Typically, to test whether an autonomous system (AS) is trusted, researchers develop an appropriate use-case often as a one-off, never to be used again.  For this project, we are documenting and reviewing scenarios that have been, or could be, used to evaluate human trust in AS, including some adapted from human-human trust experiments and others as envisioned by our TAS artists-in-residence.

We have consulted our stakeholders, formulated a taxonomy and are in the process of building an online library where researchers, regulators, policy-makers, industry professionals and interested members of the general public can browse, share and critique experimental use case scenarios classified in terms of the aspect of trust they test for, the way trust is measured, the type of risk involved, and a range of other factors.

OUR PUBLICATIONS

Towards an Open Source Library and Taxonomy of Benchmark Usecase Scenarios for Trust-Related HRI Research, Workshop on Advancing HRI Research and Benchmarking Through Open-Source Ecosystems, ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), March 13, 2023, Stockholm, Sweden.

A Practical Taxonomy of TAS-related Usecase Scenarios, First International Symposium on Trustworthy Autonomous Systems, July 11-12, 2023, Edinburgh, Scotland. Winner: Best Poster TAS23.

SEE ALSO

Video presentation introducing contributions to the usecase library made by our TAS artists-in-residence.

Audio presentation discussing the project during the Living with AI Podcast on Equality and Autonomous Systems.

 

Project Team

Meet Our Project Team

Peta Masters

Research Associate, King’s College London

Lead Contact

Alan Chamberlain

Senior Research Fellow, University of Nottingham

Co-Investigator (Nottingham Lead)

Liz Dowthwaite

Senior Research Fellow, Horizon Digital Economy Research, University of Nottingham

Co-Investigator

Yang Lu

Senior Lecturer in Computer Science, York St John University

Co-Investigator

Sachini Weerawardhana

Research Associate, King’s College London

Co-Investigator
Dr Victoria Young

Victoria Young

Research Associate, King’s Business School, King’s College London

Co-Investigator
Paul Luff

Paul Luff

Professor of Organisations and Technology, King’s College London

Advisor

Peter McKenna

Research Associate, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh

Advisor
Professor Luc Moreau

Luc Moreau

Head of Department of Informatics, King’s College London

Advisor

Maire Byrne

Senior Research Scientist, Dstl

Industry Partner

Jhannon Fanus

CEO and Founder, Dropalo

Industry Partner

Daniel Keller

Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer, Flux

Industry Partner

Tadeáš Kmenta

Co-Founder and Chief Innovations Officer, Flux

Industry Partner

Lukas Mattecka

Lead Business Developer, Flux

Industry Partner
Partners

Our Project Partners

DSTL