Design of a Social Chatbot with Gamification for user Profiling and Smoking Trigger Detection.

User profiling is essential to help smokers quit smoking, but filling out a questionnaire is tedious and therefore, a lot of smokers drop out even though this personalisation can help them greatly in their journey to quit smoking. In this project a chatbot is designed that acquires the necessary data for personalisation through games. Combined with smoking event registrations, the application can detect smoking triggers. 12 participants tested the chatbot for 15 d by talking to it and registering their smoking events. Results show that the chatbot reaches the requirements of a social chatbot, gathers for most games good quality data, and detected smoking triggers are accurate, making the chatbot a great alternative for smokers with an interest in games.