StayIn_formed

Face COVID-19 together.

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Here is a demo of the chatbot: https://www.wevideo.com/view/1757386260

Inspiration

Since COVID-19 has spread throughout the globe, worry and anxiety has increased significantly. According to the American Psychiatric Association, about 36 percent of Americans feel COVID-19 is affecting their mental health and 59 percent of Americans feel that coronavirus is having a big impact in their daily lives. To help reduce stress for quarantined COVID patients, we have created StayIn_formed.

What it does

StayIn_formed is a platform that provides a safe space for COVID-19 patients to connect with each other. Through the chatroom and chatbot features, we hope to ease worry and develop a community focused on recovery and safety during the pandemic.

How we built it

We built our project using Flask, Python, MongoDB, Dialogflow, HTML, CSS, and Javascript. Through Dialogflow, we entered training phrases for our chatbot to reply to commonly asked questions relating to COVID-19. We used the Facebook Messenger chat plugin to integrate the chatbot into our web app.

Challenges we ran into

We ran into some challenges integrating the chatbot because Messenger and Dialogflow weren't connected correctly, but we were able to figure it out after some trial and error.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We are proud of integrating the chatroom and chatbot into our website.

What we learned

We learned about how we can develop a chatroom using Flask as well as how we can integrate a chatbot through Facebook Messenger

What's next for StayIn_formed

We hope to expand the chatbot so that users will be able to purchase items and get food delivered through the chatbot.

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