Trust in Technology: A Socio-Technical Perspective

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Clarke, Karen (Editor), Hardstone, Gillian (Editor), Rouncefield, Mark (Editor), Sommerville, Ian (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2006.
• Series: Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 36
• Subjects: Computer science.; Operating systems (Computers).; Computers.; Computers and civilization.; Management information systems.; Sociology.; Computer Science.; Theory of Computation.; Sociology, general.; Operating Systems.; Computer Science, general.; Computers and Society.; Management of Computing and Information Systems.

This book encapsulates some work done in the DIRC project concerned with trust and responsibility in socio-technical systems. It brings together a range of disciplinary approaches - computer science, sociology and software engineering - to produce a socio-technical systems perspective on the issues...