Extracted Content: Helen Rael: I dunno. Throwing away my toothpick.
  Jodi Austin: Hi there.
  Therese Speis: Yo. Ow.
  Helen Rael: 'Kay.
  Therese Speis: Uh
  Helen Rael: Nice user interface.
  Therese Speis: Yeah. What the Uh Yeah well, ja well let's just start.
  Helen Rael: 'Kay.
  Therese Speis: I've uh made a presentation
  Helen Rael: Right let's
  Therese Speis: uh
  Helen Rael: see it.
  Therese Speis: but uh I'll open it on the Smartboard, so we can all see it. So it's in the project documents because that's what we can find here. Well. Very nice. Well this is called the the the kick-off meeting. So uh I'm Therese Speis, so I had to fill it in,
  Helen Rael: 'Kay.
  Therese Speis: and uh hmm. Oh sorry. And an uh a nice agenda. Uh we'll do the opening and then uh we'll meet each other, what uh we already do, so, that's not uh very much trouble. I'll I'll show you the the tools we have here, so that we can all use them. Then uh we'll look at the project plan from uh Real Reaction. We'll discuss about our first ideas about the project, and then uh we'll close the meeting, and then we can uh individually uh do our things and then uh we'll get back here. So this the opening we'll uh We have to uh design a new television remote control. You have heard that uh already I think, so.
  Helen Rael: Mm-hmm.
  Therese Speis: Um we want it to be original, so a nice uh a nice new design. Uh trendy, it's also for young people, and we have to just uh make it uh modern. And uh friendly, so size does matter. And uh Well it has to be a have the the right uh the right buttons on the right place, that kin
  Terri Williams: Mm-hmm.
  Therese Speis: those kind of things. Other uh There happen to be uh three stages. functional, conceptual, and d detailed design. Um so every time we we'll do some individual work, get meeting, talk about it, uh and then go into the next phase. That's just it. Um We have uh these two Smartboards. Um well as I just showed, there's a project management folder, a project document folder on the desktop. It just works exactly the same as a computer. You just uh click on the on the folder and you open the everything you you put in it with your laptop. So you can uh make uh Words Excel, everything. Um and the w the r uh the rest uh also works the same so uh when you open a notepad you uh you just get your uh things, you can uh draw. This is a uh well a drawing board. you have a these different uh functions on the board. You can see them there. So you have a a nice pen, and it's works just like a bal ball pen. This is just a. I want to uh Oh yeah. Of course w doesn't work any more.
  Terri Williams: Maybe you should try write on the on the big uh Does it? Yeah.
  Therese Speis: Yes I
  Terri Williams: It
  Therese Speis: will
  Terri Williams: works.
  Therese Speis: eraser so. It's
  Terri Williams: Wonderful.
  Therese Speis: fantas fantastic. We can uh uh well you can save a file. So if uh we draw we have to save everything. Don't throw anything away.
  Terri Williams: Mm-hmm.
  Therese Speis: Uh just we can start a new one, and we just go on, and don't throw anything away. Just uh let them all uh stand here. We can delete, but we don't do that. Um you can here select a pen, you can draw anything you want. It's a bit uh childish you have to write. It's not as fast as you w you know it, but it does work sometimes. Well it's just like a normal uh paint. So it's gone.
  Terri Williams: Alright, yep.
  Therese Speis: Well we are designers, so we have to have a a more uh a Smartboard. So that's fantastic. Um well this uh speaks for itself. We going to try it. So um we all uh are going to uh draw a nice animal on this board, not my idea.
  Helen Rael: Alright, your favourite animal?
  Therese Speis: Yes our your favourite. So um I'm to going to have to draw a kangaroo, but I'm going d I'm not going to. I'm just uh going to uh well draw a nice uh beast w I dunno
  Helen Rael: Grizzly
  Therese Speis: what I'm going
  Helen Rael: bear.
  Therese Speis: to design. Oh um doesn't
  Terri Williams: I hope
  Therese Speis: oh.
  Terri Williams: this was part of the
  Therese Speis: Yeah,
  Terri Williams: assignment
  Therese Speis: 'kay.
  Terri Williams: and not uh your uh
  Therese Speis: Hmm?
  Terri Williams: I hope this was part of the assignment and not uh your personal uh enjoyment.
  Therese Speis: I just said it's
  Helen Rael: Yeah.
  Therese Speis: not my idea but I am Therese Speis, and officially this is my idea.
  Terri Williams: I I
  Therese Speis: So
  Terri Williams: I I understand.
  Helen Rael: We're kinda
  Terri Williams: Alright.
  Helen Rael: losing time, though.
  Therese Speis: what?
  Helen Rael: We're losing time,
  Therese Speis: Ah
  Helen Rael: but
  Terri Williams: so start
  Therese Speis: the first the first meeting is just a bit uh loose,
  Helen Rael: Alright.
  Therese Speis: loosen up, a bit uh meeting each other well uh uh
  Terri Williams: Yep
  Therese Speis: nice yeah.
  Terri Williams: yes.
  Therese Speis: Sh I hope our Industrial Designer does this better because uh this is
  Terri Williams: Don't
  Therese Speis: uh
  Terri Williams: count it
  Therese Speis: No so a a few
  Helen Rael: Do
  Therese Speis: legs.
  Helen Rael: we have to guess? A
  Therese Speis: Yes yes guess.
  Helen Rael: hippo?
  Therese Speis: Well
  Terri Williams: I
  Therese Speis: I should make it an hippo now.
  Helen Rael: Yeah.
  Terri Williams: think it's a mouse or a rat.
  Therese Speis: No I don't think so.
  Terri Williams: Oh. Oh I know it.
  Therese Speis: Well what is it, huh?
  Terri Williams: It's
  Helen Rael: I
  Terri Williams: a
  Helen Rael: don't
  Terri Williams: hedgehog.
  Helen Rael: know how to call it.
  Therese Speis: Yeah
  Helen Rael: A hedgehog?
  Therese Speis: difficult English word. I didn't knew it myself.
  Terri Williams: Well I'm amazed uh about your uh drawing skills.
  Therese Speis: Our characteristics sum it up. Well it's uh very uh painful those kind of thing. So we can uh just uh
  Terri Williams: Yeah.
  Therese Speis: We're going back and now uh our Industrial Designer can
  Helen Rael: Alright.
  Therese Speis: uh draw its
  Terri Williams: I
  Therese Speis: uh
  Terri Williams: am the Industrial
  Therese Speis: most
  Terri Williams: Designer.
  Therese Speis: favourite animal. Huh.
  Terri Williams: Chief, I am Terri Williams.
  Therese Speis: Oh uh but this uh marketing designer.
  Terri Williams: Yeah. I think It's pr it resembles the animal drawn by.
  Helen Rael: It's.
  Therese Speis: what kind of animal is that then?
  Terri Williams: I think can I say it?
  Helen Rael: Yeah sure. It's a rabbit. Well Looks very nice, right?
  Therese Speis: Yeah.
  Terri Williams: It looks amazing.
  Therese Speis: No no no. What are you going to do?
  Jodi Austin: We want to erase it.
  Therese Speis: No no. No no save it and start a new uh save it
  Helen Rael: Yes.
  Terri Williams: These are very
  Therese Speis: and start
  Terri Williams: impor
  Therese Speis: a new black uh doc a
  Terri Williams: These
  Therese Speis: blank
  Terri Williams: are very
  Therese Speis: document.
  Terri Williams: important documents, of course, uh these drawings,
  Therese Speis: Yeah well we have
  Terri Williams: uh
  Helen Rael: Yes
  Therese Speis: to save
  Helen Rael: uh
  Therese Speis: everything so now
  Helen Rael: right.
  Therese Speis: um the next one uh
  Helen Rael: You go man.
  Therese Speis: and then save
  Jodi Austin: Thanks.
  Therese Speis: it and start an blank document. Yeah. There's also different colours and different uh well pen widths uh the line the the thickness thickness. So
  Helen Rael: Alright.
  Therese Speis: um well you should uh try it but uh
  Helen Rael: I should have made mine a white rabbit.
  Therese Speis: Well y y y you could have but uh.
  Terri Williams: And he deliberately
  Therese Speis: It
  Terri Williams: draws
  Therese Speis: speaks for
  Terri Williams: a
  Therese Speis: itself.
  Terri Williams: animal we don't know the English word for.
  Therese Speis: What the
  Terri Williams: It looks like an uh
  Therese Speis: uh just a duck.
  Terri Williams: It looks like that beast from Sesame Street.
  Therese Speis: Nice.
  Terri Williams: Yeah.
  Jodi Austin: Big bird.
  Therese Speis: Is
  Helen Rael: You're
  Therese Speis: it
  Helen Rael: standing
  Therese Speis: a duck?
  Helen Rael: in front
  Terri Williams: It's
  Helen Rael: of it, I
  Terri Williams: it's
  Helen Rael: can't see
  Terri Williams: uh
  Therese Speis: Is it a plane?
  Helen Rael: it. Alright, thank you. Yeah it's a bird, but what kind of bird?
  Therese Speis: It doesn't draw uh
  Terri Williams: Do we have
  Therese Speis: circles
  Terri Williams: to uh
  Therese Speis: uh that easy uh.
  Helen Rael: You have to push harder.
  Therese Speis: Yeah
  Jodi Austin: Mm.
  Therese Speis: just a bit a bit childish, a bit.
  Terri Williams: But we have uh
  Helen Rael: Release
  Terri Williams: do
  Helen Rael: your anger.
  Terri Williams: we have to name the specific species of the bird?
  Jodi Austin: Uh
  Terri Williams: No?
  Jodi Austin: no I don't. It's just a bird.
  Terri Williams: Well
  Therese Speis: Well
  Terri Williams: wonderful.
  Therese Speis: uh save the document and then uh And then a a new blank document for. uh will uh
  Jodi Austin: Here
  Therese Speis: choose
  Jodi Austin: you go.
  Therese Speis: a new colour and a new pen width so w
  Terri Williams: Why
  Therese Speis: we can
  Terri Williams: do
  Therese Speis: all
  Terri Williams: I
  Therese Speis: see
  Terri Williams: have to
  Therese Speis: it.
  Terri Williams: do the difficult tasks? Uh
  Therese Speis: No well first
  Terri Williams: pen
  Therese Speis: yeah.
  Terri Williams: yeah that's.
  Therese Speis: And then you go to format I think,
  Terri Williams: Uh current
  Therese Speis: and
  Terri Williams: colour.
  Therese Speis: current colour you choose a new colour. And
  Terri Williams: I
  Therese Speis: a
  Terri Williams: like
  Therese Speis: new
  Terri Williams: uh
  Jodi Austin: Mm.
  Terri Williams: oh they don't have pink. Oh b oh think this
  Therese Speis: pen
  Terri Williams: is uh
  Therese Speis: width uh also format. It's not like in paint.
  Terri Williams: Uh? Uh
  Therese Speis: Line width. And you can choose
  Terri Williams: Line
  Therese Speis: a nice
  Terri Williams: width.
  Therese Speis: one.
  Jodi Austin: Width.
  Therese Speis: Width width.
  Terri Williams: Uh
  Therese Speis: With each other.
  Terri Williams: fifteen. And
  Jodi Austin: Hmm.
  Terri Williams: I can draw?
  Therese Speis: Yeah. So. Just
  Terri Williams: Uh
  Therese Speis: a wa that's the way we do it's quite easy.
  Helen Rael: Hmm.
  Therese Speis: Mm-hmm.
  Jodi Austin: It's a pussy cat.
  Helen Rael: It's a cat.
  Therese Speis: Oh Pussy.
  Terri Williams: Oh the line width is too thick, but oh
  Therese Speis: Well
  Terri Williams: well.
  Therese Speis: then you change it. And erase things.
  Terri Williams: Uh.
  Therese Speis: What?
  Helen Rael: It's a pig.
  Terri Williams: It smiles nicely.
  Therese Speis: Super pig.
  Terri Williams: Now I have to change the line width. Uh one.
  Therese Speis: So
  Terri Williams: These are whiskers, you know.
  Therese Speis: Yeah yeah yeah
  Helen Rael: Right.
  Therese Speis: we know.
  Terri Williams: Uh well I think it's obvious right now.
  Therese Speis: Yes alright. It's a cat.
  Helen Rael: No it looks great.
  Terri Williams: Miaow. Well if this isn't obvious
  Therese Speis: Well well um
  Helen Rael: Just save it.
  Therese Speis: Yeah
  Terri Williams: I'll
  Therese Speis: save
  Terri Williams: save
  Therese Speis: it
  Terri Williams: it alright uh save.
  Therese Speis: and start a new blank document.
  Terri Williams: Uh yeah uh blank.
  Therese Speis: Yep. So that's uh what we're going to use when we uh need it.
  Terri Williams: Well
  Helen Rael: Oh great.
  Terri Williams: I feel comfortable
  Therese Speis: Well
  Terri Williams: now. Thanks for
  Therese Speis: it's
  Terri Williams: this
  Therese Speis: terrific,
  Terri Williams: exercise.
  Therese Speis: eh?
  Helen Rael: It's good
  Terri Williams: I feel
  Helen Rael: for group spirit.
  Terri Williams: totally at ease.
  Therese Speis: Yeah
  Jodi Austin: It
  Therese Speis: that's it.
  Jodi Austin: certainly is.
  Therese Speis: We're one big happy family now.
  Terri Williams: Yeah something like that.
  Therese Speis: Well then uh the serious uh stuff. We're we want to sell it at twenty five Euros internationally um so um but we dunno what exactly th i it is in dollars, but uh twenty five Euros. Our profit aim is, worldwide, fifty million Euros.
  Terri Williams: So
  Therese Speis: So I didn't uh exactly uh calculate how much we have to sell. we want to keep it our costs at twelve and a half Euros so, keep uh that in mind when we uh talk about our uh materials an f and stuff,
  Helen Rael: Right.
  Terri Williams: Alright.
  Therese Speis: and uh marketing uh research. Now then we all uh we can uh sit down and discuss uh what do we think about our current remote controls, first about design uh about uh aim in the market etcetera?
  Helen Rael: Right.
  Therese Speis: Well uh we c we can sit down uh because uh presentation can wait. We can uh take notes and uh Well who has uh some uh remarks about the current uh remote controls?
  Terri Williams: Well
  Therese Speis: Please?
  Terri Williams: I I didn't have to prepare anything about uh
  Therese Speis: No uh
  Terri Williams: it's
  Therese Speis: I
  Terri Williams: not,
  Therese Speis: did.
  Terri Williams: it's it's not my task to uh talk about uh experience with current remote controls, but uh
  Therese Speis: Well uh just w we're uh four uh if
  Helen Rael: I think
  Therese Speis: we if
  Helen Rael: it's
  Therese Speis: we would
  Helen Rael: im
  Therese Speis: just have one then
  Helen Rael: it's important to uh look at uh the remote controls of our competitors.
  Therese Speis: Yeah.
  Helen Rael: Get the good points uh try to merge them into one universal remote control.
  Therese Speis: Yeah yeah.
  Helen Rael: On our corporate site I saw uh a new D_V_D_ player uh we're gonna produce.
  Therese Speis: Yep.
  Helen Rael: Maybe it's important
  Therese Speis: That's alright.
  Helen Rael: to make it compatible with the D_V_D_ player
  Therese Speis: That would be a nice idea, yes.
  Helen Rael: so you can uh use your television and your D_V_D_ player with the same uh remote
  Therese Speis: Yep
  Helen Rael: control.
  Therese Speis: yep yep.
  Helen Rael: Furthermore it's important to make it uh acceptable for the whole world, for different cultures, maybe, because we want to we want to well fifty million?
  Therese Speis: Yes fifty
  Terri Williams: Mm-hmm.
  Therese Speis: million is our aim to
  Helen Rael: Yeah
  Therese Speis: a profit,
  Helen Rael: yeah
  Therese Speis: so.
  Helen Rael: so a lot of people have to be able to use it.
  Terri Williams: No but
  Helen Rael: So
  Terri Williams: uh the
  Jodi Austin: Easy
  Terri Williams: b
  Jodi Austin: to
  Terri Williams: the
  Jodi Austin: learn.
  Terri Williams: buttons have to
  Helen Rael: Yeah.
  Terri Williams: uh have to have uh international recognisable buttons and uh
  Helen Rael: Yeah that's right.
  Jodi Austin: Yeah.
  Therese Speis: Yes.
  Terri Williams: and numbers and uh that every culture in uh, yeah, people in every
  Jodi Austin: Yeah.
  Terri Williams: country can recognise.
  Therese Speis: I'll make uh notes and then uh maybe uh well I'll put it in the project uh folder when I'm done uh
  Helen Rael: Mm-hmm.
  Therese Speis: just now.
  Terri Williams: Alright.
  Jodi Austin: I also
  Therese Speis: Well
  Jodi Austin: think
  Helen Rael: Right.
  Jodi Austin: we should
  Therese Speis: yeah?
  Jodi Austin: not add too many buttons. Modern
  Therese Speis: No
  Jodi Austin: day uh remotes have
  Therese Speis: that's right. Y
  Jodi Austin: too
  Therese Speis: y
  Jodi Austin: much
  Therese Speis: you
  Jodi Austin: buttons
  Therese Speis: don't use
  Jodi Austin: I think.
  Therese Speis: uh the half of them that's that's
  Jodi Austin: Precisely.
  Therese Speis: culture uh international.
  Helen Rael: Maybe we could make one button to switch between D_V_D_ player and T_V_
  Jodi Austin: Yeah.
  Helen Rael: and make the other buttons uh multi-functional or something.
  Jodi Austin: Yeah
  Therese Speis: Yes.
  Terri Williams: Yeah so
  Jodi Austin: indeed.
  Terri Williams: it doesn't uh become too complicated with too much buttons
  Helen Rael: Yeah
  Terri Williams: and
  Helen Rael: right.
  Terri Williams: uh
  Therese Speis: Yep, and maybe we do uh we even have uh more than just a D_V_D_ player. Don't we have uh other uh
  Jodi Austin: Yeah
  Therese Speis: ou
  Jodi Austin: we should make it compatible
  Terri Williams: And stereo
  Therese Speis: Uh.
  Jodi Austin: perhaps with everything
  Terri Williams: uh s
  Jodi Austin: we use,
  Terri Williams: uh
  Therese Speis: We also
  Terri Williams: audio
  Jodi Austin: we
  Therese Speis: uh
  Jodi Austin: uh
  Therese Speis: just
  Terri Williams: installations.
  Jodi Austin: we make?
  Therese Speis: uh released a T_F_T_ uh
  Helen Rael: Yeah so
  Therese Speis: thing
  Helen Rael: but
  Therese Speis: I saw.
  Helen Rael: th that's kind kind of standard T_ television
  Therese Speis: Yeah.
  Helen Rael: so
  Jodi Austin: Yeah.
  Helen Rael: it also works on that.
  Therese Speis: Yep.
  Jodi Austin: And I think the people who who will buy our uh remote already have some experience with remotes. So we can keep
  Terri Williams: Most
  Jodi Austin: that in
  Terri Williams: people
  Jodi Austin: mind.
  Terri Williams: do, yeah.
  Therese Speis: Well yeah.
  Terri Williams: It doesn't it
  Therese Speis: It doesn't
  Terri Williams: doesn't
  Therese Speis: have
  Terri Williams: have to
  Therese Speis: to
  Terri Williams: be
  Therese Speis: be, but
  Jodi Austin: W
  Therese Speis: we can.
  Jodi Austin: well it's a n it's a new remote and you don't buy a remote if you don't have anything to uh
  Therese Speis: Well
  Jodi Austin: to control with it.
  Therese Speis: except
  Helen Rael: Yeah but
  Therese Speis: if we deliver it together with
  Terri Williams: Yeah.
  Therese Speis: our D_V_D_.
  Jodi Austin: Yeah alright,
  Helen Rael: We need to
  Jodi Austin: but
  Helen Rael: to keep it consistent with other d uh
  Therese Speis: Yeah
  Terri Williams: Well.
  Therese Speis: because we look at competitors and w if we pick up the good things about that and give it a nice design
  Terri Williams: Hmm.
  Helen Rael: Yeah but it's
  Terri Williams: It
  Helen Rael: it
  Terri Williams: has to be
  Helen Rael: has
  Terri Williams: different
  Helen Rael: to be
  Terri Williams: and
  Helen Rael: useable.
  Terri Williams: familiar at the same time.
  Therese Speis: Yes.
  Helen Rael: Yeah.
  Jodi Austin: Yeah. Yeah we could use
  Therese Speis: Yep.
  Jodi Austin: another form or shape or colour,
  Terri Williams: yeah
  Jodi Austin: that
  Terri Williams: the shape
  Jodi Austin: kind of
  Terri Williams: will
  Jodi Austin: things.
  Terri Williams: will have to be recognised. I thought about uh like most uh remote controls uh are uh a long box shaped thing
  Therese Speis: Yeah.
  Terri Williams: you can make it uh triangle shaped, but that's
  Jodi Austin: Well
  Terri Williams: not
  Jodi Austin: we
  Terri Williams: uh
  Jodi Austin: we
  Terri Williams: very
  Jodi Austin: could
  Therese Speis: Oo
  Jodi Austin: make
  Terri Williams: recognisable.
  Jodi Austin: more
  Helen Rael: No.
  Jodi Austin: more oval or something, and
  Terri Williams: Oval?
  Jodi Austin: and
  Therese Speis: N we can
  Terri Williams: I
  Therese Speis: use
  Jodi Austin: Yeah
  Therese Speis: uh
  Jodi Austin: or
  Therese Speis: it
  Jodi Austin: so
  Therese Speis: as a as a game pad. So
  Terri Williams: Mm.
  Jodi Austin: Well yeah it's new.
  Helen Rael: Not with two hands.
  Therese Speis: one hand has the beer, so
  Helen Rael: Yeah
  Therese Speis: the other
  Helen Rael: yeah
  Therese Speis: hand
  Helen Rael: yeah, right.
  Therese Speis: uh
  Helen Rael: No
  Jodi Austin: but young people want something different and it is
  Therese Speis: Well i
  Helen Rael: Yeah but
  Therese Speis: we already
  Helen Rael: it's
  Therese Speis: uh
  Helen Rael: quite important
  Therese Speis: one of
  Helen Rael: that
  Therese Speis: our
  Helen Rael: it
  Therese Speis: aims
  Helen Rael: fits.
  Therese Speis: is that it has to be original
  Jodi Austin: Yeah.
  Therese Speis: and
  Helen Rael: Yeah.
  Terri Williams: Oh
  Therese Speis: trendy
  Terri Williams: but it ha it has to be
  Therese Speis: so
  Terri Williams: m yeah. But you still have to know it's a remote and not another
  Jodi Austin: Yeah
  Therese Speis: Well
  Jodi Austin: alright.
  Therese Speis: there has been done a lot of researches about remotes uh we have to we can imagine uh because it's a long time uh on the market. So
  Terri Williams: Yeah.
  Therese Speis: the the form will have been uh tested out so
  Terri Williams: Yeah so the long box uh shaped thing must be uh, yeah, useful
  Therese Speis: Yes.
  Terri Williams: or
  Therese Speis: Well
  Terri Williams: else uh they would have been ano another
  Therese Speis: for Helen Rael personally
  Terri Williams: shape.
  Therese Speis: I have a a lot of remotes uh at home but those ones that have a a round ending and uh well uh just an uh square uh middle I don't like to use them. I have uh have to it has to fit my hands.
  Helen Rael: Yeah.
  Jodi Austin: Yeah.
  Therese Speis: When it falls over it and I just have and then the button
  Helen Rael: It shouldn't
  Terri Williams: Yeah.
  Helen Rael: be
  Therese Speis: that
  Helen Rael: boxy.
  Therese Speis: I use most
  Terri Williams: Yeah a lo
  Therese Speis: has to be
  Terri Williams: the
  Therese Speis: here.
  Terri Williams: long box shape yeah. You have to
  Therese Speis: It f it fits
  Terri Williams: use
  Helen Rael: Nah
  Therese Speis: your hands
  Terri Williams: one hand.
  Therese Speis: and then you just push the button that you use most
  Helen Rael: I don't
  Therese Speis: with
  Helen Rael: agree with the long box
  Therese Speis: thumb.
  Helen Rael: uh shape it
  Terri Williams: Why not?
  Helen Rael: it has to be custom made for the hand.
  Jodi Austin: Yeah it doesn't fit.
  Therese Speis: Tho
  Helen Rael: Yeah.
  Therese Speis: tho those new D_V_D_
  Terri Williams: But
  Therese Speis: players
  Terri Williams: it
  Therese Speis: on
  Terri Williams: does
  Therese Speis: the
  Terri Williams: fit
  Therese Speis: market
  Terri Williams: in the hand if
  Therese Speis: do
  Terri Williams: you hold
  Therese Speis: have
  Terri Williams: it like
  Therese Speis: those.
  Terri Williams: this, and you
  Helen Rael: Yeah
  Terri Williams: can
  Helen Rael: but
  Terri Williams: make
  Helen Rael: if
  Terri Williams: it another
  Helen Rael: you shape
  Terri Williams: shape, but
  Helen Rael: it
  Terri Williams: then you have
  Jodi Austin: No if y
  Helen Rael: If
  Jodi Austin: if you look at new Phillips uh D_V_D_ with their uh remotes
  Therese Speis: D_V_D_ players. Yes.
  Jodi Austin: pl players they they are the new remotes aren't box shaped.
  Terri Williams: W
  Jodi Austin: They're
  Terri Williams: no
  Jodi Austin: all
  Terri Williams: w
  Helen Rael: No
  Jodi Austin: um
  Terri Williams: what else? I di
  Helen Rael: that's
  Jodi Austin: Well
  Helen Rael: ol old fashioned.
  Jodi Austin: Yeah.
  Terri Williams: Yeah well
  Helen Rael: I
  Terri Williams: but
  Helen Rael: can
  Terri Williams: uh
  Helen Rael: imagine
  Terri Williams: what
  Jodi Austin: Yes uh
  Terri Williams: what
  Helen Rael: that us
  Terri Williams: what do you suggest then?
  Jodi Austin: Well
  Helen Rael: Well
  Jodi Austin: most of of them are are somewhat thicker at the end, and
  Helen Rael: Yeah right.
  Jodi Austin: get um yeah thinner
  Helen Rael: It
  Jodi Austin: towards
  Helen Rael: fits
  Jodi Austin: the
  Helen Rael: in your
  Jodi Austin: uh
  Helen Rael: palms.
  Jodi Austin: the other end.
  Terri Williams: Hmm.
  Jodi Austin: Mm.
  Terri Williams: Well but it's still then uh the the long box, uh but then with some
  Jodi Austin: Yeah it
  Terri Williams: uh round uh
  Helen Rael: Hmm?
  Therese Speis: Well
  Terri Williams: round
  Therese Speis: A
  Terri Williams: forms
  Helen Rael: Um.
  Terri Williams: in it to fit
  Therese Speis: it
  Terri Williams: your
  Therese Speis: h
  Terri Williams: hand,
  Therese Speis: it has
  Terri Williams: but it's
  Therese Speis: it it
  Terri Williams: it's
  Therese Speis: has
  Terri Williams: still
  Therese Speis: a that's tha th th shape that it fits your hand.
  Terri Williams: Yeah yeah al alright but
  Therese Speis: That's
  Terri Williams: but it's still it's still sort of box, yeah. It it has
  Jodi Austin: Yeah
  Terri Williams: round forms
  Jodi Austin: yea
  Terri Williams: but it in the end it's
  Helen Rael: Well
  Terri Williams: still the box, so that's what I mean.
  Helen Rael: Yeah but it has it has to fit your hand.
  Terri Williams: Yeah yeah I
  Helen Rael: It
  Terri Williams: understand,
  Helen Rael: shouldn't
  Terri Williams: but
  Helen Rael: be too boxy, you know.
  Terri Williams: no no
  Helen Rael: It's
  Jodi Austin: Hmm.
  Terri Williams: I don't mean an entire box like completely
  Helen Rael: No no no.
  Terri Williams: square but a also with round edges of course, but
  Helen Rael: Yeah.
  Terri Williams: in in in at the end it's still this long
  Helen Rael: Yeah it should be
  Terri Williams: box shape with convenient uh round uh shapes uh
  Helen Rael: Right maybe
  Terri Williams: to
  Helen Rael: something
  Terri Williams: fit.
  Helen Rael: like this or
  Terri Williams: Yeah
  Helen Rael: and then
  Terri Williams: yes
  Helen Rael: a
  Terri Williams: I
  Helen Rael: button
  Terri Williams: thought
  Helen Rael: here
  Terri Williams: about
  Helen Rael: to
  Terri Williams: something
  Helen Rael: switch
  Terri Williams: like
  Helen Rael: between
  Terri Williams: that.
  Helen Rael: different systems like D_V_D_
  Terri Williams: Yeah.
  Helen Rael: player and so you can
  Terri Williams: A big
  Helen Rael: I've
  Terri Williams: recognisable button on top or something.
  Helen Rael: Yeah right, and I do think we have to keep this kind of idea
  Jodi Austin: Yeah.
  Helen Rael: with the with the numbers and
  Therese Speis: We have five minutes left. So
  Terri Williams: The
  Helen Rael: Right.
  Terri Williams: buttons should uh also be not too small, not too big, of course, and
  Therese Speis: Yes
  Terri Williams: uh
  Therese Speis: uh that's
  Terri Williams: n uh uh not too
  Therese Speis: yep.
  Terri Williams: close
  Helen Rael: But it
  Terri Williams: uh
  Helen Rael: should be
  Terri Williams: together.
  Helen Rael: possible to to um make it ap apparent that there are two functions for every button.
  Therese Speis: Yep.
  Helen Rael: So
  Terri Williams: Uh-huh.
  Helen Rael: there has to be some space between the buttons.
  Terri Williams: Yeah of course
  Helen Rael: Yeah.
  Terri Williams: uh to uh to uh to have icons to explain the different
  Helen Rael: Yeah right
  Terri Williams: functions.
  Helen Rael: right,
  Terri Williams: Yeah.
  Helen Rael: and maybe we should use colours.
  Terri Williams: Colours,
  Jodi Austin: Yeah
  Terri Williams: yeah.
  Jodi Austin: maybe we can um just like on cell phones those um well
  Helen Rael: Yeah.
  Jodi Austin: you can you can put on on them,
  Therese Speis: Ha.
  Jodi Austin: and
  Helen Rael: That's
  Jodi Austin: so
  Helen Rael: kinda
  Jodi Austin: you can
  Helen Rael: trendy.
  Jodi Austin: customise your uh your own remote with different colours or or special
  Helen Rael: Yeah right.
  Jodi Austin: paint jobs I dunno
  Therese Speis: Sound
  Jodi Austin: but
  Therese Speis: nice. Yes.
  Terri Williams: I think we have to talk also about uh the the materials for um.
  Jodi Austin: Well
  Therese Speis: Well it's just uh about our first ideas now so I think individually we'll have to uh come up with ideas for the next meeting about
  Helen Rael: Right.
  Therese Speis: these materials
  Helen Rael: But
  Therese Speis: and markets etcetera.
  Terri Williams: Already
  Therese Speis: Yes?
  Helen Rael: I think
  Terri Williams: thought
  Helen Rael: it's
  Terri Williams: about
  Helen Rael: uh
  Terri Williams: something tha
  Helen Rael: it's important to uh notate all the the decisions that
  Therese Speis: Yes.
  Helen Rael: we make, so we
  Therese Speis: Well thirty minutes we have.
  Terri Williams: Mm-hmm.
  Therese Speis: So um This is about uh what we are going to uh do uh. You'll get specific instructions when you're back in your
  Helen Rael: Yeah.
  Therese Speis: room so uh it's uh logical uh. I think.
  Helen Rael: No problem.
  Therese Speis: Oh and uh that's uh that's all. So we'll just get a notice that the the meeting is uh over.
  Terri Williams: Yeah now we
  Therese Speis: Yeah
  Terri Williams: can still talk about the material,
  Therese Speis: yes
  Terri Williams: we
  Therese Speis: say.
  Jodi Austin: Mm.
  Terri Williams: have some some minutes left uh I w wrote down uh that the case should be plastic of course, hard plastic,
  Helen Rael: Yeah. Yeah it shouldn't be too heavy.
  Terri Williams: No n
  Therese Speis: Well
  Terri Williams: n
  Therese Speis: I have had remotes that um they had uh the function of the buttons was about uh uh a layer over the buttons and when I've had use it much it was gone.
  Jodi Austin: Yeah
  Helen Rael: Yeah
  Jodi Austin: that's
  Helen Rael: yeah
  Therese Speis: So
  Jodi Austin: bad,
  Therese Speis: it
  Helen Rael: yeah.
  Therese Speis: has
  Jodi Austin: yeah.
  Therese Speis: to be made in the buttons I think. It has to uh not
  Jodi Austin: Yeah
  Therese Speis: be
  Jodi Austin: that's
  Therese Speis: loose.
  Jodi Austin: important.
  Terri Williams: Mm. Alright. And of course there are several electrical cables in it to uh
  Therese Speis: Yeah.
  Terri Williams: to connect things uh
  Therese Speis: Is there an a
  Terri Williams: to
  Therese Speis: universal
  Terri Williams: each other.
  Therese Speis: uh universal way of um transmitting from the remote to the television so it's all about uh
  Helen Rael: Yeah
  Terri Williams: I
  Helen Rael: it's
  Terri Williams: think
  Helen Rael: univ
  Terri Williams: so.
  Helen Rael: yeah
  Terri Williams: It's
  Helen Rael: yeah
  Terri Williams: a
  Helen Rael: yeah.
  Therese Speis: It's not that
  Terri Williams: a
  Therese Speis: in
  Terri Williams: common
  Therese Speis: China
  Terri Williams: stan
  Therese Speis: it's
  Terri Williams: standard
  Therese Speis: different?
  Terri Williams: way
  Helen Rael: Yep.
  Terri Williams: infrared beams an infrared beam
  Therese Speis: Yeah.
  Terri Williams: I think.
  Therese Speis: But y you can have uh of
  Helen Rael: And you can
  Therese Speis: course
  Helen Rael: use
  Therese Speis: different between D_V_D_s and televisions
  Terri Williams: It it's
  Therese Speis: and between
  Terri Williams: a we we make an a universal remote
  Helen Rael: Yeah.
  Terri Williams: so it ha has to work with uh all
  Therese Speis: Yeah.
  Terri Williams: kinds of brands
  Jodi Austin: Yeah.
  Terri Williams: and
  Jodi Austin: But
  Terri Williams: things.
  Jodi Austin: our T_V_s are mostly made in China and that sort of country, so
  Therese Speis: Probably yes. China rules.
  Terri Williams: And have well yeah I've wrote something down about how it works. The user presses a button and with an infrared beam
  Helen Rael: But
  Terri Williams: it signals the television
  Helen Rael: are
  Terri Williams: set accordingly, but that's pretty obvious, I think.
  Helen Rael: Are we going w uh with the front uh fronts uh idea?
  Therese Speis: Well I think uh w we can
  Helen Rael: I
  Therese Speis: look
  Helen Rael: think
  Therese Speis: into that in the
  Helen Rael: we
  Therese Speis: in
  Helen Rael: should
  Therese Speis: the next
  Helen Rael: make
  Therese Speis: uh
  Helen Rael: it universal
  Therese Speis: thirty minutes. Yeah.
  Helen Rael: and you can always use a front front on it, you know? You can use it just plain
  Therese Speis: Yes.
  Helen Rael: but you can
  Therese Speis: Well j
  Helen Rael: To make it
  Therese Speis: just
  Helen Rael: more trendy.
  Therese Speis: y you get a n a normal front with it, but you
  Jodi Austin: Yeah.
  Therese Speis: can change them
  Helen Rael: Right.
  Therese Speis: uh when
  Jodi Austin: Yes.
  Therese Speis: you buy the
  Helen Rael: Right.
  Jodi Austin: Yes.
  Therese Speis: And we should uh dispatch those kind of fronts fronts
  Jodi Austin: Mm.
  Therese Speis: a a around the world so
  Jodi Austin: Well you
  Therese Speis: uh
  Jodi Austin: can make
  Helen Rael: Yeah.
  Jodi Austin: profit with them, and it's a way to make them trendy.
  Therese Speis: Well th those fifty million don't uh don't se sells itself so we have to uh make uh some extra effort like fronts
  Terri Williams: Well
  Therese Speis: uh.
  Helen Rael: Yeah
  Jodi Austin: Yeah
  Helen Rael: right.
  Terri Williams: but
  Jodi Austin: alright.
  Terri Williams: th but the standard front will be uh just grey or something
  Jodi Austin: Yeah
  Terri Williams: uh b a simple
  Therese Speis: Yes.
  Jodi Austin: normal.
  Terri Williams: colour not
  Therese Speis: Yeah
  Terri Williams: not very flashy.
  Jodi Austin: No
  Therese Speis: well it has
  Jodi Austin: a colour
  Therese Speis: to
  Jodi Austin: everyone
  Therese Speis: it h it
  Jodi Austin: accepts.
  Therese Speis: has to fit the the te television and D_V_D_ set we are going to sell, so if they are
  Jodi Austin: Mm.
  Therese Speis: uh black
  Terri Williams: Pink television
  Therese Speis: and black
  Terri Williams: sets
  Therese Speis: black
  Jodi Austin: Mm.
  Therese Speis: and silver
  Terri Williams: pink
  Therese Speis: we'll
  Terri Williams: remote,
  Helen Rael: Yeah
  Therese Speis: make them
  Helen Rael: yeah
  Therese Speis: black
  Helen Rael: yeah.
  Therese Speis: and silver
  Jodi Austin: Yeah.
  Therese Speis: so.
  Jodi Austin: standard.
  Helen Rael: But people of often don't like bright colours or something. We have to make it grey or s or black.
  Jodi Austin: Well young people
  Helen Rael: Yeah but
  Jodi Austin: s
  Helen Rael: then
  Jodi Austin: li
  Helen Rael: you can use a a front.
  Jodi Austin: Yeah yeah, yeah.
  Terri Williams: Alright.
  Therese Speis: Yeah.
  Terri Williams: I must not forget my pen the next
  Therese Speis: Well if
  Terri Williams: time.
  Therese Speis: if you yeah. If you have a a a television room for little children and you make a if if you buy a a pink front they'll they'll love it.
  Jodi Austin: Yeah.
  Helen Rael: Yeah
  Therese Speis: I
  Helen Rael: that's
  Therese Speis: think.
  Helen Rael: right. Yeah
  Therese Speis: But that's uh marketing
  Helen Rael: or a t
  Therese Speis: uh research
  Helen Rael: Teletubby
  Therese Speis: you
  Helen Rael: front.
  Therese Speis: can uh you can ask
  Helen Rael: Yeah
  Therese Speis: uh.
  Helen Rael: yeah yeah. I will investigate.
  Therese Speis: Yes. Well our user interface you can uh maybe uh I don't know what your specific instructions will be, but uh probably about uh the precision of the buttons and and those kind of things and what buttons will have to be on the uh remote. And you will look into the technical design and um form, I think.
  Terri Williams: Mm yeah
  Therese Speis: Or something
  Terri Williams: also the
  Therese Speis: like
  Terri Williams: the
  Therese Speis: that.
  Terri Williams: look and feel uh of the
  Therese Speis: Yeah.
  Terri Williams: the remote's also my task, yeah.
  Therese Speis: Yeah.
  Helen Rael: Right.
  Jodi Austin: What's the uh url or the website
  Terri Williams: Yeah
  Jodi Austin: 'cause
  Terri Williams: I uh
  Jodi Austin: I didn't
  Terri Williams: w was wondering that too. Y
  Therese Speis: Euro?
  Jodi Austin: get
  Terri Williams: you
  Helen Rael: It's
  Terri Williams: went to the company website.
  Therese Speis: Well
  Helen Rael: Yeah yeah
  Therese Speis: it
  Helen Rael: yeah
  Therese Speis: it
  Jodi Austin: Yeah.
  Therese Speis: it's
  Helen Rael: just if
  Therese Speis: if
  Helen Rael: you start
  Therese Speis: you uh
  Helen Rael: up your Internet
  Terri Williams: It's
  Helen Rael: Explorer
  Terri Williams: the the
  Jodi Austin: Oh
  Terri Williams: the start
  Jodi Austin: oh right
  Terri Williams: uh starting
  Jodi Austin: oh
  Terri Williams: page
  Helen Rael: Yeah.
  Terri Williams: uh
  Jodi Austin: well I didn't uh use it.
  Therese Speis: Finish meeting now. Oh alright. Well uh we're going to back uh
  Jodi Austin: Yes.
  Therese Speis: back into our rooms so
  Helen Rael: Well that's great.
  Jodi Austin: Next meeting is in
  Therese Speis: In thirty
  Helen Rael: Thirty
  Therese Speis: minutes,
  Helen Rael: minutes.
  Jodi Austin: Thirty
  Therese Speis: but uh
  Jodi Austin: minutes.
  Therese Speis: I think it will be you will be warned uh through
  Jodi Austin: Yeah
  Therese Speis: your laptop
  Jodi Austin: alright it's
  Therese Speis: uh
  Jodi Austin: it's handy to
  Therese Speis: to get
  Jodi Austin: know
  Therese Speis: over here. I'll have to restore
  Terri Williams: Very handy
  Therese Speis: my uh
  Terri Williams: to know.
  Therese Speis: my desktop uh because
  Helen Rael: It's
  Therese Speis: uh
  Helen Rael: totally broken.
  Therese Speis: it's it's the half of the normal size.
  Terri Williams: Right see you in half
  Therese Speis: Oh
  Jodi Austin: Oh.
  Terri Williams: an hour
  Therese Speis: right,
  Terri Williams: then.
  Therese Speis: oh.
  Jodi Austin: Goodbye.
  Terri Williams: W
  Therese Speis: Ma
  Helen Rael: Oh
  Jodi Austin: S.
  Therese Speis: W that was a nice meeting.
  Terri Williams: Right uh see you in thirty
  Therese Speis: Yeah,
  Terri Williams: minutes then.
  Therese Speis: see you.
Updated Content: After introducing the remote control objective, Therese Speis demonstrated the SmartBoard technology they would be using. They tested it by drawing animals. Therese Speis informed the group of the budget, before beginning the discussion of current remotes and initial ideas. They considered taking the best of their competitors designs and making a multifunction remote. It needs to be useable internationally, with few buttons. The considered options for the shape of the remote control, imagining how it would fit in the hand. The group ended the discussion by touching very briefly on some materials issues, and discussed remote covers.