Journal of Service Research and Studies (서비스연구)

The Society of service Science (서비스사이언스학회)
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Analysis of Customer Evaluations on the Ethical Response to Service Failures of Foodtech Serving Robots

푸드테크 서빙로봇의 서비스 실패에 대한 직업윤리적 대응에 대한 고객 평가 분석

  • 한정혜 (청주교육대학교 컴퓨터교육과) ;
  • 최영림 (동아대학교 소프트웨어혁신센터) ;
  • 정상현 (동아대학교 대학원) ;
  • 김종욱 (동아대학교 전자공학과)
  • Received : 2024.01.09
  • Accepted : 2024.03.12
  • Published : 2024.03.31
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Abstract

As the service robot market grows among the food technology industry, the quality of robot service that affects consumer behavioral intentions in the restaurant industry has become important. Serving robots, which are common in restaurants, reduce employee work through order and delivery, but because they do not respond to service failures, they increase customer dissatisfaction as well as increase employee work. In order to improve the quality of service beyond the simple function of receiving and serving orders, functions of recovery effort, fairness, empathy, responsiveness, and certainty of the process after service failure, such as serving employees, are also required. Accordingly, we assumed the type of failure of restaurant serving service as two internal and external factors, and developed a serving robot with a vocational ethics module to respond with a professional ethical attitude when the restaurant serving service fails. At this time, the expression and action of the serving robot were developed by adding a failure mode reflecting failure recovery efforts and empathy to the normal service mode. And by recruiting college students, we tested whether the service robot's response to two types of service failures had a significant effect on evaluating the robot. Participants responded that they were more uncomfortable with service failures caused by other customers' mistakes than robot mistakes, and that the serving robot's professional ethical empathy and response were appropriate. In addition, unlike the robot's favorability, the evaluation of the safety of the robot had a significant difference depending on whether or not a professional ethical empathy module was installed. A professional ethical empathy response module for natural service failure recovery using generative artificial intelligence should be developed and mounted, and the domestic serving robot industry and market are expected to grow more rapidly if the Korean serving robot certification system is introduced.

푸드테크 산업 중 서비스 로봇 시장이 커짐에 따라 외식산업의 소비자 행동의도에 영향을 끼치는 로봇 서비스의 품질이 중요하다. 식당 서빙로봇은 직원의 업무를 줄여주기도 하지만, 서비스 실패에 따른 대응이 되지 않기 때문에 고객의 불만족은 물론 직원의 업무를 늘리기도 한다. 주문과 서빙 기능 외에 서비스 품질을 높이기 위해서 직원처럼 서비스 실패 후 복구 노력, 과정의 공정성, 공감, 대응성, 확신성에 대한 기능도 요구된다. 이에 우리는 식당 서빙 서비스 실패 유형을 내적, 외적요인으로 가정하고, 서비스에 실패했을 때 직업 윤리적인 태도로 대응할 수 있도록 직업윤리적 공감모듈이 있는 서빙로봇을 개발했다. 이때 서빙로봇의 표정과 액션은 평상 서비스 모드에 실패복구 노력과 공감을 반영한 실패 모드를 추가하여 개발하였으며, 두 유형의 서비스 실패에 따른 서빙로봇의 직업 윤리적 공감 대응 여부가 로봇평가에 유의미한지를 실험하였다. 실험참가자들은 로봇 실수보다 다른 고객의 실수에 따른 서비스 실패에 더 불편해했으며, 서빙로봇의 직업윤리적 공감과 대응은 적절했다고 응답하였다. 또한 직업윤리적 공감 모듈의 장착여부에 따라 로봇 호감도는 차이가 없지만 안전성은 유의미한 차이를 보였다. 생성형 인공지능을 활용하여 직업윤리적 공감 대응 모듈을 탑재한다면, 국내 서빙로봇산업과 시장은 더욱 성장할 수 있을 것이다.

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이 논문은 과학기술정보통신부의 재원으로 한국연구재단의 지원을 받아 수행된 연구임 (No. 2020R1A2C1014649)

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