An Evaluation of Trust Development in Group Collaborations: A Longitudinal Case Study

Trust is referred to as a key facilitator in team collaborations. Evidence shows that different levels of trust are related to different qualities of team collaboration. A lack of trust development in teams presents a significant challenge in group collaboration. In this paper", " we review factors associated with the establishment of trust in hybrid teams that collaborate virtually as well as face to face. Further we deliver an instrument to understand trust development in teams. We describe exploratory results of the instrument by running experiments with teams of collaborating students. Finally, in the analysis of the experiments we describe patterns of trust development in groups from both individual and group perspectives.