Hi!  I am new here.  One of our faculty members would like me to build an interactive Eliza bot.  I built out the one from the 60s.  She would like to make it graphical using facial expressions when the “patients” type in.  I have no idea where to even start!

Help!

There are a few programs you can download and use in a limited fashion http://chungswebsite.blogspot.fr/search/label/face3D_chung is one example. You can also use a chatbot hosting company that allows facial expressions such as the personalityforge http://www.personalityforge.com/ or BOT libre http://www.botlibre.com/. But with both of those methods you would have to translate eliza’s responses into the program or programming language used.  Or you can use your present program and add a avatar to it. SitePal is one example of doing that. IF you are really ambitious you could download a facial recognition program and incorporate it into your program as well. OpenCV http://opencv.org/ is one example of a facial recognition program that is free.

I am sure there are other ways as well but I am not a expert on programming languages to use for it.

Thank you Sheryl!!!

You can fork our ELIZA bot clone on Bot Libre,

https://www.botlibre.com/browse?id=857180

It has speech and an animate avatar.

Or you could build your own bot, and import the ELIZA AIML script,

https://www.botlibre.com/script?id=855992