Connected Devices Weekly Update/2016-11-10

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Program		Passed Gate	Status	Notes
Project Sensor Web	Cindy/Jean	Gate 1	On Target	Bulleted list item Bulleted list item
Project_Haiku (taking in Project Smart Display)	Liz/Joe/Mahe	Gate 0	On Target	Voice message user test preparation in progress Test runs from Nov 14th - Nov 18th Gate 1 preparation in progress - scheduled for Friday in Hawaii Software POC work - WebRTC communication between Beaglebone Black boards
Platform and Tools	Sandip/Nicole	N/A	On Target	Design Document First draft of the design document available (aka White paper) https://docs.google.com/document/d/1OrCRDCjIuG8OWMBhds8D5eSqJ1Fhl8yPK7U-oBk6V5I/edit#heading=h.aeqt1bhqabd7 High level architecture, and various integration patterns to connect, secure, manage and use IoT devices. Provide solid technical backbone to claim stated differentiations for our proposed platform. (Open, secure, data ownership etc) Platform extraction 1st pass data available for analysis from dialog with track 1 product teams. Under review https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1i9Lir3Nj65AWZq6QZaRztlPQZ_8CxQ2b6j-i-cVnf6o/edit#gid=0 Find reusable components and patterns. Prioritize and resource specific blocks and developer enablers. Leadership checkpoint Planned on 11/16 Weekly Notes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yo1AtuozukgfkZwzO745LdEsB1fdZrEWoIYr8F9eydo/edit#heading=h.qgtmzupjdx35
Voice Platform - Deep Speech	Sandip/Nicole	N/A	On Target	Bulleted list item Bulleted list item
Abigail	Preeti/Julie	Gate 0	On Target	Concept Validation Testing Study was started October 28th to test a couple concepts for the Abigail product: 1) Smart Family Tracker and 2) Smart Reminders for the Whole Family A Facebook campaign has been active since October 26th to test consumer interest using different product concepts. Data is coming in on how well this is driving consumers to Abigail product page. Revisiting how to produce a video to showcase all the functionality that Abigail can provide. Engineering Spending this week ensuring end-to-end use cases work, testing code, bug fixing. Working on getting voice commands with user names working. Working on 5 prototype devices and preparing them for use in the study. Working on a problem identified with flaky accelerometer connections. Fixing a problem with loose jumper wires. Abigail Study with Prototypes Finishing up work on a prototype study guide that will be used during the visits to participant homes. Scheduling participant sessions. The first will be held November 11th. Abigail team members will be interviewing the participants and observing their interactions with the Abigail prototypes through the week of November 14th. Study will include consumer interaction with the prototypes and collection of feedback regarding usage and responses to questions asked of the consumers. Schedule Value proposition validation - Oct. 24 - early November Prototype development: month of October Assembly of devices: week of October 31 Testing in homes: November 7 - 18 Data synthesis from pilot and video/landing page studies: November 21 - 29 Gate 1 pitch: December 8
Project Magnet	David/Maria	Gate 0	On Target	Hypotheses validation Leap of Faith assumption we wanted to validate in the London pilot was “The Magnet experience attracts users to try the app and return frequently”. For that we would need an attractive UX, a stable client and quality content to engage users. Concerns about whether the UX that we could implement in the development time we had, was going to be compelling/different enough to validate the Leap of Faith Assumption To mitigate this risk we have planned to use a mock-up to run a User Study for 10 people in SF office on the week commencing Nov 28th, 2016. This study will provide us information to further validate the main assumption. In parallel we will still run a pilot in London to learn how users interact with the developed client and a FB Landing Page campaign to drive downloads of the app and validate interest Development Finished our second sprint (Sprint 7): Notifications and channel subscription/unsubscription in Android and iOS finished (Notifications demo in Android and iOS) POI view landed (Demo video) In the next and last Sprint (Sprint 8) we will focus on refining the way to notify users based on their location, implement call to actions, FTE, navigation in the app and other tasks in order to have the client in the best shape to upload it to the stores on Nov 23. Offline update this week to the PIB and CD
HomeWeb	Ben/Mahe	Gate 0	On Target	User Study New version of landing page created (Porfirio) Feedback from User Research (Rina, Mihaela) integrated into survey Twitter ad campaign configured Experiment about ready to launch, waiting for feedback from Marketing (Porfirio) Market Research Further market research from Strategy Analytics and Forrester helped refine value proposition and identify target market Irina working further with Strategy Analytics to narrow down target market Technical Feasibility Study Push-button commissioning of ZigBee sensors working (Juan) Rust ported to ARMv5TE (Juan) Progress on getting video stream from camera using RTSP and FFMPEG (Tamara) Starting working on client updater (Fabrice)
GameON!	Candice/Julie	Gate 0	On Target	Gate 0 Pitch Gate 0 Pitch was presented to the PIB on October 27th. Game ON! was approved to proceed through Gate 0. Approval was granted to add a UX resource and an electrical engineering resource to the team. Gate 1 pitch: Mid January, 2017 Wiki will be developed and made available Check in with the team in the #gameON IRC channel. Engineering Work is now focused on building a PCB and eliminating all the wires currently necessary for connections. Looking at 3D printing with conductive ABS filament for possible experimentation with capacitive technologies for some of our accessories such as the spinner or figures. Working on dynamics for new games using existing simulator Game play is working end to end, and a demo of the game board has been recorded. Research Continuing research into competitor products, possible game ideas. Continuing to identify the best use cases. Consumer Studies Planning for prototype testing can proceed now that the project has Gate 0 approval. Team is consulting with the research team on development of a study to test consumer response to the product.
Lighthouse	Preeti/Julie	Gate 0	On Target	Engineering Lighthouse prototype was successfully demonstrated to leadership team this week. Voice prompts now in place to prompt user as to how to use the camera - photo capture, object description, confirmation Re-engineered how most of the background behind an object is removed to make the match easier and quicker. User Studies Team has built prototypes to test over the next couple weeks with study participants who are blind. Finalizing the plan for how to conduct the prototype study and the questions to ask. Working on logistics for the shopping trip, use of the prototype, feedback to collect. Shopping trip - Photos will be taken of items they need to buy while in the store, with the participants' descriptions of the items recorded and stored with the images. Image matching session - Items purchased in the store will be brought to the Santa Clara Valley Blind Center to test the image matching. Product study with 25 participants - Session at the SCVBC scheduled for November 18th to gauge reaction to and to gain impressions of various form factors. Schedule Complete development of prototype: October Assemble prototypes: Oct 31 - Nov 4 Prototype pilot: Nov 7 - 18 Data synthesis from pilot and video/landing page studies: November 21 - 29 Gate 1 pitch: November 30
Market Developments Update	Irina			Bulleted list item Bulleted list item
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