The Xbox One Home Automation work was an incubation project in partnership with Microsoft Research. The overall goal was to make entertainment enhancement in the living room effortless through machine learning and automation on Xbox One.
To bring this to life, the Xbox design team was tasked with creating a series of living room scenarios that enabled users to manage and automate smart devices within the home (Nest, Hue wireless lights, Dropcam, etc.). I was the lead designer responsible for driving the work from ideation through handoff.
The Xbox One Home Automation work was an incubation project in partnership with Microsoft Research. The overall goal was to make entertainment enhancement in the living room effortless through machine learning and automation on Xbox One.
To bring this to life, the Xbox design team was tasked with creating a series of living room scenarios that enabled users to manage and automate smart devices within the home (Nest, Hue wireless lights, Dropcam, etc.). I was the lead designer responsible for driving the work from ideation through handoff.
Home automation app installation, smart device connection, and system learning for connected devices, Xbox activity, and user behaviors.
User sits down to watch horror movie and the Lights automatically dim.
Quick flash of evil character’s face appears on screen, Lights strobe on and off to enhance scene.
User sits down to watch UFC 170 main event.
Peripheral lights dim to black & light over TV creates spotlight effect during champion ring entry.
Peripheral lights and Illumiroom projector transition colors and create light show choreographed to the walk out audio track.
System learns user’s preferred audio and lighting settings for gaming.
User sits down to play COD & lights auto-dim to user’s preferred level.
Audio system auto-adjusts, bass, treble, and volume to user’s preferred levels.
During gameplay peripheral lighting flickers with explosions and gunfire.
User pre-defines lighting, home theater, and audio settings and assigns to VUI command.
User throws New Year’s Eve party, as guests arrive, user says “Xbox, Party Mode”.
Lighting, Illumiroom projection, and sound switch to pre-defined levels and settings, Xbox Music auto-plays the Party Mode playlist.
Lights and Illumiroom auto-synch to waveform and choreograph to music.
User sets system to monitor baby cam, Baby is napping in crib, user is watching Dexter.
Baby starts to rustle around in crib and make some noise.
System auto-snaps baby cam video feed.
Father to the rescue.
Ambient lights in home. Couple is preoccupied with their own activities.
Couple receives an incoming Skype call but is not near the TV. The DropCam in the Garage uses Kinect facial recognition to detect the user’s location and the Sonos system warn user of incoming call.
Lights in the garage and hallway transition to husband’s Xbox profile colors and gently strobe to indicate the user has a call. Husband rushes to living room.
Couple goes to the TV and says “Xbox on” to accept the conversation request, they meet their granddaughter for the first time.
