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Romero, J., Ruiz-Equihua, D., Loureiro, S. M. C. & Casaló, L. V. (2021). Smart speaker recommendations: Impact of gender congruence and amount of information on users' engagement and choice. Frontiers in Psychology. 12

J. Romero et al.,  "Smart speaker recommendations: Impact of gender congruence and amount of information on users' engagement and choice", in Frontiers in Psychology, vol. 12, 2021

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	author = "Romero, J. and Ruiz-Equihua, D. and Loureiro, S. M. C. and Casaló, L. V.",
	title = "Smart speaker recommendations: Impact of gender congruence and amount of information on users' engagement and choice",
	journal = "Frontiers in Psychology",
	year = "2021",
	volume = "12",
	number = "",
	doi = "10.3389/fpsyg.2021.659994",
	url = "https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology"
}

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TI  - Smart speaker recommendations: Impact of gender congruence and amount of information on users' engagement and choice
T2  - Frontiers in Psychology
VL  - 12
AU  - Romero, J.
AU  - Ruiz-Equihua, D.
AU  - Loureiro, S. M. C.
AU  - Casaló, L. V.
PY  - 2021
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DO  - 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.659994
UR  - https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology
AB  - The relevance of smart speakers is steadily increasing, allowing users perform several daily tasks. From a commercial perspective, smart speakers also provide recommendations of products and services that may influence the consumer decision-making process. However, previous studies have mainly focused on the adoption of smart speakers, but there is a lack of proper guidelines that help design the way these devices should offer their consumption recommendations. Based on a stimulus-organism-response approach, we analyze how two features of smart speakers' recommendations (the gender congruence between the customer and the speaker, and the length of the message) influence on the effectiveness of such recommendations (i.e., visiting intentions) through its impact on user engagement and attitude. Data was collected from a sample of undergrad students in Spain using an experiment design that focused on a restaurant recommendation, and analyzed using partial least squares. On the one hand, our results suggests that gender congruence generates user engagement with the smart speaker. On the other hand, message length is positively related to attitudes towards the restaurant, at a declining rate. In addition, while better attitudes lead to higher visiting intentions, the influence of engagement on visiting intentions is partially mediated via attitudes. Thus, our findings contribute to understand the antecedents of users' engagement with smart speakers, as well as its impact on the customers' willingness to follow smart speakers' recommendations, constituting a base to analyze the impact of artificial intelligence solutions aimed to smooth the transitions of a customer through the stages of purchase process.
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