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Voicebot and Chatbot Design

You're reading from   Voicebot and Chatbot Design Flexible conversational interfaces with Amazon Alexa, Google Home, and Facebook Messenger

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789139624
Length 296 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Rachel Batish Rachel Batish
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Conversational UI is our Future 2. How Not to Build Your Next Chat and Voicebots FREE CHAPTER 3. Building a Killer Conversational App 4. Designing for Amazon Alexa and Google Home 5. Designing a Facebook Messenger Chatbot 6. Contextual Design – Can We Make a Bot Feel More Human? 7. Building Personalities – Your Bot Can Be a Better Human 8. A View into Vertical-Specific Bots – Financial Institutions 9. Travel and E-Commerce Bots – Use Cases and Implementation 10. Conversational Design Project – A Step-By-Step Guide 11. Summary Other Book You May Enjoy Index

Building contextual conversations: humans versus bots


Let's look at a few examples of possible conversations, to compare the interactions we have as humans to the ones we create for our bots. To demonstrate the path of digitizing contextual conversations, I chose the following three scenarios:

  • Human agent-customer conversation (on the phone)

  • Online (website) self-service research

  • Chatbot/voicebot interaction

The context I chose for the conversation is a search for a family trip to Disneyland. With today's regulations and liability concerns, many human-agent interactions with customer service staff or customer support call centers are fully scripted and it actually feels like we are talking to a bot.

In the following example, I gave the human agent some more room for maneuver in their conversation with the customer and included some more contextual elements, which should eventually be achieved with an automated solution, to create a fully engaged conversation.

Scenario 1: Looking for a trip to...

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