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	Bulleted list item Bulleted list item
Smart TV	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 Tablet	Ben	On Target	Bulleted list item Bulleted list item
Project Smart Kitchen	Tamara/Nicole	On Target	Bulleted list item Bulleted list item
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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