Conversational UI Bot Framework

1. Building Conversational UI
With Bot’s
VIVEK P .S
System Analyst UST Global
http://vivekcek.wordpress.com

2. Agenda – Just Think And Explore
• Think about Conversational UI
• Think about ChatBot’s and various real world use cases
• Think about intelligent mobile app’s

3. Future is Conversational and Intelligent

4. Demo of a conversational bot

5. What is a Chabot ?
• A.I computer programs designed to behave like a human that you can
interact with, in order to get information or get things done
• Promote the concept of Conversational UI

6. Why Bots/Conversational app’s getting fame?
• People like conversation

7. History
• ELIZA
Developed in the 1960s
• Eliza’s conversation with a patient is:-
– Human: Well, my boyfriend made me come here.
• ELIZA: Your boyfriend made you come here?
• Human: He says I'm depressed much of the time.
• ELIZA: I am sorry to hear you are depressed.
• Human: It's true. I'm unhappy.
• ELIZA: Do you think coming here will help you not to be unhappy?

8. Bot Communication - Actors

9. Bot Platforms – Build bots fast

10. Without any Bot Framework - Webhook
Facebook Only

11. Microsoft Offerings
• Microsoft Bot Framework.
 Introduced in Build 2016
• Azure Bot As A Service.
• Server less concept built on top of azure functions and Bot Framework
Code will work with Facebook, Skype, Slack etc..

12. Microsoft Bot Architecture

13. Bot Connector
• The middle man between your bot and channel.

14. Responsibility of Bot Connector
• Bot connector acts as an adapter between our bot and numerous channels
that it supports

15. Bot Connector as a Translator
Facebook
JSON
Skype
JSON

16. Bot Architecture – Retrieval based

17. Bot Architecture – Natural Language

18. Bot Architecture – Deep Learning

19. Microsoft Bot Framework
• Need Visual Studio 2015
• All information is at https://dev.botframework.com/
• Install Bot Framework Emulator
• Install Bot Framework template.

20. High Level – Microsoft Bot

21. Build Your First Bot – Retrieval Model
• Demo and publish to azure

22. Publish To Azure

23. Dialog
• Breaks up conversations into smaller pieces
• Conversational abstractions that encapsulate their own state

24. What is a Form Flow?
• Handling a guided conversation

25. Azure Bot As A Service
• Accelerate your bot’s development by working in an integrated
environment
• Server less with Azure Functions.
• Billing based on
• Execution Time (₹0.001058/GB-s)
• Total Executions (₹13.22 per Million Executions)

26. Demo Azure Bot Service

27. Questions?

28. Thank You