A service science perspective for interfaces of online service applications

  • Authors:
  • Claudio Pinhanez

  • Affiliations:
  • IBM Research, T.J. Watson, São Paulo -- SP - Brazil

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the VIII Brazilian Symposium on Human Factors in Computing Systems
  • Year:
  • 2008

Quantified Score

Hi-index 0.00

Visualization

Abstract

This paper proposes a framework based on Service Science for online service applications that identifies and enables a better understanding of the different issues faced by their designers, engineers, and delivery personnel. To demonstrate the utility of the framework, we consider the 6 basic characteristics of services -- customer-as-input, heterogeneity, simultaneity, perishability, coproduction, and intangibility -- and derive from these characteristics a list of 15 different issues that are highly important for the design and evaluation of the human-computer interface of online services: trust, privacy, and security; personalization, service recovery and quality consistency; performance consistency and fairness; demand management and marketing; customer empowerment and training; service expectation, process satisfaction, and anger/frustration management.