Abstract
Hotel industry started to adopt service robots, which are considered a future workforce. However, no attempt was conducted to examine the dimensionality of service quality of service robots. This paper aims to understand the influence of human–robot interaction from the viewpoint of hoteliers and guests. Two studies are conducted in this respect. Study 1 organizes focus-group interviews with hotel managers from various departments to elicit themes related to guest–robot interaction and robot-delivered services. Based on the findings in Study 1, Study 2 conducts an experiment to examine and compare hotel guests’ perceptions about the quality of services provided by human staff and service robots, as well as their joint services. Human staff services are perceived higher than the services of service robots in terms of interaction quality and physical service environment. However, no significant difference in outcome quality is noted.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 613-635 |
| Number of pages | 23 |
| Journal | Journal of Hospitality Marketing and Management |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue number | 6 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 17 Aug 2020 |
Keywords
- artificial intelligence
- human–robot interaction
- service quality
- Service robots
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Management Information Systems
- Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management
- Marketing