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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

Use cases and recommendations


In this section, we will focus mostly on data discovery use cases and less on informative use cases, where a bot provides only a website's data.

Travel

The travel industry is one of the most progressive when it comes to digital solutions. Although still in the early phases, some of the large brands have already incorporated conversational UI and UX, supporting both voice and text.

As I was writing this chapter, I was referred to various companies offering virtual concierge services (Gooster, Ivy by Go Moment, Volara, and so on), which interact with guests mostly via texting or FB (Volara is supporting Amazon Alexa). The services check with guests whether their stay was good and provide answers to general concierge questions. I tested some, read about others, and also held some discussions with those companies' founders.

My conclusion was that those solutions offer very important information, which can prevent many of the questions asked at the front desk, and probably...

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