App Builders - Introduction to the Google Assistant

Talk about AI Assistants, Google Assistant, Google Home and Actions on Google. Done at App Builders Switzerland on April 25th 2017.

Transcript

1. INTRODUCTION TO THE
   GOOGLE ASSISTANT
   Elaine Dias Batista
   @elainedbatista
   25-april-2017
   

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2. Who am I?
   Elaine
   

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3. Outline
   ➔ Intro to A.I. Assistants
   ➔ Google Home and Google Assistant
   ➔ A new kind of UI: VUI
   ➔ Actions on Google
   ➔ Final thoughts
   

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4. Intro to A.I. Assistants
   

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5. A.I. Assistants/Platform shift
   Mobile
   New idea
   Frenzy
   Scaling
   Maturity
   PCs
   ?
   Maturity
   You
   are
   here
   Inspired from: http://ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2016/12/8/mobile-is-eating-the-world
   

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6. A.I. Assistants/Platform shift
   "From mobile first to AI-first"
   Sundar Pichai
   October 4th, 2016
   

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7. Sources
   User Input
   A.I. Assistants/What is it anyway?!
   A.I.
   Assistant
   Text
   Sensors
   Actions
   Answer
   Question
   

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8. A.I. Assistants/Some examples
   Apple's
   Siri
   2011
   Microsoft's
   Cortana
   2014
   Amazon's
   Alexa
   2014
   Google's
   Assistant
   2016
   Samsung's
   Bixby
   2017
   

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9. Google Home and
   Google Assistant
   

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10. G. Home & G. Assistant/Google Home Specs
    

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11. G. Home & G. Assistant/What can I do with it?!
    ➔ Play a YouTube video on a chromecast enabled device
    ➔ Play music (Google Play Music, Spotify)
    ➔ Monitor the Nest Thermostat
    ➔ Ask for events on your calendar
    ➔ Block the next hour on your calendar (with IFTTT)
    ➔ Get a summary for your day
    ➔ Play voice games
    ➔ Personality questions
    

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12. G. Home & G. Assistant/Device compatibility
    

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13. G. Home & G. Assistant/Fragmentation
    

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14. A new kind of UI: VUI
    

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15. VUI/Human to human vs. Human to computer
    Inspired from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSUPVbbhIGA
    

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16. VUI/Some design principles
    Create a
    persona
    Context No errors
    

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17. VUI/User journeys
    Canonical "Happy path" 1st time experience Tapered experience
    

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18. VUI/Actions Checklist, Design resources
    

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19. Actions on Google
    

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20. Actions on Google
    

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21. Actions on Google/Actions SDK
    Actions SDK
    Voice command Raw strings
    Voice output Response
    

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22. Actions on Google/API.AI
    

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23. Actions on Google/API.AI
    Webhook
    Voice command
    Raw strings
    Voice output
    Response
    Intent,
    entities,
    context
    Answer,
    question,
    useful data
    

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24. Actions on Google/Developer tools summary
    Actions on
    Google
    Actions
    SDK
    API.AI
    

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25. Actions on Google/Tutorials & Samples
    ➔ https://github.com/actions-on-google
    ➔ https://github.com/Sfeir/actions-on-google
    ➔ Code lab? https://codelabs.developers.google.com
    ➔ Resources slide (last one)
    

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26. Actions on Google/Assistant @Google I/O 2017
    

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27. Final thoughts
    

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28. Final thoughts
    ➔ Next platform? Big developer/brand opportunity
    ◆ Platform fragmentation?
    ➔ Not all UI is better through a VUI
    ➔ Less but more friction
    ➔ Accessibility
    

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29. Thank you!
    @elainedbatista
    

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