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Inspiration

Our inspiration is our personal experience with struggling with talking to other people. My teammate and I are both socially anxious people, a common struggle we face is finding topics to talk to as our minds tend to usually go blank. This led us in creating a website that helps facilitate that struggle by having a place where you can find HUMAN generated prompts that you can use when talking to others whether that is a friend, professor, etc.

Conversations and interactions face to face makes us human. The way someone reacts and handles situations such as conversations are authentic other than a response generated from a robot or machine. Especially since the pandemic, we learned how valuable one on one contact with others can be.

Name Meaning

We were inspired by the Chatterbox paper game (also known as paper fortune teller) we used to play as kids where someone would choose an color and the other person would tell the person their fortune. In a way our website is kind of like a chatterbox, you provide a list of criteria and we generate an outcome.

What it does

Users choose from a list of choices the type of person they want to talk to (e.g. professor), choose a potential topic (e.g. research), and the level of formality (e.g. professional). Once the user enters all this information they press 'Enter' and will have a list of potential talking points to use.

How we built it

We used Canva as a way to be able to visually "see" our vision for our website. For coding, we used both HTML and CSS.

Challenges we ran into

A main challenge we faced would be piecing everything together as we would face issues with HTML and CSS, where when we test out the website it wouldn't do what we wanted it to do.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Being able to code a simple website especially as we're still beginners when it comes to coding something like this.

What we learned

We learned how to implement HTML and CSS to create a functional website that is both useful (hopefully) and easy on the eye.

What's next for CHTTRBOX

Implementing a Roleplay feature, where users are able "practice" the talking points generated along with a Tips page which provides advice on socializing with others (e.g. body language).