Different ideas that we came up with
The initial video made to explain Talko and its working. Talko was supposed to cover even a voice based format, but later was made into a solely text-based mechanism.
The imagined start screen for Talko.
For the final prototype version of Talko, that a user can try out, Python was used. We coded options such as faculty and equipment for the time-being, with different features, so as to allow an almost natural conversation for the user with the bot.
As we can see, Talko makes very natural, informal conversation. It isn't too informal, and there is no use of slangs anywhere, but it is informal enough to make someone feel comfortable enough to use it.
Talko helps to fix appointments to meet the faculty of your choice. Similarly, it notifies the faculty once a time slot has been fixed.
Talko also lets you know if the faculty you're looking for is busy with something. Then, it politely asks if you'd like another time slot instead of the one you first desired.
Talko also manages to appear baffled, when you make an absurd/unusual choice.
Talko informs when the faculty isn't available in the time slot you asked, and then asks if you'd like another slot, after you've mentioned when you initially wanted an appointment.
If you do not have any particular faculty in mind, then Talko helps suggest, once you let it know what you need help with. Then the process to book a meeting time is the same.
Equipment option of Talko in working.
As of now, Talko is a python program, that has been coded to act as a conversational agent. It doesn't have an interface for now. This project aims to show the functioning of the bot, and the interface might happen soon.
