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title = "The innovative generativity of digital service encounters",
abstract = "The research question examined in this chapter is how service encounters, based on digital interfaces, differ from face-to-face (f2f) encounters in terms of potential innovative generativity. New computer technologies facilitating big data processing and the development of advanced recommender systems and the recent developments of artificial intelligence with respect to cognitive and affective computing will certainly enhance the potential for innovations to be created on the basis of digital service encounters. However, the empathetic understanding of the needs and wants of the service users that can be part of the f2f service encounters cannot automatically result from digital service encounters. Digital tools can be developed and used to supplement the impressions that f2f encounters initiate. However, human interpretations and even human f2f encounters will also be needed to maintain the innovative generativity of service encounters. Key words: digital services, service encounter; service innovation ",
author = "Anders Henten and S{\o}rensen, {Jannick Kirk}",
year = "2018",
month = sep,
day = "21",
language = "English",
isbn = "978-1-78811-429-5",
series = "Services, Economy and Innovation series",
publisher = "Edward Elgar Publishing",
pages = "239--252",
editor = "Ada Scupola and Lars Fuglsang",
booktitle = "Services, Experiences and Innovation",
}