Voice Commerce
- Author(s)
- Hai Son Nguyen, Andreas Mladenow, Christine Strauss, Katharina Auer-Srnka
- Abstract
Voice assistants comprehend and use complex natural language and have become more pervasive in people's homes. Many effects of these technologies on consumer behaviour and their implications for manufacturers and businesses are still unexplored in literature. This paper aims to understand the impact of anthropomorphism on consumer attitudes and behavioural intentions. More specifically, the paper intends to investigate 1) whether and 2) how anthropomorphism in voice assistants influences the manner consumers evaluate products and establish purchase intentions when shopping with voice assistants. Hence, the paper concludes that anthropomorphism plays a notable role in changing the consumer's attitude and behavioural intentions. However, its impact could be easily manipulated by other technical constraints such as interaction fluency, intent classification, lack of visual display etc. Multiple interpretation attempts are presented and possible implications for manufacturers and e-retailers discussed.
- Organisation(s)
- Department of Marketing and International Business
- Pages
- 434-442
- No. of pages
- 9
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1145/3487664.3487724
- Publication date
- 2021
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 102001 Artificial intelligence, 502050 Business informatics
- ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Networks and Communications, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Software
- Sustainable Development Goals
- SDG 12 - Responsible Consumption and Production
- Portal url
- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/6d79a05b-ee4c-4289-8853-6f47f0d842d2