manage your life with cortana with aonghus fraser

National Adult Learning WeekManage your Life with CortanaFriday 13th June 2014

Aonghus Fraser Director, Head of Process & Platforms

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nX9P6skzZNU

Meet Cortana: The New Windows Phone 8.1 Personal Assistant

IntroductionsCortana – What Can You

Do?Why?How?DemoQ&A

Aonghus Fraser

IT Geek Technology Evangelist

Director, Process & Platforms @ C5

Keen interest in Machine Learning

Gadget Freak Likes Productivity

Cortana

“My” intelligent personal assistant

Powered by Artificial Intelligence and Bing

*Recognizes natural voice

*Responds with Humor

Beta software!

(She calls me Gus)

*She’s American..

Cortana: What Can You Do?

REMEMBER

COMMUNICATE

FIND

People

Places

Calendar

Information

Cortana: What Can You Do?Phone

MessagingCalendarRemindersNotes

Alarms

Music

Places

Search

Cortana: What Can You Do?

Why?

Driving Statistics (USA)

660,000 drivers use cell phones or manipulate electronic devices while driving AT ANY GIVEN MOMENT!

3,300+ people killed, 387,000+ injured in crashes involving a distracted driver in 2011

25% of teens respond to a text message once or more every time they drive.

20% of teens and 10% of parents admit that they have extended, multi-message text conversations while driving. Sources: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, UMTRI

How?

Developing Apps with Cortana

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkqiDu1BQXY

Star Trek 4: The Voyage Home – Keyboards are “Quaint” 

Demo

Summary

We live in exciting times! Privacy debate – Privacy vs ServiceCortana coming to the UK very soon Apps, APIs and SDKs being extended (e.g.

IFTTT.com) Only v1 (Beta) – expect more!

Q&A

Thank You!af@c5.je