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Project Haiku
Below, Project Haiku Prototypes
Author(s)
Mozilla
Released
2016.02.11 (Initial Pitch)
Innovation Status
Stage 1 (Validation)
Website
https://mzl.la/haiku

Project Haiku (formerly Project Smart Home) began as a project to offer a middle ground between "in a box" smart-home solutions like Apple Homekit and DIY solutions like Raspberry Pi. We envisioned modular, affordable hardware with easy-to-use rules that would empower people to solve unique everyday problems in new and creative ways.

But we realized quickly that home automation and the industry's notion of a "smart home" are not the set of problems we are passionate about, or where we feel we can get most traction. So we've moved in a different direction, although many of the principles in the original project pitch remain relevant to our new direction.

Project overview

The Project Haiku team began by talking with people about the experiences that make them feel independent. An unexpected idea emerged from that research: connecting with other people makes people feel independent. The team is currently exploring how 12-15 year old girls communicate with friends and family, and how an ambient communication device might enhance their ability to connect with others.

Product vision

Project Haiku will improve people’s lives with technology that empowers them to focus on what matters most to them.

People are bombarded with messages from all the people (and things) in their lives. They constantly check their phones so they don't miss the most important ones. The result: fear, anxiety, and stress.

Many of these messages are simple changes in status for the people (and things¹) in our lives. We all track many people (and things) “just in case” there is a time when a change in their status matters to us. But we must pay attention to all of these messages in order to see the ones that are most important to us.

Project Haiku offloads these changes in status from the phone to a wearable object. This allows us to focus our attention on the people (and things) that matter to us -- and ignore the rest.

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Notes

¹ "things" include software services

Product description

A bracelet that displays the changes in status of girls and their friends

It is a Bluetooth wearable communication accessory that uses a service to communicate changes in status to and from the people represented on the bracelet.

• Each bracelet contains 6 slots - 1 primary slot for the owner and 5 secondary slots, 1 for each of her 5 friends.
• The primary slot lights up when the owner sets her status to "available." When her status is "not available," the bracelet is dimmed.
• The secondary slots for each of the 5 friends light up when their status is "available," otherwise they are dimmed.
• The owner can send a "need attention now" message to any of the 5 friends by pressing that friend's slot. This lights up the friend's bracelet in a rainbow pattern.

An early concept for the bracelet

Program Status

Milestone	Date	Status	Status Notes
Kick off meeting	3/03/2016	Done	Kick off presentation
First Research plan drafted	3/14/2016	Done
Research plan #1 drafted	3/29/2016	Done
Portland working week to analyze the Research findings and set the following goals/milestones	4/08/2016	Done
User Research #2 [from May 25th to 29th]	5/08/2016	Done
London All Hands Presentations (different sessions)	6/13/2016	Done
MVP review	6/15/2016	Done	MVP Review presentation
User Research #2 findings	7/07/2016	Done	Project Haiku: User Research #2 findings
Kick off meeting: Team reset	7/11/2016	Done
User Research #3	8/03/2016	Done	Survey to validate the hypotheses about the "priority people" and the "auto-replies"
User Research #5	8/19/2016	Done	Sponsored Post on Instagram to set a baseline for future tests of our value propositions. We ran the post without a CTA over the weekend but this will be our baseline going forward.
User Research #4	8/26/2016	Done	HTML prototype set up on Heroku to test the interactions and make refinements to the User Experience. It will help us to validate the assumptions "We believe that people want to provide their status to others (and will set/unset it)" and "We believe that when a person's status is off, they are not interested in the status of others"
User Research #6		On hold	Make a physical prototype so girls can provide feedback on it. Our goal is to give them to a small group of girls and focus is on the wearable experience.

Status Key

Color	Status	Key
	On Target	The project or deliverable is expected to meet its due date.
	Challenged	The project or deliverable is facing an issue that might cause it to miss its due date, but a “get well” plan has been developed to get it back on track.
	At Risk or Late	The project or deliverable is blocked or facing an issue that might cause it to miss its due date, and there’s no “get well” plan to get it back on track, or it is already late.
	Done	The project or deliverable has been completed.
	On Hold or Not Started	The project or deliverable has either not been started or has been placed on hold.

Archived Completed Deliverables

Milestone	Date	Status	Status Notes
First Research plan drafted	3/14/2016	Done	Initial Research Plan is already out of date as it was revisited.
Revised Research plan #1 and Interviews guides	3/29/2016	Done	New Research plan created to learn about the needs of the new targeted audiences: Babysitting age (12 to 15 years old) and independent elderly (aging in place). Both have caregivers who question the independence of the 2 audiences. To run this new research plan we'll be using these two Interview Guides together with these Consent & Compensation Forms.
Documentation about our Research findings from the Interviews	4/27/2016	Done	Project Haiku: User Research #1 findings
Research plan #2: Interviews guides, Research prototype, Diaries and all the documentation and logistics necessary for the User Study.	5/24/2016	Done	Project Haiku - User Study #2. This User Research wants to validate this hypothesis: 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.
Documentation about our Research #2 findings	7/07/2016	Done	Project Haiku: User Research #2 findings
Decisions coming out of UR #2	7/12/2016	Done	Project Haiku: Decisions coming out of UR #2
Vision, Ideas, Assumptions, Hypotheses and Experiments		On target	Project Haiku: Experiments
Documentation about User Research #3 findings	8/05/2016	Done	Project Haiku: UR #3 findings User Research to validate the assumptions related to the number of priority people that girls care about at a time and the number and type of auto-replies
Documentation about User Research #5 findings	8/19/2016	Done	Project Haiku: UR #5 findings
Documentation about User Research #4 findings (UR #4 was an internal technology experiment)	9/8/2016	On target

Development process

Repositories

• Github wiki: This page is a chronological history of our progress. We'll create more pages as we need them.
• Project Haiku on Github: main Github repository for Project Haiku
• Project Haiku status api on Github: Github repository for status API supporting the Bluetooth wearable
• Google Drive folder containing all project docs

IRC

You can find us on irc.mozilla.org, channel #haiku.

Methodology

The project is in early state but we are planning to use some agile practices:

• Weekly meetings in Smart_Home Vidyo room on Mondays at 13:00 PM (Pacific Time). Weekly meeting doc
• Project Haiku in Waffle: to track the work in github in the different experiments and milestones

Sprint Demos/Progress Report meetings

Date	Presentation	Vidyo Recording	Notes
4/15/2016	checkin #1 Slides	checkin #1 Video Recording	Feedback already added in the Slides
4/29/2016	checkin #2 Slides	checkin #2 Video Recording	Feedback already added in the Slides
5/13/2016	checkin #3 Slides	checkin #3 Video Recording	Feedback already added in the Slides
5/27/2016	checkin #4 Slides	checkin #4 Video Recording	Feedback already added in the Slides
7/15/2016	checkin #5 Slides	checkin #5 Video Recording	Feedback already added in the Slides
8/05/2016	checkin #6 Slides	This was a text-only update, so there is no vidyo recording or feedback.
8/19/2016	checkin #7 Slides	checkin #7 Video Recording
8/31/2016	[Haiku vision and strategy]	Haiku vision and strategy Video Recording

Participation

We are currently in a validation phase of our product innovation process. If you would like to get involved as a tester, developer or adviser, you can get in touch with our connected devices participation team.

Getting in touch

• The best way to get in touch with us is to come and chat in our irc channel channel #haiku of irc.mozilla.org and through Discourse where we have a specific discussion forum for Project Haiku together with the rest of Connected Devices Projects.

References

• Innovation Board pitch deck

Team

• Elizabeth Hunt- Product Lead / UX Designer
• Katie Caldwell - User Experience Designer
• Sam Foster - SW Engineer
• Punam Dahiya- SW Engineer
• Mahendranadh Potharaju- EPM
• Kian Solomon - SW Engineer
• Braden Dong - Product Legal