Augmenting the eye of the beholder: exploring the strategic potential of augmented reality to enhance online service experiences |
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| Authors: | Tim Hilken Ko de Ruyter Mathew Chylinski Dominik Mahr Debbie I Keeling |
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| Institution: | 1.Department of Marketing and Supply Chain Management,Maastricht University,Maastricht,The Netherlands;2.Cass Business School,City University London,London,UK;3.UNSW Business School,University of New South Wales,Sydney,Australia;4.Service Science Factory,Maastricht University,Maastricht,The Netherlands;5.School of Business and Economics,Loughborough University,Loughborough,UK |
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| Abstract: | Driven by the proliferation of augmented reality (AR) technologies, many firms are pursuing a strategy of service augmentation to enhance customers’ online service experiences. Drawing on situated cognition theory, the authors show that AR-based service augmentation enhances customer value perceptions by simultaneously providing simulated physical control and environmental embedding. The resulting authentic situated experience, manifested in a feeling of spatial presence, functions as a mediator and also predicts customer decision comfort. Furthermore, the effect of spatial presence on utilitarian value perceptions is greater for customers who are disposed toward verbal rather than visual information processing, and the positive effect on decision comfort is attenuated by customers’ privacy concerns. |
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