Cognitive and Emotional Load Influence Response Time of Service Agents: A Large Scale Analysis of Chat Service Conversations

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dc.contributor.authorRafaeli, Anat
dc.contributor.authorAltman, Daniel
dc.contributor.authorYom-Tov, Galit
dc.date.accessioned2019-01-02T23:58:17Z
dc.date.available2019-01-02T23:58:17Z
dc.date.issued2019-01-08
dc.description.abstractWe highlight two psychological aspects of the load in service work -- cognitive load (amount of information customers present) and emotional load (emotions customers present), and examine their effects on response time of service agents, in service conversations conducted using text-based chats. Using operational data of 145,995 chat service conversations, we show that cognitive load and emotional load increase agent response time both between and within service conversations. Our analyses unpack common assumptions that number of customers is identical to amount of work load, and shed light on customer-agent dynamics both between and within service conversations. In using operational data for studying text-based service communication, which is rapidly expanding and insufficiently studied, we open up exciting opportunities for further research.
dc.format.extent10 pages
dc.identifier.doi10.24251/HICSS.2019.231
dc.identifier.isbn978-0-9981331-2-6
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10125/59630
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofProceedings of the 52nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subjectService Science
dc.subjectDecision Analytics, Mobile Services, and Service Science
dc.subjectcustomer service agents, emotional load, psychological load, text based customer service, work load in service work
dc.titleCognitive and Emotional Load Influence Response Time of Service Agents: A Large Scale Analysis of Chat Service Conversations
dc.typeConference Paper
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