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'''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.'''   
'''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'''
'''MVP1 Hypothesis that Remains to be Tested'''
*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)
*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
In Progress
*Increase the number of participants to 10.
*Evaluating tablets to use for testing the smart display. Looking at the Lenovo tablet.
*Create a working smart display device with reminder functionality to hand off to 10 busy family members to gather input.
*Building improvements, including ability to set up accounts for each family member and edit reminders. Need to get new front end working with new back end.  Only one developer available this week and next.  
*Evaluate which tablet to use for the study. Look into charging solutions, stands, microphones.
*Want to have device ready for internal testing by end of August and ready for study participants by mid-September.
*Based on results from last study, want to test additional improvements, functionality.
*Identifying additional participants to increase the number of people testing the smart display to 10.
**Improve speech patterns


'''MVP2 Hypothesis'''  
'''MVP2 Hypothesis'''  
*Creating a product that leverages voice interaction & chatbot to coordinate small gatherings* will result in these families seeing
*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
**50% reduction in the time required to coordinate such events using traditional methods of email, sms, phone calls
**25% quicker response rates from recipients
**25% quicker response rates from recipients


Next Steps
In Progress
*Conducting a Wizard of Oz style study to gain insights into how people coordinate simple events. In the process of collecting feedback.
*Tools being used in the Wizard of Oz style study to gain insights into how people coordinate simple events prevent the coordination "bot" from sending group chat messages. Study results show that people are suspicious when they receive a text message from an unknown source with no one else copied on the text. Many are ignoring the text, but once they start using the bot, they like what they see and feedback has been positive.  Want to try email messaging by the "bot" next.


'''Identifying Interest'''
'''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.
*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
In Progress:
**Creating a video to host on the landing page that will clearly articulate the vision for Cue  
*Working on the targeted Facebook campaign to drive traffic to a landing page that will host a video to clearly articulate the vision for Cue. Script for the video has been developed.  
*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
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| [[Connected_Devices/Research|Research Team]]
| [[Connected_Devices/Research|Research Team]]