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| Project Sensor Web
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Cindy/Jean
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Gate 1
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On Target
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- This week's update
- All Engineers are working towards Dec 16 milestones in the area of Cloud, App/Web and Hardware.
- Preliminary Rapid Risk Analysis (RRA) review with Enterprise Security completed on Friday Nov 5. Target for Formal RRA review Dec 16.
- Smaller Team started brainstorming on wish list of product names
- Initial discussion with legal on documenting SensorWeb Data Collection on Mobile app and Website.
- UX provided IxD screens for App & Website. Refer to SensorWeb MVP Design doc under App & Website section
- Upcoming Tasks
- Nov 11 - Share results from User Study #1 in Taipei
- Mid/Late Nov - Kick off pricing sensitivity study in Taipei
- Software Schedule - Dec 16 Milestone:
- Firmware: Collect real data from sensors, transmit to cloud
- Cloud: SensorThings API, receive and store sensor readings
- Web: Ability to browse collected sensor readings
- Hardware Schedule
- Nov 22 Working demos on demo boards
- Nov 23 Printed Circuit Board Assembly (PCBA) ready for test
- Dec 01 Sample boards ready for Mozilla
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| Project_Haiku (taking in Project Smart Display)
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Liz/Joe/Mahe
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Gate 0
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On Target
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- Voice message user test preparation in progress
- Test runs from Nov 14th - Nov 18th
- Gate 1 preparation in progress - scheduled for Friday in Hawaii
- Software POC work - WebRTC communication between Beaglebone Black boards
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| Platform and Tools
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Sandip/Nicole
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N/A
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On Target
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Design Document
Platform extraction
Leadership checkpoint
Weekly Notes:
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| Voice Platform - Deep Speech
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Sandip/Nicole
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N/A
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On Target
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Update
- Tremendous progress during our engineering get-together in Berlin.
- Raw output from a 10% complete training run. (only 10% due to time constraint. full run will take 2 days)
- (source is what person says, result is what deepspeech understands)
- - WER: 0.466667
- - loss: 70.186752
- - source: "so what this means this incredible freedom of choice we have with respect to work is that we have to make a decision again and again and again about whether"
- - result: "so what this mens this incredible fred im ofthuis we have with ore spet to work is that we have to make i te susions agin in egin and egin about wither"
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- - WER: 0.466667
- - loss: 70.423683
- - source: "that is to say there were some choices but not everything was a matter of choice and the world we now live in looks like this and the question is"
- - result: "that is to say thet were some sois is but tat every thin was a anter of jis in the world we naw ivin woks like this and e question is"
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- - WER: 0.500000
- - loss: 44.143070
- - source: "the way to do that is to maximize individual freedom the reason for this is both that freedom is in and of itself good"
- - result: "bhe way to do that is to maize individual fredim the reasen for thisis of that fredom is in in ofetself god"
Next steps:
- Finish training and correct results based on an english language model. Language model will take care of spellchecking and other basic mistakes.
- On a good path to hit the 10% WER rate
Note: Current values on doyouunderstand.me are bogus. Will start populating beginning of next week once full training run is complete.
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| Abigail
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Preeti/Julie
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Gate 0
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On Target
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Concept Validation Testing
- Data is coming in from the study that was started October 28th to test Abigail product concepts: 1) Smart Family Tracker and 2) Smart Reminders for the Whole Family. Now starting to
- Data from Facebook campaign, active since October 26th to test consumer interest using different product concepts is being looked at and analyzed. Abigail product page.
- Made decision to hold off on the video. Will need to find other ways to collect data the video had been expected to capture.
Engineering
- The 5 prototype devices prepared and ready for use in the study. Resolved wifi issue. Plan to test with a Mozillian tomorrow for a dry run.
Abigail Study with Prototypes
- Wrapping up the questions for the prototype study guide that will be used during the visits to participant homes.
- Study will include consumer interaction with the prototypes and collection of feedback regarding usage and responses to questions asked of the consumers.
- The scheduling of participant sessions is nearly complete, with 10 of the 11 that have been identified scheduled for the week of November 13th.
Schedule
- Value proposition validation - Oct. 24 - early November
- Prototype development: month of October
- Assembly of devices: week of October 31
- Testing in homes: November 7 - 18
- Data synthesis from pilot and video/landing page studies: November 21 - 29
- Gate 1 pitch: December 8
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| Project Magnet
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David/Maria
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Gate 0
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On Target
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Hypotheses validation
- Leap of Faith assumption we wanted to validate in the London pilot was “The Magnet experience attracts users to try the app and return frequently”. For that we would need an attractive UX, a stable client and quality content to engage users.
- Concerns about whether the UX that we could implement in the development time we had, was going to be compelling/different enough to validate the Leap of Faith Assumption
- To mitigate this risk we have planned to use a mock-up to run a User Study for 10 people in SF office on the week commencing Nov 28th, 2016. This study will provide us information to further validate the main assumption.
- In parallel we will still run a pilot in London to learn how users interact with the developed client and a FB Landing Page campaign to drive downloads of the app and validate interest
Development
- Finished our second sprint (Sprint 7):
- Notifications and channel subscription/unsubscription in Android and iOS finished (Notifications demo in Android and iOS)
- POI view landed (Demo video)
- In the next and last Sprint (Sprint 8) we will focus on refining the way to notify users based on their location, implement call to actions, FTE, navigation in the app and other tasks in order to have the client in the best shape to upload it to the stores on Nov 23.
Offline update this week to the PIB and CD
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| HomeWeb
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Ben/Mahe
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Gate 0
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On Target
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User Study
- New version of landing page created (Porfirio)
- Feedback from User Research (Rina, Mihaela) integrated into survey
- Twitter ad campaign configured
- Experiment about ready to launch, waiting for feedback from Marketing (Porfirio)
Market Research
- Further market research from Strategy Analytics and Forrester helped refine value proposition and identify target market
- Irina working further with Strategy Analytics to narrow down target market
Technical Feasibility Study
- Push-button commissioning of ZigBee sensors working (Juan)
- Rust ported to ARMv5TE (Juan)
- Progress on getting video stream from camera using RTSP and FFMPEG (Tamara)
- Starting working on client updater (Fabrice)
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| GameON!
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Candice/Julie
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Gate 0
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On Target
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Gate 0 Pitch
- Gate 0 Pitch was presented to the PIB on October 27th.
- Game ON! was approved to proceed through Gate 0.
- Approval was granted to add a UX resource and an electrical engineering resource to the team.
- Gate 1 pitch: Mid January, 2017
- Wiki will be developed and made available
- Check in with the team in the #gameON IRC channel.
Engineering
- Work is now focused on building a PCB and eliminating all the wires currently necessary for connections.
- Looking at 3D printing with conductive ABS filament for possible experimentation with capacitive technologies for some of our accessories such as the spinner or figures.
- Working on dynamics for new games using existing simulator
- Game play is working end to end, and a demo of the game board has been recorded.
Research
- Continuing research into competitor products, possible game ideas.
- Continuing to identify the best use cases.
Consumer Studies
- Planning for prototype testing can proceed now that the project has Gate 0 approval.
- Team is consulting with the research team on development of a study to test consumer response to the product.
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| Lighthouse
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Preeti/Julie
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Gate 0
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On Target
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Engineering
- Lighthouse prototype was successfully demonstrated to leadership team this week.
- Voice prompts now in place to prompt user as to how to use the camera - photo capture, object description, confirmation
- Re-engineered how most of the background behind an object is removed to make the match easier and quicker.
User Studies
- Team has built prototypes to test over the next couple weeks with study participants who are blind. Finalizing the plan for how to conduct the prototype study and the questions to ask. Working on logistics for the shopping trip, use of the prototype, feedback to collect.
- Shopping trip - Photos will be taken of items they need to buy while in the store, with the participants' descriptions of the items recorded and stored with the images.
- Image matching session - Items purchased in the store will be brought to the Santa Clara Valley Blind Center to test the image matching.
- Product study with 25 participants - Session at the SCVBC scheduled for November 18th to gauge reaction to and to gain impressions of various form factors.
Schedule
- Complete development of prototype: October
- Assemble prototypes: Oct 31 - Nov 4
- Prototype pilot: Nov 7 - 18
- Data synthesis from pilot and video/landing page studies: November 21 - 29
- Gate 1 pitch: November 30
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| Market Developments Update
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Irina
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