Connected Devices Weekly Update/2016-08-18

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Program		Status	Notes
Project Vaani	Validation (Lindsay/Sandip)	On Target	Bulleted list item Bulleted list item
Project Cue	Validation Stage (Julie/Preeti)	On Target	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. Improve speech patterns 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
Project Smart Display	Josh	On Target	Bulleted list item Bulleted list item
Project Haiku	Maria/Liz	On Target	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.
Project Sensor Web	Cindy/Wesley	On Target	Bulleted list item Bulleted list item
Project Smart Kitchen	Tamara/Nicole	On Target	Experiment #5 (SurveyGismo Paid responses) Completed 242 Paid responses Results are in line with first survey, but dig deeper. Coming up with ideas for what to cook with ingredients on hand was #1 challenge for making dinner People generally believe they know their inventory People are interested in saving time, meal suggestions, using ingredients, and meal variety. They want simple, healthy meals. People are very interested in meal suggestions for ingredients they have on hand (85.7%) People would be likely/very likely to use a device that suggested recipes based off ingredients on hand Experiment #1 (Image recognition) - Completed. Only one tester so far has tried image rec. Results are not promising as far as number of images recognized. We are not down to the level of detail we need. Next steps: 1) Introduce a second service for comparison, 2) Investigate images (needs legal discussion), and 3) possibly incent trial participants to get a few more active participants Experiment #6 (Upstream Concierge) - In Progress Trial participants identified last week Instructions sent to trial participants Awaiting signed legal agreement from participants The concierge is ready PIB Update Wednesday 8/24 -- Update on Technical Plan, resource, and Upstream request
Project Magnet	Maria/Francisco	On Target	Bulleted list item Bulleted list item
Research Team	Lindsay	On Target	Bulleted list item Bulleted list item
Participation Update	Michael/Brian	On Target	Bulleted list item Bulleted list item
Market Developments Update	Irina		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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