Trust in human-robot interactions

Trust within human-robot interactions (HRI) is an emerging field of organisational behaviour research. While people are by their nature mistrustful of strangers and novelties, automatons are entities on a much higher level of unknown. Their functioning and processes are hard to understand for the ordinary people, hence in HRI the role of trust is immense. In present paper the dual nature of trust - dispositional and historical - is explored through the looking glass of international literature and is researched connected to a specific subfield. The data gathered among young adults regarding autonomous vehicles points out the importance of dispositional trust, however certain factors influencing historical trust could also be identified.