Connected Devices Weekly Update/2016-09-22

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Program		Passed Gate	Status	Notes
Project Vaani	Sandip/Lindsay	Gate 0	Stopped	Vaani local stopped. Integrate Deep Speech work into the "platform & tools" project.
Project Cue	Preeti/Julie	Gate 0	Stopped	Overlap in concepts with Smart Kitchen & Vaani. Some concept elements will be rolled into a new project Abigail
Project Smart Kitchen	Tamara/Nicole	Gate 0	Stopped	Overlap in concepts with Cue & Vaani. Some concept elements will be rolled into a new project Abigail
Holodeck		Gate 0	Stopped	Holodeck team decision + resources reallocation
Wallnut		Gate 0	Stopped	Not aligned with updated strategy. Resources re-allocated on priority projects.
Project Sensor Web	Cindy/Jean	Gate 0	On Target	Team is working to define product and hardware plan by Oct 1. Completed development kit evaluation and decided on linus boards with Cortex A5 processor. Between 09/23 and 10/21, the marketing team will be doing UX interviews. Go-to-Market communication launch moved from 9/23 to 10/21. UX on track to provide wireframes for out of box user journey by EOW. Project Goals: Evidence from the experiments to show the consumer needs. (consumer service) Defined product (kit) to be prototyped by partner (hardware solution)
Project_Haiku (taking in Project Smart Display)	Liz/Joe/Mahe	Gate 0	On Target	Shared pivot plan with LT on Sep 20. Moving forward according to plan here. New product idea: A pair of simple objects for home use that allow grandparents and school-age grandchildren (target 6-10) to communicate without the help of parents. The paired objects offer synchronous communication (voice call) and asynchronous communication (send emoji, send voicemail). Preparing next experiments/user studies to test assumptions: 1) Survey and 2) lofi prototypes using FxOS phone.
Platform	Sandip/Nicole	N/A	On Target	DeepLearing training machine is up an running (Thanks Gregor!) Team has started to instrument the training algorithm to track the process of learning Team has done preliminary benchmarking of the 4 GPU's running in parallel (it's blazingly fast!) In the process of parallelizing the training algorithm to have it running across all 4 of our GPU's Contact the team: Weekly standups Monday @ 8:30AM PST Mailing list: deepspeech@mozilla.com
Abigail	Preeti/Julie	Pre Gate 0	On Target	Bulleted list item Bulleted list item
Project Magnet	Maria/Francisco	Pre Gate 0	On Target	Hypothesis 1: If we broadcast schedule content, then spur-of-the-moment attendees can quickly and confidently choose how to spend their time Experiment#1 in View Source: Use beacons at an event to broadcast room status. Using the aforementioned survey, use targeted interviews for floaters post View Source to see if Magnet helped them make decisions in the moment and if it was easier and faster than their usual methods. Hypothesis 2: If attendees broadcast their social profiles, then social interaction will increase Experiment 2 in View Source - Beacon give-away: We'll provide beacons to the first people that go to our booth showing that they have installed the app, help them to configure it and follow up with the them if that increased the number of interactions that they had during the conference and other possible uses. Data from the View Source Metrics collected using Google analytics from the Magnet application: 114 Installations, 470 application launches, 361 Number of clicks on the broadcasted URls and 12.960 tiles were shown in Magnet. Ad-hoc feedback directly from conference participants 75 Beacons were distributed to conference attendees and contacted later to complete a survey, 24 answers received Key learnings /take aways ( first draft of User Research #3 findings) Application is not suited to high density beacon environments Personal websites (including Twitter) were the most popular content to both broadcast and consume at the conference Information about the conference schedule was accessed but not as frequently as personal websites. Product definition We are now working on the Product definition to be presented to the PIB Vision of providing hyper-local web content to people so that they can discover, experience and interact with content around them Exploring one of the key requested features during View Source that is an easier beacon set up and management
HomeWeb	Ben/Mahe	Pre Gate 0	On Target	Bulleted list item Bulleted list item
DevKit	Sandip/Mahe	Pre Gate 0	On Target	Bulleted list item Bulleted list item
GameOn	Candice/Julie	Pre Gate 0	On Target	Customer Problem Hypothesis We believe that there are: individuals and families who prefer playing physical board games to playing their electronic versions, but who would purchase a technologically enhanced board game because these enhancements would introduce new, innovative elements of surprise, animation, sound, and variation that would bring additional delight to the experience of playing the game while at the same time, offering the game’s social, competitive, and tactile experiences that players love about playing physical board games. Product Hypothesis: If we build a connected game plate with a capacitive screen and game pieces, and the ability to connect to a spinner that communicates spin results to the game Then we can provide players a hybrid board game with the ability to display and play multiple games on the same device, and new and exciting light, sound, and animated surprises triggered on the board by the spinner, while keeping what players love about physical board games, and we can open the possibilities for a new gaming platform. Product definition: A hybrid game consisting of a game plate built with a capacitive screen and the ability to display different game boards the ability to respond to inputs from a spinner with light, sound, animation a spinner with built-in technology that can communicate the position of the spinner’s pointer and trigger an action on the game plate game pieces or tokens that can be sensed, identified, and located on the board by capacitive technology voice capability to read instructions, direct setup that combines the best features of electronic and physical board games
Lighthouse	Preeti/Julie	Pre Gate 0	On Target	Bulleted list item Bulleted list item
PocketID	Francisco	Pre Gate 0	On Target	Pitch deck opened for comments before revision with Houman
3D Printing	Thomas	Pre Gate 0	On Target	Bulleted list item Bulleted list item
Research Team	Lindsay	--	On Target	Bulleted list item Bulleted list item
Participation Update	Michael/Brian	--	On Target	Bulleted list item Bulleted list item
Market Developments Update	Irina			Bulleted list item Bulleted list item
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