Swine Buddy: Development of Messenger Chatbot for Monitoring Swine

Abstract

Due to the widespread disease's impact on the swine industry, this study aims to develop a messenger chatbot to ease the collaboration between farmers and the municipal veterinarian of Capalonga, Camarines Norte. The chatbot acts as the virtual veterinarian monitoring the swine's health via the farmers' response. The veterinarian takes action based on the chatbot report. The chatbot was developed with the motivation and principles of the Rapid Application Development Model. The selected respondents are composed of swine farmers and the municipal veterinarian of Capalonga, Camarines Norte that evaluated the chatbot using the USE Questionnaire. Features include farmer registration, monitoring, management, and report generation. Another beneficial feature of the Swine Buddy is the scheduling of veterinarian visits. Swine Buddy received an overall average weighted mean of 6.28 rating from the respondents which is equivalent to Very Satisfactory. Using Swine Buddy indeed provided ease for both swine farmers and veterinarians. Using this collaboration tool helps maximize the minimum resource that we have. This also opens new opportunities for other agriculture sectors in monitoring and record-keeping.