The Effects of Interaction Conflicts, Levels of Automation, and Frequency of Automation on Human Automation Trust and Acceptance
This work addresses trust and acceptance issues for users in smart home environments, but it is incremental as it builds on existing research with specific experimental factors.
The study investigated how level of automation, frequency of automation, and conflict intensity affect human trust and acceptance in smart homes, finding that automation levels and frequency impacted trust, while failures and conflicts reduced acceptance.
In the presence of interaction conflicts, user trust in automation plays an important role in accepting intelligent environments such as smart homes. In this paper, a factorial research design is employed to investigate and compare the single and joint effects of Level of Automation (LoA), Frequency of Automated responses (FoA), and Conflict Intensity (CI) on human trust and acceptance of automation in the context of smart homes. To study these effects, we conducted web-based experiments to gather data from 324 online participants who experienced the system through a 3D simulation of a smart home. The findings show that the level and frequency of automation had an impact on user trust in smart environments. Furthermore, the results demonstrate that the users' acceptance of automated smart environments decreased in the presence of automation failures and interaction conflicts.