  In this paper, we describe Chat-Bot-Kit, a web-based tool for text-based
chats that we designed for research purposes in computer-mediated communication
(CMC). Chat-Bot-Kit enables to carry out language studies on text-based
real-time chats for the purpose of research: The generated messages are
structured with language performance data such as pause and speed of
keyboard-handling and the movement of the mouse. The tool provides two modes of
chat communications - quasi-synchron and synchron modes - and various typing
indicators. The tool is also designed to be used in wizard-of-oz studies in
Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and for the evaluation of chatbots (dialogue
systems) in Natural Language Processing (NLP).
