All hooked up. Okay, so now we are here at the functional design meeting. Um hopefully this meeting I'll be doing a little bit less talking than I did last time'cause this is when you get to show us what you've been doing individually. The agenda for the meeting, I put it in the sh shared documents folder. I don't know if that meant that you could see it or not.

Did anyone?

Mm.

No.

No. Oh well. Um I'll try and do that for the next meeting as well so if you check in there, there's a shared project documents folder. Um and it should be in there.

Mm. Um um wi on on a what? Oh project project documents, yeah, yeah, yeah, okay.

Project documents, yeah. So I'll put it in there.

Oh okay, yeah.

Is it best if I send you an email maybe, to let you know it's there?

Yes, I think so.

Yep. I'll do that next time. Um I'll act as secretary for this meeting and just take minutes as we go through, and then I'll send them to you after the meeting. The main the main focus of this meeting is your presentations that you've been preparing during the time, so we'll go through each of you one by one. Um then we need to briefly discuss the new project requirements that were sent to us. I just sent

Yeah, the last minute, yeah,

at the last minute, I'm sorry about that,

yeah.

but we can see how that affects what you were you were doing.

Yeah.

Um and then we need to, by the end of the meeting come to some kind of decision on who our target group's going to be and what the functions of the remote control that's the the main goal is to come up with those two things, target group and functions of the remote control. And we've got forty minutes to do that in. So I would say.

You said uh targ target groups,

yeah?

what does that mean?

As uh who it is that we're going to be trying to sell this thing to,

Um.

Uh okay,'kay.

yeah.

So are.

So we need to yeah, we need to have a fairly defined group that that we want to focus on

Okay.

and then look at the functions um of the dem remote control itself. So with that I think it's best if I hand over to you. Does anyone have a preference for going first?

Alright. I can go first,

You wanna go first?

yeah.

Okay. Hmm.

Okay, so we need to unplug my laptop and plug in yours.

I assume we just pull it out?

Mm.

Right. Um so f from the.

Just before you start, to make it easier, would you three mind emailing me your presentations? Once we you don't have to do it now but when once you go back,

Okay, yeah, afterwards, yeah, okay.

Right sure.

just so that I don't have to scribble everything down.

Uh okay. So n uh with uh with regard to the uh working design of this uh uh remote control uh I've identified um a few basic uh components of the remote and uh se uh from the design, functional design perspective um w I c we can now uh know wha what exactly the components are and how how they work together with each other. So this is the method that uh I'll mostly be following in my um in my uh role. Um the identification of the components, uh and uh since since I'm dealing only with the technical aspects, I would need feedback from the marketing person uh and uh from the user interface person. Uh we'll then integrate this into the product design at a technical level

Hmm.

and uh basically update and come up with a new design, so it's a cyclical process. Okay, so these were the basic findings from today. The last three bullets have been integrated from uh the last minute uh email. Uh I just quickly jotted them down. Um so basically uh the as I told you the identification of how the remote control works and what are the various parts to it uh and what are the different processes um and how the parts uh communicate with each other. Um okay, so e the mee email said that teletext is now outdated, so we need to do away with that functionality of the remote control. Um also uh the remote control should be used only for television, because incorporating other features um makes it more comp complex. And the reason why teletext is outdated because uh of internet and uh the availability of internet over television. How however, our our remote control would only be dealing uh with the the use for television, in order to keep things simple. Um also the management wants that um our design should be unique uh it so it should incorporate um colour and the slogan uh that our company um has it as its standard. Okay, so he he here is a functional overview of the remote control. Um there's basically an energy source at the heart uh which feeds into the chip and the user interface. The user interf interface communicates with the chip, so I'll basic go over to the Okay. So if uh if this is our energy source and this is a cell, uh it communicates uh it feeds energy into the into the chip, which basically finds out h uh how how to do everything. There is a user interface here. So whe when the user presses a button, it feeds into the chip and the chip then generates a response and takes the response to an infrared terminal, um which then so the output of the chip is an infrared bit code, which is then communicated to the remote site, which h has an infrared receiver. Um the there can be uh a bulb here or something to indicate whether the remote is on or communicating. Um so these are the essent so a all the functionality of the remote control, whatever new functions that we need to do, um make the chip more complicated uh and bigger, basically.

Mm-hmm.

Okay. Um so i in my personal preferences um I'm hoping that we can ke keep the design as simple and clear as possible. This would uh help us uh to upgrade our technology at a future point of time. And uh also if we can incorporate uh the latest features in our chip design, so that our um uh remote control does not become outdated soon and it's compatible with mot most uh televisions. That's about it. So anything that you would like to know or.

Okay.

Thanks.

Do you have any um i idea about costs at this point?

No, I don't have any idea about what each component costs.

Br

Um yeah.

Okay.'Cause that's something to consider, I guess, if we're if we're using more advanced technology, it might increase the price.

Yeah. Certainly, yeah. So so tha yeah, we definitely need to operate within our constraints,

Yeah.

but um unfortunately I I do not have any data, so uh I just identified the functional components for that.

That's fine. Are there any more questions, or shall we just skip straight to the next one and then we can discuss all of them together at the end?

I think we need like some general discussion at the end probably.

Yeah, okay.

Yeah, I think that will do. Okay, so do you want to.

Yeah. Yeah, I think since since we were discussing some um design issues then I I I would like to continue.

Yes, shall shall we pull this up?

okay, yeah.

I think that has to come out of there.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Mm'kay.

Thanks.

Yeah, I thought those last minute things, they're gonna hit you the worst..

Oh i Okay, I hope wait. Should it just.

I it'll take some time.

It ta takes a little Oh, and have you.

There's just nothing.

you need to then also press on yours, function F_ eight,

Oh right, right, right, um.

so the blue function key at the bottom and F_ eight.

Okay. Nothin

Oh, there it is, yeah.

okay, something is coming up.

Now it's coming,

It'll come up, it um uh no signal.

computer no signal.

No signal? Why?

Maybe again?

Yeah yeah, it says something now,

Oh. My my computer went blank now.

adjusting.

Okay, adjusting.

Adjusting. But I don't see anything

Okay.

There we go, there we go.

I don't see anything on my computer now.

Oh, that's strange.

Oh, if you press if you press function and that again

This is the problem, but.

there's there's usually three modes, one where it's only here, one where it's only there, and one where it's both.

Okay.

Um.

And one more time.

Okay, so one more time.

Uh now it's okay. No? No.

Mm.

Should yeah just wait for a moment, adjusting.

Oh okay.

Okay.

Okay, that's fine, that's good. Okay, let's start from the beginning. So I'm going to speak about technical functions design uh just like some some first issues that came up. Um'kay, so the method I was um adopting at this point, it's not um for the for the whole um period of the um all the project but it's just at th at this very moment.

Mm-hmm.

Um uh my method was um to look at um other um remote controls, uh so mostly just by searching on the web and to see what um functionality they used. And then um after having got this inspiration and having compared what I found on the web um just to think about what the de what the user really needs and what um what the user might desire as additional uh functionalities. And yeah, and then just to um put the main function of the remote control in in words.

Mm-hmm.

Um so the findings uh were um that the main function of the remote control is is just sending messages to the television set, so this quite straightforward. And uh w some of the main functions would be switching on, switching off, uh then the user would like to switch the channel um for example just m changing to the next channel to to flip through all all of the possible channels, or then mm uh the other possibility would be that um she might just want to choose one particular channel, so we would need the numbers. And and also the volume is very important. Um um I als

Sorry, cou could you go back for a second?

okay.

Uh switching on off channel, uh volume, okay, that's great.

'Kay. Um um among the findings I found that m m most of the curr mm presently available remote controls also include other mm functionalities um in their design, like operating a V_C_R_, but they don't seem to be able to deal with D_V_D_ players, but then there are surely there are many other functionali functions that could possibly be added to them, but according to the last minute update um actually um we do not want to have all this complicated functions added to our design.

Mm-hmm.

So my personal preferences would be uh to keep the mm the whole remote control small um just like the physical size. And then it must be easy to use, so it must follow some conventions um like whereabouts you find the on off button and maybe the colour tends to be red or something. Um then yeah, the must-have buttons would be on off and then the channel numbers and then um the one that allows us to go to the next or the previous channel, and then volume has to be there. But then um other functionalities um could be just uh there could be a menu button and you could change things on the screen then, um for example brightness and mm similar functions could be just um done through the menu. And yeah, the last question I had about whether we wanted to incorporate n uh more functionalities, the answer was already no because of the last minute update.

Mm-hmm.

So at the for the time being that's uh that's all.

Yeah.

If you have questions.

If I mean that was the the directive that came through from management, but if we had a a decent case for that we really think it's important to include video and D_V_D_, I could get back to them and see. It's w it's just whether it's worth arguing about.

Yeah, and also it's it's um other question is uh because there are so many different And there are so many different things that could possibly be included

Mm-hmm.

because besides video and D_V_D_ there are the mm um video C_D_s and whatever, so it might be problematic to to choose between all these possible things.

Yeah. Mm-hmm. Okay.

Are there any questions for clarification of Maarika before we go on to the next one?

So in the u user interface requirements uh uh uh we we have been able to identify what are the basic buttons that we do want. Um but um so so at this stage, uh how we go about implementing those button we will not identify or I mean in we can completely do away with buttons and uh have some kind of a fancy user interface or something like that. But uh is is there any uh uh any thoughts on that?

Um well, I think the buttons are still mm kind of the most um easy for the user to use,

Right.

I mean um what other options would you have? A little screen or something, but this would be really kind of I think a lot of learning for the user

Yeah, and it'll make the costs yeah.

and and I mean the user just wants to get um get a result um quickly, not to spend time in like um giving several orders um I dunno.

Right.

Mm-hmm.

I think I th I would I would think the put the buttons, but if if you have other mm proposals um.

Uh I think the co costs will also play a big role when we come to know about them.

Mm.

So well we can probably wait until t we have more knowledge on that.

Mm.

Yeah.

Uh i if the if the costs allow, we can have like an L_C_D_ display

Yeah.

and uh with um because we do want something fancy and fashionable as well. So yeah? Cool.

Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm. Yep.

Sure, we can discuss that maybe after the next one.

Cool. Do you wanna give me the little cable thing?

Do you want to yeah.

Uh am I going in the right direction?

Yeah.

No. Wait.

Oh, I'm getting hungry..

Okay, here it comes. Okay, here you are.

Cool. Ah, that's why it won't meet. Okay, cool.

You set?

Yep, cool. Okay, functional requirements.

Uh we need to do the function key thing so that it comes up on here.

Alright, yeah.

Hello.

try to press.

Is it plugged in prop

oh, okay,

It's working.

it's working?

yep.

Okay.

Cool, okay.

Excellent.

So what I have, wh where I've got my information from is a survey where the usability lab um observed remote control use with um a hundred subjects and then they gave them a questionnaire. Um so it was all about, you know, how people feel about the look and feel of the remote control, you know. What's the most annoying things about remote controls and um the possibility of speech recognition and L_C_D_ screens in remote control. Not that they actually gave me any answers on the L_C_D_ screens, so I should have taken that bit out, but anyway.

Um okay, so. What they found is that people don't like how current remote controls are, so you know, definitely you should be looking at something quite different. Um seventy five percent of users find most remote controls ugly. Uh the other twenty five percent have no fashion sense. Uh eighty percent of users would spend more to get um you know, a nice looking remote control.

Um current remote controls, they don't match the user behaviour well, as you'll see on the next slide. Um I dunno what zapping is, but.

It's um switching between channels, sort of randomly going through.

Oh, right. But you have that little thing that comes up at the bottom and tells you what's on. Um okay, fifty percent of users say they only use ten percent of the buttons,

Mm.

so that's going back to what, you know, we were saying earlier about, you know, do you need all the buttons on the remote control,

Right.

they just make it look ugly.

Mm.

Okay? Cool. Um so this is my little graph thing.

Ooh, that's a bit difficult to see.

Mm k

If you explain it to us it'll be fine.

Okay, well, I can send it to all of you. What it is is um it's cones,

Yeah.

'cause I thought they'd be more exciting. Um but.

I liked the, I liked the litt

ooh where's it go?

ooh come back.

Back. Oh.

No.

Oh yes, cool. Okay, I'm gonna stop playing with the little pointy thing.

Mm-hmm.

Um okay, so like what it shows is how much things are used relatively and what you can clearly see from that is the thing that's used most is the channel selection.

Okay.

What you can't see is volume selection, it's a little bit higher than all the others.

Mm-hmm, that's the next one along, yeah?.

Yeah, so what the graph shows is that, you know, power, channel selection and volume selection are important, and the rest of them, you know, nobody really uses and so that's the the numbers along the top represent their like um their importance, you know,

Mm-hmm.

so on a scale of one to ten, how important is that

Mm-hmm.

and, you know, channel selection and volume selection are absolutely essential, and the power, well it's not quite so essential, apparently, although I don't understand how it couldn't be,

um and everything else, I think, you know, you can forget about having those buttons on the remote control,'cause they're just not needed, and they're not used. Okay.

Mm-hmm.

This is the bit that the email messed up for me and that's what I was fiddling about with at the beginning of the thing. Okay, cool. So um okay, so this is what people find annoying about remote controls. Uh that they get lost, that the uh you know, they're not intuitive and that they're bad for repetitive strain injury.

Mm-hmm.

I think if you're watching enough T_V_ to get repetitive strain injury from um you know, watching T_V_, then that's the least of your problems,

The remote control..

but you know, it's up there.

Mm.

Um that yeah. Okay, so um I mean the the R_S_I_ thing would be that, like when you have the computer keyboards and you keep your wrists up would be something that encourages.

Right.

you want something with an ergonomic t design that encourages good use of the remote control and you know, not straining your wrists watching T_V_.

Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm..

Hmm.

Yes. Okay, cool. Right, um sorry this is pink because I was copying and pasting the table, and I didn't have time to white it out again.

That's alright.

Um okay, but that shows how people whether they would pay more for voice recognition software. So you can see from that that, you know, younger people to the age of thirty five are quite likely to pay quite a lot more f well quite are quite likely to pay more for voice recognition software, whereas as people get older, they're a bit more sceptical about it and they're less willing to to try it. Um so clearly voice recognition is something to think about, but um you know I d I do wonder how well that would work given that a T_V_, you know, tends to be people talking and um, you know, how are you going to stop it from just flipping channels whilst watching T_V_.

Mm.

Right.

Um okay? Cool. Um okay, so these are my personal preferences. So you have sleek, stylish, sophisticated, you know, so something that's, you know, a bit cool. Um you know, functional, so it's useful, but minimalist. Um there's a there's an important thing that, you know, people use when, you know, when you're filling up your home, you know, a lot of people fill up their home with bits of crap, basically, you know, and you've got all this stuff, and you're just like, what the hell is that, who is ever gonna use it? You know, so things should either be functional or beautiful or preferably both, so I think we need to aim for both.

Mm. Mm.

Um okay, then a long battery life, like you were talking about earlier and um, you know, I was thinking that solar power would be quite cool because, you know, your remote control just sits there, and you could just sit it in the sunshine and save the environment a bit.

Um and then like a locator, so you know, kind of like you have for a mobile phone or.

Mm.

not a mobile phone.

Some kind of a ring,

Keys and things like that,

some.

Yeah, that's it, you know.

yeah. Whistle and it screams at you, yeah.

I know, it's weird. My flatmate and I were talking about this on the way into uni this morning and I was like I need to get one for everything.

So yeah, so maybe something where you clap and then it beeps, something a kind of sound that you don't often hear on the T_V_, you know,

Right.

Mm-hmm.

'cause you don't want your remote control beeping every five minutes,

'cause you you'd then deliberately lose it by throwing it out the window or something.

Hmm.

So okay? Cool. That's me..

Okay, that's great,

That's you, excellent.

Um that's very good,

thanks.

Um.

very interesting.

I'm just gonna tick yes. So, we've got about ten, fifteen minutes to discuss

Mm. I think one of the very interesting things that came up in um uh Ka Kate Cat Cat's uh presentation was um uh this this issue of uh uh like voice recognition being more popular with uh younger people.

Cat's. Ca.

So if we need to have a target group um then uh I think as far as the m motto of our company is concerned, if we want to have something sleek and uh you know, good looking uh we are better off targeting a younger audience then um you know, people who are comparatively elderly. Um.

Mm-hmm.

Yeah, I mean that's the thing is that it didn't say in the survey, you know, whether, you know, these are the people that will pay more for a more stylish remote control,

Right.

but I'm assuming, you know, yes.

Right. Bu but but the survey did say that f things like voice recognition are more popular with them,

Yeah.

Mm-hmm.

so if you want to put in something stylish, then uh th it'll certainly be more popular with this i ye with the younger people as compared to older people,

Mm-hmm. Yeah.

yeah.

Then again I guess the th where it was most popular was the fifteen to twenty five bracket

Right, and.

and the I don't know how often they're buying televisions.

Right. Mm.

Well, that's when you go to uni, isn't it? So, you know.

Yeah, but you don't have much money, generally.

Yeah. Yeah,

I would've thought it's it's more that twenty five to thirty five, when people are really moving out and they've got their first job and they want their nice toys and.

you share a television or something that yeah.

Right.

Yeah.

But uh still, if if you can go back to that slide and uh, how popular was it?

O oh it's on.

Oh, I've unplugged it.

sorry, we unplugged it.

Oh, oh, okay..

Do you want me to.

Here, let me.

That's alright, if you can just look it up on your computer, wh uh um people between twenty five to thirty five, uh how popular was.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Seventy six point three percent.

so it was sti still still quite popular amongst them.

It was seventy something, yeah, yeah.

So even they are seventy six percent, is that high amount?

Yeah.

Mm-hmm.

Yeah, I kn I mean I know what you're saying about the fifteen to twenty five year olds,

Yeah.

but I mean it has been proven that that people of that age group have a higher disposable income because they don't have like I mean, you know, if you're at university, you're paying your rent,

Yeah, they've got no commitments and

but you don't have a mortgage, you don't have a life insurance policy,

Alright.

you don't normally have a car,

usually not a car and all of those things.

yeah, so.

Yeah.

You're still learning to drive actually,

Kids. Yeah.

So you're more likely to b

so that just costs more than a car,

Yeah.

but yeah. Um so I mean like it is an age group to target, really, I think.

Yeah, and if we're if we're talking twenty five Euros as a price, that's not unaffordable, even for young people.

No, I mean that's what, that's like fifteen Pounds? You know, I think.

Yeah.

Yeah this this is not unaffordable,

but the problem is whether people need it, whether they do have a T_V_ to use its full.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah, I d I don't know many people without a T_V_. We didn't have a T_V_ last year,

But do they.

Yeah.

and everyone thought we were off our heads, you know.

But the T_V_s are often kind of someone's old T_V_ that's blah blah

Common, the students yeah, yeah. The s the stu

and be a bit strange to have a fancy rome remote.

yeah, and the remote control might not yeah,

Mm

it might not even function with the old T_V_.

Bu but even even in the case of twenty five to thirty five it's quite popular, right?

Yeah, I d well we've we've got quite a d decent T_V_.

Mm.

Yeah,

So mm uh are are are.

Yeah.

we're still yeah.

Yeah.

Or w maybe we can just kind of uh uh.

I think I think the fact that, you know, ninety one point two percent of fifteen to twenty five year olds are saying yes, I would pay more for a voice recognition remote control, does say quite a lot really.

Mm.

Yeah.

You know, so I mean that and the disposable income and I don't think it's something to ignore, you know.

Yeah.

Yeah, but at the same time I think maybe we can we can just decide to to have both of these groups as our target,

Yeah.

because actually I mean they're all still re young people.

Is not a massive difference, you know. No, do totally.

Yeah, if we ta if we take fifteen to thirty five,

Yeah.

Mm.

but that then does imply that we should try and incorporate voice recognition.

Yeah.

Um.

Is that gonna have a an implication for the technical specs?

I was having a a general outlook on um m most like sophisticated features, but voice recognition itself I'm not very sure about, because one of the p uh things that Cat pointed out was uh uh how do we go about implementing it? Uh and uh.

Mm-hmm.

You do have it in your mobile phone though, don't you? Because you have like I mean every mobile phone now has like call this person and it calls them.

Yeah.

Yeah. But how frequently do we use it anyway

Yeah.

and um uh h ho how good is it,

Yeah.

you know uh voice recognition softwares are still quite uh.

I don't know.

Yeah. With um but with a T_V_ remote it's gonna be quite limited if we're t saying the main things people want to do is on off channel five,

An

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Right.

S so.

louder,

Right. Okay.

tha that should be relatively simple.

O.

y you'd maybe need a code word. Do you know what I mean?

Right.

So like when you say change, except that's being said quite a lot on T_V_,

Mm.

so maybe like, you know, remote. I mean how often do people say remote on T_V_?

Yeah.

Mm.

Although I only watch Charmed, so really I wouldn't know

but like so you'd just say remote five, you know, remote ten, remote one two nine.

Right. Yeah.

Mm-hmm.

Okay, so it seems like a feasible thing to implement uh for for a limited

Yeah.

Yeah, but maybe if you wanna look into that just to just to check.

yeah.

Um, so if we go for the the fifteen to thirty five age group and then of course we're going to get th anyone who's older than thirty five who wants to look young and hip and trendy and has the money,

Yeah but uh um Yeah, yeah sure, yeah, yeah.

then they'll they'll still go for the same advertising.

Yeah.

I don't think there's a lot of uh voice recognition remote controls.

Yeah, w well now the v the voice recognition if if it works wonderfully w we could possibly do away with all buttons, but I think this is not really the right moment yet, because people are just so used to buttons

Yeah,

and um, yeah it's it's kind of safer, so we we need both,

Mm. W

I think we need both.

What uh.

so the voice recognition would be just an extra, it wouldn't really reduce the size of the remote.

Yeah.

Mm.

Mm.

What wh uh what I was thinking is that there is this uh separation between what the channels are on T_V_ and how they are numbered on the remote control. If we can do with away with that, our product can be really popular uh in the sense that uh a person can say, I want to watch uh I_T_V_ one instead of saying that I want to go onto channel number forty five.

Uh-huh. Uh-huh.

Yeah, so if uh if something like that can be incorporated,.

Yeah, that would be another way to do it.

So that if that was in the the voice recognition, that would be great.

some kind of.

Yeah, but then the code word would be even more important, because I mean Sky advertise on every channel, don't they, you know,

Yeah.

Mm-hmm.

Yeah.

so then it would be you'd be watching Charmed, and then the Sky advert would come on and it would change to Sky.

Watch Sky and yeah.

Alright.

Yeah, yeah,

Yeah, that's.

and that would be really annoying..

Right.

Mm-hmm. But that's definitely a possibility.

Mm.

Yeah but m but on the other hand, remote control isn't as close to you you probably might just just uh speak into it

Yeah.

and and the T_V_ would be already further away, so it might not pick up the other things coming from there.

Yeah. Do you not think that defeats the object of having voice recognition on a remote control though?

So that you can yell at it,

Yeah, you know, so you have to have the remote control.

yeah.

It's more like if you lost it and it's down the sofa sometime, you can yell at it and it'll just change it, you can look for it later, yeah.

Yeah. Alright.

Yeah, but then the remote control I think I mean um the idea is kind of it's it's not that it's sitting there on on top of the television, because then you could already yell at the television and you wouldn't you you wouldn't need the remote control, so the remote control is still something you keep n near yourself.

Yeah, yeah, I suppose nearer to you but a b like if you have surround sound then.

Mm yeah and it might become very difficult from a distance for the television to understand what you're saying because of the noise factor for the remote control

Mm. Yeah.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

being cl I mean it'll it'll mm.

No, but I I I was just defending the the fact why why we want to keep the remote control close to us, a and uh not to yell at it from the distance.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Mm. So uh wh another thing uh that can be used is that uh there can be a beeper button on the T_V_,

Yeah.

so you can go and press that button and um and the remote control, wherever it is, it'll beep,

Mm-hmm.

so we we can probably come to know where it is.

That's.

Yeah.

but then if you're buying the remote separately,

Okay.

but y you could have something, but i if it was something that you could like stick onto the T_V_ or something,

Oh yeah, yeah.

Right, yeah, yeah, yeah.

some like a two p if you bought it in a two part pack, so one part attaches to the T_V_.

Okay, yeah, mm-hmm.

Yeah,'cause it's it's quite important that you don't lose the the bit to locate the remote control.

The l

Alright, yeah.

Well that's right, but it solves the problem of having different noises.

Yeah, definitely, yeah.

Yeah. Okay, I think we're gonna have to wrap this up um. But if we go away with that that kind of general um specification in mind that we're looking at fifteen to thirty five year olds, we want it to look simple, but still have the buttons so it's easy to use, but only those key buttons, the major buttons and then one sort of menu one, and then voice recognition included as an option

The major ones, yeah.

Right.

um but that obviously needs a little bit more working out as to whether it's really feasible and some of those problems we were mentioning um..

Mm-hmm.

Okay.

What we have to do now is to go back to our little places, complete our questionnaire and some sort of summarisation, which y you'll get immediately by email. Send me your presentations so that I can use them to make the minutes, and then we've got a lunch break

and after lunch we go back to our own little stations and have thirty minutes more work.

Mm-hmm.

Um I'll put the minutes in that project documents folder, but I'll send you an email when I do it, so that you know.

So where exactly is this i

It should be on your desktop, so on the.

Ah, okay.

yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So I'll put it I'll put them there as soon as I've written them.

Did you find it?

Yeah, yeah in that one,

It's just yeah, yeah.

right yeah.

Yeah, and email them round.

Oh, so y you want our um PowerPoint presentations in there, hey?

Yeah, that would be great.

Okay.

Oh so so we'll just put them i there,

Oh yeah, put them in there. Yeah,

we we yeah, w we won't even okay.

There you go.

then you don't have to email them.

But is everyone's called functional requirements?

No.

No, they're all called something slightly different. Technical requirements and something something, yeah.

Okay, so that's good.

Yeah.

That's me done.

So, if you put them in there, we'll all be able to see them and refer to them if we need to.

Okay, cool.

Um as to where we're going from here, you're going to look at the components concept.

Right.

Yeah? Whatever that means.

Yeah.

I guess I'll find out..

Yeah.

You'll be looking you'll be looking at the user interface concept,

Uh something conceptual, yeah.

on something conceptual and you're watching trends to see how we go and surely voice recognition'll fall off the map or something that.

um we'll keep keep our options op hmm?

Wha what was it again that I was supposed to look into? Con components, oh.

Components,

Hmm..

yeah.

Sorry, but um the next meeting um are we going to have it um right after lunch or shall we prepare our.

No, we have we have after lunch we have thirty minutes to ourselves to prepare,

To prepare, okay, yeah, that's good.

so that's fine, w before lunch we just have to complete the questionnaire and some sort of summary.

Okay.

Okay? Right on time.

Cool..

Okay, so you can I guess we'll see you for lunch in a sec?.

Okay, see you.

Question: What was the main conclusion of the meeting?

Response: The participants decided the target group for their product is people between the ages of 15 and 35, and the main functions of the product are to have simple buttons, voice recognition, and a way to locate the remote control when it's lost.

Question: What final decision did they make on incorporating video and DVD funcionalidades into the remote's design?

Response: In the meeting, the participants discussed incorporating video and DVD functionalities into the remote's design, but they did not reach a final decision. They agreed to gather more information and discuss the issue again in a future meeting.

Question: Did anyone have any different suggestions from Industrial Designer regarding the basic components of the remote control?

Response: I am sorry, but the information you requested was not discussed in the meeting.

Question: Can you summarize the main points of Industrial Designer's final presentation?

Response:
Sure, here is a summary of the main points of Industrial Designer's final presentation:

* They identified the basic components of the remote control and how they communicate with each other.
* They suggested that the design should be kept as simple and clear as possible to allow for future upgrades.
* They emphasized the importance of incorporating the latest features in the chip design to prevent the remote from becoming outdated quickly.
* They suggested that the remote should be compatible with most televisions.

Question: Apart from the suggestions Industrial Designer mentioned, were there other recommendations given to improve the remote control's design?

Response: I am sorry, but the information you requested was not discussed in the meeting.

Question: Why was the decision made to incorporate voice recognition as an option?

Response:
The participants decided to incorporate voice recognition as an option due to the following reasons:

* A survey conducted by a usability lab showed that younger people between the ages of 15 and 35 were more open to using voice recognition on remote controls.
* Younger people tend to have a higher disposable income than older people.
* Voice recognition is a feature that is gaining popularity and becoming more common in various devices.

Question: What reasons were given to support including voice recognition as an option, considering the disadvantages mentioned by Marketing?

Response:
The participants agreed to include voice recognition as an option because of the following reasons:

* Voice recognition is becoming increasingly popular and common in various devices.
* Younger people, who are the target group for the remote control, are more open to using voice recognition.

Question: Can you recap the key points of the meeting to me?

Response:
Here's a summary of the key points discussed in the meeting:

* The participants agreed on targeting people between 15 and 35 years old as their primary audience.
* The remote control should have a simple design with only essential buttons, voice recognition as an optional feature, and a way to locate the device when lost.
* The participants discussed the possibility of incorporating video and DVD functionalities but decided to gather more information before making a final decision.
* Industrial Designer presented their findings on the remote control's basic components and emphasized the importance of future upgrades and compatibility with most televisions.

Question: What were Industrial Designer's suggestions regarding the chip design in their final presentation?

Response: In their final presentation, Industrial Designer suggested that the remote control's chip design should incorporate the latest features to ensure it doesn't become outdated quickly. They also emphasized the importance of compatibility with most televisions.

Question: Did the participants agree on voice recognition as an optional feature for the remote control?

Response: Yes, the participants agreed that voice recognition should be an optional feature for the remote control. This decision was made after considering a survey that showed younger people are more open to using voice recognition, the increasing popularity of voice recognition, and the higher disposable income of younger people.


Okay. So welcome back.

What do do we have to do?.

So first. I want to say I'm the secretary, so I make the minutes. You find them in your in the map in the From the group. There's the minutes from the first meeting. You'll find the next minutes also there. Then I wanna hear from you, what you've done. And after that I have some new product requirements. So And after that we have to make decisions, what we will do. And then we're ready. We have forty minutes for this meeting. After that we'll have lunch. So first I wanna ask the Industrial Designer to tell what he did. So.

That's my task. Okay. Uh I've Where have I put it? My Documents or not? Hmm. I've save it on my computer, my presentation.

Yeah on your computer, or the.

But where?

What's the name?

Uh uh uh.

What's the name of it?

It was about the working of the remote control.

It's the technical function or the functional requirements.

Nope.

Not a of Wait. The working design. But I've saved it.

Working design.

But now I don't know where it is. Hmm.

Working design. What is this? Product documents.

Yeah. And I import this until.

On the desktop. Up. up. Up. Up.

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What the fuck is this?

Gone. Well you Um Nah. Nah, nah, nah.

PowerPoint. Working design.

Yeah that's the empty one.

And.

I had one.

Presentation of working design.

Uh-huh. Open it. Okay here it is.

Save as.

Uh it's.

Desktop.

Project.

Project.

Yeah. Okay. Well.

Save.

Okay.

Very good.

A little later but here it is.

Okay. So.

So okay. It's a little difficult what I'm gonna tell you. It's about the working of the remote control. I just had an half an hour j to study it

and I don't get it.

Make it.

Now have ten minutes to tell it.

Ten minutes to tell it. Okay. I think it will be a few minutes and.

Okay.

First uh I will tell you something about the findings, what I discovered about the remote control. The working bout it uh of it. Uh then I'll have uh some kind of map, and it's the top of the remote control. With a little bit of science, uh you I will show that uh in in a few minutes. And then uh what I'll think about it. First, the findings. The remote control is a very difficult uh thing to uh to explain to just all of you wh who haven't seen a remote control uh inside. Uh there's a lot of uh plastic on it,

um because its uh not so expensive. And there are uh a lot of uh wires, uh which um connect the components in it, the battery, and there are um switches and things like that. There's a lot of small uh electronics. So it won't be um uh too expensive to build it. Only twelve Euro fifty I think uh we will make it. Now And here I have the top of the remote control. Uh here's some kind of chip. Uh on top of this, there are uh the numbers. Uh you have all on your remote control. And uh the teletext uh button. And uh here's the battery. And when you push the button, it will uh will be sent to the chip. And the chip will um send it to all kind of sub-components. That's what I said, it's very difficult.

And after that it will be sent to the infrared. And that will send it to your television. That's a short h uh how it works. Uh I think I can uh make it uh difficult, but we all we all don't get it. My preferences? It's uh it won't be uh We shouldn't make it too big. Uh also for the cost, uh we should only put one battery on it. A long-lasting battery. Uh also for the cost, uh use only plastic. Not other materials. Also because of the cost, uh not too much buttons on it. We can also make uh a button uh with a menu uh button. And then um that that you will see it on the T_V_. And on the T_V_ you can uh switch into the menu.

Mm-hmm.

That's I think it's easier. And the bleep signal, y uh you told us. Uh but we can also use it uh a bleep like something, when the battery's empty, then there is a bleep. Then you'll have to change it in a in a week or something. And also the bleep, when what I told you about uh when you lost it, and you push a button, and then you hear bleep bleep, and we will find it. This is uh just uh.

Oh oh. Two questions.

Yeah. Yeah.

The battery. You say one battery is cheaper. Why?

If we w if we use only just one uh small pen-light, then it will be cheaper than when we use two.

Yeah but when you use two, you can use it two times longer.

Yeah but then we'll have to make the um remote control uh long lasting.

Okay so it's the size of the remote control.

Just Yeah.

Okay and the buttons. When you use it on the television, you've you need the television, wh which can use it.

Yeah. But uh I think this our remote control is for the televisions we uh we sell in our company?

Okay.

Or is it also for other company uh for other televisions?

I think we have to use it also on other televisions though.

Then this is an option..

So.

Maybe just a menu button to use it on our televisions. And then we make it easier uh for our televisions. And on the other tele televisions, you can also use it, but then we won't use the

Yeah but I don't I think it They are two different things though. We have to choose one. It has to work on o uh all televisions.

Mm.

Yeah? Okay. Then I think uh the menu button uh will only work on the newer televisions. And we will uh look forward and don't make a remote control which for the older televisions.

Hmm.

Okay.

And I just uh have one more idea. Uh maybe it's one of your tasks. But Uh, to have a trendy remote control, we can also um make something like the Nokia um mobile phones. To change covers. So if you have uh a trendy half with all red, uh yellow and something. And then you can put a red cover on it.

Hmm.

And also different things.

Yeah. Good idea.

Yes.

Will this will this add to the cost?

Uh then it won't be uh will have just one cover on the uh original one. And then you can buy the covers.

Yes but you have to m uh be able to change it. D does it make it more difficult to design?

I think it will be a little more difficult, but not too much.

Mm-hmm.

Not much.'Kay.

Just like with the Nokia uh mobile phones.

Yeah but there are much more Nokia telephones than um these ones.

Just one.

Yeah but then we'll have to to just um put five covers on it, and see if it works. If it won't works then we'll get something else. Then we uh won't g uh go further with it.

Yeah but are their profits bigger than their cost?

Uh a p a a cover made in uh in China, it it won't be I guess so expensive I think.

Yeah but there are also design cost. I don't think When you have a remote control, do you change the cover? Would you change the cover?

Maybe. I wi I won't.

No.

But maybe I think trendy people or like children where you can paint on it, and uh the the children think, oh this is my remote control, uh I made a picture on it. Uh.

N yeah but I think that too less people would change it for good profit. So.

Yeah. Okay. And the other people? What do you think about it?.

Um.

Yeah it's a good idea. But If if it Yeah, I don't I'm not sure if it will make profit enough to uh.

Okay.

But it's uh yeah it's uh original idea..

Yes it is but I don't think we have to do it.

No.

Okay.

Mm.

You're the Project Manager..

Okay.

Yes. That's it.

That's clear. Okay thank you. So now the User Interface Designer.

Oh. That's me. Uh Come on.. Ah.

Yeah.

Yes well uh uh I shall give a short talk about the the technical function design.

Um I thought the the the technical function design was uh to uh for a remote control to to to have some influence on the T_V_ set. Uh both audio and vide video uh in a cordless way. No cords attached. And uh well, it all by pushing a button on the remote. That was from my own experience and uh and uh the previous meeting. Uh I find some uh some interesting quotes on the web. Uh well the same idea here. Uh message to the television. And uh and and and well basic uh operations like on and off, and uh switching channels, and uh and maybe uh teletext or something like that. Uh well these are two uh remotes, and that's our uh our dilemma I think. Uh We just heard from the Industrial Designer how uh difficult it is. But uh shall we make a basic remote control, uh just uh swapping channels and volume and uh power button and well nothing much more. Or uh uh more functions on the remote. Uh maybe more devices you can influence. Uh a radio or a v a video recorder, uh V_C_R_. Yeah well that's our dilemma. Um any ideas about that? Basic or multifunctional?

We'll got back on that later.

Okay yeah. Yeah well the that was just on my mind.

Yes.

So uh I didn't know what uh what way we would go. Mm yeah well that was my uh functional uh talk.

'Kay.

'Kay, thank you. Then it's your turn, the marketing expert.

Okay. Uh um m Yeah. Um yeah okay. This bit too far..

So So I'm uh gonna have a presentation about um the market, about um yeah what people think. Uh we did a usability lab-test with a hundred persons. And we looked at uh several um things. Uh among them design, uh d d how d did they like the use of it, uh what frustrations they had while using remote controls. Uh well what what will be our market. And uh we asked them if we had some new featu features. If um that would be a good idea or not. Well our findings. Uh our users, they disliked the look and feel of current remote controls. Um uh they especially found found them very ugly. And um th they also found them hard to to learn how to use it. Uh well they also zap a lot. So uh zapping uh should be very easy. And uh fifty percent of the users only use ten percent of the buttons. So a lot of unused buttons. There is more findings. Uh on the buttons. Which uh buttons find users uh very important and which which not? And how much would they use them? Well uh the most used button is the channel selection. And uh we asked them how uh relevant they think uh the buttons are. The power, volume and channel selections are very relevant. Uh teletext is uh less relevant but also important. Uh not important they found the audio, uh that's not the volume but uh specific the the pitch, or the left or right. Uh the screen and the brightness. And uh channel settings. Uh th and they also are not used very often. Then we have a few um graphs about the market. Uh here we can see what the market share is of uh several groups. Um as you can see, most users are uh between thirty six and forty five. Um the the the younger group between sixteen and twenty five is not very big. And to come back on the the swapping uh things, uh I don't think uh, I I think the younger will be most interest in it. But uh they are not a very big group. Um in the we asked them, uh how would you like a s a new feature. If you have an L_C_D_ on the remote control, what would you think of it. Now you can clearly see young users say. I will that would very nice. And older user think uh they will be scared of change I think.

And they won't like it. And another thing, how would you like to have a speech recognition on it. Well here we see the same. Young users uh think that's an interesting idea. And old users not. Uh well we uh found out that there are two several markets at which we can aim. Uh the first are the younger, the age between sixteen and forty five. Uh they are highly interested in the features, as you can see uh here. And um they are more critical on their money spending. Uh the second group is the older group. Aged between forty six and sixty five. They are less interested in uh new features. But uh they spend their money more easily. Now if we look back at this graph, we can see that among the first group is about um sixty percent. And the second group about forty percent. So the the first group is bigger. Well then I come to my uh personal preferences. Uh yeah the first question is uh also we have to ask is at the which market do we aim at. Uh of course n uh saying we aim at the young group doesn't say that old people won't buy it. But less of them will buy it. Um well I uh Okay. What I thought, um even young people say it's hard to use, remote control. So if you make a remote control that is uh very easy to use, that's especially aimed at this group, even uh the young group will also be more interested. And um we can make special features. But uh I think it looks nice in the first time. But when use it, uh I don't know what's uh good thing of speech recognition.

Mm-hmm.

Um well th uh that's my second point.

Uh less important functions should be discarded from the remote control. It's about discussion we had earlier. Um You can find most functions on a T_V_ set. So uh you don't have to have a lot of audio options, or screen options to change the brightness. And such things. Um well the design is very important. One thing I did not say I think, is that a lot of users also said then I would uh buy a good looking uh remote control if there will be one. But they found most remote controls very ugly. So the design of our remote control is very important. And uh yeah it should be very zap friendly, as most users use it for that. That were my findings.

Okay thank you.

Yeah. I have uh one question.

Yes.

If we aim for the younger people, um and there will be uh a lot of features like L_C_D_ or the the the speech uh f recognising, uh the cost will be a lot of h uh a lot higher.

Mm-hmm.

Uh I think we don't have that in our budget.

Yes.

No.

Do you think?

No.

And I don't uh I don't think twenty five Euros for a remote is really cheap or something.

Like No. No.

So it's Yeah, it's hard to uh get the younger group.

Uh-huh.

I think uh the L_C_D_ is cheaper than speech recognition. So I think that can be an d good option. L_C_D_.

Mm-hmm. Just the L_C_D_?

Yes. Only the L_C_D_.

Mm-hmm.

So But we'll come back on that.

Okay.

Now Oh, go on. What d d d um Um Uh we go back on the decisions later. Now we have a few new product requirements. First, teletext. We have internet now so we don't need the teletext anymore. So not necessary.

Next. Only for the television. So we don't look at the other things like the radio or something. Only the television. We look at the age group of forty plus. Uh no, younger than forty. Is a g big group, and like you showed, n not very much people buy our stuff. Fourth point. Our corporate colour and slogan must be used. Very important for the design. So you can see it on our site.

Next. Um no. We have to make our decisions, what we want to do. So like you said, we need the. Maybe it's good to put it in a document. Now we have to decide what controls do we need. So maybe you can tell us.

Yeah maybe we can first have a discussion uh on the the product requirements you just uh said.

Sorry?

The the requirements you just said,

Yes.

maybe we should first have a discussion about that.

Yes, it's okay.

I uh personally think uh teletext is a good option. Uh not everyone um who is looking T_V_ can go to internet when they want to see the latest news.

Yeah but we don't use it. It's a new requirement.

So, it's not my requirement.

'Kay, we'll just have to do that.

We have to do this.

Okay. No discussion about it.

Okay. Okay sorry.

No.

Then uh.

Okay. Unfortunately.

So what controls do we need? Who first?

Well a power button?

Okay. Uh power.

Uh the well um I think separate channels. So.

Uh mm channel.

But then both the the separate channels. So so uh zero to nine or something.

Channel Zero to nine.

Uh volume.

Volume. Maybe it's easy to pick. What was w your one? Techno

Mine? It's the functional requirements.

Okay. We had w uh no no no no. Where was that example of the.

Oh mine.

Johan. That was the the the the the.

Technical.

technical Hallo. Okay. What do we need? On-off. Zero to nine.

To change to the next channel, just one button. To move up, move down.

Yeah that's the channel.

D Yeah. Do we make a menu?

Menu? Uh yes the n newer televisions ha do have menus. Uh.

Uh.

M Menu. I think um the only one or two numbers.

Mm yes.

And Hello? That's ch.

I think it will be um q quite easy to use, to have uh uh four arrows. Up-down for channel selection,

Yes.

and left-right uh for volume. And uh a menu uh button. And if you press the menu button you get into the menu, and you can use the same buttons. But the then to scroll through the menu and to change the options.

On the L_C_D_ screen, you mean?

Uh well yeah that depends on if you have uh the menu on the T_V_. Or you get the menu on the L_C_D_ screen on the remote control.

Think it's better to have it on the remote control,'cause it it has to work on all televisions. So

Yes.

we need.

But then we come to the costs.

N Yes. But if we have this.

'Kay. But well if you aim at the younger market, um a as they as uh s uh as we seen in the usability uh lab, uh they will buy a nice looking um remote control. And also to find the easy to use uh part very important. So if we have a L_C_D_ sh uh screen, and uh not too many buttons, I think that will incre uh uh even when it's a bit more cost, it will still sell.

So now we don't have a lot of buttons. Is this enough?

Mute.

Mute. Maybe in the menu?

Um.

Mm.

Yeah but then it's always uh more than one uh thing to do.

Mute. Mm-hmm. Okay.

Yeah.

Maybe more? No. Well. Then that's all. This will be the buttons. And I think that's enough for the next phase. So we can go on to.

But now we have only the buttons.

Yes.

And uh we don't yet have to decide what the remote control would look like? Or.

No that's for the next phase.

Okay.

Um Phase two is the conceptual design. So then we'll have the concepts.

Okay. Okay.

That's for the So uh next point. Now we have lunch-break. After that we have t thirty minutes for work. And you can find the minutes in the Project Documents folder inclusive the uh buttons. No. Your individual action, you can find them in the email. So now it's time for lunch.

Okay.

Okay. Good idea.

Thanks for coming.

Question: What did this team decide on in this meeting?

Response:
Sure, here is what the team decided during the meeting:

* The remote control will have the following buttons: power, channel, menu, and volume.
* The remote control will aim at user's between the ages of sixteen and forty and feature a teletext option, an LCD screen, and a menu.
* The remote control will be available in various covers that can be bought separately.

Question: Will the new remote have a mute button?

Response: The participants discussed having a mute button in the menu.

Question: Besides the buttons they decided on, did they agree on other remote control features?

Response:
Sure, here are some features the team agreed on:

* The new remote will feature an LCD screen.
* It will have an easy-to-use menu.
* The remote will have different covers that can be purchased separately.

Question: Besides the features you mentioned, did the team decide on anything else?

Response:
Yes, the participants agreed on a few additional points:

* The new remote control will be designed using the company's corporate color and slogan.
* The product requirements were decided by a person who isn't a member of the team.

Question: What design constraints were decided in the meeting?

Response: The meeting participants did not discuss any design constraints for the new remote control.

Question: It was decided that the remote control will have an LCD screen. What other features were agreed on for the LCD screen?

Response:
The participants decided on the following features for the LCD screen on the remote control:
* It will display the menu.
* It will be used to change the options in the menu.

Question: Why did the Industrial Designer think the team should not make the remote control too big?

Response: The Industrial Designer stated that a large remote would be costly to make due to the required additional plastic and electronics.

Question: Will the new remote control be waterproof?

Response: I cannot answer your question, as the meeting participants did not discuss whether to make the new remote control waterproof.

Question: How about we quickly review the design requirements for the remote control?

Response:
Sure. Here are the agreed upon design requirements for the new remote control:
* It will have an LCD screen.
* It will have a user-friendly menu.
* It will be available in different covers, which can be purchased separately.
* It must be designed using the company's corporate color and slogan.
* It must work with all televisions, including older models.

Question: Was there any talk about making the remote control shockproof?

Response: I cannot answer your question, as the meeting participants did not discuss whether to make the new remote control shockproof.


That went well, thank you.

That's great.

'Kay.

Perfect.

Alright, let me just PowerPoint this up. Right so um this meeting will be about the conceptual design, don't ask me s precisely what conceptual design is, it's just something important that we need to do. Um, think of it's kind of uh turning the abstract into slightly more concrete. In this meeting ideally we'll come to some final decisions on what we're gonna do for the prototype. Um. Right so um, apologies for the last meeting, it was brought to my attention that I did not make the roles clear enough, um, so I will attempt to do so more accurately in this particular meeting. Um, fair enough, thanks for the input,'s always good. Um. So, basically all we're gonna do is have some presentations again much like last time, um, and gonna go through you, uh whoever wants to go first is f fine by me um and we'll collate what we know about um what we discussed in the last meeting, possible directions. And then we'll make some more decisions on um basic uh firm up our idea on how we want this remote control to look and work. So, perfect. So, without th further ado, whoever wants to go first is free to.

I'll go first.

Alright Nathan,

Go ahead.

take it away. It is Nathan right? I'm not calling you the wrong name over and over again?

No Nathan's fine.

Good.

It's either Nathan or participant two.

Mister participant two that is..

Uh.

Nice.

Okay. Um,

Nice.

basically what I'm gonna have to talk to you about today is um component design and it's been brought to my attention that we may be somewhat limited as to what we can do because of what our manufacturer offers,

Mm.

so Basically what I'm gonna be doing is talking to you about that. Um, components of a remote control, okay. We've already kind of gone over this but we're gonna have to get into more detail and probably have to reach some conclusions some time soon. Energy source, um, our manufacturer offers a variety of energy sources, your standard battery, solar cells. Our manufacturer didn't say anything about lithium so we might have to look if we do go that route, we might have to look elsewhere. Um, and also there's a kinetic energy possibility. Basically, it's like a um the idea of moving the remote would create enough energy to keep it running. So that's one possibility but I don't know whether that would be powerful enough to illuminate a touch screen.

Hmm.

So we'll have to look into that.

Mm.

Um, the case, we have a few options, plastic, rubber or wood. Um and then as far as the way it's shaped, we can do standard boring flat, which we probably don't wanna do, curved or very sexy double curved.

What kind of th thickness are we looking at?

Um, I imagine that we could specify. Um, I don't see any reason to go outside of the convention of three or four millimetres. Yeah.

Okay, brilliant.

Um, the buttons, there are multiple scroll buttons available from our manufacturer, but to use those we'd have to use more chips, um and that would cost us more. And if we do go with the rubber doubled curved case um we'll have to use rubber push buttons because the other buttons aren't compatible with that.

Hmm.

Um and just a little note there,

Right.

touch screen equals many chips which equals many Euro.

Right. Nice.

Um, one thing that I noticed was that most remotes operate on a infrare on the infrared part of the spectrum. So you notice when you push a button on a remote you can't see anything coming out of it but in fact there is light coming out of the remote and you know the television can detect that. And if you were to record if you were to make a video recording you could actually see the light. Uh one thing that I thought might be interesting was to use part use visible light coming out of the remote, just kind of as a fun gimmick.

Hmm.

So you could actually see something coming out of the remote when you pushed it.

Interesting.

Course it'd have to be a part of the spectrum that wouldn't damage the human eye or anything like that.

M Maybe.

Mm. Good call.

is there an option that we can have that off or on so a person can select like.

Yeah.

Choose it.

I am sure that we could do that. Um, of course.

Yeah I like the idea, it's a good idea.

Yeah, just as a fun gimmick.

Yeah.

Just to set us apart a little bit. Um, and then on to the circuit board that we're gonna use, also known as the chip. Uh, we really don't have any way around the T_A_ one one eight three five.

Um findings, okay, we're very limited by what our current manufacturers can offer, um and my question to all of you is, should we look to other manufacturies or should we just make do with what we have available?

Interesting question.

'S a bit of a challenge question.

Mm.

Yes.

Well I'd say shop around but with our time constraints, is that really a feasible option?

Mm.

Right, that's my concern too. Um, if we do go the lithium battery route then we'll have to go outside our current manufacturer. My personal preference is I'll just throw my cards on the table, uh I think we should probably go the solar battery route, just to kinda keep with the environmentally friendly theme that we have going on. Uh, I like the idea of the visible light signalling, that's something to set us apart and uh I was thinking about I was thinking of ways that we could produce the remote in a variety of different case materials to suit different tastes. So we're not so confined by one style and say some you know, say our the one.

Right.

if we just go with one and it doesn't go over well then we're in a bad situation.

Mm.

Right.

Can we do marketing piloting too? Try to see what kind before we launch can we see how they're received?

Um It's an option, uh but actually there's I've got some research already on like what we're looking at and trends in casing right now

Okay. Okay.

which actually might even come into play beforehand,

Okay, perfect.

it may help us decide for now. Temporarily anyway.

Great, thank you very much Nathan.

Oh yeah, you're welcome.

That's perfect, so I guess that makes sense for you to take it from here.

I guess so,'cause I found some interesting things..

Did you?.

You waiting for me?.

Fascinating, compelling even.

I know, what a teaser ain't it. Um. Right. So

current market trends. Screen. Um, basically I was looking at what's going on in the remote control market right now and what's going on in other design fields, to see sort of what's what's trendy, what's new, what's happening. Um, remote control right now basically everybody says they want newer, fancier, more exciting they're sick of this boring, normal, functional, um that we need innovative design options and there needs to be an easy user interface. Um the challenge is that current trends right now, across the board in fashion, in furniture, in technology, is a very organic fruit and vegetable kind of thing.

Now I'm not saying we should have, you know, tomato shaped remote controls or anything, but I think it is possible maybe to use um natural colours, like if wood is an option, that whole organic, sleek, clean,

Mm.

v line thing may be something we can look into. Different skin options, or if we can't afford this touch plate thing, or touch face screen interface um, maybe having the b images be specific, like you could choose your menu bullets to be

Tomatoes..

a different shape

or okay, not the example I would choose, but you know what I mean to t sort of and th apparently the feel of the next couple of years is spongy,

Mm..

I like it, I like it..

uh not something I I've come up with a though if we can get around to getting piloting, I thought maybe a casing option like uh not like a skin, but like a holder almost if you could do like um, leather options or wood options or something.

Hmm. I should have mentioned this um. As far as the rubber that we can use we can use a rubber as part of the case,

Mm-hmm.

it has a consistency of those stress balls.

Yes.

Mm..

Slick, slick.

Fabulous.

Might be an interesting way to go. Um, yeah so something to sit on for now. So overall I think we should stick with what we're finding, everyone's looking for easy to use, technologically innovative and this fancy new I think perhaps the double curve thing and maybe this rubber option is our best way to go for right now.

Mm.

Um.

Interface, oh the interface graphics for the um.

Yeah. Um. Well I d but then if the touch screen thing isn't gonna work out for us that's really a non-issue.

Yeah.

I like the idea of of rubber too because it's tends to be associated with being durable, something that you can drop and it doesn't matter.

Mm.

'Cause so many.

True.

you go to so many houses these days and you see broken remote controls.

Very true. Very true.

Yeah, it's like, yep.

Taped with duck tape and what have you,

Very much so. Um

you wouldn't have that problem if you used rubber.

it's ubiquitous isn't it?

We can have a duck tape casing.

We could.

I think that goes against the whole fancy something, a new line,

It could go with the granola crowd.

but worth a shot.

Ah, it could be, it could be,

Great,

um. Yeah that's what I know.

thanks for that Sarah.

No problem.

Ron?

Phew. Computer's adjusting. One moment please. So interme interface concept by your faithful user interface designer.

So yur user interface, guys, is basically aspects of a computer system that we can see or hear, or otherwise uh perceive. Uh, commands and mechanisms, that basically user uses to control the operator operating system. Here's a d series of different remote controls

that are out on the market today. I think we're definitely trying to get away from this kind of a look.

Yeah

Um, so the following are a bunch of different uh interface uh concepts. Uh voice recognition, we we um actually have some new uh information from our research design team but uh I'll get to that in a moment. Um, so current voice recognition starts up to about eighty speech samples, um and basically you record your own verbal labels c and connect them to the remote control. Now our design team, research team, has been able to uh set up a system in which uh you can teach the remote control voice c recognition system to respond to um with standard responses. Like you could say good morning uh remote control and it'll say in a sexy female voice, Good morning Joe. Um.

In fact we already have this for a coffee maker line

Mm.

Lot of single people on the um on the re on the remote control research team

On the remote control

at the.

right.

Yeah. Very true, very true.

Um, another concept is what uh Apple has come up with, the spinning wheel with uh L_C_ display like on the uh iPod

Mm.

which I am sure most of you know about.

Mm.

Um and then we have the scroll button with integrated push-button, kind of like a modern a bit bulky, a bit crazy,

Mm.

Mm.

I don't think that's we're necessarily going for.

No.

And uh some special components, uh ideas like uh blocking, having the ability to block channels from your for your children um and uh dedicated buttons for for commonly used uh channels and even uh ideas like secured or hidden programming but uh I again if we go with touch screen I don't think that's a big issue. Um and uh this is kind of the uh the big daddy of remote controls here.

Hmm.

Uh the jumbo universal remote control is almost impossible to misplace or lose.

Yeah, I can see..

Um, again probably not what we're going for

so I I mean my ideas here and kind of where I think we're heading is something slightly larger than a regular iPod uh with a hard cla c uh plastic casing

Okay.

although I think some of the suggestions we've come up with are definitely uh very good ideas. Uh changeable casings uh our design team was possibly talking about including one extra face plate with the package to kind of set the idea that you can change it and you can try changing it

Mm, right.

and kind of get used to thinking about maybe buying another one which can add value to our uh bottom line. Uh touch screen interface, um possibly having go-to buttons being uh stuck into the system so those don't move away from the screen, uh, the important ones like power, volume and jump between channels. Um, and of course our voice command system which I've talked a little bit about already

Mm.

and uh the use of recognisable colours and shapes to aid recognition of the features um that are around so red for power, um arrows for different volume ups and downs and channels ups and downs and what not.

Mm.

And uh perhaps even adding in some stupid little jokes with the voice recognition idea like perh mm for instance my toastie maker that I got from my bank

has jokes when it's ready.

Nice.

Great.

And uh that is about it.

Great, wonderful Ron, cool. Lot of good ideas, good facts to have.

Mm.

That's what they need, it's like a little dongle it just sticks up this further so you don't have to stand up every time, just connect it, my kingdom.

Yeah..

Mm.

Right so, good to know all that stuff, thanks guys, um. Now we kind of have to come to some decisions, um, I figure we can just go down the line and all three of us can have a chat about it. Um. Based on what Nathan presented as far as the um various costs and benefits um I think, I dunno, what do you guys think about the touch screen at this point?

I think it's our most marketable feature just because it's so new and it's something that is showing up in other places.

'Kay.'Kay.

But can we really afford it'cause it looks like they would be, that would be a really main cost source then

Mm-hmm.

right?

My estimate is that in order to incorporate touch screen technology it's gonna cost us upwards of seventeen fifty Euro per remote,

To produce each one.

Per?

yeah that's just an estimate though.

Piece.

Oh you guys are always the dampers on these projects.

I know

Mm.

You industrial designers..

I know.

Hmm.

It's fun..

And our goal was to be under twelve fifty or we have to be under twelve fifty?

Well.

Do we remember?

I thought there was some flexibility with that.

Okay.

There is, it's just, it is a question of and how much ca o does that mean we're gonna have to increase the price to make money.

Can we justify it?

Um, from twelve fifty if we d wanna get our fift uh hundred per cent profit margin um that would mean selling it from twenty five. If you multiply seventeen fifty by two that's thirty five.

Right.

So.

Where do you guys come up with these numbers?

That's just off the top of my head,

From the board,

it is pending further emails..

Right.

um, well.

Though I think that's what people would pay for,

I mean if you're gonna pay for an expensive high class remote, you're gonna expect it to do something.

That's true, I mean.

It is the new it would be in a class of its own.

Yeah.

And that's to be fair the um the per cent of the market we're not going for mass any you know, mass sales anyway, we're gonna make I mean we we're not talking about selling eight zillion of these things, we just couldn't, not for twenty-five Euros,

Right.

so we could probably maybe shrink the profit margins rather than selling for twenty five, sell'em for thirty, but that's something that we can have finance deal with. Um, I say that we provisionally go with the touch screen

Yeah.

or wh y wh what was your thought on the matter Ron?

I'm thinking that's uh definitely a good idea and I also think that we could probably come up with some sort of a cheaper uh means to to go about this kind of production, my my team in the uh on the third floor suggested that uh.

See if we can cut some corners.

Right. Well and we can look into this other manufacturing option, and maybe we can get'em somewhere else cheaper.

Mm.

It's true.

Yeah.

We could initially go with what we have and if we can find them cheaper later on.

Right. It's a starting point anyway, so.

No we could have a s very simple touch screen, you know, there's always the opportunity, if it's gonna be about the size of the iPod or whatever, you know, w we yeah, I guess we can play around with it a bit. Alright, let's let's say that okay so the touch screen will be our um our main selling point here.

Mm.

So.

I mean I think that we really have two main selling points, I think that our casing and the voice recognition.

Yeah'cause with voice recognition I mean really this is pretty bells and whistles kinda remote.

The voice rec thing,

Yeah.

I mean, if if we're looking at bottom line, now we're looking at upping the cost to seventeen to get the touch screen on,

I think we might have to drop the voice rec.

I think we'd have to decide between'em definitely.

Yeah.

To be honest, we have the capa we have the design in-house,

Price-wise.

I mean we've we've come up with this, with this new voice.

True.

we're using it for our coffee machines already.

We've already got it.

I can pass you on that email from my uh guy in uh guy down the hall. Sounds good.

Hmm. What do you think on it Nathan? About the voice rec?

I think if we we do both the obviously production costs are going to go way up um but it does put it into it'd become the Rolls Royce of remote controls basically. It would be very nice.

Pretty much.

I mean we we have to r reflect back on what our market research did say.

Right and they said they wanted voice recognition. Course, maybe they hadn't thought of this whole touch screen option, but definitely we know the market is there for voice recognition so to say we have the technology and we're not gonna use it even though we know it'll sell is a call I don't think I can give the highs ups.

Mm.

Like really I can't go in and say no we're gonna just ignore everything we know..

Yeah.

Does having both really up our costs?

I can't see how it wouldn't, I mean, there's you know the old aphorism, you can have it fast, you can have it cheap or you can have it quality, pick two of three. You know, you can't you can't have all three.

Yeah.

Yeah,'cause you you just upping the number of chips that you need to deal with each different function.

It's just impossible.

Yeah.

Well if we're gonna pick betwe e alright so we have to pick between one of the two. Um. Otherwise, yeah, we just it just becomes cost prohibitive. What which, which do we suspect we should hold o we should hold on to?

Well, we already have research backing voice recognition as you know fiscally solvent. But uh I I I personally would tend to another direction but if that's what's gonna sell I think that's what we need to go with and maybe we can table this touch screen for our next model.

I would have to side with that,

'Kay.

I think the voice recognition is simpler, we already have the all the technology in-house, it's ready to go, it's packaged, it's.

What does the cost look like Ron? Is it cheaper to do the V_R_ or to do the uh touch screen?

Well my p is.

Nathan?

Mm.

Um, this is just off the top of my head keep in mind, but I think the voice recognition would they're both mm they're both gonna push the costs up, but um, since we already have the technology in-house for the voice recognition

Mm.

we're not gonna have to do as much design work

Right.

and sometimes the design work is what push the costs up, if you know what I mean.

Right.

Right.

Um, I definitely have to agree with that last comment.

And we're still not then we don't have to deal with this battery issue nearly as much either,

Mm.

we can stick with what we've already got. In a lot other ways too.

Okay. So I'm getting alright so more or less you guys think that o o of the two of'em, the voice recognition will be better. Okay.

I think it's our lower risk option

Yeah.

which for right now we can have it on the market sooner which is all in all our best option.

Okay. Sorted.

We will omit the touch screen in favour of voice recognition.

It's you and me outside a little here..

So and when are we gonna have basic prototypes coming up next that's you guys's next step right?

Yeah, well we'll we'll sic we'll sort out what it what f what else we're gonna talk about for the prototype

Yeah.

Right.

but yeah that's our next step, it'll be a developing of prototype.

Okay.

Are we going to talk now about um the materials that we're gonna use for the case and all those things?

Yes. We'll just run through it yeah, yeah, um.

Mm-hmm.

Okay.

You discussed either a lithium or a solar power. Would the solar power be enough to fuel a voice recognition? Or this kinesthetic one, would that be enough to fuel a voice recognition remote control?

Um, the solar power definitely would be but I think just to keep people from getting annoyed,'cause sometimes solar power fails and there's no way round that, we should install a small backup battery.

Mm.

Yeah.

Just to cover those moments when for whatever reason, the remote hasn't been exposed to.

Well what of people with like the T_V_ in their basement,

Mm. Yep.

like what if wha we can't guarantee sunlight everywhere so having a secondary source is probably.

It's true. Yeah, it works about the same as a solar powered calculator,

and you know how those those don't really require that much light,

Calculator.

Yeah. True. True.

um, but obviously a little more light than a calculator, but we're not talking about a lot of light. Doesn't have to be out taking a sunbath for a few hours a day or anything.

Right.

Right.

Okay.

Okay.

What do you think Ron?

I'm willing to agree with everything that's been said.

Okay.

Uh I have to say though that um another idea's come up in my head. If we're really not uh handling the remote control to a great extent we could possibly get away from the idea of having a hand-held remote control and maybe kind of have a round remote control that kind of looks like a paperweight or something like that, kind of a sleek little uh neat thing that sits on your table or something.

Uh.

Hmm.

Hmm.

Interesting.

Yeah.

Why, why moving away from hand-held, why?

Just a thought.

What's the uh idea?

Well if you don't need to pick it up it could kind of be a selling point.

I if it's got voice recognition it can be technically anywhere in your room and still do its job.

Hmm. Do you think people that are people that buy a remote, are they always gonna wanna use the voice recognition or is it just something that they do sometimes.

True, and i probabl I think we're banking on selling it to more than just voice recognition people, like we want it to work fundamentally as a basic manual too,

Well we have to have buttons on it too as well.

right.

But that's done, that's no bother I mean if you look at the catalogue from places like with sharper image or whatever you know they might have or like um who is it, Apple makes these really pretentious speakers with the th sub-woofers you know like clear and glass and you know

Mm-hmm.

and then they got these little pyramidal type of um speakers.

Right.

Yep.

I mean, why not have a little rounded kind of thing,

Yeah.

it could still have the basic buttons on it. Um,'cause we're going for basic functionality primarily as well.

With the bu yeah.

And maybe a menu button and so forth, you know um use a channel button to scroll through the menu d if they want to record programmes or whatever you know I mean we can sort that out.

I think, I think you're on to something

Mm-hmm.

Yeah.

because we need to escape the traditional shape of a remote. Maybe something that looks nice on a table is would be good, even though and hand-held the same time.

True. Way to go.

I think it's all about following Apple's lead on a lot of these things.

Yeah I'm thinking of the airport portal,

Mm-hmm.

Mm.

you know like that little pod looking thing?

Yeah, those are nice.

Exactly.

Yeah, I mean a nice although we do um wh uh is I'm recalling that she mentioned that we n need to get away from the surgical white kind of brushed aluminium thing

Right.

and get back to it

Mm.

but you could have a very tasteful um wood coloured or earth tone kind of um.

That would be kinda neat. Terracotta bowl or something..

Still, I mean, yeah, along those lines.

Mm.

Yeah I like that, I like that idea a lot. Um, let's see what we can do as far as that goes. And the uh the material like the plastics and so forth, we were discussing that being uh using like a rubber kind of softer feel,

Okay.

um you know

Mm.

li lik if you feel the the tip on this pen it's a bit gives just a bit. You know

Yeah.

something where it's uh a a more advanced f form of plastic that has some kind of a tactile response to it.

Right. Just kind of the squishy feel.

Yeah, which is the next big thing, so that's not gonna hurt us either..

Mm'kay.

Yeah let's see if we can do a squishy non-remote control-looking remote control.

But to be fair, yeah, I mean, you just c you could just put it literally put it on the the ni the coffee table next to the telly and say volume up.

Right.

Yeah I like it, I like the idea, that's good.

Handy.

Um and we've sorted of discussed costs, um. I guess we'll a that's gonna be uh a thing, if we run a bit over-budget, that might be okay, um.

Sorry about the uh lack of information on cost, I just haven't been provided that information by our manufacturers

Okay.

We'll have more of an idea when the prototype have more of a.

and I'm just having to guess.

we'll have more of an idea later on. Um. And we just yeah go from there. Um, so

we've revisited the touch screen and more or less ruled that out, um, I think so we're more or less con we wh wh we're more or less in agreement that we want to have a um a simple kind of function, you know, not too complex.

Mm. Right. Well when the majority of people are only using the most primary functions on a daily basis, although I'm not saying we should completely rule out major functions, they should be secondary, at least if not functionally then visually, like those shouldn't be.

Right.

Like maybe have menu things.

Take precedence,

If, if we're not going the touch-screen route then we can um just incorporate maybe something that folds out

yeah.

like what you often see on these kinds of remotes is the most basic functions up here

Mm.

Right.

and something that slides down to reveal the you know more complicated things.

And they slide.

Yes.

Well and do we wanna consider like an iPod screen which isn't a touch screen but you're still scrolling through menu options, in p

Think then we're hitting our cost issue again.

Yeah

True,

we've also got the the me the thing of,

Yeah.

we're still not making it easier then.

if we're gonna have a non-remote-looking remote, how do we yeah.

True.

B But no I mean

Fair enough.

we could do a slide or a compartment, you know, like if it say it's a lit little vaguely ovoidal type of thing, it'd be easy to have a compartment in there.

Yeah.

Or you know, a b a b a a series of you know three or four buttons with a menu button and then a side an s up and down type of thing, like on um like on a D_V_D_ player. You know you see the modern D_V_D_ players'll just have um a menu button on the side and then four buttons around them

Mm-hmm. Yeah it's just a scroll.

and you can just kind of manoeuvre through the menu like that.

Right.

Yeah.

So are we gonna are we talking we need to figure out what kind of buttons we're going to use, are we going to use scroll buttons? Rubber buttons? Um.

Well it seems like I dunno it seems to me that we could just do the um stick with the rubber'cause since we're probably gonna be using some kind of um rubber for the outside case

Yeah. Probably.

we might as well stick with that um.

Right.

I think to a certain extent we have to stick with uh kind of uh a little bit traditional in terms of the buttons and then and then make our unique feature our casing and what not and our voice command.

Right. Mm. Well no it's basic just like four directions that are that can use as menu or channel and volume or however you wanna do it, are really versatile and everybody's already got them to some extent on the remotes they already own so it's not like we're dealing with everybody relearning things'cause that's not something anybody's gonna wanna buy a new for.

Right.

Mm'kay, um. We've already kind of covered this as well. That seems to be selling um and we we've more or less agreed that we want to kar target this youth market, um.

Mm.

Especially now with eighteen to thirty five year olds being such a large quantity of the population..

Right, particularly in technological fields,

Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.

so that's exactly where we're headed.

Okay. Um. Yeah alright, well, more or less covered what we need to cover I think fi an an any final thoughts before we think about doing the protot moving on to the prototype.

Well what are we actually doing?

Right.

What were.

I was just gonna step on to um.

Uh. Oh it wasn't in the way but yeah, whatever.

I wasn't? Oh, my bad um sorry.

No, don't worry about it.

The um, yeah okay I was just gonna assign tasks in the next b anyth any oth

Sure.

any other final thoughts before we go ahead and

Okay.

cool?

So

Yeah.

have we decided that we are gonna go with different style cases for different people?

Um.

Or are we just going to go with one?..It's very, it's very hard thing to predict because you have different cases

Yeah.

and that might open up your market a little bit obviously, but if you have just one case and it doesn't go very well mm.

Yeah.

It's a tough situation,

Right.

but obviously having more cases also costs more so.

Well then again colours wouldn't be so hard to do, you could have uh a, you know, a um uh kind of a natural wood colour, like a stained wood and um, I don't know, olive green or something.

There's an idea.

Mm. Yeah.

That wouldn't be so much of a problem to incorporate into the colour of the thing.

And again copying iMac's kind of for iPod Mac Apple's uh colour scheme.

Yeah, get in there. Yeah, totally.

Yeah, I think that's probably a good id okay so let's work on uh multiple case colours. But yeah, stick with the same kind of kinda yeah, the same basic non-remote kind of remote design. Cool. Alright, so we'll have the next meeting about half an hour, um. I want the uh I'd like Nathan, I'd like you to work on just the basic look and feel, what can we accomplish, um, given these parameters that we're just gonna sort of have this kind of uh non-remote remote. Um, what are our broad constraints before we deve design a prototype..

Right.

And um Ron if you can figure out how probably best to lay out this idea of this simple design with the voice recognition built in and also this kind of drop down or s on the side kind of menu options simple. Somehow work out how we can get this all s in the same place. Um, and if you can check product evaluation with m some pilots and stuff. Um I need you guys to work together on making a prototype, um using um prototype building materials um.

And also um specific instructions will be sent to you by your coaches as well.

Oh excellent yeah.

So that's what to start with for now, is that alright, you guys feel clear about this?

Cool.

That sounds good.

Fabulous.

Alright. I guess we'll just hit the bricks. Thanks guys.

Cool.

Question: What was the purpose of the meeting?

Response: The purpose of the meeting was to discuss the conceptual design for a new remote control. The participants needed to make final decisions regarding several aspects of the design in order to proceed with the prototype.

Question: What were the main topics they discussed?

Response:
Here are the main topics they discussed:
* Component design of the remote control, such as the energy source, case, buttons, and circuit board.
* Current market trends and what is selling well.
* User interface concepts, including voice recognition, touch screen, scroll buttons, and various special components.
* The choice between touch screen and voice recognition, with cost being a major factor.
* The materials to be used for the case, including plastics, rubber, or wood.

Question: Yes/No: Did the participants decide to incorporate a touch screen into the design?

Response: No. While the participants were initially interested in using a touch screen, they ultimately decided to omit it from the design. The major factor in this decision was cost. The participants estimated that adding a touch screen would increase the production cost to approximately $1750 per unit, and they felt that this would be too expensive for their target market.

Question: What did User Interface recommend to do when discussing voice recognition as an option for the remote control?

Response: User Interface recommended that the research team investigate ways to find a cheaper means of production for the voice recognition feature, such as looking for different manufacturers who could offer a more cost-effective solution. They also suggested that since the team already had the technology in-house and ready to use, it would be unwise to ignore it, particularly in light of market research data that showed consumer demand for voice recognition features.

Question: What was the advantage of including solar charging as a power option for the remote control?

Response: The advantage of including solar charging as a power option for the remote control was that it would eliminate the need for frequent battery changes, which would make the remote more convenient for users. Additionally, solar power is a sustainable and environmentally friendly energy source.

Question: Besides voice recognition, were there any other special components or features that User Interface suggested for the remote control?

Response:
Yes, User Interface suggested several other special components or features for the remote control, including:

* Blocking: users could use the remote to block certain channels from their children.
* Dedicated buttons: these buttons would be for commonly used channels and could be programmed by the user.
* Secured or hidden programming: this feature would allow users to hide certain programming options from view.

Question: What did Industrial Designer recommend to do when discussing component design for the remote control?

Response: Industrial Designer recommended that they consider looking into other manufacturers for components, as they were limited by the offerings of their current manufacturer. They also suggested using a solar battery instead of a lithium battery, as it would be more environmentally friendly and could be paired with a small backup battery to address concerns about intermittent sunlight.

Question: What was their conclusion on the case material?

Response: The participants decided to go with a non-remote-looking remote control made of a squishy, rubber-like material. They also decided to include multiple case colors, such as natural wood and olive green, to appeal to different tastes.

Question: Did anyone disagree with Industrial Designer about using rubber as the material for the remote control case?

Response: No, there was no disagreement expressed regarding the use of rubber as the material for the remote control case. The participants seemed to agree that rubber would be a good choice due to its durability.

Question: What did Project Manager recommend to do when discussing tasks to assign to the other participants?

Response:
Project Manager assigned tasks to the other participants for the next phase of the project.
-Industrial Designer (Nathan) was tasked with working on the basic look and feel of the remote control.
-Ron was asked to develop a simple design layout that incorporated voice recognition and drop-down menu options.
-Both Industrial Designer and User Interface would work together to create a prototype using specified materials.