{"id":1317,"date":"2015-04-30T15:55:06","date_gmt":"2015-04-30T15:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.courses.tegabrain.com\/SS15\/?p=1317"},"modified":"2018-09-04T17:06:06","modified_gmt":"2018-09-04T17:06:06","slug":"mother-hen-bot-assignment-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.courses.tegabrain.com\/SS15\/?p=1317","title":{"rendered":"Mother Hen Bot – Assignment #3"},"content":{"rendered":"

The creation of social media bots is an ongoing movement where anyone is capable of developing a working AI\u00a0that was meant to roam and interact on the Internet. These bots could\u00a0come straight out of fiction or be a rendition of a fictional character from a novel or film.<\/p>\n

As Rob Dubbin mentioned from his article, \u201cThe Rise of Twitter Bots,\u201d<\/a> Twitter bots are contributors to the worlds of APIs and AIs. Dubbin defined these bots to be\u00a0openly developed in laboratories from creative minds with\u00a0programming background that has the power to make bots good or evil. The movement of Twitter Bots is like a community garden, anyone are welcomed to\u00a0plant bots with a Twitter account by using\u00a0their\u00a0knowledge of APIs and programming in order to run in the Internet.<\/p>\n

From my previous Twitter bot<\/a>, I based it off from\u00a0a fictional character in which I choreographed a small digital puppet show for it\u00a0to appear realistic. Generally, IFTTT recipes were used for this bot to tweet out content that related to his interests and personality.<\/p>\n

For this assignment I decided to develop\u00a0a fictional Twitter bot that has the personalities and functionality of a \u201cmother hen,” based on a small brief<\/a> that outlined the bot’s features and purpose. Overall, the bot would act overly caring, very protective, and worries over the user until he or she no longer follows it. The purpose of this assignment was to project a sense of awareness on how humans relied on technology to the point we programmed them to be living secretaries, friends, or spouses. We’re constantly having the \u201cneed\u201d to have something reminding us about events, appointments, meetings, deadlines, etc.<\/p>\n

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Mother Hen<\/a> is just a small prototype that does\u00a0simple tasks where\u00a0society is highly depended on a daily bases.<\/p>\n

For example, this bot would tweet out the weather of a particular location on a scheduled time.<\/p>\n

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This IFTTT recipe sends out a tweet everyday at 6 AM tells today’s weather condition at specific location.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Result to Weather IFTTT recipe.<\/p><\/div>\n

Another feature would be tweeting out customized \u201cwelcoming tweets\u201d whenever a new follower followed the bot.<\/p>\n

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Whenever Mother Hen gets a new follower, this IFTTT recipe sends out a tweet.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Results to “Welcome” IFTTT recipe.<\/p><\/div>\n

In addition to tweeting out messages that are set on a timer or schedule according to the developer.<\/p>\n

Weekend Reminder:<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Screenshot<\/a><\/p>\n

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Go Eat Reminder:<\/span><\/p>\n

\"breakfast_ifttt\"<\/a>

Breakfast Tweet Reminder as an IFTTT recipe.<\/p><\/div>\n

*Breakfast Tweet was overwritten by another recipe. But currently is working.<\/p>\n

\"lunch_ifttt\"<\/a>

Lunch Tweet Reminder as an IFTTT recipe.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Screenshot<\/a><\/p>\n

\"dinner_ifttt\"<\/a>

Dinner Tweet Reminder as an IFTTT recipe.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Stay Productive Reminder:<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Screenshot<\/a>\"Screenshot<\/a><\/p>\n

Even though these features were created as recipes from IFTTT, there was the usage of basic JavaScript programs that were controlled through a command line. For instance, fileBot.js<\/a> was used to send out a text file that contained encouraging, empowering, or \u201cgood day,\u201d quotes. Eventually, these tweets are posts manually through a command line or through a remote server following a scheduled time.<\/p>\n

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Manually commanding fileBot.js through Git Bash.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Result to JavaScript file from Git Bash.<\/p><\/div>\n

Since\u00a0uploading fileBot.js to Heroku<\/a> is the text file no longer needed to be manually activate through a command line in order for the JavaScript to work. While using, Heroku, fileBot.js would continue uploading quotes from my text file at a particular schedule in which was coded into the JavaScript.<\/p>\n

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Testing out with Heroku server.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Final results of fileBot.js working through Heroku.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Updating setInterval from fileBot.js for Mother Hen to tweet out quotes every 3 hours per day.<\/p><\/div>\n

Furthermore, from what I\u2019ve learned about Twitter bots and Twitter, this particular project is very opened and popular through the programming and developing community. Twitter does offer a lot of freedom to its followers and developers when creating artistic and interactive content on their site\u2019s server. From Dubbin statement, eventually, these bots are just another remembrance on how they\u2019re a great for wasting time and \u201comnipresent surveillance.\u201d<\/p>\n

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