Project: Chatbot
  • Chatbot Introduction
  • Challenge & Background
    • Skills & Exploration
  • Project Instructions
    • 1 DEFINE PROBLEM & VALUE PROPOSITION
      • 1.1 Warm-Up Project
      • 1.2 Initial Ideas
      • 1.3 Background Research
      • 1.4 Personas
      • 1.5 Concept Narrowing
      • 1.6 Task Analysis
      • 1.7 Value Proposition & Features
      • 1.8 Team Proposal
    • 2 DESIGN & BUILD SOLUTION
      • 2.1 Database Development
      • 2.2 Sample Dialogues
      • 2.3 Pseudocode Functions
      • 2.4 Develop Complete Dialogue Script
      • 2.5 Style Guide
      • 2.6 Code Development Outline and Begin Coding
      • 2.7 Marketing card
      • 2.8 Code Testing
      • 2.9 Prepare Development Review and Demonstration
    • 3 EVALUATE & REFINE SOLUTION
      • 3.1 Evaluation and Post Interview
      • 3.2 Chatbot Usage Analysis
      • 3.3 App Refinements
      • 3.4 Poster
      • 3.5 Prepare for Poster Review and Demonstration
      • 3.6 Public Presentation Plan and Practice
      • 3.7 Individual Reflection
      • 3.8 Present to the public
      • 3.9 Celebrate
  • Reference
    • Chatbot Code Docs
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Chatbot Introduction

NextChallenge & Background

Last updated 16 days ago

Understanding conversations between people seems rather simple, but it is deceptively complex. Those who have attempted to write computer programs that converse with people understand how complex it is. We have a lot to learn about programming conversations between machines and humans, whether through text or voice. Still, a lot of improvements are being made in this area. For this project you will make a chatbot and wrestle with the many ambiguities of programming natural language interactions.

DISCUSSION: What chatbots have you used? How well did the interaction go?

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