Dr. Andy Wang, our client, is the dean of the College of Engineering, Informatics, and Applied Sciences here at Northern Arizona University. Part of his business is ensuring students, staff, and visitors have quick and easy access to information about the college. There is currently no easy way to access information about classes, professors, and events. Information like this is scattered across many NAU sites which makes it difficult to find answers to questions easily. Chatbots have become popular not just in households but also in academic settings. Chatbots offer easy access to all kinds of information from recipes to game scores.

Our project is to create an NAU chatbot called the ChatterJack Chatbot (check for the original idea). With the ChatterJack NAU students, staff, and visitors will have quick and easy access to information about the College of Engineering, Informatics, and Applied Sciences. This project will help the college operate more efficiently and allows easy access to all kinds of information that were previously difficult to find.

The ultimate goal however is that this project integrates with a Mechanical Engineering (ME) team’s project; the ME team is creating the physical robot so that eventually our project would become the “brains” of that robot.