About Claybot

ClayBot, a novel conversational recommendation agent, which aims to capture people’s intents and recommend products based on the jobs or actions that their buyers aim to do. Interactions with ClayBot are guided by an openly accessible knowledge graph, which connects a sample of computing products to the actions annotated in product reviews.

How to Use Claybot

1. Head to the Amazon store to download Claybot and enable it as an Alexa Skill
2. To test this prototype skill say: “Alexa, launch Clay Bot” to get going. Following this invocation, ClayBot responds with what the person is going to use this product for.
3. Respond to Claybot with a command, for example: “I will use it for drawing” to find a computing product that may help you draw.
4. Reply with “Why” to get sample reviews connected to this product relevant to your context of use.
5. Reply with “Next” to get the next review.
6. If you wish to get the next best recommended product, ask Claybot “Do you have other options”
7. To close conversation, respond with “Thank you”