A study about how to combine interface animation with Artificial Intelligence Markup Language in HelpBot chatterbot

Abstract

This paper reports a study about adding animation to interface in chatterbots, more precisely in the chatterbot HelpBot, which operates in the help context of interaction in collaborative ambients. This chatterbot uses the markup language of Artificial  Intelligence (AIML) in its knowledge base.  Some tecnologies of interface animation were studied and it is presenting a compative among these tools. The tool called Jmonkey was utilized to separates the bot´s conversations from the animation of graphical interface. Througth the aggregation of the graphical interface in the HelpBot, it was intended to simplify the interaction between users and the chatterbot, thus making the interface more attractive to conversations.