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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

Functionality and use cases


Defining and implementing the functions of the conversational application is probably the biggest and longest part of the setup process, and also of the maintenance process. Identifying what your bot actually does includes:

  • Defining the use cases based on the goals – business/marketing

  • Creating the relevant conversational flows – business/marketing/UX

  • Building the business logic – IT/R&D

  • Providing samples – business/marketing/creative

  • Providing answers – business/creative

  • Connecting to APIs – IT/ R&D

Building the functionality of our bot requires the intervention of all stakeholder groups. The business group will need to provide the use cases that the bot will cover. This will be based on our previous analysis, where we have identified what the bot's goals are and what it should do better than current solutions.

The conversational flow will be defined by the business/marketing/creative and UX groups. Building a conversational flow means framing the potential discussions...

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