Conceptualizing Trustworthiness and Trust in Communications
Abstract: 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 that humans accept them just as we trust interacting with other people in our daily lives. How can we learn from system models and findings from social sciences and how can such learnings be translated into requirements for future technical solutions? We present a novel holistic approach on how to tackle trustworthiness systematically in the context of communications. We propose a first attempt to incorporate objective system properties and subjective beliefs to establish trustworthiness-based trust, in particular in the context of the future Tactile Internet connecting robotic devices. A particular focus is on the underlying communications technology.
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