G good morning.

Good morning, Flores. Marketing Expert.

Oh yeah.

Right.

Are you ready? You should put the laptop uh right into the square.

For i for the cameras, yes.

For the cameras Alright.

Good morning, Sebastian.

Good morning, Mister P_M_.

I'm fine.

How are you today? How was your business trip to Boston?.

Um well, actually I didn't go, didn't feel like it.

Geez.

So Do you want to open it as read-only.

Um I guess I should close it here.

You have the same message of uh Windows cannot um

sen oh stand-by. Close the the window.

Okay.

Okay, the waiting is for our Marketing Expert, Ruud.

So That's right. Ruud.

Um project kick-off.

Is there a schedule for this meeting?

Yes, there is actually. Um I will li list the agenda for today. For this meeting. Good morning, Ruud.

Good morning..

Uh it's important um.

I shall close the door.

yeah, great. It's important that the laptops are um exactly on the square, um for the cameras. Okay. Okay. Um we're here to develop uh a new product.

Um I'm sure you've had a mail from our account manager about it.

Mm-hmm.

Um and um this is the first meeting to to generate some uh uh some ideas about it. Um you are here in a specific role. Uh Ruud is here as the Marketing Expert, Roo is here as the User Interface Designer and Sebastian is here uh in the role of Industrial Designer. Is that correct?

That's correct.

Okay.

Mm-hmm.

Um we're going to do um uh uh a little tool training uh for the tools we are going to use uh during uh the meetings we are going to have here. Um then I will tell you a little bit about my idea of the project plan, uh and we will have a discussion. Uh this meeting should take no more than twenty five minutes, so we should keep that in mind.

Alright.

Okay. Um is there any room for a little presentation? Uh maybe during the discussion uh section?

There is? Yeah, there is.

Okay.

No problem.

Um okay, this new product we are are g are going to develop, um it's a remote control, a television remote control. Um and first of all it should be original, it should be trendy and user-friendly. Those are kind of easy um uh uh goals, um and I'm sure we can find more goals for the for the product we are going to develop. Um we will discuss uh later on more ideas about uh how the remote should look and how it sh it should function and all those kind of things.

Okay.

The market, we should have a look at the market. Um we are going to use a a pred a project method uh during uh this development, um which consists of three different design stages. Uh the functional design, the conceptual design and the detailed design, um all of these stages um um mean that we do some individual work, prepare, and then uh meet to discuss our uh uh the the the progressions, yes.

Progressions..

Um the first stage, the functional design um we are going to search for the user requirements, and we will um make a specific uh specification of that. Um the second is the technical functional design, um what effect should the remote have? Well in this case control t the the television I think.

It's for the vision. Yeah.

Um and the last one is the working design. How exactly does it work in the technical sense. Um the other design stages, uh we will discuss that later. So we'll kop it keep it with the functional design. Okay, um before we think about remote control we will um work with some of the tools we have uh here. Um as you see now I can give a presentation. Um it's also possible to use this one as well. You can uh uh display pr uh two presentations if you want to. Um to um presentate, to show us uh a file you'll need to uh place it in your project documents folder, which is on your desktop, at least it should be. Um then we have this electronic white-board system. Um yeah, I will show that now. Um you can draw on the board using this pen. There are little um uh

Sensors.

sensors, so do not grab it here, but a lit more a little bit more to the uh to the end. Um well, it it's on the um eraser now, so we click the pen button. Okay, so not too fast writing. Um you can insert a new um slide or or white-board uh uh file um by either using the insert function or by clicking the next button or the blank button. It's quite the same. Um all our um whi um uh SMARTboard um notes should be kept in the same file. So do not m make a new file. Just use this one uh during the day. Um you can use the eraser to make something go away.

But we all use the same white-board file

Yes.

So we can work together on it while we're.

Yeah.

or should we only use it in the in the meetings?

Yeah, in the meetings, only in the meetings.

Yeah, okay.

It's really like like a regu regular whiteboard.

Yeah, alright. Yep.

Um you can choose the format, um sorry. Uh Let me see. Um Well I guess it's maybe because I'm not s uh pen selected. Yep. Current colour, you can choose another colour. And um for example black, and you c I can choose the line width. Um so now I d have a different line width and uh colour. Okay. Quite easy, if you uh do have any questions, just c ask me. Um to um oh well, I'm I wrote down the documents uh should be in the project documents folder if you want to uh discuss it with us. Um as a little training um I will ask Ruud first to draw uh uh your own animal on a new slide uh with uh a different colour and a different line width than the one uh now selected..

Okay. Um green.

An animal. Okay. Um.

Uh a wee rabbit.

It's a bunny..

A rabbit. Okay, well great.

Alright.

Um Roo, could you do the same please? But a different animal with a different colour and a different line width.

But of course, Flores.

Blank.

Sebastian is thinking about the animal.

I'm just uh guessing what should be my favourite animal..

Okay.

Yeah, I'm think about it too. Format. Well, it looked more than a bunny than a cat, but it works,

Well, I'll give it a try..

Yeah.

It it should be a cat.

right?

Okay?

Mm.

I'm guessing a horse.

Very good..

With a very small legs..

I was very good in drawing..

You should feed that uh that animal..

Well, I guess you uh get the idea..

Yes, okay. Beautiful.

Beautiful.

Okay, so um you can use this at any time during the presentation if you want to. Um any questions well, just just let me know. Um okay, back to our project. Um the remote control we are going to develop um will have a selling price of about twenty five Euros. Uh the profit we are looking for for this product is fifty million Euros, which is quite a number. Um

we uh we will focus this internationally, so the product will be sold um, if there is market uh interest, uh in in more than one country. And um the production costs should not be more than uh twelve Euro fifty, so we should keep that in mind by uh w w during the development, um because uh, well, those are important numbers. Um then the discussion, maybe the time for Sebastian to show his presentation.

Yes, um I have some technical uh issues which I would like to present to you uh before we start the discussion, because uh there might be some uh

Limitations.

influations influences.

Okay.

Okay.

Okay, great.

Okay? Okay. Um first about my role, role of the Industrial Designer. I would like to think about uh the implementation of uh of things, and the technical possibilities and impossibilities. So if someone of you comes up with uh ideas, uh I'll try to translate them in technical functions, but uh there might be some impossibilities. So that's one. Uh I also will propose some uh um uh some implementations for that, but well, these are quite the same. Sorry about that. Um and I also will remind people of some new technical possibilities which are available and which might be interesting to implement in our product.

Okay.

I have some uh initial ideas about some things um which are maybe nice to take with you in the upcoming uh discussion. One thing about uh interopera operability. Um I think a modern uh remote control should uh control a device diverse subset of equipment. Uh for instance, uh D_V_D_ players, cell phones, video and audio equipment. So one re uh one remote control for all your equipment.

And for a cell phone?

Well, there should be some interoperabi interoperability between them.

Yeah, okay. Yeah.

I think it could come in handy. We should discuss that. Um and we should think about the way how these things uh should communicate with each other. We're not uh living in the uh nineteen eighties anymore, so infrared is not uh

is not really uh hot uh technical stuff anymore. But you should uh think about the things like uh Bluetooth.

But Yeah, but the infrared, it's uh, well, a little bit old-fashioned, if you would call it like that.

Mm-hmm.

But all the T_V_s are uh equipped with infrared, so

But it's cost-effective. Yes. Mm-hmm. Well, not all, not all.

y you you can Most of them.

So that's the point.

Or you shou sh use a.

So.

you should equip infrared and Bluetooth together in one remote.

Maybe, but that's uh something we should discuss

Yeah.

and uh about every everybody should think about it. So that's just my role, I'll just uh give you uh everybody some technical input, and I think now the time is to have a little discussion about what uh the product should be and how it should look,

Yeah.

but take these things into account when you start the discussion.

Okay, so the the main por uh the main points you are uh telling us are focus on the inter uh operability,

Yes,

and.

so one thing uh one remote control should uh control one or more uh pieces of equipment,

Okay, and and uh.

and the way of communicating with these equipments.

Okay. Okay, good.

Okay.

Um that was your presentation? Okay, okay.

That's it.

Um okay. Great. Um I'll go back to my own presentation. Um Mm. Okay. Um I I do think it's time now to to discuss uh mm some things.

Um Sebastian told us a few things about the technical implemen uh implications. Um there are other things like um how to make it trendy, which is I think uh um most uh Ru uh Ruud's uh role. Um the way how it should be controlled by the user, which is uh Roo uh r uh during this part. Um so let's start with you.

Mm-hmm.

H how do you think the remote should um function for the user?

Well, I had a few uh things in mind. Um well, the interoperability, just like uh Sebastian said, um the remote should work on different T_V_s or even different uh um Yeah uh, what is it, devices?

Yep.

Um so i i I think it's a universal remote control for customers to buy just new in uh a store.

Yes, I think it should be something like that.

It's not for uh for uh for uh Philips or whatever to buy our remote for their own product,

Okay, so we're we're going business to consumer,

right?

not we're we're it's not a.

Yeah, I do I don't know that. It's no I have uh don't have the information for it.

We're not developing this product for a specific vendor, are we?

No. No.

No,

No, okay.

we're just developing this product, and we want to sell it to a very broad uh public, so it should fit to every device.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Uh Ruud, y do you agree?

Yeah, I think I think they're right, yeah.

Okay. Okay.

Um Well, the techni fu technical function uh what you said is just by pressing the button you should change the state of the T_V_. That's just the basic f technical function.

Yeah.

So that was my really my part for uh this session. Um.

So is that ease of use or uh is that more like um.

Yeah..

Well, that's just the fu the technical function is pure what should the remote control do, wh what is his task uh as an uh as an uh device.

Mm-hmm.

It just should change the T_V_'s state.

Okay.

So that's it. Um but furthermore.

And you you see uh the buttons as a as a means of doing this?

Yeah. Yeah, with buttons.

Or are there any o other controls?

Yeah, or maybe you want a touch-screen or.

Are there only any other cont Well,.

But.

I I've seen these remote controls with uh this little stick uh which you can move forward, sidewords.

Yeah.

Uh-huh.

You know these things. And um it's very easy for a user to to switch.

They're very vu vulnerable.

w yes,

Yeah.

to to switch b uh between uh channels or uh change uh between tracks on a on a C_D_, on on a chapters, you know, on a D_V_D_ player. So maybe that's an idea,

Yeah.

I don't know.

And for other user interface I had um, well, it's more industrial thing. Uh point at a T_V_, I think it's it's quite disturbing when you always have to point directly to the T_V_,

Mm-hmm.

so you must point everywhere, so maybe infrared is.

Okay.

Maybe not even pointed. Yeah.

Yeah, just don't even point it, so in that case infrared should uh maybe uh be restriction to that.

Okay

Mm-hmm.

Uh.

Uh is that uh are there restriction for the range, the operating range too? So when you're not able to point at the device um the range is very limited.

Yeah, if you g if you go to radio or or yeah. For T_V_, you're always in in the neighbourhood of a T_V_, so I don't think think the range should be a problem to that,

Mm-hmm.

but if you want to uh get it working with a radio, and you're in outside your garden with just one uh speaker, then maybe the range should be uh.

Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

Okay, gentlemen, um uh just a reminder, we d we have five minutes left for this meeting

Okay.

But Yeah.

Okay.

um.

Two more things.

okay.

Um You should able to feel the buttons without uh it mis um you have to know what you do without looking at the buttons, so it should be as user interface um for feeling should be uh good to understand.

Okay, s yeah.

You must feel the buttons for volume or whatever, I think.

Yeah.

And of course you don't always know where all buttons are, so it should be visible al um in dark too.

Okay.

So when it's dark.

Those are two really uh user interface.

Uh I'll write down glow in the dark. Is tha.

Yeah. That's perfect..

Okay.

Okay.

Okay, um uh I just want to hear uh Ruud's um input for this meeting.

Do do you.

Um do you have anything already w um ab idea about how the market uh will respond to the such a product? Or what we should take um in account when developing such a product?

Uh I think most most things have already been said, like uh control multiple devices.

Mm-hmm.

And uh, yeah, infrared might be an issue.

Because?

Uh well, he said about n abo what he said about pointing.

Mm-hmm.

But uh lots of devices already use infrared. So we'll probably have to implement that.

Okay. Okay. Okay, Sebastian, did you have any other ideas?

Um well yes, I had, uh about three minutes ago,

but I've seem to forget them forgot them. Um oh yes, I remember. Um you said something about visibility in the dark.

Yeah.

Um uh would it be nice for a user to have display on this uh remote control, on which you can see functions? Which makes it easier to operate it.

Yeah. Well, maybe I um but it it can be quite simple,

I I don't know.

you can just have white buttons with a black mark on it.

Mm-hmm. Okay.

The uh the the digits in black.

Mm-hmm.

Uh then it's already visible in dark. So it it don't have to be a lightning or or a fancy

Okay.

well, it can be for design, of course.

Okay.

Okay.

Yeah, yeah, okay, because because we wa we want to develop a trendy product. So.

Yes, but there's a cost limitation too.

Yeah,

Well, that's more.

twelve Euro fifty, yeah.

Yeah.

So that's a big problem, I think. I think the the financial part of this project uh implicates that it's not going to be a high high-end product.

Okay.

The cost price is very low.

Just remind something.

Um.

The digits of uh the the painting on the buttons should not fade.

Okay, okay.

You have a m uh.

Okay. Very good point. Yeah.

Always have s the soft buttons, always uh clear the the the paint on it. The marks.

Okay.

Okay, um I ha I have one point f um which which comes in mind now. Um uh d I think the device should either be rechargeable very easily

Mm-hmm. Okay.

um or it should not consume too much um power. Because it's very annoying if you need to change the batteries every s uh uh every other week.

Yeah.

Okay.

So um maybe we could um for example uh only light the buttons that are um uh applicable at that moment or.

But um Necessary, yeah.

yeah. I dunno, it's uh that's more Sebastian's uh um.

Yeah. But then Bluetooth uh might be problem.

Hmm.

'Cause I think Bluetooth uh.

It's use uh a lot of uh.

Well does it?

Yeah, I know it from the cell phone.

well.

I'm not sure. Uh.

Well, cell phones have uh integrated Bluetooth also and, well, it's it seems to work uh quite okay.

Yeah.

So uh technically it will be possible.

But you can't you can't use Bluetooth all the time, twenty four hours a day.

Okay. Gentlemen, I'm afraid we do not have any more time.

Does it.

No, you cannot.

It's over?

Okay.

Um

Okay.

so we will go back to our own uh work. Um next meeting starts in thirty minutes and um, well, you know your o your individual actions or your personal coach will probably email you about th it. Um so this was it.

Okay.

See you in thirty minutes.

Great.

Question: What questions brought up during the meeting remained unanswered at the end?

Response: There were no questions raised during the meeting remained unanswered at the end.

Question: Were there any other key takeaways from the meeting we had this morning?

Response:
Here are some key takeaways from the meeting:

* The remote control should be original, trendy, and user-friendly.
* The remote control should control a diverse subset of equipment, like DVD players, cell phones, and audio equipment.
* The remote control should be rechargeable or consume very little power.
* The buttons on the remote control should be easy to feel and visible in the dark.
* The digits on the buttons of the remote control should not fade.

Question: Can you summarize the important points about the remote control requirements?

Response:
The important points about the remote control requirements are:

* It should be original, trendy, and user-friendly.
* It should control a diverse subset of equipment, like DVD players, cell phones, and audio equipment.
* It should be rechargeable or consume very little power.
* The buttons on the remote control should be easy to feel and visible in the dark.
* The digits on the buttons of the remote control should not fade.

Question: Did the project manager want the participants to start working on a presentation during the first meeting?

Response: No, the project manager did not want the participants to start working on a presentation during the first meeting.

Question: Why was Bluetooth mentioned as a potential communication method for the remote control?

Response: Sebastian, the Industrial Designer, mentioned Bluetooth as a potential communication method for the remote control because it is a cost-effective way to allow the remote control to communicate with a diverse subset of equipment.

Question: What is the advantage of making the buttons easy to feel and visible in the dark?

Response: The advantage of making the buttons easy to feel and visible in the dark is that it would improve the user experience by allowing the user to operate the remote control without having to look at it.

Question: What did Sebastian say regarding the cost of the remote control in the meeting?

Response: Sebastian said that the cost of the remote control is a big problem, as the cost price is very low. He mentioned that the financial part of this project implies that it is not going to be a high-end product.

Question: What summary did the project manager give at the end to conclude the meeting?

Response: The project manager concluded the meeting by summarizing the key points discussed. * The remote control should be original, trendy, and user-friendly. * Different features of the remote control were discussed, including its technical function, its user interface, and its design. * The project manager reminded the team that the cost of the remote control is a big problem, as the cost price is very low. * The project manager also reminded the team that the next meeting would start in thirty minutes.

Question: Did anyone express disagreement with Sebastian's concerns about the cost of the remote control?

Response: The meeting transcript does not mention whether anyone expressed disagreement with Sebastian's concerns about the cost of the remote control.

Question: Can you restate the main points brought up in the meeting?

Response:
Here are the main points brought up in the meeting:

* The remote control should be original, trendy, and user-friendly.
* The remote control should control a diverse subset of equipment, like DVD players, cell phones, and audio equipment.
* The remote control should be rechargeable or consume very little power.
* The buttons on the remote control should be easy to feel and visible in the dark.
* The digits on the buttons of the remote control should not fade.


So we can start?

Yeah.

Suppose I have to do my presentation. Eh um.

Ah okay. It's Ada Longmund?

So, I'll present myself, I'm Ada Longmund, and as you may know it, I'm the pr project manager. So um we will have to um speak about m the project. Our project project is to create um a new remote control and as you may know there's lot of industrials interesting in creating a remote control, so the remote control has to be original, trendy and um user-friendly. Record. So the project method is the following. So if we're um the functional design, you have to do uh any individual work and uh also work with uh meetings talking with each other. Uh it will be the same for the conceptual design and also the same for the detailed design. Uh.

The tool training is to try out the white board, so.

Maybe someone ha we have to this whiteboard,

Mm-hmm.

yeah?

Maybe you can draw your favourite animal

and make a list of its favourite characteristics.

So right now?

I don't know if we have to do it now, maybe later later.

So yeah I think you can do it..

Yeah, I don't know.

So the selling price of the product will be twenty five Euros..

Twenty five Euros?

Yeah. Yeah..

Mm.

I think it's quite good price, yeah.

I it's it's reasonable, s quite yeah. Twenty five.

It's reasonable, I think, yeah.

And uh

it will uh be a an international remote control,

Is.

as we want to sell it in the entire world, and the product costs will be not more than twelve Euros and fifty centimes. So, as you will discuss about the remote control you will have to experience your um with the remote control. Um just uh maybe be imaginative with remote const con controls,

try to create something new and people would like to to buy. And and the next meeting will start in thirty minutes, so you'll ha all have your spethisfispis specif specific role and you know I suppose you know what you have to do..

Yeah. I I hope so.

And uh you will have to work on the design and also to work on the design of th technical fun functions of the remote control and think of the user requirement specifications.

Those things just refer to each of each of us, I think. AMI

Yeah.

Yep.

and.

okay.

yeah.

Yeah.

So.

I_D_ is for the Industrial Design, yeah?

Okay.

And U_I_D_, it's for the User Interface Designer,

That's me.

Okay,

yeah?

and Marketing Expert, it's me.

AMI yeah project.

So I will manage all all the group.

you will be the manager yeah.

You can manage all this, yeah.

Okay.

Good.

So you have questions?

Um. Not really.

So

Yeah.

you all know what the parts of the work you have to do.

So which you, the Industrial Designer.

No I'm user interf I'm user interface design.

I am the Industrial Design, yeah

Mm-hmm.

Okay.

And you?

I am the Industrial Designer so.

Mm okay.

Okay. So what's the difference between

Yeah.

user interface design d industrial design?.

Hmm.

I mean, you have to know. Ah, you have to know it.

It's difficult..

It's your job, so I hope you you know what it is.

You know very soon..

Yeah, I think so.

So.

Mm.

I suppose you have to design it and you have to take care of the industrial way to transform it.

Okay, so I make uh u user interface.

Yeah.

You you de you implement the core functions in the.

And i maybe you will transform it.

I I think the user the user interface design is he will design how the user will you know the relation between the user and you know the remote control so.

Use it. Make make yeah.

And the uh industrial design, it is how the object will look like.

Maybe I think uh uh i industrial design's uh, it's the function design.

Yeah. So the materi

I design the user f user interface, you design the function.

Maybe, it is the outside and the inside.

Yeah.

Okay.

Okay.

Okay right. But I was thinking that he's a user'cause the user interface to design for example where the but button will be, you know.

Yeah yeah.

But I don't know. Okay.

Well. You know.

I'm the industrial designer.

Oh, okay, okay. Not the other one.

So.

Okay.

Okay. So and the marketing expert will.

Yeah, I'm just go I'm trying to give you some trends about what should be done and what the users would like to have

And.

and then thi this would I guess converged to the User Interface Designer wi and then Industrial Designer.

yeah.

Ok Okay.

And when designing y the remote control just remember that uh it has to be a kind of international product. So you don't have to do something really specific,

Okay.

as everybody everybody will have to use it,

Mm-hmm.

Mm.

it's sor the same as keyboards. You know, you have Qwerty, Azerty, French and U_K_ keyboard,

Yeah. Mm.

so really the remote control to be international.

Yeah. Okay.

And not too expensive.

Mm-hmm.

Yeah. And uh simple.

As we want to maximise the benefit.

And easy to use.

And you have to keep it under twelve Euros and f fifty, so.

Yeah, you have to keep in mind that the product cost won't be maxim more than twelve dot fifty Euros.

Ah, yeah.

It should be.

That's the problem.

Okay. Okay.

And to be sure that really people will be interested in buying a new remote control with maybe new functionalities that don't exist in the mm existing remote controls now.

Okay..

So, is it okay?

Yeah.

Mm. It's clear.

There was a step about drawing something in the in the board, I don't know.

Yeah, maybe should go and draw an animal.

Is it? Are we supposed to do right now?.

Yeah yeah, you try. Try first..

Oh right it's it's from the left to the ri It's.

So

you think we have to do it now?

I d I was thinking but I n I'm not sure now..

You can draw something which is very simple..

You want me to draw something?

Oh.

Product manager.

Everybody.

okay, let's go,

Oh, maybe we should bring Kemy here.

I will try.

Kemy is really good at drawing..

Many.

I think everybody should do it, so.

Yeah.

It's not matter So.

You're going to draw?.

Okay.

Uh it's the same as mine.

What's this?

yeah. It's a It's a cat.

It's a fat cat..

It is not a fat cat..

It's the fat cat, okay.

Yeah, it is a.

Can you draw uh um rabbit?

Oh, hat ha rat.

A rat?

Yeah.

That's difficult.

Yes you have to draw a rat if you want a rat.

No. A mouse is not too difficult.

It's your rat..

Mouse is okay.

Yeah, it's okay.

Yeah. Just go,

Okay,

you you the closest to the whiteboard.

go.

Mm.

right, but in grow, it's.

Jus

Okay.

everybody has to grow.

Yeah.

Oh. Okay, I draw. The only thing I can draw is like this. Oh. Oh. Oh.

A duck.

You love the eyes.

No. What's this?

What are you I don no idea, so.

Yeah, that was the eyes.

Okay.

A clown.

Rabbit.

It's a rabbit.

Pikachu..

It's a rabbit.

Oh yeah. Bugs Bunny one.

Yeah.

Okay.

It's not so bad so.

The only thing I can draw, because it's very simple..

Okay. I go.

What? Oh. So what else? This was my favourite one,

So you don't have a.

Thank you..

but.

A fish.

Right. A fish.

That's a that's a fish?

Okay, let's try to draw something.

You forgot the chips.

Oh yeah, doesn't look so fine.

Have to be really careful.

Fish and chips..

Okay,

Ah it's my turn.

it's your turn.

Oh. Okay, be careful.

Okay. So. It's ok

Of

No problem, no problem.

So, what can I draw some more?

Oh.?

? No. Mm.

Yeah, it's it's a se it's my priority this one. Yeah.

Mm.

A person?.

No. It's a really crazy dog.

Oh yeah..

Dog..

Okay.

Good.

Okay.

Transfer. It's a dog in a village..

So what are you sug going to do now?.

I think it's done.

Yeah, I think.

It's done?

yeah.

Yeah.

Okay.

Just have to present project,

So we have break.

discuss a little bit about it.

Oh my God.

Oh, we have twenty five minutes for the meeting.

Yeah.

Okay.

So, if you have questions.

Oh. Hmm.

Know what time is it? No.

No..

It's okay?

Yeah, it's okay.

You know your job? you know your job?

We have an idea yeah..

You know your job?

I have an idea of my job so yeah so. Yeah.

Okay.

Okay.

Good.

Question: User: Did the project manager ask the team to draw their favorite animal on the whiteboard?

Response: Yes, the project manager asked the team as a whole to draw their favorite animal on the whiteboard. They added that the activity may take place later on.

Question: User: Other than the whiteboard activity, what else did the project manager tell the team they had to do?

Response:
Here are the tasks the project manager assigned to the team members:
* Do individual work.
* Work with each other in meetings to discuss ideas.
* Experience using remote controls.
* Create something new and appealing.

Question: User: What input did Ada Longmund have regarding the selling point of the product?

Response:
Ada Longmund, the project manager, gave the team the following input regarding the selling point of the product:

* The product will be sold internationally.
* The selling price of the product is twenty-five Euros.
* The product costs will be no more than twelve Euros and fifty centimes.

Question: User: Can you provide a brief recap of the key details discussed in the meeting?

Response:
Here is a brief recap of the key details discussed in the meeting:

* The international remote control's selling point will be twenty-five Euros.
* The product costs cannot exceed twelve Euros and fifty centimes.
* The participants will work individually and as a team throughout the project's design process.
* The participants are tasked with designing an appealing and innovative product.

Question: User: Besides discussing the project's budget and timeline, were there other aspects that were mentioned in the meeting?

Response:
Yes, there were other aspects that were mentioned in the meeting:

* The project manager discussed the pricing, the functions, and the target audience of the product.
* The participants talked about creating a user-friendly, trendy, and original remote control.
* They emphasized the importance of keeping the product costs low while maximizing the benefits.

Question: User: Besides the emphasis on keeping product costs low, were there other key takeaways from the meeting regarding financial considerations?

Response: The project manager mentioned that the participants should keep the product costs under twelve Euros and fifty cents.

Question: User: Can you give me a summary of the specific things that the industrial designer said during the meeting?

Response: The industrial designer stated that one of his responsibilities is to create the look and feel of the remote control.

Question: User: Apart from the difficulties mentioned, were there other challenges the marketing expert brought up regarding the project?

Response: I apologize, but the specific concerns raised by the marketing expert during the meeting are not mentioned in the provided context.

Question: Can you clarify the overarching objective of the meeting?

Response: The primary goal of the meeting was to discuss the development of a new remote control. The participants aimed to create a product that is original, trendy, user-friendly, and appealing to a global audience, while keeping production costs low and maximizing profit.

Question: User: What was its intended purpose?

Response: The primary goal of the meeting was to discuss the development of a new remote control. The participants aimed to create a product that is original, trendy, user-friendly, and appealing to a global audience, while keeping production costs low and maximizing profit.


Okay.

'Kay so we'll try to zip through this, since we're short on time. Welcome everybody. Um hope your sessions went well. Um so this is our functional design meeting, we're going to consider um user needs, technical effects, and the working design of our remote control. Um I've been taking meetings on the minute minutes on the meetings, and I'll be putting them in the shared documents folder so if there's anything you need to refer to you can find them in there. Um I I'll get the ones up for next time, um they're not finished yet. Right. Um so can we have updates from everyone from what you've worked on just kind of a quick summary of anything interesting that you'd like to share or discuss in this.

And I can start if you want. Mm.

sure.

Is there an order? No.

Hm?

We haven't decided on an order.

No, any any order's fine. Yeah.

First. Okay. Um, how do I put this.

Just uh.

I'll just put the cable in.

Oh yeah, sorry.

Is that it? Can you see? Oh, here. Okay. So what happens it doesn't work?

It sh it takes a few seconds I think.

You may need to.

Who's that?.

No.

But sometimes you have to do it.

Is it in the right thing?

it's like a three set setting cycle, so press it a couple times, hold down function and then press F_ eight.

Oh wait, um. Uh. You need to help me..

Uh-huh, and then press function.

and F_ eight.

Yeah.

Could you just plug it back into hers because she had.

Oh, wait.

oh.

That's is that it?

Adjusting.

Here we are..

The cable might be a little loose or something. Oh, you got it.

Right here we are.

Oh. Is it on?

We're here.

Okay.

Okay, um. In order to see what the functional requirements were to be found, um a hundred people were tested in a usability laboratory through just their habits to n know their habits were observed and questionnaires were given out. Um, the findings in in some cases matched what we were talking about. Custome Customers and users don't like the way remote controls look, they don't like the way they feel, they don't think they match their operating behaviour, and an example is what we were talking about, the buttons, they only use ten per cent of the buttons, so later on there's a study of the buttons that they use most and I think we should design according to these buttons. Easy to lose, and R_S_I_. I don't know what R_S_I_ means. Um the person that did the questionnaire obviously did, I don't have a clue.

Hm.

Um, according to the frequency of use and the relevance of each buttons, I have made a list of the buttons that we should focus on in order of importance. So the most important buttons are those to do with channel selection. They're used about a hundred and sixty times per hour. And um yeah so and and people like to zap a lot apparently, so this is the order. Channel selection, teletext, volume, and power. The other ones are the settings, and they're used less than you know zero point eight to zero point five times per hour, and this means that I think we can we could have like a a button for all the settings, and then, just one, and then from there go on to the audio on the screen, either on the remote or on the television. Um, about the screen, and speech recognition, some people are more willing than others to actually pay for that. And if we look at the market, f people from well from fifteen to thirty five year old year olds, I don't really know how to describe this, um ninety one to seventy six percent of people in that age range are willing to pay more for this sort of product, while people that are above thirty five years ol um years old go from thirty five percent to eight percent, so people that are sixty five for example wouldn't actually pay for this sort of thing. Um I don't I don't know um what the decision to be made is, but I think that the people that actually do buy remotes m more are those like teenagers and young professionals and um, most likely, but we should discuss this together. And that's all I have to say about the matter, um.

'Kay.

Shall I what do I do? Do I give this to someone else?

Yeah. Just move right on.

Right. So get this. Okay so now I need to press F_ eight, what is it?

Uh function F_ eight.

Function F_ eight.

'Kay. What's function?

It's the little blue w it's the one th

Oh function, I see it.

yeah. Yeah should be.

There we go..

It should be yeah.

Okay. Um. This my presentation about the uh technical functions design and I basically just tried to focus on um just what what functions we need and how to make that the best function for the user. So uh and I just sort of like thought about it myself and looked on the internet.

And okay so basically um I think i uh like it is really important that we sort of get this done in a user friendly and fashionable way. Um so I think things like uh you know keeping buttons together that like close together that um are used in the same way, uh or um maybe that making'em the same colour, keeping the number of buttons the uh leas you know to a minimum, and also things like is it is it um is it uh can you c y small enough large enough I'm not sure we c I guess we would need to do some research about, I would, about what size is appropriate and that sort of thing, um but basically we need to make sure that it turns on and off the T_V_. Does it have like capacity to change the channels? Um does it do or do we need to have like functions for cable or V_C_R_? And then, is it findable, and uh how do we wanna do that? And um I just thought that these two remotes were pretty boring, um I dunno if this will work but And I think we can find something that's more fun to look at and use than either of those. Just I mean I like the one on the right better, just because it does have fewer buttons, uh but I mean I think we sh can sort of think about things like um like colour and you know size, shapes, that sort of thing, to best fit the user. That concludes my presentation.

Okay. You need the little thingy. Ooh.

How do I um.

S That's on view.

Right.

Oh.

Okay so this is on the working design, which is sort of the uh mechanical functions of the remote, um and the method I used was to basically look at existing designs and incorporate ideas from our last meeting. Um so I think we need two basic functions which is just the basic remote functions, the user can input a channel or volume setting and it will be output to the T_V_. And also we talked about um a location function where maybe you could press a button on the T_V_ and it would send sort of signal to the remote where it would beep or flash or vibrate or whatever to tell you where the remote is. So the components we need are an energy source to power the remote, um input which would probably be buttons, although um we just talked about voice recognition, processor to take the information, um something to transmit it to the T_V_, and we also need something on the remote that would receive the location signal and have an output, like possibly a beep or a vibration. And also you need a sender for location signal, which would probably be a separate um thing that we'd have to sell with the remote and people could stick it on their T_V_ or stick it on their wall. And this is just sort of an overview of how the remote works. Power comes from the battery, goes to the chip, um and then it is sent from there to an infrared bulb which is probably the easiest way to send to the T_V_. And then for the location function, you would have a sender on the T_V_ which would output some sort of signal, um we could use I_R_ but we'd probably wanna use radio instead. That signal would go to a receiver which it would process it, and it would be output in the form of a buzzer or a light lighting up. Um so my personal preferences for how to build the remote would probably be uh, battery for the energy source, that way you wouldn't have to plug it in, um a button pad for input, um we can purchase a pre-made chip which will handle all the processing stuff, I_R_ transmitter to communicate to the T_V_, that's just sort of standard, um so most T_V_s have an I_R_ receiver. Probably a radio receiver to send out location function and to receive it and I'd probably say a buzzer for the location function on the remote itself. So that concludes my presentation.

'Kay.

Do you know about like.

Mm?

I dunno, you seem like you know about.

Yeah, uh I d I was an engineer before I came here.

Okay. Cool..

Okay. Well thank you everybody. Um we have we'll discuss that and then I just wanna mention some new project requirements that came in. Um, teletext is apparently outdated, so due to internet popularity, so that's off the list. Um,

also our remote should be used only for television, um, no extra internet kinda fancy things, just the remote and the television. Um and also we need to incorporate our corporate image onto this, so um the phrase is, we put fashion in electronics, so let's be fashionable I guess. Um if we have something I mean silver and and gold or yellow are our colours, so if we had a like a kind of silver one like you saw, and yellow writing, something like that. Okay. Um. So we need to make some decisions on the remote control functions. Um, yeah. Do Let's.

I guess we should yeah make some kind of brainstorming, see what we can.

Like in terms of

How it looks or.

how it looks, or like what it does?

wha what um well probably our target group and how it's gonna going to appeal to our target group and I dunno the the s

Okay.

the buttons and what it does and that sort of thing. So.

Yeah. Okay. So Is our target group then people so do we wanna go ahead and design this thing with the finder button?

I think that seems to yeah. Mm.

So.

It's easy to implement.

Okay. So the.

the the buzzer you mean,

yeah, yeah, yeah.

Locator.

yeah, for sure, yeah.

So then our target age group would be the nineteen to thirty five range,

Yeah, teenagers and young professionals.

what was it?

Well that's for speech recognition.

Oh, uh.

Well.

Oh.

And screen. That's only for speech recognition and screen.

I was thinking about that but uh I mean speech recognition is really hard to programme,

Yeah.

and also, if the T_V_ is on it's making sound and the people on the T_V_ are talking, and if somebody says like one, then the T_V_'s gonna switch itself to channel one,

Yeah yeah yeah.

Mm.

or it seems like a silly,

Yeah.

I mean.

I'm not sure how you would implement it.

Yeah.

I just put the values in.

And if if you consider our budget, it probably.

But um the screen is the same as what,.

It's a cool idea but.

if you consider our budget, to h have speech recognition programmed in every single remote might be a little pricey.

Yeah.

Yeah, I'm happy with that.

Yeah.

Right so um yeah.

Hu yeah.

Completely.

Okay so are we gonna have just some kind of a like we'll have the buzzer on the som like on the T_V_ itself.

Well you would have to have a button on a T_V_ or on your wall or some place since the T_V_ already has power.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah you click the button, it's gonna send out a signal, and I was thinking, I_R_ is line of sight, so unless the remote is like actually in front of the T_V_ it's not gonna work, um so probably like a radio signal like on a on a cell phone.

Okay. Okay.

Yeah.

Okay.

Sends out a signal and then the the remote hears the signal and so it beeps probably.

Alright.

Okay.

Okay.

So you you'd need like a separate base for that or like something you can.

It would have to be sold separately because if the sender's on the remote then you'd have to find the remote first to click the button to find the remote.

right. Yeah, yeah.

So do you plug it in the T_ you plug it in T_V_, this thing?

Yeah, it'd probably just stick it on your T_V_ so if you need to find the remote, click the button.

Okay. Okay.

So it's now like a two-part thing.

Yeah, so it would be a two part package.

Okay. Alright.

Okay.

So we get to design that too.

Make it fashionable. Um, okay.

So do you think even though we're not talking about speek speech recognition our target group should still be teenagers and young professionals.

Yeah I think so.

Yeah. Just there.

Huh. Okay.

Mm. Are we um should that thing be on the thing to put the you s you talking about a home for it.

Yeah.

Do you still want to build a little thing next to the telly or to p hang on the wall or shall we leave that for now?

We probably leave that. I mean I guess one takes care of the other, like um if you can yeah if you can call it then it's.

Okay.

Yeah. Then it can live anywhere.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Okay. For the so you have that button, that so there's is there a light or shall we leave just have a radio?

Um on the T_V_ or on the phone?

Are we just having a radio? On the phone.

Um it seemed like a a beep seemed the most reasonable to me,

T

You don't need a light. Yeah yeah yeah.

Yeah.

I think that's what the phone has,

Yeah yeah.

Yeah.

I mean when you need to find your phone, you just have someone call it and it starts ringing somewhere and then you can figure out that it's in the couch or wherever.

And like if the if the phone's under the couch, you might not see the light, so

You can hear it's under the couch yeah.

yeah.

So i Yeah.

Um, So need the other buttons. So we have this mm.

So I mean the two remotes that you had shown r I don't remember who showed them, yeah you you did um,

That was that was me.

Mm-hmm..

they're I mean one looked like it was for V_C_R_ type thing, and the other looked like just television.

I think w I think they're both sort of just like general remo they're both general remotes.

Oh really.'Cause that that is something we have to decide, is whether we want to have V_C_R_ capabilities.

And uh

Does anyone know if V_C_R_s are the same across international?

Yeah.

They're not no.

They're not, no.

Okay, so you'd need like a whole different set of buttons for everybody's V_C_R_s.

S

Yeah, that's right, yeah.

It not V_H_S_ here?

But D_V_D_ probably is.

Yeah, other than that region and coding thing.

Um.

And and if we're if we're targeting young professionals and teenagers, I mean it's gonna be D_V_D_ type, that's the the technology these days.

But V_C_R_s Yeah. Yeah, for sure.

Mm-hmm.

Yeah. So. Okay, let's see if I can I think still though, it shouldn't be that hard to take like just reduce the number of buttons you know,

Yeah.

like'cause if you just have like one menu button, that works like with a you know, or you can just kind of scroll through the options u that come up on the T_V_.

Yeah.

Well for sure we need the um I think we can just design the channels? I mean power's just a button, and it's not used that much,

S

Yeah.

Huh.

Mm-hmm.

Yeah.

s and it's usually that red

Yeah.

and I think it's quite nice to keep it like red.

Yeah.

You know, I've seen some remotes that where you just hold one, like if you hold one down it's it's a different colour than the other buttons but that turns it on. So you don't actually have a separate power button, it's just.

Oh okay, yeah.

It seems like that would be hard though.

But.

I mean, like because unless you know.

It might be confusing. Yeah.

yeah. Just'cause I wouldn't I would probably pick it up and just be like uh why is there no on button..

Yeah. Besides you like to be able to go power.

Yeah, I never think to hold something down..

Yeah.

I have the power.

Yeah. B Yeah.

I guess. So we definitely want a power button and numbers. Right.

Yeah.

Well even um iPod thing, like um, I don't know if people like this but if you want to reduce the number, of buttons, instead of having like one to nine, have a sort of

That sort of like joystick flat touch thing, yeah.

scrolling I don't know.

Mm..

Yeah. Because people li seem now the iPod's out people seem to like this thing that there's no Know you don't have one two three four five.

Yeah, yeah. I think that's an interesting idea,'cause it's cool,

Mm.

it's it's funny like you f like I just I don't have an iPod but like I, you know, I just like started messing around with one of my friend's the other day, and you just sort of and it's funny how you pick it up and you just figure out how to use it quite easily, like it's not that hard, you know.

Yeah.

Yeah yeah, it's just and it's one thing which has everything.

Yeah, and it is yeah. It is really but do you need a screen then, do you have to have a screen then?

Well can't it tell the like can't you if you.

Yeah, you can have the number going around in the corner.

Yeah. Okay.

you can have the number on the telly going like one two three four five once you scroll and then.

Yeah. Yeah. Okay so we have this like scrolling sort of button.

Oh that's gonna Is that like on on a mouse pad where like kind of.

Like a disc. Yeah. Yeah. It's like it's just like the same technology as a mouse pad.

okay. I've never used one. No.

It's like l this like that, and then you do that.

Okay. Okay.

Yeah. Yeah and then.

And then you can have um if you actually just want to zap, you can have like a thing like that, and that, and then it can just be plus and minus.

Okay. So like it's like a little part of the circle that Or it oh so it's just a region of the circle that you can.

Yeah, you can.

Well i

zap.

Yeah, click o actually click on to have.

Okay.

We could we could even have four buttons, like, if that's the if that's the mouse, you could have the volume and the channel changers just like on that as well.

Yeah.

Yeah. So volume could be like the top it and the bottom So do you need to.

Doesn't it rotate though,

okay.

so it'll be moving around.

Well y you have to you have to like be able to change the function of it to like.

What do you mean the function?

I mean like okay,'cause so I dunno, I guess Okay so when you g scroll your thumb like around it, it'll s like say you're go you're going clockwise. That that means you're gonna go up the channels, and then you scroll the other way and it'll go down.

Yeah.

Mm-hmm.

But then.

Yeah.

so if you wanna switch to the to u do you have to switch to a function where like y so you're either in that mode or you're in the mode where like it just has like the four like you know this is channel that way, that's that way and volume is up and down.

Yeah but it knows for some reason.

It just.

The iPod knows.

It just kno the iPod knows. S

If it works on an iPod then it works.

Huh.

Yeah. So you just you just can either do this or like you can just touch it if you want.

I don't have one.

Well for the volume you have to press the middle, and then go up.

Okay. That's what I mean. Okay. Okay so you have to like press this middle region and then you can scroll up, go up and down.

Oh.

So it's like holding.

And then well if you do that it goes, but if you like that makes more sense'cause there's already ones with up and down here, that I've seen.

You can o And you you is there an extra actual button? Or are you actually you're just using the mouse to go up and down.

Well what you.

Like.

It's like a b

for the iPod you press an w right if you're on the channel let's say, then you press on the middle and then if you do that again the volume goes up, and if you do that it goes down.

Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Right. Mm-hmm.

But if you wanna keep it with volume here and here, I'm pretty sure.

Well I mean if if you're gonna this for channels, right, then y wouldn't the volume need to be separate somehow?

Yeah.

Like you could just have.

I don't know,

Oh, like.

you could click and then have it up and down,

Oh you could actually.

Like.

but I think.

I think we can go on the fact that it does just work with the iPod.

Yeah yeah yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

But the only thing is like, iPods are so expensive, like, it has to be is that part of.

Is that what makes them expensi I think it's all of.

I don't think so.

yeah, I dunno, I dunno.

they have so much memory though, that's it's.

You don't think so? Okay.

I don't think it's the wheel dealy.

I think it.

Yeah. I think it's the uh h it's their capabili I mean they it can hold what like five thousand songs or something.

Okay.

Yeah.

Yeah..

Yeah. I'm thinking we could if if we're hav So ba I mean but an iPod just has that circle thing you know.

And they're re-programmable aren't they?

Yeah.

You can put on your songs and then put on a different set,

Yeah. Yeah.

that's probably why they're expensive, they're like little computers.

Yeah.

S

Yeah. Well like since it just has the circle thing, you could make it a qui a kind of cool shape, like it could be a cool sort of you know, because it could be circular, you know, or something weird like that, just.

Yeah.

Mm-hmm..

Yeah yeah yeah. Well it could just be simple instead of being a l mass. Because, the other thing, I didn't tell you all my presentation, is that people find it find that it's a big waste of time to have to learn how to use your remote

Yeah.

and that's another thing they complained about.

Mm.

Yeah.

Um, what other buttons were there? Volume oh we've ts just said that.

So okay.

Channel selection.

This is just for T_V_, it's not for or it is does need to be compatible with.

Um.

I A D_V_D_ is simple, you just have play, pause, eject,

Yeah.

You know actually our our new project requirements, I'm not sure if they meant o onl use only for television as in not for D_V_D_ or just not internet type things.

So how do you switch.

Menu.

and menu maybe. Oh yeah.

So I'll I'll check that and update you on the next.

Okay. So like if we had that.

But we'll hold off on that'cause.

Yeah.

But s yeah uh.

But D_V_D_ players usually have their own remote.

That's true, yeah.

Yeah.

So, I know I'm not c really clear on what.

But it's cool to have it all on one, because you wanna turn it on then you wanna turn up the volume, and then you wanna go to the menu, so you don't wanna switch.

Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Mm. Mm.

So you'd have to have like.

Yeah.

I think you would have to have like a function switch button, you know somewhere so like you can you're either on T_V_, you're on D_V_D_ or you're on V_C_R_, or you're like. So.

Yeah.

Well but D_V_D_ is only like four buttons.

Yeah,

Yeah, it is only fun

but I mean like to switch the fun so like to switch the function of the little circle disc, the touch pad.

But i Yeah.

Oh. But I think the circle only does channel isn't applicable to D_V_D_ really'cause you don't wanna.

Yeah but it it would be.

but volume is and volume is actually controlled on the T_V_ so you don't have to switch.

So but I'm saying like, does it make sense to have like some kind of a button, so like you're if you're on T_V_, like you can switch channels, but then if uh if you're on D_V_D_ then like the channel bu like the the region of the disc that was for channels is for like switching to different tracks or s you know, to different I mean do we need to think about that,

Um, yeah, let's think about it

that like.

Yes we can try that.

'cause we need to wrap up.

Question: Can you provide a summary of the meeting?

Response: The meeting focused on the functional design review of a new remote control. The participants discussed user requirements, technical design, and the working design of the remote. They also considered new project requirements, such as the removal of teletext and the focus on television only. Key decisions made include incorporating a location function, using a radio signal for the location function, and using a scrolling touchpad for channel selection.

Question: Besides the scrolling touchpad, were there other design features discussed for channel selection?

Response: Yes, there were other design features discussed for channel selection. One idea was to have a joystick-like flat touch button that users could scroll through to select channels. Another suggestion was to have four buttons, with two for channel changing and two for volume control, all located on the touchpad.

Question: Did anyone disagree with the marketing team's suggestion to incorporate a buzzer on the remote for the location function?

Response: The meeting transcript does not mention anyone disagreeing with the marketing team's suggestion to incorporate a buzzer on the remote for the location function.

Question: What was decided about the implementation of a speech recognition capability?

Response: The participants decided not to incorporate speech recognition capability into the remote due to its potential complexity, its interference with the TV's audio, and its high implementation cost.

Question: What was the advantage of using a radio signal for the location function?

Response: The advantage of using a radio signal for the location function is that it allows the remote to be found even if it is not in line of sight of the TV, unlike infrared signals. Additionally, radio signals can penetrate walls, making it easier to locate the remote if it is lost behind furniture.

Question: How were the difficulties of implementing speech recognition explained in the meeting?

Response:
The difficulties of implementing speech recognition were explained as follows:

* Speech recognition programming is complex and difficult.
* The TV's audio output can interfere with the speech recognition, causing it to select the wrong channels.
* Implementing speech recognition in every remote control unit would be expensive.

Question: Besides the location function, was there any other feature that was intended to help users find the remote if it was lost?

Response: The meeting transcript does not mention any other feature that was intended to help users find the remote if it was lost.

Question: They mentioned a location function for the remote. How would this function work?

Response: The location function would utilize a radio signal, which allows the remote to be found even if it is not in the TV's line of sight or hidden behind furniture. A separate sender would need to be sold with the remote, which would be attached to the TV or a wall. Pressing a button on the sender would send a signal to the remote, causing it to emit a beeping sound or flash a light.

Question: Can you provide a summary of the main target group to which the product is being designed?

Response: The main target group for the remote control being designed is teenagers and young professionals in the 19 to 35 age range. This decision was based on market research indicating that these age groups are more willing to pay for products with advanced features like speech recognition and screen integration.

Question: It mentioned they considered incorporating a location function. What were the advantages and disadvantages of this function?

Response:
Advantages of the location function:

* Helps users find the remote easily if it is lost or misplaced.
* Utilizes radio signals, allowing it to work even if the remote is not in the TV's line of sight or is hidden behind furniture.

Disadvantages of the location function:

* Requires a separate sender to be sold with the remote, which adds to the overall cost.
* The sender needs to be attached to the TV or a wall, which may not be convenient for all users.


If you leave them on the whole time you get to look like a noodle the whole time.

Hmm.

Is that someone's?

Is that.

Thank you.

three, apparently.

Hmm. Hmm.

Okay, you all switched on.

Okay.

Yep, me too.

I presume we're good to go. Okay, um minutes um we decided to use a kinetic charger,

Mm-hmm.

standard chip, um'cause it can come in various different sizes, it wasn't uh uh gonna be a problem factor. We wanted a stand-by function. The case material is gonna be soft, rubbery, changeable. Um buttons with a combination of L_C_D_ and rubber according to the design. Um bright funky designs inspired by fruit, keeping with the hip kind of feel. Um and to try and incorporate voice recognition software into our design until we can find out more about the cost of things like that. Um and the rubber buttons that we'll use will be anti-R_S_I_. Okay? Prototype presentation.

Is that for us?

Yep.

I think that would be you.

Okay.

Me and William worked on a prototype, and I think William is going to make a p presentation on that.

Yeah, shall I show?

Yeah.

I'll show. Though do you do you wanna do you wanna sh do you wanna hold it

I can hold it like.

Make sure the camera's.

Yeah,

and I'll I'll show you the presentation.

so.

Can I just nick your.

Yes, yes you can. Wait a second, I'll get it out.

Whoa.

It looks

Um.

Going a bit crazy over here.

crazy.

Okay.

Thank you.

Um not now. Oh.

You should have one of those things and you can just take it off.

Yeah.

Ta-da.

Oh, where are the hinges?.

Okay, so

Right.

this is our look and feel presentation, the final our final presentation.

Mm'kay.

And we'll first look at the exterior of what we've uh come up with over there. Um

'Kay. You able to look?

It's gonna have a a plastic body um with a sort of standard colour, either we're thinking some something fairly neutral like a a white or a light blue or something.

Yep..

This is underneath the rubberised the rubberised uh outer casing

Mm-hmm.

um which there'd be sort of a wide choice they would be attached, but we can we can come up with that.

Okay.

Um the um wide choice of colours and sort of patterns, so you've got you've got a lot of customisation with it. Um it's obviously an a sort of clam-shell design.

and uh the um the top L_C_D_ screen that you can see that would b would be sort of um how do you say, it's yeah yeah, it would be sort of inset into the into the top

The black and white touch screen wherein people can.

Mm. So it's flush.

and the buttons at the bottom would d

Right.

so so it'll fully close flat.

Oh right, okay, yeah.

Yeah, yeah.

And working on the inside we've um already said d decided on the kinetic batteries, which actually, thinking about it now, could y could also probably attach to the flipping open and shut as well, so that you could probably get a bit of.

So put it in the top section rather than the bottom sections,

Yeah. Yeah.

Mm-hmm.

'cause it's the top part that's okay.

Um we decided that um the voice recognition system, it did actually say on the email that they were sort of coming in and they were fairly easy to get a-hold of, so we presumed that they'd also be quite cheap. So you'd have something like where you'd shout out, where where is the remote and it'll shout back, I'm here, or something.

Or something..

And then yeah. It wo it won't shout out I'm here or something. It'll just shout out I'm here, or something to similar effect.

Okay.

'Kay.

I'm under the sofa.

Ah oka

Or, that would be too complicated.

Uh yeah, if it was going like I d well tha that could be something for next time, maybe. You can have a remote that tells you exactly where it is. Um the standard, there's be a standard transmission with the T_V_ using using all the standard chips that we've talked about.

Infrared.

Um it would it would have obviously'cause it's split over two two different layers, it would need two separate P_C_B_s, so it would be joined at the hinge through some sort of cabling. And uh because, obviously, all T_V_s use this, the same infrared medium, we'd just be using using the same thing to transmit the data. And the infrared um sender would be on the on one of the bot the bottom layer, just at the front of the we haven't I don't think we actually put it on.

Like here.

Yeah, yeah, something like that.

Infrared could be here also. Yeah, here.

Okay. Actually, no, it would be it would have to be on the on the front.

Yeah, on the front on the front side of that, yeah.

. So when it's even if it's open here, the signals would go.

Oh right, yeah, okay, yeah, I've got you. It's still pointing,

So when you've actually got it open, it would be facing the T_V_.

yes.

Yeah.

Yeah, that would make sense.

And then finally um on to the interface. The top screen, as we said, is would be an inset um black and white L_C_D_ s touch screen

This one right here.

which yeah would uh have all of all of the the available functions for for the remote on it, uh whereas the bot the bottom screen would just contain the standard buttons, like the vo volume up and down, channel up and down, power on and off, and uh things to that effect.

Okay.

And now we've we also decided on the inside, we could possibly either have um some some kind of sort of bezzled uh logo on it, or something inset, or maybe an engraving of the logo on the top.

Which is.

But not interfering with the outside kind of look of the product

No d not not actually. No, not uh interfering with l the whole look of the the product when it's uh on the thing.

No.

once it's.

Look up to it.

Okay.

And finally that's how we put the fashion back into electronics,

Thank you very much.

as that is that's the company logo.

Yay.

Wrapping it all up, okay.

Well done.

Um I've now got evaluation criteria.

Certainly.

So this is the one. Sorry.

It's to be presented.

There you go..

Logged in? Thank you. Oops.

Okay.

Evaluation..

Mm um I I think this is chip.

It's quite similar to what it was before, though.

Okay.

Sorry.

This stage of the evaluation is really for us as a team to evaluate if we have now got a product specification and prototype design that meets the the criteria that we got from our market research. So this is the first stage of the evaluation. Now, the collection of the criteria, as we saw in our previous meeting, was based on the user requirements and trends found in the marketing reports and marketing strategy of our company. So it's what we've discussed in the last meeting, are we actually meeting those trends and requirements? Now the findings that we came up with, just a recap, are here. The criteria that we want in this remote control are a fancy look and feel, technological innovation, it should be easy to use, it should incorporate current fashion trends, and those the two main ones, they were the spongy texture and the fruit and vegetable strong design colours.

Mm-hmm.

The design should minimise R_S_I_ and be easy to locate and we were still um uh slightly ambivalent as to whether to use voice recognition there, though that did seem to be the favoured strategy, but there was also, on the sideline, the though of maybe having a beeper function. Okay, so we can come back to that slide, if you don't have a note of those. I'll just show you how we're going to evaluate our own feedback to this, to what we have so far. We're going to use a seven point scale, where one is true and seven is false. We look at each of those criteria that I've just mentioned, I'll call that slide back up,

Yeah.

and I will just do a preliminary rating of all those criteria on the whiteboard here.

Mm-hmm.

Does that seem clear? Any questions there?

Ah, it's perfect.

we're going to look at these crite So

Is it everybody is going to evaluate, or just the Market.

Yes,

okay.

we're going to come to w we'll discuss each one

Mm-hmm.

and we'll come to a consensus rating between one and seven.

Okay.

Is that okay?

'Kay.

One is true, seven is false. Right. So I won't write all of that out again. It will just be criteria one, two, three, four, five, six, or A_, B_, C_, D_, E_, F_ to confuse it with the number rating. B_, C_, D_, E_, F_. This is where I realise how tiny I actually am..

Just write small.

Criteria and rating. Actually, it might be an idea, if we each did give our own individual rating, and we could take an average at the end. How about that?

Yeah, so you can.

Yeah. That works.

Yeah, okay.

Okay. So I'll just separate the ratings by obliques, and if we go one, two, three, four, we know who's who.

Mm-hmm.

Yeah.

Okay. Criteria A_, the fancy look and feel. How do we feel about this prototype model relating to fancy it is a fancy look and feel. One is true, seven is false. My own rating for that would be a two. One is true and seven is false.

I would agree.

Yeah, I'd uh yeah I'd probably put it uh two yeah,

I'll just go this way.

Okay.

'Kay.

two or three.

Two.

No, three. Three.

Okay.

I would say two.

Two.

I would say four.

A four, okay.

Mm-hmm.

Adding those up, we've got a six and a five, eleven divided by four is what? Uh two and three quarters, it that right.

Almost three.

Mm yeah.

Two and three quarters?

I think yeah.

Yeah, yeah.

Okay. Two point seven five, there we go. Okay, criteria B_, criterion B_, technologically innovative. I would give that a three.

I'd give it a one.

Okay. Not that you're biased in that it the designer.

No, no, not at all.

A two.

Oh sorry, I I got it wrong. The first one rating, I'm sorry. Can you just make it two? The first.

The average.

Yeah, I I just it the other way.

oh, for you? You want your rating to be a two? Is that what you're saying?

Uh in Yep, I just got.

Okay.

So, I'll work out the average for that again at the end. It's a very slightly altered Okay,

two point f

and we're just waiting for your rating

It's just two point five for that one.

f

Yeah.

Two point five, okay. Losing one decimal place, that's okay.

One is a, seven is false, okay.

So what are you rating for this one, Paw?

Two.

Two, okay. So that is eight. That brings it down to two,

Two.

nice and simple, yeah. Okay, ease of use. Easy to use? Based on what you've said there, I would say a one, true.

Two.

Two.

I would say a two. I would say a two.

A two, okay.

Two.

Two. I should've said a two to make the arithmetic easy, shouldn't I?

We'll just put almost two,

One point seven f five.

because I'm not gonna get into silly decimal places.

Okay, mm-hmm.

Yeah.

Okay. Or we or if we want to really bring it down, we can do later. Um mm now we're looking at

it incorporates current fashion trends, now that's particularly in relation to our market research findings about the spongy texture to the exterior and the fruit and vegetable design colours.

One. Yeah.

Right. So I'm just thinking, before I give it my rating, you were limited in the use of materials for your prototype here.

Yeah, that's.

Is this actually going to be the colours that you would use?

No, no, the the base colour was um white or or like or l sort of a light blue,

White. With for the plastic? Uh blue.

but the changeable fa faces would uh allow you to get any basically any one of a number of colours that uh th it's full sort of customised.

Right.

Any.

So we could use any strong fruit and veg colours and that's what we're intending to do.

Right.

Yeah, yeah, yeah

Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm.

Okay.

and.

And the spongy feel is no problem with that.

Yeah, because you'll be having a Because of the rubber case.

No, no,'cause th that's that's the the spongy feel would be in the rubber that you put round it, that otherwise it's just sort of hard plastic.

Okay. In that case it's got to be a one for me.

Yeah, I'll give it a one as well.

Yep.

One.

Everybody? Okay.

One.

That part was nice and easy.

Mm.

Yeah..

Okay. Uh moving on to does the design minimise repetitive strain injury.

Mm.

I don't think we've really touched on that a lot.

No.

We've we've discussed it, we haven't really come up with anything that we felt could feasibly reduce that. We've talked about pointers, but the very use of a remote control, if you're someone who's zapping, who's sitting like that, and we found so many people did, how do you minimise that on such a small device?

Yeah.

Well the type of button that we're gonna use in the bottom half, the material, minimises R_S_I_

It's meant to be.

Mm-hmm.

it's meant to. Um

Mm-hmm.

maybe because it's slightl

with the size that we've got it's quite small,

but with the amount of stuff we're putting on it isn't that much.

Mm.

So maybe because there's more space, it's not kind of moving around trying to hit accurately the buttons in between.

Mm-hmm. Right.

It's quite obvious just big buttons. Um.

Right. I think I'm gonna have to be neutral on that and give it a four.

Yeah. Yeah, I'd uh I'd f I'd go for a five, actually,

A five, okay.

'cause.

Four.

Four and a four okay.

Four.

Twenty one is that twenty one?

So that's four point two five.

Yep.

And finally, last but not least, easy to locate. Now we talked about voice recognition, we talked about a beeper, have we really.

Yeah.

have the designers come to any dec real decision on that?

Yeah, it was it was uh a voice voice recognition,

Voice r recognition.

It was the I'm here thing,

yeah.

yep. And are we happy with the costs on that? That is going to be feasible, cost-wise.

Yeah, yeah, that yeah, that's feasible.

That sounds good then. I'd go for a I ca we can adjust the volume on that, just as we could volume on T_V_. So if sombody's in the other room or if T_V_s in different rooms, or.

Um I think it would r I think it would probably be a a stand it would be a stand

A standard.

it would be quite loud.

It would be.

Right. Okay.

So it would be s p

You built into the feature.

And if you didn't hear it in the room that you were standing in, then you'd realise that it wasn't in that room, you'd go into another room.

yeah.

Okay. Logical. That's a one for me.

Yeah, one.

One

One.

and one, good.

I do realise that we might be being fairly biased,'cause it is our product,

So,

but.

how do we feel about this?

We've got our our we've got the highest rating of meeting the specifications that is definitely true for two of the uh six criteria there. That is for um incorporates current fashion trends and is easy to locate. The lowest rating we've got, which is really n it's not terribly low, i it's close around neutral is for uh the minimisation of repetitive strain injury. Do we feel on the basis of tha of these evaluation findings that we can go ahead and now produce this as a prototype and market it, or do we have to make further modifications?

I don't think so.

W I thin yeah, I think.

We happy to go ahead?

I think we yeah. I think we're set.

yeah.

Yeah. I think for most of those ratings that it's high enough at the upper end of the scale for us to go ahead with that, and I really doubt if on the basis of current technology and our current capabilities, we could actually do much more to minimise that.

Do much apart from having a huge big.

Mm.

I know. Okay. Well, I hope that's uh clear to the team. Is there anything you would like to to ask me about the findings before I sum up?

Don't think so.

No.

Good. Fine then. I'll just leave it there.

Okay, thank you.

Oops.

Okay,

Hmm.

I've got finance here now. I'm gonna plug this in so you can all see it, if that's okay. Um.

Oh yes.

You want me to b unplug that?

That's all. Yes.

Thanks. Right.

Okay.

Now I presume that the screen will go blank,

that um Okay. We just type numbers into this and we come out with the final value. So are we still on for kinetic?

Yeah.

Yes.

Okay. See, it woulda been handy to have this at the beginning. Um it might have influenced our choice. Right, what's happening with the electronics?

It was a regular chip on print

Chip on print.

and.

Double-curved.

Oh, no, no, no, the um Yeah, it's you you've put in three for the number of kinetic cells, there should just be one. In the top, it's the number

Oh, right,

of c yeah.

okay. Thanks.

Yeah,

So, would there be two?

and yeah, just a no, one reg v uh.

One chip.

Yeah, one of them and one sample sensor and sample speaker.

Okay.

Okay.

Yep.

And they're double curved. No.

Single-curved.

One double curve.

Y Two,

Two curves, yeah.

'cause it's two.

But it has a slightly flattened bottom so it can sit. So it can rest.

So what's a single curve then?

Yeah, I'd say I'd say it was w

It would just be a flat bottom with one curve. like a domed thing.

yeah, I think I think it's.

Single-cu

So just one double.

One double-curved.

Mm.

Yeah. Um.

And one.

Plastic and rubber.

no,'cause one yeah, one's double-curved, and then the other one's

The other curves at the sides, but it's slightly flattened at the bottom so it doesn't roll over. Yeah.

Mm. Um we've got plastic and rubber,

a plastic.

haven't we?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Plastic one and maybe rubber point five.

And special colour.

No I think rubber, since it's being used just as a casing,

Um.

we can put point five.

Yeah.

Do you think?

Yeah, I think it allows the point five, yeah. We can use that.

Okay.

Yeah.

What does it mean if you put point five for that?

It means we are not using a lot of rubber actually. We're using just a very low quantity of rubber compared to plastic.

It would be like saying we're using See, it says case material. So

Mm-hmm.

we're not actually using plastic in the case, are we?

No, no, that's it's as an extra.

It's including, it's including.

Right, okay.

So that shouldn't that shouldn't be actually on there, because that's not incorporated in the cost of the remote you get.

But it is gonna be part of the total cost, and there's nowhere else we can we can put that in, is there?

There's nowhere else we can code for the the rubber used in the casing. So do we not have to account for it in the cost somewhere there?

Okay, we'll just put it in as we'll put in as half.

Okay.

Or sh we should just put it in as one, because the plastic is zero anyway.

Yeah, okay.

Mm.

No, we don't step on anyone's toes. Okay, special colour, do we need that?

Might do, if we go for some of the more exotic aubergines and such like colours.

N yeah, okay. Interface.

Push-button.

Yeah,

One.

the push-button's one and L_C_ display one.

An One.

Buttons.

And buttons.

S

I think we could change the battery also. Instead of going for kinetic how about going for a standard battery.

Has that not made any d if you click off that square now, has that not made any difference?

Has that not gone up?

Well yes.

Is it oh, it's brought it slightly down.

Oh no, it was seven five it's changed not a lot.

So is is uncurved completely and just actually making the rubber case the curved thing,

Yeah.

is that going to make a difference?

Uncurved, flat.

Oh, it's not made any difference, has it?.

No,

No,

it just surprises one.

we'll have.

It's gone up again.

Oh, it's not calculated it.

No, no, you've got to click off to calculate it again.

Oh.

Okay, there we go.

It's brought it down slightly.

It's not a lot though.

. I don't think so.

C it might uh you might you might be assuming that that is in Euros. It could be in Dollars. And then it would be fine, because the exchange range would make it about twelve.

We haven't been dealin we haven't been dealing with dollars though,

Is there anything on the menu.

I think.

No.

No.

Ri I think it's in Euro.

Okay, so the highest we've got is the electronics here. Um and the interface.

If we tr um. If we moved away from our much loved idea of a kinetic battery and just went with the standard batteries, would that make a huge difference?

And going to a regular bat Yeah.

Yeah, the standard, it um it would make one difference. The biggest one would be taking away if you took away.

What I feel is, customers never said anything about the battery.

If you to

It's internal, nobody looks into the battery.

Yeah.

But shape and colours, that's something we shouldn't comprimi

And people are used to buying batteries,

If if you take away the voice,

they're not gonna say I'm not getting this,'cause I've got to buy a battery for a remote control.

I I do I don't like to say it, but if you take away the voice recognition, then you've got it.

Where's that special form? Mm mm mm.

Should we see what difference it makes?

Where's the

Yeah i yeah.

where's the voice recognition?

No'cause it's samples sens sample speaker.

Um.

Right, okay.

If you took away that, that'll make it twelve point three five.

Well the kinetic is three. If we change it to the battery it's that's minus three.

They n n yeah, but you p minus three plus two.

Oh, right. I keep seeing zero. Um We can do it some other way,

we can do it doesn't have to be voice recognition. We could do the voice recognition for, you know, business class or something, you know, like an upgraded version.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Mm-hmm.

You could choose to have that or not.

Sure.

But they but I mean in I don't see why we have to sell it for twenty five Euros now, because they w they were saying they were quite willing to pay more for better product.

But we're still working to um head o

So should we just change the design specification then?.

Make it costly.

We can put in our recommendations. If we if we're working to head office specifications as this is what this project team's working for, we can put in our recommendations for what we've we've found and what we the consensus that we've come to as a result of the meetings.

Yes.

Yeah.

Mm-hmm.

We c we could s

But we need to work to that specification to start with.

Mm-hmm.

Yeah, we could say.

And I think the voice recognition sounds wonderful, but our object is so distinctive that that in itself is gonna make it easier to locate as a f you know in a first instance. Um as you say, we can offer the voice recognition initially to business class customers

Okay, we can make the price fit,

Yeah, I s

and then say if we'd had our budget, we would've had this,

And then say we recommend.

Mm.

because it also sets it apart from the crowd.

Yeah.

Yeah.'Cause we've done all the background work to go for that if they want it.

They like their gadgets, they like something that's completely different.

Yeah.

It's s something completely different associated with your company.

Yeah.

Right, okay, so.

So if we take voice recognition out.

That'll do it. Twelve point three five.

Yeah we are close to the budget.

we are.

Is it twelve point fif was it twelve point fifty?

Two five.

It's two point five. No, it's twelve point two five.

Are you sure? Sorry, not meaning to doubt your words there.

Yeah well two, twelve point two five times two is twenty five,

Right. Are they really going to quibble about ten P_? Or point zero one of a Euro?

It's twelve point five maybe, then.

isn't it?

Which is less than ten P_.

I don't know what it said fifty percent of the cost. So half of the price would be.

I think the agenda one was where the um price was, wasn't it? No.

I think it is the first one.

That's today's kick off meeting,.

Twelve point five.

Mm. I thought that's what it was.

So we are under the budget.

Ah.

Well done, people.

So we're okay.

So

Okay.

is that uh got us covered for the electronics then? We don't need something else to take that place?

Yeah. No.

Okay.

'Cause that that was just a bought-on extra, you could just take that out and that would be fine, yeah.

Okay.

Seems fine.

Yeah, I think that's brilliant.

Except voice recognition, everything is.

Right, so we've done that. Okay. Product evaluation. We've done room for creativity, haven't we?

Yeah.

Because we've got decisions that we would have made that we weren't didn't feel able to make. Um

Yeah.

I presume we discussed leadership and teamwork.

Mm-hmm.

Yes..

Yeah.

um in the sense that um did you feel like a team? Or did you feel like uh autonomy?

Yeah, I'd say, as a team.

I think we had a nice time.

Although we had our separate tasks,

Yeah.

there was so much interaction, so much that we needed to um bounce off each other.

Find out from each other, yeah.

And I've certainly felt heard, listened to in that in relevant areas we've been able to, you know, give and take and adjust our remit where necessary.

Mm-hmm.

Yeah.

Yeah, I think there was uh very constructive feedback by everybody. It's not like people trying to cut each other. There is more of uh true cohesive teamwork. We came to a very predic creative design, yeah.

Yeah, and uh Yeah, I think. And Sarah, you coordinated the work very well.

Thank you. How did you find it?

Yeah, no, I thought it it went really well and I yeah, I I feel that everyone was listened to and all the points that were raised seem to have been sorted out, although we didn't quite make the voice recognition in there, but that's that's good.

Yeah.

I think it would have made it into the final product if it was actually if if if we'd seen the marketing before the initial specification was put out, I think maybe it would've come out a d little different,

Yeah.

but yeah.

I liked the fact that we could say an idea and it'd be suggested that that wasn't the best idea, but no one felt like shot down,

Yeah.

Yeah.

you know, y it didn't matter it saying what you thought, because if it wasn't something that was that relevant, then it didn't matter,'cause it was just another idea in the field. I like that. Um

Mm.

Yeah.

teamwork. Well you two created that wonderful specimen of a Play-Doh model.

Yeah, well.

I think that was the best part

Um uh I'm still not caught up.

of the.

But that's nothing to do with the teamwork at all. Um.

Maybe we should think of branching out into children's toys and fake mobile phones as a side line. And fake R_C_s.

Maybe.

'Kay.

No, that was quite fun. Um means, whiteboard, digital pens, etcetera, what does that mean? Any ideas?

Discuss which ones.

How do we evaluate the materials we had for communicating and sharing information?

yeah. Yeah.

Could it've been better, was it adequate?

Yeah, I think I think we probably woulda used the outer email system more, had we actually had had more time and if we'd been separated more.

Had time to kind of.

Mm.

Yeah,'cause we could just sort of say, sorry what did you say about that or what do you think about that, rather than having to email it,

Yeah. Yeah.

yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

But it was nice having it there. Um like the whole picture of the thing.

Yeah, moving around the room. But I think it's good,

Yeah.

like uh we spent times individually. I never thought of a remote control with a flip top..

Yeah, I think it's new ideas in general,

It's really borrowing from other areas, it's, you know, bringing things from other areas in,

rather than.

Yeah.

it so it's I mean nothing is new,

Mm.

but it's applying it to a d in a different area.

Vegetables.

That's mine.

Yeah.

Yeah, no. Well

Yeah, it's.

they have to come from somewhere, don't they?

Absolutely, yeah.

The thing is.

And as sh as w sorry,

Yep, sorry,

you go.

go on Sarah.

Um as was shown by your presentation with all of the other controls, remote controls, no one's thought about it particularly.

No.

Mm-hmm.

I mean they're slightly different, so if someone's been shut in the room and said make ours a bit different from everyone else's,'cause it's w something we should think about,

Mm-hmm.

but obviously no one's put any great deal of thought into it.

Yeah, I do I don't think the the companies are really concerned. They're just like we've got a D_V_D_ player, does anyone remember the remote control? Can't you get the one that we used for the last one? Yeah, just jazz it up a bit.

Yeah.

Mm.

Uh d they don't really think about it,

Yeah.

because normally, the remote control isn't the product which they're trying to ship. They're trying to ship the D_V_D_ player, the video player, the T_V_.

Yeah, the focus isn't on to that, yeah.

But then when it everything is really smart, and you've just got this big chunk of black thing sitting on your coffee table, it doesn't go,

Yeah. Yeah.

I mean if you could have something that's a proper funky thing, a funky item that's individual, individual to you,

No.

Yeah.

I mean they could even go into um you go in with an idea and they design it on Photoshop and then they just get it printed on the plastic, you would pray.

Yeah.

you would pay a lot extra, because it's individually being a plastic was being made for you.

Yeah.

But people could have anything that they wanted.

Mm.

Surprising to me is like uh people give a lot of attention to modifying mobile phones, like a real want to see a new launch or something like that.

Because of the produ Mm.

And new f television products coming up,

Yeah.

but nobody giving uh much idea to this. Like Sarah was telling, everything's.

I think it's really good that this has been very market research based,

Right.

because just going back to mobile phones, I mean this is the first change in remote control devices that I can really, you know, say is is obvious and visible. We see it in mobile phones a lot, and tha that's where we've borrowed a lot of our ide our ideas from. There are innovations in that that people don't really want.

Yes.

Yeah.

I see people wanting a model of the phone they were really happy with, and they can't get it anymore

Yeah.

and it's innovation for innovation's sake, and I think it's wonderful our company's so R_ and D_ based.

Mm-hmm.

Well, it's innovation for money's sake.

Yeah.

The the people have to keep buying.

But forcing it onto people,

Yeah.

yeah. It's things that, you know, they might want to buy the thing they really want.

And you can't get you've got your handset that works fine, but you can't get the battery anymore for that type of phone,

Mm. Mm.

because the phones have moved on, things like that.

Or there isn't a cover to fit it or whatever,

Yes.

yeah.

It's madness. Um.

See I think.

In closing There we go.

Um our costs are below budget with recommendations that they the budget be increased, but I think I don't know, d what do you think? Do you think that's takes into account um overheads like us being well paid kind of a thing? And the heating for the building, do you think our budget includes everything, all the costs that are going out?

Well.

I think it was just the produc uh just the production cost of the phone.

I think that was just the the physical.

So it looks well it looks like it's gonna be fifty percent profit, you've still got all of the overheads to come out of that.

Yeah.

Mm-hmm.

So maybe increasing it, you would also have to increase the price that it's sold at.

Yeah.

Maybe fifty percent more.

But I think but you were saying that that's quite.

Yeah, I think yeah I don't from the market research.

But I think in the remit that we were given, it was very specific. I think we've done what we were required to do,

Hmm.

and I think there'll have to be another project team or a new project for us to look at at those kind of things. I don't think that's something we have to look at and find a way of raising the cash for.

Yeah.

No. Yeah, it was.

I think we've done very well to get within budget

Mm.

and it still makes such an innovative item

Yeah.

that I think people are really gonna want.

Yeah.

It's a shame it won't ever get made..

I know.

Who knows?

Maybe it will.

Maybe it will. Maybe they are gonna steal our ideas

Maybe someone'll r run down and patent it.

I it's top secret. Um it's it is it's a conspiracy going on here. That's what it is.

and sell it..

Um the project has been evaluated well and truly.

Yeah.

Um and we've got the meeting survey and questionnaire.

Mm-hmm.

There's a final questionnaire.

Oh, so we've got about fifty minutes to catch up with everything that I fell behind with,

In your.

so I'll be delegating in my um role as Project Supervisor,

yeah..

so good luck.

Celebration, you didn't talk about that.

I think the celebration is the twenty five pounds.

Either that or we'll be dancing on the desks.

Oh.

Questionnaire.

Okay. Is that it then?

Um yeah, just the last, I think.

Awesome.

I think I've got minutes for two of the meeting and the last thingy.

Questionnaire done. Oh, I didn't have to rate you on how much you influenced the meeting this time.

Was that not the questionnaire for the how you felt you'd done in your thing?

Oh, right.

I don't think.

But do we not sometimes evaluate in these meetings too?

Yeah, the the s

Yeah.

yeah. I think yeah, questionnaire seven was the one I did just before the meeting.

Yeah.

Mm.

I just got con

Question: What were the outcomes of the meeting about the remote control design?

Response: The participants decided to go ahead and produce a prototype and market it based on the positive evaluation findings of the current product specification and design. They concluded that most of the criteria were rated high enough and it was unlikely that further modifications to the design would yield better results given current technology and capabilities.

Question: Did the participants of the meeting reach a consensus on the design of the remote control?

Response: Yes, the participants agreed on the design of the remote control. They were satisfied with the current design and believed that it met the requirements and criteria set out in the project specifications and market research findings.

Question: What was the primary objective of this meeting?

Response: The primary objective of the meeting was to evaluate the product specification and prototype design of the remote control against the criteria gathered from market research and user requirements. The evaluation was conducted using a seven-point scale, where one was true and seven was false. If the average rating of a criterion was below four, the participants would consider further modifications to the design.

Question: Did the participants of the meeting decide to utilize voice recognition technology in the final design of the remote control?

Response: The decision on whether or not to incorporate voice recognition technology in the final design was deferred. The participants favored the idea, but decided to explore other options due to the cost implications. They agreed to recommend to head office that voice recognition be offered as an upgraded version for business class customers.

Question: What was the final verdict in the meeting regarding the use of kinetic batteries for the remote control device?

Response: The participants decided to replace the kinetic battery with a standard battery to bring the overall cost of the product below the budget. They calculated that this change would reduce the cost by three Euros, which would be enough to meet the budget constraint.

Question: In the meeting, what was the central point of User Interface's statement about buttons on the remote control device?

Response: User Interface does not make any statement about buttons on the remote control device.

Question: Did anyone in the meeting raise objections to User Interface's suggestion of using anti-R_S_I_ rubber for the buttons?

Response: User Interface does not make any statement about buttons on the remote control device.

Question: Could you provide a summary of the evaluation criteria for the remote control design that were discussed in the meeting?

Response:
Here is a summary of the evaluation criteria for the remote control design that were discussed in the meeting:

* Fancy look and feel.
* Technological innovation.
* Ease of use.
* Incorporation of current fashion trends (particularly the spongy texture and fruit and vegetable design colors).
* Minimization of repetitive strain injury.
* Easy to locate.

Question: In the meeting, what were the key points that needed to be followed up on or completed?

Response: The participants agreed to conduct a follow-up meeting to discuss leadership and teamwork dynamics, as well as the efficiency of the communication and information-sharing methods used during the project. They also planned to review the budget and explore options for increasing it to accommodate the inclusion of voice recognition technology in the remote control design.

Question: What decision was reached regarding the use of artificial intelligence in the remote control's design?

Response: The topic of artificial intelligence was not discussed in the meeting.