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Type Journal Article
Scope Discipline-based scholarship
Title Advisory service support that works enhancing service quality with a mixed-reality system
Organization Unit
Authors
  • Mateusz Dolata
  • Doris Agotai
  • Simon Schubiger
  • Gerhard Schwabe
Item Subtype Original Work
Refereed Yes
Status Published in final form
Language
  • English
Journal Title PACM on Human-Computer Interaction
Publisher Association for Computing Machinery
Geographical Reach international
ISSN 2573-0142
Volume 4
Number CSCW2
Page Range 120:1 - 120:22
Date 2020
Abstract Text Modern information technology promises to improve service encounters through automated documentation or better decision traceability. At the same time, research suggests a negative impact of technology on human-to-human advisory services: including the possibility that computers might degrade the quality of interpersonal communication and reinforce unpleasant behaviors. Consequently, despite obvious improvements, information technology might have a negative impact on how the participants perceive the service. This might imply serious consequences for the service provider: dissatisfied clients, ineffective information exchange, and/or lack of transparency. This scenario slows down the diffusion of computers into advisory services in banks and insurance companies, and so designing systems for use in interpersonal services remains a challenge. This article provides evidence that LivePaper, a system designed alongside the material practices of a financial advisory encounter, helps to improve important service quality dimensions, making the services not only more pleasant for the participants, but also improving key marketing and business metrics of the service. In experimental advisory services, the sessions supported with LivePaper outperformed conventional services with regard to overall bank service quality and satisfaction, salesperson listening and interaction rating scores, as well as information transparency. This shows that a carefully designed system not only preserves the perceived quality of a service, but might improve it objectively, and has implications for the marketing and business value of the service.
Digital Object Identifier 10.1145/3415191
Other Identification Number merlin-id:19937
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Additional Information © Mateusz Dolata, ACM,2020 This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here for your personal use. Not for redistribution. The definitive Version of Record was published in Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, Article No.: 120, https://doi.org/10.1145/3415191