Enterprise AI Analysis
Metrics of Success: Evaluating User Satisfaction in AI Chatbots
This research addresses the critical need to evaluate user satisfaction with AI chatbots, especially given the proliferation of LLM-driven solutions in customer support. Current service quality tools like SERVQUAL and E-SERVQUAL are inadequate for AI-specific capabilities. A new, mixed-methods instrument was developed using the Stanford Design Thinking Process and Prentice and Nguyen's scale development stages. This instrument, tested in a Danish company, measures user satisfaction across eight constructs, including Humanness, Dialogic Communication, Information Quality, Perceived Privacy Risk, Perceived Usefulness, Human-AI Collaboration, Satisfaction, and Continuance Intention. The findings highlight the importance of human-like interactions and information quality, while also identifying areas for improvement in 'Humanness' and 'Dialogic Communication' measures due to lower reliability scores. The instrument aims to provide a generalizable tool for evaluating AI chatbot effectiveness and guiding future development.
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Humanness (Cronbach's Alpha)
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Continuance Intention (Cronbach's Alpha)
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Initial Questionnaire Items
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Refined Items in Final Scale
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Methodology
Service Quality
Scale Development
Industry Application
Key Factors
Future Work
Research Methodology Flow
Mixed-Method Exploratory Approach
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Stanford Design Thinking Process (5-step)
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Literature Review (Empathise/Define)
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Cheatstorming & SCAMPER (Ideation)
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Instrument Prototype & Testing (Danish company)
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Prentice & Nguyen's 3-stage Scale Development
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| AICSQ (Chen et al. [7]) |
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256
Initial Questionnaire Items Identified
40
Refined Items in Final Scale
Industry Application: Danish Automotive Company
Context: The developed instrument was tested in a leading Nordic automotive company. They utilize an internal AI service chatbot as a knowledge management tool for employees to find information and address queries.
Key Finding: Testing revealed areas where the instrument required modification to align with real-world scenarios, such as the chatbot's inability to redirect to human agents directly. This iterative process led to questionnaire refinements, validating the instrument's adaptability for specific organizational contexts.
Key Factors Influencing User Satisfaction (Literature Review)
Literature review identified several critical factors:
- Information Quality (IQ) & Service Quality (SQ): Positively impact user satisfaction and continuance intention [3].
- Perceived Usefulness (PU) & Perceived Ease of Use (PEOU): Affect satisfaction and continuance intention, with PEOU specifically impacting continuance [3].
- Dialogic Communication & Anthropomorphic Design Cues (ADC): Efforts like responsiveness and conversational tone are positive predictors of customer satisfaction. Anthropomorphic designs can increase user compliance [1, 14].
- Perceived Privacy Risk: An important determinant that can reduce user satisfaction and continued use if users are concerned about information misuse [8].
- Human-AI Collaboration: The ability for the chatbot to seamlessly involve human agents when needed. While the current company chatbot couldn't do this, the concept is crucial for comprehensive service.
- Hedonic Qualities: New items for the satisfaction dimension were derived from hedonic qualities to ensure comprehensiveness [4].
Future Research & Validation Roadmap
Next steps to further validate and enhance the AI chatbot user satisfaction instrument, ensuring its robustness and applicability across diverse contexts.
Cross-Industry Validation
Test and retest the instrument across multiple companies and industries (e.g., healthcare, hospitality) to confirm generalizability and identify industry-specific influencing factors. Develop internal satisfaction score ranges or use non-parametric tests.
Functionality Prioritization Scale
Create a second scale based on Kano's or Herzberg's theories to identify features that specifically influence user satisfaction or dissatisfaction, valuable for chatbot development and enhancement phases.
Construct Validity Testing (EFA/CFA)
Conduct Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) with a minimum of 150 observations and Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) with 200+ observations to establish convergent and discriminant validity, confirming latent factors and scale fit.
Test-Retest Reliability
Perform test-retest reliability with the same group of respondents at two points in time to improve Cronbach's alpha for constructs like 'Humanness' and 'Dialogic Communication' and ensure stability.
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