Extracted Content: Steven Malcomb: Yep. Soon as I get this.
  Steven Malcomb: Okay. This is our last meeting. Um I'll go ahead and go through the minutes from the previous meeting. Uh and then we'll have a, the prototype presentation. Um then we will um do an evaluation. Uh or we'll see what, what we need to have under the criteria for the evaluation. Then we'll go through the finance and see if we fall within the budget. Um then we'll do the evaluation, and then can finish up after that with um any changes that we'll need to make, or hopefully everything will fall right in line. Um let's see, minutes from the last meeting. Um we looked at uh the the trends. We had uh the fashion trends that people want a fancy look-and-feel. It was twice as important as anything else. Um they liked fruit and vegetables in the new styles. Um and a spongy feel. So we were talking about trying to incorporate those into our prototype. Um they wanted limited buttons and simplicity. Um then we looked at the uh the method for coming up with our own remote. Um looking at other other devices. Um the iPod, we really liked the look of that. Um we also had uh the kid's remote for a simple idea. Um a two part remote, which was what were were originally looking at. Uh and then um there was talk of spee uh speech recognition um becoming more uh predominant and easier to use. But I think we've still decided not to go with that. Then we looked at the components um the materials for the case, the different energy sources, the different types of chips, um and made a decision on what we were going to use to make our remote. Um and basically how, what were making for the prototype. So I'm going to leave it at that and let you guys take over.
  Michael Bell: The prototype discussion.
  Steven Malcomb: The prototype yeah. Do you need a this?
  Michael Bell: No.
  Steven Malcomb: Okay.
  Michael Bell: There
  Robert Mckenzie: Can try
  Michael Bell: is
  Robert Mckenzie: to
  Michael Bell: our
  Robert Mckenzie: plug
  Michael Bell: remo
  Robert Mckenzie: that in there but
  Michael Bell: the banana. Um yeah basically we we st went with the colour yellow. Um working on the principle of a fruit which was mentioned, it's basically designed around a banana. Um but it would be held in such a fashion, where it is, obviously it wouldn't be that floppy 'cause this would be hard plastic. These would be like the rubber, the rubber grips. So that's so that would help with grip, or like the ergonomics of it. Um but all the controlling would be done with this scroll wheel. You have to use your imagination a little bit. And this here represents the screen, where
  Steven Malcomb: Very
  Michael Bell: you,
  Steven Malcomb: nice.
  Michael Bell: where you'd go through. And the the simplest functions would be um almost identical to an iPod, where that one way ch through channels, that way th other way through channels. Volume up and down. And then to access the more complicated functions you'd you sorta go, you press that and go through the menus. It's that that simple. That just represents the infrared uh beam. That's a simple on and off switch. Um I don't know, we could use the voice. T that blue bits should be yellow, d that that'd be where the batteries would be I suppose. And um that's about it. It's as simple as you, we could make it really. Is there anything
  Robert Mckenzie: Right.
  Michael Bell: you want to add?
  Robert Mckenzie: That's what we have there. That's plastic. Plastic covered with rubber. We might uh add some more underneath here. Maybe give it, give it a form. I mean you're supposed to hold it like that, but um just if you grab it, take
  Michael Bell: Yeah.
  Robert Mckenzie: it from somewhere,
  Michael Bell: Doesn't make much
  Robert Mckenzie: so
  Steven Malcomb: Mm-hmm.
  Michael Bell: make
  Robert Mckenzie: yeah,
  Michael Bell: much difference. You
  Robert Mckenzie: you
  Michael Bell: could
  Robert Mckenzie: have
  Michael Bell: work
  Robert Mckenzie: some
  Michael Bell: left-handed
  Robert Mckenzie: rub
  Michael Bell: or right-handed
  Robert Mckenzie: yeah.
  Michael Bell: I suppose.
  Robert Mckenzie: Exactly, use both. Might as well
  Michael Bell: T the
  Robert Mckenzie: think
  Michael Bell: actual
  Robert Mckenzie: about
  Michael Bell: thing might be smaller.
  Robert Mckenzie: Th think about the button as
  Michael Bell: Yeah.
  Robert Mckenzie: well. put either one one on either side or
  Steven Malcomb: What but what's
  Robert Mckenzie: not
  Steven Malcomb: that
  Robert Mckenzie: do
  Steven Malcomb: button?
  Robert Mckenzie: it at all.
  Michael Bell: Just the on
  Robert Mckenzie: It's
  Michael Bell: and
  Robert Mckenzie: a quick
  Michael Bell: off.
  Steven Malcomb: Uh,
  Robert Mckenzie: on-off
  Steven Malcomb: 'kay.
  Robert Mckenzie: button. That's um yeah I think it's pretty important. So you don't have to fiddle with that.
  Steven Malcomb: 'Kay.
  Robert Mckenzie: Right? Um that's not um I'd say a bit smaller would probably be nice.
  Michael Bell: Yeah.
  Robert Mckenzie: You wanna play with that over there. There you go.
  Michael Bell: It's you know it's flimsy 'cause it's made out of heavy Play-Doh,
  Steven Malcomb: Would you like
  Michael Bell: but
  Robert Mckenzie: Right.
  Steven Malcomb: to uh
  Bryan Casella: Pretty impressive.
  Steven Malcomb: Well done.
  Bryan Casella: Kind.
  Michael Bell: And whether or not it would fall into the cost everything I suppose. With the scroll and the L_C_D_.
  Steven Malcomb: Well luckily we are going to find out. Or not luckily. Um do you have a
  Bryan Casella: I
  Steven Malcomb: marketing
  Bryan Casella: do.
  Steven Malcomb: presentation for us.
  Bryan Casella: Okay. You guys are gonna help Bryan Casella do an evaluation of the criteria. Um.
  Bryan Casella: Okay. So first I'll just discuss some of the criteria that I found. Just based on the past trend reports that I was looking at earlier. And then we'll do a group evaluation of the prototype. And then we will calculate the average score to see how we did.
  Bryan Casella: So we're gonna be doing it based on a seven point scale. And one is going to mean true, that we did actually achieve that. With seven being false, we did not achieve that.
  Bryan Casella: Okay. So for the first one, we need to decide, did we solved the problem of the users who complained about an ugly remote?
  Steven Malcomb: I think it's definitely
  Bryan Casella: Mm.
  Steven Malcomb: different than anything else
  Michael Bell: Yeah.
  Steven Malcomb: out there. So if they think that what is out there is ugly, then yes
  Michael Bell: I
  Steven Malcomb: I
  Michael Bell: would.
  Steven Malcomb: would say, I would say most definitely. It's bright.
  Michael Bell: It's bright. It's
  Steven Malcomb: It still has your traditional black.
  Michael Bell: It's curved. It's not there's no sharp angles to
  Steven Malcomb: Yep,
  Michael Bell: it.
  Steven Malcomb: not angular.
  Bryan Casella: Mm.
  Robert Mckenzie: I'd say, when it comes to the ergonomics, the form and stuff, yes that's definitely more beautiful than your average. However the colour,
  Bryan Casella: Yeah I think
  Robert Mckenzie: we
  Bryan Casella: the
  Robert Mckenzie: don't
  Bryan Casella: colours
  Robert Mckenzie: have a say
  Bryan Casella: detract
  Robert Mckenzie: in that.
  Bryan Casella: a little
  Michael Bell: Some people
  Bryan Casella: bit.
  Michael Bell: might
  Robert Mckenzie: That has
  Michael Bell: say
  Robert Mckenzie: been,
  Michael Bell: it. Yeah.
  Robert Mckenzie: that has been dictated
  Steven Malcomb: Mm.
  Robert Mckenzie: pretty much by the company. So
  Bryan Casella: That's true.
  Robert Mckenzie: uh
  Steven Malcomb: Yep.
  Robert Mckenzie: to answer that honestly I would rather say like uh, we have not solved the problem completely with
  Bryan Casella: Yeah.
  Robert Mckenzie: the ugly remote because the colour is ugly, definitely.
  Michael Bell: Yeah.
  Robert Mckenzie: 'S nothing you can say about that. I mean I much prefer something like brushed chrome
  Michael Bell: Yeah.
  Robert Mckenzie: with that form. But
  Steven Malcomb: Yeah something more modern to go
  Robert Mckenzie: Right.
  Steven Malcomb: a a modern colour to go with the modern form.
  Robert Mckenzie: Right. It's different. You don't want your uh three feet huge L_C_D_ dis display in your living room that's hanging from the wall to be controlled with something like that.
  Bryan Casella: Um okay so, do you think, since we This was a a sign criteria, do you think maybe we should put it somewhere in the middle then? Does
  Robert Mckenzie: Yeah.
  Bryan Casella: that sound good?
  Steven Malcomb: Yeah.
  Michael Bell: Yeah.
  Bryan Casella: What do you think? Three? Four?
  Steven Malcomb: I
  Bryan Casella: Five?
  Steven Malcomb: would say four.
  Bryan Casella: Four
  Robert Mckenzie: Yeah.
  Bryan Casella: is fair. Okay.
  Steven Malcomb: Very non-committal, four.
  Bryan Casella: Okay, the second one. Did we make it simple for new users?
  Robert Mckenzie: It's very intuitive, I think yeah.
  Michael Bell: Yeah. I think that was the main aim, one of the main aims that we had.
  Robert Mckenzie: S give it a one.
  Bryan Casella: One,
  Steven Malcomb: Yeah.
  Bryan Casella: 'kay. Okay. Um, do the controls now match the operating behaviour of the users?
  Michael Bell: Uh yeah.
  Bryan Casella: I'd
  Michael Bell: 'Cause
  Bryan Casella: say
  Michael Bell: we've
  Bryan Casella: that
  Michael Bell: we've brought it down to basically four controls most common, which
  Robert Mckenzie: Right.
  Michael Bell: are
  Steven Malcomb: Mm-hmm.
  Michael Bell: channel and volume. And then the other ones are just a matter of just going, just
  Steven Malcomb: S
  Michael Bell: scrolling further.
  Steven Malcomb: scrolling through and selecting
  Michael Bell: Yeah.
  Steven Malcomb: a few.
  Robert Mckenzie: Right.
  Bryan Casella: So one?
  Robert Mckenzie: So that's a one.
  Bryan Casella: Yeah?
  Steven Malcomb: I think that's a one.
  Bryan Casella: Okay. Okay um the fourth one. How about the problem of a remote being easily lost? One of the number one
  Robert Mckenzie: Something
  Bryan Casella: complaints.
  Robert Mckenzie: that big and that yellow you just don't lose anymore.
  Michael Bell: Yeah.
  Bryan Casella: Whether
  Michael Bell: It's
  Bryan Casella: you
  Michael Bell: bright
  Bryan Casella: want to
  Michael Bell: yellow.
  Bryan Casella: or not,
  Michael Bell: Bright
  Bryan Casella: you're
  Michael Bell: yellow's
  Bryan Casella: not
  Michael Bell: hard
  Bryan Casella: gonna
  Michael Bell: to
  Bryan Casella: lose
  Michael Bell: lose.
  Bryan Casella: it.
  Michael Bell: But um if we were to, if we were, that, the speech recognition. That, we could maybe just use that solely for the the finding thing. That was what we'd we'd mentioned.
  Steven Malcomb: So if we incorporate speech recognition into it then it
  Michael Bell: Just
  Steven Malcomb: could
  Michael Bell: just to use, to find it when it was lost. But like I said, like I
  Robert Mckenzie: Oops.
  Michael Bell: don't think you'd lose something so yellow so easily. And it's
  Robert Mckenzie: Hmm.
  Michael Bell: not gonna fall, like a rectangle would slip down behind things. That's gonna be a difficult shape to
  Robert Mckenzie: Well
  Steven Malcomb: And
  Robert Mckenzie: what
  Steven Malcomb: it is quite bright and
  Michael Bell: Yeah. Maybe in the middle again, three or four or something?
  Robert Mckenzie: S
  Bryan Casella: Okay.
  Steven Malcomb: Uh
  Michael Bell: I mean you know loo losing things is one of those things that people can lose,
  Steven Malcomb: Yeah.
  Michael Bell: I mean a million ways. You can pick it up and walk away with it and then you've lost it.
  Bryan Casella: That's true.
  Robert Mckenzie: Mm.
  Steven Malcomb: But if we do
  Bryan Casella: Mm.
  Steven Malcomb: go with the, with the speech recognition, then it, then our scale goes up quite a bit
  Robert Mckenzie: Oh
  Steven Malcomb: I
  Robert Mckenzie: yeah.
  Steven Malcomb: think.
  Michael Bell: Yeah.
  Robert Mckenzie: You probably
  Steven Malcomb: Probably two. You know. If we eliminate the fact that you know it's impossible to guarantee that it's not gonna be lost
  Michael Bell: Yeah.
  Steven Malcomb: then
  Robert Mckenzie: Mm.
  Steven Malcomb: I'd say two. With the speech recognition, which of course may be changed depending on budget.
  Michael Bell: Yeah.
  Robert Mckenzie: Y you could add an extra feature actually. Which makes this thing raise hell when you remove it too far from the television.
  Michael Bell: Yeah.
  Robert Mckenzie: We could add that but that's nothing we have thought of
  Steven Malcomb: Which,
  Robert Mckenzie: so far.
  Steven Malcomb: which may be cheaper than speech recognition if it
  Robert Mckenzie: Yes.
  Steven Malcomb: were just a
  Michael Bell: Yeah true. But
  Bryan Casella: Annoying
  Michael Bell: I mean d just
  Bryan Casella: alarm
  Michael Bell: those whistling,
  Bryan Casella: or something?
  Michael Bell: clapping
  Bryan Casella: Yeah.
  Robert Mckenzie: It's
  Michael Bell: key rings
  Robert Mckenzie: it's
  Michael Bell: you have. They're cheap. So it can't be that
  Robert Mckenzie: Um the it's based
  Michael Bell: expensive.
  Robert Mckenzie: on this anti anti-theft
  Steven Malcomb: Some sort of
  Michael Bell: Yeah.
  Robert Mckenzie: technology
  Steven Malcomb: proximity
  Robert Mckenzie: for suitcases and stuff, where you have one piece that's attached to your luggage, another piece that starts beeping. That can't cost much.
  Michael Bell: Yeah.
  Robert Mckenzie: So that can also easily be integrated because these things are small enough to to hide, so you have one piece, you have to glue somewhere behind
  Michael Bell: stick it
  Robert Mckenzie: your
  Michael Bell: on the T_V_.
  Robert Mckenzie: stick it behind your T_V_ and the other
  Steven Malcomb: Pray that you don't accidentally lose that piece.
  Robert Mckenzie: Right. That'd be tough then. Well also your remote would uh alarm you if somebody stole you t your television, yeah. Ran off with it without taking the beautiful remote control.
  Michael Bell: Yeah.
  Bryan Casella: So. Are we adding one of these two features?
  Robert Mckenzie: Let's
  Bryan Casella: gonna
  Robert Mckenzie: add
  Bryan Casella: say
  Robert Mckenzie: one of those features
  Bryan Casella: okay.
  Robert Mckenzie: and say yes.
  Steven Malcomb: Okay.
  Bryan Casella: So we're back to a one? Or a two?
  Michael Bell: Two.
  Robert Mckenzie: Two.
  Bryan Casella: Two,
  Steven Malcomb: Two.
  Bryan Casella: 'kay. Okay. Are we technologically innovative?
  Robert Mckenzie: Uh
  Michael Bell: I'd say so. Uh don't get many mo
  Robert Mckenzie: It's all
  Michael Bell: remote
  Robert Mckenzie: just
  Michael Bell: controls with screens on.
  Robert Mckenzie: It's all just stolen technology
  Michael Bell: Yeah
  Bryan Casella: From
  Michael Bell: it's stolen
  Bryan Casella: iPod
  Robert Mckenzie: when it
  Michael Bell: technology.
  Robert Mckenzie: comes
  Steven Malcomb: It's
  Bryan Casella: yeah.
  Robert Mckenzie: down to
  Michael Bell: But we have.
  Steven Malcomb: But
  Bryan Casella: But
  Steven Malcomb: there's
  Bryan Casella: for
  Steven Malcomb: not
  Bryan Casella: remotes
  Robert Mckenzie: right
  Steven Malcomb: a lot of yellow, there's
  Bryan Casella: yeah.
  Steven Malcomb: not a lotta yellow. Course
  Michael Bell: Fa
  Robert Mckenzie: right
  Steven Malcomb: that wasn't
  Robert Mckenzie: right
  Steven Malcomb: really
  Robert Mckenzie: right.
  Steven Malcomb: we were kinda forced to take that colour.
  Bryan Casella: Two? Three?
  Steven Malcomb: I don't know that we
  Michael Bell: 'cause it's
  Steven Malcomb: are
  Michael Bell: stolen.
  Steven Malcomb: that innovative,
  Michael Bell: No
  Steven Malcomb: to
  Michael Bell: maybe
  Steven Malcomb: tell you
  Michael Bell: not.
  Steven Malcomb: the
  Robert Mckenzie: Yeah
  Steven Malcomb: truth.
  Robert Mckenzie: not really.
  Bryan Casella: But how many remotes do you see like this? Not
  Steven Malcomb: If
  Bryan Casella: so
  Steven Malcomb: we
  Bryan Casella: many.
  Steven Malcomb: added the screaming factor then we go up.
  Robert Mckenzie: Right.
  Steven Malcomb: Um I would say we're probably at four.
  Bryan Casella: Really? Okay. That's gonna hurt us. Okay. Um spongy material?
  Robert Mckenzie: Yeah well you have that,
  Steven Malcomb: We have some spongy,
  Robert Mckenzie: kind
  Michael Bell: Yeah
  Robert Mckenzie: of,
  Michael Bell: as
  Steven Malcomb: yeah.
  Michael Bell: much as
  Robert Mckenzie: sort of.
  Michael Bell: as needed, I think.
  Bryan Casella: 'Kay.
  Robert Mckenzie: It's not a one though.
  Steven Malcomb: No.
  Robert Mckenzie: One would be the whole thing
  Steven Malcomb: Yeah. Because it's only got
  Robert Mckenzie: to fold and stuff.
  Steven Malcomb: what, these parts are the grips and perhaps the back side the
  Robert Mckenzie: Yeah.
  Steven Malcomb: bottom the underneath on
  Michael Bell: Yeah.
  Steven Malcomb: the back.
  Robert Mckenzie: So that's a four at
  Steven Malcomb: Probably
  Robert Mckenzie: most.
  Steven Malcomb: a four at most.
  Bryan Casella: And
  Steven Malcomb: Possibly
  Bryan Casella: lastly,
  Steven Malcomb: even a five.
  Bryan Casella: did we put the fashion in electronics?
  Robert Mckenzie: Y yes.
  Bryan Casella: I'd
  Michael Bell: Yeah.
  Bryan Casella: say we did.
  Steven Malcomb: If
  Robert Mckenzie: More
  Steven Malcomb: your fashion is b is Carmen Miranda, you betcha.
  Michael Bell: Yeah.
  Robert Mckenzie: Well the recent fashion is rather displayed in the
  Michael Bell: On the
  Robert Mckenzie: in the L_C_D_ and
  Steven Malcomb: It's
  Robert Mckenzie: the
  Steven Malcomb: true.
  Robert Mckenzie: way you operate it than
  Michael Bell: Yeah.
  Robert Mckenzie: the form and the colour, but it definitely is.
  Michael Bell: Be what we were told, and they'd say yeah, definitely.
  Bryan Casella: 'Kay. Alright. Now we just gotta calculate. Six eight twelve sixteen. Seventeen divided by s
  Steven Malcomb: Seven is
  Bryan Casella: Eight.
  Steven Malcomb: Two point
  Steven Malcomb: two point four?
  Michael Bell: Is that some long division? No.
  Bryan Casella: Well I haven't
  Steven Malcomb: Something.
  Bryan Casella: done math in years. What two I dunno.
  Michael Bell: Just, I'm sure there's a.
  Bryan Casella: Okay we'll say two point four two. Right? How does that look?
  Robert Mckenzie: I'm impressed. I can't do that without a calculator.
  Michael Bell: No I can't do long
  Bryan Casella: It's
  Michael Bell: very
  Bryan Casella: been
  Michael Bell: impressive.
  Bryan Casella: a while.
  Steven Malcomb: And what what is the acceptable criteria? Is there like a scale that we have to hit?
  Bryan Casella: Oh no. They just told Bryan Casella to pick my own criteria and have you guys evaluate it basically.
  Steven Malcomb: Alright then.
  Bryan Casella: So that's that.
  Steven Malcomb: Okay. Well, let's see. Now we get to do the budget numbers. You didn't know that you were gonna have a budget. But we do. Okay.
  Michael Bell: Yeah. Yeah so. You'd been going a long time dividing that. It's two point four two eight five se it just keeps going on.
  Bryan Casella: Oh my god. Okay.
  Michael Bell: Two point four two basically.
  Bryan Casella: Yeah we'll go with that. Not
  Steven Malcomb: So
  Bryan Casella: too shabby.
  Steven Malcomb: I have here
  Robert Mckenzie: Fifty
  Steven Malcomb: an
  Robert Mckenzie: percent, you're kidding.
  Steven Malcomb: Yeah.
  Robert Mckenzie: P
  Steven Malcomb: We want a fifty percent profit on this. Oh you can't really see that very well.
  Michael Bell: Charge about three hundred quid for it.
  Steven Malcomb: Twelve and a half Euros is what supposed to cost us. Okay, so
  Robert Mckenzie: It's too much.
  Steven Malcomb: Well let's
  Robert Mckenzie: Um
  Steven Malcomb: see. The f the Wonder if I can make this
  Robert Mckenzie: Uh
  Steven Malcomb: What the
  Steven Malcomb: Oh it won't let Bryan Casella do that. Okay. Alright so at top, I don't know if you guys can read that or not. I can't 'cause I don't have my glasses on, but so we've got the energy source. There's uh
  Robert Mckenzie: Battery.
  Steven Malcomb: four, five, six categories. We have energy source, electronics, case. supplements, interface type, and then button supplements. Okay so Uh first of all energy source, we picked battery. Um and how many batteries do we think this will probably take? Probably some e either two or four.
  Robert Mckenzie: Two.
  Steven Malcomb: Two? Like it.
  Robert Mckenzie: At four it's gonna be too heavy, so that that's not our problem. People can change it every month. They won't
  Steven Malcomb: Excellent.
  Robert Mckenzie: know until after they bought it.
  Steven Malcomb: This is consumerism. Alright so for the electronics our choices are simpl simple chip-on-print, regular chip-on-print, advanced chip-on-print, sample sensor, sample speaker.
  Michael Bell: We're advanced chip are we?
  Robert Mckenzie: That's the advanced chip-on-print, yeah.
  Steven Malcomb: 'Kay, we have one of those. 'Kay then the case is a Probably it's double
  Robert Mckenzie: Double
  Steven Malcomb: curved.
  Robert Mckenzie: curved, yes.
  Steven Malcomb: Case materials are
  Robert Mckenzie: Plastic.
  Steven Malcomb: plastic. Um I guess it's two, since one for the top, one for the bottom.
  Robert Mckenzie: N
  Steven Malcomb: Is that right or is
  Robert Mckenzie: no.
  Steven Malcomb: it just one?
  Robert Mckenzie: No that's just
  Steven Malcomb: Maybe
  Robert Mckenzie: one.
  Steven Malcomb: it's one because of the
  Robert Mckenzie: It's just one mo single mould, we can do that.
  Steven Malcomb: 'Kay.
  Michael Bell: Yeah yeah.
  Bryan Casella: Right.
  Steven Malcomb: I guess it doesn't matter 'cause the price on that one is zero, which
  Robert Mckenzie: Exactly,
  Steven Malcomb: is nice.
  Bryan Casella: Oh.
  Robert Mckenzie: right.
  Steven Malcomb: Special colour?
  Robert Mckenzie: That's not a special colour.
  Bryan Casella: Bright
  Robert Mckenzie: It's
  Bryan Casella: yellow.
  Robert Mckenzie: a specially ugly colour, but it's not special.
  Steven Malcomb: Interface type. We have pushbutton,
  Michael Bell: S
  Steven Malcomb: scroll-wheel interface,
  Robert Mckenzie: S
  Steven Malcomb: integrated scroll-wheel pushbutton, and
  Michael Bell: That's
  Steven Malcomb: an L_C_D_ display.
  Michael Bell: Yeah.
  Steven Malcomb: So we actually have the L_C_D_ display
  Michael Bell: And then
  Steven Malcomb: and then is it the integrated or
  Michael Bell: I'd
  Steven Malcomb: is
  Michael Bell: say
  Steven Malcomb: it
  Michael Bell: the integrated.
  Robert Mckenzie: Yes
  Steven Malcomb: Yeah.
  Robert Mckenzie: unfortunately.
  Steven Malcomb: 'Kay. Button supplement? Special colour?
  Michael Bell: Mm.
  Steven Malcomb: Um special form? Special material.
  Robert Mckenzie: We could of course make the buttons wood. Say mahogany or so
  Bryan Casella: It'd look really lovely.
  Steven Malcomb: Or titanium.
  Robert Mckenzie: Mm-hmm or titanium.
  Bryan Casella: Yeah.
  Steven Malcomb: They cost us all the same.
  Michael Bell: remote control.
  Robert Mckenzie: Uh
  Steven Malcomb: Well
  Robert Mckenzie: just
  Steven Malcomb: we only have one button so really we shouldn't be charged, we
  Michael Bell: No
  Steven Malcomb: shouldn't
  Michael Bell: that's
  Steven Malcomb: be
  Michael Bell: getting
  Steven Malcomb: charged
  Michael Bell: a bit
  Steven Malcomb: anything for
  Michael Bell: tiny.
  Steven Malcomb: the the button supplements. Um
  Michael Bell: Yeah. I'd ignore that.
  Bryan Casella: Leave it blank.
  Steven Malcomb: Okay. We're gonna leave that one blank because we run on a L_C_D_ and scroll. So our total is fifteen point five. Which I believe
  Robert Mckenzie: Yeah that's too much.
  Steven Malcomb: is by three Euros over.
  Robert Mckenzie: It's hard to believe. So we'll go for the hand dynamo huh?
  Steven Malcomb: So the only thing better than um
  Michael Bell: If
  Steven Malcomb: a banana-shaped
  Michael Bell: it w
  Steven Malcomb: remote is one that you shake.
  Michael Bell: What if we completely took out the the one single button we've got on. And just had a scroll wheel interface. And the L_C_D_ display. I suppose the L_C_D_ C_ display's the one that's pushing it up a bit though.
  Steven Malcomb: Yeah 'cause the Well 'cause we have to have both right?
  Michael Bell: Yeah.
  Robert Mckenzie: I mean let's let's face it, it also depends on the software on the
  Michael Bell: Yeah.
  Robert Mckenzie: on the television. You can have the the information that this thing transmits be being displayed on the on the screen.
  Steven Malcomb: Mm-hmm.
  Robert Mckenzie: So s yeah let's take
  Michael Bell: Yeah
  Robert Mckenzie: away the
  Michael Bell: you could maybe take out the L_C_D_ dis display
  Robert Mckenzie: Yeah.
  Michael Bell: even,
  Robert Mckenzie: Yeah.
  Michael Bell: if it if it comes up on the computer itsel on the T_V_ itself.
  Robert Mckenzie: Right.
  Steven Malcomb: So we may not need the L_C_D_ display?
  Michael Bell: Uh that is possible yeah.
  Robert Mckenzie: Right. We may not need it. There you go.
  Steven Malcomb: Well there
  Robert Mckenzie: Perfect.
  Steven Malcomb: we go.
  Michael Bell: There we go.
  Steven Malcomb: Twelve
  Bryan Casella: Perfect.
  Steven Malcomb: point five. Okay. So we just remove our
  Michael Bell: Screen.
  Steven Malcomb: screen here.
  Michael Bell: Make it a bigger dial. Easier to use. Even easier to use then.
  Steven Malcomb: Besides look at what the L_C_D_ does to our lovely remote.
  Robert Mckenzie: Okay, the
  Steven Malcomb: Back to the design room boys.
  Robert Mckenzie: So we can just take away a heck of a lot of the there you go.
  Bryan Casella: What's the blue part?
  Robert Mckenzie: central?
  Michael Bell: That was just
  Bryan Casella: Oh that's
  Robert Mckenzie: Oh that's
  Bryan Casella: the
  Michael Bell: we
  Bryan Casella: batteries.
  Robert Mckenzie: just
  Michael Bell: ran out of yellow.
  Robert Mckenzie: yeah.
  Bryan Casella: Okay.
  Robert Mckenzie: There you go.
  Michael Bell: There you go.
  Robert Mckenzie: Oops.
  Michael Bell: Even simpler.
  Bryan Casella: Looks more like a banana.
  Michael Bell: Yeah. For all those
  Robert Mckenzie: There
  Michael Bell: fruit
  Robert Mckenzie: you go.
  Michael Bell: lovers
  Robert Mckenzie: One more
  Michael Bell: out
  Robert Mckenzie: criteria.
  Michael Bell: there.
  Steven Malcomb: Okay so the costs under twelve point five Euro. Was no. We redesigned it.
  Michael Bell: Yeah.
  Steven Malcomb: Now it's yes. Next slide. Project evaluation. Uh project process, satisfaction with, for example, room for creativity, leadership, teamwork, means, new ideas found. Um So I guess that Let's see here.
  Steven Malcomb: I think that perhaps the project evaluation's just supposed to be completed by Bryan Casella. But I'd like to hear your thoughts.
  Bryan Casella: Trying to fill in some
  Robert Mckenzie: Fair
  Bryan Casella: time
  Robert Mckenzie: enough.
  Bryan Casella: there.
  Steven Malcomb: Uh h what did you think of our project process?
  Robert Mckenzie: Great.
  Michael Bell: we did yeah I think we did quite well.
  Robert Mckenzie: Yeah.
  Michael Bell: Um
  Steven Malcomb: Good.
  Bryan Casella: Good teamwork.
  Robert Mckenzie: Just half a day, you have a remote.
  Michael Bell: Yeah.
  Robert Mckenzie: There you go.
  Michael Bell: Right from the start of the day.
  Steven Malcomb: Yeah I
  Michael Bell: We
  Steven Malcomb: think
  Michael Bell: sort of knew where we were going straight away I thought.
  Steven Malcomb: we st we started off a little little weak. Our leadership was quite weak in the beginning. Um um But as the day went along we had more idea of what we were doing. Um room for creativity? There was that. Um I think we tried a lotta different things and um I think it was um interesting as you guys brought up more um information and studies that we were right on with a lot of those things. Um you guys worked together well as a team. And um the means? Which
  Michael Bell: Yeah.
  Steven Malcomb: was the whiteboard
  Michael Bell: We've
  Steven Malcomb: and
  Michael Bell: used
  Steven Malcomb: the pens.
  Michael Bell: the whiteboard.
  Robert Mckenzie: Super super.
  Steven Malcomb: I had some problem with the pen I think,
  Bryan Casella: Minus
  Steven Malcomb: but
  Bryan Casella: your PowerPoint fiasco.
  Robert Mckenzie: Well
  Steven Malcomb: minus your
  Robert Mckenzie: that's
  Steven Malcomb: p
  Robert Mckenzie: not my fault. That's
  Bryan Casella: No
  Robert Mckenzie: obviously
  Bryan Casella: I know.
  Robert Mckenzie: the
  Bryan Casella: I'm
  Robert Mckenzie: people I work for uh
  Bryan Casella: yeah.
  Steven Malcomb: Well
  Robert Mckenzie: that work
  Bryan Casella: Incom
  Robert Mckenzie: for Bryan Casella, uh they've just you know
  Steven Malcomb: Have a
  Robert Mckenzie: are gonna roll, believe
  Steven Malcomb: we
  Robert Mckenzie: Bryan Casella.
  Steven Malcomb: have a list of employees that you would like fired.
  Robert Mckenzie: Yes yes.
  Steven Malcomb: Okay. N new ideas found? Um
  Bryan Casella: Mm. Kinda.
  Steven Malcomb: Yes for the remote. Maybe no not f for
  Michael Bell: Technology used.
  Steven Malcomb: technology. Alright. Closing. Costs are within the budget. Project is evaluated. Um complete the final questionnaire and meeting summary. That's it.
  Michael Bell: Excellent.
  Steven Malcomb: And I still have to do my minutes for the last meeting. Actually. Um so there will probably be another questionnaire coming up.
  Bryan Casella: We might have
  Steven Malcomb: And
  Bryan Casella: a while
  Steven Malcomb: then we'll have
  Bryan Casella: though.
  Steven Malcomb: to check with the main boss whether we can, what goes on after that. But that's the end of our meeting.
Updated Content: Steven Malcomb opened the meeting and read the minutes of the previous meeting. Robert Mckenzie and user interface designer presented the prototype they created, which was designed to look like a banana. Bryan Casella conducted an evaluation of the prototype. The team found that, although the overall design of the prototype was attractive, its yellow color was ugly. The team rated the prototype highly on its ease of use and felt that its yellow color and shape detracted slightly from its ability to be misplaced and that a feature which causes the remote to make noise based on its proximity to a television needed to be added. The team thought the prototype was fashionable and not technologically innovative or spongy. Steven Malcomb led the team in calculating the production costs of the remote and ensuring that they aligned with the project budget. The costs were over budget, so the team opted to exclude the LCD from their design to meet their budget. The team conducted an evaluation of the project process and found that they performed well and were somewhat satisfied by the resources available to them.