Recommendation Agents for Electronic Commerce: Effects of Explanation Facilities on Trusting Beliefs

Authors:
Weiquan Wang;Izak Benbasat
Affiliations:
Department of Information Systems, City University of Hong Kong;Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia, Canada
Venue:
Journal of Management Information Systems
Year:
2007

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Abstract

We empirically test the effects of explanation facilities on consumers' initial trusting beliefs concerning online recommendation agents (RAs). RAs provide online shopping advice based on user-specified needs and preferences. The characteristics of RAs that may hamper consumers' trust building in the RAs are identified, and the provision of explanation facilities is proposed as a knowledge-based approach to enhance consumers' trusting beliefs by dealing with these obstacles. This study examines the effects of three types of explanations about an RA and its use-how, why, and trade-off explanations-on consumers' trusting beliefs in an RA's competence, benevolence, and integrity. An RA was built as the experimental platform and a laboratory experiment was conducted. The results confirm the important role of explanation facilities in enhancing consumers' initial trusting beliefs and indicate that consumers' use of different types of explanations enhances different trusting beliefs: the use of how explanations increases their competence and benevolence beliefs, the use of why explanations increases their benevolence beliefs, and the use of trade-off explanations increases their integrity beliefs.