Configuring a virtual reality environment in a contact center
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1. A method, comprising:
- providing a contact center for directing customer contacts to contact center resources, managing customer contacts, and/or servicing customer contacts by contact center resources;
providing, by a microprocessor executable virtual reality module, a virtual reality environment associated with the contact center, the virtual reality environment comprising a plurality of virtual reality objects, a first virtual reality object being associated with a human entity to be serviced and a second virtual reality object being associated with a human contact center resource for servicing the human entity to be serviced; and
performing at least one of the following steps;
(i) selecting, based on collected information, a type, number, position, and/or characteristic of a selected virtual reality object in the virtual reality environment, wherein the collected information is one or more of;
contact ID, contact type, contact media type, outbound contact initiation method, customer ID, customer presence, data source ID, party ID, party role start date/time, contact direction, contact direction description, contact purpose, contact reason, contact media interaction disposition, contact disposition, contact wait treatment/time, resource identifier, resource type, resource contact information, resource group identifier and/or information, resource percentage time in state by state identifier, current resource state, resource skill, resource skill level, resource performance statistic and/or metric, customer class, customer contact information, customer value indicator, customer historic business level and/or purchase, contact history, contact or contact queue details, longest wait time, percentage of calls answered, average answer time, trunk or trunk group details, and contact center and/or predictive dialer performance statistic, policy, and/or objective; and
(ii) changing, based on a detected change in the collected information, a type, number, position, and/or characteristic of the selected virtual reality object in the virtual reality environment, wherein the collected information is one or more of;
a selected resource percentage time in state by state identifier, a current state of the resource, a skill of the resource, a skill level for the resource, a performance statistic of the resource, first-call resolution, service level/response time, average, predicted, forecasted, actual, or mean wait time, forecasting accuracy, service level compliance rate, agent occupancy, conversion rate, up-sell/cross-sell rate, cost per call, serviced entity complaint, first contact resolution rate, transfer rate, number of escalations, and call abandon rate, a time the resource spends reviewing daily alerts or special promotions, a time the resource spends logged into a relevant application, a time the resource spends organizing his or her workspace before servicing a contact, a contact wrap-up activity by the resource, average or total contact handle time by the resource, average speed of answer by the resource, adherence to schedule by the resource, contact service quality by the resource, competency of the resource, resource peak performance index, transfer rate, communication skill of the resource, adherence to a procedure by the resource, and serviced entity satisfaction, wherein, for each of (i) and (ii), the selected virtual reality object corresponds to one of the human entity to be serviced and the human resource for servicing the entity to be serviced and the virtual reality environment simultaneously comprises virtual reality objects for multiple human entities to be serviced.
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Abstract
A system and method are provided. A virtual reality environment rendering module provides a virtual reality environment representative of one or more of a contact center, a predictive dialer, and a media collaboration session. The virtual reality environment is configured based on collected information of various types.
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1. A method, comprising:
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providing a contact center for directing customer contacts to contact center resources, managing customer contacts, and/or servicing customer contacts by contact center resources; providing, by a microprocessor executable virtual reality module, a virtual reality environment associated with the contact center, the virtual reality environment comprising a plurality of virtual reality objects, a first virtual reality object being associated with a human entity to be serviced and a second virtual reality object being associated with a human contact center resource for servicing the human entity to be serviced; and performing at least one of the following steps; (i) selecting, based on collected information, a type, number, position, and/or characteristic of a selected virtual reality object in the virtual reality environment, wherein the collected information is one or more of;
contact ID, contact type, contact media type, outbound contact initiation method, customer ID, customer presence, data source ID, party ID, party role start date/time, contact direction, contact direction description, contact purpose, contact reason, contact media interaction disposition, contact disposition, contact wait treatment/time, resource identifier, resource type, resource contact information, resource group identifier and/or information, resource percentage time in state by state identifier, current resource state, resource skill, resource skill level, resource performance statistic and/or metric, customer class, customer contact information, customer value indicator, customer historic business level and/or purchase, contact history, contact or contact queue details, longest wait time, percentage of calls answered, average answer time, trunk or trunk group details, and contact center and/or predictive dialer performance statistic, policy, and/or objective; and(ii) changing, based on a detected change in the collected information, a type, number, position, and/or characteristic of the selected virtual reality object in the virtual reality environment, wherein the collected information is one or more of;
a selected resource percentage time in state by state identifier, a current state of the resource, a skill of the resource, a skill level for the resource, a performance statistic of the resource, first-call resolution, service level/response time, average, predicted, forecasted, actual, or mean wait time, forecasting accuracy, service level compliance rate, agent occupancy, conversion rate, up-sell/cross-sell rate, cost per call, serviced entity complaint, first contact resolution rate, transfer rate, number of escalations, and call abandon rate, a time the resource spends reviewing daily alerts or special promotions, a time the resource spends logged into a relevant application, a time the resource spends organizing his or her workspace before servicing a contact, a contact wrap-up activity by the resource, average or total contact handle time by the resource, average speed of answer by the resource, adherence to schedule by the resource, contact service quality by the resource, competency of the resource, resource peak performance index, transfer rate, communication skill of the resource, adherence to a procedure by the resource, and serviced entity satisfaction, wherein, for each of (i) and (ii), the selected virtual reality object corresponds to one of the human entity to be serviced and the human resource for servicing the entity to be serviced and the virtual reality environment simultaneously comprises virtual reality objects for multiple human entities to be serviced. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
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14. A system, comprising:
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a plurality of resource communication devices corresponding to a plurality of human resources to service work items, each work item corresponding to a customer; a work assignment engine operable to assign entities to be serviced to human resources for servicing; and a microprocessor executable virtual reality module operable to provide a virtual reality environment comprising a plurality of objects, a first object being associated with an entity to be serviced and a second object being associated with a human resource for servicing the entity to be serviced, and select and/or change a characteristic of a selected one of the first and second objects to provide information to and/or influence a selection of the entity to be serviced and human resource, respectively, wherein a common virtual reality environment simultaneously comprises objects for multiple entities to be serviced and wherein at least one of the following is true; (i) the selected object is the first object, the entity to be serviced being a work item and/or customer, wherein the characteristic is changed, before the entity is serviced by the human resource, by changing an appearance and/or voice characteristic and/or behavior of the selected object; and (i) the selected object is the second object, wherein the characteristic is changed, before the entity is serviced by the human resource, by changing an appearance and/or voice characteristic and/or behavior of the selected object. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22)
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