Title :
On crowdsourcing of service imagery
Author :
Soe-Tsyr Yuan ; Ching-Fang Hsieh ; Pei-Hung Hsieh
Author_Institution :
Service Sci. Res. Center, Nat. Chengchi Univ., Taipei, Taiwan
Abstract :
Service imagery refers to a meaning that can be proposed to customers as a set of values such as the emotional, psychological, socio-cultural or environmental dimensional consumption, going beyond the utilitarian perspective. The notion of service imagery is novel for it being not only for communication but also the elements, resources, and value outcomes in a service value network design. The targets of this study are put on SMBs, and this paper presents a crowdsourcing service imagery creation framework and system that can utilize the wisdom of a wider pool of interpreters mediated by a particular facilitation mechanism featuring an imagery bank, imagery combination, imagery suggestion and imagery conflict negotiation. This framework and system has been preliminarily justified.
Keywords :
customer services; innovation management; psychology; small-to-medium enterprises; SMB; crowdsourcing service imagery creation framework; crowdsourcing service imagery creation system; emotional consumption; environmental dimensional consumption; facilitation mechanism; imagery bank; imagery combination; imagery conflict negotiation; imagery suggestion; psychological consumption; service value network design; socio-cultural consumption; Business; Cognition; Context; Cultural differences; Economics; Psychology; Technological innovation; crowdsourcing; open innovation; service imagery; service innovation; service systems;
Conference_Titel :
Service Systems and Service Management (ICSSSM), 2013 10th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Hong Kong
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-4434-0
DOI :
10.1109/ICSSSM.2013.6602535