Blizzard Buddy - Kishan Prajeesh

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  The beautiful website, which contains all of the mentioned attributes.

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  The calorie tracker, as well as the leaderboard (filled)

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  The chatbot, engaging in conversation (filled)

Inspiration

After finding out about this prominent illness of Seasonal Affective Disorder, and its reach of 11 million people, I became aware that I needed to create a way to address this issue, through Blizzard Buddy.

What it does

It has features like:

• A list of brain-challenging games, to motivate the user to think
• A list of "evergreen" movies and TV Shows, that always make people feel better
• A list of social media sites, to motivate users to interact with society
• A challenge: Calorie in, Calorie out, which promotes physical fitness of the user
• The chatbot, which allows the user to feel less lonely, and have a human-like conversation

Challenges we ran into

• Integration between the frontend and backend was difficult
• The PyCharm Environment was crashing a lot due to errors
• Team was originally going to be a group of 3, but others had family emergencies, so working solo was required

Accomplishments that we're proud of

• Creating a functional chatbot, and fine-tuning it for optimal performance
• Creating a good-looking website, that is completely functional

What we learned

• How to create a website using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
• How to create a chatbot using Python
• How to use Flask to connect a frontend to a backend
• How to fine-tune a chatbot's responses

What's next for Blizzard Buddy

Adding more features like:

• Emotion Identification
• Conversing via Voice
• Recipe manager
• Workout tracker

Check out the Slideshow for more information (in the GitHub)

Also see the Supplementary Document (also in the GitHub)

Built With

• css
• flask
• gpt2headmodel
• html
• javascript
• pycharm
• python
• torch
• transformers