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Ph.D. Thesis Proposal Announcement
Title: Models, Metrics, and a Mathematics of Interactional Trust for Humans and Automation
Yosef Razin
Robotics Ph.D. Student
School of Aerospace Engineering
College of Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
Date: October 30, 2018 (Tuesday)
Time: 2-4pm EST
Location: MK 317
Committee:
Dr. Karen Feigh, School of Aerospace Engineering, Georgia Tech
Dr. Ayana Howard, School of Interactive Computing, Georgia Tech
Dr. Jason Borenstein, School of Public Policy, Georgia Tech
Dr. David Gefen, LeBow College of Business, Drexel University
Dr. John D Lee, Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Abstract:
Trust, the glue of society and foundation of morality, according to both ancient sages and modern scholars, despite its power, has proven elusive to the academy. Difficult to capture in a model or pin down with metrics, researchers have tracked trust in over two dozen fields and cited it in tens of thousands of publications. While some consensus has emerged on its major attributes and some fields have even coalesced around singular definitions, many remain with a fragmentary picture of trust. Nowhere is this truer than in human-automation interaction, which concluded that trust, elsewhere a force of robustness, is actually fragile. This proposal aims to resolve this paradox by reframing trust in human-automation interaction, contextualizing it within the larger academic dialogue. A model of interactional trust will be developed that has greater explanatory power and is more consistent with other fields. Metrics of fragility and trust beliefs and decisions will be presented and validated. A mathematics of trust, based in Subjective Logic and tying together a number of disparate trust theories, will be proffered and proven. Thus armed, three experiments in the driving and gaming domains will be carried out and used to refine, demonstrate, and validate the proposed theoretical contributions.
