Our Inspiration: It is a common problem in todays era in which Adults have trouble communicating with teens. It is definitely hard for parents to understand teens and we were inspired to create JacoBot which helps parents or adults understand the common teenage slang used today.
What our ChatBot Does:Our Chatbot provides responses with teenage slang included. Tell the bot anything, it will provide a response on your feelings, thoughts, or on any topic you wish to talk about to the bot.
How we Coded the Bot: We used Java to code the bot to look for key words in the users responses or answers. By using many if, if else, and else statements. If there is not keyword in the response, or the response is not a legitimate phrase the bot will randomly respond with one of our phrases which apply to most illegitimate phrases.
Challenges we ran into: At first, upon finishing the Java code the bot did not function. This led to a lot of debugging. However, we were eventually able to find the missing semicolons and typos which were in our code.
Accomplishments that we're proud of: We are proud of being able to make a functional Chatbot which can pick up on keywords and respond accordingly.
What we learned: We learned many different ways to code in Java and how to code to scan for certain words. We also learned about the importance of organization in the code. We also learned to debug in a efficient matter.
What's next for JacoBot: We are looking to implement AI/Machine Learning to make JacoBot more sophisticated. We look to give JacoBot the ability to have Humor and to know on it’s own weather a joke is funny or not.
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