Observed arrival · 2026-11-07
Press Zero measures the customer-service bot gap
A UC Riverside student research project asks people to report customer-service bot experiences and compares survey responses with public Reddit posts.
- For
- People who have used customer-service bots
- Worth noticing
- Its Reddit analysis warns that public posts skew strongly negative and should be compared by pattern, not raw level.
Field notes
The homepage separates its own survey responses from a coded sample of public Reddit posts dated January 2024 through January 2026. It cautions that Reddit over-represents strong, mostly negative opinions, advising readers to compare patterns rather than raw levels. Its eight-part Bot Gap Index covers human access, understanding, resolution, effort, honesty, accuracy, respect, and privacy; several live result areas were unavailable in the captured page.
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