You can use our chatbot engine either in a virtual world, or on the web - or both simultaneously.
Virtual Worlds
We can interface our chatbots with most open virtual worlds (eg Second Life, Multiverse, Olive etc). Within the virtual world they can be represented as an inanimate object (eg a PC screen or "oracle"), as an animate object (eg a robot or floating sphere), or as a full fledged avatar.
Our virtual world interface offers additional functionality so as to control the movement and behaviour of the bot within the virtual world, and giving it the ability to give things to visitors (eg notecards, landmarks etc), and to guide them around a particular location.
On The Web
Three options are available for web sites. These are:
- Text and Static Image - The chatbot is presented as a simple 2, 4 or 6 line text interface. A static image is used to give the chatbot some visual identity. This could be a cartoon figure, a photo of a real customer service agent, or a more abstract object.
- Text and Dynamic Image - As above, but the image is designed to change based on what the user is typing in. For instance a cartoon character could have happy, sad, angry and thoughful expressions.
- Text and Avatar - An Avatar is a fully dynamic representation of a character. The face will move the whole time it is on the screen, and the lips will sync with any reply it makes. A wide variety of avatars can be designed.
In addition to these visual options, there is also the option to have the avatar actually speak its replies, rather than just presenting them as text on the screen. A range of male and female voices are available. For optimum performance users should be accessing the site over broadband connections. Due to its unique design the software does work through most corporate firewalls without difficulty.
Listen to the range of voices we can provide for your chatbot.
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