On trustware

Nick Merrill

28-Sep-2022, 16:00-17:00 (18 months ago)

Abstract: This talk dives into the politics of "trustware." I argue that trustware reifies expectations about how social relationships should work, making it easier for participants to cohere to those expectations than to subvert them. I focus on two cases: the cash register and the national identity system, to illustrate how the designers' needs dictates whose trust trustware serves. I call for restorative trustware, which counteracts incumbant power to equalizes power dynamics in trust relationships.

game theoryhuman-computer interactionsocial and information networkslaw and economics

Audience: researchers in the topic

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