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There is a clear desire to model and comprehend human behavior. Trends in research covering this topic show a clear assumption that many view human reasoning as the presupposed standard in artificial reasoning. As such, topics such as game…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-05-16 Andrew Fuchs , Andrea Passarella , Marco Conti

Trust has emerged as a key factor in people's interactions with AI-infused systems. Yet, little is known about what models of trust have been used and for what systems: robots, virtual characters, smart vehicles, decision aids, or others.…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Takane Ueno , Yuto Sawa , Yeongdae Kim , Jacqueline Urakami , Hiroki Oura , Katie Seaborn

Dominant approaches, e.g. the EU's "Trustworthy AI framework", treat trust as a property that can be designed for, evaluated, and governed according to normative and technical criteria. They do not address how trust is subjectively…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Lameck Mbangula Amugongo , Tutaleni Asino , Nicola J Bidwell

Leading agent-based trust models address two important needs. First, they show how an agent may estimate the trustworthiness of another agent based on prior interactions. Second, they show how agents may share their knowledge in order to…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2014-01-17 Yonghong Wang , Chung-Wei Hang , Munindar P. Singh

Building trustworthy AI systems for mental health support is a shared priority across stakeholders from multiple disciplines. However, "trustworthy" remains loosely defined and inconsistently operationalized. AI research often focuses on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Xin Sun , Yue Su , Yifan Mo , Qingyu Meng , Yuxuan Li , Saku Sugawara , Mengyuan Zhang , Charlotte Gerritsen , Sander L. Koole , Koen Hindriks , Jiahuan Pei

The recent revolution of intelligent systems made it possible for robots and autonomous systems to work alongside humans, collaborating with them and supporting them in many domains. It is undeniable that this interaction can have huge…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Basel Alhaji , Andreas Rausch , Michael Prilla

Human trust is a prerequisite to trustworthy AI adoption, yet trust remains poorly understood. Trust is often described as an attitude, but attitudes cannot be reliably measured or managed. Additionally, humans frequently conflate trust in…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Tory Frame , Julian Padget , George Stothart , Elizabeth Coulthard

This paper presents a novel method to quantify Trust in HRI. It proposes an HRI framework for estimating the Robot Trust towards the Human in the context of a narrow and specified task. The framework produces a real-time estimation of an AI…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Giannis Petousakis , Angelo Cangelosi , Rustam Stolkin , Manolis Chiou

This work proposes a framework that incorporates trust in an ad hoc teamwork scenario with human-agent teams, where an agent must collaborate with a human to perform a task. During the task, the agent must infer, through interactions and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Ana Carrasco

In many large scale distributed systems and on the web, agents need to interact with other unknown agents to carry out some tasks or transactions. The ability to reason about and assess the potential risks in carrying out such transactions…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2011-03-02 Xin Liu , Gilles Tredan , Anwitaman Datta

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…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Retno Larasati

As chatbots increasingly blur the boundary between automated systems and human conversation, the foundations of trust in these systems warrant closer examination. While regulatory and policy frameworks tend to define trust in normative…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Aditya Gulati , Nuria Oliver

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

In this paper, we show that counterfactual explanations of confidence scores help users better understand and better trust an AI model's prediction in human-subject studies. Showing confidence scores in human-agent interaction systems can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-08 Thao Le , Tim Miller , Ronal Singh , Liz Sonenberg

Improving our understanding of how humans perceive AI teammates is an important foundation for our general understanding of human-AI teams. Extending relevant work from cognitive science, we propose a framework based on item response theory…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Markelle Kelly , Aakriti Kumar , Padhraic Smyth , Mark Steyvers

Trust is a fundamental concept in human decision-making and collaboration that has long been studied in philosophy and psychology. However, software engineering (SE) articles often use the term trust informally; providing an explicit…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Sebastian Baltes , Timo Speith , Brenda Chiteri , Seyedmoein Mohsenimofidi , Shalini Chakraborty , Daniel Buschek

Trust is a crucial component in collaborative multiagent systems (MAS) involving humans and autonomous AI agents. Rather than assuming trust based on past system behaviours, it is important to formally verify trust by modelling the current…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Asieh Salehi Fathabadi , Vahid Yazdanpanah

To achieve optimal human-system integration in the context of user-AI interaction it is important that users develop a valid representation of how AI works. In most of the everyday interaction with technical systems users construct mental…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-02-10 Tim Schrills , Thomas Franke

The increasing use of artificial intelligence (AI) systems in our daily life through various applications, services, and products explains the significance of trust/distrust in AI from a user perspective. AI-driven systems (as opposed to…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-04-05 Saleh Afroogh , Ali Akbari , Evan Malone , Mohammadali Kargar , Hananeh Alambeigi

An ideal integration of autonomous agents in a human world implies that they are able to collaborate on human terms. In particular, theory of mind plays an important role in maintaining common ground during human collaboration and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-05-22 Cristian-Paul Bara , Sky CH-Wang , Joyce Chai