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FoodLabs.Edu
for Altrimodi
Our collaboration with Altrimodi has made it possible to create a chatbot powered by Generative Artificial Intelligence, designed to promote food education among young people in an interactive and accessible way.
FoodLabs.Edu brings food education to schools through AWS Generative AI.
Altrimodi, a social enterprise (ETS) based in Turin, has collaborated with Storm Reply and Amazon Web Services (AWS) to bring into schools a chatbot powered by Generative Artificial Intelligence (Generative AI), aimed at fostering responsibility and promoting a culture of healthy and sustainable eating among young people.
The vision
Altrimodi’s goal is to transform food education into an interactive and personalised learning experience, one that is accessible and able to adapt to the diversity and needs of each student.
Through the use of generative artificial intelligence technologies, the project aims to provide dynamic educational content, fostering greater understanding and engagement among students.
The scenario
In a context where food education plays a crucial role in promoting healthy and sustainable lifestyles, Altrimodi has launched FoodLabs.Edu, an initiative designed to raise students’ awareness of making informed food choices.
To make the project even more effective and engaging, the organisation has chosen to integrate advanced technologies, harnessing the potential offered by Amazon Web Services (AWS).
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The challenge
A child-friendly chatbot, using simple and natural language
The chatbot developed for Altrimodi is designed for pupils in primary and lower secondary schools.
This required particular care during the design phase: the language and generated responses must be age-appropriate (excluding sensitive or unsuitable content for the users’ age group), while the interface should be visually engaging and the voices lively and friendly — all to ensure an educational experience that is both effective and enjoyable.
The solution
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To create a chatbot suitable for younger users, Storm Reply employed the latest Generative AI technologies provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS).
The chatbot is accessible through a simple, colourful, and intuitive web interface. It includes multilingual text-to-speech and speech-to-text features, ensuring maximum accessibility.
A series of “virtual assistants” respond to students’ questions in a playful and friendly manner.
The generation of responses is powered by Amazon Bedrock, which, using the latest artificial intelligence models released by Anthropic, can produce answers based on a knowledge base comprising more than 300 files, including textbooks, school documents, and nutritional information.
Filters and constraints have been implemented to ensure maximum control over text generation, safeguarding young users by guaranteeing that all responses are appropriate for their age group.
Chatbot Features
Interactive
and accessible
The chatbot is designed to offer an engaging and intuitive experience, with a simple and colourful interface that is accessible to students of different ages and abilities.
Output
multimodal
The chatbot supports multiple languages and, in addition to generating text and images, it is also able to play audio content.
Multiple
sources
The chatbot’s knowledge base includes over 300 files, spanning PDFs, Word and Excel documents, and images, allowing it to draw from a wide variety of heterogeneous sources.
Altrimodi is a social enterprise founded in Turin in 2017, committed to creating new spaces for living and connection. It promotes equal opportunities by valuing both equality and diversity. The organisation develops housing projects and educational programmes aimed at vulnerable groups, with a particular focus on young people.
The enterprise combines social goals, sustainability, and the reuse of assets as community resources. It works in partnership with public and private organisations and third-sector entities, bringing together different visions and expertise to design and test innovative solutions.