Perceived friendliness and low barriers in terms of adoption are the reasons why we believe chatbots can concretely support the integration of foreigners.
BlueAlpaca winning over Europe’s smartest cities
From Trento to Helsinki, passing by Milan, Santander and Antwerp: a contemporary Grand Tour around Europe and its most innovative smart cities!
BlueAlpaca: a smart chatbot for a smart city
An innovative chatbot project in collaboration with the SynchroniCity EU project and the cities of Milan, Santander, Antwerp and Helsinki. The objective: making information and services accessible and usable by citizens.
What a chatbot really is
It’s been roughly two years now since we started working on our first chatbot in U-Hopper. It was called Talk2Fiesta and was developed as part of the FiestaIoT EU project: it was meant to offer an alternative way of accessing environmental information (among the others temperature, humidity and wind) regarding the city of Santander, Spain. […]
Chatbots for (and with) citizens – Three lessons learnt
Here at U-Hopper, we have gone quite crazy about chatbots lately. For those of you who do not share the hype, chatbots are software programs that, by leveraging artificial intelligence tools and techniques, are able to chat with humans, typically by answering simple questions. At the moment, there is a large variety of chatbots out […]