Artificial Intelligence Enhancement
Automating Celebrations
Situation
Project Details
I’m a big fan of my Philips Hue lights, but like many users, I’ve noticed a significant gap in their functionality: there’s no way to schedule and automate holiday lights in advance. Despite the app offering a wide spectrum of colors, it lacks predefined holiday scenes and the ability to set up future light schedules, which would enhance the user experience during festive seasons.
My Role
Customer / AI Product Designer
Date
January 2023
Project Type
Personal Passion Project
Task
Plan of Attack
To understand the extent of this issue, I explored how other users were dealing with it. It turns out that many share the same frustration, often turning to third-party apps to schedule their holiday lights. However, this approach complicates their smart home setup by adding another platform.
To help Philips Hue address this gap, I developed a concept for integrating holiday scene scheduling directly into their app, envisioning how this could work seamlessly within their existing ecosystem.
To help Philips Hue address this gap, I developed a concept for integrating holiday scene scheduling directly into their app, envisioning how this could work seamlessly within their existing ecosystem.
Research
Attack
Refine
Finalize
Action
Recommended Solution
One promising enhancement to the Hue app could be the introduction of a dedicated holiday gallery, where users can easily create and toggle between ambiance lighting and holiday-specific scenes.
To elevate this experience, AI-driven automation can be implemented in several key areas:
To elevate this experience, AI-driven automation can be implemented in several key areas:
AI can enhance the holiday gallery by pulling data from the internet or user calendars to factor in local holidays and events.
This way, the light schedules can be automatically adjusted, ensuring they’re always relevant to the occasion.
This way, the light schedules can be automatically adjusted, ensuring they’re always relevant to the occasion.
Users can input specific dates and desired lighting effects, and AI will automatically adjust the brightness, hue, and saturation based on the time of day and the specific event.
AI could introduce dynamic holiday themes that evolve over the holiday period, gradually transitioning from one color scheme to another, keeping the lighting fresh and engaging throughout the season.
To continuously improve the system, the AI could learn from user feedback, refining its scheduling and theme suggestions based on user satisfaction with the automated schedules.
Results
Final Deliverable
Customize your celebration Scene
schedule celebration scenes
