Designing With Web - Part 3: week 1

Encourage students to have studying abroad experience based on AI

Group "Group 75"

Project 1: The cultural Chatbot

Context

It is common knowledge that every country has its own culture and ways of doing things. However, when traveling or studying abroad, you might not be aware of those cultural differences. Hence, this is why we have decided to create the Cultural Chatbot!

This bot will allow you to ask any question on a cultural situation that you don’t know how to manage and to help you understand the way people are acting. The idea behind this bot is to reassure people so that they can live the best cultural experience as possible. We are mainly aiming for students as we would like to encourage them to have an experience abroad.

Target

The service is dedicated mainly to students going abroad.

Service offered

The way this bot will work is the following:
The person will have to set the bot to the country of origin and to the hosting. The person will then ask a question, with AI and algorithms, the bot will find the key words and give the best answer possible to the person. Because the bot will be set according to the country of origin, it will give the most relevant answer, highlighting the widest cultural gaps.

In the case of the bot not being able to answer the question or not giving a pertinent answer, the person will have to opportunity to click on a link to get through to a forum where people from the same country of origin and in visiting/studying in the same country could answer them. In the potential but unlikely (except at the beginning) case where there wouldn’t be anyone on the channel, the person will be able to get rid of “filters”. For example, he/she will be able to only ask people of the “hosting” country. Additionally, we are willing to add an extra feature that will allow us to give the best deals of our partners to our users (Bars, restaurants, theatre…). This way they will be able to discover the fun things to do in the hosting town or country and meet foreign people as well (also using our bot).

Identity
Benchmark

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Project 2: Country quiz to choose the best destination suited for you!

Context

When: There are so many destinations to choose from when deciding where to study abroad that it can often be an overwhelming choice. It can be more efficient to narrow down the type of location that interests and suits you the most. You can’t find anything if you don’t know what you are looking for. You cannot research all the schools in the world. This quiz would be useful in setting up criteria to limit your search so you can create a manageable shortlist of schools that you can research more thoroughly. And instead of having students do extensive research on shortlisted schools, the quiz would generate the rankings to save students time and possible redundant effort on information that might nevertheless not be compatible with them at all. Where: Accessible worldwide through the app or the website. French, English and Spanish versions will be provided in order to offer greater access. Who: This quiz targets students that need guidance to a study abroad location that best suits their needs and requirements. Why: The first thing that students may concern themselves with is why they want to study abroad? Usually, students are either driven by a passion to study and live in a certain place, for example, Paris. Or they want to study a specific subject such as medicine or design. Finding out what is most important to students before they make a decision is the goal of this quiz. There are many questions that would affect the results of the quiz and what best suit students’ needs. Other factors into deciding to move abroad (potential quiz questions to ask): Language: is the student going to be studying a language in a particular country? If not, will they be comfortable in a country where the language isn’t their native language? Time Table: Summer, Semester, or Year Abroad? Type of Program: Does the school have the type of program students are looking for? Is there a possibility they might have to go through an independent program? Are they comfortable participating in a program where they won’t know any other students? Which programs can they afford? Major requirements: Will they be able to complete any major requirements while abroad? Weather: What type of climate do students want to live in? Living Situation: Do students want to live with a host family or in a dorm? Local Life: Does the student want to study abroad in a big city or small town? What kind of campus life or general environment are they expecting? Food: Would the student like the food common to that country?

Target

for whom?

For all students who need to do an exchange abroad or who want to study in another country. The concept will be extended to a larger target concerning adults, retired people and any other person who wants to go abroad: humanitarian mission, love trip, family trip, etc....

Service offered

what? how?

Proposing an app and a website in order to help students who have or want to go abroad but who don’t know where. This concept will help them to target their real needs concerning: languages, climate, landscapes, universities and courses, cost of the trip (scholarship, available money or ability to borrow it), cultures and countries histories they want to discover, religious aspect could be taken into account, foodstuffs. At the end of the quiz taken, the student will see the algorithm proposing him one or two country destination based on his needs and trip expectations. We can also add a page allowing people to share about experiences and discuss together in order to get a durable relation with the users of our website and app.

Identity
Benchmark

SWOT:

Strengths:

An easy-to-use and intuitive quiz An easy-to-use support system: a website and an app: everyone got smartphones, tabs, and computers in order to access it Broad target - accessible for a lot of students: from 1st year of higher education students to master and Ph.D. students Providing a developed and advanced quiz that takes into account the student's social, cultural and psychological aspects An advanced and in-depth quiz that really targets the profound needs of students Company members got skills in designing Low level of competition A low-cost project This quiz could be extended from student usage to other trip

Weaknesses:

Lack of recognition and brand awareness Lack of databases regarding countries information Company members lack skills in terms of developing apps

Opportunities:

Possible partnerships with great school orientation companies (l’Etudiant) and business schools and universities: ex: Em Lyon, Paris Assas,... It exists only simple quizzes that take into account only a few information regarding the student’s profile: we can provide one more developed that takes into account more variables

Threats:

Companies have already developed such a quiz It’s not a brand-new idea, consequently, it will be difficult to spring up into the market. The competition seems to be really harsh.

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