Connected Devices/Projects/Project Cue: Difference between revisions

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. Initially, the team looked at a hub that would manage smart devices in the home. They evaluated what was desirable from a hub angle, if it was going to be viable from a Mozilla perspective, and desirable for customer.  The team used the "Design Thinking" innovation approach by IDEO, where the philosophy of Product Innovation is at the center of technology (feasibility), person (desirability) & business (viability). After prototyping certain fundamental elements like device discovery, interoperability, and a rules engine, and evaluating the market and competitor landscape, the team concluded that a hub was not where we should be.

 

*While the team was concluding its hub experimentation and research, it evaluated the following initial target segments for further study:

The team chose "busy families" as the target market segment to explore.  User research was conducted by the team via interviews with 18 busy families to gather data on how they were managing their business lives and what kinds of help they envisioned needing.   

Synthesis of Study Data:

*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

*Smart recipes - cook based on groceries at home or order groceries based on.  

 

 

 

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

 

 

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

View reminders for consumer and family members

 

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.

We’re talking only about voice to text

Android tablet and phones using website/web app

 

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.

 

 

 

== Validation Stage ==

 

 

 

 

Early in the Validation stage, the team experimented with consumer smart devices available today, as described in Phase 1 in the Archive section below, and developed a prototype that enabled device discovery, rule configuration for how the devices should automatically interact, and the push of notifications to the user.  

 

 

* Aleh Zasypkin

=== Presentations ===

* [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1otXlJiy5uiOOZJI8IkWSI9YXspuJ6YHzk4taYGl-xrE/edit#slide=id.p4 Pilot Scenes]

* [https://drive.google.com/a/mozilla.com/file/d/0BzpS-SDqaHnAOGtsUjdiZGlvb1k/view UI (Theme View v0.75)]

* [https://drive.google.com/a/mozilla.com/file/d/0BzpS-SDqaHnAbktaaUxmdnpaLTQ/view UI (Home View v1.0)]