How to make bots

on Microsoft Bot Framework

Shukhratbek Mamadaliev

/ShuhratBek
shuhratbek.26@gmail.com
EPAM, Senior Software Engineer

What is a Chat Bot?

Why Chat Bot?

THE EVOLUTION OF TECHNOLOGY

1980s

PC

  • Desktop

1990s

INTERNET

  • Search
  • "Visits" on website

2000s

MOBILE

  • Social
  • Other apps to download from stores/markets

FUTURE

CONVERSATIONS

  • Natural Language between people and technology
  • Conversational canvas
  • Bots and agents

Conversational User Interfaces (CUI)

VOICE ASSISTANT

CHATBOTS

CUI - Voice Assistant

CONVERSATIONS

as a platform

DEVELOPERS

BUSINESS

The new canvas

The new opportunity

Where should I use it?

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Order Pizza (Traditional)

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Order Pizza (Bot)

Handoff to human

An x-ray of a typical bot

Bot Builder - SDK V4

Stable release
Stable release
Preview release
Preview release

Bot Builder CLI tools

(stable release)

Bot Framework Emulator

Bot Framework webchat

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
 <body>
  <div id="webchat"></div>
  <script src="https://cdn.botframework.com
/botframework-webchat/latest/webchat.js"></script>
  <script>
   window.WebChat.renderWebChat(
    {
     directLine: window.WebChat.createDirectLine(
      {
       secret: 'YOUR_BOT_SECRET_FROM_AZURE_PORTAL'
      }
     )
    }, document.getElementById('webchat'));
  </script>
 </body>
</html>
botframework-webchat

Bot Framework webchat

React

import DirectLine from 'botframework-directlinejs';
import React from 'react';
import ReactWebChat from 'botframework-webchat';

export default class extends React.Component {
  constructor(props) {
    super(props);

    this.directLine = new DirectLine({ token: 'YOUR_BOT_SECRET' });
  }

  render() {
    return (
      <ReactWebChat directLine={ this.directLine } />
      element
    );
  }
}
npm install botframework-webchat

Procedural conversation flow

VISION

SPEECH

LANGUAGE

SEARCH

KNOWLEDGE

Language Understanding (LUIS)

www.luis.ai

Language Understanding (LUIS)

Channels

Bot Development LifeCycle

Plan

  • Don’t send a bot to do a webpages’s job
  • Bots are just apps
  • Don’t abuse Natural Language Processing
  • Sometimes buttons do everything you need
  • Its all a matter of User Experience

Build

Locally via

Bot Builder SDK

Azure

Test on Azure

Test & Debug on Emulator

Publish

Connect

Evaluate

Rich user controls

Cards

AnimationCard

AudioCard

HeroCard

ThumbnailCard

ReceiptCard

SignInCard

SuggestedAction

VideoCard

CardCarousel

AdaptiveCard

AdaptiveCard Designer

DEMO

THANK YOU!

Q&A

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