Mental Health Chatbot - Part 1
Everything is at our fingertips. From transportation to food, stock market to cryptocurrencies, news to social media. We are living in an interconnected world where information about the world is available to us in just a few clicks/touches away. But how connected are we with ourselves? My interest in chatbot started with Woebot, a mental health chatbot study conducted by Standford University (Fitzpatrick, Darcy, & Vierhile, 2017). The possibility of deploying a bot that could interact with users to monitor one's mood on needs basis opens up a whole new avenue of research for me. The complexity of programming a bot and implementing Natural Language Processing (NLP) though were very daunting until I came across this article . This is not a paid advertisement Snatchbot is an online platform that allows users to create and deploy chatbots on several 'channels' or applications. It is code-free, which means I do not have to worry about coding the bot from scratch, ...