Impressions from the SemTech 2009 Tuesday Keynotes

A useful 2×2 grid was discussed with dimensions being

  • the value you are able to add from the users perspective,
  • and the number of users there are.

The “no go”zone is where you are unable to add much value and there are not very many users. I felt presence or absence of competition was a third dimension of interest.

An interesting point was made about attempting to create a compelling user experience when passionate about technology. I do tend to appreciate the wonders of tech more than most,though FIL,for example,adds value entirely because of UI features (though not aesthetic UI features right at the moment).

Siri virtual assistant is a compelling product. Core innovation is taking a declarative library of process flows and turning that into a progressive conversational series of questions with process and context aware auto-completion. The auto completion was based on the model of possible intents relative to the supported process models.

Should be simple enough to add intent into many auto-completion features without needing to enumerate or model intents or processes very thoroughly,but doing so isapparently very powerful.

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