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Team Contribution

During this week, as a complete team you will select three recipes for the conversational agent from recipes.pl, to work out further in pairs for recipe selection, visual support and recipe instruction. In addition, you will set up the initial version of the cooking assistant, by creating a Dialogflow agent (See here).

You should organize your team and decide who will work on the separate subtasks of Recipe Selection, Visual Support, and Recipe Instruction. In this week, the Recipe Selection team will focus on the start of the conversation, enabling the assistant to greet and to have the user select one of the three recipes, while the Recipe Instruction team will focus on the subsequent instruction of the three recipes. The Visual Support team will incorporate visuals to enrich the conversation. More details about the separate tasks of the three pairs are given below.

Recipe Selection

This section entails the tasks to be completed by The tasks for the Recipe Selection team . It will mainly involve in week 1 concern the steps to have allow the user to select a certain recipe from the knowledge base provided as recipes.pl. For the recipes, multiple websites are available. For this course, we aim more or less straightforward The recipes used for this course are one-pot recipes that can be made in a linear, step-by-step fashion . Therefore, simpler recipes were extracted from this website and made available in the file recipes.pl. For inspiration, check the Cooking Assistant space for a further discussion on the recipe selection conversationthat you can find on Tasty. Although not yet the focus for this week, you can get some ideas on how to implement the recipe selection task here in the Cooking Assistant space.

Opening the conversation by greeting

• The agent should open the conversation with a greeting, and by sharing its name (self-identify). To achieve this, add the corresponding C1 opening patterns in the patterns.pl file and choose a name for your chatbot (insert the an agentName/1 fact into the agent’s belief base in the init module).

• Check out the patterns.pl file as it contains additional instruction details. An opening pattern should be selected when the session history is still empty. Make sure that the agent self-identifies by the corresponding pattern only when an agentName/1 behavioral parameter is set has been instantiated.

• You should also introduce a greeting intent in your Dialogflow agent to allow the user to respond to the agent's greeting. Click here for instructions on how to create an intent in your Dialogflow Agent.

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As can be seen in the a30recipeStep pattern in ‘patternspatterns.pl’pl, the agent is triggered by the user intent ‘recipeContinuer’ recipeContinuer. You need to implement such an intent in your dialogflow Dialogflow agent to make this workablework. See this page for more information.

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The agent should close the conversation with a farewell or a last topic check. To this end, add corresponding C4 patterns in the patterns.pl file. A closing pattern should be selected when all patterns in the agenda have been performed. Make sure that the farewell pattern only is performed when the lastTopicCheck/0 behavioral parameter is not set.

Visual Support

Here, the main focus is to think of The assignment related to visual support is about how visuals can provide support to decide about for choosing a recipe or improve the improving understanding of a recipe instruction.

Visuals to display chosen recipe

The aim here is to You should design the visuals with respect to the recipe name and the instructions. The agent can thereby This should enrich the information communicated to the user through text and images displayed on the screen.

A first implementation is to display the name and an image related to the chosen three recipes, using HTML. In the initial GOAL code, the pasta recipe is displayed as an image in the initialization of the agent (see ‘dialogdialog_init.mod2g’mod2g), whenever the agent says something (see ‘dialogdialog_generation.mod2g’mod2g) and whenever the agent is waiting for the user to say something (see ‘dialogdialog_update.mod2g’mod2g). This is obviously not a very useful way to do this. Make the PastaAglioPage rule in ‘htmlhtml.pl’ pl more generic by displaying the recipe of choice:

• Find images for the recipes that you have chosen to work out further.

• Define img cards as was done for PasaAglioPastaAglio.

• Define a rule by which the page is rendered based on the currently chosen recipe.

• For recipes for which you have not added an image, you may display the name of the recipe.

• Make sure that the statements in ‘dialogdialog_generation.mod2g’mod2g, ‘dialogdialog_init.mod2g’ mod2g and 'dialog_update.mod2g’ mod2g are updated as well, so that they will not always render the pastaAglio PastaAglio image.

Week - 1 Deliverable

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