test.csv

Dialogue,Summaries
"A: Oh .
B: It's not saved yet .
C: Okay .
B: So Our beautiful drawing .
A: Okay .
A: So just f um So this is our agenda .
A: You're F You're going to show your pr prototype presentation after me .
D: Oops .
C: Okay .
A: Uh I didn't Oh yeah .
A: So these are the So these are the um last notes we I made .
C: Oh , okay .
C: Yeah .
A: If anything doesn't look right , just say it to me then .
A: I don't have to put it in the report .
B: Are we doing the the speech recognition ?
B: Because we didn't have enough time to uh de um design the inside as well .
A: Okay , but it's still possible uh uh financially .
A: So if you want to , it's okay .
B: Okay yeah .
B: Well then then we're gonna put it in .
A: Okay , just Slide open is uh quite usable for remote controls .
B: Yeah , just uh we have to design the inside then , but it should be uh It's may maybe uh a bit stronger as well .
C: Yeah , and Or are we making a slide open , like underneath ?
C: Or fold open ?
C: I don't know .
C: It's probably better .
C: Yeah , s Like underneath uh you can slide it open and you other functions .
A: Maybe that's better .
C: Yeah .
A: Yeah , that's that's a very good point .
B: Okay , so when you have a lot of room inside .
C: Think that's better .
B: So you can make it very easy to use .
B: 'Cause you can write a lot of comments besides it .
A: Yeah .
A: Okay .
A: So this is okay ?
B: No .
B: Yeah , we're gonna use the advanced chip then .
A: Okay , so that's Uh I'll just have a look how much that is .
C: The Yeah , I I think so .
A: But um Okay , for the Okay .
B: Advanced chip was for uh spee Yeah .
C: I don't know .
A: No , you have a different chip for speech recognition .
A: So So I already calculated that and it's still in the budget .
B: Okay .
C: Ah okay .
A: So it's okay .
B: Good .
A: So you can show your prototype if you want to .
C: Yeah .
B: Together ?
C: Yeah , it's Let's do it together .
B: I'll give comments .
C: Okay .
C: Yeah , we just made a Word file with the basic elements .
C: Uh the look-and-feel model .
C: Uh well the form , the case um as drawn there .
C: Simply a square with uh round corners .
C: So that's basically it .
C: Uh the material should be hard plastic .
D: Mm-hmm .
C: Uh colour changeable , and also transparent .
C: And colour and transparent , or just transparent , I don't know .
C: Um then the elements .
C: Uh we have The functions are just basic .
C: Like uh I've pointed them here .
C: Mute function , on-off function , text functions .
C: This uh switch channel .
A: Okay , cool .
C: And this is the the num-pad .
C: And the logo is over here , and the mic .
A: Okay .
C: And the scrollwheel , no ?
C: You operate that with your pointing finger .
D: Means Okay .
C: So you hold it like this in your right hand and Uh I dunno .
A: Mm .
A: So how many functions do you need for for uh the microphone ?
B: Speech recognition .
A: Yeah , speech recognition .
A: Just Only one button to say it's on or off .
B: Um I didn't have a specification of that .
B: But um I can imagine that you have to input your voice or something .
B: Um so I've Yes , you need options to configure it , and after that you don't need 'em anymore .
C: Yeah , maybe maybe uh you have to configure it .
A: So you can put it on the back as well if you want to .
B: Yeah , you can put 'em all on the back .
C: Yeah , or or on the slide function , I don't know .
B: That's for sure .
A: Okay .
B: That's uh We also don't know how many buttons are required , or what kind of buttons .
C: Well we haven't had time to design that , the slide pad .
B: But You have a lot of room if you can slide it open .
A: Yeah , you can put it separate .
B: You Yeah I know .
B: I can imagine you need at least four buttons or something .
B: So But it's enough room .
C: Yeah .
C: Um the position ?
C: Yeah , you write uh You wrote this , so .
B: Uh well Well the main , the main zap buttons are most central .
B: That was the the most important thing .
B: So uh the best place , the best reach place Um on-off buttons , text buttons , mute buttons are together and at a place they easily are , easy to find .
B: Um the on-off button is a bit bigger , uh so it stands out .
B: That way you don't have to make it red , 'cause it's will uh will show up .
B: Uh scrollwheel is on the left side .
B: It's basically the be standard place for scrollwheel , as far as I know .
C: Yeah .
C: But it's not uh impossible to use it , if you're left handed .
C: So y Because you can use your thumb then .
B: Yeah .
D: Just just one thing now .
D: Um y you need to have more uh one two th You've got one two three four five six seven eight nine .
B: Okay yeah , they Yeah okay .
D: But you missed the no uh the zero and uh the two stripes .
C: Mm yeah .
B: That's that's below that then .
C: Yeah , okay .
B: It's uh twelve buttons .
C: just so you get that .
D: Okay , but It's rather important .
B: Yeah okay , just we just missed that .
C: Yeah .
B: But um I'll just uh I'll get back to later .
B: F the form well , we've taken that from the iPod , other popular technical device .
B: So um should be popular .
B: Um The f uh the buttons creating ?
B: Uh if you That or all round shapes , not uh rounded corners .
A: Okay .
B: So that , you know , you get a bit round feeling .
B: Um we'll use hard plastic .
B: Since that allows us to use uh two D_ buttons , uh non-rubber buttons .
B: Colour changeable .
B: Well and um the backlight thing , the thing that lights up .
B: We have decided uh in the the channel buttons , there's a little uh colour around it .
D: Okay .
B: And also in the num-pads , there's also colour light behind it .
A: And do you still can , do you still can choose what colour , kind of colour you want ?
B: So when you pre Yeah .
A: How do you want to implement that ?
A: Just on the Maybe on the second level as well ?
B: We're going to implement .
B: Yeah .
B: Mm just a little Yeah .
D: Ah .
C: Yeah , these are just basic functions , so All the non-basic are in Okay .
A: Okay , just draw draw the second level , because we need that as well .
C: Um Okay , maybe we use this button for the Yeah .
D: Okay , there is one uh function I use uh daily , and it's not on the basic functions .
D: It's uh to switch to uh uh your Scart .
D: Play Station or uh D_V_D_ player .
D: That function must be Yeah , maybe Or you can uh i uh lay it uh beneath in the uh other uh functions .
B: Yeah , I um To your video device .
A: Yeah , as well .
A: Just make make a Just just draw a second level one and say all options that are still left or something .
C: A second level ?
B: Yeah .
A: Yeah .
C: Like a a new blank one or Or just here ?
A: No no , just on Down there .
B: Is i Ah okay .
C: Okay .
A: So uh Just uh if you s Yeah , y Maybe , yeah .
C: Yeah .
D: And h how does the second level come out ?
D: Uh it slides uh along ?
B: Um slides I think .
B: It's You can do it that it claps open , but I think that's not solid enough .
D: From from the uh beneath ?
A: For the bottom .
A: No , you gotta slide it .
B: If that breaks then you're screwed .
A: Yeah , it's right .
B: So it do doesn't even have to slide all the way open .
B: Um Uh i the the speech functions buttons .
C: So what do we need ?
C: Yeah , just God damn it .
D: Menu ?
B: Menu button .
B: With uh maybe uh arrows .
B: So you can uh scroll in the , navigate the menu .
B: Um I think we can even put a We have one for the zero and one for the for the more digit uh channels .
D: Scart ?
D: Uh yeah .
D: And so y you keep you keep one , you have one left .
B: So you have one left for the Right , the video channel , Play Station , etcetera .
D: Yes .
C: So this is the Extern or something .
B: That's used pretty often .
D: Yeah .
B: If you have a Play Station , mm you use it every day .
D: It's a f basic uh Yeah , to navigate .
A: Yeah .
A: You want to save that file as well ?
A: The drawing ?
B: That was it .
C: So here are multiple speech buttons , I don't know how many .
B: Uh It doesn't really matter .
A: Doesn't really matter .
C: I don't know the functions .
A: Just just uh Yeah .
B: That's Yeah well we don't have any uh Hmm ?
C: Okay .
C: What else ?
C: What else ?
B: What else ?
B: Uh menu buttons with arrows .
C: Uh menu .
C: Uh With arrows .
B: S Just uh like Um I think it's best if we do .
B: Mm where do we have Or there .
C: Like a normal um Yeah , with in the middle um a menu button .
B: Like on the normal uh Like this .
B: The menu button , yes .
C: Okay .
B: Well we don't have any , anything on how many buttons speech requires .
B: So you can't redesign it .
D: Mm okay .
D: Maybe one button to switch the colour of your uh LEDs ?
A: Yeah .
B: Yep .
D: Uh and and you can hold it , you can hold it , and then the colours switch or mm multiple multiple buttons .
A: Yeah .
B: Just press it once , the colour should uh switch .
B: Press again , the colour switch again maybe ?
D: okay .
A: Or we just make it three buttons , all the colours on it .
A: Just red , yel uh red , green and That's that's very easy , yeah .
D: Okay , yeah .
D: Th Yeah .
D: If we have enough place , uh then we can do that .
C: Yeah , okay .
C: We can put those here .
D: Colour buttons .
D: And then we choose green , uh blue and red or Okay .
A: Yeah .
B: Yep .
A: Okay .
D: Okay .
D: That's uh Um It Some text uh buttons .
C: So did we miss anything ?
B: Yeah , maybe some uh some text next to the scroll wheel , that it is volume .
C: Okay .
A: Yeah .
D: Yeah , but there's one there's one text button I There's one text button I prefer .
B: I just uh The volume logo .
A: No , ma on on o on the on the Yeah .
C: Oh wh Here ?
B: Yeah .
C: Okay .
A: Just make it Yeah , just put it on those extra f extra function as well .
C: Yeah , or th or the Yeah .
D: That's the one uh that you use if you search for a page , uh like seven hundred , uh and it's counting from one hundred to two hundred , you will switch to your television and back to text .
B: Yeah , we have that on the the text button .
D: Do you do you Did you think of that ?
C: Yep .
C: Yeah , but then you can switch back to normal telete teletext .
C: You just switch it off and then Well w we thought of a text button .
B: Uh why not ?
D: Ex Yeah .
D: Yeah .
B: No Whoa I think um Yeah , the three stages .
C: And if you press it again , you get the the the through view .
D: The sta the state you Yeah .
A: Oh just three stages , you Yeah , that's okay .
C: Yeah , b but but if you're in the second stage , the third stage is switch teletext off .
B: Yes .
C: So you can switch back from second to w first .
B: No , it doesn't have to turn it off .
D: No .
B: Just don't Yeah .
D: Just remember where it was .
D: It it doesn't uh uh clear the the page .
D: If you if you turn teletext on , you you set the seven hundred , and you turn it off , then the next time you turn it on , it still stays on seven hundred ?
A: Yes , that's to remember .
C: Okay , okay .
A: Yeah , but that's that's uh That's a functionality for the television .
D: But maybe it's not the way Mm .
B: I dunno if Yeah , I think as well , but Uh yeah .
D: That's maybe one thing we can discuss about .
C: Yeah mm nee uh No , if i uh the remote can send like the the code for seven hundred , page seven hundred to the television .
B: Yeah , in thi the the remote control in the the chip .
C: Th th th if you switch it on .
A: Okay .
A: Yeah , but you have to search every time again .
C: Th i Yeah , I dunno .
A: That's what what happening if you do it like that .
B: Yeah , that's true .
A: But it's still the television that has to do that .
C: Okay .
B: So yeah .
B: Um do we need to fix that or Just like your telephone , hard plastic .
D: Mm most new T_V_s do uh collect all the pages .
A: No , that's what the television does .
C: Yeah , those memory functions .
D: But uh not not every every television , so Yeah , I I thought about one thing .
C: Yeah .
A: Okay , it's cool .
C: Was uh this logo for uh volume ?
A: Yeah , that's fine .
C: Okay .
C: So that's it ?
A: Is this prich pretty much it , yeah ?
D: Uh the buttons ?
D: Uh from which material are they now ?
C: Mm .
C: No no Yeah .
C: Just hard plastic .
D: Okay .
C: So Uh I think just um Yeah , but I think uh you have that problem more often with rubber buttons .
D: Because um if you use it a couple of years , some uh sometimes the numbers on the on the buttons are slide away , are uh And maybe we can write the numbers below or above ?
A: It's too expensive to make it from a different material anyway .
D: Or shall we just turn it on on the buttons ?
B: I think just on the buttons .
B: If you do it abo above or below , it takes uh more space .
D: Well yeah .
D: That's too much place .
D: Okay , just leave it .
B: I don't think the space is worth it .
D: Just leave it .
D: Yeah , and i The most time Yeah , with rubber buttons .
D: Yeah , okay .
D: Okay .
D: Fine .
A: Yeah ?
A: Okay , cool .
A: Mm mm mm mm mm .
A: Yeah , I don't know what this means .
A: But I think we just evela evaluated this one .
D: Yeah , I made some criteria uh , so we can uh ev evaluate our model .
A: Oh okay , you made some criteria .
A: Okay , cool .
A: Okay .
D: I d d d I don't think if it's right .
D: That shall show it .
A: You have some usability criteria or Okay .
D: Mm-hmm .
D: Uh no , uh all criterias we just argue about .
D: Uh Oh .
C: In the bottom .
D: Yeah .
A: Look-and-feel ?
D: Evaluation crit Yeah , evaluation presentation .
C: No , evaluation is Yeah beautiful's is also a matter of taste .
D: It's not in .
D: Uh d it doesn't matter um It only had two pages or something .
D: Um well I looked in the reports um from the marketing strategy , or uh of uh the the the the the the new needs and uh the market .
D: The Italians uh , how they think about it .
D: And The research uh about uh the the comp uh the the the users and that kind of stuff .
D: I made some criteria , and we have to test the criteria from one to zero .
D: We sh we we we can give it uh a number , and then we can give ourself an average for our um model .
A: Okay .
D: And this These are all I I I found , or I wrote down .
A: Okay .
D: And um we have to discuss about , if we give it a one or a seven .
D: Uh Yes .
A: Uh I think uh if you have a kind of iPod idea .
A: It quite beautiful .
A: It's We are actu We are the Flashy .
B: Mm .
D: Yeah , the the the difference be between uh beautiful and fancy uh look-and-feel is uh the the the outside uh beautiful uh like the iPod or something .
D: And fancy's more like the mm uh f the flashing lights and the colours and and that kind of stuff .
B: Okay .
B: Well I think we do If it's really uh , if you can if you can get the iPod look , then it's beautiful , I think .
D: The LEDs .
D: Yes .
D: And and what ki what kind of what kind of basic colours uh were you thought uh of ?
A: But uh It's black .
B: Hmm ?
D: The basic colours are black or green or yellow ?
D: Or you haven't thought about Ho how do we make uh Black and yellow .
B: Um basic colours , um yeah .
B: Well you didn't say .
B: Maybe um company colours ?
B: Black .
A: Yeah , yellow light .
B: A bit a bit of yellow .
D: Can Black white , maybe ?
A: Do we have yellow light ?
A: No , not really , but it's possible .
B: Not not not yellow , but just a bit of light yellow .
A: It's Yeah , different colours .
B: Like white , also ni or uh always nice .
C: And what colours should the buttons be ?
D: Uh Because um Okay , so what uh number do we give uh a beautiful ?
A: This is Oh , the same as th th the cover .
B: Just um Yes .
A: But also th the light behind it .
C: But can you change those too , with uh the switch ?
A: No , no .
A: Make them No , just make them black or grey or something .
B: Yeah , grey .
B: Just dark grey I think .
C: Okay .
A: Yeah .
D: Beautiful is uh really subjective , uh because it has to do lots with the colours .
B: Well we have changeable fronts , so So Yeah .
D: Changeable fronts , so ev for everyone for everyone it's something beautiful .
A: Yeah , just give it a one .
A: It's okay .
A: It's perfect .
A: I think it's just what you want .
A: Or not ?
B: It's hard to decide for us , but yeah .
C: Yeah .
C: It's ju so subjective .
B: It it's At least it's a lot better than uh current remote controls .
D: Yeah .
A: Okay , just give it a two .
D: A two .
D: Okay .
D: The fancy look-and-feel .
D: That's about our uh flashing lights and the background uh lights uh from from from the buttons .
B: Yeah .
D: Okay .
D: And we can change the colours , so that's uh really fancy I think .
A: Yeah .
C: One more thing .
D: So Slide panel ?
C: Are w are we changing uh Or are they there uh backlights on the slide panel too ?
C: Or n no back light ?
C: Yeah ?
B: Mm .
A: No .
B: Not needed .
A: No , it's only on the number , behind the numbers and uh That as well , yeah .
B: Yeah , not needed I think .
C: And and the switch channel is uh There is a back light too ?
D: Oh , you mean th this here ?
B: Yeah .
C: Yeah .
A: Yeah , but that's unnecessary .
B: What do I think is necessary necessary item ?
D: It's pretty cool .
D: If you slide it open , it lights up .
D: That's that's really fancy , but I don't know if it's reachable .
A: Yeah .
B: Of course it's reachable .
A: It doesn't make No .
D: Then we do it .
C: Hmm .
B: Okay , maybe just some light uh to to light it all up .
B: So you can see what's really there .
B: Not just not re on the buttons or something .
A: Yeah .
B: Just a green light or some blue light .
B: To light it all up .
D: Yeah , but Okay .
A: But Yeah .
A: Mayb Okay .
C: Yeah , just backlight .
C: Not not the buttons .
C: And th and the the normal backlights also not the buttons , but behind the buttons .
B: Yeah .
C: So the buttons are just grey .
B: Well yeah .
B: Uh semi-transparent .
A: Yeah , just only Yeah , that's right .
C: Okay .
D: Okay , fine .
A: So Yeah , that's how I think .
D: So I I think it's very fancy .
D: So I'll give it a Yeah , and you can uh also choose your light , so I think it's one .
B: Yeah , w we've done a a lot of detail in light , so Yeah .
A: Ye Yeah , this It is a one .
A: It's okay .
A: It's cool .
D: Okay , next .
A: This is a difficult one , because we we don't Yeah , we don't know it about the Uh it's it's very easy to use , but uh the second layer is not easy to use .
D: Learnable ?
D: Easy to use ?
D: Yeah , we shall test it But uh Yeah .
B: Yeah .
A: It's That's No .
C: No , but you don't have to use that .
C: And you on don't have to pay attention to that second layer .
C: That's th that's the main thing that's so good about it .
B: So I think it's easy to use , but And learnable is a bit Well y just uh f Yeah , I think it's very clear what it all does .
D: Learnable ?
D: It's not not as fast as a usual uh uh remote control .
C: Well , I think it is .
D: Because because I think I think the scroll wheel , uh it's very handy , but the first time you get this thing in your hands , it's not to use the scroll wheel .
D: I think uh you must uh seek for it , and up or down or Uh then the re Yeah .
A: But the rest of it is very easy , because there are so so n So it is learnable um f i i In the first place it's very easy to use .
C: So so few information that you can easily decide what buttons w for what function .
B: Yes .
D: Okay .
B: But the second parts , uh like speech , etcetera , that will be harder to learn .
D: Okay .
D: But Yeah .
B: It's Yeah it's Device .
A: And I think its scrollwheel is u easy to use as well , if you have ever used uh a different kind of uh of uh device .
D: But we we've got the two so two uh two or three uh new things , huh ?
D: And maybe we uh maybe learnable is in uh compare of old fashion uh remote controls .
D: So we h we have speech , uh the scroll wheel , and um the the the slide .
D: You must slide it .
D: And that's not normal at the uh normal remote controls .
D: 'Cause I think learnable is a l a less than um easy to use .
A: But yeah .
D: Because easy to use comes after learnable .
B: Okay .
A: Okay , just Easy to use is very cool , so just give it a two .
D: I I think it a three or something .
B: Maybe three then .
B: Learnable's Yeah okay .
A: No , but definitely better , much better than uh than uh than avera average , yeah .
C: Mm uh .
C: The normal .
B: Yeah .
C: And the one you showed is just all buttons and you don't know Yeah .
B: Yep , true .
B: Then a two .
D: Oh .
D: Okay .
A: Okay .
D: New features .
D: Techno technological innovative ?
C: The speech function and the colour .
D: The speech function is new .
B: And the scrollwheel , backlights , slide .
C: Colour .
D: The scrollwheel and the slide .
D: Uh I think the slide is pretty new .
A: Slide is not n is is not new .
A: No .
A: I already have a Uh I already have a V_C_R_ and it's about from nineteen eighty eight .
D: Uh I only saw it in a telephone , not in an remote control .
D: Okay .
A: And they all have a slide in it .
A: So that's not new .
B: But also slide that buttons come out , as well ?
A: Yeah .
B: Okay .
D: Okay , and the the the lightning ?
A: That's cool .
D: Is that new ?
A: Yeah for a Uh for a f There are no games on it , that's that's It's not a one , it's a two again .
D: The lighting's new .
C: Mm it's pretty new , I think .
B: Yes .
D: Scrollwheel .
D: Speech ?
C: Speech is new .
B: Different colours , so Yeah .
D: Yeah , different fronts for a remote control , I think that's new too .
C: Yeah .
D: So we have a pretty new uh It's it's it's not not L_C_D_ or something .
B: That would And we didn't uh But then we also have the the home station .
A: But If you have Yeah .
B: We are forgetting about that now , but We don't recharge .
D: Uh-oh .
A: Oh yeah , that's right .
D: Home-station .
A: Rechargeable .
C: Yeah , we didn't draw that too , but Yeah , that's just a normal th s simple thing .
B: But that's more like uh now .
A: Yeah , just draw it afterwards .
B: I don't know .
A: If you Can you save it on the same , in the same map as the other ones ?
A: In the the project uh map ?
B: Uh Just save , save as ?
A: Yeah .
A: Mm-hmm .
A: Uh save as ?
A: No , that's not in the project .
C: Well it's a already in the folder .
C: L like number seven .
A: Oh yeah , okay .
D: Yeah .
A: Smart board .
B: Okay .
A: Yeah , but this one .
A: This one is not yet in the Oh oh .
C: I think it is .
B: Yeah , it is .
C: No , I think it is .
B: Uh untitled ?
B: Yeah , it doesn't matter .
B: Save .
C: Okay .
D: Uh all the the seven , uh all the seven .
A: But you still have to draw the resi the recharger .
A: Okay .
A: And new features , so we give it a two or also again a one ?
A: No , I think i if you have games on it , then then you give you have a one .
D: No , we are not extraordinary new or something .
A: But not No , just so it's still a two .
D: Tha tha that No , we we we searched for uh um a young group , audience , beneath f forty .
C: Mm two , I think .
B: N Mm .
A: Targeted audience .
A: Uh we are the targeted audience ?
A: Do we like it ?
A: Yeah , but l younger than forty .
D: Yes .
A: So we we are exactly the targeted group .
D: Yeah , but did we reach , um with our uh style , the targeted audience ?
D: Th that's my question .
A: I think so , yeah .
A: You get the fancy things for younger people .
A: And you get the the aesthetic things for older people .
C: Yeah .
C: We've got a one for fancy look-and-feel , and that's what attracts the young audience .
A: So you want Yeah , you get different colours .
D: Yeah .
C: So think that's a two or a one .
D: Yeah .
D: Um the only point is that we don't uh have uh uh That's that's That's this question .
C: Yeah , but s it That's basically not not handy .
C: And I don't thi I don't see Yeah .
D: Yeah , this .
D: So we targeted it ?
D: But we didn't follow the latest trends .
C: Yeah .
C: No .
C: Yeah , you could make a a front a front that's that's like uh like a banana , or something .
B: I think we followed the latest trends .
D: Tha these are the only latest uh trends I uh get on my computer .
B: Oh right .
B: Well uh fruit and vegetables , yeah .
B: You can different front uh This is a a power indicator .
D: Uh yeah , th So we had we uh have uh a fruit uh Oh yeah .
A: So Oh .
C: Like a a f banana kind of front .
D: But spongy will never be .
C: No .
D: So we give ourself a three or something .
C: Yeah .
D: Okay .
A: So that's eleven .
D: That's uh What's the average ?
C: Eleven divided by six .
A: It's Yeah , it is one point eight three .
D: A perfect score .
D: No , I don't know .
C: We're not too hard on ourselves .
C: Okay .
B: So you can see how far it's charged up .
D: And and you need n uh a button to call it , to let it beep .
C: Okay .
B: To call .
B: Um Okay .
A: Oh yeah , that's still Yeah , maybe we have to skip that one .
D: Call That's Yeah , but it No , we need that .
C: Yeah , but uh we have to make a speaker then too .
C: If you want to make it beep .
B: No no , I want that in .
C: But we can we can do it uh underneath the logo .
D: That's usable .
C: If you do uh Yeah , okay .
D: That's really usable .
A: Okay .
B: Yeah , th the speaker is very small as well , right ?
D: It's uh Yeah .
A: So I just got a financial um You s saved it or No .
B: Yes uh .
D: I did save it .
A: Okay , let's have a look at this one here , the production cost of it .
A: If I forgot anything , just say it to me .
A: It just is a battery .
A: Yeah , there are some that they didn't mention , because recharge is not on the list .
A: But okay .
A: So I think we are pretty much in the right direction , because it's twelve point three Euros .
C: Mm okay .
C: But uh is uh uh Okay .
D: That's fine .
A: So this is a regular chip incl and and a sample speaker .
A: So that's both .
D: Come on , it's perfect .
D: Uh twelve point three point three .
A: Yeah , and single curved curved .
C: But but is it inc Does it include a a homestation or Can we make that for uh h twenty cents ?
A: No , that's not on the list .
A: But that shouldn't be .
B: Yeah , we can uh Um different fronts , but standard front won't be , yeah .
A: Probably .
A: I just The b the button supplements , I didn't I d I was wondering if this special colour maybe was I'm not sure .
A: See it's I think it's okay like this .
D: Special form , yeah .
A: It's hard to say .
A: But maybe we have to um Yeah , okay .
A: Special colour , you can skip this one , because it's all quite normal .
B: Yeah .
A: We get different ones , that's all .
A: So you can put a recharger in it as well .
A: But this is expensive , the sample speaker .
C: Yeah .
B: This ?
A: Yeah .
C: Yeah , it's four .
D: Four .
D: It's four Euros .
B: Oh , them .
B: Is that uh included ?
D: Yeah .
B: In the twelve Euro or Okay , then we then we need to use it .
D: So we are Okay .
A: Yeah , that's included .
C: It's kind of weird that we we get this information now , afterwards .
C: Because Sure .
A: Yeah , no .
B: Yeah .
A: Okay , so this is uh pretty much it this .
B: Damn , solar cells are uh expensive .
A: So I just want you Yeah , we just made it .
A: So we can do the project evalu evaluation now for uh for everything together .
A: Okay .
A: We can do some discussion about this .
A: Was there room for creativity ?
D: Yes .
B: Okay .
A: Paul , was there room for crea creativity ?
C: Beautiful .
B: Mm uh i Yeah , I think so .
B: I think uh everyone uh already .
B: So I think we uh discussed a lot of things about it .
C: Yeah m If we got a high mark for um uh innovativeness or innovativity then there we probably have been creative .
A: Yeah .
D: Or a different style .
B: So Of course there was .
C: Yeah .
D: Yeah .
D: We could make a lot of different uh remote controls .
A: Yeah .
D: So it's creativity .
C: Huh .
A: Okay , so the leadership Was there a leadership and Okay .
A: What do you have to say about that ?
C: No , I think Yeah .
D: Who was the leader ?
A: I dunno .
C: Just normal discussion , I think .
C: Not one leader or something .
B: Yeah .
B: One leader to check the time , etcetera .
C: Yeah .
C: And make notes .
A: Yeah , I know .
B: So more like a secretary .
C: Yeah .
A: Okay , next one .
A: Uh team work um The the third meeting I think that one was pretty hard .
A: We were not all We were not um agree with every not agree with .
D: Yeah yeah .
D: We were not finished .
C: Yeah , w we had so much information , that we get through email and just Yeah .
A: We're not finished .
D: Uh .
B: Uh I think we we got wrong information at the wrong time .
B: I think that was the m biggest problem .
A: Yeah .
B: Like uh the prices .
B: If we knew that before , we could have uh had discussion really uh s really quicker .
C: Yeah , th that's weird .
D: Yeah , because the prices uh could be twenty Euros or something now .
B: Yeah , and if you had uh fifteen Euros , then we would it .
D: And then Yeah .
B: We had to Yeah .
C: Hmm hmm yeah .
A: Yeah , finance .
C: So we're bacal basically just lucky to uh get the price right .
A: But the teamwork was okay .
D: Yeah , uh everybody could speak their uh opinion .
D: And uh Yeah .
B: I think uh everyone listen to each other .
C: Yeah .
B: Like marketing said things and then we had to i include them in the design .
A: Yeah .
A: 'Kay .
A: Yeah , what I have to say about uh means .
A: The smart board is okay .
A: Digital pen is horrible .
A: I dunno if you use it .
A: But if you want to download it to your computer , it's doesn't work .
B: It was Just doesn't work .
A: No .
B: Well uh smart board would be very uh nice to work with , if it worked really well .
D: Digital pen or Yeah , the drawings are are hard to make , I think .
C: Yeah .
C: Yeah , i if if it would be faster , it would be great .
B: Just not work too slow .
B: Yeah , more accurate .
B: Yeah , it's i It should be more accurate .
D: Precise .
C: Yeah .
B: And uh I think it would be great if you could edit it from , just with a mouse , from where you're sitting .
A: Yeah .
B: Not just pointing out on it .
A: It's the same for the presenta for the presentations .
A: You can do it from here .
A: That's much easier than standing there .
B: Yeah .
A: And so you've Yeah .
C: Yeah , and p just point with a mouse .
B: No use to draw on the board itself .
B: It's just slows down .
C: Yeah .
C: Just old fashioned kinda blackboard style .
B: Yeah .
C: But you might as well do it in normal computer style .
A: Yeah , like .
B: Yeah , even harder to draw like this than black board style .
C: Yeah .
C: Yeah .
C: And it's far too slow this way .
B: Yeah .
A: Okay .
B: You cou You could draw on it , but not as main function .
C: No .
A: I think Yeah , okay .
D: Digital pen .
A: So we made it in time .
A: And we made a remote control .
B: We did it .
A: In the budget , yeah .
B: New ideas found .
D: New ideas .
C: What's that ?
B: Oh I just think if we uh I dunno .
D: For for for To gather , or to uh work together , uh or new ideas for No , for the prototype .
A: I don't know what it mean .
A: Just For remote control probably .
A: No , for the project .
B: For remote control , a favourite for your text .
C: Hmm .
D: New ideas .
C: Yeah , but still , you couldn't make a fancy a f you couldn't make a a prototype out of this .
C: Because we don't have any sizes and Yeah , but it You can't possibly do that in such a short time , I think .
A: Yeah .
A: But it's for the next team .
A: We don't have to do that .
B: That's for .
B: Yeah , this this is just the idea phase , the Yeah .
C: Yeah , just brainstorming basically .
B: Details uh Quite early .
C: So are we finished ?
D: Hmm .
A: Yes , I think just I just write a final report .
C: Okay .
C: Yeah .
A: No , we have only four minutes left .
A: Uh it's okay .
C: Oh okay .
B: Oh , what do we have to do now .
B: Do we uh I thought we were done at four o'clock ?
C: It's now quarter past three .
C: So Yeah .
B: Yep .
D: I should take some pictures uh .
A: Okay .
B: Mm we can do it afterwards , so Yeah .
D: Yes .
D: Let's play minesweeper .
B: I found it as well .
D: Ti-din ti-din .
B: One two three four five six seven cameras .
B: Mm not bad .
B: So that was it .
C: Now we can look at this .
B: This is The old versions .
C: We're probably not supposed to look at this , but Yeah , from the previous group .
B: They went for uh for a universal device .
C: The touchscreen , yeah .
B: Yeah , but also a different device .
C: Yeah .
B: Then an L_C_D_ uh would be handy .
C: Hmm .
C: Here are the basic functions in here , the selecting dev devices .
B: Yeah , and touch screens for all our stuff , yeah .
C: Hmm .
B: I do agree with that .
B: Yeah , tu-dum .
B: English is not so hard by the way .
C: No .
D: I'm breaking a world record here .
B: Well , leader ?
D: Oh shit .
B: Project Manager ?
D: We've got a problem , Paul .
B: You do ?
B: Yeah , you have to make a choice .
D: Yes .
D: No it's your choice .
B: Wow , that's pretty quick .
D: Tu-dum .
B: Uh uh um You have to decide .
D: Just pick one .
B: It's the lower one .
D: What's this ?
D: A bomb or not a bo This the bomb ?
B: No no , the upper one is the bomb .
B: Yes .
D: Wrong .
D: Shit .
B: I knew it .
D: I knew it .
D: Four in a row .
B: No .
D: Uh .
B: That's too much work .
B: Come on .
D: Is that previous work ?
C: Yeah , this one .
B: I challenge you .
D: Oh , that's so stupid .
D: No , that doesn't work .
B: No , you gotta use the magic pen .
B: Hmm .
B: What if I put one there ?
D: That's stupid .
B: We'll see .
D: Okay .
B: I don't agree .
D: Mm .
D: Sorry .
B: Yeah , you had two choices .
B: That's gonna be draw .
B: Or not .
C: Hmm .
D: Too bad .
B: I'll put it here .
D: Yeah , then I put it there .
B: You are going to put it there .
B: Then It's a difficult choice , either here or there .
D: No one wins .
C: This is a very interesting design .
B: Ugly .
D: It's just the same as normal .
B: Oh a pen .
C: Well it has a L_C_D_ , I think .
B: Yeah , but Then do it correctly .
D: Okay .
D: Stupid design .
C: And what else do we have ?
D: Stupid .
B: Stupid , the L_C_D_ screen .
D: 'Kay wait , I'm going to draw something and you must y Okay , blank .
B: What ?
B: Okay , I'm going to guess what you're drawing .
B: No no , the new one .
D: Oh .
B: Uh they just don't save it .
D: Um I know uh .
B: A house ?
B: Yeah , you have to use the pen s stupid .
A: You have to save everything , you know that , huh ?
B: No , not everything .
D: Oh .
C: Yeah , everything .
B: Pen , select select pen .
D: Pen .
C: It wants to know what we do in our spare time .
B: Okay .
B: It's a house .
B: A plant ?
D: No , it's Only you can know it .
B: Oh yeah , I can know it .
B: It's a Okay , that makes it easier .
D: It's uh very hard to draw .
B: I think I know .
B: No , wrong .
D: Mm .
B: I think I know what you're trying to draw , but it's wrong already .
D: It's very Fuck .
B: Yeah , you missed the right side .
D: F A little bit maybe , but Yeah .
B: No , you're wrong , you're wrong See where you're wrong now ?
B: The entrance .
C: Warning .
C: Finish meeting now .
B: Alright .
D: Okay , the entrance is uh more to the left .
C: Warning .
C: Warning .
B: You're correct .
D: Okay .
D: But but but I think this part Oh .
B: Yeah , but I think Oh no you made another mistake .
D: Yeah , there are a lot of mistakes , because the walls are thick like this .
B: No I w Okay , I'm not that whiny .
B: But uh there was a big hole here as well , and there as well .
D: Oh , that's true .
D: Uh here .
B: That's a kinda big mistake .
D: Yeah , they're walking behind the walls .
B: Warning , finish meeting now .
B: Guys , I think we have to finish the meeting .
C: Okay .
D: 'Kay this is a hard one .
B: Uh ?
C: Boom-boa-ring-bing .
B: What does it say ?
C: Fill in the questionnaire .
C: What now ?
B: Come on .
A: Okay , yeah .
C: Okay .
B: Yep .
D: Okay .
C: No more chit-chat .
B: Oh you gotta finish over there ?
D: Che-che-che-che .
C: Yeah .
B: In your own room ?
D: Tu-dumm .
B: I'm gonna be so lonely .
D: Uh .
B: Mm I'll clean that up later .
D: This is That's my new interface .
B: What's that ?
D: That's a uh edited smiley .
D: Tom-ti-dom .
D: Uh .
C: Okay .
","The project manager presented the agenda and the minutes from the previous meeting.
The group discussed speech recognition , whether the remote should slide open or fold open, and what type of chip they should use.
The designers presented the prototype, which resembles an ipod in appearance, and is made of transparent coloured plastic.
The colours will be changeable.
The remote has both buttons and a scroll wheel.
The number buttons have a back-light.
The group discussed adding extra buttons/functions.
The prototype was evaluated and received an average overall score of 1.8.
The project manager went through the finances, and the total cost came to 12.3 euros, although this did not include the cost of the recharger, which was not on the price list.
The group evaluated the project process, and were generally pleased with their creativity and teamwork, but were unsatisfied with the equipment.
The group have to fill out a final questionnaire.
The remote will be made of hard, transparent coloured plastic, and will come in different colours.
The remote will include buttons and a scroll wheel.
The remote control will feature speech recognition and a slide-out second level.
The designers had not included the slide-out second level in their drawing of the prototype.
The group were unsure how many extra buttons would be needed for speech recognition.
The group felt the information they got was not always useful, or was not given to them at the right time.
It was felt that the group should have received the information about costs before designing the prototype.
The group had problems with the smart board and digital pens.
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"D: Bonjour .
B: It's It won't wake up .
B: Yeah .
B: I was a bit early .
B: Like What ?
D: Why ?
B: No , I just came in .
B: Uh normally I was one of them .
D: Okay .
B: Come on .
D: Check check check check .
A: Hello .
B: Why won't it wake up ?
A: Oop .
B: Is it on ?
D: The power light doesn't work .
D: You turned it off .
B: But how ?
B: Ah , there it is .
C: Okay .
A: Okay .
B: Uh .
C: I received an email with uh a few possibilities on uh the materials .
C: So I'll discuss them with you .
A: Okay , we're just going to the later .
D: Okay .
C: Yeah .
B: Yeah , I received an email as well .
A: So we're going to talk about the conceptual model .
D: Oh .
D: Hmm .
B: Which one was mine ?
A: So that's me .
A: Uh okay .
A: So Uh okay .
A: Okay , so I just show you the m the no mm mm the the the the the the minutes , minute .
A: What's it called , I dunno .
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B: The minutes .
A: Okay , so we just talked about uh Oh you want me to show that there or Okay , we just talked about it looks .
D: Uh Shall I start ?
B: No , just tell us .
C: Mm no .
A: Has to look nice .
A: Usability is very important .
A: People don't want to spend money on something that's similar to cheaper ones .
A: Um It has to be very basic , not too many buttons .
A: Light switches on if you use a button .
A: Uh text T_V_ still has to be a possibility .
A: And it has to be easy to learn .
A: That were the things I uh make minutes of .
A: And the functions are volume , channel to choose channels , an on-off , a mute uh button , and a text T_V_ button .
A: That are the functions .
A: That right ?
C: Yeah .
B: Yes .
A: Okay .
A: So I just want to give you uh Mike again , the first uh presentation of your Yeah .
D: No .
D: Okay well I received an email Okay .
D: I searched the web , uh and uh I searched uh on this d document , recent investigation of the remote control market .
D: It has been done in Italy uh Italy and in uh another country in Europe , I forget it .
D: Uh but uh they found out the most important aspect for remote controls happens to be a fancy look-and-feel , instead of the current functional look and feel .
D: So it's very important for us to create something new .
D: So what Michael just said , it must be uh some very different from ordinary uh remote controls .
D: Fancy stands for an original look-and-feel of the case and interface .
D: Uh this uh aspect is the most important one .
D: Uh it came out of the research .
D: It uh is twice important as the following .
D: The second uh most important aspect is that a remote control should it uh technological innovative .
D: Uh that stands for uh uh new technical uh features .
D: And then uh that uh This is a point of discussion , because we just decided that we don't make use of uh L_C_D_ or uh speech recognition .
B: Hmm .
D: But um this is the second uh important uh aspect , and I think uh we must use some of the new technology , to be uh innovative .
A: But we already have the flashing flashing light on the Okay .
D: Uh maybe maybe something new .
B: Yeah , more .
D: We have to discuss about it s uh Okay , uh features not uh do not exist in current remote controls .
C: Hmm .
B: Well , I'll I'll get back on it .
D: And that's very hard I think .
D: Uh the third one is the aspect of the remote control should be easy to use .
D: But uh that was an overall uh point .
D: We already discussed that .
D: Um I've got one picture .
D: Uh d our our target group uh we thought about was young and trendy .
A: Yeah .
D: So I took uh that part of the webpage .
D: And it says uh fashion-watchers of uh uh Pari uh France and uh Italy , yeah , uh have detected the following trends .
D: This trends I th uh trend I think it's not um that meaningful for us , maybe .
D: But it's about uh clothes and shoes .
D: But the uh the next uh aspect also in contrast to last year , the feel of material is expe uh uh is expected to be spongy .
A: Hmm .
B: Spongy .
D: But spongy , what what does spongy says ?
C: Spongy .
B: Spongy , like sponge .
D: Spongy .
D: Okay .
C: So rubber , kind of .
B: Uh soft materials .
C: Yeah .
A: But maybe th that's al definitely a good idea , because you've you're you drop y your remote control very often on the ground .
B: Yeah , but Yeah .
A: So it has to be flexible .
D: Yeah .
D: Yeah , it's something that uh it stand there .
D: But I didn't knew uh knew what it means .
D: So spongy means y Yeah .
C: It's like a sponge .
B: Soft , sponge .
D: So it's also a stress-ball .
A: That's a good That's a good idea .
C: Yeah , somewhat like Yeah , I've some uh material uh information , but I'll give you it later in my presentation .
A: If it's de like that .
A: That's good , a good idea .
B: Yeah , but Yeah .
B: How are you gonna make it ?
A: Is it a bit like like the the the the remote control ?
A: R_ soft .
D: Uh Okay ?
A: Okay .
D: What do I think ?
D: Uh because a fancy look is the most important thing uh for remote control uh control , I think about changeable fronts .
A: Yeah .
D: Uh maybe a see-through one in a a fruit front .
D: Because it's uh it's hot .
D: And uh some basic uh colour fronts .
D: Uh so we can make uh five different fronts to start with or something .
D: Uh maybe an extraordinary shape , like a sponge .
D: Uh or uh , yeah , just another shape than a normal uh remote control ha uh has .
D: Just uh something round in it , or uh maybe not uh not uh Yeah , I dun dunno .
B: Yeah .
D: We have to discuss about that .
D: Uh y yeah .
D: Main point uh still uh is the technolo technological innovative .
D: Yeah , how do we do that ?
D: Maybe speech ?
D: We ma must have some kind of gadget .
B: Yeah , I'll get back on that .
D: So Intro Yeah .
C: Hmm .
A: It's very uh difficult to to to do it .
A: Because it's only twelve and a half Euros you have to spend on every remote control .
D: Yeah , that's the problem .
B: Well , I got f also an email from the the technology department .
D: That's the main problem .
D: So Maybe we watch the first uh the next two presentations .
B: They have done uh research about it , and uh even more possibilities now with speech .
B: So they recommended using it .
A: Okay .
B: Well I'll check what they exact mean .
C: Hmm .
D: Okay .
D: Uh let's first watch Paul's presentation first then .
B: So uh Yeah , th that's the only problem .
C: Yeah , well actually we have don't have an idea how much it's gonna cost .
C: But maybe it's cheap and it's easy to implement .
B: I d They don't say how much it will cost , so Um but uh if we implement uh speech recognition , I think it would be better to implement L_C_D_ as well .
D: Oh .
D: It's mass production .
D: So you can say , you can Yeah .
B: Since you have to uh configure speech thing .
A: But that's definitely more expensive than Yeah , but a telephone Okay , yeah .
B: Yeah , that's that's something I dunno .
D: But how uh we we're gonna make many of those .
D: So we can start a mass production , and then the cost will still will be .
A: But a telephone also have a L_C_D_ and and it's about t two hundred Euros .
B: Yeah , so uh we gotta de We have to decide on that .
A: So uh Yeah , just modern modern but still uh basic .
D: Yeah .
D: Okay .
D: That was this ?
B: Mm uh L_D_C_ doesn't require Okay .
C: Oh I got an email uh And it says uh the chip can be uh simple , regular or advanced .
C: And Um They say uh a display requires an advanced chip .
C: And this is more expensive than all the other chips .
C: So it's m the most expensive .
C: Yeah , it says in the email .
C: The display requires an advanced chip .
B: And speech recognition ?
C: Yeah , probably too .
B: Advanced .
C: I I haven't got anything about speech recognition , but Well it d That's that's the most expensive chip , we need .
B: Yeah .
B: I'll I'll give you my design .
C: If we're doing uh if we're doing a display .
B: Yeah okay .
B: So we Well we can I had uh to make a sort of a design .
B: So I did some searching on the internet .
B: I watched the old remote controls and news com remote como uh remote controls .
B: I think we should um This is one of the modern remote controls of the moment .
B: I think we should go more to the iPod and M_P_ three players .
B: Mobile phones .
B: More modern .
B: Y yes .
B: Um you probably have to make it a bit bigger and a bit smaller .
B: 'Cause remote con control , you can see it here , you have to bo reach both out both sides .
B: And here you just have one , few buttons .
B: So that's that's the main difference .
B: But looks uh I definitely think we should go like this .
B: And then changeable fonts , so It's the most important part , I think .
C: Hmm .
B: But And the home base is something like that , something simple .
B: Well and then I just ordered the the buttons a bit .
B: Uh basic buttons .
B: On-off , mute .
B: And th maybe two others , I dunno .
A: Yeah , maybe the teletext tel No .
B: Text buttons .
B: Yeah , text button , maybe there and there .
B: And then the colour buttons , if we want it on .
B: I don't find it very usable , but it's Uh I don't think it's fits in the the modern theme as well .
D: No , I don't uh I don't like it .
C: Hmm .
B: So and then yeah we saw the the pla display , in the the iPod .
B: They can put the basic buttons , one , two , three , four .
B: And uh f above ten .
B: And I think No no .
C: But it That's on on the display .
B: That th there is no display there .
B: But it's on the place of the display .
B: And I think we should uh light this up much more than that part .
B: So the focus is on these two parts .
A: Yeah .
A: Yeah .
B: So you don't see all the buttons you else need .
A: But it sounds very difficult to use .
A: Because um the volume and channel is on the on the the bottom of it .
B: Uh well um This is how it is now .
A: So you can't use your thumb for it .
B: Um Here uh Well we have volume .
C: I think it is on uh on the bottom too .
A: Yeah , down there .
A: But it's not not the best best .
B: Yeah .
B: Well here we have also side scrolls .
B: I dunno if we can use that .
C: Yeah , okay .
A: Yeah , for volume .
B: Do we want to use For volume ?
C: Yeah , I've I've got something of that uh too .
A: For volume , or a channel .
A: Yeah , why not .
B: Well then we can even simplify it more .
C: Scroll .
B: By just putting the volume on the side .
B: And and just channel buttons here .
A: And the channels as well .
A: Oh yeah .
C: Yeah , or uh maybe uh The channel buttons are often used .
B: But I think uh Well .
C: And you can't use them now with your thumb , because the thing is not , it's not easy to control .
B: Yeah , well it's Basically it's it's here .
C: Yeah okay , m maybe we cho should put that on top , and buttons we we don't use on , in the bottom .
A: Yeah , that's better .
B: They're on top ?
A: Yeah , just th th th other buttons like text T_V_ .
A: Put that on the button bottom .
C: Because uh you can't hold it .
B: You mean uh these to the low ?
C: You can't hold it th the control and push the buttons .
A: Mm-hmm .
A: Yeah .
A: Except from the on-off button .
B: Oh okay .
B: Well , yeah .
C: But I I think w you'll use uh the switch channels buttons uh more often than the normal uh channel buttons , like one two three .
C: So maybe we can put that on the bottom .
B: Mm Maybe .
B: I dunno , but yeah we'll Yeah , maybe it's not easy if it's below .
C: Like zapping is just switching one channel at a time .
B: It's harder to zap .
B: So I think uh it should be should be easy to .
B: I think it's pretty standard , these rubber buttons on the top .
C: Yeah okay .
C: That's that's good , but Yeah okay .
B: And uh if you don't light 'em up , they don't uh you don't see 'em very good .
B: I think it's modern to light this area up , and to light this area up .
B: So the focus gets on these parts and not on there .
B: But uh the position of course can be different .
B: It's s We have to look uh what's easy to use , and how it's easier to use .
C: Yeah .
B: So we can uh switch these to I dunno if it l will look good , if you put those on t on the bottom half .
C: Hmm .
C: No , I think th the the top buttons are okay .
B: Okay .
C: They sh Those should be on top .
B: Yeah , maybe Those two , yeah .
C: But uh we we can switch those two , yeah .
B: And uh , yeah , you have to make sure it's easy to uh Yes , it has to be big enough so you can hold it , right .
D: Okay .
B: Well that's that's my findings .
B: So uh my personal opinion is that we should go more modern look .
B: M_P_ three player .
B: And uh well um if we want to put in speech rec recognition or something , we I don't think we should put it on top then .
B: I think that , if we're gonna put in more technology , that you need to be able to uh switch it open .
C: Yeah .
B: To use So if you put in uh speech recognition , you need so more uh many more buttons .
A: Yeah .
A: Yeah , that's cool .
B: Which won't look good on the front side I think .
A: Okay .
C: No .
B: So that's something we have to decide on .
C: Yeah , we have to keep it simple .
B: Yeah .
A: We have to decide this this lecture , or this this this uh fifty minutes , yeah , how it is gonna look .
B: What we're gonna do .
B: Okay .
C: Okay , the component design .
C: I looked at uh some similar devices , and uh my own common knowledge .
C: So uh this was on the web site .
C: If you aim at a young public , you should use materials that are soft with primary colours like green , blue , red .
C: So flashy kinda colours .
C: Uh shapes should be curved , so round shapes .
C: Not Nothing square-like .
A: Okay , so Hmm , okay .
B: Yeah well uh iPod is trendy .
B: And it is well curved square .
C: Yeah .
D: Square .
D: Like .
C: Yeah , but mm is uh has round corners I think .
B: Okay .
B: So not Yeah okay .
C: So we shouldn't have too square corners and that kind of thing .
B: Not uh the old uh box look .
C: Yeah .
C: And um sports and gaming device style characteristics .
C: I don't know exactly what that means , but it should be , well yeah , popular kind of looking , I think .
D: Mm .
A: Yeah , we have to put our Real Reaction logo as well on the on the remote control .
C: Okay .
B: Mm Yeah , it's Black yellow control .
A: So the colours also .
A: So we have ha to ma make it in black , black , yellow .
C: Yeah .
A: Maybe the sides in yellow and the the the top in black .
C: Yeah , mm n Not that weird , because we definitely want to make it kind of flashy , to attract a young public .
B: Yeah , but uh I don't think the the colours black and yellow go well together .
B: But Yeah , okay .
C: No , okay .
A: We make i Maybe you can put yellow on the side and black on the on the front .
C: That's a that's a sen That's just a matter of tastes , but We have to use uh kind of flashy colours , I think .
B: Uh can't we use um different uh fron uh fronts , with all with the the logo on it ?
C: Yeah .
A: Yeah , it's cool .
B: Can we do that ?
A: Yep .
C: Like fronts in in red and yellow and blue and Okay .
B: So Yes .
A: And still trans Still still transparent .
D: Oh yeah .
B: So Yeah .
B: But with all with logo on it .
A: Okay .
C: Well this is a remote control , a very old one .
C: Um Then the components .
C: The case has just a Here's black .
C: But we are making it uh Yeah , I dunno .
A: Yeah , we make it som Maybe we have to make it from soft material .
A: Uh I'm not sure .
B: Yeah .
C: Maybe .
C: But anyways uh it should be transparent .
C: We decided that , huh ?
B: Well one of the options .
C: S Okay .
B: You can Just like a mobile phone , you can make um different fronts on it .
B: So you can just replace them I think .
C: Yeah , we could do that .
B: That was the idea , or just uh release one .
A: Yeah .
A: Just give five with them , just in a box .
A: Five different Yeah .
B: Yeah , uh Or just uh sell different ones .
C: Yeah , but y you could you could make 'em uh uh like blue and transparent .
C: So you can still th look through it .
B: Yeah .
A: Cool .
B: Yeah .
C: Um the buttons .
C: Normal rubber I think .
C: Like normal ordinary buttons .
B: Yeah , I uh I dunno .
C: Soft .
A: Yeah .
B: A more Yeah , just uh I think uh rubber really has an odd look .
A: It it could be like a Nokia , like plastic .
D: Uh uh Yeah .
C: With the hard hard buttons .
A: That's better prob Yeah .
C: Okay .
A: Yeah .
D: The the the new uh new modern uh remote controls , uh the buttons are part of the uh the style , I think is part of the remote control itself .
B: Yeah .
D: It it's one uh a one uh out of one shape .
D: Uh it's n doesn't Is uh a button uh um How do you say it ?
C: Yeah , it's it's all on one level .
D: It it didn't it i it don't come out of the on the background .
C: Yeah , on one level .
D: It is in uh the c a remote control uh Yeah .
B: Yeah .
C: Yeah , I know what you mean .
C: So we have to keep it on the one level .
C: Like th the top it's Yeah .
B: Yeah , like mobile phones .
B: Like uh the iPod .
B: Uh just I dunno what uh kind of material it is .
C: Yeah , okay .
C: Okay , it's chos So that should be hard plastic .
A: Yeah , that's cool .
C: Then the buttons ?
C: I think .
C: Or maybe Yeah .
B: But Oops .
A: But maybe you can m make a uh round fluff or soft material .
A: Just only the basic uh basic remote control from normal plastic , and the rounds of it from softer s I dunno .
C: Yeah .
C: Okay .
B: Yeah .
C: And um Then the L_E_D_ .
C: The normal infrared L_E_D_ I think s sufficient .
C: And back light L_E_D_s .
A: Y Cool .
C: So But I think we have to make the case transparent , otherwise the back light won't work .
B: Yeah .
C: So if you put Okay .
A: Yeah .
B: Uh you can just make them around the buttons uh Yeah .
A: Y i if you The numbers could be can be Yeah , that's right .
B: Or it runs the whole Yeah , you can halfs transparent , or just that it's comes out a bit .
C: Yeah , but we can still make it transparent .
C: So Or no Yeah okay .
A: They can choose .
C: Good .
C: And in green colour , the back lights or Yeah ?
B: Different , I think , also .
A: Blue .
B: Blue or red .
D: Yeah .
B: Whatever you want it , I think .
B: Uh depends on the colour of the Yeah , that's true .
A: Yeah , but you can't choo You can't choose it when you buy it .
D: Uh i Yeah , but can you change it if you already bought the the remote control ?
A: You have to choose Is it Okay .
B: But Yeah , it can .
C: No , but I think there are multiple colour LEDs .
C: So I I know I dunno .
C: Is Maybe it's it's more impor more expensive .
D: You Hmm .
B: 'Cause this a mo mib uh mobile phone as well .
A: Yeah , okay .
A: Maybe put some different ones in it .
A: Doesn't matter .
C: I think it's Yeah , I dunno .
A: It's just No , just some LED .
B: I have the mo mi I have a blinking light on my phone .
B: And I can change the colour of it .
A: Okay , cool .
A: Just make it some different colours .
A: Blue , red and green , or something .
C: Maybe it's too expensive , but it I th I don't think so .
B: Well , we don't put put in any fancier technology yet .
B: So I'm sure we can fit in .
C: Then uh some more technical things .
C: I don't know what it is , but it should be there I think .
C: Um this is the normal circuit board , like a chip board in in a lot of uh things .
A: Yeah , we have to hurry up a bit , so Okay .
C: W So we d we just need this and this transistors and resonators .
C: There's all these kind of things .
C: Um they they basically said that that's almost the same on any uh remote controls .
C: So I guess we j we just need that .
B: Yeah .
C: I don't know what they do or Nah , but they just said we need it .
D: Okay yeah , you can you can change Yeah .
B: Yeah okay .
B: We just Yeah , we have to make sure to uh Yes .
D: No .
C: Uh the battery contacts , like normal batteries ca you can put in .
A: Yeah , a recharger maybe .
C: Yeah okay .
C: Yeah but Yeah , but it i We don't wanna have a ar an How do you call it ?
A: We still want to have a recharger , don't we ?
A: Is that still the A recha Oh no .
B: Yes .
C: Accu .
B: Re recharger .
C: Y uh just just batteries , rechargeable batteries .
A: Uh Battery .
B: Base station .
A: It's just a battery .
A: Yeah .
B: Yeah , batteries .
B: Yes , rechargeable batteries , I think's best .
C: Okay .
C: Not a separate Okay .
A: No , just rechargeable batteries .
C: And uh a chip , that's this one .
C: Then uh I received some possibilities .
C: Um for the energy source we can use batteries or a kinetic uh Like with the pulse watch .
C: So it operates on your wrist kinda .
D: Ah cool .
D: Okay .
B: So if you hold it , it gets powered .
C: If you hold it .
A: But normally you put a remote control on the table or on the couch .
C: Yeah , I don't think it will work , and Or we can also use solar cells .
C: But you mostly use it indoors , so Yeah , and and we can use the home station kind of thing .
A: It's dark in the room .
A: No .
A: It's just batteries , that's cheaper .
A: Yeah .
C: Um cases , flat , so uncurved .
C: Uh two D_ curved is um like front to the back .
C: And three D_ curved is also in depth .
D: Okay .
C: So that's possible .
C: Uh but with three D_ uh curved uh remote controls , we must use rubber buttons .
C: So we can't use the flat buttons .
B: Mm .
B: So we need uh two D_ .
C: Yeah , I think .
A: Yeah .
A: Definitely .
C: Um these kinda materials can be used .
A: But it doesn't really matter , we just make it plastic .
B: Yeah .
C: Yeah , I think so too .
A: The scroll wheels , that's cool .
A: That's for the volume .
C: Yeah , scroll wheels um Yeah , that's good .
B: Yeah .
C: We can use multiple scroll wheels , w if we want to .
C: But I think just the volume is enough .
A: Yeah .
B: Uh For channels it's not handy , because you scroll too fast .
A: Okay .
C: And uh the L_C_D_ .
C: So we need uh the expensive , most expensive chip , if we use an L_C_D_ .
D: Mm Uh but we have to do something about the trend .
A: I don't think that's an opportunity .
A: Just skip it .
A: Because we don't have time for that to to put it in .
C: Okay , then we we use m must use the second most expensive chip .
C: So th so the regular chip .
C: Because we use scroll wheels .
A: Yeah , okay .
B: Okay .
C: And um Yeah , that was it I guess .
A: Okay .
C: Uh are are we using a a rubber case , or We haven't decided yet .
A: Oh just sk Maybe you have to skip that one as well .
A: It's No .
B: Uh I don't think a rubber case looks Yeah , okay .
C: L Yeah , i it it should be soft .
C: You said so ?
D: The trend is uh spong spongy uh and uh fruit or fresh fresh .
B: That Uh fruit and veg , or Yeah , fruit and veg can be just the covers .
D: And uh now we have nothing about uh about those those two .
D: Uh yeah i Just Just on front .
B: So you can the the spongy yeah , I dunno .
B: I can't imagine a soft remote control .
D: Neith uh I don't like it uh neither .
A: No .
B: I just can't imagine it .
C: So just hard plastic ?
A: Yeah .
C: Okay .
B: Yeah , I think .
B: Titanium .
B: It's mentioned here uh .
C: Titanium , uh I think it's too expensive .
A: But maybe the form has to be a bit different .
A: Not the sh the square form .
A: Just a bit more rounded .
C: Yeah , you can make it curved or mm round .
A: Yeah .
C: But just in two D_ , not in depth .
A: Yeah .
A: Yeah , that's right .
B: Okay .
A: So We have to decide which one we're going to choose from these .
A: What exactly .
A: Because we have to know it .
A: So the energy uh is the recharger .
A: We already know that .
B: Yeah .
A: Just a normal battery .
B: We have batteries .
A: Okay .
A: The chip-on-print is a normal one .
C: Yeah .
B: Regular .
A: Okay , the case is just a plastic one .
C: Yeah th yeah , the chip is the the regular one .
A: Yeah , re Yeah , regular .
C: You have the simple one , regular and advanced .
A: Yeah , okay .
C: So it's b should be regular uh the second .
A: Yeah , regular .
A: Okay .
C: I think I'll just check it .
A: And we need a plastic case , with a scroll wheel .
B: Yes .
A: That's pretty much it .
C: Yeah .
B: User interface concept .
A: And a flashy light .
A: So uh I'm not sure .
A: But we do I don't know if we expected to draw on this one at this moment .
A: But Yeah .
B: I dunno either .
C: Mm .
C: Or should we do it in the next meeting ?
B: Uh I_D_ and U_I_D_ work together on prototype drawing on smart board .
C: So we should did it here ?
A: That's for the next one .
B: So we're staying here ?
A: That's for th Uh that I think that's the next next meeting .
C: Or should we do it in the next meeting ?
C: Okay .
A: But you definitely get a specific instruction .
B: Okay , so now we're ka thirty minutes alone again ?
C: Yeah .
A: But th think about something that's more rounded .
A: Just And more It has to be Uh a bit .
B: Yeah , uh I dunno .
B: But the iPod and etcetera , M_P_ three players , mobile phones .
A: Just just on the top or on the bottom .
B: Just a bit cur Okay , I'll see if I can see any of those .
A: Maybe the wheel can be uh like uh like this .
A: O um if you draw it like this , you get a What the fuck is it ?
A: Okay .
A: Mm Doesn't work .
A: You see what I mean ?
A: If I draw here It draws about four centimetres lower than Nah okay .
C: What ?
C: Oh .
C: Okay .
A: Just .
A: Maybe you can make it like this .
A: And this is all the wheel for volume .
A: So that you just um It's all rounded , so you can do uh turn this one .
C: Like a very big scroll-wheel .
A: Yeah , but just not on the top , but uh on the side of it .
C: Okay .
A: Maybe , I dunno .
C: Hmm .
A: Okay , so we have this at the moment .
C: I think uh you'll get a a lot of uh volume changing when it's not wanted .
B: Yeah , you Yeah .
A: Okay , so we'd have this .
A: Is that okay ?
C: Yeah .
B: Yeah , that's a little problem , of course , as well .
C: I think it's probably better .
A: And Like this .
C: Yeah , but maybe we can make a a plastic , so that you i if you like drop it , it won't change the volume .
B: Yeah , maybe you just have to make it uh That's not scrollable too easy .
C: Only if you use your finger .
A: And uh what's the channel choose ?
A: Where do we uh put that ?
C: I think in middle .
A: Still on the bottom or That's the numbers .
B: Uh wh what is the middle part ?
C: Uh I think th the numbers should be in the bottom , and and the switch channel in the middle .
B: Numbers , okay .
B: Yeah , I agree as well .
B: Use the dz Yeah , that's right .
A: It doesn't make a difference , if you put the s uh the switch channels on side of each other or on top of each other .
A: Because you already have the volume here , so You can also put it here one butt and the other one there .
A: Next to each other .
A: back and forth .
A: So you can also can put it all on the top , and this , you keep this empty .
A: Because you have to hold it as well .
C: Or you could do the switch channel up button above the the numbers and switch channel down button below .
A: But that's not want to zap very quick , so Yeah ?
B: Yeah , I think uh zapping is the highest priority .
C: Yeah , okay .
B: And then you use those uh Yeah , of course uh .
A: Is this a opportunity , or you don't want a different Why ?
C: Uh but I think we we should bu uh put 'em on top of each other , so Because then it's it's easy to know m if I push the the the up Yeah , but the top the top button is is like you switch channel up , and down button is If you put them But uh but I I think uh left to right is more often associated with volume , and top down is more with uh channel changing .
A: But still the next It's still the next one .
A: Doesn't make Yeah , but fo from left to right is exactly the same .
B: Yeah .
A: It ma it doesn't make a big difference .
B: I I think it's It's it's obvious , I think .
D: Yeah , that's not not It's not al uh always the same .
A: But it's exactly th I dunno .
C: In uh On most on most remote controls .
D: Every remote control's uh different .
B: Yeah , I think No , uh I think Yeah .
C: So so if we use that , they will probably have a long learning uh time .
A: I You already have the volume on the side , so you can't make it you can't ma make a mistake .
A: So it's uh So but that's for that's for you , 'cause it's Okay , so hmm .
B: I think it's s so simple you just Yeah , okay I'll d I'll take a look at it .
C: I dunno .
C: Okay .
A: What did What else we have to discuss about ?
A: I dunno .
B: Think we need to work uh thirty minutes again ?
D: Yeah , we have to care that it r uh looks really new .
D: Because uh we still hold on to the uh ordinary uh uh square uh remote control .
A: Yeah .
D: 'Cause wha what I see the only difference i i i in fact is that we use a scroll-wheel on the outside .
A: And the LED .
B: No , you have uh It is Uh the current uh controllers are all black and plastic .
C: Yeah , but i i it should be round in in shape .
C: So No , tha that will be Yeah , so top down .
B: You have to look at that image of the iPod .
D: Yes .
B: More that uh kind of style .
D: Okay .
D: And a bit uh Some some kind of bling bling uh mm can we have Uh and how many uh fronts uh fronts do we put on the market then ?
B: Not not the old grey black Where you can put a ve Uh we have If we do it like that we have below have we uh a lot of room to put a nice logo .
A: Uh Yeah .
A: Yeah .
A: Uh the logo was has to be on there .
A: Yeah , that's right .
D: Uh five or something ?
A: Yeah , five .
D: Or more or And um uh uh buy the product .
A: Let's give five .
B: Maybe you can buy separate ones and uh Yeah .
D: You buy , you get one .
D: And uh basic .
D: Or you can choose one uh if you buy the project .
B: Um I think Yeah .
B: That's your choice , I think huh .
A: So y you can put the bottom of the remote control in recharger ?
A: Is that is that a good good opportunity ?
B: Yes .
A: So you could put it like that , okay .
C: Hmm ?
D: Yeah , you sl uh you let it slide in the docking station .
C: Do we have to design that w as well ?
D: Yeah .
A: Uh I'm not sure .
C: The docking station ?
B: Yeah , I think so .
C: Hmm .
D: Yeah , we can b It c it could be just just a square , just a packet .
B: But th Yeah , that can be very simple .
B: Least .
C: Yeah , just a recharger .
B: Yeah , just where you're around something .
B: Li Yeah , we had one example .
C: But we have to make contacts on the on the remote control and the recharger as well .
B: Mm .
B: Mm .
D: Yeah , but that's a round one .
B: Which w Here you see one that's very round .
D: Maybe we can choose then .
C: Oh yeah , okay .
B: So I think that can be all kind of shapes .
A: But maybe you can just round up the corners a bit .
C: Of the remote control ?
A: That's all .
A: Yeah .
D: Yeah .
C: Yeah Yeah .
A: Just round it up .
B: Yeah , so y you don't want uh this uh like the iPod .
B: But More rounded .
A: No .
A: Yeah .
A: Yeah .
B: Yeah , I think it will just look like more like this one .
B: Since it's This is also rounded .
A: No , just just the corners .
B: I think i Yeah okay , tho those are al already a bit cornered .
B: Mm Yeah okay , but then we have to think of something totally new .
A: Okay .
C: Yeah , but we can we can do all kinds of uh As long as it isn is in two D_ we can use all kind of round shapes .
A: Shapes .
C: Not in depth .
C: Yeah , but Yeah , if if we want to make it kind of , yeah , new .
B: I've uh I had a lot of picture of old ones .
B: And all curves have already been done .
A: It's a bit annoying , isn't it ?
D: Yeah .
D: What do we do wrong ?
D: Hmm .
D: Just just more like this and not uh a square .
B: Yeah okay , yeah well Yeah .
D: Okay .
C: Yeah , but we could do a lot of , lot more curving .
C: I would do it Like in this kind of shape or I dunno .
B: I know we can do a lot more , but I think it will only look more like the old remote controls .
D: Yeah , it Uh it's very annoying .
D: Okay .
C: I dunno if it's handy .
D: Uh Yeah .
C: This ?
B: Yeah .
C: The olden the olden ones had looked like just a square thing .
B: Yeah okay .
B: But uh I had a lot of pictures Oh I can show you here what the old ones look like .
C: Mm .
B: Curves , curves .
C: Yeah .
B: You've more there as well .
C: Yeah , okay .
B: It wasn't very small one .
C: Yeah .
B: very simple .
B: That is for elderly .
A: So we have to make a decision , what kind of form it's gonna have t going to have .
C: Yeah , I don't know .
B: I think if w My opinion .
B: If we just uh take the iPod , and the same look .
D: Yeah .
B: So uh light or just whatever colour , but the same light colours .
C: Mm-hmm .
B: And uh just with uh together with uh the back-lights b look will look very new .
B: No rubber buttons or something .
B: Just together with the back-lights you'll get a totally new look .
B: More like the M_P_ three player M_ um P_ M_ P_ three player .
C: Yeah .
A: And you have the scroll button inside .
B: Yes .
A: Okay .
B: Just a simple scrollb Doesn't have to be .
D: Yeah .
A: But why do we have to round it on the t bottom then ?
A: Of Skip that one as well .
A: Okay .
A: Yeah , it's cool .
C: Yeah , though that's a trend .
C: If we want to make it .
C: But yeah , I'm not a Trendwatcher , you are .
C: So Spongeball kinda .
D: Uh the t the trend is spongy and fruity .
A: Rubber spongy .
D: But yeah .
B: Yeah .
B: No .
B: Spongy and Mm .
D: It's not not a lot of trends I uh I found uh Uh It The th th Yeah .
A: Okay , so we have s still one minute left .
A: So just I think it's okay if you just keep it a bit square .
C: Okay .
C: Yeah , I d I don't know n something about ergonomic kind of fits-in-the-hand uh stuff .
A: No .
A: But I I think it's still for older people .
A: You j still have older people .
A: It's only annoying if it if it's like that f formed like that , like f Whatever .
A: Just you have a normal But i it is it is it is already fancy .
D: There is one There's just one overall important aspect is that we must make it fancy and it looks original , and I hope we can uh make it look not like the iPod itself .
C: Yeah , but we're we're aiming at a young public .
D: It must have uh uh uh a very different Yeah , they're all the same .
B: Yeah , idea .
B: But you're If you look at the way remote controls are now And if you make it look like the iPod Yeah okay .
A: Because of the lights on the bottom of it .
A: That's already fancy .
B: So that's already a very big change compared to Ye yeah .
A: Uh maybe maybe make the the mm the wha what's it called uh scroll wheel .
A: Make it in in yellow or something .
A: Just like the colours of Real Reaction .
C: Hmm .
B: Well uh Could .
C: Yeah , we could do that .
D: Uh yeah , but uh if you the f uh front , the scroll wheel will still uh be yellow .
A: Yeah .
B: No , I think Oh .
A: It's right .
B: Think the scroll wheel won't be very big .
B: Since if you put it uh somewhere , the chances that it will scroll are too big .
A: Yeah .
B: So it will just be a small small scroll wheel .
B: So it won't uh stick out much .
A: Yeah .
A: Maybe the ones we are going to draw there .
A: Maybe we have to ask uh to the the mm to her if it has if it can work better than this .
A: Because it doesn't work properly .
D: No .
A: So maybe you have to ask her .
B: Yeah okay .
B: Well , maybe we can just open images there , and I'll paint and paint .
A: Okay .
B: I'll be able to do a better job .
A: Yeah .
A: That's probably Okay , so just finish it .
D: If you set the pen yeah , he will draw here .
D: Doesn't work .
A: So we make it a bit like m that one probably .
D: Yeah , I'll see it .
A: Yeah .
A: Is that okay ?
B: Bu Yeah , I agree more like iPod .
C: Yeah .
A: Okay , only the colour and the flashy light and the We just we just skip the the the voca or was it the the speech recognition .
B: Yes .
B: Just a Speech .
B: Yeah , do we s keep that ?
B: Yeah , I think Well uh then it w Well that's very easy .
A: Or keep that ?
A: It's okay .
A: But you'd definitely need a advanced chip .
C: S Uh yeah , I don't know .
D: Uh No .
C: Yeah , I think so .
C: And we we have to build in a microphone and Yeah , and I do I don't know anything about that .
B: We already have uh the beeping of the home station , so Uh strange that I received the information about that .
C: I d I didn't receive any information on speech recognition , so Fine .
D: Oh that's hard .
D: But Uh the ma the main points I I I uh just said .
A: So Can we just put it speech recognition in it as well , okay ?
D: We have to be original and uh technological innovative .
D: Becau Yeah .
D: But Ma But we don't have any f information about the cost .
B: So shall we it open then ?
A: Yeah .
B: So we can put all the Okay .
A: The function of that in there .
A: Yeah .
A: And we need a Probably we need a uh advanced chip then .
C: Yeah , we probably do .
A: But it doesn't say anything about it , does it ?
B: Yeah .
C: No .
B: Oh yeah , I No .
D: We started with information about the cost was now th And how much is the chip ?
B: I just I just received the Yeah .
C: Yeah , uh I have I have some some information about the cost .
C: But just a about the chip .
D: The the the And how how does it work ?
C: I don't know how much , but Just in inexpensive or But i it's a separate chip .
B: Yeah , our division has developed a new speech recognition feature , the integrated programmable sample sensor simple speaker u unit .
B: This is a very small electronic unit , will give a standard answer after it recognise a question .
D: Is it No .
B: Doesn't say .
B: Just You say record , followed by your question sample , and after a few seconds the answer uh sample .
B: Because uh So it works like uh good morning remote control , and then the remote control says good morning .
A: It doesn't has to say anything .
A: Just You have to just talk to Okay , we have to stop it now .
D: Does it say does it say something back ?
B: Yeah uh th that's just It's a No .
A: So just Okay , that's a r That's that's a advanced Yeah , we just decide not to put it in , because it's too difficult .
B: Yeah , it Well that's integrated in the chip , so if you use the speech recognition , that's in it .
B: I dunno , but if we use speech recognition , that will be in it as well .
D: Okay .
C: Yeah , I don't know anything about this , but Nah .
D: Um Yeah .
C: I dunno .
B: Well it it would be would be a good feature feature .
A: Okay , we just put it in , because it's a good feature .
B: Okay .
B: No no worries about the cost , etcetera .
A: We have to stop now .
A: Okay , just We have to stop it now .
B: And there's a chip in it that will Okay .
D: Fine .
","The Project Manager reviewed the minutes from the previous meeting.
The Marketing Expert gave a trendwatching report.
He found that a fancy look and feel was most important for users.
He also discussed the trend towards spongy materials.
The group discussed the cost of adding speech recognition, the LCD screen, and the advanced chip.
The User Interface Designer discussed the look of the interface with the group.
They discussed the placement and design of the buttons and decided to use scroll wheels for volume.
The Industrial Designer advised that flashy colors and rounded shapes be used.
The group discussed how to incorporate the logo and including changeable faces.
They discussed materials for the buttons and the backlight.
The group decided to use rechargeable batteries and a stand, to use plastic for the casing and buttons, and to not include an LCD screen.
The User Interface Designer and the Industrial Designer were instructed to draw the prototype at the next meeting, and the User Interface Designer was instructed to finalize the button placement.
The group finalized the look of the product, and eventually decided to incorporate speech recognition and an advanced chip.
The User Interface Designer and the Industrial Designer will draw the prototype design on the smartboard at the next meeting.
The User Interface Designer was instructed to finalize the placement of the buttons.
The group decided to use a scroll button for volume control.
It will be small and yellow, to use one of the colors of the Real Reaction logo.
The remote will include rechargeable batteries and will be used with a recharging stand.
The remote will feature plastic buttons and casing, rather than rubber.
The remote will not feature an LCD screen.
The remote will feature a double-curved, rounded square design.
The group decided to design five changeable faces for the device.
They eventually decided to incorporate speech recognition and an advanced chip.
The group had difficulties deciding on the placement of the buttons, the shape of the device, and whether or not to include speech recognition.
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"C: Uh , making a profit of fifty million Euros .
A: Alright so twenty five .
D: Mm 'kay .
C: So , it's go gonna have to be be pretty damn trendy .
A: So yeah , I've The only the only remote controls I've used usually come with the television , and they're fairly basic .
C: Yeah .
D: Mm-hmm .
C: Yeah .
A: So uh Mm .
C: Yeah , I was thinking that as well , I think the the only ones that I've seen that you buy are the sort of one for all type things where they're , yeah .
D: Yeah the universal ones .
D: Yeah .
C: So presumably that might be an idea to put into .
A: But but to sell it for twenty five you need a lot of neat features .
B: Slim .
A: For sure .
D: Yeah .
C: Yeah , yeah .
C: Uh 'cause I mean , what uh twenty five Euros , that's about I dunno , fifteen Pounds or so ?
D: Mm-hmm , it's about that .
C: And that's quite a lot for a remote control .
A: Yeah , yeah .
D: Mm .
D: Um well my first thoughts would be most remote controls are grey or black .
D: As you said they come with the T_V_ so it's normally just your basic grey black remote control functions , so maybe we could think about colour ?
C: Uh-huh .
C: Mm-hmm .
D: Make that might make it a bit different from the rest at least .
D: Um , and as you say , we need to have some kind of gimmick , so um I thought maybe something like if you lose it and you can whistle , you know those things ?
C: Okay .
C: The the keyrings , yeah yeah .
D: Because we always lose our remote control .
A: Right .
C: Okay , that's cool .
B: Uh yeah uh , being as a Marketing Exper Expert I will like to say like before deciding the cost of this remote control or any other things we must see the market potential for this product like what is the competition in the market ?
B: What are the available prices of the other remote controls in the prices ?
B: What speciality other remote controls are having and how complicated it is to use these remote controls as compared to other remote controls available in the market .
C: Okay .
B: So before deciding or before finalising this project , we must discuss all these things , like and apart from this , it should be having a good look also , because people really li uh like to play with it when they are watching movies or playing with or playing with their C_D_ player , M_P_ three player like any electronic devices .
D: Okay .
D: Mm .
D: Mm-hmm .
D: Mm-hmm .
B: They really want to have something good , having a good design in their hands , so , yes , all this .
D: Yeah .
C: Okay .
C: 'Kay .
A: Uh , what do we think a What do we think a good size would be for this ?
C: So , we're looking for 'Kay .
C: We're Sorry , carry on .
A: 'Cause I I know as you add more buttons to the remote it sometimes gets so big and clunky and there's just like a hundred buttons on it , or you could have a really small slim one but then you could lose it easily .
D: Yeah .
C: Mm-hmm .
C: Mm-hmm .
D: Yeah .
D: Then you lose it , yeah .
C: Okay .
D: Kind of um , maybe more like a P_D_A_ kind of , just hand held , like , 'cause Yeah .
C: For for uh remember we're trying to make it for twelve Euros fifty .
D: No , I wasn't , no sorry I wasn't thinking of the screen of like a P_D_A_ but Okay .
C: Okay well right we'll have to um I'll we're k having another meeting in half an hour so um we should all look into a bit uh , oh actually , no , we'll allocate .
C: So you do the looking around at other remote controls .
B: Yeah .
C: Um , if you could maybe come up with sort of shapes and suggested shades or whatever , and you could look into um basically how how it's made I_E_ like how you make it all in one , how what sort of materials are available to you whatever .
C: And obviously , other instructions will come from the personal coach .
A: Right .
C: Which will probably just usurp what I said so Shapes and colours and um basically how to make it attractive .
D: So you want me to look at shapes and everything you said ?
D: Yep .
D: Okay .
C: Uh .
D: Mm-hmm .
C: And you look at competition and design .
B: Yep .
C: Cool .
D: Okay .
A: Okay .
C: So we have uh Um .
A: Wait for emails ?
B: Uh .
A: Hmm .
C: Okay , groovy .
C: And no doubt we'll get um Sorry .
D: Oh no , .
D: Sorry it's okay .
C: We'll get um warnings for next meetings as well .
D: Okay , cool .
C: Okay .
C: I shall I can't imagine these are worth much .
C: Okay .
B: Hmm .
C: Fashion into electronic .
C: Okay .
","The group discussed their initial ideas about the features that they wanted to integrate into the design.
They discussed making a universal remote with a locator function.
They also discussed the shape and the number of functions in the main interface.
The Project Manager instructed the Marketing Expert to examine competitors' remotes, the User Interface Designer to research possible shapes and colors, and the Industrial Designer to research possible materials and the necessary internal components of the device.
The Marketing Expert will examine the features and design of competitors' remotes.
The User Interface Designer will research possible shapes and colors for the device.
The Industrial Designer will research possible materials and the necessary internal components of the device.
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"A: Mm-hmm .
B: Mm yeah .
A: Okay .
A: I g yeah .
A: Time is it ?
D: Fourteen twenty six .
A: Okay .
A: Lovely to see you all again .
A: Um it's our conceptual design meeting and it's starting at approximately fourteen twenty five and so we have forty minutes for this one again and so we'll go just after three o'clock .
A: Um okay our agenda , we're gonna do an opening , I'm gonna review the minutes of the last meeting , then we'll have your three presentations um and then we'll have to make a decision on the remote control concepts , and finally we'll close .
B: Okay .
A: So opening .
A: Um these are our minutes from r the functional design .
A: We decided our target group is the focus on who can afford it , because we have international appeal and we said it's for all age groups , different um functions of it .
A: Our main objectives were simplicity and fashion .
A: And s um in specific functions are something to keep the remote from getting lost , large buttons for the essential functions , a possibility for extra functions , like a sliding a sliding piece and a long-life battery or a charging station .
A: Okay , now three presentations .
A: I'd like to do it in this order , first do the conceptual specification of components , properties and materials um and then the conceptual specification of user interface and finally trend watching .
B: That would be me .
C: Yep .
B: Alright .
B: Well .
A: Mm .
A: 'kay .
A: Function F_ eight it .
A: There we go .
B: Alright .
B: Um I'm very excited by this one actually guys I uh had a lot of fun doing it .
B: Components design .
B: This is where you look at what does it take to make a remote control and what should we make our specific remote control out of .
B: Um .
B: So , we need to examine each element separately , but we're designing a full thing , so you wanna keep it integrated as a whole .
B: The main elements of remote controls in general , and therefore ours as well , are the case , the buttons , the circuit board with the chip and the battery .
B: These are all things that we had sort of addressed before , but I'm gonna take each one a little bit separately here as we figure out what they should be made of and what they should look like .
B: The case , uh the options that I've gotten from headquarters about what we can do , um there's there's the shape of a case , we could do a flat sh a flat case , a curved case or maybe even a double double-curved case .
B: I haven't seen any pictures of what this exactly looks like yet , just keep that in mind , but these are the options that we have from manufacturing and we can make our case out of plastic , the m the main base will be plastic , but we have all these sort of fashion and technological elements we can add in , wood , latex , titanium , rubber or other coloured types of plastic .
B: That would be our case .
B: Um buttons , for buttons we have um pushbuttons , which is what Real Reaction uses the most often , but we also have scror scroll wheels , which can have integrated pushbuttons , or we could go all high-tech and have an L_ L_C_D_ screen .
A: Mm .
B: Um circuit board and chip we can have a simple one , a regular one or an advanced one , depending on what our other needs are .
B: And then battery I think is where things get most exciting .
B: We're talking about long-life batteries here .
B: Um we can we can have your sort of basic double A_ batteries , but we also have these options of um using a kinetic battery , like are used in high-tech watches , where you just have to move it a little bit to get it to power up .
B: Um so simple movements like pushing buttons would recharge the battery .
B: Or a solar battery , although there are slight um complications with solar batteries as in we can't use a latex case if we have a solar battery .
A: Hmm .
B: Or um something they only described as the type of battery you find in torches from about fifty years ago , flashlights .
B: Not quite sure what that is , but that's the description that I received , so that's what I'm passing on to you .
B: So those are our options .
B: Um personal preferences that I was thinking through here's what we've been talking about all through , fashion and simplicity .
B: So if we're going for fashion in our cases , I think that what we're gonna wanna look at is a curved or a double-curved case , probably with a variety of design elements .
B: Maybe titanium , maybe some wood .
B: We're gonna have to investigate that better when I get specifics of the actual materials , but that's sort of what I have in mind .
B: And we wanna go for simplicity .
B: Probably pushbuttons , but I'm sort of intrigued by the idea of a scroll scroll wheel , if anyone has anything any ideas on that ?
A: Mm .
B: I mean I know the iPods and things right now have touch scroll um buttons which are exactly like what they're describing , so that might be something we wanna look into .
B: And I'm really intrigued by the idea of a kinetic battery .
B: Solar I don't think would be such a good idea , because how often are you sure that your remote control will get a certain amount of light .
B: But this idea of the kinetic , that you don't have to replace , and that a simple just shaking it around will make it work , I think that that m would be a very interesting thing .
B: But I think we'd also wanna go for e a simple chip or regular chip to keep our costs down .
B: Uh we really only need a regular or advanced chip t if we're gonna start using an L_C_D_ .
B: So I think we want to be aware of not making things overly t technological if they don't need to be , 'cause that'll keep our manufacturing price way down .
B: That's what I have for options .
B: Um I'd appreciate anyone's input , but that's what I'm seeing for the future of the the look of this thing .
D: Is double-curved like would be like two hands kind of thing ?
B: I'm not sure .
B: I haven't received any specific visuals of this yet .
D: Okay .
D: 'Cause I'm imagining like double-curved is like , you know , like two sides that curve and then like one curve would just be like a single vertical-ish kind of looking thing , but I've no idea .
B: This is what I'm sort of Yeah .
B: I'm not sure , but I'll let you know as soon as I get any pictures .
D: Sounds good .
A: Yeah , I wonder Mm-hmm .
B: I know if we do have a double-curved case , it can't have any titanium in it .
B: But the titanium , they were quite they're marketing quite hard to us as being used in the space programme , so that could be quite interesting .
B: Space-age remote .
B: Just all things to keep in mind .
A: Just an interesting marketing kind of element .
B: Yeah .
B: That's about all I have to do , guys .
B: I hope I didn't go through that too quickly .
A: Uh just a real quick question um the weight of these different elements , have you no idea , okay .
B: Yeah , n no idea , no idea .
B: Um I'm assuming that a kinetic battery isn't gonna take up that much weight , and that a tita titanium is very light , I know , um but other than that's really basic , I mean , that's all I have gotten so far .
A: Mm-hmm .
A: Mm-hmm .
A: Okay .
B: Alright ?
B: Any other questions ?
C: Uh-huh .
C: Don't think so .
B: No ?
B: Okay .
A: Mm 'kay .
B: I have save this in the uh shared projects , if anyone wants to look and I have c considerable notes on the topic as well , if anyone needs any more information .
A: Thank you , perfect .
D: Thanks .
B: Uh Just in my notebook , but if anyone has any specific questions , don't hesitate to email me or something .
A: Um if you made notes yourself you can put those on our um underneath our oh , uh in your book , then don't worry about that .
B: Alright ?
B: Uh I guess I can I know .
A: 'Kay now we're um concepts concepts of user interface .
A: Yeah , um .
A: This one's so much tighter than the other one .
A: Okay .
A: Nope .
A: There we go .
A: Here you are .
C: Jess .
B: G oh , geez .
C: Alright , so I'm gonna describe the the concept of the user interface of this des device .
C: Um we've talked about uh the two essential properties of the user interface .
C: We want it to be simple and we want it to be fashionable .
C: Um other we've also got to remember that this is a device that serves as a useful purpose .
C: Uh we want people to be able to use it s as a remote control , so we need to determine what the essential functions of the d of the device are and make sure that we include that we've included all of those and that we actually end up with a device that is going to be useful to people .
C: We have a number of different choices for a design concept um and s that's that's something that that I'll show you some examples of um , but essentially we need to choose how how is this device going to work , how how what kind of model is there going to be for user interaction with this device .
C: Uh once we've chosen a a concept for it , we can then design the features around the concept , making sure that we get all the essential functions in the device and uh the extra functions and the more advanced features .
C: And of course we also have to make it look cool .
C: So basically , that's what we don't want .
C: M we don't want lots of buttons , uh complicated features .
C: We want something that looks nice and simple .
C: Here's a a fairly simple device .
B: Hmm .
C: This is an an iPod from Apple .
C: Um I think the main thing to notice about it is it just has four buttons .
C: It's very minimalistic in its design .
C: Uh you use these four buttons to m to move around a range of settings on the small L_C_D_ screen .
C: Um the thing I like about this is that it's very very quick to access the main features .
C: Uh you can just about make out uh that the button three buttons are uh previous track , next track and play pause .
C: They're the main the main features of the iPod , the things you will use a all the time .
C: Um then if you want to do anything more advanced , you go into the little menu on the L_C_D_ screen and you use the buttons just to scroll around and and find the more advanced features that you want .
C: So I think that's that's a good a good kind of model that we could have .
C: Um here's a another example .
C: This is uh it's an interesting idea and I think i it looks pretty cool .
C: Um it's certainly got novelty value .
C: Uh it's nice and colourful , it's nice and bright .
A: Mm .
C: Uh it's also something that you can kind of feel your way around .
C: The buttons are are different shapes and and you can sort of yeah if you're watching T_V_ in the dark or whatever , you can work out which button's which and basically , yeah it's ith it's fun .
C: So I I like I like this idea of just having buttons for the features that you use most often .
C: So you'd need a few buttons to select your favourite channels .
C: I mean most people , when they watch T_V_ , they have two hundred and fifty channels on their T_V_ and they watch of 'bout four of them at the most .
C: So , you have buttons for your favourite channel , changing the volume , which is something you do all the time when you're watching T_V_ , and the button to switch it off , in case you get bored .
C: Um other features , things like adjusting the brightness , tuning the T_V_ , uh I don't know what else you do with a T_V_ .
C: Um but these are these are all necessary functions .
C: Uh you can't have a t there's no point having a television that you can't tune or that you can't set the contrast , so we need to find a way of including these somehow .
C: Um and one other suggestions I'd make is to in is to include in a menu system , a bit like on the iPod .
C: So we'd either have a small L_C_D_ display on the device itself , or uh have a dis a menu display that comes up on your television and can b be controlled through the device .
B: Hmm .
C: And that would allow you to access access the advanced features uh whilst keeping a very small and simple set of buttons for the features that you use most often .
A: Okay .
B: So you'd be advocating an L_C_D_ then ?
C: I think that's that's one way to go , yes .
B: Okay .
C: Um I mean there are there are advantages and disadvantages if you if you have an L_C_D_ display , it's it's nice , because it's it it lets you just sort of sit there and st and control your television from your armchair .
B: Mm-hmm .
C: There are disadvantages , an an L_C_D_ display would have to be quite small , 'cause we're we're I well we're I assume we're gonna be making quite a small device .
B: Right .
C: Um it would also have to have uh a kind of backlighting in it , 'cause you ten you tend to watch T_V_ in the dark , but you need to be able to see your L_D_D_ L_C_D_ display .
A: Mm-hmm .
B: Right .
C: The alternative is to have a an on-screen display on your television that you control through your remote control .
C: Uh a bit like a bit like how they have these um digital boxes where you you press the buttons and it comes up with your this thing of watch lo what's on each channel .
A: Mm-hmm .
C: I mean that that's also a good idea .
B: Okay .
C: It's it can it does have it's problems as well , if you've got a small T_V_ and you're sitting on the other side of a room , it's hard to read the little text that comes up .
A: Mm .
B: Mm-hmm .
C: Uh but that's a that's a design decision that we can make .
B: 'Kay .
A: I do think that um one of the important features for a remote is seeing a menu and seeing what's on .
A: Um and so like favourite channels is is applicable , but I think th that you do need to have some kind of function where it's um you have t you can see the title of the show or possibly a description of it .
C: Yeah .
B: Well Are you are you tak Yeah .
C: Yeah .
A: Like I I know I use that often enough .
D: Wait , but is that separate from what he was saying ?
A: Well if it if it was a L_ L_C_D_ on th on the remote , I don't know that you could f that you'd be able to see a Okay .
B: No , I think I think we're talking menu like contrast and tuning the V_C_R_ or something if I've understood you correctly , rather than menu as what's on .
C: Yeah , that that would be one of the features , yes .
A: Okay .
C: But it's it's it's something to bear in mind is that if we put a display on the remote control the c uh communication is one way , so you can't have the televisions and information back to the remote control , at least I don't think you can .
A: 'Cause that would be more specifically a digital box , mm-hmm .
B: Oh , good point .
A: Mm .
C: Um I'm not sure .
B: Yeah .
A: Okay , now we're moving on to market .
D: Should I plug that in ?
A: Marketing .
C: Is that going on ?
C: Okay .
D: Maybe it's just not Is it on ?
C: Uh that should be alright , actually .
D: Ri What F_ do you have to press , five ?
A: Eight .
D: I just keep pressing lots of 'em .
D: Well , I don't know how relevant all of this gonna be .
D: If anything , the that they gave me .
B: No signal .
A: Oops , it's not plugged in , quite in well enough .
D: Alright .
A: There we are .
B: Oop , there we go .
A: Mm 'kay .
D: Oh yeah .
D: Okay , so we're gonna look a little bit at trend watching .
D: Basically , I was given um an executive summary that was a market investigation on remote controls that was recently conducted , and then also some fashion watchers in Paris and Milan commented on some things that are gonna be going on this year .
D: So first um they had people they ranked um the important aspects of r remote controls , and right now i d they're saying that currently there's a functional look and feel preference , but that really , over the next year it it that's gonna be switching to fancy look and feel remotes , so that just goes back to the whole desire of our c Real Reaction company wanting to focus on fashion and so , even though we're stressing , when we're talking , we've all been talking about this like simplicity and easy to use idea , they're sort of wanting us to remember that the number one thing for everyone is that it's fancy look and feel .
D: And as these are ranked , the top one is doubly important to the second one , which is doubly important to the third one , so just to take that weight into account .
B: Okay .
D: The second thing that was mentioned as important was the technological innovations .
D: That would be like if we use something like the space material or the L_C_D_ screen , things like that .
D: And then ease of use was the third most important , whi so really , no matter what , we need to focus the most on fancy look and feel , according to this .
D: I don't know how much we agree with that .
D: And then the fashion watch talks about that this year's top trend for clothes , shoes and furniture is fruits and vegetables and tha that there's a preference for spongy , tight material .
A: S sweet .
D: And so that brings us to my personal preferences .
D: Who wants a spongy remote or one with fruit and vegetable padding .
D: Personally , I don't really think that I want one that's gonna go out of style or go stale , excuse the pun , um in a year , so even though this is coming from us as , you know , trend watch , market research , I don't know how much of it we necessarily wanna take away .
D: Also , considering that the d research b has been carried out by Real Reaction , I'm a little hesitant as to like , how these questions may have been worded , and if necessarily this whole fashion to technology y edas ease of use is necessarily the right ranking .
D: Personally , like I might reverse it , but if we're working for this company then I guess no matter what , we have to stress fashion the most .
D: But it doesn't necessarily need to be a spongy material .
B: Mm .
B: That there's all kinds of scope for imagination in that one though .
D: Yeah .
D: I don't have a lot of notes to share if you want them , that pretty much sums it up .
D: So yeah .
A: Okay , do we have any s some questions for this , let's see um .
D: Yeah , what can I possibly enlighten on ?
A: Um do you have any ideas how to possibly use these ?
A: Um how to how to use a fruit or vegetable or um or the spongy material at all ?
A: Like could we make a s like could we make a spongy remote ?
A: It would be easier on the hands .
B: If it's latex if it's latexy Um , mean An uh I if th my understanding of a latex case is that it's in fact hard to protect stuff inside , but that it's covered with the latex , which is spongier and softer on your hands .
A: It's kind of and then it we would have to find a way to protect like the chip and all that , I dunno .
C: A kind of thing that Yeah .
A: But Mm-hmm .
B: It's there's something to be said , I mean we we got that thing earlier from you about um not wanting it to R_ R_ repetitive stress injuries and things and and Yeah , something grippable , I mean we don't we don't we don't wanna go spongy , maybe .
A: Mm-hmm .
D: Mm-hmm .
D: Yeah , so something , m m instead of a necess yeah , grip , I'm thinking grip more than like sinking into your hands , you know , i and I think I'm envisioning more like , you know , the material that you have when you sit on like a bicycle , so that it doesn't hurt when you're sitting down for a long time , like I'm imagining that sort of thing , I don't know what th that material's called .
C: Yeah .
C: Yeah .
B: Yeah .
A: Mm-hmm .
B: Mm-hmm .
B: Yeah , I think that given the list of materials I w I was forwarded it's that seems doable .
B: could we go in fruit and vegetable colours ?
B: We could colour-co-ordinate them , li The buttons could be fruit-shaped .
A: F for sure , or maybe like um couple main ones being like , I dunno , lemons or strawberries or something .
A: Could they be smelly ?
C: I Is it supposed to be shaped like a vegetable ?
B: Oh well it's quite easy to s shape thing like carrot isn't it ?
D: Oh God .
C: Uh like uh I dunno , like uh carrots or something .
A: I don't know .
A: Or carrot shaped , mm .
C: Maybe , or Kind of like a potato .
B: Or maybe the buttons could be shaped like different fruits .
A: Like large button , that's what I was thinking of , yeah .
D: What about the idea of like a round remote ?
D: Instead of like a vertical up and down one .
D: Like in terms of holding it .
D: Like that's a f shape of a fruit .
B: be yeah .
B: It'd be harder to f bu uh buttons I think .
D: Just to tie it in a little .
A: Might would you think you you do you think you'd be able to hold it ?
C: Yeah .
A: 'Cause I think the reason they're long is yeah .
B: It'd be harder to press button .
C: Depends .
A: Harder to push .
C: When you when you use a remote , do you press the buttons with your thumb , usually ?
D: Yeah .
C: Or your fingers ?
B: Um I Yeah , that's ts how I tend to do it .
A: I usually hold it in one hand .
A: Maybe But then the buttons would have to be very small .
C: Or maybe you want something that's shaped like a mobile phone , so you you hold it in one hand , and you press the buttons with your thumb .
D: Yeah , 'cause otherwise your fingers can't move around .
A: Don't you think ?
B: No just thumb-sized .
B: Jus Yeah .
D: But I like i I love the idea of the wheel like the iPod .
A: But I mean in order to get to all of them , you know .
C: Yeah .
A: They would have to be within a certain amount of space with each other .
C: Maybe .
B: That's true .
C: But if you've only got like four or five buttons anyway , then it's it's not so much a problem , perhaps .
B: Right .
B: I When I'm when I'm pressing buttons on my iPod , that's how I do it , hold it and press the four .
A: Mm-hmm .
C: So you hold it in one hand and you press you press the buttons with your thumb and And you find that works quite well ?
B: Yeah .
B: Yeah , or in and use my thumb or my pointer finger on the touch scroll wheel .
A: Mm-hmm .
B: Yeah It wel well yeah , it would I mean each version of it has been a little bit different , but Oh yeah , you had one of the in-between ones , when they weren't doing that anymore .
A: Mm-hmm .
C: Is that The button on an iPod , is it what is it , is it just four buttons or is it li more like a scroll thing ?
D: 'Cause th It's like five , 'cause there's one in the middle .
A: It's a scroll , yeah , it's a wheel .
A: The one I have doesn't have the four on i like around it , I don't think .
B: Ts and you press the centre button , that's that's your all-purpose select button right there .
C: Right .
C: Oh , I see , right , yeah .
C: Oh , okay .
B: Since it's the one in the centre that's not marked , yeah .
C: Yeah , that's quite a good design .
D: I think why it would be good for us is 'cause like you could have the same wheel sort of effect for like channel flipping and then the other one could be like for volume .
B: Yeah .
D: Like just the idea of like those so few buttons for main things , but then how you could go back to the menu and like , I dunno if we would want it on the screen there or on the actual T_V_ .
B: Uh uh t Yeah .
D: I kind of am wanting to say on the T_V_ , 'cause if you're changing the brightness , don't you wanna see it happening , kind of ?
B: Hmm .
A: Mm .
C: Yeah .
B: Yeah .
D: And then you could still have that available .
B: Yeah , I think an L_C_D_ screen might be good in theory , but not as useful in practice .
C: I think it could be difficult in practice , yeah .
B: Yeah .
C: Also z yeah , 'cause you would be z looking down at the L_C_D_ screen , than back up at your T_V_ and people don't wanna do that .
D: Mm-hmm .
B: Right .
D: Mm-hmm .
B: Um Oh we probably have to get going , don't we ?
A: Okay um we have we've about fifteen minutes left , so I'm I'm gonna continue with my pres presentation .
D: Uh-huh .
A: Um I've one more slide before we close , but in that slide is when we need to make decisions about this these kinds of things , so I'll just bring that up and show you all before we move on .
B: 'Kay .
A: Um Yeah , and then like the the covers could be spongy latex wherea but the actual model could be titanium .
D: If I get any more information of fruits and vegetables , I'll let you know .
B: Could Could we uh could we have changeable covers like for your mobile ?
C: Like , to make it different fruits .
B: In different fruit and vegetable colours , yeah .
C: Yeah , it's possible .
B: Exactly .
B: And you could co-ordinate with your house or whatever .
C: I think maybe th the packaging , it should be like a lemon and the the packaging is like the peel .
B: All these options .
C: So instead of opening the box you just kind of peel it , and the remote control's inside .
B: Ooh .
D: Well , there we go .
B: Oh .
C: Don't know .
A: Ah hmm hmm hmm .
D: The iPod packaging is me like was so that was like half the fun .
D: It's like the way it all comes all cute .
B: Yeah .
B: Mm .
D: Lemons ?
B: Options .
A: Okay , um components concept .
A: Energy , chip on print .
B: Uh-hu oh , oh yes .
B: Right , I had sort of skipped over that hoping it wouldn't get be necessary but um Alright , so um decisions , what the okay deci decisions on energy I'm thinking is based on the battery .
A: G That's th th this is the agenda they gave me .
A: So can you just explain what that is real quick ?
A: Mm-hmm .
B: Um I dunno , what do people think about this kinetic battery idea ?
A: I think it's awesome .
A: I think it's really cool .
B: Am I Yeah .
D: Yeah , I mean , it would t totally take care of our problem of not wanting to change batteries .
B: Yeah .
C: Yeah , um I think it's good , as as long as we consider the the cost and the uh how reliable it is , but as far as I know , the technology is good .
B: Right , I haven't gotten any yeah , any more information on cost other than it's more expensive than a regular battery , but um but if we're using a an i a cheaper chip , then it'll even out , I think .
D: Costs .
D: But over time Yeah , it's a But if you c if you could scroll through the channels , and then the volume would just be and the volume would just be like the same way , forward and backward as I'm just thinking like it would make it much like sleeker sort of looking .
B: Um circuit boards .
B: Um yeah , I got a whole bunch of information on how circuit boards are produced .
B: They're they're thin fibreglass with copper wires etched on to them , and di I think they're quite easily printed on by machine , which is chip on print is where the machine prints on the wires and solders it all together for us .
B: I don't really know what to tell you as far as decisions .
B: I wasn't really given any options , I was just given that this is how they're done .
A: Okay .
B: Um yeah , I can't can't really tell you .
B: I can I can tell you a whole lot about how it works .
B: But I don't know any decisions on Yeah .
A: If they're if they're really options .
B: I'm sorry , I did f Yeah .
A: Okay .
C: Al all circuit boards are pretty much the same , I think .
C: Uh it's fairly fairly standard .
A: Um okay , then we'll move on to the case .
A: Um oh bu I guess maybe if we decided on like a simple , a regular , or an advanced chip , maybe .
B: Right .
B: Well okay , here's the here's the thing on the chips that I that I got .
B: Um simple , regular , advanced chip on print .
B: The chip on print includes an infrared sensor , so we don't have to worry about that .
B: Um , 'kay , the pushbutton if we're gonna have pushbuttons , they require a simple chip , but a scroll wheel requires a regular chip , and an L_C_D_ requires advanced .
B: Do we want a scroll wheel , or do we just want pushbuttons ?
C: Um I don't think we ne really need the scroll whe wheel .
C: I mean it might be nice for changing the volume .
B: Oh .
A: It would be nice for changing the volume , but I don't know how useful it'd be for changing the channel .
C: Uh but I don't think it would really work .
A: 'Cause you don't have control over numbers or We have five minutes left for the meeting , so .
C: Yeah , you really need buttons for changing a channel .
B: Yeah , th it'd be it'd be handy for going through if there was an on-screen menu of your channel choices , than you can scroll down on the scroll .
C: Yeah .
B: Yeah .
B: Yeah .
B: Yeah .
D: And otherwise , no matter how may buttons we have , we're gonna have like , you know , black with red sticking out and th no it's gonna inevitably sort of start looking like those group of sort of ugly ones that we saw stacked up .
C: Yeah .
C: Yeah .
B: Hmm .
A: So , have a scroll for volume ?
B: F or for all those secret functions ?
A: F Um .
B: When you get on the on-screen menu of all your functions that your remote could do for you without the buttons and you could have a scroll wheel to go through those menus .
C: I think yeah , I think a scroll wheel would be nice , but it's not necessary .
B: Right .
C: Um Yeah .
B: So we could either go with a simple or a regular chip , depending and maybe we could table that decision for later .
B: I don't know .
A: I think w well I think when we go on to the une userface , we're gonna have to decide the interface we're gonna have to decide um whether we're gonna have a scroll or not .
B: Okay .
B: Well , let's think about that while we talk about the case .
A: Okay , let's do case .
B: Uh I'm kinda liking the idea of latex , if if spongy is the in thing .
A: I'm a little um I'm a little hesitant about it , because I'm worried about protecting the stuff on the inside .
B: Okay .
A: Um Yeah , I would be more okay with like a titanium actual thing and then maybe like a mobile phone kind of thing .
D: Oh could it be hard , and then something around it ?
B: Uh yeah , everything I've N oh wha what I've what I've seen , just not related to this , but of latex cases before , is that there's uh like a hard plastic inside , and it's just covered with the latex .
A: Mm-hmm .
A: Okay .
B: Not too thick a layer of latex , just enough to be grippable , like bike handles or or anything that you've seen like that .
A: Mm-hmm .
A: Okay .
B: The inside is hard .
B: I don't think we need to worry about protecting the circuit board , I think that that's done for us .
A: Ge o Okay .
C: 'Kay .
C: Yeah .
A: So we uh we do want latex .
C: Yeah .
B: Yeah .
A: Okay .
A: Latex .
A: Um and probably in colours , maybe fruity , vegetable colours .
B: Yeah .
A: Fruity colours .
A: Okay um let's go to the ufe user interface then we'll come back to the chip I suppose .
B: Oh and we want a curved case , yeah ?
B: Or a double-curved ?
A: Well , we don't really know what the difference is , right ?
D: I'm thinking curved of some sort .
A: Yeah .
B: Yeah , okay .
C: Yeah .
B: We don't really know what the difference Good point .
A: Um okay , interface , the type and the supplements .
A: So push or scroll , right ?
C: Um Yep .
A: Or both ?
C: Um And I think if we wanna keep our costs down , we should just go for pushbuttons , 'cause then we can have a a simple chip and it's simpler , it's it's cheaper to make pushbuttons than it is a scroll button .
C: So in terms of uh in terms of uh economics it's probably better to have pushbuttons .
A: Mm-hmm .
A: And if we had a sc an on-screen um kind of thing that you could scroll through , like you can use your buttons to scroll through things .
C: Yeah , yeah , it's uh it's it's fairly simple .
A: I think that yeah .
A: For channel surfing I think a scroll an actual like an iPod's kind of scroll thing would be too fast , I dunno .
B: Yeah .
B: I say pushbuttons at least unless we get any information but I have no idea how much more expensive a scroll wheel is than than a pushbutton , but it's gotta be some more expensive , so I think it might be better to put our money into the stuff like the kinetic battery and the cool case because Yeah .
C: Yeah .
A: Mm-hmm .
C: Yeah .
A: Is that okay with you ?
C: Interesting .
A: How you feeling ?
D: Yeah .
D: And let's like see if we get anything else .
D: I mean I'm not like hard-sold on the scroll wheel , it's more just to give it a different kind of look , but if it's gonna be in a latex type thing and that's gonna look cool , then that's probably gonna have a bigger impact than the scroll wheel .
A: Mm-hmm .
A: It might be cool enough .
A: Okay , so we're gonna go with um type pushbuttons , and then supplements , how are we gonna do that ?
C: Yep .
C: Uh what do you mean by supplements , exactly ?
A: Um I assume that's what else we're gonna like h ha the um the additional buttons we can use .
C: Um Yep .
B: Oh .
A: So we're gonna have like a menu button , so that we can access on-screen things then ?
C: Yeah .
A: Okay , um so we're doing an on-screen menu that we can scroll through .
B: Alright .
C: Um in Yeah .
B: So what are what are our buttons gonna be ?
B: On off So like one through five , or No .
C: On off , uh volume , favourite channels , uh and menu .
C: Yeah , yeah about yeah like yeah , a bit like radio presets .
D: Like a radio type sorta situation ?
C: Um Uh we wouldn't even need the numbers .
A: Pre-set channels and then we're gonna need um numbers one through zero , right ?
C: I think maybe numbers seems is kind of old-fashioned .
A: Well , but in order to pre-set a cha oh I guess you can just hold it down when you get to one when you're scrolling through .
C: Yeah , yeah , you can just and you need some kind of , I dunno , sort of up down kind of button , but the volume control could double for that , for example .
B: Mm .
B: Yeah , up down .
A: Mm-hmm .
A: Okay , um finishing the meeting now .
A: Um our next meeting starts in thirty minutes , um you each have things to do , look and feel design , user interface design , product evaluation , and you two are going to work together on a prototype using modelling clay .
A: You'll get specific instructions from your personal coach .
B: Ooh .
C: Cool .
D: Wow .
A: Um did we decide on a chip ?
A: Let's go with a simple chip ?
B: Simple chip .
C: Yep .
A: Okay .
A: We are done .
A: Thank you everyone .
A: Oh I di these are already in our shared folder , so .
B: Okay , cool .
B: Clay .
C: Clay .
C: I wasn't expecting that .
","The project manager recapped the decisions made in the previous meeting.
The industrial designer discussed possible materials to use in making the case for the remote, options for buttons, and options for batteries.
The interface specialist presented two existing products which incorporate features the team is seeking to embed in their remote.
The interface specialist also discussed other features to possibly incorporate into the design of the remote, such as an LCD screen.
The marketing expert discussed recent findings from trend watching reports and how to incorporate these findings into the remote design with respect to what materials to use and the overall appearance of the product.
The team then discussed other options for how they could incorporate a fruit and vegetable theme into the appearance of their product.
The team then discussed other options for batteries, chips, buttons, and materials for the case, as well as the option to have a menu function.
Two members of the team will work on creating a prototype using modeling clay.
The industrial designer will work on the look and feel of the design and will gather more information on curved and double-curved case options.
The marketing specialist will work on product evaluation.
The interface specialist will continue to work on the interface concept
The target group comprises of individuals who can afford the product.
The remote will use a kinetic battery.
The remote will have a latex case.
The remote will be made in fruity colors.
The remote will have some sort of a curved case.
The remote will have pushbuttons.
The remote will have a power button, volume buttons, channel preset buttons, and a menu button.
The remote will have a simple chip.
Having an LCD on the remote versus a menu that is viewed on the television screen.
Whether to use latex or titanium for the case.
How to incorporate a vegetable and fruit theme into the design of the remote.
What sort of circuit board to use.
Whether to use a simple, regular, or advanced chip.
Whether to use a scroll wheel or pushbuttons.
Whether to have a flat, curved, or double-curved case.
"
"D: Great man .
D: Who starts ?
A: Well I'll uh start just with another presentation , so then we can uh look at th at the agenda uh for this meeting .
D: Alright , great .
D: Alright .
A: Okay .
A: I've put some uh new things in the in the map .
D: Mm-hmm .
A: Uh oh .
A: This is it .
A: I don't know the shortcut , so Ah F_ five .
A: Well our functional design meeting , that's the stage we're in .
C: Mm .
A: And you also ha all three of you have uh prepared something about it .
D: Yes .
A: Well um in we'll uh just have a look at the at the notes from the previous meeting , what we uh thought we had dec decided .
A: But uh Uh then we'll uh look at uh the three uh presentations uh from you .
D: 'Kay .
A: I think you have prepared uh all three uh ?
C: Well , yeah .
D: Yeah .
A: Um we'll look at th the new project requirements we uh I dunno .
A: Y you also have uh received that mail , the new project requirements from our bosses ?
C: No .
D: No .
A: Oh I've received a mail with uh some additional requirements , and I'll have a look if Well I think we should show them before your presentations , because it's not really uh smart uh to uh to include some things uh we can't , because of the new requirements .
D: You're the only one .
C: Oh .
D: Alright .
D: 'Kay .
A: Well um then we can make some decisions about our remote control functions .
A: We have to deb we have to decide it in this meeting what our function will be .
A: And then uh we can discuss uh some more closely .
C: We have forty minutes for this uh discussion ?
A: Uh Uh yeah , I think so .
C: Alright .
A: Well uh the closing uh we'll not uh look at it yet .
D: Alright .
A: Um now I'll look at show this board .
A: Um Well uh notes , first meeting .
A: Now .
A: I gave a disc a a presentation .
A: Uh we familiarised ourself with the boards and then we discussed some first ideas .
A: So we said that uh we have to merge the strong points from our uh competitors , and uh look at their uh remote controls .
D: Right .
A: We should make it uh compatible with our new D_V_D_ and other releases we have , our technical releases .
C: Huh ?
A: Uh not too many one buttons .
A: One recognisable button in the middle , where you do the most important functions with .
A: And um well they can have two functions , because uh you have a D_V_D_ and a television .
C: Yeah .
A: Um the design has to fit the hand , be original , but also be familiar .
A: It's uh one of our ideas .
A: Yeah well that wa It's just thirty minutes ago , so it's not quite uh But well I have to do it .
C: Mm-hmm , now it's right .
D: Yeah .
A: The materials uh well should be hard plastic with rubber from , and uh well the labelling of the buttons should be indestructible .
A: It should be uh recognisable at all times .
C: It's meant to be easily wiped out , yeah .
B: Mm .
A: Yes .
D: Okay .
A: Well fronts were to be just like mobile telephones .
A: And uh the technical aspects um And also labelling of the buttons , the functions should be universal standards .
A: Well that's just uh some ideas from the first meeting .
C: Mm-hmm .
A: It's quite logical al all of it .
A: Um now the new project requirements , I'll just show them .
A: I got this mail from uh our bosses .
A: Well , teletext goes out .
B: Oh .
A: We will not use teletext .
D: Okay .
A: Maybe a new sort of thing , but n but not teletext .
C: I I disagree , but uh it's not uh t it's not my place to disagree I guess .
A: Well the second is a bit sh pity because we just said we wanted to d include the D_V_D_ and they don't want it , because of our time we have for this project .
B: Oh .
D: Alright .
C: Oh , alright .
B: Oh , that's a shame .
A: So that's a shame , because uh especially for the third requirement we want to reach people under the thirty years .
A: Because uh we don't have those customers a lot at th at this point .
A: Um well it's a bit pity because it's just those people want to have uh one remote control for all those technical devices they can uh reach it .
D: Yeah .
D: But let's forget about it .
D: It's just time-consuming , so we uh have to go on .
A: Yeah .
A: Well and uh our corporate image should stay rec recognisable in our products .
A: So uh we have to uh use uh maybe a slogan , maybe a colour , and um Yeah well uh on our remote controls the design has to be uh , well as we already said a actually , uh familiar .
D: Yes .
A: Uh not only just uh the shape but also our company .
C: Yeah , we are a real fashionable company .
C: I read uh I read it on the I didn't know what company we were , but we we design uh especially trendy uh trendy trendy stuff .
A: Yeah .
B: Yeah .
A: Yeah .
D: Mm .
A: Yeah .
C: So it has to be uh a modern design .
A: Okay .
C: That's important to know , uh when you design a thing of course .
A: Yes .
A: I I uh noted uh our uh slogan that we have , our company .
A: It's uh we mm put the fashion in electronics .
C: Yeah .
D: Right .
A: So maybe that's a slogan we can put uh somewhere on our remote control or something .
B: Yeah .
A: Alright then um we're going to uh have three presentations .
D: Yeah .
A: You want to start ?
D: Yeah .
D: I think I have to start .
A: Oh you have to start ?
A: I didn't see anything about uh who had to start .
D: Oh no , no problem .
C: The order ?
C: No .
A: Well s then start .
B: Mm .
D: I I just have to uh to think which file's mine , 'cause I was uh bit in a hurry .
A: Okay .
A: Well uh You already uh opened uh PowerPoint .
D: I think it's this one .
D: But I'm not sure .
D: Hmm ?
D: Yeah .
D: S Right .
D: Yes .
D: This is it .
A: Yeah .
D: Well , I'm going to tell you something about functional requirements .
A: Mm-hmm .
D: Um to start with these points .
D: Uh next sheet ?
D: Um at first I tell you something about what people dislike about the current uh controls , because it's uh a smart thing to exclude those things .
D: Uh , furthermore it's very important what they do like and what they do use .
D: Um then I tell something about um the most important issues .
D: So we have to focus on those three thing three things .
D: And in the end I'll um show you our target audience or our target product users , customers .
D: Well , um the first findings are that people um think most controls are very kind of ug ugly .
D: That's seventy five per cent of the current users .
D: They don't like it , so we might think about fronts in that section .
D: Um They also say , that's about uh I thought it was fifty per cent , uh that more money will be spent on uh better looking controls .
D: So it's very important that you design a a nice looking control .
D: Um the current user uses his machine just about well all of the time for a few functions .
D: Uh , almost every user uses it d the the control for just ten per cent of its capacity .
D: So it's really important to make the the buttons for the common uh tasks kind of big or kind of uh flashy .
D: Furthermore , it's uh seventy five per cent of the users uh zaps a lot .
D: Thus it might be uh might be smart to make a a big uh zapping button or something in the middle , so you can reach it with your thumb .
C: You can zap away .
D: Yeah , yeah right .
A: Yeah .
C: Yeah .
D: Right .
D: A lot of losers um users lose their controls in their in their living room .
D: So it might be sensible to make some kind of a button on your television , that's your um your control beeps or something , that you can find this very easily .
B: Yeah .
D: I dunno , maybe that's an idea .
A: Well It should actually uh It should actually be loose from the television , because it can also be used for other televisions .
D: 'Cause it's uh a big I think fifty per cent of the users loses his its control , within the same room .
C: Oh .
C: Oh ?
B: Yeah .
D: So Yeah but what if you lose your click-on device ?
A: So if you deliver a small uh click-on device that you can put on your television , that bleeps to your remote control , everyone can use it .
A: No you can click it on your television .
D: Yeah but if someone d somebody else uses it in ano other room or something ?
A: Yeah in another room , yeah .
D: Nee but it it specifically says it's uh the the control is lost in the same room .
A: Well yes .
C: Mm-hmm .
A: Yeah .
D: So Well a beeping device would be Uh furthermore the learning time is a problem .
A: Well we'll have a look at it , yeah .
D: Uh thirty four thirty four per cent um thinks it's it's too uh too difficult to learn .
D: So the the learning curve should be very short uh for the dumbest people should be able to use it .
C: I think our uh user uh expert should also consider manual a manual for the remote , of course .
D: Yeah but people don't read manuals .
C: Uh I didn't read it ?
C: Oh , alright .
D: No .
B: No .
C: users to uh add one ?
C: Do you think ?
B: I don't think Yeah .
D: I think you should put more time in the in the design of uh pick up and use , than a manual .
C: Mm-hmm .
B: Yes you should You should could take a look at it and and and know how it how it's supposed to work .
C: Yeah alright .
A: Yep .
C: Because they don't use it ?
C: Alright .
D: Yeah .
A: Well there sh should always be a menu , but it c can be very short .
D: Right .
D: And it should be consistent with consistent with older remotes .
B: Yeah but nobody reads a manual about a remote control , I think .
A: Yes okay .
C: Well maybe for the If you don't recognise a button who d who d who do I call uh wh when I don't know it ?
D: Alright .
B: Yeah right .
B: It sh it should be there , the manual .
B: But but not to explain how the remote works .
B: Only Hmm .
D: And we don't have much time .
D: So it's better to uh put our attention to the the design .
D: So you can pick up and use it , than I think .
A: Well we are a design team , we can say to some uh writer uh make a manual point .
D: Yeah right , right .
C: Isn't it part of the of the u No .
A: So Well we'll have a look .
C: No .
C: Never mind .
D: Next point .
A: Um yes ?
D: Um R_S_I_ .
D: Well that's about twenty per cent I thought .
D: But uh the designer should uh take it uh should uh Wie zeg ik dat ?
C: Consider the m Yeah .
D: Yeah , consider the consequences of using your remote .
D: It should be a good in your hand .
C: Mm-hmm .
A: Yep .
D: Right , this is the most important part .
D: Um , we're Like the requirements said , we're gonna specify of we're gonna target a younger audience .
D: Um , that's about sixty per cent of the market , so it's uh quite important .
D: Um research shows that they like to have a little L_C_D_ screen on their on their uh zapping uh device .
D: Uh I thought it was the age between sixteen and twenty , ninety nine per cent of uh the people like that .
A: Well Well with twelve Euro fifty as production cost , we can't uh afford an L_C_D_ uh Yeah .
D: So it's very important we should definitely have that in our uh designs .
C: It's going to be expensive .
B: No .
C: Yeah .
D: Yeah but they think it's really important .
D: So if we want to s If we have a big If we make lots of uh of the stuff , maybe we can uh buy it very cheap , I dunno .
D: We have to uh Yeah , I don't know .
C: Well we'll uh consider it uh .
A: Well Yeah well uh it's your your task to uh look into the costs uh of those uh Nigh I know .
C: We'll think abo we'll think No , we'll look we'll look into that later .
D: I don't have any information on that .
D: So Right .
C: Alright ?
D: And uh another thing is uh speech uh recognition .
D: They also like that , but research is very uh costly .
B: I think that's uh difficult to realise also .
D: So Yeah , but it it might be important for the sale .
C: We have very demanding clients .
A: It's not yet a standard uh development uh those so We sh Yeah absolutely .
B: No and we have customers in multiple uh countries I think .
D: Well I do think L_C_D_ is more reachable than the speech recognition .
B: Yeah .
D: So we might consider L_C_D_ screens .
C: Yeah , yeah , alright .
C: Well we'll consider both and and see what uh what what we can find , I think .
B: No .
D: Alright .
A: Yep .
C: We don't rule them out uh yet .
A: 'Kay .
D: Alright .
D: Um , I think that's it .
D: Um I think it is sensible to u uh to take this take these points into the notes .
A: Alright .
A: Yes .
D: So you can Right .
A: Well you I c I can uh still see your presentation .
D: Yeah .
D: Right .
A: It's in the Well uh next um I dunno who is next .
A: You uh got uh Yes .
C: Shall I give a technical talk ?
B: Oh you go .
C: Alright .
A: Well go ahead .
C: Well uh it is my task to uh explain uh or to point out a working design .
A: Yip .
C: We have that here .
C: Okay , how do you enlarge it , so that you can have the F_ F_ five .
A: F_ five .
A: F_ five .
C: Yep .
D: Alright .
C: Well , the working design , that's my uh Well alright uh , you know who I am and what I do .
D: Next button .
C: So uh we have this .
C: It's a bit uh unclear because I wanted to copy paste something .
C: It was originally in black and white but it became black and purple .
D: Oh right .
D: Purple .
C: But I think you can read it .
D: Yeah , yeah , yeah .
C: Um well um I think it's important uh for you to realise the basic function of a remote control .
D: A bit .
C: Uh well you can see uh And I then can select I can select on the dings It goes to the next page .
D: Maybe you can select it .
D: So it uh inverts .
D: the p the whole picture .
D: Nah , uh never mind .
A: Click .
C: Well , you can read it , it's not too difficult .
B: Yeah , go ahead .
C: Meanwhile , this is a schematic uh um view of uh how a basic remote control works .
C: You have uh basically uh the energy , the power of the of the remote control , uh and the sender , w which is the LED , the the the the the the the the the bulb that sends the the infrared beam to the , no , to the set .
D: Yeah .
D: Alright .
C: And uh the source is of course the user .
C: Uh the user interface is um uh the the the buttons of course .
C: And the the user interface sends uh the the different signals of the different buttons to the chip , and the chip uh sends it to the LED , and the LED sends it to the receiver .
C: That's the that's the basic idea .
A: Yep .
C: Very basic .
C: Um well I have uh uh put it in a in in in a a couple of basic steps .
C: Uh the remote uh is basically just waiting for a user to press a key .
C: It does nothing until uh of course uh the key is pressed .
C: The key a signal to a chip , uh the chip senses the connection .
C: uh and recognise the key .
C: So well you understand .
C: The chip uh produces Morse code , um a specific code to indicate that specific button that is pressed , of course .
C: And it uses transistors in the in the remote control to amplify and to send uh that signal again to the to the LED , which is the bulb , of course .
C: Now the LED produces an infrared beam and signals the , well it's uh very simple , and signals the uh signals to the sensor on the T_V_ set , and the T_V_ set uh also recognises the the the signal , and performs the assigned task .
A: Yeah .
A: So it is also why we have to have a button that says uh I'm now busy with a D_V_D_ uh if we had done that .
A: And a button for T_V_ .
C: Ah bu Yeah , but we don't .
C: Uh we No no , but Yeah .
A: So Well but but if you have um the most used buttons all in one place , and you keep making the same um well moves .
C: Exactly .
C: Uh well this is uh the basic uh function of a remote .
C: I've some couple of pictures here .
C: It's a very basic one .
C: And uh if we if we're going to add an uh an uh L_C_D_ screen to it , it uh won't look anything like this , but This is very basic uh basically the the shape of um of a remote control .
C: It has uh very little buttons and But it it uh it's it's quite um Yeah , you can easily recognise the buttons .
C: They're uh far enough apart and an anything .
C: It's not very um uh not very high-tech uh indeed , and it's not very user-friendly .
B: High tech .
C: Uh if you look at the shape , it's uh just a simple long box uh shape .
C: So we have to uh change a little bit uh to that , uh so that uh it becomes more user-friendly , and that uh problems like uh R_S_I_ and uh those kinds of thing don't don't oc don't occur .
D: Right .
D: Can I say something ?
C: Yeah .
D: Um I have a table here about uh the l the relevance of the buttons .
D: Uh the power button is used very much , channel selection , volume and teletext .
D: Well teletext is not an option , so that uh But I think it's very important to make um the power , channel and volume buttons uh near to the thumb , so you can't have R_S_I_ uh consequences .
C: Mm-hmm .
C: Yeah , because they are the the most important buttons and you can immediately You don't have to look and and search for them .
D: Right .
D: Make them big , make them easy to uh to press .
B: You can also like Yeah , I was thinking you can Are some of the the the um Maybe you can make , for for channel changing , two little buttons on the side of the remote , so you can just do like this .
D: Right .
D: Yeah , right .
A: But if y if you would put it at a different place , then you have to move your hands , and that's on of the things about R_S_I_ .
D: Right .
D: Yeah , that's right .
D: That's right .
D: That's right .
C: Well you you can't have any uh every button under the thumb , of course .
D: We But Yeah .
A: No but the most important buttons m maybe you can just put them a bit apart so you would reject R_ R_S_I_ R_S_I_ .
D: That's very important .
D: And But is that is that useable ?
B: Like some uh little uh Gameboy things or some Hmm ?
A: Yes I've saw that on m on mi mobile telephones they also have uh those buttons .
D: Do people , uh when they pick up a remote , know that they have to do that ?
D: It's a f it's a new feature , you can make make a double feature l like a button on the top and under it .
B: Well Yeah alright , but Yeah , but if you s say them up and down , they they'll understand it , I think .
A: Well it it's Well also i if someone puts picks up his uh remote Yeah .
C: Yeah .
B: Eighty per cent would .
C: Well , .
A: If someone puts up i uh picks up his remote , and he picks up it he he touches the side then he's a already on the next channel .
D: Yeah , he feels it immediately .
B: Yeah that's true .
A: That's very irritating , I think .
D: Yeah , that's right .
D: Yeah .
B: Yeah but Mm .
A: Well .
D: Right , continue .
D: Sorry .
C: But in e in any case the the basic function should be uh indeed , and as you say at the thumb .
A: No .
C: I think that's a good idea , and uh and that the less important uh buttons , like the the the different channels , uh the numbers one two three four five as well , should be uh yeah well not in reach , because uh they don't use it uh all the time .
C: Well it's uh pretty pretty basically uh as you said .
A: Yep .
C: And I have some pictures of the inside workings , but uh I don't want to get too technical , because uh that's not uh very uh useful for you .
A: Mm-hmm .
D: Yeah , that's right .
A: That's your part of the job .
C: So yeah exactly this is uh how it uh looks from the inside .
A: Yep .
C: And uh well that's about it I think .
C: Oh yeah , I still have this .
C: Oh I had to delete this , but I had to make a schematic uh of the of the new But I had too too little time , but uh don't uh don't look at it please .
D: Alright .
A: Okay .
A: Well we understand .
D: Alright .
C: I I think it's it's clear uh how it works .
A: We understand .
D: Yeah , it's clear .
C: Alright .
A: Oh right , no .
C: That's the most important thing .
A: Nice .
C: Alright .
A: Then uh Mike can uh give the third presentation .
C: Uh Right .
A: How late is did we start his presentation uh ?
D: I dunno .
D: I think uh w About twenty minutes ago ?
A: Wha Yeah .
A: Well then we have still the time , so But we do have to come to a decision , right later on .
D: Losing time losing time .
D: Yeah right .
D: So I don't think so .
A: So Oh yeah ?
B: Well I thought um everybody on the website uh would see the same thing , but obviously that's not the case .
C: Yeah , uh there are different uh We have all have different home pages , with different links .
B: Yeah .
C: Yeah .
D: Yeah right .
A: Uh ?
B: For instance you couldn't see this .
A: Okay , yeah well .
B: Um Yeah .
B: Well I'm Mike , User Interface Designer .
A: Mm-hmm .
B: The the method ?
B: Well I used my own experience with remotes , took a good l look uh at the remotes on the corporate website , which are these two .
A: Yeah .
B: Um Yes , these are from from another uh manufacturer .
D: These are already in use ?
D: Alright , okay .
B: Um This one is engineering-centred , so this one has the most functions and um things .
B: This one is user-centred .
A: Yeah .
C: Mm-hmm .
B: Um I like user-centr centred uh uh also the best .
D: Well Yeah , me too .
A: I like user-centred .
A: Yeah .
A: We also do that .
B: Um Well , I thought uh that we uh reduce the the option to control the D_V_D_ also , and teletext and that kind of stuff .
D: Mm .
B: Uh so I thought we we we would use more or need more buttons than this one .
D: But we have to reject that , because of the requirements ?
B: But Yes .
A: Yeah .
B: Th that's why this mm is not relevant any more I feel .
D: Alright .
B: Um I think this is about the maximum number of buttons uh we'll need .
D: Yeah , right .
B: I um I kinda like the shape .
B: I think this is what we talked about .
B: But No I've Well I showed it somewhere .
D: Yeah .
C: You can't really see uh the differ from different sides .
C: But I think uh Uh you can draw it if you Yeah .
B: Um Oh yeah .
B: I think we should go further with the idea of a removable front .
B: So we can can uh yeah customise the Mm ?
A: Mm-hmm .
A: Well absolutely , but i th they all have to have something about um the recognition from our company .
A: So we cannot just uh make someone w No but that's th the side they look uh look at is the front .
B: Yeah .
B: It's a front .
B: It's not the the whole remote that changes , of course .
D: But it Yeah , that's right .
B: You can Mm .
A: So if y if you make a a front with just a a tiger on it , then uh our recognition is totally gone .
B: Or you can you can can put the same symbol on on every remote .
D: Yeah , that's a must .
B: So l like Ericsson does every uh S something like this .
D: We must have that .
A: Yeah , we must .
C: We can put it on the on the back side .
A: Yeah well and and Yes .
B: It's recognisable .
A: 'Kay .
D: We can make a symbol of the company right here .
B: Um Yeah ?
D: And if you put a front on it , there's a hole on the front .
D: So the symbol's always on Yeah .
C: Yeah , so that you don't replace the symbol , yeah .
B: Yeah yeah .
A: Yeah yeah yeah .
B: Something like that , in the Yeah .
A: Or the th the the lowest part of the remote isn't changed by the front .
D: Yeah , yeah .
C: Mm-hmm .
D: But let's not focus on the front .
B: Yeah .
A: Those kind of things .
A: Yes .
A: Okay .
B: Um Well so uh uh like I said I thought we'd we'd use more function .
B: If we we had to include more functions .
B: But we don't .
B: So um Yeah .
A: Mm-hmm .
D: Alright .
B: I think this is about the maximum number of buttons we need .
B: Maybe some less .
B: Like eject we don't need , and some other buttons we don't need .
B: I think uh Yeah , I will .
C: Mike , uh can you put uh that picture from me on the in the Word documents file ?
C: In Map ?
B: I think uh for the remote um uh less is more .
B: The less buttons the better the design .
B: Um We should go with that concept I think .
A: Yeah .
D: Yeah , I agree .
B: I know .
A: Alright .
D: I've I've got another point .
A: Yeah ?
D: Um there are two target audi audiences , and we've uh chose for the younger one .
D: Um , research has shown that um it's a high interested uh in features .
B: Mm .
D: They are high high interested in feature .
D: But they are more critical .
D: Fo Yeah , critical .
C: The younger uh Mm-hmm .
D: So The younger audience .
D: So we must um must design uh a control that really speaks to the people .
A: Well what if we um I at I at home have a remote that has um the most familiar uh buttons on the top , and the bottom side of the front has a little clip , a f a little uh You can click away and then you have f much more functions that most people don't use but s some do do .
D: Mm-hmm .
C: Mm-hmm .
C: I think uh the most functions uh underneath that uh uh No um mm usually But Yeah I think m most Most uh Mm-hmm .
D: Clip aren't used much .
A: Well but because you say they their features are important , they want m um a lot , but not Yeah .
D: Yeah right .
B: Yeah , but what kind of features ?
B: Like L_C_D_ screens and voice recognition .
D: Yeah but Yeah .
B: But I've Yeah , that's nice .
D: Here , look at these numbers .
D: The newest features are , like I said , are uh L_C_D_ and uh speech uh control .
D: Our audience , these people , are very like these uh features .
D: You see ?
D: So we must build in something , or they will to uh go to the concurrent .
C: Uh .
C: Yeah .
D: The concurrent ?
C: Our competitor .
A: Competitors .
C: Yeah .
D: Competitors , right .
D: So , I do think we have to uh have some features .
A: Yeah .
D: Even though they cost a little more .
A: Well maybe w we could uh s On um some uh calculators you have lo those little little L_C_D_ th that you can click on or something , or that you can click uh out uh of the remote .
D: Right .
D: Right .
A: And if if that's gives you a little bit of sta status information .
D: Like a ticker-tape .
A: Yeah .
D: Which programme you are l watching or something .
A: Those kind of things , uh because you also have those uh those program recognition for your V_ V_C_R_s .
A: And uh well if y if your remote picks that up also , you they can display which programme you're currently watching .
D: Yeah , right .
C: Yeah .
D: Yeah right .
C: Yeah .
C: So it it just signals the the different uh sig uh the different symbols on the screen you have , uh because if you change to s channel two you have two on the screen and two on your on your um on your L_C_D_ screen .
A: Yeah .
A: For example .
A: It it could be such a little uh th that you can click in and out and you and you have it .
B: Yeah , we should keep that simple too .
C: But should it uh really be uh clickable , uh or or just integrate inside to try to make it d more trendy .
B: It will No , it should be uh integrated .
A: Yeah .
D: No not clickable .
A: Well maybe .
D: Nah , no no no .
B: I think Yeah , something like on um some radios in car .
D: Yeah , just at at the top .
D: So when you s you sit like this you can can watch .
D: I think it should be at the top .
A: Yeah .
A: Yeah .
B: You Where it's , yeah , walking to Yeah .
D: Yeah right .
D: It's a ticker-tape idea .
A: R_D_S_s or something .
C: But that's of course uh a bit more uh expensive than uh the basic uh calculator design , with the scrolling text and that kind of thing .
B: Wa Yeah .
D: Well it's just one script .
A: Well I think it's you got It just means it's a script that's uh keeps it uh rolling , and it's not uh That's five minutes off uh implementing time I think uh Yeah .
D: Yeah , five minutes of ja ja for programming .
D: So I don't think that's the issue .
A: No .
C: Alright .
D: Alright , we go with the L_C_D_ screen ?
A: Uh well I think so , yes .
B: Yeah well we we we still need to know how much that will cost .
D: 'Kay .
A: Um We're g No but we're we'll have to look into that .
D: Right , I don't know if I can find that , but Next time .
B: Or maybe you will get that information uh Yeah .
A: Um we can use this board again , I think .
D: Yeah right .
A: Uh we can put some um decisions about um the controls we want , th the issue .
A: Where is my presentation ?
A: Uh Uh Well I mean we're all here now , I think .
D: Yeah , I understand what you're saying .
D: We should have a general idea of how it's gonna look .
A: These I've already given you .
A: So we have to decide on the different remote control functions .
D: Right .
A: So we want to have a small L_C_D_ screen that's special .
D: At the top .
C: Shouldn't we start with the most important parts ?
B: At the top or at the bottom ?
A: Yes .
C: The L_C_D_ screen alright but we should start with the power button ?
D: I think the top is more uh When you s How do you zap ?
C: Uh Huh ?
A: Yeah .
B: Yeah but Yeah but with with the L_C_D_ screen on the top it gets a bit unnatural .
D: You just sit in your chair ?
D: With the remote ?
A: That thing is terrible .
B: 'Cause most remotes have some space left at the bottom .
D: Yeah but that's where your hand ball might be .
A: Uh Well Well I th I think Mike Mike has a point , because um when when uh when I use a remote I l I hate the buttons but buttons at the at the bottom .
D: Yeah , I dunno .
B: Yeah , no Mm .
C: And then uh Maybe we should uh centralise the discussion here .
D: We'll draw two , and then we'll see uh No Um he thinks Yeah , right .
C: I dunno what uh you were talking about but we are busy with something .
D: He thinks it's better to put the L_C_D_ at the bottom , and I think it's better at the top .
C: Uh-huh .
C: Why do you think it's better at the bottom ?
B: Uh well because most uh remotes have um some space left at the bottom , and that way you can keep the shape recognisable for everybody .
D: But your Yeah .
C: But you just can put uh the the the the the whole interface a bit down , so that there's room for the for the interface .
B: I c Well I d I think that's that's ugly but I th Yeah .
D: The the ticker The L_C_D_ is like like small .
D: It's it's wide .
D: It's not not high .
C: Uh-huh .
D: But Yeah right .
C: And and we can Bottom .
B: Power button always Yeah .
B: Yeah .
A: So and and I I like to use the ones on the top .
B: Yeah , y you gotta zap like this or you want to Yeah .
A: So when I u when I have to have an L_C_D_ s scr window Yes but we we we we don't want that .
D: But We're making a remote with with a few functions you know .
C: Well that's a bit exaggerated .
C: Well , I agree with you .
C: It's it's also more recognisable .
D: We High-tech .
C: It looks more like a calculator to people , if you have the l the the the thing on top .
B: Yeah you don't want You want uh Yeah it it it must be a remote .
A: We don't want them to look like a calculator .
A: We want to look it like our original but familiar Yea Maybe a bic uh better uh white uh We White ?
C: Yeah w well , but uh you don't have to throw uh um important aspe important aspect like familiarity uh completely away , uh because I think it's uh I think it's still important to have it at the top , because it's uh it's more familiar that way .
B: Yeah .
D: Width .
A: Width .
A: Uh format yeah format ?
A: Line width ?
A: Width ?
D: Th that's not a problem .
A: Yeah ?
D: When I draw here it Oh .
D: Huh ?
A: It's a bit off .
D: Yeah , it's off .
A: Well .
C: A little a little bit .
D: It it needs to be calibrated again .
A: Well uh let's uh talk about that later uh It's special pen .
D: Well Where ?
C: Maybe you should another pen .
C: Maybe that's uh better .
C: You e you only have one pen for that screen .
C: Yeah .
D: Alright , we have to make a decision now , because we don't have much time .
A: Yeah .
A: No .
D: Um I think we have uh a few functions , and we can put uh the L_C_D_ above it , and still have lots of room at the bottom , where you can put your hand .
C: Yeah .
C: I I agree .
A: I think it should be at the button , bottom .
C: Well I'm the I I'm the designer , so um Yeah .
B: At the bottom ?
A: Bottom .
A: The L_C_D_ .
B: In a few minutes Oh yeah , oh yeah , I totally agree .
D: At the bot So We are two uh V_S_ two .
A: Yeah .
B: Yeah .
A: Well but uh what what if we we first decide the different functions , and then look at the design .
B: He's the boss .
D: Right .
D: Great .
C: Uh we uh we were busy with that .
A: Because we have to decide this .
C: Uh yeah we should uh summon the the different uh aspects of the thing .
A: Yeah .
C: So , we have the power button .
D: And moreover I think that you two should be uh come to consensus about the L_C_D_ s .
A: Yes .
D: It's uh your it's your job .
C: Yeah of course .
C: Uh it's uh .
B: No it's our job .
C: Yeah .
A: Well we have a power button .
C: W wh While you have to agree , I can say it's like this and you must agree .
A: Guys ?
B: For all of us I think .
D: Yeah , right .
A: Guys ?
D: Alright , let's keep it central .
C: Yeah .
A: We have a power button , setting buttons , L_C_D_ window , the number buttons Uh Yes .
B: The ten numbers ?
B: Yeah ?
C: Channel , yeah .
B: Volume ?
C: Volume control .
C: Um Well let's look at your uh design .
D: Mm .
A: Uh the mute button .
C: Uh Uh-huh .
A: I h love that one .
B: I think we we should use something like this um to um The the channel up and channel down button ?
A: Yes .
B: Yeah , in circle , you know ?
A: Yeah .
A: Yeah yeah yeah .
A: Well that's that's also design .
B: And and a volume control also in it .
A: Yes .
D: Right .
A: Um Well h ho Yes .
C: Yeah .
C: But th th on this remote th these controls are for something else , a D_V_D_ player or something .
A: Yes .
B: Yes , as I already said , we could drop some of these buttons .
A: They are for some uh video uh Apart .
C: So Yeah , it's it's also not good to completely stay in one position constantly with one hand .
D: You should put that uh power button , channel and volume should have the most uh importance .
B: Yeah .
B: I think these should be in one big circle in the middle .
D: Yeah , but what he said about R_S_I_ was t kinda true .
D: When when you uh put them all in the same place , the most used buttons , you're doing the same thing all the time , and that's just what R_S_I_'s all about .
D: So it might be smarter to put them a little more away from each other .
A: So people have to move their hand .
A: And they get less uh complaints of R_S_I_ .
C: Y Yeah .
A: That's what I always do , because all my i important buttons are the same place .
C: It's good to move uh from time to time .
C: Yeah .
B: Yeah but people don't like it when their buttons are all over the place .
D: Um Frequency of uh button use .
A: Yes ?
B: They they need to be centred .
C: No but now y W would we have to choose a way in middle ?
A: Well not Yes .
D: Um channels are uh most uh is most used within the hour .
A: Uh-huh .
B: Volume hardly .
D: You can see .
D: So the the channel uh channel buttons should be far far apart , I think , up and down .
C: Mm-hmm .
B: No I don't think .
C: Oh .
A: Up and down far apart from each other ?
C: Far apart ?
D: You thinking uh about R_S_I_ ?
B: Yeah but Yeah but No .
A: Well not too much .
D: Y look at uh look at the frequency .
D: Nei not too much , but Nei nei nei n I I totally agree .
B: The other the other two uh frustrations are far more important .
B: So Well they are used four times an hour , so Power bu button should be left at the top .
C: I think you can have the two buttons of up and down close together , but you don't have uh have to have volume control and and zapping button close together .
A: Well for example the power button , you can If someone is constantly z zapping , it's not going to miss , that it that the power button is not right beside it .
A: Because I have someone But the buttons is way .
A: So that one can be put away .
D: But just Yeah .
D: Right .
D: Yeah .
D: I agree .
A: The power button can uh be uh uh Yes .
D: And should and should be red .
C: Yeah .
A: Oh man , five minutes .
A: Yeah , well five minutes left .
D: Right , just make some decisions .
A: Yep .
D: The most important things we have to uh I do think you have to keep you have to keep it central now .
A: Um how are we going to do it with those numbers ?
C: C c can you make you make We can use uh the drawing board now , I think .
C: Uh it it doesn't work well but But it it would be pretty pretty uh nice if we could just draw a simple thing .
A: Well I have it here .
A: Yeah well that's going to take too too much time .
D: Just uh you decide that , you decide that , and ready .
B: Mm .
A: Yes .
B: Yeah .
C: Mm .
A: Yes .
C: Alright .
A: Well the L_C_D_ .
A: Um you are Industrial , you are User Interface .
A: So I think it's going to go to Mike .
D: Yeah .
A: But you will have to make consensus with .
A: Well Well it's a bit hard , because we are going to be uh individually .
B: Well consensus , um We we can put it in the middle , so Alright .
D: Nei .
D: We're No We're deciding now , so Top or bottom ?
A: That's a bit uh Yes .
C: Well uh yeah I I still think it's it's quite important though to uh to have it at the top , so Yeah .
A: Yes it is .
C: You say familiarity isn't important but Yeah d Yeah .
A: Well what if we're going to now decide about the functions , and the design comes into the next round ?
D: Okay .
A: Plus the d th the design round is still to come huh ?
D: Yeah , right .
D: Okay .
A: Alright these functions .
C: As we we we we agreed , we do have a L_C_D_ .
A: The number f Well yes , that's alright .
C: So that's that's enough .
D: Yeah , okay .
A: W the number function .
C: Yeah .
A: Are we going to uh do it like uh on Mike's screen with uh one button that says I'm going to do a t two number digital ?
B: No .
A: How do you want it to do then ?
C: There's one two three four five six six seven eight nine zero .
B: Well just when you push a one one and No , if you On most T_V_s if you uh press two numbers shortly after each other , d it Yeah .
A: It it has to r recognise one as there could still come more .
C: Oh , like that .
C: Um They'd recognise it .
A: Yes .
C: Th that's the most That that's very easy .
A: Alright so no button for that .
B: Yeah .
B: Yeah .
D: No .
C: Yeah .
A: Okay uh anyone any uh oth other functionalities of our uh remote ?
C: I think these are the the most important functions .
D: Do you still have the pictures over there ?
B: Yeah .
A: So No , we'd uh just said we didn't uh Well uh Um well because we can't integrate it with any other uh remotes , all those buttons on those pictures are uh irrelevant .
D: Yeah , that's about it .
D: You do need the uh multi Or did uh No , like this one .
D: You do need them ?
D: Yeah , I know .
D: But are we Alright , alright uh Now okay .
D: Right .
A: So just for a television is that all we need ?
D: Yeah , it's most useable this way .
B: Yeah .
C: basic function .
A: Teletext is gone .
A: So all those buttons that ar are to do with teletext Oh screen placing .
A: We'll have uh those uh buttons about uh And uh the two important ones we're l f forgetting .
A: Uh there's um screen .
A: You can make it wider and less wide .
D: Yeah .
A: And the button that you can go to A_V_ for your video .
D: Right .
D: I do think we have to put that underneath a clip .
C: Oh yeah .
A: Those two ?
A: But it's just two , and we make a clip ?
C: Uh just two just two under uh under uh I I think uh But you you can put uh two or three buttons under uh another section .
A: Th that's a bit uh waste .
B: We we can make make uh a little row of like four buttons down here .
A: Yes .
D: Yeah .
D: Okay , right .
A: Or at the top .
A: Your L_C_D_ screen is going to go .
B: Or at Yeah alright then .
C: Uh that's that's too complicated .
A: Yes .
C: You can just put it somewhere They they aren't used much , not as much as those other , so you can put it somewhere Yeah s bit smaller and s Well uh and and I think more at the bottom .
A: Yeah Well I think they should in an in an isolated part of the remote .
B: Oh , they can be small or round like buttons .
C: Yeah .
C: Yeah or at the top , yeah .
C: What do you think uh those those buttons ?
C: Above or down ?
C: And w where ?
C: Well we design it later .
C: We have it , and we design later where everything goes .
A: Yes ?
A: Yes .
C: Yeah .
A: Yes .
A: Well any other uh Go to video , that's always on your remote control .
D: Well if you you take those th If you Yeah , but you can z you can zap t you can you can zap to the video channel from zero to uh Yeah , but when you zap down zero you get to A_V_ .
B: Why go to video ?
A: To A_V_ uh to A_V_ A_V_ A_V_ .
C: The the video channel uh ?
B: That's just zero .
B: Yeah .
A: Well l n no not at not at my remote .
C: No no not always .
C: Ze yeah zero is a different channel than uh the the video channel .
A: Yeah .
B: Yeah , but you can can zap down Yes , I think th No , then you press ninety nine .
A: Yes .
A: I don't .
A: I go to ninety-nine .
D: Ah uh well whatever , .
B: I think go to video is an irrelevant button , but Yeah well y you must have .
A: Th that's the button uh No .
C: But it's easy to go If you are at uh at channel uh fifty five and you want to uh go immediately to the video channel , you do you have to push a to to get below zero .
A: No you can ch push zero .
C: It's more easy to get to uh where the specific uh video channel button .
A: Yeah .
A: Yeah , I I think that one button is uh I use it uh Yeah ?
D: Yeah , but if we're choosing to uh incorporate these buttons , you have to have uh channel setting , if you wa if you have a new T_V_ .
D: You have to set the channels .
D: Right all th these uh different buttons you have to Ah , I do .
A: These buttons , I don't have buttons for channel setting uh especially on my remote .
C: Yeah well uh d different screen settings a Yeah , sk Yeah y you you you you have screen width .
A: It's it's incorporated with p m plus and down , uh those So we still have one uh four ?
B: Yeah you yeah you have one one button from s set frequency o or something , and then with plus and min minus you can uh adjust the uh Yeah , alright .
D: Right .
D: That's the only one we put uh in there .
D: For a screen uh fu uh channel setting .
A: Ch ch Okay .
C: Yeah to uh oh yeah of course to configure the programme the Yeah .
D: Programme , right .
A: Oh the Okay button ?
D: Uh Ah .
A: Oh you always have in the centre an Okay button , for your menu .
C: Yeah .
A: Menu button .
C: You should Yeah .
C: I think that's important .
C: Uh And and the settings to change the brightness the settings to change the brightness and the contrast .
A: Channel , setting , menu .
A: We have to go .
A: Okay .
C: Channel , yeah .
A: So um Save .
C: Chief ?
C: Chief ?
A: Yes see .
C: Th the menu menu button is also important .
C: Then you can uh Where ?
A: Yes I have put it in .
C: I don't see it .
A: Here .
C: Oh Menu , alright .
B: I think things like uh contrast and brightness should be um in the menu , yeah .
C: In the menu .
C: And you can uh then adjust it with the zapping buttons or something .
B: Yeah , the Or the volume or something like that .
C: Because uh the zapping buttons aren't used then if you are in the menu .
A: Alright .
A: Guys ?
C: Yeah .
C: Or the volume , yeah .
A: We're going to uh go to our uh rooms , and uh we'll have to decide s things on our own I think .
B: Your pen .
D: Great .
A: So Well see you uh W w we have lunchtime , by the way , now uh so uh Lunch .
C: Yes chief .
D: Alright .
B: I thought we'd uh lunch uh right now , or not ?
C: Yeah this is this is your thing .
D: Ah .
B: Yeah , lunch break .
D: Okay .
C: I am hungry .
D: Get into my belly .
A: Ah .
C: See you later mate .
","There are some new requirements for the project: the device will have to be for TV only, they should ignore the teletext function, as it is dated, and, also, the remote should be recognisable as a Real Reaction product.
The target group will be people below 30.
It transpires that customers are willing to pay more for fancier looking remotes, especially if they include LCD screens and speech recognition.
Functions like zapping are very prevalent, as well as complaints about remotes being difficult to learn and easy to lose.
The function of the remote is relatively simple: by pressing a button a current is passed to the chip, and defines what signal is to be sent to the receiver (the TV) via infrared.
The team agreed to follow a user-centred approach and simplify the design by somehow minimising the number of buttons.
They plan to include an LCD screen to display relevant information.
Other functions are served by push buttons: OK, menu, screen sizing, AV, settings buttons, mute, digits 1-9, power, volume control, channel up/down with the last three types being prominent on the device.
The exact design and placement of the components will be decided in the next meeting.
Each member of the team will come for the next meeting with their views on function and design issues that they had not time to consolidate during this meeting.
The solution to complaints about remote controls being difficult to learn is to focus on an intuitive design instead of a thorough manual.
The idea of interchangeable fronts was mentioned again; if it were adopted, the company should be recognisable in all the available fronts as well as the remote itself.
The team agreed to follow a user-centred approach and simplify the design by somehow minimising the number of buttons.
An LCD screen is going to be used to display information, but would not be interactive.
The buttons are going to include: OK, menu, screen sizing, AV, settings buttons, mute, digits 1-9, power, volume control, channel up/down.
There is no need for a special button to recognise two-digit numbers.
The power button will be placed at the top separately.
The less frequently used buttons will not be hidden under a flip, as it had been previously suggested, as there are not that many of them; they will just be clearly separated from the more important ones.
A discussion on ergonomic solutions like placing the main buttons (power, channel selection, volume) where they can be easily reached with the thumb (as many users complain of RSI), did not reach a conclusion as to whether this would actually cause more repetitive movements.
Some advanced features, like LCD screen with program information or speech recognition, would be very important in order to attract their target group, but there are costing issues that have not been clarified yet.
There was some disagreement as to whether the LCD screen should be placed at the top or the bottom of the remote.
No consensus was reached regarding the positioning of the main buttons (zapping, volume, power) either: should they be placed close together or more scattered (to avoid RSI complaints)?
A special AV button for direct access to the video channel, although its necessity was disputed, because there are alternative solutions that make it obsolete.
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"A: .
A: Okay .
C: Mm-hmm .
A: So we are here for the concept design meeting .
A: So , we will first start by summarizing the mm the previous meeting and the decision we've taken .
A: Uh I will take notes during this meeting so uh that you can uh look at my uh folder to see the summary of this meeting afterwards .
A: So each of you will uh show us the various investigation they've done during uh previous uh hours .
A: We'll then t take decision in concert and then uh uh we will uh define the nest next task , to have to be done before the next meeting .
A: So , last time we decided to have a simple interface .
A: We also decided to have a wheel to change channel previous channel button .
A: Channel digit uh buttons should be uh protected by plastic cover or something for the remote control to look very simple .
A: We have also button for volume , and to switch on off the T_V_ .
A: We have also uh the lightening feature for the remote control to be easy to find , and for fast development and low cost we have decided to have no L_C_D_ no voice features .
A: So now uh we will have three presentations .
A: So the conceptual specification by Industrial Designer , the specification of the U_I_ by or U_I_ okay .
C: Abdul al-Hasred is my name .
A: And uh the last point is uh trend watching by Market Expert .
A: So maybe we can start with uh industrial design .
A: So this is the presentation .
B: Uh , I_D_ you want ?
A: Maybe I can switch slide uh on your request .
B: Yeah .
B: I only v have three slides , so .
B: I just look at the mm um just this .
B: On some web pages to find some documentation and I think a remote control is , as I s mentioned previously , you just have a a very simple chip and the mm the user interface is just done usually by push button and in our case we are using a um a wheel control .
A: Yeah .
B: So uh uh I was looking basically for that chip , which is uh very very standard , and uh I just looked for the wheel sensor and the standard push button .
B: And um yeah we can change directly .
A: Yeah .
B: In fact I have the number of that element which is very standard for remote control .
B: The push button are usually extremely cheap , but I just have one problem and this is related with the wheel sensor , which seems to be quite expensive .
A: Okay .
C: Mm-hmm .
B: And I think we if we could just talk about that if we really need a wheel sensor or if we can not if if we could combine something with the push button .
A: Okay .
B: Uh a wheel sensor is fifty time the price of a a a push button .
C: Yeah .
A: But is it a significant price on the whole remote control ?
C: Mm .
A: Because we can afford up to twelve Euros for the price of the remote control .
B: Yeah .
B: Yeah I I th But I don't think that uh we should We should talk about uh the design of the box also which needs some money .
A: So will will will this with uh including all possible things , so buttons , wheel and the chip , be uh lower than twelve Euros to produce ?
C: Yeah .
A: Okay You received something Hmm .
C: Also have to say Did you receive the email about the voice recognition ?
B: But Um that's all yeah .
C: No ?
B: I haven't chec Mm-hmm .
C: Yeah .
C: You we uh an email from the manufacturing division that they have basically a voice recognition chip already developed .
C: Says Yeah .
C: It says that ri right now they just use it to uh to record uh answers to particular questions .
C: But I guess it could be I guess it's possible .
A: And could it be adapted ?
C: I mean instead of recording the answers you can just uh record uh something simpler like a command .
A: Okay and there can uh recognize some commands and stuff ?
C: Yeah you reco recognize commands and you can record new commands and stuff , so if they already have it as uh as a chip then we we could use it .
A: Okay .
A: Yeah .
A: Okay maybe we can just uh listen to this presentation and then take decision later on according to those news .
C: Okay .
B: Yeah but I think it's yeah Sorry , I haven't written my personal references .
B: Um the I I just want to mention the the problem of the the r wheels sensor which is much more expensive than any push button , and if we could reduce that .
A: Okay .
B: We we have already some good things uh with um um with the backlight of the push button .
C: Mm-hmm .
C: I have a question about that actually .
C: Um , what is the purpose of the light ?
B: Just to to make something which is uh slightly more design that uh a squarey box with a rubber Yeah .
C: Is But But in th in the dark uh Yeah but is going to be always turned on , the light ?
A: You can easily find the button in the dark or so ?
A: It will be turned on when the when the user move the remote control I think , no ?
C: But if you move it then you have it , you don't need to find it .
A: Hmm .
C: You can see the buttons better , of course .
A: Yeah .
C: Yeah .
A: Yeah .
A: Yeah .
A: True .
B: Actually .
C: But if you move it then you have to have some sensor to when you move it to detect your movement .
B: As soon as you thought to move the the remote control you have the light .
C: Yeah , but you need another sensor for that , right ?
B: Yeah .
B: Again .
C: Yeah no it's too expensive .
B: I don't think that this is really expensive , but at the end this is plenty of unexpen eh very cheap devices but uh the bill starts to be First of all I was thinking to have a a continuous light and you w when t you you you you press the on button you have the light on your remote control , when you want to turn off your device Yeah , a little bit .
C: Okay .
C: Mm .
C: Extra .
C: Yeah , okay .
C: Mm .
C: Yeah , but I expected also the wheel would be cheap but you tell me that it is very expensive so , yeah .
C: Mm .
C: Mm-hmm .
A: But it can be uh battery consuming , no ?
A: To have the light always on ?
B: A little bit .
C: Mm .
A: Well we will discuss that after maybe the other presentations .
B: Yeah .
C: Okay .
C: So uh my one , it uh should be in the shared folder .
A: Yeah .
C: So .
C: It was last time I saw it .
A: And it is .
C: Okay .
C: So , just move to the next slide .
A: Okay .
C: So basically want very simple , right ?
C: That's the major idea , as simple as possible .
A: Yeah .
A: Yeah .
C: So I just look at some current designs uh on the web , of usually more complicated remote controls .
C: And let's look at two of them because uh th even though they have many buttons they look quite simple .
C: And in our case we just uh reject the buttons what we don't need and it become even simpler .
A: Yeah .
C: Um .
C: So .
A: And also does it uh fit well in hand ?
A: Because it was uh th your wrist problem with the usage .
C: Yeah .
C: Well this these uh these remotes are quite big , so go to the next page , so .
C: We have all these buttons as you can see , but most of them , we just need the ones in the middle .
A: Yeah .
B: Yeah .
A: Yeah .
C: So , from the bottom or whatever is there , uh the uh the numbers and then the top , uh until the ten also , this middle part , and on the left one is exactly the same .
A: Yeah .
A: Yeah .
C: So it's basically more or less how we would like it , with a big volume control , big channel control , and mute and power , yeah ?
A: Yeah .
C: These are the basic thing .
A: So it's only the central part .
C: So basically , w software we will build will look more or less the same as these two .
A: Yeah .
A: With a maybe a more ergonomic design on on the bottom part .
C: Yeah , if you have , for example I think that the volume and the buttons that are there on the top are not very easy to reach with your thumb .
C: It could be on the right side , for example .
A: Yeah .
A: Okay .
C: Yeah .
C: Because we don't have these input buttons and this other stuff that they have .
C: And I think that the plastic cover is not very good uh idea because you open it , it can break , you ca you can do various things .
A: Okay .
C: Uh you just need to put the channel numbers somewhere a bit out of the way .
A: Okay .
A: S Okay .
C: So that they're separate a bit , yeah .
A: Will be down or Okay .
C: Uh and it's easy to press the other the big buttons , but uh , it's not that difficult to press the the channel buttons either .
C: Mm .
C: Yeah , I think that if you put the cover it will be even more difficult for the user .
A: Okay .
C: Alright , you won't yeah .
C: Usually what I have noticed that people put the plastic cover on things that you normally don't mess with , like buttons for t uh tuning the channels and stuff like that .
A: Okay .
C: Yeah .
C: That you want to protect a bit .
C: And I think it's uh it's reasonable .
A: Okay .
C: So , I don't think Yeah , this is just the the wheel .
C: We could use the some wheels can be pushed down , could use the push down of the wheel for the record if we want .
A: Mm .
B: Mm-hmm .
C: Uh so we could just basically use one just wheel and uh user could use just the wheel to do everything with the channels in that case .
A: Yeah .
A: Maybe the wheel will be a good advantage over our competitors .
B: Mm-hmm .
A: Because otherwise it's pretty standard apart the fact that it's very simple .
A: So maybe it's worse to uh to have more expense on that's that aspect .
B: To s Mm-hmm .
C: Yeah , I guess the market researcher will tell us all about that .
A: Okay .
A: So we can move to the Is there any question ?
A: For designer of user interface ?
A: or we can move to the next part , maybe , and discuss afterwards ?
A: Okay .
D: Okay , I can go ?
D: Can I ?
A: Yeah .
D: So now the recent investigation we we have done fo of the remote control um .
D: So , the most important aspect for remote controls is to be fancy look and feel and not current functional look and feel .
D: And um the second aspect is uh that the remote control should be uh technological innovative .
A: Okay .
D: And the third most important aspect is to to is that the co remote control should be easy to use .
D: So , are things we are we have uh speak about before .
C: Mm-hmm .
A: Yeah .
D: Yeah .
D: And um so you you can go after .
A: Yeah .
D: And there is a fashion watchers in Paris and Milan that have detected the following trends , uh fruits and vegetables will be the most important theme for clothes , shoes , and furnitures .
D: So , maybe if our remote control have to be a fruit form or vegetable form something like that , or And the mm the material is expected to be spongy .
A: Okay .
B: I support an apple .
D: Uh I don't know which material can be spongy , and if you Mm-hmm .
A: Yeah .
A: This is good also for Yeah .
C: Well , wou wou I think we can certainly just put the electronics in a spongy thing , it it would work , right ?
B: Yeah .
B: Yeah .
C: Yeah .
A: I think it is good also f to have a spongy material , yeah .
C: You can throw it to the television .
A: Yeah , because it's robust .
D: Okay It's robust , yeah .
B: Yeah .
B: Me too .
C: Hey that's a cool one .
C: We could say that if you throw it , you have a sensor , and you throw it and hits the television and turns it off .
C: When it d uh takes a shock .
A: Yeah uh sorry ?
B: Ah it's okay .
D: Not good .
B: I know that they do that for alarm clock also .
D: An and and uh this uh you can yeah you can say that .
C: Yeah .
D: You ca uh you can go uh before , before , yes .
A: No .
A: Yeah .
A: Before ?
D: And you know here the more iz important aspect is the fancy look and feel , after is uh technological innovative , and after the easy to use .
A: Yeah .
A: Yeah .
A: Yeah .
A: I think it's innovative to use the mm the wheel because I think no one else has .
B: Yeah .
D: Yeah that's why Yeah that's why I think we have to keep that if it's possible .
A: Has it ?
A: Yeah .
A: I think it's it makes it both easy and both innos innovative .
B: Mm-hmm .
D: Innovative .
A: So I think it's a good aspect and it should be kept .
D: Mm .
C: How do we make it look cool is the question .
A: Cool , fancy ?
C: Yeah .
A: We have to make it l look like a fruit or vegetable .
D: Yeah .
A: Maybe uh um a colour that remember some fruit uh , things like that .
B: What about um And for maybe look and feel , what about a a piece of ice , with blue L_E_D_ inside ?
D: Mm .
D: Oh , colour , yeah .
C: Well the obvious thing is a banana , I guess .
D: Oh i i I thought about a a pear , for example .
A: Maybe yeah .
D: You know the pear , is like that and it's it's easy to to have in in hand and uh Yeah .
A: Yeah , and it's ergonomic as well .
A: A pear .
C: The banana is also ergonomic .
A: Yeah .
A: Maybe pear yeah or something like that .
D: Or a fruit like that .
D: I dunno .
A: Yeah .
A: We can discuss that uh .
A: D D Is is there anything you want to add ?
C: Is there any fruit that is spongy ?
A: I don't think so .
A: I think we we can have like yeah a pear is good , fit well , or banana as you told .
C: Yeah .
A: Something like that .
A: But that's not in the trend .
C: You can make it um It's not hard , the metal .
B: Yeah .
A: The trend is spongy , and vegetable fruits .
B: Yeah .
B: Yeah .
A: I think p spongy is good because it it will be robust as well .
C: Plastic .
B: Yep .
A: So , I think we can keep the wheel because it's uh easy , it's innovative , even if the cost is a bit higher , and we also have to find a , so , a fruit like pear or banana wit uh any others idea you have .
B: Yeah .
A: What kind of fr fruit would you like to to control your T_V_ with ?
C: Mm .
A: Odi Banana is also yellow so you you can't lost your remote control then .
B: Banana I think , it's a nice idea .
B: Because But You y you don't use the banana when the banana is curving like that , but when the banana is curving like that , with the wheel on the top and to control , and here you have a a push button to Yeah .
D: Yeah .
C: Yeah .
C: Two of the button , yeah .
C: Yeah .
C: Yeah .
D: But you don't have Yeah .
A: I think it's a good idea , yeah .
C: Yeah so you can just have uh just have this curve , yeah , and you move uh your hand here to press the buttons and then you move uh on the other side .
A: Yeah .
C: So you can have it on on two sides and it'll be cool , no ?
A: Yeah .
A: I think it's a good design and it's innovative as well then .
A: Maybe we can keep the banana .
A: And it will be very easy to find .
C: You can put also vibrator inside .
B: And everybody knows what is a banana .
B: Basically .
B: If you if you start with uh fancy fruits and fra s and tha Oh , yeah So So we will just use a a standard battery ?
C: Ah-ha .
C: You can also take into account the fact that the banana fits with the colour scheme of our company .
A: Yeah .
C: Yeah .
A: Yeah it's really uh really a good point .
C: I hope the students of management die , but anyway .
C: Now who are recording this meeting ?
A: I think it So One second .
A: So we have to take some decision on this aspect .
A: So , uh so for sorry , for uh component , so we have to think about those aspects , sorry .
A: Yeah .
B: And uh the chip we chip imprint we know exactly which one we are going to use .
B: Uh what do you mean by case ?
A: I think it's the box that should be spongy , banana's shape .
B: Yeah .
B: Uh I mean for me if we use a a spongy banana case , doesn't matter .
B: I just want to have so something to prin to to fix my my components onto that box , and that's it .
C: The only th Yeah .
C: Y Yeah that can be in inside th in the structure .
B: Yeah yeah .
B: Yeah .
C: But uh the thing is that the buttons and the wheel have to be I mean if it's spongy then the buttons and the wheel have to I mean if it's spongy then it's going to move , right ?
B: Spongy also .
C: So , it's going to be bend a lot .
C: So if we try to push the buttons , it You think it's possible ?
B: Oh no I think it's possible .
A: But No the button would be In fact it it should be something odd shaped , with a spongy cover .
B: Yeah .
C: Okay .
B: Yeah .
B: This is uh like the Mm-hmm .
C: Yeah .
A: Okay odd shape with spongy cover .
A: And standard battery okay , a chip imprint , there's no specific problem .
A: So we agree to put the wheel So it have to it has to be symmetrical .
B: Wheel on the top .
B: Button , where do we want some buttons ?
C: Well , usually hold 'Kay , we want it to be good also for the left-hand users , right ?
B: Yeah .
C: Uh Yeah but okay .
C: Sa let's say that th o It has to be basically you can only take two sides , one on ths this side where is the thumb and the other side where there is uh yeah also the thumb .
B: Yep .
B: Yep .
C: Basically .
C: Or you could use use this one , but I don't know if it's very comfortable , to use this one for the wheel .
A: Yeah maybe the thumb is more comfortable .
C: This for the wheel and then this for the buttons ?
A: Yeah I think it's okay for both right and left .
C: Should have the two sides .
B: Mm-hmm .
A: Mm .
C: So if the left , we have the op Wheel Wheel buttons .
A: I think you can turn it this way also .
A: You can do both with both hands .
C: Yeah , the problem is if you have buttons and wheel then when you turn it around , the buttons are on the other side .
A: I think it's okay .
C: So you cannot see them .
A: Well , you you will get used to it .
C: Yeah .
A: And moreover , th the button ar are lighted so you you immediately identify the right side , because you have light on buttons .
C: So the buttons have to be here and the wheel has to be Y Yeah I know , but uh if you hold with your left hand , and the wheel is here , and the buttons are here , then when you turn it around the buttons will be on the other side .
A: Yeah .
A: No you you I think you will use it only on the right or left hand , whether you are righty or lefty .
A: I think for lefty it's okay .
A: I can do this movement , and for righty as well .
A: I think this doesn't change that much .
C: Okay .
A: Yeah ?
C: Okay .
C: Maybe .
C: Yeah .
A: So , for interface we said also that we have uh this banana shape with button on the s on the side .
A: And and uh a wheel on the top .
B: Mm-hmm .
C: Yeah .
A: So the colour is yellow .
A: I think it's uh we defined everything according to what we should what the decision we should take , yeah .
A: So maybe we can um we can uh work on those aspects uh until next meeting .
A: So have the final uh look and feel design according to the decision .
A: And have the the user interface design and uh then evaluate the prodyuc the product .
A: That is to say , uh check if it fit the the requirement uh given by the users , but according to uh your presentation it seems to be okay .
A: It seems to be fancy , innovative , and easy to use .
B: Mm-hmm .
A: So so to prepare the prototype I would suggest that the Industrial Designer and the User Interface Designer uh work together .
A: That would uh be better , I think .
B: Yeah .
A: And uh And so uh you will receive further instruction by emails , as usual .
C: Mm-hmm .
A: So do you need to add anything ?
C: Yes master .
C: No .
A: You feel okay ?
C: Yeah .
A: You feel uh free to express what you want to say ?
C: Yeah .
A: You don't feel too constrained ?
C: No .
A: You don't feel free to answer this ?
C: Maybe you can make uh uh mm okay .
A: Okay , so See you .
B: Thank you .
","The Industrial Designer presented the functional components that will appear in the prototype, and discussed with the group the high cost of the wheel sensor and the possibility of incorporating speech recognition.
The User Interface Designer presented existing remote controls to help show the interface of the prototype.
He showed how the new design will be more simple and ergonomic than the models he displayed by eliminating extra functions.
The Marketing Expert presented news about trends in fashion and in the market that will be incorporated into the design.
A fruit and vegetable theme and spongy materials are popular trends that will be used in the design.
The group finalized which features they wanted to integrate into the design.
They decided to make the remote shaped like a banana and spongy, to have the buttons lighted, to have a wheel sensor at the top of the device, and to use only a standard chip and battery that would not accomodate speech recognition.
The Project Manager instructed the User Interface Designer and the Industrial Designer to construct the prototype, and announced that the prototype would be evaluated in the next meeting.
The Industrial Designer and the User Interface Designer will construct a prototype for the product.
The group will evaluate the prototype according to whether or not it meets the requirements of users.
The group decided on the features that will be incorporated into the design of the prototype.
The remote will be shaped and colored like a banana, and be covered in a spongy material.
The buttons will be lighted.
The group decided to keep the wheel sensor despite the added cost.
It will be placed at the top of the banana shape.
The group decided to simply use a standard chip that will not accomodate speech recognition, as this feature will be eliminated from the functional design.
The remote will use standard batteries.
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"B: How do you wear this thing ?
A: Hmm .
A: Mm mm mm .
B: Not too many cables and stuff .
B: Original .
A: Is recorded ?
A: Okay ?
A: Okay so welcome everyone .
A: So we are here for the kickoff meeting of uh the process of designing a new remote control .
A: So I will first start with a warm welcome opening stuff , then uh we will uh see what will be uh our product and what will be the different step we will have to design it .
A: And uh then we will uh discuss if we have few ideas and we will uh end uh by uh dispatching the different task you will be you will have to fulfil to complete this process .
A: So sorry ?
B: Uh .
B: Just one thing .
B: Uh , you said twenty-five minutes , but I have something else to do uh , so gotta have another meeting uh soon , so maybe you could hurry up a bit It's true .
B: I have another meeting so if you could uh Yeah .
A: You have another meeting soon ?
A: So you have to be quick .
B: Yeah , for the lawnmower project .
A: Okay .
B: Okay .
A: So the the goal is to have a remote control so to have an advantage over our competitors we have to be original , we have to be trendy and we have to also try to be user-friendly .
A: So uh the design step will be divided in three uh main points .
A: First it will be the functional design .
A: Third is the conceptual design and then is the desired design .
A: So the functional design is to identify the main user needs , the technical function the remote control should fulfil .
A: And then we will move to f conceptual design where we'll specify the different component involved , what kind of user interf interface we want and what are the different uh trend in user interface and stuff like that .
A: And then the desired devi design will consist in uh specifically implementing and detailing the choice we've uh made in the second point .
A: So I will now ask you which is very important for the design of a new remote control for to uh each of us to to draw uh your favourite animal on the white board .
B: What an original idea .
A: Do you have any idea of which animal you want to show us ?
B: Orangutan .
A: Okay that's good .
C: No no n You should write y the name I think .
A: n n You should If you want to react uh about this wonderful drawing uh I'll let you uh comment .
B: Can I give you the no ?
B: But I don't have to say anything .
B: When I'm drawing the orangutan .
B: It's an abstract drawing of an orangutan .
A: Okay it's an abstract drawing .
B: Yes .
A: I think it's nice and original .
B: I don't have a red colour .
B: Usually orangutans have red hair so this is a very important but I don't have red pen , so Yes .
A: Okay .
A: You want to draw something Christine ?
D: Okay uh sorry .
D: You have to imagine a little bit um .
D: This Sorry too uh .
A: Of course your animal is recorded so it's not lost .
B: Yes .
B: I know .
A: Is this uh Ah okay it's pretty .
B: Wha what is this strange beast ?
D: Is it beautiful ?
B: Is it a monster ?
D: Do you know ?
D: It's a cat .
B: It's a cat ?
D: Isn't it ?
B: I thought these things did not exist .
D: Yes yes is it like that .
C: Me Ah yeah .
D: Is it better ?
B: Ah yeah Does have a name ?
C: Yeah .
D: Okay .
D: It's my cat .
A: Okay it's your cat .
D: Yeah .
D: The name is Caramel .
B: Caramel .
C: Caramel .
B: Ah-ha .
D: Yeah .
A: Okay .
A: Olivier , do you want to Okay I go , but next time you'll do something I'm sure .
C: And you I think I'm too short for the cables .
B: Next time I concentrate .
A: I'm a bit short on cable .
A: Okay .
A: So what could I draw ?
A: Maybe I can draw like a very simplified cow .
A: I don't know if it looks like a cow Like a what ?
B: He looks like a bong .
B: Okay .
B: Sorry .
B: No .
C: Quite squarey .
B: Scary ?
C: He also .
A: I dunno it it looks more like a donkey in fact I would say .
C: Mm .
B: I I think we will be finished this uh Is it for uh for putting a for logos , no .
A: Okay so I hope that it helps you uh in the process of designing a remote control .
B: That's I is there a matter for a new remote control ?
A: Okay .
A: Let's move on .
A: So Here the uh financial objective of our project .
A: That is to say to to have a production cost lower than twelve point five Euros and have a selling price of twice that price t in order to target a profe profit of uh fifty uh million Euros .
A: Yeah if it's trendy , original I d fulfil the user needs .
B: Is it uh a single device remote control or is it a multi-device remote control ?
A: We have to discuss that point .
B: Ah this is not defined at all ?
A: On yeah you you can suggest points like this .
B: Ah , okay .
A: So what what so we have to decide for example if it can control one device or multiple .
A: So what's what are your ideas about that ?
A: Maybe I can have the your opinion from the marketing side ?
B: Well uh do we sell other stuff ?
B: Uh if if we bundle the remote control with something uh to sell then it could be a single device , otherwise it could be programmable one otherwise who would buy a remote control from us .
A: Okay , so if it selled uh by its own i it it would rather be for multiple device .
B: Yeah .
A: Do you agree ?
C: Mm-hmm .
A: Yeah .
A: So maybe it should be for multiple devices .
A: And uh do you have any ideas um of uh design ideas or any uh uh technical requirement we we should uh fulfil ?
C: I think we shouldn't have too many b for my part .
B: No , I couldn I cannot fi think of any requirements right now .
C: I think If we don't have so many buttons could be nice .
A: Few buttons .
A: Okay .
A: And do you have it also to be to be lighted in order to be used in the dark ?
A: Might be a good idea .
C: Yeah .
A: Okay .
A: And do you have any um any uh idea of the trend the trend in domain , what it shouldn't it should look like , or things like that ?
C: Something which is not squarey maybe uh , not a box .
B: Mm .
A: With rou okay .
A: Like for okay .
B: Something like that , least fits in your hand .
C: Yeah .
A: Okay .
B: Yeah .
B: The basic requirement .
A: So .
A: Fit in your hand , yeah .
B: Only a buck .
A: And also it have , i it may be it may be important for the remote control to be uh To , to resist to various shocks that can happen if it fall .
C: Mm-hmm .
B: Waterproof .
A: Water-proof as well .
C: And I think we should have a device Sorry .
A: Maybe it is original because you can uh use it in your uh in your bath whereas the others can't .
A: Maybe water-proof would be very original .
A: Havin having a water-proof remote control so that the people can uh use it in their bath .
B: Mm .
A: That could be uh Yeah but , it is still something uh you have to buy and that is um not maybe very Yeah , mayb B But maybe we can bulk it with uh already this plastic thing and uh the waterproof uh stuff as well .
B: B it seems uh so , but uh if you don't have an waterproof remote control it means you can just cover it with some plastic and you can sort of f And , and that's one of the that's one of the shock I mean there are people that have a remote control and they are worried that it's going to break and they put some extra plastic around it .
B: That's people they actually do it themselves .
C: Yeah .
C: directly .
B: I it will look a bulky in that case .
A: Yeah .
C: Yeah .
A: Maybe we can sell uh all that together , so so plastic protection and uh and a waterproof box as well .
A: That might be good uh track to follow .
B: Like as an optional thing .
A: Optional or selled with it ?
C: And I I think we should have something , most of the time I I lose my remote control .
C: We should have s uh special bu button on the T_V_ to make the remote control beeping .
A: Yeah .
A: Maybe we can have uh But we don't design the T_V_ .
C: Ah yeah .
A: Maybe we can have uh something you whistle and uh the remote control uh beep .
C: Yeah .
B: Barks .
A: Yeah , barks , yeah .
C: Barks .
A: So we can uh have a whistle uh remote control ?
C: Yeah .
C: Yeah whistle .
A: I don't know , whistle-able ?
C: Whistle tracking .
A: Th Whistle tracking yeah .
A: Whistle tracking remote control .
A: That's a good idea , that's very original and that's can uh improve .
B: That's that's quite cool , but uh of course we you don't normally need uh any audio uh recording stuff on your remote control right ?
A: Yeah d d uh .
B: So i it's just going to add t to the cost .
A: Yeah but s still we have to mm we have to have an advantage over our competitors .
A: I think this is a good advantage .
B: It's cool .
B: I think I like the idea , but I'm not sure about the what you , who is giving who's giving who's giving our budget .
A: Yeah .
A: We have to ask Yeah .
B: Who's Yeah .
A: We have to ask the quest of that's uh design to the uh Industrial um Designer .
B: Yeah .
C: Yeah .
A: Which is you .
B: 'Kay .
C: yeah Okay .
A: Okay so try to find that for next meeting .
A: Okay .
A: So next meeting is in thirty minutes or so uh .
C: Don't panic .
A: Don't pani .
A: So so I will ask the Industrial Designer to find out more about this industrial design so any working any working function we have discussed .
C: Mm-hmm .
A: So then I will ask the User Interf Interface Designer to to think about the point we discussed like the number of buttons , the the fact that is lighted or not , things like that , and what would be convenient for the user .
B: Mm-hmm .
A: And also um I will ask the Market Expert to uh try to find out what are the absolute requirements , what is absolutely needed in a remote control uh for the user .
A: So .
A: And then uh I will uh just ask you to think about that and uh look at your mail because you will receive uh some good advice soon .
B: Mm .
A: So .
A: Thank you I think that's all for this point .
B: Good .
C: Mm-hmm .
B: Uh , so we come back in five minutes ?
B: Half an hour .
A: Anyway you will receive some messages .
A: Be careful .
A: You eat it ?
A: Does it move uh ?
A: Okay , but I don't know if it uh is still correctly uh We'll see .
C: Ah .
","The Project Manager introduced the project to the group and gave a timeline for the project.
The group trained themselves to use the meeting room tools by drawing on the whiteboard.
The Project Manager presented the project budget and the projected price point and profit goals.
The group discussed several of their initial ideas for the features of the product.
They discussed making the remote able to control multiple devices, protection from water or from dropping the remote, and a locator function.
The Project Manager then instructed the User Interface Designer to research users' requirements, and instructed the Industrial and User Interface Designers to research the functions and usability features that were discussed in the meeting.
The Industrial Designer will do research on the whistle tracking locator function and other functional components.
The User Interface Designer will research the necessary amount of buttons and the lighted interface that were discussed during the meeting and other usability features.
The Marketing Expert will research users' requirements for a remote control device.
The group would like the remote to control multiple devices and have optional water and other damage protection.
The group will research the possibility of integrating a locator function into the design.
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