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| Project Vaani
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Validation (Lindsay/Sandip)
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| Project Cue
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Validation Stage (Julie/Preeti)
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An always-on voice-enabled smart screen device to keep track of the activities, events, and to-do lists of family members. Initial focus for the prototype is on Reminders only.
MVP1 Hypotheses
- Creating a voice enabled solution to create reminders, lists, coordinate schedules, we will reduce the time taken to perform these tasks by 20%. (Proved)
- Offering a solution that provides an alternative way to create and manage reminders, lists & schedules using a smart display, families would be able to accomplish their tasks 20% more times than before. (Pending smart display device to test)
Next Steps
- Increase the number of participants to 10.
- Create a working smart display device with reminder functionality to hand off to 10 busy family members to gather input.
- Evaluate which tablet to use for the study. Look into charging solutions, stands, microphones.
- Based on results from last study, want to test additional improvements, functionality.
MVP2 Hypothesis
- Creating a product that leverages voice interaction & chatbot to coordinate small gatherings* will result in these families seeing
- 50% reduction in the time required to coordinate such events using traditional methods of email, sms, phone calls
- 25% quicker response rates from recipients
Next Steps
- Conducting a Wizard of Oz style study to gain insights into how people coordinate simple events. In the process of collecting feedback.
Identifying Interest
- Working on identifying potential customers who can be used in focus groups and/or for testing. Goal of signing up at least 50 users for updates.
- Creating a targeted Facebook campaign to drive traffic to a landing page
- Creating a polished landing page for Cue that will host a Cue video
- Creating a video to host on the landing page that will clearly articulate the vision for Cue
- Working on ability to setup sign up/recruitment tables in areas where members of the targeted market segment can be found. Under consideration are:
- Farmer's markets
- Elementary schools
- Soccer Schools
- Social networking
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| Project Smart Display
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Josh
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| Project Haiku
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Maria/Liz
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Experiments
Exp #4 - Web-based HTML prototype. Live Fri 8/19. Team will use the prototype on their mobile phones next week. Goal is to collect feedback and refine the user experience. We're particularly interested in learning:
- If people are in an "off" status, do they want to know about the status of others?
- If people have an easy way to change their status, will they set/unset it?
Exp #5 - Instagram Sponsored Posts. Launching tomorrow. Will test a series of value propositions with target audience. Campaign will run for 4 days. We'll assess the performance, and test another one.
Exp #6 - Create physical prototype with external contractor (John Columbo, also working with SensorWeb). We just started this process. Anticipating that we will share devices with the girls week of Sep 12.
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| Project Sensor Web
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Cindy/Wesley
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| Project Smart Kitchen
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Tamara/Nicole
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| Project Magnet
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Maria/Francisco
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| Research Team
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Lindsay
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| Participation Update
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Michael/Brian
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| Market Developments Update
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- A report - Mozilla only - on voice interfaces and digital assistants reveals:
- 7 types of jobs that voice assistants can perform: identify, inform, educate, entertain, control, purchase and help
- The bulk of device sales with voice digital assistants in the next 5 years will be phones , Smart TVs and digital media streamers
- US households with voice home hubs will grow from 2% penetration in 2016 to 11% penetration in 2020
- Sonos is expected to unveil voice control and more integration features with streaming services at an event on the 30th of August. It's unclear what AI system Sonos will use for voice control and whether it will aim to only control the music that is played or also interact with other Smart Home devices.
- Venture Beat in a feature on the bot market, identified 7 layers in the bot landscape:
- The actual bots, such as personal assistants, customer service representatives, productivity helpers
- Artificial Intelligence tools that do the natural language processing, machine learning and speech & voice recognition
- Bot developer frameworks and tools
- Messaging platforms through which consumers interact with bots
- Analytics services
- Discovery mechanisms / bot stores
- Connectors and shared services
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