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Transcript
Embracing the Internet of Things for cats Sally Shepard @mostgood
For cats??
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Why am I here to talk about cat wearables?
Should I stay or should I go?
Redundancy!
“What about wearables for cats?”
“Wearables for cats!” !
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Finding problems
MEET PAVLO
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Cat research
Over 55% of cats are overweight or obese.
200-300 million cats are kept as pets.
110-165 million potential users
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Solving problems
What causes obesity in cats?
Diet
> burned consumed
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Requirement gathering
Track cat activity.
Make cat active.
Something needs to store and send data to the ..
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“brain” Toy Collar # ☁
“brain” Toy Collar # ☁
What’s the existing market like?
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First to market means very little.
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Prototyping
Lean Prototyping
“brain” Toy Collar # ☁
“brain” Toy Collar
Toy Collar
Toy Collar
Collar
Lean collar prototype
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Minimum: - track movement - communicate
MetaWear: www.mbientlab.com
Faster Prototyping (board)
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“temporary brain” Toy Collar
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Toys
Lean toy prototypes
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Smart air flow ball
Smart egg Toy
“temporary brain” Toy Collar
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Cat steps are not the same as human steps.
Raw data.
Quantify.
Following the cat around. Jump Walking Sleeping Grooming Eating Running
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Lots of data.
A less Lean tangent: Kinect
User testing with cats
User testing with humans
“A cat is a puzzle for which there is no
solution.” - Hazel Nicholson
“A cat will do what it wants when it wants,
and there’s not a thing you can do about it.” - Frank Perkins
Challenges of testing
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The future!
Super-smart toys
CTaaS (cat toys as a service)
Collar attachment
Track additional behaviours.
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1) Cats 2) Internet 3) ???? 4) &&&&
Hire some awesome people.
A cool name.
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hardware possible
You can always make it leaner.
As long as you are solving a problem, nothing is
too silly.
Thank you for listening! Sally Shepard - @mostgood Pavlo (cat)
- @UIKitten
Questions?