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'''Project Link''' aims to be your own, personal user agent for the smart home, creating a web of things that is completely yours. Instead of entrusting your data to a third party, your Link agent understands your preferences for how you want to interact with the world of devices in your home, and can even automate your connected world for you. All of this still done conveniently and securely, but completely under your control.
'''Project Cue''' makes use of an always-on voice-enabled smart screen device to keep track of activities, events, and to-do lists of the family members.  


If you would like to participate, you can get in touch with our [[Connected_Devices/Participation|connected devices participation team]], or find us on irc.mozilla.org, channel #foxlink.  
== Project Overview ==
Busy families have to manage and remember many to do’s, scheduled events, and activities related to the management of their households. Often, disorganized or ad hoc methods or tools are used to manage these, including post-its, reminders stuck on the refrigerator, various digital apps, or overloaded memories. This leads to stress and chaos, and it’s time consuming and cumbersome. 
 
Project Cue saves time and brings peace of mind to the entire family with its simple and intuitive solution to turn the daily coordination chaos across the family members
to organized control. Envisioned as a Family Organizer, Cue will enable family members to easily manage their activities, events, and to do's.  The initial focus for Project Cue will be a prototype for Reminders only.  Voice will be tested as a friction free way to request and use reminders. Project Cue wants to offer a better, easier way than having to carry all those to do's, events, or upcoming activities in your memory or having to write or type up reminders. 
 
Project Cue grew out of the study and research conducted by the Project Link team. The team considered Initial Target audiences considered:
busy families
teachers and kids at school - budget deficit but want to give teachers time to teach instead of spending time on mundane tasks
Elderly
Chose busy families to explore
Did user research via interviews with 18 busy familiesThe team looked at both a hub for managing smart devices in the home
 
 
Evaluated what was desirable from a hub angle, was it going to be viable from mozilla perspective and desirable for customer
 
Approach - design thinking
Tech feasibility
People desirability
Business viability
 
Prototyped certain fundamental elements
Device discovery
First time user exp
Interoperability
Rules engine
Concluded that a hub wasn’t where we should be
Didn’t have the people desirability
Talked to merchants
 
 
First invest in smart devices, then realize there’s the missing piece in terms of interoperability so customers have to return to store.
This market segment is already saturated with hubs.
Shelf life for the hubs is long and discovery is low.
 
We concluded it’s not a place where we could disrupt the market and do things easily.
 
Pivoted to smart digital assistant
Tried to think about it like apple did for the iphone - an extension for other things
Marry the functionality of other things
 
Initial Target audiences considered:
busy families
teachers and kids at school - budget deficit but want to give teachers time to teach instead of spending time on mundane tasks
Elderly
Chose busy families to explore
Did user research via interviews with 18 busy families
 
Synthesis
Families are constantly juggling all the busy events of their lives, particularly the moms
Families want an easy way to help them with reminders
Want some sort of a household calendar to coordinate schedules of their household members, babysitters, etc.
To do list to relieve memories from failing
Desire to equip their homes with smart devices - security camera
TV or media in general - they want a way to conduct universal searches
Music - relaxation theme -want an easy way to listen to music without any screen, especially if kids are asking
Ordering groceries - varies by country
Smart recipes - cook based on groceries at home or order groceries based on
 
Family organizer (bulletin board)
First focus will be on reminders.  Currently, they are using post-its, their memories, notes, etc.
Who, when, what, where, and if recurring
Can we use voice to create these reminders?
Can we use them whether we are home or away?
Can we view an agenda for the day on  
 
Web app. With simple setup
View reminders for consumer and family members
Display notifications
Take voice input
Leverage using Nuance speech recognition
 
Our ask is for 4 weeks to put something in front of the customer
Speech patterns - different people will use different ways of expressing what the reminder should be
What we want to discover? Is voice truly a friction free way to do this?  Want to offer a better, easier way than making someone write or type up reminders
Differentiation is that this is for the whole family and not just one person
Reminders is a crowded space for apps. 
 
Risk with Nuance - can be temperamental
Accounts vs. reminders sent to all.
Social reminder - can it go only to the individual targeted for the reminder
We’re talking only about voice to text
Android tablet and phones using website/web app
Main device is a tablet but personal device is a phone
 
We don’t know yet if all these possible tracks will result in one product.  That’s what we need to research/test.
There might be convergence of the functionality down the road, but we don’t know that yet. 
Test is if voice input is a good way to reduce or eliminate the friction.


== Project Overview ==
Project Link (formerly Foxlink) is a short-term experiment to build software building blocks that can interact with various "things". Most code is done in [https://www.rust-lang.org/ Rust].


We are using the "Design Thinking" innovation approach by IDEO, where the philosophy of Product Innovation is at the center of technology (feasibility), person (desirability) & business (viability).


== Validation Stage ==
== Validation Stage ==
We are using the "Design Thinking" innovation approach by IDEO, where the philosophy of Product Innovation is at the center of technology (feasibility), person (desirability) & business (viability).


In the Validation stage, the Link team has been conducting investigations and studies to answer the questions:
In the Validation stage, the Link team has been conducting investigations and studies to answer the questions:
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