Supporting decision-making for secure resource sharing between coworkers using an affective-based trust evaluation model

Trust is a particularly crucial issue for virtual project team (VPT) success because numerous project tasks are interdependent, making team members reliant on the functional expertise of their partners. The challenge to develop trust is particularly complex because trust should consider various factors into different assessments made during different VPT phases (early, middle and late project phases). This study aims to propose an affective-based trust evaluation model that is applied at the late project phase. The trust value evaluated by the affective-based sub-model is determined based on coworker emotions. Therefore, using the model during late project phase can assist VPT workers in making more accurate decisions regarding secure resource sharing with other coworkers.