Personal Intelligence assistant saga Siri and Square's combination

Saga is not entirely an alternative to Siri, but a new tool like the Siri and square combination. Saga will not only wait to answer the user's questions, according to recorded in the mobile phone's user activity information, it can deeply understand the user's life habits, to provide users with the most relevant information and recommendations for the vast number of users to bring new experiences and surprises.

With the constant accumulation of data, Saga will match characters with similar characteristics, and then provide recommendations and suggestions based on what the user needs or wants. For example, Saga can recommend the best place to eat for users on the road. Saga knows you haven't been to the store for a week and will remind you to go shopping. Every time you go to the local cinema, Saga will use location-based information and recommend other activities based on your current activities.

It mainly includes:

-Automatically record where you've been and how to arrive without having to sign in

-Learn about your daily life, commuting style and personal habits

-Find popular activities and locations in nearby areas

-Get Personalized recommendations

-Use an information map to record the time you spend on all kinds of corrupt activities

-Share the latest discoveries with friends on Facebook, Twitter, or Foursquare

Open the saga and you will see the "Now" section, which will show you where you are (the user does not need to sign in) and what is nearby. In this section, you will also find some intimate services, such as weather forecasts and sports events information.

Slide up, and you'll find saga's recommended information. If it's lunch time, Saga will recommend a place to eat. Slide down and you'll see all the history of where you are.

In addition to recommendations, Saga also displays local weather data, provides traffic conditions and itinerary information, shares travel advice, and alerts upcoming events. Saga can be associated with Foursquare and can collect information and record more historical data from Runkeeper, Withings and Fitbit Operations tracking services.

"We call it a smart partner application," said Andy Hickl, chief executive and co-founder of A.R.O, Saga's development firm. This application knows where we are, what we are doing and what we are planning to do, and it can provide you with the right information, recommendations or notices to help you solve your current problems. ”

"We will use all the data to optimize the referral information," Hickel said. Saga is one of the advantages we are proud of by being able to understand what the user wants and then recommend the information that may be satisfactory to the user. ”

For A.R.O, one of the biggest challenges for saga is to persuade users to adapt to applications. A.R.O admits that saga generally takes 48-72 hours to get to know someone. But users tend to be "today to download tomorrow forget" attitude towards the application, Saga seems difficult to retain users.

Hickel that saga's ability to predict the user's needs should be able to retain users. For example, "Now it's time to have a snack" or "How about watching a movie?" , such advice is very user-friendly and meets the needs of users.

Saga need to get user location information 24x7, users will inevitably worry about their privacy security.

"One of our biggest goals is to provide users with enough value and they will say, ' For me, it's pretty worthwhile to have a location-based service open all day, '" Hickel says. ”

A.R.O also pays attention to user privacy security, which promises never to sell user data. Saga can delete all collected information. In the future, users can also let saga delete specific data. (Edward, MK)