Developing a Microsoft Health Bot based on Data captured from the Microsoft Band – Microsoft UK Faculty Connection

The Microsoft Bot Framework provides just what you need to build and connect intelligent bots that interact naturally wherever your users are talking, from text/sms to Skype, Slack, Office 365 mail and other popular services. This is a step-by-step guide which my colleague Peter Daukintis has developed this tutorial which walks you through the development of a Microsoft Bot in C# using the Bot Framework Connector SDK .NET template. You will need to have a Microsoft Band and have collected some sleep data using a Microsoft Band and have had that synchronised up to the Microsoft cloud as this tutorial uses the Bot Framework to provide access to that data. Heart Rate monitoring depends on the current Band mode, It only monitors hr continuously when in exercise mode (along with all other sensors), all of the other scenarios have pre-defined cadences that allow the data to have analytical relevance whilst only using the sensors as much as needed. This is the information that is sent to MS Health, and as such is available through the Cloud API, along with the curated information that is derived by MS Health, e.g sleep efficiency, recovery time, etc.