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Status
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Notes
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| Project Vaani
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Validation (Lindsay/Sandip)
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On Target
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- Learnings this week center around Technical Feasibility Validation
- Experiment:
Does the hardware that we received work better or worse than initial tests with a RPi and a Mic?
- Prototype building w/ Nascent Objects
- Software build complete
- HW under tests for mic & speaker
Nascent speaker max volume test (Conversation is 65dB @ 1m):
| Distance |
Volume (dB)
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| 30 cm |
65-75
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| 60 cm |
65-70
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| 90 cm |
65
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| 100 cm |
65
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Preliminary microphone test results (Baseline WER 15.84%):
| Distance |
Jabra 410 (WER) |
Nascent (WER)
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| 1 m |
22.98% |
77.65%
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- Right now, the technology we started with is working better than the hardware that was made. Our current plan is a follows
- Use a RPi and Jabra to prove our theory
- Work in parallel to see if we can get better looking hardware but we will not be waiting for it to move forward with testing
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| Project Cue
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Validation Stage (Julie/Preeti)
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On Target
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| Smart TV
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Josh
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On Target
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| Project Haiku
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Maria/Liz
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On Target
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Experiment
Survey sent to 25 girls in Camden, NJ aged 12-15 years. First we asked them to list all the people they communicated with. Then they grouped those people into “Most Important” and “Important.”
Second we asked them to imagine they could press one button to send a “Sorry, I’m busy right now” message. Then we asked them to write a list of other messages they would send with one button.
Assumptions
If people organized their friends and family into "most important" and "important", they would have 5 to 6 "most important" people.
If people have an easy to way to auto-reply when they are busy, the number of desired auto-replies is small.
- Finding: The girls provided a wide range of desired auto-replies. At the category level, however, there were only 3 types of auto-replies: Reasons (Sorry, I'm eating now), Actions (Txt you back later), and Acknowledgements (Got it, OK).
- These categories suggest that 3 generic auto-replies would work for people. Will test further in future experiments.
Next steps
- Designing a series of experiments that move us incrementally from digital to physical prototype.
- Interviewing potential vendors for form factor prototyping.
- Working with Braden/Legal on vendor paperwork.
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| Project Sensor Web
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Cindy/Wesley
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On Target
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- Experiments:
- #1 (finishing up by Aug10)(https://trello.com/c/fdvHl50c)
- Hypothesis:If we posted dozens of posters with QR codes linking to real-time PM2.5 data for 3 weeks in Taipei city, there would be more than 100 sessions. If we at the same time provided the notification mechanism, more than 3% among would subscribe for further notifications by providing emails. If we at the same time provided the sharing link through Facebook/LINE, more than 3% among would share.
- #2 (to begin once we get legal green light) (https://trello.com/c/st2pQBxc)
- Hypothesis: If we provided the website link to through MozillaTW newsletter mailing list and fan page, there would be 400 sessions. Conversion from landing page to relevant sensor page would be more than 10%. Homepage average concentration subscription rate 3% Homepage share rate 3% Single sensor subscription through the website would be more than 1%. Single sensor sharing through Facebook/LINE would be more than 1%.
- #3 (to begin together with #2)
- If we A/B test to compare the conversation rate between simplified and original subscription form, 15% more people would sign up for the simplified one.
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| Project Tablet
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Ben
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On Target
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- The results of the Project Tablet user study were presented to the board on Wednesday last week
- The board decided to discontinue Project Tablet
- The reason given was that we have limited resources in Connected Devices and there are still major concerns around:
- Apps
- A lack of support from the platform team
- WhatsApp
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| Project Smart Kitchen
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Tamara/Nicole
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On Target
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- Feedback from PIB was to explore "Upstream" integrations and Technical Partnerships
- Upstream Integrations
- Experiment #6 - Concierge Prototype to investigate if an upstream integration can be used to design a meaningful service from a user perspective
- Collect users purchases and enter into Database
- Use existing Bot MVP to request meals and recipes
- Pre-interview/Post-interview
- Recruit participants that shop weekly from internal Mozilla and Facebook friends/family
- Duration 3-weeks of user trial (want to capture two weekends of shopping). Targeting results by 9/9
- Market research of other apps in this area.
- Legal draft consent available on Wed.
- We will pause on contacting Grocery/Delivery services with a proposal until we have results from Experiment #6
- Technical Partnerships
- Informational call with IBM on Thursday
- Image recognition device
- New training added today (carrots and ground beef)
- 2 users using the device currently. Third to start today.
- Metrics in progress
- New Survey designed to dig deeper into the existing problem and explore new problem areas.
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| Project Magnet
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Maria/Francisco
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On Target
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- Apps passed initial app-store review (android and ios), but not publicly visible yet.
- Will be submitting app for second review following large telemetry update shortly.
- Preparing content for View-Source conference experiment in September.
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| Participation Update
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Michael/Brian
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On Target
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| Other Announcements / Questions
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