Detective Kees: Probably Cause Chat Bot Walkthrough Review

May 4, 2016 - Detective Kees: Probable Cause Chat Bot (http://m.me/detectivekees) is a rich content, interactive story of murder and mystery where users make choices to help Detective Kees solve the murder. It is created by OnSequel bot platform for messenger to demonstrate their platform which also created the chat bot Sequel Stories.

We did a through review of the bot to see how usable it was and what our thoughts on it was. Below is a sample walkthrough of our experience:

Step 1: Greetings from Sequel Stories

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This is the initial welcome greeting message. The story revolves around Detective Kees, and we are his partners in solving this mystery crime.

Step 2: Move Story Along with Actionable Buttons

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The structure and flow of the story is proceeded on mostly with actionable buttons. We think it's a good reason to give a pause to allow us to read the story.

Step 3: Story Options

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Occasionally, the story would present a Call to Action (CAT) scrollable option list to drive the direction of the story.

Step 4: Enhance Story with Imagery

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The story is enhanced with a lot of imageries to enrich the experience and gives us a better visual sense of the story.

Step 5: Help - Contact Us

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When we typed "Help", we got the following options: 1) "Stop this story", 2) "Contact Us", and 3) "Continue Story". We tapped "Contact Us" and got a support email address.

Step 6: Text Entries Not Supported

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The chat bot currently only support mostly button taps to continue on, and text entries are not supported.

Conclusion

In conclusion, Detective Kees: Probable Cause Chat Bot is built to showcase the OnSequel bot platform for messenger. The story engaged us with Detective Kees into this mystery / murder with textual and rich-media contents. The only thing we wished that the chat bot had was more support of an AI natural language chat so that we could ask questions to be better engaged. If you like mystery stories, this might be a good chat bot to try out.