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
2. Who am I? Elaine
3. Outline ➔ Intro to A.I. Assistants ➔ Google Home and Google Assistant ➔ A new kind of UI: VUI ➔ Actions on Google ➔ Final thoughts
4. Intro to A.I. Assistants
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
6. A.I. Assistants/Platform shift "From mobile first to AI-first" Sundar Pichai October 4th, 2016
7. Sources User Input A.I. Assistants/What is it anyway?! A.I. Assistant Text Sensors Actions Answer Question
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
9. Google Home and Google Assistant
10. G. Home & G. Assistant/Google Home Specs
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
12. G. Home & G. Assistant/Device compatibility
13. G. Home & G. Assistant/Fragmentation
14. A new kind of UI: VUI
15. VUI/Human to human vs. Human to computer Inspired from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSUPVbbhIGA
16. VUI/Some design principles Create a persona Context No errors
17. VUI/User journeys Canonical "Happy path" 1st time experience Tapered experience
18. VUI/Actions Checklist, Design resources
19. Actions on Google
20. Actions on Google
21. Actions on Google/Actions SDK Actions SDK Voice command Raw strings Voice output Response
22. Actions on Google/API.AI
23. Actions on Google/API.AI Webhook Voice command Raw strings Voice output Response Intent, entities, context Answer, question, useful data
24. Actions on Google/Developer tools summary Actions on Google Actions SDK API.AI
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)
26. Actions on Google/Assistant @Google I/O 2017
27. Final thoughts
28. Final thoughts ➔ Next platform? Big developer/brand opportunity ◆ Platform fragmentation? ➔ Not all UI is better through a VUI ➔ Less but more friction ➔ Accessibility
29. Thank you! @elainedbatista
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