{
  "title": "AI assistants: does a polished interface demonstrate quality in Basel?",
  "url": "https://www.shr.swiss/blog/assistants-ia-une-interface-soignee-est-elle-un-gage-de-qualite-a-bale-en",
  "language": "en",
  "datePublished": "2025-02-02",
  "publisher": {
    "name": "SHR — Swiss Human Resources",
    "url": "https://www.shr.swiss",
    "address": "Esplanade de Pont-Rouge 9A, 1212 Lancy, Suisse"
  },
  "summary": "A well-presented assistant can impress before it has proved its worth. Research suggests separating the pleasure of using it from the quality of the work it supports.",
  "section": "Research",
  "topic": "Building AI Assistants and Agents Without Coding",
  "place": {
    "name": "Basel",
    "region": "Bâle-Ville",
    "country": "CH"
  },
  "keyPoints": [
    {
      "heading": "What the literature establishes",
      "point": "Richard Nisbett and Timothy Wilson (1977, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology) show that an overall impression can alter assessments of particular attributes without people correctly recognising that influence."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Ease of reading can become a quality signal",
      "point": "Rolf Reber, Norbert Schwarz and Piotr Winkielman (2004, Personality and Social Psychology Review) offer a theoretical review linking processing fluency to aesthetic pleasure."
    },
    {
      "heading": "The premature conclusion",
      "point": "It would be excessive to conclude that an attractive interface is suspect or that a plain prototype is more reliable."
    },
    {
      "heading": "What a demonstration cannot tell us",
      "point": "These studies measure neither the performance of current AI assistants nor the size of any presentation effect in a Basel company."
    },
    {
      "heading": "A practical check in Basel",
      "point": "As part of SHR's programme « Créer ses assistants et agents IA sans coder », a Basel team working across pharmaceuticals, life sciences, Rhine logistics and international R&D can test an assistant that prepares sample-shipping requests using fictional cases."
    }
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "authors": "Wilson",
      "year": "1977",
      "source": "Journal of Personality and Social Psychology"
    },
    {
      "authors": "Winkielman",
      "year": "2004",
      "source": "Personality and Social Psychology Review"
    }
  ],
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    "programme": "https://www.shr.swiss/formation-assistants-agents-ia-bale",
    "city": "https://www.shr.swiss/formations-ville/bale",
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  "citationPolicy": "Citation autorisée avec mention « SHR — Swiss Human Resources » et lien vers l'article."
}