Should a Chatbot Show It Cares? Toward Optimal Design of Chatbot Personality via Emotion Recognition and Sentiment Analysis
SSRN Electronic Journal
2023
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Artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots are commonly designed to exhibit human-like behaviors, such as expressions of empathy or humor. Yet, it is unclear whether users always respond positively to such anthropomorphism—a concern that is particularly salient in customer-service interactions, a common application of chatbots. We explore the potential to tailor a customer-service chatbot’s “personality” to the customer with whom it is interacting, so as to maximize customer satisfaction, while relying solely on information provided in the interaction itself. First, to inform experimental design, we analyze customer-service interactions on Twitter between eBay customers and human representatives. We characterize the interplay between the sentiments expressed by the customer, those expressed by the service agent, and the customer’s resulting satisfaction levels. We find that caring language used by human customer service agents is not universally associated with increased satisfaction. Next, we run an online experiment simulating common customer-service scenarios, in which participants interact with a chatbot that uses either caring or neutral language. While a caring (vs. neutral) chatbot response often (weakly) increases customer satisfaction, this is not always the case. We identify cases in which a caring chatbot response decreases user satisfaction—specifically, this occurs in scenarios eliciting frustration, when the customers’ message is of neutral sentiment polarity. Thus, a caring chatbot is not always optimal. This work will inform chatbot design in customer service settings, improving customer satisfaction with chatbot interactions without relying on any personal or historical user data.
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