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While social networks can provide an ideal platform for up-to-date information from individuals across the world, it has also proved to be a place where rumours fester and accidental or deliberate misinformation often emerges. In this…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-11-22 Georgios Giasemidis , Colin Singleton , Ioannis Agrafiotis , Jason R. C. Nurse , Alan Pilgrim , Chris Willis , Danica Vukadinovic Greetham

Trust is essential for our interactions with others but also with artificial intelligence (AI) based systems. To understand whether a user trusts an AI, researchers need reliable measurement tools. However, currently discussed markers…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Martin Dechant , Susanne Poeller , Benedikt Hosp , Olga Lukashova-Sanz , Alexandra Sipatchin , Siegfried Wahl

In this paper, we present a model of a trust-based recommendation system on a social network. The idea of the model is that agents use their social network to reach information and their trust relationships to filter it. We investigate how…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2008-09-07 Frank E. Walter , Stefano Battiston , Frank Schweitzer

Conversation agents, commonly referred to as chatbots, are increasingly deployed in many domains to allow people to have a natural interaction while trying to solve a specific problem. Given their widespread use, it is important to provide…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Biplav Srivastava , Francesca Rossi , Sheema Usmani , and Mariana Bernagozzi

Fake news is a severe problem in social media. In this paper, we present an empirical study on visual, textual, and multimodal models for the tasks of claim, claim check-worthiness, and conspiracy detection, all of which are related to fake…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-03-18 Gullal S. Cheema , Sherzod Hakimov , Eric Müller-Budack , Ralph Ewerth

This paper explores recommender systems in social networks which leverage information such as item rating, intra-item similarities, and trust graph. We demonstrate that item-rating information is more influential than other information…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Paras Stefanopoulos , Sourin Chatterjee , Ahad N. Zehmakan

AI-generated content is rapidly becoming a salient component of online information ecosystems, yet its influence on public trust and epistemic judgments remains poorly understood. We present a large-scale mixed-design experiment (N = 1,000)…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Adnan Hoq , Matthew Facciani , Tim Weninger

Many decision-making processes have begun to incorporate an AI element, including prison sentence recommendations, college admissions, hiring, and mortgage approval. In all of these cases, AI models are being trained to help human decision…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-12-06 Maryam Ashoori , Justin D. Weisz

Online social networks are more and more studied. The links between users of a social network are important and have to be well qualified in order to detect communities and find influencers for example. In this paper, we present an approach…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-06-27 Manel Chehibi , Mouna Chebbah , Arnaud Martin

Trustworthiness and trust are basic factors in common societies that allow us to interact and enjoy being in crowds without fear. As robotic devices start percolating into our daily lives they must behave as fully trustworthy objects, such…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Gerhard P. Fettweis , Patricia Grünberg , Tim Hentschel , Stefan Köpsell

Rapid development of Internet technologies promotes traditional newspapers to report news on social networks. However, people on social networks may have different needs which naturally arises the question: whether can we analyze the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-22 Yuting Yang , Juan Cao , Mingyan Lu , Jintao Li , Chia-Wen Lin

Thanks to platforms such as Twitter and Facebook, people can know facts and events that otherwise would have been silenced. However, social media significantly contribute also to fast spreading biased and false news while targeting specific…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Alessandro Balestrucci , Rocco De Nicola , Marinella Petrocchi , Catia Trubiani

The progressive digitalization is changing the way businesses work and interact. Concepts like Internet of Things, Cloud Computing, Industry 4.0, Service 4.0, Smart Production or Smart Cities are based on systems that are linked to the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-11-04 Wolfgang Bauer , Natalia Kryvinska , Jürgen Dorn

As AI-enhanced technologies become common in a variety of domains, there is an increasing need to define and examine the trust that users have in such technologies. Given the progress in the development of AI, a correspondingly…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-03-25 Hyesun Choung , Prabu David , Arun Ross

Trust facilitates cooperation and supports positive outcomes in social groups, including member satisfaction, information sharing, and task performance. Extensive prior research has examined individuals' general propensity to trust, as well…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-05-16 Xiao Ma , Justin Cheng , Shankar Iyer , Mor Naaman

In the age of social news, it is important to understand the types of reactions that are evoked from news sources with various levels of credibility. In the present work we seek to better understand how users react to trusted and deceptive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-31 Maria Glenski , Tim Weninger , Svitlana Volkova

This study explores whether labeling AI as "trustworthy" or "reliable" influences user perceptions and acceptance of automotive AI technologies. Using a one-way between-subjects design, the research involved 478 online participants who were…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-07-15 John Dorsch , Ophelia Deroy

In the Internet era the information overload and the challenge to detect quality content has raised the issue of how to rank both resources and users in online communities. In this paper we develop a general ranking method that can…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-09-23 Hao Liao , Giulio Cimini , Matus Medo

Recognition of a user's influence level has attracted much attention as human interactions move online. Influential users have the ability to sway others' opinions to achieve some goals. As a result, predicting users' level of influence can…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-05-08 Denys Katerenchuk , Rivka Levitan

With the current progress of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology and its increasingly broader applications, trust is seen as a required criterion for AI usage, acceptance, and deployment. A robust measurement instrument is essential to…

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