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So, hello everyone. We're here to have a kick-off meeting for the design of a f for the beginning of new project um uh remote control for the design for a new remote control. I'm the Project Manager Christa Pavlov and okay let's begin..

So I'm first going to do an opening then we get used to one anothers and we speak about this tool we're going to design and try to make a project plan, some discussion and then we talk of uh the next meeting. So um we want to to do a new remote control. It has to be original, trendy and user friendly.

Um I think the important points we have to t talk about are uh it's functional design, it's conceptual design, and desail detailed design. and for that we're going um all to work individually and then have meeting during the whole day. Um, so let's try the whiteboard.

Wow..

Um so any of you who want to go.

Yeah, for favourite animals.

It's gonna be not my favourite one but the one I can draw.

And it's gonna be you'll try to guess.

Wow. Complex.

Wow..

Huh? A cat.

No..

No..

No. Darn. Uh.

A rabbit.

Yes, that's a rabbit.

A rabbit.

That's my favourite one.

A what?

Rabbit.

A r a rabbit, oh oh yeah, where is the carrot?.

That's it.

Okay mm-hmm.

You want to go?

I am not very good at uh this kind of stuff.

Hmm..

My favourite animal is.

You wa

Wow..

A human

Guess.

ah.

A human, yay. It's a very complex animal.

No.

and um yeah. Characteristics of this this animal is dangerous..

Mm I think you're supposed to, yeah.

Is the white okay.

Hmm.

I guess you can..

Wow. That's cobra.

Ah, a kind of uh snake? Cobra?

Yeah uh not really.

Exactly..

Small cobra..

No, it just small cobra, yeah.

Is that a worm? Or.

Uh-huh..

It's co c quite recognisable..

What about you uh.

Uh yeah Christa Pavlov Mm.

Christa?.

Christa Christa.

Chris..

A fish..

Mm.

Hmm.

Smiling fish.

Smile fish..

Okay.

A smiling fish. Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm.

So, w whiteboard is working?.

Yeah..

Yeah..

Good. Next..

Next. Let's talk about money.

Just tr try to guess who is a User Interface Designer.

Yeah, well..

According to the drawings.

Yeah, you're.

Not me..

Okay.

So.

So. Twenty five Euro for a remote control.

Yeah, mm that's the price we want to.

Hmm.

that's the aim for the price for the remote control.

Okay.

We aim to do this profit..

On the international market.

'tis big number.

Yeah. Mm-hmm.

Yeah, we're to sell two million then.

Wow.

Mm-hmm.

Mm for a production cost of mm twelve fifty Euros maximum.'Kay. So any of you have experience in remote controls?.

Mm yeah.

Uh yes, we have plenty at home.

In fact, my daughter likes l remote controls.

That.

Mm. To eat?.

To eat? Yeah, mainly, and to break..

So that could be a great um application.

Remote controls children proof. Mm mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm. Yeah.

Children proof.

Ye ye yeah.

Hmm.

So she likes uh buttons which make click,

Okay.

Yeah, pret

so it has to click.

So they have to be waterproof maybe?

It has to be uh wha baby proof.

'Cause they eat she ate it..

yeah but mainly it has to be very robust

Mm-hmm.

because even if she's not very tall she's uh high enough so that uh when she throw it away it's uh.

Yeah.

Ah.

So it has to be very robust.

Okay, unbreakable.

Unbreakable, yeah.

Uh-huh.

Yeah, we have some child lock or something, yeah.

Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm.

And uh it has to be nice looking,

Yeah.

colourful, maybe.

Colourful, yeah mm.

Colourful? That's not practical.

colourful, because uh nobody has colourful remote control

Yeah.

No, that's a good idea.

Yeah, it's always black or yeah.

, they're always black, yeah,

Mm mm-mm.

No.

but this one could be I dunno, purple or b

Yeah..

But how gonna okay, just uh but it's uh monochrome it's n it's not like.

Yeah.

Yeah, yeah.

No,

Yeah.

because you think, why not.

Otherwise you will never find it.

One colour.

Yeah.

Yeah, yeah.

Yeah even we can change colours, no? Like the uh

Oh like the phones,

like the phones and these things we c yeah.

yeah, it could change colours, yeah.

Cool.

Mm-hmm.

At least for children like one colour and..

Ch

Yeah..

Good idea.

Good.

And it should be really small and.

Small also? Don't you think.

Huh not so big like yeah.

No uh, not too much buttons or mm.

Yeah, not too much buttons and.

Should it be, y you know these uh remote controls where um they are what they call a universal ret remote control

Mm-hmm.

so y you can decide that now it's the remote control for the television, then it's the remote control for the the sound system, or for your refrigerator

Uh. Yeah.

Yeah,

whatever.

that's.

I dunno if it's.

Or if we should have a targeted re remote control.

Okay.

So colour, robustness, easy to use, size,

So, I think there's.

yeah, size matters, yeah..

Yeah. Colour, size, sh

So you you think it's better if small than bigger.

Yeah, maybe at least n not bigger than this I guess..

Mm.

Yeah, but without any extremes like n not of this size, not too large. Okay.

No, not too small, yeah.

Yeah yeah, at least it should hold in your hand n properly, like.

Yeah.

Hmm.

Yeah, like a palm sized.

Yeah..

Just to hold it.

Mm.

Okay.

But uh what would be different from this, from the others? I dunno if.

Uh maybe we can change the colours that at least the frame. Mm. S so then it depends.

Yeah, at least the colour would be different.

you are to.

Mm.

Mm I mean you c you can easily remove the frame.

I think one thing important for instance in this remote control if you remember when people use it they're they never find a good button in the right place.

Mm-hmm.

Yeah, yeah.

For some reason they they they click the off button when they want to use the.

Yeah. Yeah.

So there's a problem in the design of that kind of remote control somehow,

Mm. So, some kind of idea uh with um um cellular phone with a a screen that will tell you what.

I dunno.

No,

no.

no screens, it's too complex.

Okay.

Mm. Too expensive, yeah.

Too expensive for twelve Euro?

And n maybe not too expensive,

And too expensive.

well it's not my problem, but well okay.

Ah.

But no screens on remote controls.

Mm.

Mm-hmm. I thought it could be only a screen which would change depending on uh uh the use or even the user.

Mm-hmm.

So ma I prefer to have the off button at the top right,

Ye yeah.

so I would have my own design of the remote control because it's in fact just a a full touch screen remote control,

Hmm.

if you if you like.

I mean it it's like

I don't know if it makes sense, but.

Mm-mm.

it's like two types no? people are right handed or left handed so y because I am left handed I use like this, say if you're right handed you use like this

Yeah, for instance, mm.

Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm. Mm mm mm.

or so tha your switch on and off should be on

Mm.

So adaptable yeah something.

Adaptable. Alright, good,

yeah.

Maybe, if if it's possible, yeah.

yeah.

Mm.

so how many actions do we need to implement in it?

huh.

On off?

Maybe I think even we can keep two switches and then we can uh only make one working.

Yeah.

We can adapt only one switch, suppose here like we can make two switches and if I'm left-hander I use this switch to follow the main operations.

I mean if it's less than three uh then we can make it uh like a

Two.

Three buttons you mean?

like three mental states,

Three option.

yeah you know what I mean,

Ah..

we can just make it uh

Yeah. Yeah.

Um.

controlled by a brain, huh?.

Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm, yeah, sure..

Maybe if it's more, if there is a software inside

that ask you three.

Mm-hmm.

Hmm.

If it if we want a r universal remote control that we sa like we say before it may may need more than three mm three button, three mm possibilities, ye yeah.

Sh sure, sure.

Yeah, more than three actions that you may want to do at a given time.

Mm yeah. Yeah..

But for standard actions you usually what do you do, you change channels, you adjust volume, and nothing else.

Yeah but for instance when you change channels you can have you can just go to the next one or go to channel twenty five.

Mm. Yeah.

Mm..

And that's already more complex to go to channel twenty five..

Mm-hmm.

You do this?

Yeah.

Uh no.

I usually just change channels.

Because I'm only using three or four channels but.

Yeah. But they keep generally their t slash slash uh this thing and then the dash dash and then you can put yeah, you can only have one bit.

Yeah. I change channel like this, m uh I want to go to twenty five, and then to ten, uh-huh mm yeah.

Dash.

And then back to the one I was before,

Also we can be here.

so there's whichever it was.

Uh-huh.

Yeah you can

yeah, that would be cool.

yeah.

Go back button is good.

Yeah.

Yeah. Uh uh we had that in in other countries.

I once had it.

Yeah yeah, the previous button is.

Mm yeah.

Yeah e even the history so you could like uh undo previous of the previous..

Mm-hmm.

Uh, okay..

History..

Oh uh.

Then you can watch what your ah you could also record your record your sequence of actions,

Uh.

Yeah..

that becomes more complex,

but you could look at what uh the other people have used there or remote controls.

Yeah yeah, what the which channels the viewer.

Mm-mm.

Yeah.

Okay.

maybe it's a.

So I think we have full of idea.

Okay.

Um we're going to meet again in thirty minutes and uh I want you to mm work on these ideas and try to make a uh the ones, make um to decide what what are the ones important and what are the one that we don't want. And um m maybe more in the technical parts what uh do we want to do. Um. So um your personal coach will send you some instruction for for this thirty minutes.

So what does M_E_ means? M_E_ the user requirements? Or that's uh that's for us?

Market Expert.

Mm..

Marketing yeah.

Uh that's me.

Oh, of course yeah, the user requirement specifications, uh-huh, yeah.

Mm-hmm.

Okay. I'll think of that.

Mm okay. So.

So?

I think that's all.

Meeting's over?

Yeah.

Okay.

Great.

Thank you.

Thank you.

See you in thirty minutes.

Thank you everybody.

Question: What was the main focus of the meeting?

Response: The meeting focused on brainstorming and planning the design of a new remote control. The participants discussed functional, conceptual, and detailed design aspects, aiming for an original, trendy, and user-friendly product. They also conducted a drawing exercise to foster team bonding and creativity.

Question: What suggestions did the User Interface Designer make regarding the remote control's color and robustness?

Response: The User Interface Designer suggested that the remote control should be colorful, attractive, and have a robust design. They emphasized the importance of making it appealing to children, proposing the use of bright colors like purple or blue. They also discussed the need for the remote control to be durable and withstand accidental drops and rough handling by children.

Question: Can you provide a concise summary of the key points discussed during the meeting?

Response:
- The participants discussed functional, conceptual, and detailed design aspects of the new remote control.
- Key points included the need for originality, user-friendliness, and color choices aimed at children.
- The remote control should be robust and durable to withstand rough handling by children.
- Suggestions were made for adaptable features, such as left-handed usability and a touchscreen interface.
- User requirements, including screen usage, button count, and universal remote control capabilities, were considered.

Question: What did the User Interface Designer recommend to do regarding user engagement with the new remote control's features?

Response: The User Interface Designer did not provide any specific recommendations or suggestions regarding user engagement with the new remote control's features during the meeting.

Question: What did the participants think about the potential inclusion of voice-enabled features on the new remote control?

Response: The inclusion of voice-enabled features on the new remote control was not discussed during the meeting.

Question: Were there any questions or considerations raised during the meeting that remained unanswered or unresolved?

Response: The meeting transcript does not show any questions or considerations raised during the meeting that remained unanswered or unresolved.

Question: Apart from user engagement and voice-enabled features, what other important aspects or functions of the new remote control were discussed during the meeting?

Response:
* The participants discussed the need for a compact and lightweight design, with user-friendly buttons that avoid accidental presses.
* They considered the inclusion of a child-lock mechanism to prevent unauthorized use.
* Waterproof or water-resistant features were also suggested to enhance the remote control's durability.

Question: They also considered the inclusion of a child-lock mechanism. Can you give more details about that?

Response: The participants discussed the need for a child-lock mechanism to prevent unauthorized use, especially by children.

Question: What did they suggest regarding the waterproof or water-resistant features?

Response: The participants considered incorporating waterproof or water-resistant features for the remote control's durability.

Question: What was the Marketing Expert's opinion on incorporating voice-enabled features into the remote control's design?

Response: There is no mention of voice-enabled features in the meeting. This topic was not discussed.


So

So.

I hope you're ready for this uh functional design meeting.

Of course..

Um so I will take the minutes you mm you three are going to do presentation. Um uh we want to know to at the end to know the new project's requirement so we need uh to know the the user uh needs that we want to fulfil to fulfil the from the technical part we want to know how it going to work and um third part uh I don't remember.

which is not very good. Ah of course, how to to design this uh this.

Nice stuff.

yeah. So um let's go for the three presentations, so first um Marketing Expert.

Who starts? Oh. Ha. okay.

So wait a minute. Mm.

So I dunno if I can do that like this? Yeah? So it's being modified. Do you want yeah, open. Read only. I hope I saved it..

So, um

Sammy Benjo. I know this name uh.

yeah, this is my name..

Sounds uh.

We met before.

So as you know, you I think you already know me, Sammy Benjo. I am the expert in marketing and I want to tell you about what people uh s want and uh like and dislike in remote controls, and I hope this is going to help you to to design it correctly. So next please. Uh-oh..

Mm uh.

Yeah, it is put F_ five.

Hmm.

Hmm.

The full page presentation, yep.

Yeah maybe in the full page

Okay.

F_ F_ five.

because i I spent lots of time doing this presentation, so.

Yeah. Yep.

F_ five.

Yeah.

Uh-huh hmm okay.

Mm-hmm. Mm.

So basically uh what I suggest is that uh instead of deciding ourself what what could be and what should be a good uh remote control, let's ask people who are users of remote controls how they feel about w the current remote controls, what they like, what they don't like and um and what they do with them by the way.

because they are supposed to be useful. Don't forget about that. So we've we've conducted a a survey on on the use of uh remote controls and I'd like to show you some of the results we found on this survey. And next please. Yeah, so basically what we found was that uh there are several things that the user don't like in remote controls. First of all, they find it very ugly. Current remote controls as you know they're the same as this one uh they're not nice colour, not nice shape, I mean they're all the same, and they're not l good looking. Um what is interesting is that in fact it seems that they were people are ready to pay for nice and look and fancy looking uh remote control, so I think we should probably spend lots of time in and effort in that um. And the other thing is that uh the the current remote controls are not so easy to use and it it the the current uh facilities that they offer do not match what people really want to use their remote controls. For instance uh we see that uh they zap very often so I think this is a very uh important uh functionality that it should be easy for them to to zap uh in one way or another. And most of the buttons uh on uh current remote controls are not used, so I think we should design something where some of the buttons which are those that are used should be easier to see and use than others that only a couple of people are using. Um next please. Now people are very frustrated w with their remote controls

and they for instance uh they don't even find it.

it's it's often lost somewhere in the in the in your home and nobody knows where it is.

Yeah.

Agree.

Maybe if we have something where we could ask the remote control please, where are you?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Like uh something to to like t I think phones. Some of the phones have some of this kind of s functionality. Uh of course phone you can always phone your phone

but you can't phone your your remote control.

You can you are.

Why not?.

But why not? Yeah.

And because of the fact that there are so many buttons in these remote controls that nobody use,

Hmm.

in fact they don't even know how to use them, so most of the the people say they they don't know how to they to use properly their r remote controls. And uh they are bad for R_S_I_ but uh I don't remember what is R_S_I_.

Okay uh tha that's look great.

So I think they are bad..

R_S_I_ mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm. Mm nobody has any idea about that? Well I'll check uh with my

Yeah, it's electromagnetic waves or something kind of maybe uh effect.

Oh, okay,

No, I don't think so.

I think it's a technical thing

Yeah,

which our.

because infrared uses some electromagnetic technology,

Mm-hmm. Okay.

Okay.

Okay.

and those waves have high.

So, it seems that it's a lot of people for a concept that we don't know.

But twenty six percent, do you know.

Or something we don't know. Mm-hmm..

Uh.

Twenty five..

Uh.

but we have to take this into account.

Every fourth, you know. Every four some of us knows.

Yeah it's People really.

Okay.

So anyway

One of us.

that's for what the biggest frustration uh of the user and um

Yeah. Yeah.

what else do I have? Next slide? Ah yeah.

Mm-hmm.

So we've listed a couple of uh

Functions.

s uh functions that may be uh used by u the user in the current uh available uh remote controls and uh well the tables look very nice to read but what is important is to understand that the power button is not used often because in general you use it only once per session, but it is very relevant..

People want to have a power button. Channel selection is uh o often used very often used and indeed uh very relevant.

Ah now I remember what is R_S_I_.

it's repetitivity stress injury. We have to be careful with that word but uh anyway

Uh.

I continue my presentation so yeah,

channel selection is um very important, very often used. Volume is not often used but people uh want to have control on volume and that makes sense of course. And n then you have things which are very much less often used like the settings. Audio settings, screen settings, even teletext and channel settings. All of them. they're not often used and they are s more or less relevant. It seems that people find teletext teletext uh relevant, even if I personally never use it but seems that it's average relevant at least, so.

I have been told that we uh don't consider teletext, that it's out of date now because of internet.

I can tell you that uh in a l in a scale between one and ten relevant uh not relevant to relevant people scored a six on this, which is not as uh these these two one were had I think ten I think.

Mm-hmm.

But but if you compare with these ones, uh I think they scored a one or two.

Hmm.

Not very relevant, so if if there are good reason not to put teletext it's okay but just know that people find it somehow relevant.

Mm-hmm

Mm-hmm.

That's for the main functions I think and uh then we can ask uh ourself uh what people don't have that may be useful. For instance I think net next slide. One of the thing the trend uh that uh you are probably aware of is the possibility the eventual possibility of having speech recognition in your remote control, so you wouldn't have to tap tap in your buttons but just tell your remote control or whatever you need you have what you want. So we've conducted a survey about uh whether people would like or not to have uh this kind of uh functionality in their remote control and as we can see it really depends on the age. Young people, probably because it's a buzz word, find it very relevant. And uh as the age goes up the the relevance goes down.

Yeah.

So now it really depends on the kind of uh targeting uh wha who are we targeting with this remote control?

'Cause.

I think if we are targeting young people then uh it's probably something we have to consider. If we are targeting you very old people this is something they really don't know why they this should be so now

Mm-mm. Okay.

this is of course, depends on that. And um I don't have any conclusion, I didn't have time the meeting was very tight, so that's basically my findings. And uh, if you have any question?

Mm I think it's good, okay. You done a good review.

I got one question,

I can go back.

Thank you.

Yeah one question,

uh you are a Market Expert

yeah?

so

I am..

should we aim at the young people or not?

I think we should aim at the young people. But uh I think they are they are those uh who might be more interested in a in a new device.

Mm.

In general the the early adopters of a new device are young people, less than more than.

Okay, then teletext is used less.

Mm.

Mm-hmm.

Then teletext is useless for them I think,

Okay.

yeah. Because they they have other means of finding their information. Yeah.

Mm-hmm mm mm. Okay.

Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

That's good point.

But yeah. Nope.

Mm, yep.

Mm. Okay.

Okay.

'Kay?

Thank you.

So um now I think it's the turn of the the I'm not sure um.

Of the technical function, so uh

So I think it's you, huh?

Uh it's

No?.

That's me.

what effect.

techni function of.

No, user requiremen

Yeah.

Okay. Wait a second.

Argh.

I have to do working design so uh

So you're.

That's but this but number three, yes. Mm-hmm. So, my name is Mark Dwight, and um I am responsible for User Interface Design.

However, uh mm Project Manager asked me to give you some presentation about technical functions design. Uh, as I'm a more an artist

that's gonna be less technical functions but more User Interface and current intentions and everything which is linked with this.

Okay. Let's go.

So next slide please. And uh a general method which is seems to be very useful for our task

Mm.

is not to forget about uh Occam razor. We should never complicate things too much. We should only make a remote control, nothing more. Nothing more than this, just a remote control.

'Cause current remote controls they are never easy enough to use.

Makes sense..

So, make a click, please. So here is this remote control.

It's quite a standard one, but it's not from a T_V_, it's from a much easier device like air conditioning or something. But you know, we can use it for a T_V_ easily. Only buttons we need is on off, volume, channels and maybe some options or something else, and please make a click, compared to this one

It's.

which one would you prefer? I guess this.

Yeah, yeah.

I would say the simplest one as long as there are the uh I find the buttons that I need every time I need a button.

Sure, sure.

Yeah.

Maybe it can be yeah middle of like, between those two

Yeah, and our method is going to be, provide simple

li

Oh sorry..

simple desires into simple actions.

Nice. Nice sentence.

Findings.

Okay.

Oh sorry.

Our question of the style, we should remember that our company

puts fashion into electronics and we should never forget about it.

Concept.

S you should yeah.

Be simple. Be simple and you'll lean on this market.

Market is a of remote controls you know it better,

Mm.

it's very well, it's it's not an easy field to to play, you know? So be simple.

For personal preferences I think that to make a baby-proof remote control it got to be a titanium.

It's a really good style, it going to be look like like this. It is unbreakable and it is very universal. W we'll have a screen with a back light which can change colours,

Mm-hmm.

and we can put all the options into this screen. We'll need only few buttons. All the other things can be controlled through the screen. And all these buttons should be easy to find and to click,'cause when you watch a movie and you want to change something, you always try to find a good button and click it, but you should do it by touching it and finding it easily just by touch. So Press.

I would propose this concept for design, just few buttons, a screen with a back light which can change colours, titanium

Mm.

I think, and uh what else? I got just very few and good ideas. We need power and volume. And let us include two nice features into this device, first, power on and off can be made fully automatic. When you go to the sofa, take your control and point it to the T_V_,

It's off.

Hmm.

It's on.

the T_V_ turns on.

And when does it turn off?

When you don't touch the control but you go out of the For for enough time

Oh so you have a

like uh you.

sensing sensor machine that uh knows.

It's a question to our technical design, our two engineers.

Tech.

And another nice feature that I would like to implement is uh volume control. Suppose you set u you set up some volume and then you move out or you move to the other corner of the room and take your control with you. Like, you want to to change the chair or you want to move to the armchair from the sofa or something, and then the volume changes.

Or you want to go to the kitchen..

It's easy to do,

Mm-hmm.

you just control the.

According to your distance to and the angle maybe, if you have a stereo system.

Distance.

According to the distance. Yeah yeah yeah. So.

Uh I'm not sure about the screen, wha what is the use usefulness of the screen? Uh is it a touch screen by the way?

I think it can be just a menu which can be controlled with a left, right, up, down and enter.

Yeah.

So it gives instructions but uh it has to be with an back light somehow..

So, its main purpose in fact is a back light,

Mm-hmm.

which change colours,

Okay.

which makes it easier to find, and each can it can respond for your voice, like it can turn on the light for you just to f find it easily, yeah?

Mm.

Okay.

So basically that's it.

Um I see that you target uh several s application not only T_V_ but i like we talk about um universal uh remote control.

Can be easily done,

Yeah.

'cause you got simple designs, y we should put it to simple actions.

Hmm.

Let it be universal, so you want to use it for your hi-fi system. You want to change tracks and you want to adjust volume.

Mm-hmm..

Just few actions, a few actions for everything.

Mm.

Hmm. S

All the rest, we sh we'll put it into this menu on the screen.

Mm. Since we were targeting a really soon uh uh date for the the the um i issuing of this uh remote control I think we will only concentrate on T_V_ for the moment and then maybe m make it more generalised yeah.

Okay, okay.

Mm. Yeah and it mm.

Okay, but it's quite universal you know.

Mm.

We can just extend it to any device.

Mm.

So for instance if I want to go to directly to channel twenty five, how would I do can I do that with this?

Uh twenty five.

Yeah mm let's say I am uh on channel eight now. You know these days we have hundreds of channels,

Mm-hmm.

that's not so easy to go just next next next when you have hundreds of channels.

In fact I would propose another solution.

Or is it?

Basically you use just four or five channels, right?

Most people.

Yeah.

yeah.

So uh set up your T_V_ set like channels that you use they're one, two, three and five, and you will never have to go to a twenty fives channel.

In fact in in one uh remote control that I've seen, instead of doing that d you could just say these are the cha ch channel three, twenty eight, forty eight and uh sixty four are those that I want to by cycled with my next button.

Yeah it's it's the same solution, I think. Hmm.

I uh.

Yeah.

B yeah.

But even we can have some uh L_C_D_ display, like you can uh de you can just button the number

Go to channel twenty five.

and then it go

One thing is that as I said in my presentation people really do like to z zap.

t because Yeah.

So even if they are only watching four or five channels, I think they want to zap out of the one hundred channels,

Mm-hmm.

But still Yeah.

just because this is one kind of thing they do, zapping.

Yeah uh on zap it's only next next next next next, yeah.

Yeah.

And it's only next.

Yeah.

Yeah

Mm. We got these buttons here. Next next.

so but you have to.

Mm-hmm.

Okay.

Yeah..

Or say this can be back.

Yeah. But otherwise like we can put some display on numbers and then they can just press suppose two five they just press two and five

So it would be.

and then.

Okay.

Maybe we can make uh different modes for each button

Yeah.

and you can change mode zapping mode or

Yeah. Yeah, yeah.

Mm-hmm. Alright.

uh current chan

Yeah, yeah. Yeah but since we are focusing only on T_V_ remote controls

Listening more.

Yeah.

so we can have more functions for T_V_

Mm-hmm.

uh if you want to go for a universal then we ought to limit for functions for each of our devices.

Mm-hmm.

Okay.

Could we carry out some research if we w really need this, like how many people really need to go to channel number twenty five and then to sixty four?

Well I could could uh have a look at that maybe.

Okay.

Yeah. Yeah.

I'll check in my department if there's someone specialist in that..

Okay.

Okay.

Although I don't know..

Alright? Thanks for your attention.

Uh you're finish? Okay. So now the technical aspects of this new device. Mm.

Two. Yeah, if Sorry.

You prefer it..

Yeah. Uh as you know, I am mister Ramaro. I am an expert in uh industrial design of all electronic devices and I previously devised many uh like digital calculators and electronic calculators. So now I'll briefly describe the working design of our remote control. Well, as you know the basic function of remote control is sending some message to the the device, like T_V_ or V_C_R_ or D_V_D_ player etcetera. So we will have a p portable device which will send message to the the main device like T_V_. So we need to have some energy source to do what to do the functions, what we want on this portable device. And usually this so to do these functions we need an interface, which basically some kind of pressing buttons or keys or like moving jack or something like that. And then these messages these key buttons can be transferred into some kind of message and then it will process by the chip and then it will generate some information to the main device. It's generally in the form of infrared or some kind of s sensor information. Then we will have the main control in the main device to do the particular action what we want. So, basically we need uh since we are focusing on our interface device remote control mainly the energy source like the battery and then we have user interface like uh the keypad and you know buttons we want, and then we have some chip, it's mainly digital signal processing chip because since we are I am one doing mostly digital uh devices we ought to have some kind of processor which take care of all these functions and put it in some digital format. And then we'll have the infrared L_E_D_ source which sends the information to the main device. Then we'll have switch in our main uh um device to do particular operations, and we ought to do different codes for different T_V_s,

Mm-hmm.

so some T_V_s will have different encryption codes for doing s s uh channel changing and these things.

Okay. To make it quite uh an universal uh device uh.

Yeah yeah, because the people don't use one particular brand so

Mm.

or at least we have more more than five brands, which are really good.

Okay.

So we need to check their specifications and do their uh encryption that's passing information to the T_V_ device. So we need to have particular encryption codes.

Okay.

Then, components, so we have the main uh energy source and then we will have some buttons and then we will have infrared uh source and then we have some inside some chip in in the device. Uh since I don't have much time so I'll input the connections to all this components. And since I also want to know feedback from our Marketing Expert and User Interface,

Mm-hmm.

so if you want to add some more components we can incorporate them.

Mm-hmm. And from from the discussion we had do you can you make it on the whiteboard, or mm.

Yeah. Yeah, I'm sure, because since our User Interface speech recognition and also Marketing Expert for the speech recognition is really handy,

Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

so

Mm-hmm.

we can have another, like uh s simple speech recogniser on our D_S_B_ chip.

Mm.

Since we have some kind of uh energy this is our this normal battery, so this battery, once you s switch on it will take power and we can have some speech recognition and in our g generally small digital signal processing chip so that and we will put uh the small uh simple speech recogniser

On.

and we can also train the speech recogniser for particular user so you just.

Uh train it, okay. Mm-hmm.

yeah, so that we just use simple recog

Mm-hmm.

Too complex.

no but but.

But uh very very good to sell..

Yeah. No, even in you can find even simple mobile device like any mobile brand you can have these voice dialers or these things, yeah.

Think of a all these young people who would love to say that this remote control only works for them,

Okay. Okay.

Yeah.

and ha ha you cannot use my remote control,

Mm..

because it's targeted to me. Whatever..

Yeah.

And what about the price of this component?

So Uh maybe we can make uh it in five Euros and even less than that,

It mm okay.

Hmm. Cheap.

because we want to have uh millions and in bulk,

Millions..

Mm..

so we can make really simp

Okay.

and we want to make really simple device

Cheap.

because we have only very few words like like power, switch on or some like

Mm-hmm.

then we'll have something like this um we'll have volume and then we will have s particular channel, so users can listen.

The user uh will just be able to say uh please can you uh pump up the vo pump up the volume

Mm-hmm.

or or it will be something like volume, up, down.

Ye No, yeah, a user can use any kind of sender but they should have this prompt volume and then.

Okay.

With a keywords and yeah.

yeah volume and decrease or increase, so we try to only recognise those words

Okay.

Mm-hmm mm.

and and because we can't really say user to say same wording

Couple of words.

then it become more mechanical and yeah.

Mm-hmm.

Okay.

Okay.

Um.

And then we can have channel they can say, okay I want eight, because we don't know like users have different programmes, I mean they don't really follow same channels strict uh so we just want channel number,

Okay.

Okay..

we don't want like B_B_C_ or C_N_N_ or something else

Of course uh it has to be.

because it will be complicated so we'll have only these three uh main basic uh anyway volume is not really speech recognition problem,

Okay.

it's it it will be take care of our main mm.

No you know it's a conceptual question,'cause now I see th this the picture in front of my eyes like a user taking his remote control and shouting into it, volume up, volume up,

But then I think you you.

and and he's coming you know, he's really annoyed with this, down, up, down..

First of all I I think this is not uh functionality that it is going to be instead of using the buttons.

No, in no not only speech, yeah.

It's on top of using the button.

I it's an option.

Okay, for this budget like twelve Euros.

Well, I dunno..

Yeah actually we we can have one switch to like uh switch on, on and off, this processor and This really, suppose like here we have our main chip which controls power, volume and this part and this D_S_P_s.

Mm-hmm.

Again, this to have some interaction like suppose people use D_S_P_ then it particularly sends some information to the chip like in some form, like volume and like this key.

Okay..

So it may not be like very expensive, because since we are only focusing on T_V_ remote control

Okay.

Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.

so and we have only few things here.

Sho to to train, okay.

Did you consider the r gest uh gesture recognition?

Yeah.

Like, if I want to put volume up I like do mm I take my remote control do like something like

roll'em up

Um uh uh this point we didn't consider

or roll'em down.

Mm.

Very expensive,

because it's it's very expensive

no?

because v our target is only like twelve point five Euros

And well, what about the idea of automatic on off on the button, yeah.

Mm why?

and.

That's just.

Yeah,

And volume control.

even automatic on off is also a bit problematic, because it different criteria for different people like so suppose people are really uh they just uh they don't touch the remote and mm y you don't know how much time you need to switch on or switch off

So but uh.

and.

Sh should we target a a user personalised uh uh remote control? So in in a given room there might be more than one remote control. We would uh have each one and uh with our own personal uh settings.

Yay yeah. Yeah that can be possible, especially for power settings, so user can say okay, suppose they're watching a tennis match or something then they can say okay uh after one hour I.

Hmm.

Wouldn't that make uh arguments?

They can make.

Yeah, of course.

I want uh.

Yeah we can have.

That's no problem, we will sell more..

And we can increase this the strength

We got a really good Market Expert.

Yeah exactly.

y you can buy one with.

Let's send more, let's sell more.

Yeah..

Okay.

Mm-hmm. Okay. You have mm something else to say? Uh.

Uh, not very much,

No.

like yeah.

Okay. Thanks.

Okay, thanks.

Thank you. Yep. Thank you.

So

Can you just yeah.

mm

mm I think, okay, we're just on time. Um mm mm. So, we're now going to l have the lunch break.

Mm great..

Then we will work again for thirty minutes individual work, and um we will uh meet again for the next meeting, and uh in this one want to to be more focused on the individual actions the um on the components so uh you will focus on the component concept um

Yeah yeah.

uh of course the U_I_D_ Mark will be uh focused on the user interface concept

Mark will.

and uh our m Market Expert Sammy Benjo uh on the trend watching. So um of course like before specific instruction will be sent to you by your personal personal coach. Well I think that's all. And we have um maybe we have to we say, only for T_V_, not teletext?

Uh I think automatic on off control uh it's not possible.

Uh it's in current price, yeah.

Difficult.

Yeah, maybe in the next uh step if we make it work um.

Yeah. But speech recogniser can be possible.

Yeah, implemented. O okay, we can think about that.

Mm-hmm.

And um do you see something else?

No.

Uh, should it be equipped with the uh, with uh speakers?

Speakers in the remote cont

Like, you want to find it, you shout

Oh yeah.

Uh yeah

control,

that's.

and it answers is I'm here? Or.

It just beeps.

Just beeps?

That would be enough.

Or maybe you want to phone him.

Something very cheap.

Since now all.

Yeah yeah yeah.

But that's ex that's expensive. Uh.

yeah? Think

Yeah, especially the power, it really consumes

Uh-huh.

because it should be all the time on and.

And uh.

Well I I heard of devices where you just uh whistle them and and they.

And it's answered.

Yeah.

because of the the frequency they they just answer to that.

Yeah.

I can't whistle. No, no, I can't.

You can't whistle. Uh-huh.

Or a clap. You can clap. Can you?

Clap clap clap it's a good.

Mm.

Yeah.

Clap is good.

I I think it's universal.

Yeah.

Tak

What about people without hand?

Okay.

Just a suggestion.

Yeah I think it's good.

Yeah..

With only one hand? These are not our target people..

Mm uh okay.

But it's a good feature I guess yeah we need to think about more how to incorporate it.

Mm-hmm. Okay.

Just don't interfere with other devices like'cause like all these people do that their lights are turning on with clapping.

Mm-hmm.

Oh.

Oh that's e that already exists

Yeah, I got it at my home, like.

okay okay.

Mm-hmm.

Oh yeah, you do have.

Oops.

Ah it's.

Wow. You're trendy..

Mm-hmm, so let's to think s so that.

Think about it.

yeah. I think that could be in the component uh concept uh.

Yeah, okay.

Yeah.

It yes. Okay.

Okay. Good

So,

we're done?

yeah,

Yeah.

let's go to lunch.

Thank you, thank you very much.

Right, thanks.

Question: What did the participants conclude on in the meeting?

Response: The participants concluded that on top of the basic T.V. remote control functions, they will include two features: automatic power on and off and adjust volume based on the distance from the user and the screen.

Question: What was the main topic of the meeting?

Response: The main topic of the meeting was to discuss the new project's requirements, how it will work, and how it will be designed.

Question: Did the participants decide to include gesture recognition as a feature in the new remote control?

Response: No, they did not decide to include gesture recognition as a feature in the new remote control because it was deemed to be too expensive.

Question: What were the concrete things that need to be done in order to move forward on the project?

Response:
The participants decided on the following:
* Focus on T.V. remote control for now.
* Include automatic power on and adjust volume based on distance from user and screen as features.
* Speech recognition will be considered if it's within budget.
* Clap might be used to easily locate the remote control.

Question: What was the decision on teletext?

Response: The participants decided not to include teletext in the new remote control.

Question: What was the Market Expert's opinion on whether they should include a touchscreen in the new remote control?

Response: The Market Expert was not in favor of a touchscreen, expressing concern that a back-lit screen was more practical and easier to find.

Question: Did the participants in the meeting decide to make the remote control waterproof?

Response: That was not discussed in the meeting.

Question: Did the participants discuss incorporating a speech recognition feature in the new remote control?

Response: Yes, they did discuss incorporating a speech recognition feature in the new remote control. However, it was deemed to be an expensive feature, so they decided to consider it only if it was within budget.

Question: What was the Industrial Designer's opinion on including voice control in the new remote control?

Response: The Industrial Designer mentioned that a simple speech recognition feature could be implemented with a chip on the device. It would be trained for specific users with simple words for common functions (e.g. volume, channel).

Question: Would the new remote control include a small solar panel to allow for it to self-charge?

Response: The meeting did not discuss including a small solar panel in the new remote control.