Twitter bot for ativation of online discussion and promotion of understanding by providing related articles

Abstract

Twitter has been used in academic conferences and study meetings as a means of debating announcements and sharing information, alongside a real presentation. This paper discusses activating online discussion on a Twitter timeline and promotion of understanding. Accordingly, we developed a Twitter bot which suggests related webpages via tweets. This paper describes the deployments of our bot in two types of meetings: lightning talk format and relaxed group meeting. We report whether it was capable of providing appropriate topics and users’ reactions to the bot in these meetings.