Extracted Content: Tracy Hem: Hmm.
  Duane Gillette: Okay. Good morning everybody. Um I'm glad you could all come. I'm really excited to start this team. Um I'm just gonna have a little PowerPoint presentation for us, for our kick-off meeting. My name is Rose Lindgren. I I'll be Duane Gillette. Um our agenda today is we are gonna do a little opening and then I'm gonna talk a little bit about the project, then we'll move into acquaintance such as getting to know each other a little bit, including a tool training exercise. And then we'll move into the project plan, do a little discussion and close, since we only have twenty five minutes. First of all our project aim. Um we are creating a new remote control which we have three goals about, it needs to be original, trendy and user-friendly. I'm hoping that we can all work together to achieve all three of those. Um so we're gonna divide us up into three compa three parts. First the functional design which will be uh first we'll do individual work, come into a meeting, the conceptional design, individual work and a meeting, and then the detailed design, individual work and a meeting. So that we'll each be doing our own ideas and then coming together and um collaborating. Okay, we're gonna get to know each other a little bit. So um, what we're gonna do is start off with um let's start off with Amina. Um
  Clayton Frey: Alima.
  Duane Gillette: Alima, sorry, Alima. Um we're gonna do a little tool training, so we are gonna work with that whiteboard behind you. Um introduce yourself, um say one thing about yourself and then draw your favourite animal and tell us about it.
  Clayton Frey: Okay. Um I don't know which one of these I have to bring with Tracy Hem.
  Duane Gillette: Probably both.
  Clayton Frey: Right, so, I'm supposed to draw my favourite animal. I have no drawing skills whatsoever. But uh let's see, introduce myself. My name is Alima Bucciantini. Um I'm from the state of Maine in the US. I'm doing nationalism studies, blah, blah, blah, and I have no artistic talents.
  Duane Gillette: How do you spell your name?
  Clayton Frey: A_ L_ I_ M_ A_.
  Duane Gillette: Thanks.
  Clayton Frey: Oh, on this project. So let's see if I can get um here. I will draw a little turtle for you all. Not necessarily 'cause it's my absolute favourite animal, but just that I think they're drawable. And you have the pretty little shell going on. Some little eyes. Happy. There you go. That's a turtle.
  Tracy Hem: Yes.
  Duane Gillette: So what are your favourite characteristics?
  Clayton Frey: Um. I I like the whole having a shell thing.
  Duane Gillette: Mm.
  Clayton Frey: It's quite cool carry your home around where you go, um quite decorative little animals, they can swim, they can, they're very adaptable, they carry everything they need with them, um and they're easy to draw.
  Duane Gillette: Excellent. Shall we just go around the table?
  Edgar Mcfaul: Uh Okay. Well, my
  Duane Gillette: Mm.
  Edgar Mcfaul: uh and I'm Edgar Mcfaul for the project. Um. And I'll try and draw my favourite animal. I'll I should leave that one on there
  Clayton Frey: No,
  Edgar Mcfaul: shouldn't
  Clayton Frey: you
  Edgar Mcfaul: I
  Clayton Frey: can erase
  Edgar Mcfaul: before
  Clayton Frey: the
  Edgar Mcfaul: I
  Clayton Frey: turtle, it's alright.
  Edgar Mcfaul: callously rub it off.
  Duane Gillette: Might be nice to have them all up there at same time.
  Edgar Mcfaul: Um I'm not gonna draw it quite to scale um.
  Edgar Mcfaul: Is that at least identifiable?
  Clayton Frey: Snake.
  Tracy Hem: Well.
  Edgar Mcfaul: It's
  Duane Gillette: Em
  Edgar Mcfaul: a whale,
  Clayton Frey: Well, snake? It's
  Edgar Mcfaul: yes. Thanks.
  Tracy Hem: Oh my god, it's better than what I'm gonna
  Clayton Frey: w
  Tracy Hem: be able to do.
  Edgar Mcfaul: Um and, yeah, all they're quite intelligent um and also they're they're kind of mysterious, like we don't really know much about them or or understand how they work, how they form groups. And I just find them interesting animals.
  Tracy Hem: Take my contraptions with Tracy Hem. Alright, I'm Jessy. I'm from around D_C_ ish sort of in the U_S_. And we're gonna keep the deep sea sort of theme going on, animal. Don't really know how to draw this. Just where can I Mm. Mm. Maybe if I do the water, but how? Sort of give an idea. idea how one would explain this. Mm maybe with some whiskers. Briefly, it's supposed to be a seal. You can imagine it in the water. I like them, because they are like playful and silly sort of have a good time. Not gonna try and pretend like I can get any better than that.
  Duane Gillette: Mm 'kay. Mm 'kay? I'm Rose and I'm Project Manager, from California. Um. Hmm.
  Duane Gillette: S
  Tracy Hem: It's definitely significantly
  Clayton Frey: Oh, a cat.
  Tracy Hem: harder once you are doing it.
  Clayton Frey: Yeah.
  Duane Gillette: Um it's actually a coyote. Let's see.
  Clayton Frey: Right.
  Duane Gillette: Let's see,
  Tracy Hem: That's impressive.
  Duane Gillette: let's give it a little bit of a snout, I don't know,
  Clayton Frey: That's
  Duane Gillette: some teeth. Yeah.
  Clayton Frey: That's pretty
  Edgar Mcfaul: Cool.
  Clayton Frey: impressive.
  Duane Gillette: Oh dear. Yes. I live um I live right across the street from an open space in California. We have coyotes howl all the time. So I really enjoy their their singing, you they're really beautiful animals. Mm. Okay um, moving on to slightly more serious stuff. We're gonna talk about project finances. Um we have a couple we'd like to sell it for about twenty five Euro with the profit aim of um fifteen million Euro um from our sales and because this is such this is for television it's a we have a market range of Internet, like it's an international market range, we don't have to worry about specifics. Um in order to make a profit of this magnitude, we need to um be able to produce each one at a maximum of twelve fifty Euro. So we're selling it for twice what we'd like to produce it for. Okay um, just to generate a little bit of discussion about the project um, I could I'd like to hear about your experiences using ro remote controls, um your first ideas about um creating a new r remote control, what would be the best um like you what are the features that you really like what are the features that you don't like, etcetera, so
  Tracy Hem: Um I hate when there's like four different buttons and you have to press to actually turn on the T_V_ like you have to do one for the power of the T_V_ and then like another one to get the actual screen on and something else to get it all going, I don't know. Now they keep combining all different remotes together, and I don't know if I necessarily like that 'cause I feel like you end up with multimedia overload. I just wanna watch the T_V_
  Duane Gillette: Hmm.
  Tracy Hem: um. Always gets lost. Some sort of like device to help you find it.
  Edgar Mcfaul: I've used, I've used remote controls, for things like T_V_ and the C_D_ player and video recorder and I I guess they're they're pretty neat neat little tools uh. You don't have to get up and walk across the room to change
  Duane Gillette: Mm.
  Edgar Mcfaul: a channel. So especially if you're someone really lazy like Tracy Hem they they're pretty nice. Um. I find them they can be a bit annoying, especially, like you know if I'm watching T_V_ I have have to have three separate remote controls of in front of Tracy Hem, you know, one for the T_V_, one for the digital box, one for m the video recorder as well. Um. And also they tend to they tend to be a bit confusing, they've got too many buttons on them uh too too sort of too sort of complicated when all I really wanna do is switch on and off, change the channel, change the volume.
  Clayton Frey: Yeah um. I agree with having too many remotes around. My dad has a whole drawer at home of remotes for various things, and I don't know how to work half of them um. What's important for Tracy Hem, I guess, is that it's easy to use and that there's not too many buttons, they are not too small, you know you know you need to n to know what you're doing. And one thing I particularly like is if you are not um sort of moving it around to get it to work with the infra-red.
  Tracy Hem: Yeah.
  Edgar Mcfaul: Yeah.
  Clayton Frey: Um, I think there is a way around that, but I know in my residence right now the the television you sort of have to walk all around the room to
  Duane Gillette: Mm-hmm.
  Clayton Frey: get it to turn on, so i it's just simpler just to just turn around the T_V_ itself, and I think that's if we're gonna make a remote control, it should actually work for what it's doing. So
  Tracy Hem: What about like batteries and things like that, like are there some remotes that don don't require like batteries or do all remotes require batteries?
  Duane Gillette: Um I would imagine
  Clayton Frey: I know.
  Duane Gillette: all of them, but we could but it's possible we could use like a lithium battery um
  Clayton Frey: Yeah, something
  Duane Gillette: that
  Clayton Frey: that
  Duane Gillette: would
  Clayton Frey: doesn't
  Duane Gillette: last a lot longer than like
  Tracy Hem: Mm-hmm.
  Duane Gillette: double A_s. Um like tho those are the batteries that are used in a lot of um M_P_ three players now and that kind of thing.
  Tracy Hem: Mm-hmm.
  Duane Gillette: Um.
  Clayton Frey: Mm.
  Duane Gillette: Um. Okay, it seems we have a little bit of a conflict over um to uh combining all the remotes cont together versus having f five different remotes. So um like you said you don't like having all the buttons on one on one remote, and yet you don't wanna have five remotes. So how
  Edgar Mcfaul: Mm.
  Duane Gillette: do we work
  Clayton Frey: Yeah.
  Duane Gillette: with that?
  Clayton Frey: Could we get something that just has No doesn't have all the buttons that you need to program the video recorder or program s other things that I'm not very coherent about, but that just has your major buttons for that work for everything, you know volume control,
  Duane Gillette: Mm-hmm.
  Clayton Frey: on, off, channel changing.
  Tracy Hem: And maybe that spatially divides it, so it's like if you're looki if you're trying to get the T_V_ on that's, you know, like the top thing on the remote, I dunno if d be vertical or horizontal in terms
  Clayton Frey: Yeah.
  Tracy Hem: of how we're gonna make it, but if it's like all the T_V_ stuff was here, then all the V_C_R_ stuff was here, all the whatever else we
  Duane Gillette: Mm.
  Tracy Hem: have programmed
  Clayton Frey: N that way
  Tracy Hem: into it it's all just in its
  Clayton Frey: Yeah.
  Tracy Hem: separate place and not like all the on buttons together, 'cause then you like, I don't even know what I'm turning on.
  Duane Gillette: Mm.
  Clayton Frey: Yeah, and if um if you'd save the more complicated functions maybe for separate remotes that you wouldn't need to use every day.
  Tracy Hem: Mm-hmm.
  Duane Gillette: Okay, so
  Clayton Frey: Um.
  Duane Gillette: maybe have like one remote that has the main functions on, off, channel changing, volume, and another rote remote with all the special things. Because
  Clayton Frey: Yeah.
  Duane Gillette: that is one thing that um remotes tend to have buttons that the T_V_s no longer have as well.
  Clayton Frey: Mm.
  Duane Gillette: So
  Edgar Mcfaul: Yeah.
  Duane Gillette: like you have to have them somewhere, 'cause you're gonna m need those special functions occasionally.
  Clayton Frey: Right.
  Duane Gillette: Um but not necessarily on the m the normal remote.
  Edgar Mcfaul: Can I ask, are we designing a remote control for a television only um,
  Duane Gillette: Good question.
  Edgar Mcfaul: and if if this device is just to be used for the television would we even technically be possible to include video recorder functions on it?
  Duane Gillette: I don't know
  Edgar Mcfaul: Um
  Duane Gillette: that yet.
  Edgar Mcfaul: or should we just stick to just stick to having television television related buttons on
  Clayton Frey: Mm.
  Edgar Mcfaul: it?
  Duane Gillette: It's a good question. Um.
  Tracy Hem: Mm-hmm
  Duane Gillette: I'll look into
  Tracy Hem: hmm.
  Duane Gillette: that. If I can.
  Tracy Hem: I think it's just T_V_, I mean, if it if we're taking it just new product a new television remote control that's not like doesn't say.
  Clayton Frey: Mm yeah.
  Tracy Hem: You know, things might be more advanced than that.
  Duane Gillette: Mm.
  Edgar Mcfaul: So we should maybe we should assume that i t it's just a television that we're wanting to control. Well, I mean I suppose it would be nice to have playing and record and stop buttons on it for the video recorder as well I I don't know if that works technologically or not.
  Clayton Frey: Yes. I guess we have to define what what we're aiming for. If it's just a television then that it's a bit simpler, 'cause there's less buttons that would even need to be on it.
  Edgar Mcfaul: Yeah.
  Tracy Hem: It's an idea with the buttons being really.
  Clayton Frey: Large.
  Tracy Hem: Yeah.
  Clayton Frey: If you have older people or people like Tracy Hem that aren't very co-ordinated hand-eye, it's really quite important that you are
  Duane Gillette: Mm.
  Clayton Frey: not pressing a small like teeny mobiles phone size buttons,
  Edgar Mcfaul: Yeah.
  Clayton Frey: if we can help it.
  Duane Gillette: Okay. 'Kay sounds like we've had a good little discussion for our first ideas. Mind if we move on? Ps
  Edgar Mcfaul: 'Kay.
  Tracy Hem: Mm-hmm.
  Duane Gillette: mm okay. Um now our next meeting starts in thirty minutes. I believe we've actually been only working on this this one for about twenty, so we can
  Clayton Frey: Hmm.
  Duane Gillette: continue discussing more new ideas if you'd like um, breakdown of what we'll be doing individually. Um the industrial design, Alima will
  Clayton Frey: Yeah.
  Duane Gillette: be doing um the working design. Um Edgar Mcfaul, that's for. Technical functions, I guess like keeping in mind the buttons thing, the size of the buttons. Um user requirements um, so you'll be hearing about different trends, uh about different things that people need, um I guess kind of the same uh discussion that we've been having, we'll
  Tracy Hem: Mm-hmm.
  Duane Gillette: get from the actual consum s consumers. Mm 'kay um. And you will get specific instructions sent by your personal coach. I realised in this past one we we didn't have much, we just wanted to get a little brain-storming done. Um so very exited to see all your animals and how what wonderful um artists we all are um. Any questions?
  Edgar Mcfaul: What we're gonna be discussing at the next meeting? Do we know that?
  Duane Gillette: I haven't gotten an agenda yet, um I'll put that together. I'm sure
  Edgar Mcfaul: Right.
  Duane Gillette: as we'll each get our own instruction and then um because what we gonna do is first our individual actions and then we'll come back together.
  Edgar Mcfaul: Yep.
  Duane Gillette: So I'm
  Clayton Frey: 'Kay.
  Duane Gillette: sure we'll all have more concrete things to contribute next time
  Edgar Mcfaul: Yep.
  Clayton Frey: I'm sure we'll be busy.
  Duane Gillette: Mm 'kay um I'll type up mi minutes and probably email those out to all of you.
  Edgar Mcfaul: Okay.
  Duane Gillette: Um just including all the things that we talked about.
  Edgar Mcfaul: Can
  Duane Gillette: Um.
  Edgar Mcfaul: you e-mail your slides as well? Is that possible?
  Duane Gillette: Yes, I yes, I think I can. Mm-hmm.
  Edgar Mcfaul: Cool.
  Duane Gillette: I'll just attach it to an email. And you're you're number two,
  Clayton Frey: I'm two.
  Duane Gillette: three, four?
  Tracy Hem: I'm four.
  Duane Gillette: Is that correct? Okay.
  Clayton Frey: Alright.
  Duane Gillette: Excellent. It was lovely meeting you all.
  Edgar Mcfaul: 'Kay
  Duane Gillette: Just make sure you keep checking the company web site and the emails.
  Clayton Frey: 'Kay.
  Duane Gillette: Let Tracy Hem see if I can do that right now.
Updated Content: Duane Gillette opened the meeting and introduced herself to the team. Duane Gillette introduced the upcoming project in which the team is to create a remote control. The team members participated in a tool training exercise in which they each drew their favorite animal on the white-board and discussed why they liked the animal. Duane Gillette then talked about the project finances and discussed selling prices, profit aim, market range, and production costs. Duane Gillette then led the team in a discussion on their experiences with remotes and what features they would like to include in the remote they are producing. The team members discussed the option of combining remotes and how to produce a remote which is capable of controlling multiple devices.