Inspiration
In China, WeChat is the most popular app. One outstanding feature for its success is its numerous public accounts that provide info about a specific field. For an organization, different services can be synthesized and provided. This drives us to come up with an idea to build the official Rice public account that serves our students best. As the United States enjoyed not that many WeChat users, we decide to develop such a chat bot which can be deployed on various platforms which are familiar to the public in the US.
What it does
Our owl bot is sensible. It can be serious and guides you to take classes. Or it can be humorous and talks about campus anecdotes. You can explore more detailed features in our video. Be sure to watch it!
How we built it
We built our system based on a third-party platform named Meya. We designed flow controls and manipulated data from various APIs including GoogleMaps. Generally, we developed python programs to realize the business logic.
What's next for RiceOwlBot
We would like to further develop our system into a more comprehensive platform. For example, users may want to make comments or give thumbs up to a course they are familiar with. Our system is full of potentials and we aim to make this owl chatbot become every Rice student's best campus assistant!
Built With
- google-maps
- python
- rice-api
- yaml
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