trustworthy Group Making Algorithm in Distributed Systems

AbstractInformation systems are being shifted to scalable architectures like Cloud and peer-to-peer (P2P) models. In this paper, we consider the P2P model as a fully distributed, scalable system different from centralized coordinated systems in Cloud and Grid systems. A P2P system is composed of peer processes (peers). Here, applications are realized by activities of peers and cooperations among multiple peers. In P2P systems, since there is no centralized coordination, each peer has to obtain information about other peers by itself. In the group cooperation, each group member peer has to be trustworthy so that malicious behavior of a member peer cannot effect overall outcome of the whole group. Here, it is important to consider the trustworthiness of each group member as a base of an agreement procedure in the distributed environment. The goal of a group and the way to archive the goal are decided by the group members. During the agreement procedure, opinions of member peers have to be collected in a group. Malicious and unexpected behaviors of member peers can negatively effect the output of a group. Hence, it is significant to discuss how to compose a group only by including more trustworthy peers. In this paper, by taking advantage of the trustworthiness concept of each peer, we propose a novel approach to composing a trustworthy group in the distributed agreement protocols.

Trustworthy Nanotechnology: Risk, Engagement and Responsibility

The papers in this special edition are based on contributions to the symposium “Trustworthy nanotechnology” in Trondheim, Norway in June 2010. This symposium was initiated by the research project NANOTRUST,1 funded by the Research Council of Norway’s Programme for nanotechnology and new materials. The motivation for the project was a realization that the question of trust in nanotechnology has been raised at a stage when the material, conceptual and social body of nanotechnology has been in its infancy. As trust or distrust in social and technological systems generally is based in previous experiences with these systems, nanotechnology raises new conceptual and social challenges. A number of public engagement exercises and research projects on the societal aspects of nanotechnology have, due to the relative novelty of the nano field, been fairly general in their involvement with the technology. One of the potential strengths of this project was its collaboration with a project investigating the use of polymeric micro- or nanoparticles to enhance vaccine formulations for farmed salmon. Thus we raised the question of trust in relation to a concrete case of nanotechnology development, integrating ELSA research with the technology research. Reflecting on trust in collaboration with technologists at this early stage has both advantages and drawbacks. It provides a unique opportunity in creating a forum for ethical reflection, opening the possibility for making a positive impact on technology development. By engaging technology researchers at this stage one can avoid the historical role of ELSA research as an exercise in negative ethics, i.e. ethics as border guard against real and perceived risks and harm to environment and society. On the other hand, being too far upstream may imply that the engagement is reduced to hypothetical discussions or conceptual clarifications. Engaging with nanotechnology at this stage means that attempts to foster public trust would need to focus less on technological products and more on the complex process of science. While a products focus draws attention to the public’s choices, understanding, knowledge and acceptability of the product, a process focus draws attention to the visions and goals as well as organization and governance of nanotechnology. Thus the focus of the project and the symposium shifted from the conditions for public trust in general, to the body of scientific practitioners and practices that is to be trusted. This shift implies a corresponding shift from the concept of trust to the concept of trustworthiness and from what conditions trust to what conditions trustworthiness. With this focus, we aim at addressing to what extent nanotechnology is providing a sound basis for fostering public trust. One important feature of recent approaches to technology studies is that they draw attention to extraordinary cases where there is much at stake, values are disputed and high risks are involved. These cases are often accompanied with high degree of controversy, either scientifically or publically, calling attention to post-normal strategies that widens the circles of engaged stakeholders. Controversies function as a mobilizing factor. The normal case however is not the one of controversies, but more like the case of exploring PLGA particles for delivery of vaccines in aquaculture. Projects like this one, that run under the heading of nanotechnology display low degree of substantial controversy. When the mechanisms of society “talking back” to science [3] are staged through initiatives like the NANOTRUST project there is little visible and unusual scientific or public questioning—neither of individual projects of nanotechnology nor of nanoscience initiatives in general. Nanoscience and -technology differs from genomics in this respect: the “talking back” is staged in ways that may suppress internal scientific conflicts, conflicts on specific products, engage NGOs or media coverage in the ways that we have witnessed in connection with genomics. Therefore the symposium sought to explore how the challenges related to trustworthiness can be raised in projects where there are few or no controversies to spark increased scrutiny and scientific self-reflection. What do such normal cases require from the working scientist in terms of their responsibility to display and be able to normatively account for co-produced societal changes? How can and should nanotechnologists meet the challenge of societal interaction under such presumably low risk circumstances? In this issue, three of the papers are products of the reflections of the NANOTRUST research group on the trustworthiness of a technology application subject to uncertainty and ignorance regarding potential harms to health and environment. In addition, we include papers related to two of the invited presentations that contextualized the issue of trustworthiness based on other nanotechnology governance research projects.

Evaluating Qualitative Research for Social Work Practitioners

The field of social work expects practitioners remain well informed regarding research advances in their respective areas. Research studies conducted through the lens of qualitative inquiry provide important contributions to the social work knowledge base. The purpose of this manuscript is to provide practitioners some orientation regarding qualitative research methods and to highlight potential strategies researchers may use to enhance the trustworthiness and quality of their research. Specifically, the concept of trustworthiness is defined in the context of qualitative inquiry and questions social work practitioners can ask when evaluating the quality and applicability of a qualitative research study are provided.

Can We Make Sense of the Notion of Trustworthy Technology?

In this paper we raise the question whether technological artifacts can properly speaking be trusted or said to be trustworthy. First, we set out some prevalent accounts of trust and trustworthiness and explain how they compare with the engineer’s notion of reliability. We distinguish between pure rational-choice accounts of trust, which do not differ in principle from mere judgments of reliability, and what we call “motivation-attributing” accounts of trust, which attribute specific motivations to trustworthy entities. Then we consider some examples of technological entities that are, at first glance, best suited to serve as the objects of trust: intelligent systems that interact with users, and complex socio-technical systems. We conclude that the motivation-attributing concept of trustworthiness cannot be straightforwardly applied to these entities. Any applicable notion of trustworthy technology would have to depart significantly from the full-blown notion of trustworthiness associated with interpersonal trust.