What is Actions on Google?
Actions on Google let you build for the Google Assistant. Your integrations can help you engage users through Google Home today, & in the future, through Pixel, Allo, & many other experiences where the Google Assistant will be available.
What are Conversation Actions?
Conversation Actions help you fulfill user requests by letting you have a two-way dialog with users. When users request an action, the Google Assistant processes this request, determines the best action to invoke, & invokes your Conversation Action if relevant. From there, your action manages the rest, including how users are greeted, how to fulfill the user's request, & how the conversation ends.
We have an excellent guest speaker by the name of Jonathan Bloom joining us from Google NYC to share his knowledge on VUI Design.
Jonathan Bloom is a Voice User Interface Designer working on Google Assistant. Before Google, he worked as UX Research Lead & Voice User Interface Designer for Jibo, the social robotics company. He also spent time as Senior Voice User Interface Manager for Nuance Communications, where he sat on Nuances Innovation Steering Committee. He has designed both graphic & speech interfaces for social robots, IVRs, dictation software, automotive, & mobile applications. Jon lives in New Jersey & works out of Google's New York office. He holds a Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology from the New School Graduate Faculty. Jon is also a husband, father of two, self-published fiction author, black belt in Isshinryu karate, & a lousy bass player in a "dad band
Join us for an overview & discussion on how to plan, design & build an Assistant app followed by & code labs where we'll build an Assistant App together.
If you have an app you are working on & would like to share it, or you would like to sponsor the event, please contact the organizers.
What to bring - Laptop, charger
Important to know - No prerequisite knowledge
What to do - Join us for a fun night & build an Assistant App
THIS IS A 2-DAY HACKATHON WHICH WILL RESUME THE NEXT DAY AND CONTINUE TO THE END OF I/O EXTENDED
AGENDA
6:00 Welcome
6:30 Hendrix Tavarez - Hello World on Actions on Google
6:45 Break
7:00 Jonathan Bloom (Googler) - VUI experience & design
7:45 Break
8:00 HACKING BEGINS! - Build App for Google Assistant
Examples:
codelabs.developers.google.com/?cat=Assistant
* Use the codelabs to help you start a new Assistant app
Learn more about Actions On Google
developers.google.com/actions/community
https://developers.google.com/actions/extending-the-assistant
9/9:30 Doors Close
Hacking continues at home;
Winners selected next day (Saturday during I/O Extended)
Best App Wins a Prize!!! (4pm Saturday end of I/O Extended)
...AND...
Build an Assistant App for an opportunity to get invited to the Google Assistant community program: that offers a shirt + 200 USD cloud credit every month for a year + much more !
Pre-Event Public Webinar: May 16, 2018
Links to 2 pre-recorded Webinars on YouTube Build Actions for your Community
37 minute webinar https://youtu.be/6hHJK6D7uXo
57 minute webinar https://youtu.be/0kKK4Wzx820
THIS IS A 2-DAY HACKATHON WHICH WILL RESUME THE NEXT DAY AND CONTINUE TO THE END OF I/O EXTENDED
