A concordance framework for building trust evidences

Abstract

Online dating is one domain, which would benefit from the application of computational trust. One of the problems with the application of traditional computational trust models, as identified in our previous work, is authenticity of information provided by parties which helps other users ascertain whether they want to go on dates. In this position paper, we suggest a solution: a concordance based framework for a game to be built into a online dating system. The game provokes users to provide spontaneous and thus more genuine data about themselves. The key feature of the game is the respect for privacy that supports and encourages the user to provide authentic information. Future work will comprise of implementation of the game and its user testing.

Reflections on Measuring the Trust Empowerment Potential of a Digital Environment

“…We describe these type of digital environments as trust empowering and wish to know how to determine whether a digital environment is really empowering a user and, as a future research step, to what extent. Recent research has described the need for applications following the trust empowering design approach (for instance, [2][3][4][5]). Examples of these types of trust empowering applications could be a dating site that helps users negotiate fraught relations (e.g.…”

“…Examples of these types of trust empowering applications could be a dating site that helps users negotiate fraught relations (e.g. the work described in Basu et al [3]) or an application that allows individuals to self-select and come together to create a project (for instance, the creative initiatives described in Möllering [6] or the more commercial projects outlined in Kaur et al [7]). It may seem premature to tackle evaluation before these types of projects are widespread, but if we are to develop trust empowering applications, we need to know the measures by which to judge success.…”