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


    de Kervenoael, Ronan, Hasan, Rajibul, Schwob, Alexandre and Goh, Edwin (2020) Leveraging human-robot interaction in hospitality services: Incorporating the role of perceived value, empathy, and information sharing into visitors’ intentions to use social robots. Tourism Management, 78. p. 104042. ISSN 02615177

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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.
    Item Type: Article
    Keywords: Social robots; Intention to use robots; Human-robot interaction; Hospitality services; Artificial intelligence;
    Academic Unit: Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Business
    Item ID: 15952
    Identification Number: 10.1016/j.tourman.2019.104042
    Depositing User: Rajibul Hasan
    Date Deposited: 16 May 2022 09:54
    Journal or Publication Title: Tourism Management
    Publisher: Elsevier
    Refereed: Yes
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    URI: https://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/id/eprint/15952
    Use Licence: This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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