Chatbot for fitness management using IBM Watson
This addresses fitness management for general users by applying existing chatbot technology to a new domain, making it an incremental application.
The authors proposed developing a fitness management chatbot using IBM Watson to provide diet plans, exercises, counseling, and recommendations through a web application. They implemented it with NLP/NLU and serverless architecture, but no performance metrics or results were reported.
Chatbots have revolutionized the way humans interact with computer systems and they have substituted the use of service agents, call-center representatives etc. Fitness industry has always been a growing industry although it has not adapted to the latest technologies like AI, ML and cloud computing. In this paper, we propose an idea to develop a chatbot for fitness management using IBM Watson and integrate it with a web application. We proposed using Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Natural Language Understanding (NLU) along with frameworks of IBM Cloud Watson provided for the Chatbot Assistant. This software uses a serverless architecture to combine the services of a professional by offering diet plans, home exercises, interactive counseling sessions, fitness recommendations.