Environmental Setup

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1. The GOAL plug-in for Eclipse. We assume that you have already installed Eclipse and this plug-in, otherwise please follow instructions here. Be sure to create a new project whilst using the latest version of the Eclipse plug-in (Help → Check for Updates).

2. The Social Interaction Cloud (SIC) framework. For this, you can follow the instructions here.
   Provides bot software for voice interaction and browser software for displaying the a webpage for visual support. Has been confirmed to work only with Google Chrome (can be downloaded here).

3. A cooking assistant designed using Dialogflow. For this, you can follow the instructions here.

Launching a Bot

We assume here that you have installed the SIC framework and know how to navigate to a folder in a terminal, and in addition to have created a Dialogflow agent and downloaded its .json keyfile (see here for an explanation). To launch the chatbot provided to you, do the following:

• Open a command terminal and navigate to the folder where you cloned the docker project

• Enter docker-compose up dialogflow webserver and hit enter.

• Open a second terminal and navigate to the subfolder cbsr-local in the docker folder.

• Enter java -jar computer-browser.jar and hit enter. This will lead to a new browser window. Press ‘Ok’ without filling in a password.

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Open a third terminal and navigate to the subfolder cbsr-local in the docker folder.

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• Launch Eclipse and import the GOAL dialog manager project (including the .json keyfile of your Dialogflow agent).

• In the .mas2g file, specify as flowkey the name of the .json keyfile, and as flowagent the agent ID (click here to see more details).

• Run the .mas2g file.

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