Extracted Content: Leola Derrick: Hello, uh
  Florence Smith: Hello.
  Leola Derrick: this
  Stacia Grant: Mm-hmm.
  Leola Derrick: meeting
  Dianne Dempsey: Hello.
  Leola Derrick: we are it's fo should on the conceptual design of the remote. Um the goal of this meeting is to reach a decision at the end on the concept and I think the last time we talked about an a lot and we had a rough idea of what is going to be, but uh in th at the end of this meeting we have to to reach a decision. So, uh we will have again three presentation, from all of you, and uh I hope will be fast because I would like to have to for long discussion and and decisions. So, who wants to start?
  Dianne Dempsey: I s
  Leola Derrick: Okay.
  Florence Smith: Okay.
  Dianne Dempsey: No, no, you you start.
  Florence Smith: Okay,
  Leola Derrick: So
  Florence Smith: I'll
  Leola Derrick: start,
  Florence Smith: start.
  Leola Derrick: uh
  Florence Smith: Can open my presentation please.
  Leola Derrick: Uh.
  Florence Smith: I'm number four. Trend.
  Leola Derrick: This one?
  Florence Smith: Yep. Can you pass the mouse, please. Oh
  Leola Derrick: Turn.
  Florence Smith: okay, that's fine. Okay. Um so basically I just want to presented to you present to you some recent results we've had from um looking at uh um some remote control market research and some fashion trends around the world. Um fashion trends we got from talking our our contacts Um so f from our market research basically we've come to the conclusion that a fancy look and feel, um as opposed to a functional look and feel, is our number one priority. Um fancy is is
  Leola Derrick: Hmm.
  Florence Smith: is is
  Stacia Grant: Hmm.
  Florence Smith: the, you know, highest priority. Secondly um that our remote control needs to be techn technologically innovative. Um so this is t number two priority but it's two times less important as the fancy criteria. Um and third thirdly the easiness of use is is the um is is important as well, but again two times less important as the technologically innovativeness of the remote control. From our f fashion people in Paris and Milan, um we've discovered that this year um fruit the fruit and vegetable motif will be the most important thing in in clothes, shoes and furniture. So, I'm pretty confident that our remote control fits into the furniture category. And also um the feel of material this year um is expected to be spongy.
  Leola Derrick: Okay.
  Florence Smith: Um so hopefully our remote control reflects that s in some way.
  Stacia Grant: What does it mean, spongy
  Florence Smith: Uh sort of um squishy. Um.
  Stacia Grant: Like soft, or something?
  Florence Smith: Yeah soft, like a uh
  Leola Derrick: Like
  Florence Smith: like a
  Leola Derrick: a
  Florence Smith: sponge.
  Leola Derrick: sponge.
  Florence Smith: I
  Leola Derrick: Yeah.
  Florence Smith: don't
  Stacia Grant: Okay.
  Florence Smith: know. Yeah.
  Stacia Grant: I will see.
  Florence Smith: Um so in conclusion, we need a our remote control needs to be something that's really fancy, um has lots of technolog tech technology in it. Um somehow
  Stacia Grant: Okay.
  Florence Smith: would be good to have it related to fruit and vegetables with a spongy feel. And that it's easy to use and from our last meeting our you know Fabian told us that w you know one of the requirements is that we have to reflect the look and feel of our of th the Real Reaction company. Um.
  Leola Derrick: Yeah, uh
  Florence Smith: That's it.
  Leola Derrick: yeah. Easy to use, is it uh a as much as important than technology or fancy thing. It's less important, right?
  Florence Smith: Less important. So
  Leola Derrick: Yeah yeah.
  Florence Smith: um fanciness first and
  Leola Derrick: Okay.
  Florence Smith: then two ti you know, half as important as that is technology technology, and half important as technology is easy to use. So.
  Leola Derrick: So, Hamed, can you.
  Dianne Dempsey: Yeah. The second one. Could you please
  Leola Derrick: Mm-hmm.
  Dianne Dempsey: show the presentation number three.
  Stacia Grant: I think the biggest struggle will be the easy to use feature. We'll see.
  Dianne Dempsey: Yeah.
  Leola Derrick: Um. Number?
  Dianne Dempsey: Three.
  Leola Derrick: Three. This one?
  Dianne Dempsey: Yes. Just Could you please check if it is the first one or the second. Uh, n n no, it's the first one. The second one.
  Leola Derrick: So it's not this one.
  Dianne Dempsey: Uh yeah. Okay. Okay So am going to talk about a little bit about how this remote control should be to be more easy to use I think uh I think the feature easy to use is more important than being fancy, but okay, we can discuss about it uh later. Um generally, generally uh this remote control uh uh should be should be something, in my opinion, uh the first feature is just to be easy to use. So, the more frequent buttons should be larger, they should be placed in a good position uh uh inside the remote control. And uh s uh I can conclude like this, that we shouldn't need to learn how to use it. It should be we shouldn't need to es open a a t book and uh start reading and uh learning how to use this uh this uh remote control. Okay. So what I found out that uh as I said uh I think it's better to put uh more frequent uh uh uh ke uh buttons which are used more in the middle of the remote control, and they should be bigger in size. Uh the shape of remote control should be in a way which can which should be taken easily in hand. It should not be completely like uh a cube. It should be it should have round edge, so
  Stacia Grant: Exactly.
  Dianne Dempsey: uh then it's easier. And maybe uh just like some toys, some joystick which is easier to take inside the hand. And uh also f uh uh m because because customers doesn't like to buy lots of battery, it should not uh consume lots of energy. Okay. And my personal p uh preference is uh, as I said, uh just putting this buttons in a special places and covered some buttons which are not used uh that much like settings button, like mobile phone. Usually some mobile phone cover the dialling number part, so we can cover these buttons which are not used or uh number buttons for the for the for the can channels, and just put uh volume change or s ch can uh channel change buttons uh uh in the remote control. And if the user needed to do some more complex task uh he he can open the cover and then change settings or something like this. Uh. And also uh I think if we put some some some some some buttons inside of the remote control it can be used easier. Not on remote control. I dunno if I can explain well. But uh just inside. For example, a sliding or rolling uh uh d uh stuff, if we put it inside then we can easily manipulate with uh thumb. So it can be another uh preference. And uh I dunno but uh I think usage of a speech recogn uh r recogniser can be good. I know that it consumes lots of energy, but if we do it in some way that it asleeps when there is no sound and when it detects some sound it may consume less energy. And I think it's good because it's something new and usually young people like something new. So it may not be very useful but because it's new, people may buy it. Uh I personally think there should be a big difference between uh between something. Otherwise they prefer to buy something which is coming from a famous company, or. Okay. That's mine.
  Leola Derrick: Okay.
  Stacia Grant: Uh okay, so good news from Florence Smith uh uh for Florence Smith from Hamed, but bad news from Bob obviously, because spongy design, I don't like it as Okay, so could you please, Fabien, open it.
  Leola Derrick: Yeah.
  Stacia Grant: I'm person two. And which one, uh first one. I'm not sure but check the first one. I Most of the things I have to write myself on the
  Leola Derrick: This
  Stacia Grant: board,
  Leola Derrick: one, yeah.
  Stacia Grant: but Yeah, that's it. Just It's only this slide? Yeah. This this is just uh one thing I wanted to mention and show you that I just uh I just found this, that our company uh developed a s a seven f seven fingers or I'll just
  Florence Smith: Inch.
  Stacia Grant: Yeah, seven seven inch T_ T_F_T_ screen, which is good news for us, since we wanted to include a display there. Uh so I I probably
  Leola Derrick: Oh,
  Stacia Grant: draw it down raw scheme. This is this is the stuff that I
  Leola Derrick: Oops.
  Stacia Grant: can use to Okay, so the this will be like the overall scheme or overall requirements from the engineering point of view. Uh first thing is uh this will be the overall shape, no uh I'm not speaking about the real shape of the device, but the shape of the inside of the device. So there will be some circuit uh for the power. So, say power circuit here. Uh the main energy will be taken from batteries that we can uh uh And if we decide to use the speech recognition stuff there, we must use additional source of energy, which I found the best is to use the solar cells which can which can uh supply everything. I was computing all the all the things related to the speech recognition, and it's okay to use just uh two batteries and solar cells, so. So no problem. There can be also solar cell. Uh the main board with all the circuits will take at least seven to seven centimetres, so this is my like hard requirement for the guys from the design. So
  Dianne Dempsey: Mm-hmm.
  Stacia Grant: at least seven to seven. It depends where you put your screen, because the screen is uh seven inch, so it depends on you where where you put it. It doesn't matter. Um it's just one cord from from the main board to the screen which can be elsewhere. So this will be T_F_T_. And on the main board we have the um interface to the microphone, which is somewhere, say here. Interface to the microphone. Then the graphical card uh for the T_F_T_ and the third unit is the I_R_. The good news is that we can uh we decided to use the infra-red unit because our company has also developed the chip for communication by the infra-red, including all the stuff inside, so it will be very cheap for us. So infra-red here. So the once again the overall requirements, seven to seven centimetres for the board, which has to be which can be spongy but has to be this size, and the T_F_T_ which is seven inches. Um I have to check what I wanted to Uh from my point of view I don't care about the about the material used for the overall des uh ov all the device.
  Leola Derrick: Can you fit any uh for example a T_F_T_ or any electronic device in a spongy thing, or is there any problem for that? For example, put electronic card on a spongy thing, I can I can imagine it could be a problem.
  Stacia Grant: A all these things in in uh in this box are okay to put in in any shape, basically. But we
  Leola Derrick: Yep.
  Stacia Grant: have to take care of the T_F_T_. Well, sponginess. Maybe it a good feature, since it takes if it's around the T_F_T_
  Leola Derrick: Okay.
  Stacia Grant: then it's
  Leola Derrick: So
  Stacia Grant: good, because it's just keeps it safe, I dunno.
  Dianne Dempsey: Well maybe it
  Florence Smith: So
  Dianne Dempsey: can have two shells, a hard shell inside and a spongy
  Leola Derrick: Okay.
  Dianne Dempsey: shell
  Leola Derrick: Maybe
  Dianne Dempsey: outside.
  Leola Derrick: put electronic in a box and a spongy thing around.
  Stacia Grant: Well,
  Leola Derrick: maybe after.
  Florence Smith: So
  Stacia Grant: it's maybe
  Leola Derrick: Yeah.
  Florence Smith: Ca
  Stacia Grant: related to the U_I_.
  Florence Smith: Can I ask a question.
  Stacia Grant: A Yeah, that's all from Florence Smith.
  Florence Smith: This seven inch T_F_T_ screen,
  Stacia Grant: Yeah?
  Florence Smith: how big is it in reality?
  Stacia Grant: Well, seven to seven inches.
  Florence Smith: So like that.
  Stacia Grant: Yes.
  Florence Smith: That's quite big. Uh uh have we decided that we're gonna use this T_F_T_ screen?
  Stacia Grant: Yeah
  Leola Derrick: No,
  Stacia Grant: but
  Leola Derrick: I don't think it's seven by seven, I think it's
  Stacia Grant: To
  Leola Derrick: seven
  Stacia Grant: be honest,
  Leola Derrick: the diagonal
  Stacia Grant: I was
  Leola Derrick: is seven. Usually when they say
  Florence Smith: But
  Leola Derrick: seven
  Florence Smith: I mean even
  Dianne Dempsey: Yeah
  Leola Derrick: inch
  Florence Smith: even
  Leola Derrick: I
  Dianne Dempsey: yes.
  Florence Smith: that
  Leola Derrick: think
  Florence Smith: is
  Leola Derrick: it's
  Florence Smith: like
  Leola Derrick: the
  Florence Smith: this
  Leola Derrick: diagonal.
  Florence Smith: big.
  Leola Derrick: Yeah. I dunno I dun I dun One each. But, yeah,
  Stacia Grant: Yeah, honestly speaking I was thinking that it was seven centimetres initially,
  Florence Smith: Yeah.
  Stacia Grant: but it's seven inches. But I I think we can we can cut it.
  Florence Smith: You can cut the T_F_T_ screen.
  Stacia Grant: Yeah, no no problem,
  Leola Derrick: Let's
  Stacia Grant: because
  Leola Derrick: go.
  Stacia Grant: because because then the size of the graphic card will be one fourth. So Yeah, but no
  Leola Derrick: So
  Stacia Grant: problem
  Leola Derrick: let's cut
  Stacia Grant: to
  Leola Derrick: the
  Stacia Grant: to
  Leola Derrick: T_F_T_.
  Stacia Grant: Florence Smith to cut the screen.
  Dianne Dempsey: Mm.
  Florence Smith: Okay, so
  Stacia Grant: So so for the same price we have four
  Leola Derrick: Mm.
  Stacia Grant: screens now.
  Florence Smith: Okay.
  Leola Derrick: These technical engineers, huh.
  Florence Smith: So, what's the size of the device?
  Stacia Grant: Ah well this is like this is almost nothing. Seven to seven to at least well some three millimetres or something.
  Florence Smith: Even from my perspective seven t seven centimetres by seven centimetres is still
  Stacia Grant: Yeah, but we wanted the big
  Florence Smith: Is it
  Stacia Grant: buttons
  Florence Smith: Can you hold
  Stacia Grant: and
  Florence Smith: that,
  Stacia Grant: stuff
  Florence Smith: or?
  Stacia Grant: like that, you know. Because if it's t too small we can we can lose it, at home, you know.
  Leola Derrick: What user wants. He wants a small remote control,
  Dianne Dempsey: Uh.
  Florence Smith: Yeah,
  Leola Derrick: or? Uh
  Florence Smith: a small
  Leola Derrick: uh
  Stacia Grant: I thought
  Florence Smith: c
  Stacia Grant: that
  Florence Smith: control
  Stacia Grant: it it
  Florence Smith: that they
  Stacia Grant: should
  Florence Smith: can
  Leola Derrick: with
  Stacia Grant: fit
  Florence Smith: hold
  Leola Derrick: big
  Florence Smith: in
  Stacia Grant: in
  Florence Smith: hand.
  Stacia Grant: the
  Leola Derrick: buttons.
  Stacia Grant: hand or
  Dianne Dempsey: Yes.
  Stacia Grant: something.
  Leola Derrick: It's difficult. A
  Florence Smith: But
  Leola Derrick: sm
  Florence Smith: is something that's seven centimetres square e easy to hold?
  Stacia Grant: W I I think so. I if the roller buttons are on the side you don't have to catch it like that, but just like this, and you know follow follow Well, that's that's no task for Florence Smith, but well
  Leola Derrick: So
  Stacia Grant: seven
  Leola Derrick: maybe you
  Stacia Grant: to
  Leola Derrick: can
  Stacia Grant: seven
  Leola Derrick: finish
  Stacia Grant: at least
  Leola Derrick: your presentation,
  Stacia Grant: yeah, but
  Leola Derrick: and afterwards we will discuss
  Dianne Dempsey: Maybe this.
  Stacia Grant: Oh,
  Leola Derrick: about
  Florence Smith: Okay.
  Stacia Grant: okay.
  Leola Derrick: all this.
  Stacia Grant: Okay thanks.
  Leola Derrick: That's it. Okay. So. No. Uh, so I think we have a lot We have to take decision today, so I think we have to do some work to finalise our idea and take decisions. Uh first I think energy it's a key problem because uh it depend what can we have as feature if we use only batteries, for example, or something like that. Because can we have L_C_D_ and speech recognition with battery, and it's
  Stacia Grant: Not
  Leola Derrick: also r related to the size of the of the devi of the
  Stacia Grant: J
  Leola Derrick: device?
  Stacia Grant: uh just a point to the energy th things.
  Leola Derrick: Okay.
  Stacia Grant: so no problem in energy,
  Leola Derrick: So
  Stacia Grant: I think.
  Leola Derrick: Okay.
  Stacia Grant: But
  Dianne Dempsey: So but
  Stacia Grant: we have to use the solar cell. Otherwise
  Leola Derrick: Uh
  Stacia Grant: not.
  Leola Derrick: like but using how many batteries, for example? Are are what Maybe what is the size of the battery
  Stacia Grant: Yeah I was thinking just common A_A_ cells.
  Leola Derrick: Okay. Uh
  Stacia Grant: So like
  Leola Derrick: one
  Stacia Grant: three
  Leola Derrick: two
  Stacia Grant: to five centimetres, I dunno exactly,
  Leola Derrick: Okay.
  Stacia Grant: but.
  Florence Smith: So if we use s solar cells, um
  Stacia Grant: S
  Florence Smith: where is the sun if someone's watching
  Stacia Grant: Uh
  Florence Smith: T_V_
  Stacia Grant: d
  Florence Smith: inside?
  Stacia Grant: doesn't need to be sun. It it's just the daylight, you know.
  Leola Derrick: The
  Florence Smith: Okay.
  Leola Derrick: television
  Stacia Grant: Yeah well I I
  Leola Derrick: lights.
  Stacia Grant: suppose that I suppose that uh that this remote control won't be in the in the room like this, where there is light only when
  Dianne Dempsey: Mm-hmm.
  Stacia Grant: when there are people, but.
  Leola Derrick: At least when there is T_V_ you can get light
  Stacia Grant: Yeah
  Leola Derrick: from
  Stacia Grant: from the
  Leola Derrick: the
  Stacia Grant: T_
  Leola Derrick: T_V_.
  Dianne Dempsey: Yeah.
  Stacia Grant: I don't think it's enough, uh.
  Leola Derrick: I dunno.
  Florence Smith: Okay.
  Leola Derrick: Okay. Mm.
  Stacia Grant: Ah it's a it's a compromise, no?
  Leola Derrick: At least it's new and maybe technology
  Stacia Grant: Yeah,
  Leola Derrick: New
  Stacia Grant: that's
  Florence Smith: It's
  Leola Derrick: technology.
  Stacia Grant: why I
  Florence Smith: it's
  Stacia Grant: wanted
  Florence Smith: quite innovative,
  Stacia Grant: to to include
  Florence Smith: yes.
  Leola Derrick: Yeah.
  Stacia Grant: the speech recognition,
  Dianne Dempsey: Hmm.
  Stacia Grant: because you wanted
  Leola Derrick: Um.
  Stacia Grant: all the new
  Florence Smith: And if you
  Stacia Grant: things.
  Florence Smith: watch T_V_ outside it's very
  Leola Derrick: So
  Florence Smith: useful.
  Leola Derrick: I think before talking about the other thing, it's important thing it's the case. Uh what what are gonna be the size, because its weight drives the other what we are going to use as features and so on. For example for the for the L_C_D_, if we choose to have a small device, we cannot use this um a such a a a screen.
  Stacia Grant: Uh the s the screen is okay, but the board, uh that's the problem. Well what what would you guess as a shape? Or what
  Dianne Dempsey: Mm.
  Stacia Grant: what would be the shape?
  Dianne Dempsey: I think I think their being uh large or small is not important. The only important thing is to be able to take it in uh inside hand easily. So let's say
  Stacia Grant: Mm.
  Dianne Dempsey: an average size, okay, and it should not be very heavy also. And I prefer to is it shouldn't have a uniform shape, so in the middle it should be a little bit thinner, maybe maybe. So we c it's like like some joysticks. You can take uh some some joystick you can take inside hand easier because it's it's designed for your f uh taking into account your finger shape and your palm shape. So the general shape should be like this. I think uh seven centimetre by seven centimetre is a little bit large. So uh
  Stacia Grant: Okay.
  Dianne Dempsey: seven not seven but let's say five by ten it's I think it's that's my opinion.
  Florence Smith: Which
  Dianne Dempsey: It's
  Florence Smith: is the same
  Dianne Dempsey: easier.
  Florence Smith: area.
  Dianne Dempsey: Yeah.
  Florence Smith: Could
  Stacia Grant: Okay.
  Florence Smith: you re could you redesign your board?
  Stacia Grant: Five to ten.
  Florence Smith: Oh, five
  Stacia Grant: Well that
  Florence Smith: five centimetres by ten centimetres.
  Stacia Grant: Yeah, right.
  Florence Smith: Yeah.
  Stacia Grant: Yeah, I think it's feasib Well one um um How could we do it? We could put the board next to, well, under the L_C_D_ and for
  Dianne Dempsey: Mm-hmm.
  Stacia Grant: example make the L_C_D_ be totally unrelated to the thing that you hold in your hand. Like holding something, and the L_C_D_ to be just on top of it, you know somehow. Well But maybe
  Leola Derrick: Oh.
  Stacia Grant: let's stick to the s spongy thing, like one unit.
  Leola Derrick: I've
  Stacia Grant: Well
  Leola Derrick: I
  Stacia Grant: fi
  Leola Derrick: s
  Stacia Grant: five
  Leola Derrick: I
  Stacia Grant: to
  Leola Derrick: think
  Stacia Grant: ten it would be feasible.
  Leola Derrick: the easiest thing would be to to have a smaller L_C_D_, if it's possible.
  Dianne Dempsey: Mm.
  Stacia Grant: Okay, so five to ten, I I think it's it's
  Leola Derrick: Okay.
  Stacia Grant: feasible.
  Leola Derrick: So we
  Stacia Grant: I'll make
  Leola Derrick: are agree
  Stacia Grant: it.
  Leola Derrick: with a small
  Dianne Dempsey: Or
  Stacia Grant: Fo
  Leola Derrick: L_C_D_.
  Dianne Dempsey: uh
  Stacia Grant: Five by ten.
  Dianne Dempsey: or I don't know but I don't want to now invent something new, because we didn't discuss about it. So using some L_C_D_s we can touch, so we can remove uh keys and just uh having uh, I dunno the name, L_C_D_ responding to fingers.
  Leola Derrick: Yeah.
  Dianne Dempsey: Touching the screen. Something
  Leola Derrick: Tactile
  Dianne Dempsey: like
  Florence Smith: Mm,
  Leola Derrick: or something,
  Florence Smith: touch screen.
  Leola Derrick: yeah. Touch screen, yeah.
  Dianne Dempsey: So But for now if we don't want to use such kind of screens
  Leola Derrick: Yeah.
  Dianne Dempsey: I I think we using a a smaller screen is better, because
  Leola Derrick: The problem is we have a limit in a month of time, so we cannot do
  Stacia Grant: Mm-hmm.
  Leola Derrick: something very new. So
  Florence Smith: So
  Leola Derrick: let's go
  Stacia Grant: Okay,
  Leola Derrick: for
  Stacia Grant: so
  Leola Derrick: a small L_C_D_.
  Stacia Grant: Yeah, so
  Dianne Dempsey: A smaller
  Stacia Grant: so just
  Dianne Dempsey: s
  Stacia Grant: just give Florence Smith the the the five by ten numbers that
  Leola Derrick: Yeah
  Stacia Grant: you find
  Leola Derrick: okay.
  Stacia Grant: the best and send
  Dianne Dempsey: Okay.
  Stacia Grant: it Florence Smith and
  Leola Derrick: So,
  Stacia Grant: I will
  Leola Derrick: five
  Stacia Grant: work
  Leola Derrick: by
  Stacia Grant: it
  Leola Derrick: s
  Stacia Grant: out.
  Leola Derrick: ten.
  Stacia Grant: Hmm.
  Leola Derrick: Um so what about, so the case we talked about. Um something easy to use, you said something easy to use but how does that fit in a fashion way, like with fruit and vegetable, and about the colour and logo of the of the company and so on, now, can we do that? My first idea is because our colour is more yellow, and the it should be easy to take in a hand, I thought about banana, or something like that, which is fruits, and
  Stacia Grant: Seven to ten banana.
  Leola Derrick: A big
  Stacia Grant: Okay.
  Leola Derrick: banana.
  Stacia Grant: Rather mango or something or.
  Leola Derrick: Um.
  Florence Smith: Well it's it's definitely the obvious choice, with the colour of
  Leola Derrick: Yeah.
  Florence Smith: our company. I mean what
  Leola Derrick: Yeah.
  Florence Smith: other
  Leola Derrick: But
  Florence Smith: what other fruit
  Leola Derrick: it's just
  Florence Smith: and vegetables
  Leola Derrick: an idea. I dunno what you think
  Florence Smith: Do you
  Leola Derrick: about,
  Florence Smith: know of any any other fruit
  Leola Derrick: but
  Florence Smith: and vegetables that are yellow?
  Leola Derrick: Yeah. I dunno if it can fit with the technology. You are the specialists of that.
  Stacia Grant: You mean banana. Well, but If it's If it If the banana is big enough. Then, yes.
  Leola Derrick: So
  Stacia Grant: But if you want to look at the screen, no. Well
  Leola Derrick: Yeah, and
  Dianne Dempsey: I think this
  Leola Derrick: The
  Dianne Dempsey: is
  Leola Derrick: screen has
  Dianne Dempsey: not good.
  Leola Derrick: to be square? Or it can be like a a shape, quite,
  Stacia Grant: Well,
  Leola Derrick: uh
  Stacia Grant: it can
  Leola Derrick: with
  Stacia Grant: be
  Leola Derrick: curves.
  Stacia Grant: whatever you want. But
  Leola Derrick: It could.
  Stacia Grant: if it's square then we get four screens out of one by cutting just. But if you want some shape then we
  Leola Derrick: Yeah.
  Stacia Grant: can only get like two screens out of seven to seven inches,
  Dianne Dempsey: Mm.
  Stacia Grant: so. It's like more more expensive to have shape like that. But I don't care. You know, if we fit
  Florence Smith: Well
  Stacia Grant: this requirement.
  Florence Smith: I'd like a shaped screen. I think that's more important than saving
  Stacia Grant: Okay
  Leola Derrick: Okay
  Florence Smith: a bit
  Leola Derrick: okay.
  Florence Smith: of money on
  Dianne Dempsey: Mm.
  Florence Smith: on the T_F_T_ screen.
  Stacia Grant: Yeah, m maybe the banana could be like a bit uh fatter than than the c
  Leola Derrick: Yeah.
  Stacia Grant: c common
  Leola Derrick: Yeah,
  Stacia Grant: one.
  Leola Derrick: it should
  Stacia Grant: But
  Leola Derrick: remember banana, but it's not doesn't have to b
  Stacia Grant: Like modified
  Leola Derrick: to be uh uh
  Stacia Grant: banana, okay.
  Leola Derrick: really the size and exactly the shape of a banana.
  Stacia Grant: Well it we'll stick to banana, or?
  Dianne Dempsey: Okay.
  Florence Smith: Yeah, banana's
  Leola Derrick: Okay.
  Florence Smith: good.
  Stacia Grant: Okay.
  Florence Smith: Okay.
  Stacia Grant: Mm-mm.
  Leola Derrick: So, the last point we decided it's infra-red, I guess.
  Dianne Dempsey: Yeah, I
  Stacia Grant: Yeah,
  Leola Derrick: Everybody's
  Dianne Dempsey: think infra-red.
  Stacia Grant: yeah.
  Leola Derrick: agreed.
  Stacia Grant: Sure.
  Leola Derrick: Uh, so that's it I think about the concepts. You have other thing to add to this point, or uh no? So, uh about the user interface, so we are going to use L_C_D_. In the last meeting we talked about uh hidden buttons. I don't know what we are going to do with that. You
  Stacia Grant: Like
  Leola Derrick: talked
  Stacia Grant: like
  Leola Derrick: about
  Stacia Grant: peeling
  Leola Derrick: the
  Stacia Grant: of
  Leola Derrick: buttons
  Stacia Grant: the banana
  Leola Derrick: on the
  Dianne Dempsey: Yeah,
  Leola Derrick: side
  Stacia Grant: you s
  Dianne Dempsey: peeling of the banana.
  Stacia Grant: It
  Leola Derrick: Mm
  Stacia Grant: would be cool, yeah.
  Leola Derrick: what?
  Stacia Grant: Peeling of the banana, you know,
  Dianne Dempsey: Yeah.
  Stacia Grant: should should discover the other buttons,
  Dianne Dempsey: Mm.
  Stacia Grant: which are hidden.
  Leola Derrick: Yeah. Okay. And you mean the first layer would be spongy.
  Dianne Dempsey: Yeah.
  Stacia Grant: First layer obviously spo Yeah, w
  Leola Derrick: So
  Stacia Grant: It's it's like
  Leola Derrick: Is
  Stacia Grant: silly, but the people
  Leola Derrick: it
  Stacia Grant: will really appreciate
  Leola Derrick: is
  Stacia Grant: it, yeah
  Leola Derrick: it
  Stacia Grant: I think.
  Leola Derrick: possible to do that? It would be a great idea, but is it possible technically?
  Dianne Dempsey: Uh
  Leola Derrick: Like doing a spongy layer of
  Florence Smith: I think
  Leola Derrick: the banana,
  Florence Smith: if we
  Leola Derrick: and
  Florence Smith: if
  Leola Derrick: you
  Florence Smith: we
  Leola Derrick: open
  Florence Smith: have a
  Leola Derrick: it.
  Florence Smith: spongy layer on the outside of the banana then
  Leola Derrick: Yeah.
  Florence Smith: it's easy to make that, you know, to
  Dianne Dempsey: Mm-hmm.
  Florence Smith: manipulate that
  Leola Derrick: Yeah.
  Florence Smith: to
  Dianne Dempsey: Yeah,
  Leola Derrick: Yeah.
  Dianne Dempsey: some
  Florence Smith: hav be a cover that you can pull off and
  Dianne Dempsey: Something like a plastic cover covering uh some interface, U_S_B_ interface as in the in uh digital camera. If you see it's like peeling. You open a plastic cover and you see some U_S_B_ interfaces, some some interfaces for adaptor. So keys can be uh buttons can be covered like this, with a plastic cover and uh when uh and when you open this cover it's like peeling a banana. So, something like this.
  Leola Derrick: Yeah, but do you see that as a rigid thing, or like like a banana, something very soft, you can open like banana, or.
  Stacia Grant: Well is it possible to make it soft?
  Dianne Dempsey: Yeah, yeah,
  Leola Derrick: Yeah.
  Dianne Dempsey: yeah it's a lic like a plastic cover, so.
  Stacia Grant: So I think
  Leola Derrick: So,
  Stacia Grant: if it's so then it's
  Leola Derrick: I dunno
  Stacia Grant: cool?
  Leola Derrick: what you think, Bob, but it would be great for users I think, and very
  Florence Smith: I think for
  Leola Derrick: good
  Florence Smith: sure.
  Leola Derrick: for marketing.
  Florence Smith: Definitely. The softer the better.
  Leola Derrick: Yeah.
  Stacia Grant: Cool.
  Florence Smith: Yeah.
  Stacia Grant: Honestly speaking, I cannot imagine it, so far, but
  Leola Derrick: Yeah.
  Stacia Grant: it will be terrible.
  Leola Derrick: Um.
  Stacia Grant: Mm.
  Leola Derrick: And setting buttons hidden in.
  Leola Derrick: Mm, other remarks, or something, or. Something we didn't talk about yes yet, or. I think we are almost there. Uh maybe, how can we, if we have a soft thing, like this, and to open it we have to attach it somewhere, I dunno how to do that technically, or.
  Dianne Dempsey: Mm-hmm.
  Leola Derrick: And how
  Stacia Grant: Pof.
  Florence Smith: We could use Velcro.
  Leola Derrick: Yeah, maybe.
  Florence Smith: Or uh ma maybe a magnetic
  Dianne Dempsey: Yes, yeah it's a good idea.
  Florence Smith: thing.
  Dianne Dempsey: Magnetic.
  Leola Derrick: Ma magnetic oh.
  Dianne Dempsey: Mm. Yeah or a Yeah it can is it can be a plastic cover uh sticking to the to the all the stuff like uh with magnetic p uh magnetic uh magnetic uh materials in the border, so it's it sticks like refrigerator door, completely.
  Leola Derrick: Okay.
  Dianne Dempsey: And when you try to open it, it will be opened easily. So you you can be sure that it will not be open while you're uh while while uh you are commonly using uh buttons on
  Leola Derrick: Okay.
  Dianne Dempsey: the banana.
  Leola Derrick: And what would be the matter here of the first layer I mean? Mm. Likes. Soft plastic, or
  Florence Smith: Yeah, I imagine some sort of vinyl
  Leola Derrick: Yeah,
  Florence Smith: thing.
  Leola Derrick: yeah, yeah.
  Florence Smith: In a in a sort of a with a suede sort of feel. Maybe.
  Stacia Grant: Well since since the since the things like the like the screen and um how to say that, solar cell has to be has to be like kept kept in the shape, we cannot b uh So we need that the that the peeling uh I dunno but we should we should take care of these two two things. So, if if uh the solar cell won't be visible while the banana is closed, then the material must be able to put the light inside, you know. So that we can reach the energy out of it out of that.
  Florence Smith: Mm.
  Dianne Dempsey: Mm.
  Florence Smith: So you're saying is it possible to have a solar cell and this removable cover
  Stacia Grant: It is
  Florence Smith: and
  Stacia Grant: possible, but, well if
  Florence Smith: And
  Stacia Grant: it
  Florence Smith: a and a banana.
  Dianne Dempsey: Mm.
  Stacia Grant: I dunno. I dunno how to how to do it if if t if to if it's better to put the solar cell to the t to the peeling or outside it,
  Leola Derrick: Hmm.
  Florence Smith: Yeah.
  Stacia Grant: or or inside. But then it must be some window there,
  Florence Smith: Okay.
  Stacia Grant: you know.
  Dianne Dempsey: Mm.
  Leola Derrick: And something we forgot, maybe, uh about the speech recognition system, are we going to use it, or not?
  Dianne Dempsey: Yes, I think.
  Florence Smith: I think
  Dianne Dempsey: I
  Florence Smith: it's
  Dianne Dempsey: think
  Florence Smith: important.
  Dianne Dempsey: so.
  Leola Derrick: It
  Florence Smith: I think
  Leola Derrick: i Yeah,
  Florence Smith: One
  Leola Derrick: it seems
  Florence Smith: of our
  Leola Derrick: feasible,
  Florence Smith: p
  Leola Derrick: and it
  Florence Smith: priorities
  Leola Derrick: would be
  Florence Smith: is
  Leola Derrick: something
  Florence Smith: tech
  Leola Derrick: very
  Florence Smith: technology.
  Leola Derrick: great.
  Dianne Dempsey: Mm.
  Florence Smith: And
  Leola Derrick: So we have the de design, the a good shape,
  Dianne Dempsey: Mm-hmm.
  Leola Derrick: new and so on, and we have also the technology thing w will be.
  Florence Smith: Mm-hmm.
  Leola Derrick: And
  Dianne Dempsey: Mm.
  Leola Derrick: even the easy to use thing, so it will be perfect.
  Dianne Dempsey: Mm.
  Leola Derrick: So
  Florence Smith: Yeah.
  Leola Derrick: we add also
  Stacia Grant: Yeah.
  Leola Derrick: the speech recognition device.
  Stacia Grant: I agree.
  Leola Derrick: So, that great. We have decided everything. And think we are on a good way. So, um uh the next meeting will start in thirty minutes. Um, so uh the the Industrial Manager uh will uh will work on the look and feel design. The User Interface uh uh Mana uh Manager will work on the user interface device. And the Florence Smith will do the first project evaluation.
  Florence Smith: Okay.
  Leola Derrick: So, I hope you can do that in thirty minutes. And uh, yeah, I uh I think you should work together, s you uh Hamed and Peter, to work uh in a in a first prototype, and uh more about the shape and so on and how you can manage to put everything together. And um as usual you will receive some specific instructions on. So
  Stacia Grant: Okay.
  Leola Derrick: thank you all everybody, and see you in thirty minutes.
  Florence Smith: Okay. Thank
  Stacia Grant: Okay.
  Florence Smith: you.
  Dianne Dempsey: Thank you.
Updated Content: Leola Derrick stated that the goal for the current meeting was to decide upon a concept for the remote the team is creating. Florence Smith discussed his findings from trend watching reports. He found that current trends are such that a product must have a fancy look and feel, be technologically innovative, be easy to use, incorporate a fruit and vegetable motif, and must be spongy. Dianne Dempsey discussed how to create an interface for a remote that is easy to use. Dianne Dempsey discussed the placement of commonly used buttons, the overall shape of a remote, and how to hide less commonly used buttons. Stacia Grant discussed various components and energy sources the remote could include. Stacia Grant focused on the use of a TFT screen and the use of solar cells to supplement the energy from two regular batteries. The team then discussed and made decisions regarding the option to use solar cells, the specifications of an LCD screen, how to incorporate a fruit and vegetable motif into their design, and how to hide lesser used buttons.