Connected Devices Weekly Update/2016-07-19

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Program		Status	Notes
Project Vaani	Validation (Lindsay/Sandip)	On Target	Bulleted list item Bulleted list item
Project Cue	Validation (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. The Project Cue team was given approval at the London MVP preview to build and test with the target market a web app prototype that provides the ability to: Use voice (3rd party) to create reminders for one’s self and his/her family members and display on an always-on tablet Receive reminders whether at home or away Receive notifications via voice and in-app notifications at the time of the reminder View your agenda for the day on either a tablet or smartphone Prototype development is in the last of its four weeks and is nearly complete. Team has demo'd the use of a wake work, creating a voice reminder, receiving notification of the reminder. Legal requirements and details for the user study to validate the concept are being worked on.
Project Smart Display	Joe	On Target	Bulleted list item Bulleted list item
Project Haiku	Maria/Liz	On Target	Last Friday (July 15th) we presented in the Checkin #5 (slides and video recording) the insights from the User Research #2 and the decisions made about what we'll be doing next. We didn't validate our initial hypotheses "girls would want ambient communication that did not distract them from other things" and regarding the assumption that "this device would improve communications with their friends", we neither proved nor disproved this. But we saw a glimmer of proof in their desire to know about the status and availability of close friends We want to focus more narrowly on improving communications between close friends by helping girls know the status and availability of their close friends. Same target audience (12-15 year old girls) Uncover other “desires to know information about my friends” that could be supported by an ambient device Focus on small group of friends Initially we were going to conduct 2 fast studies (participatory design) with SV and non-SV girls but based on the Lean Startup training, we want to use this week to try to apply on our project some of the learnings/techniques. Make the pieces we are testing smaller, with the purpose of learning faster Meanwhile, we are exploring the technology options for always-on/ubiquitous and smaller/wearable devices and different interaction models. Bluetooth LE modules (nRF51822), prototyping BLE wearable Simple status/availability web service Smartphone app to connect to BLE device & client for status web service (Cordova, Bluetooth Web API?) Secure logging/telemetry from embedded code
Project Sensor Web	Cindy/Wesley	On Target	Bulleted list item Bulleted list item
Project Tablet	Ben	The opposite of on target	2 user interviews carried out so far Delay in shipping prototype to Canada and a technical problem has delayed the other user interviews Update to the board to be shifted by two weeks
Project Smart Kitchen	Tamara/Nicole	On Target	Bulleted list item Bulleted list item
Project Magnet	Maria/Francisco	On Target	Broadcasting helpful information (e.g. schedule, maps) to conference attendees will help alleviate their anxiety and Broadcasting personal tidbits to other conference attendees will make networking easier User Study We already have the User Findings from the experiments in MozLondon: User Study #2 Findings and Themes and Data Analysis. The key learnings from the User Study were: More barriers to people interacting with and broadcasting their own content than expected. People didn’t stay engaged with the app - they forgot about it or it was too overwhelming. People seemed more interested in locating people they knew than meeting new people. Running many experiments at the same time made it harder to uncover insights. Regarding to the hypotheses we were not able to validate them or invalidate them Although attendees found useful info (as sched) we think that it could have been more useful if it were more widely implemented in all the hotels, besides, we don't think we lowered anyone's anxiety. Regarding the second hypothesis, we did not create any network connections (in general), the barriers play a huge part for those that were broadcasting that combined with the fact that it was only the cd group and we already know almost everyone. We feel that continuing to focus on conferences/events, and being able to control the “ecosystem”, we will obtain clearer insights that can then be used to improve that platform (View source and Mozfest) Development The team has just landed basic "notifications" feature in iOS and Android to engage users with the app. This week we will continue Improving how notifications work (e.g. by keeping history of beacons discovered, so users are not notified about them), testing and bug fixing of this feature and some visual updates. Other Working together with Legal and Marketing teams to see the possible options to upload the app to Apple Store and Google Play to reduce the installation barrier Making a plan with Viewsource team to prepare the experiments in that event Logistics: checking and testing different beacons and providers to get reliable and cheaper beacons Last check in last Friday (July 15th): slides and video recording
Research Team	Lindsay	On Target	Bulleted list item Bulleted list item
Participation Update	Michael/Brian	On Target	New Open Innovation Outreach Team Michael, Rina, Natalia, Rosana, Katharina Met last week for initial planning Scope and priorities still being figured out Will have much overlap with CD participation Dates set for initial Vaani hack events in Brazil (Rio) Mozilla IoT class at University of Jordan Syllabus submitted, waiting on University approval IoT HackHyderabad, approved, budgeted, ready to go https://reps.mozilla.org/e/iot-hackday-hyderabad-1/
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