BlahBlahBot is an iOS-based chatbot that crawls users' social media posts (Instagram) and finds mutual interests in order to mediate conversation between strangers. BlahBlahBot is published as CHI'21 poster.
Make sure your environment satisfies Xcode 10.2 & Swift 4.0. This application is targeted to iOS >=11.0.
- Clone repository
- Add Google Firebase auth file
- Install dependencies with
pod installusing CocoaPods - Build using Xcode
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MLA
Shin, Donghoon, et al. "BlahBlahBot: Facilitating Conversation between Strangers using a Chatbot with ML-infused Personalized Topic Suggestion." Extended Abstracts of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. 2021. -
APA
Shin, D., Yoon, S., Kim, S., & Lee, J. (2021, April). BlahBlahBot: Facilitating Conversation between Strangers using a Chatbot with ML-infused Personalized Topic Suggestion. In Extended Abstracts of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. -
BibTeX
@inproceedings{blahblahbot, author = {Shin, Donghoon and Yoon, Sangwon and Kim, Soomin and Lee, Joonhwan}, title = {BlahBlahBot: Facilitating Conversation between Strangers using a Chatbot with ML-infused Personalized Topic Suggestion based on Social Media Posts}, booktitle = {Extended Abstracts of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems}, series = {CHI EA '21}, year = {2021}, isbn = {978-1-4503-8095-9/21/05}, location = {Yokohama, Japan}, url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/3411763.3451771}, doi = {10.1145/3411763.3451771}, publisher = {ACM}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, keywords = {chatbot, topic suggestion, computer mediated communication, chat moderation} }