Connected Devices Weekly Update/2016-06-28

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Program		Status	Notes
Project Vaani	Validation (Lindsay/Sandip)	On Target	Bulleted list item Bulleted list item
Project Link	Validation Stage (Julie/Preeti)	On Target	Based on research study results, team has pivoted from a hub product to a family organizer (bulletin board type functionality for schedule, reminders, lists) and is also exploring a smart camera. First focus for the family organizer will be on reminders, with the effort called Project Cue. Currently, busy families are using post-its, their memories, notes, etc. to remember the who, when, what, where, and if recurring for things they have to do. The team's prototype will try to answer questions like the following: Can we use voice to create these reminders? Can we use them whether family members are home or away? Can we provide reminder notifications for any family member? Team will take four weeks to develop a simple web app. that will test the following: Take voice input, using Nuance speech recognition Display notifications to any family member Ability of any family member to view reminders on a household calendar The focus of the smart camera project, called Project Sentry, is on a low cost smart camera. People are looking for a way to monitor their home (kids at home with babysitter, baby sleeping, waiting for a package delivery). Current devices incur a one time high cost and then there are storage fees, so local storage and low cost are the differentiators. With this project, the team needs to find out if it can we build a low cost camera with low storage fees to break through these barriers. The team wants to build a camera that can: Trigger snapshots based on motion triggers, stream video Learn usage patterns Learn storage patterns Team members have been identified for each of these two efforts and have begun work Should have something working end to end for reminders by this Friday Calendar team is finishing up brainstorming use cases but have identified differentiating functionality the camera should have
Smart TV for 2.6	Josh	On Target	Bulleted list item Bulleted list item
Project Haiku	Maria/Liz	On Target	Creating an ambient method of communicating for 12 to 15 year old girls will create fewer interruptions that distract them from being in the moment at home and at school and improve their personal connections. team on PTO last week During this week we will continue working on getting the insights from the second User Research (that will help us to make the next decisions) Documentation work for building the prototype so anyone could build their own and adapt it to their needs. High-level summary in the README, and more instructions in a document - detailing each step in the device building, software flashing and configuration process, together with a 3-part series of step-by-step build videos
Project Magnet	Maria/Francisco	On Target	Bulleted list item Bulleted list item
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
Metrics for CD	Maria/Dylan	On Target	Small changes in the library to make the Javascript API common for both client application (e.g. a website) and server side applications (e.g a node.js app) Helping Magnet team to be able to create his own dashboards from the data got from the experiments in the London ww The Mozilla Re:dash instance is now connected to our CD database so everybody can login with his @mozilla.com account directly Included more background info and a description of the CD tables/schema in the CD Metrics wiki
Research Team	Lindsay	On Target	Bulleted list item Bulleted list item
Participation Update	Michael/Brian	On Target	Bulleted list item Bulleted list item
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