Speaker: Guoray Cai
Title: Context-dependent nature of trust, and what to do with it?

Abstract: Trust is fundamentally a kind of social relations, and
functions within many of the social rules of interactions between
people.  Human trust relationships is highly flexible, nuanced, and
contextualized, while our computational systems for supporting trust
in cyberspace are too rigid and disembodies from the worlds they
operate.  The purpose of this talk is to highlight the
context-dependent nature of trust-related decisions, and propose
possible roadmaps to advance the research agenda.  I argue for an
explicit model of trust and context motivated by activity theory and
philosophical view of trust.  This has potentials to bring
Human-computer interaction research to immediate relevance in trust,
privacy and security.