Voice bots on the frontline: voice-based interfaces enhance flow-like consumer experiences & boost service outcomes

Naim Zierau, Christian Hildebrand, Anouk Bergner, Francesc Busquet, Anuschka Schmitt and Jan Marco Leimeister

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Abstract: Voice-based interfaces provide new opportunities for firms to interact with consumers along the customer journey. The current work demonstrates across four studies that voice-based (as opposed to text-based) interfaces promote more flow-like user experiences, resulting in more positively-valenced service experiences, and ultimately more favorable behavioral firm outcomes (i.e., contract renewal, conversion rates, and consumer sentiment). Moreover, we also provide evidence for two important boundary conditions that reduce such flow-like user experiences in voice-based interfaces (i.e., semantic disfluency and the amount of conversational turns). The findings of this research highlight how fundamental theories of human communication can be harnessed to create more experiential service experiences with positive downstream consequences for consumers and firms. These findings have important practical implications for firms that aim at leveraging the potential of voice-based interfaces to improve consumers’ service experiences and the theory-driven “conversational design” of voice-based interfaces.

Keywords: voice-based interface; speech interaction; natural language processing; artificial inteligence; media richness; flow; service research (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L81 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022-06-21
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Published in Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, 21, June, 2022, 51(4), pp. 823-842. ISSN: 0092-0703

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