Leveraging human-robot interaction in hospitality services: Incorporating the role of perceived value, empathy, and information sharing into visitors’ intentions to use social robots

Ronan de Kervenoael, Rajibul Hasan (), Alexandre Schwob and Edwin Goh
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Ronan de Kervenoael: ESC [Rennes] - ESC Rennes School of Business
Rajibul Hasan: ESC [Rennes] - ESC Rennes School of Business
Alexandre Schwob: Sup de Co La Rochelle - Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de la Rochelle - Groupe Sup de Co La Rochelle
Edwin Goh: University of Birmingham [Birmingham], SIM - Singapore Institute of Management

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Abstract: Social robots have become pervasive in the tourism and hospitality service environments. The empirical understanding of the drivers of visitors' intentions to use robots in such services has become an urgent necessity for their sustainable deployment. Certainly, using social androids within hospitality services requires organisations' attentive commitment to value creation and fulfilling service quality expectations. In this paper, via structural equation modelling (SEM) and semi-structured interviews with managers, we conceptualise and empirically test visitors' intentions to use social robots in hospitality services. With data collected in Singapore's hospitality settings, we found visitors' intentions to use social robots stem from the effects of technology acceptance variables, service quality dimensions leading to perceived value, and two further dimensions from human robot interaction (HRI): empathy and information sharing. Analysis of these dimensions' importance provides a deeper understanding of novel opportunities managers may take advantage of to position social robot-delivered services in tourism and hospitality strategies.

Keywords: Hospitality services; Artificial intelligence; Social robots; Intention to use robots; Human-robot interaction (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020-06
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Published in Tourism Management, 2020, 78, pp.104042. ⟨10.1016/j.tourman.2019.104042⟩

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DOI: 10.1016/j.tourman.2019.104042

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