my developer pal

Inspiration

MyFitnessPal & Microsoft

What it does

Your Developer Pal consumes diverse types data to give you a real time gauge of your Mood, Focus, & Vitality. It consumes facial expressions, email velocity, & interactions from Cortana. Works on mobile too! Fully OData compliant, so stats can be consumed, for example, by Excel.

How we built it

• C# (UWP, ASP.Net, OData)
• js/html/css
• Microsoft cognitive services (Emotion, Sentiment Analysis)
• Cortana
• Webcam
• Office Graph

Challenges we ran into

• Emotion service isn't quite ready for video streams (used stills instead)
• Various Azure/Office services needed some tinkering by the Microsoft peeps to get things working

Accomplishments that we're proud of

• Trending emotional state of developer over time
• Determining focus/productivity level

What we learned

• Microsoft's cognitive services are more performant than we expected
• It's pretty hard/time consuming to use the webcam without UWP. Without that, we would have ended up wrapping a C++ lib
• It takes up to 24 hours to create a mailbox for new accounts #Panic

What's next for MyDevPal

• Integration with VS to track comment sentiment and VSTS to track check-in velocity
• Integrate w/chat bots to order pizza, beverages

THANKS TO:

• Team funded by http://cireson.com/
• Icon by Megan Mitchell

Built With

• azure
• ui
• bootstrap
• asp.net
• odata
• cognitive-services
• ms-graph
• cortana
• uwp
• angular.js