Applying the swift trust model to human-robot teaming

Abstract Swift trust is a type of trust that is necessary when temporary group members rapidly develop a working relationship and interact with each other to perform team tasks. These teams are characterized by a lack of prior history of collaboration, experiences, or interactions to judge each other's trustworthiness and little prospect of working together in the future. Due to the current technological capabilities of robots along with the context they are typically used, swift trust is also relevant for human-robot teams. Although swift trust has traditionally been applied to solely human-human teams, there is a need to understand how swift trust is developed for human-robot teams given the proliferation of robots for team tasks. This chapter discusses the contrast of swift trust with more traditional trust conceptions and describes how swift trust can be used to describe the trust relationships formed in current and future human-robot teams.