Extracted Content: Charles Dawes: Okay. Um welcome to our second meeting. This the functional design. And I hope you all had a good individual working time. Okay, let's get started. Okay, here's the agenda for the meeting. After the opening um I am going to fulfil the role of secretary, take the meeting minutes. And we're gonna have three presentations, one from each of you. Then we're gonna discuss some new project requirements. Um gonna come to a decision on the functions of the remote control. And then close up the meeting. And we're gonna do this all in about forty minutes. Okay. First I want to discuss the goals of this meeting. First we need to determine the user requirements and the question that we can ask ourselves is what needs and desires are to be fulfilled by this remote control. And then we're going to determine the technical functions, what is the effect of the apparatus, what actually is it supposed to do, what do people pick up the remote and use it for. And then lastly we're going to determine its working design, how exactly will it perform its functions, that's the whole technical side of 'Kay I'll just give you a minute, 'cause it looks like you're making some notes. 'Kay. Oh, well let's go ahead and, back, previous. So what I wanna do right now is hear from all three of you, on your research that you just did. Who would like to start us off?
  Joe Brown: I don't
  Charles Dawes: 'Kay.
  Joe Brown: mind going first.
  Charles Dawes: Okay. Um do you have a PowerPoint or no?
  Joe Brown: Yeah, it's in the should be in the m
  Charles Dawes: Okay.
  Joe Brown: Project.
  Ralph Hattaway: Do you want us to do our PowerPoints now
  Joe Brown: You
  Ralph Hattaway: or
  Joe Brown: know you could you could do it yourself actually.
  Charles Dawes: Oh.
  Johnny Martin: Did you send it?
  Charles Dawes: Save
  Joe Brown: Put it
  Charles Dawes: it
  Joe Brown: in
  Charles Dawes: in the
  Joe Brown: Project
  Charles Dawes: project documents.
  Joe Brown: Documents, yeah.
  Charles Dawes: Okay.
  Charles Dawes: Mm-mm-mm. This one?
  Joe Brown: Sure.
  Charles Dawes: Okay.
  Joe Brown: Yeah.
  Johnny Martin: Okay.
  Joe Brown: Okay.
  Johnny Martin: Great.
  Joe Brown: Um well, the function of a remote control, as what uh we've been informed, is basically to send messages to the television set, for example, switch it on, switch it off, go to this channel, go to channel nine, turn volume up, etcetera. Um some of the considerations is just um for example the what it needs to include it's the numbers, you know, zero to nine, so you can move to a channel, the power button on slash off, the channel going up and down, volume going up and down, and then mute, a mute function. And then functions for V_H_S_, D_V_D_, for example, play, rewind, fast-forward, stop, pause, enter. And enter would be for like, you know, the menus. And then other menus for D_V_ as well as T_V_, whether that means like um we can go and decide the brightness of the screen, things like that, all the more complicated functions of menus. And we can decide if that's what we want, um if we
  Charles Dawes: Okay.
  Joe Brown: want to include that on the remote, if that's something that would stay on the T_V_ itself, for example.
  Charles Dawes: Okay.
  Joe Brown: These are two examples. Um and you can see on the left, it's got a lot more buttons, and I don't know if you can read it, but it says, step, go to, freeze, um slow, repeat, program, mute, and so those are some of the buttons and so it gives you an idea of s one example. And then on the right, it's a lot more simpler, it's got volume, it's got the play the like circle set, which is play, rewind, but it's also what is fast-forward is also like next on a menu. So you have functions that are d uh duplicating.
  Charles Dawes: Right.
  Joe Brown: And you have a mute button and then the numbers and the eject, and the power button. So that gives you two different kinds, a more complex and more simple version. Okay.
  Charles Dawes: Ready.
  Joe Brown: And then lastly, it's just the questions that we want to consider like what functions do we want it to include, and how simple, complex it should be? And what functions it needs to complete. Uh, what are needed to complete insulation process, 'cause, you know, that's something that also has to be considered and it's gonna be hopefully a one-time thing, when you set it up it should be set to go, but we have to include the functions that can allow it to set up i in the first place. So that's it.
  Charles Dawes: Alright. Very good presentation. Thank you. You speak with such authority on the matter.
  Joe Brown: Mm.
  Charles Dawes: Okay.
  Joe Brown: Left.
  Charles Dawes: Who would like to um follow that one up? Now, that we've
  Ralph Hattaway: I
  Charles Dawes: discussed
  Ralph Hattaway: can go.
  Charles Dawes: Okay. Do you want Ralph Hattaway to run it or you
  Ralph Hattaway: Yeah,
  Charles Dawes: wanna
  Ralph Hattaway: you should run it.
  Charles Dawes: Okay. Functional requirements.
  Ralph Hattaway: Mm yes.
  Charles Dawes: 'Kay.
  Charles Dawes: Alright. Now we have Courtney with the functional requirements.
  Ralph Hattaway: Yes, okay so we tested a hundred subjects in our lab, and we just we watched them and we also made them fill out a questionnaire, and we found that the users are not typically happy with current remote controls. Seventy five percent think they're ugly. want are willing to more, which is good news for us um if we make look fancier, and basically w we just need something that really I mean there's some other points up there, but they it needs to be snazzy and it but yet simple. So that's really what we need to do.
  Joe Brown: Wait.
  Ralph Hattaway: And we need we need it to be simple, yet it needs to be high-tech looking. So
  Joe Brown: And that meaning what?
  Ralph Hattaway: Like They like I guess use the buttons a lot.
  Joe Brown: Okay.
  Ralph Hattaway: Yeah. I don't know. It's from my uh research.
  Joe Brown: Right.
  Charles Dawes: Okay, what
  Ralph Hattaway: My
  Charles Dawes: do you
  Ralph Hattaway: team
  Charles Dawes: m
  Ralph Hattaway: wasn't very
  Joe Brown: Only
  Ralph Hattaway: clear.
  Joe Brown: use
  Charles Dawes: Oh,
  Joe Brown: ten
  Charles Dawes: I'm
  Joe Brown: percent
  Charles Dawes: sorry.
  Joe Brown: of the
  Ralph Hattaway: That's
  Joe Brown: buttons.
  Ralph Hattaway: okay.
  Charles Dawes: What do you mean by um the current remote controls do not match well with the operating behaviour of the user, like they
  Ralph Hattaway: I
  Charles Dawes: have to press
  Ralph Hattaway: I
  Charles Dawes: the buttons.
  Ralph Hattaway: think it's like the engineering versus user,
  Charles Dawes: Okay.
  Ralph Hattaway: whereas like the engineering she showed that the engineering ones are more complex
  Charles Dawes: Oh, right.
  Ralph Hattaway: and users don't really need all of the
  Charles Dawes: The
  Ralph Hattaway: buttons
  Charles Dawes: buttons.
  Ralph Hattaway: that are contained on there,
  Charles Dawes: Okay.
  Ralph Hattaway: because they only use ten percent of the buttons really.
  Charles Dawes: Yeah. Okay.
  Johnny Martin: We only use ten per cent of our brains.
  Ralph Hattaway: Good point.
  Charles Dawes: It works.
  Ralph Hattaway: It's a necessary evil.
  Johnny Martin: yeah.
  Charles Dawes: Ready for the next slide?
  Ralph Hattaway: Mm-hmm. And so people say that they typically lose it, as you yourself know, because you probably lose your remote control all the time,
  Charles Dawes: Hmm.
  Ralph Hattaway: much like any small appliance
  Joe Brown: Lost.
  Ralph Hattaway: like a cellphone, and they we need something simple, because most people, well thirty four percent say that it's just too much time to learn how to use a new one, and we don't want to go we don't want to vary too far from the normal standard
  Joe Brown: S
  Ralph Hattaway: remote, but I mean they do need to be able to identify it, and R_S_I_, I'm not very sure what that is.
  Charles Dawes: It's okay. It's
  Ralph Hattaway: Yes,
  Charles Dawes: very important.
  Ralph Hattaway: it is important for the remote control world.
  Joe Brown: Wait, is that like your ergonomics
  Ralph Hattaway: Sh
  Joe Brown: like your hand movements or something?
  Charles Dawes: Could be,
  Ralph Hattaway: Uh
  Charles Dawes: yeah.
  Ralph Hattaway: possibly.
  Johnny Martin: Do we really need t to provide more information on
  Joe Brown: Like
  Johnny Martin: what R_S_I_ is?
  Charles Dawes: Oh.
  Ralph Hattaway: Uh yeah, that's what my web site said, I
  Joe Brown: Channel, volume, power.
  Ralph Hattaway: don't
  Charles Dawes: I think that's
  Ralph Hattaway: know.
  Charles Dawes: a pretty good guess though.
  Ralph Hattaway: Yeah, I would assume so. I
  Joe Brown: It's
  Ralph Hattaway: think
  Joe Brown: like
  Ralph Hattaway: we're
  Joe Brown: if you're
  Ralph Hattaway: supposed
  Joe Brown: holding
  Ralph Hattaway: to know it
  Joe Brown: it
  Ralph Hattaway: as remote control experts.
  Charles Dawes: Yeah.
  Ralph Hattaway: But
  Charles Dawes: It's
  Ralph Hattaway: also
  Charles Dawes: okay.
  Ralph Hattaway: s so the channel, the volume and the power buttons are the most important on our company website you can find like the specific statistics concerning to how much each button is used, but those are the definitely the top ones.
  Charles Dawes: Okay. Next slide?
  Ralph Hattaway: Yes. And so personally I think that we need a modern eye-catching design, but it it really needs to be simple. So saying from y your slide, your presentation, the engineering versus the user-specified remotes, I think that we should go with something that's more user-friendly.
  Charles Dawes: User-friendly.
  Ralph Hattaway: Where the engineering ones, the boxes, tend to make it look more complicated than it really is. Um the functionality of the product really needs to be considered as to like what type of buttons do we really need on it. And it needs to be open to a wide range of consumers, so even though we need a small number of buttons, we also need to take in like are most people going to be using it for a D_V_D_ player, a TiVo, what what exactly are we using it for, as well as the age range. So we need a hip, but not a corny marketing scheme for promoting our product. And also we found our team found that speech recognition is it's like an up-and-coming thing they really consumers are really interested in it, and since our findings found that people are willing to pay more money for a remote for it to be more high-class
  Charles Dawes: And so just
  Ralph Hattaway: we could
  Charles Dawes: to
  Ralph Hattaway: consider it.
  Charles Dawes: just to clarify by speech recognition you mean they would say, channel five, and the thing would
  Ralph Hattaway: I
  Charles Dawes: go
  Ralph Hattaway: guess
  Charles Dawes: to channel
  Ralph Hattaway: so,
  Charles Dawes: five?
  Ralph Hattaway: yeah.
  Charles Dawes: Okay.
  Joe Brown: to just say, where are you, and thing beeps, you know.
  Ralph Hattaway: Yeah, I guess
  Charles Dawes: Oh,
  Ralph Hattaway: we can interpret
  Charles Dawes: that'd
  Ralph Hattaway: it
  Charles Dawes: be
  Ralph Hattaway: like,
  Charles Dawes: lovely.
  Ralph Hattaway: we can just try out different types of speech
  Joe Brown: Yeah.
  Ralph Hattaway: recognition within our
  Charles Dawes: Didn't
  Ralph Hattaway: remote
  Charles Dawes: they
  Ralph Hattaway: programme.
  Charles Dawes: um didn't our rival companies manufacture a remote that you would press the button on the T_V_ and it would the remote would beep so if you
  Joe Brown: It's
  Charles Dawes: have
  Joe Brown: kinda
  Charles Dawes: lost
  Joe Brown: like what
  Charles Dawes: it
  Joe Brown: the remote phone used to do.
  Charles Dawes: Mm. Oh, yeah, that's
  Joe Brown: You
  Charles Dawes: true.
  Joe Brown: know like
  Charles Dawes: We could
  Joe Brown: go
  Charles Dawes: definitely
  Joe Brown: to the
  Charles Dawes: include
  Joe Brown: base.
  Charles Dawes: that if we wanted to.
  Joe Brown: Yeah.
  Charles Dawes: If it's within our price. Okay. Are we ready for our last presentation, Amber?
  Johnny Martin: Yeah, I'm just trying to move it.
  Charles Dawes: Okay.
  Johnny Martin: 'Kay. I think it should be there,
  Joe Brown: Working
  Johnny Martin: working
  Joe Brown: design.
  Johnny Martin: design.
  Charles Dawes: There we go. 'Kay.
  Johnny Martin: 'Kay. Uh I didn't get a chance
  Charles Dawes: Oh
  Johnny Martin: to complete
  Charles Dawes: my
  Johnny Martin: this
  Charles Dawes: bad.
  Johnny Martin: one, 'cause some of the tools that I was given were frustrating.
  Ralph Hattaway: Oh that's fine.
  Joe Brown: Help
  Johnny Martin: okay
  Joe Brown: Ralph Hattaway.
  Johnny Martin: th some of the things that we actually need to put into this. We need a power source, we're gonna need a smart chip if we're gonna make it multi-functional. Um extra functions will probably need an additional chip. Either that or the smart chip will have to be extremely smart.
  Ralph Hattaway: What exactly is a smart chip?
  Johnny Martin: Usually a smart chip is just a chip that's been programmed and designed so that it can complete a fair range of functions.
  Joe Brown: Well, how much extra would the additional chip be? Is that gonna push us over our production costs?
  Johnny Martin: I wouldn't think so, 'cause we could probably get it from like, in bulk, from a a newer company.
  Joe Brown: Mm-hmm.
  Johnny Martin: And they tend to sell their chips pretty cheap.
  Charles Dawes: Okay. Ready?
  Johnny Martin: Um yep, nothing here.
  Charles Dawes: That's okay.
  Johnny Martin: Um power source, I figured, batteries, 'cause they're easily available. Typically a remote has either two double A_s or four triple A_s, sometimes three. Uh it really kinda depends on the size of the actual remote itself. Um a large on-off button, demographically we're moving towards an older generation of people, so a large on-off button would probably be good.
  Charles Dawes: Hmm.
  Johnny Martin: Selection button for various entertainment devices, so you want something that will permit you to select the D_V_D_ player or the T_V_ or the stereo system. Um smart chip that perverts uh that permits, sorry, universal application again, something that'll allow us to skip over between devices, and that's kinda it. Uh this is my fifty second design. Power source over here. We're gonna have a switch obviously between the power source and the rest of it, and you're gonna need the switch. Um extra bulb could just be for flashiness, um subcomponent which would be like a way of diverting the power to different parts of the the device. Um the chip and of course the infra-red bulb, so it can communicate with the various devices that it needs to talk to.
  Ralph Hattaway: So what exactly we are looking at, is this like the front of the
  Johnny Martin: This is just like
  Ralph Hattaway: remote?
  Johnny Martin: a rough schematic.
  Charles Dawes: So
  Johnny Martin: So this
  Charles Dawes: this
  Johnny Martin: is
  Charles Dawes: would
  Johnny Martin: the
  Charles Dawes: be
  Johnny Martin: internal
  Charles Dawes: the front?
  Johnny Martin: workings.
  Charles Dawes: So
  Ralph Hattaway: Oh
  Charles Dawes: the
  Ralph Hattaway: okay.
  Charles Dawes: red would be the front of the remote though,
  Johnny Martin: Yeah.
  Charles Dawes: right?
  Joe Brown: Yeah,
  Charles Dawes: Okay.
  Joe Brown: that's gonna be what's communicating with the T_V_, but the other bulb, I think, is good to just to indicate, I'm doing something, it's sort of like a
  Charles Dawes: The l
  Ralph Hattaway: Like
  Joe Brown: reassurance.
  Ralph Hattaway: that we
  Charles Dawes: the
  Ralph Hattaway: know
  Johnny Martin: Yeah,
  Ralph Hattaway: the battery's
  Johnny Martin: so
  Charles Dawes: light
  Johnny Martin: you don't
  Charles Dawes: up
  Ralph Hattaway: working.
  Johnny Martin: have to stare
  Charles Dawes: kind of
  Johnny Martin: at that infra-red, 'cause
  Charles Dawes: Yeah.
  Johnny Martin: you know when the battery starts dying in your remote currently, you have to actually stare at that bulb and go, okay,
  Charles Dawes: Hmm.
  Johnny Martin: when I push this button, is it working?
  Ralph Hattaway: Okay.
  Charles Dawes: It'd probably be
  Johnny Martin: We
  Charles Dawes: lighting
  Johnny Martin: can skip
  Charles Dawes: up the key
  Johnny Martin: that whole thing.
  Charles Dawes: too, right?
  Johnny Martin: Yep.
  Ralph Hattaway: Yeah.
  Joe Brown: Yeah.
  Charles Dawes: 'Kay.
  Johnny Martin: So you can
  Charles Dawes: The buttons.
  Johnny Martin: put it in the dark.
  Ralph Hattaway: Yeah, and that's good. We
  Charles Dawes: Okay.
  Ralph Hattaway: should make it glow in the dark.
  Charles Dawes: Yeah, definitely. 'Kay nex R Ready?
  Johnny Martin: Yeah, that's it.
  Charles Dawes: 'Kay, any p
  Ralph Hattaway: Mm 'kay.
  Charles Dawes: 'Kay? Anything you wanna add for personal preferences though, you f you said already that we needed a large on-off button, you think.
  Johnny Martin: I
  Charles Dawes: Anything
  Johnny Martin: think
  Charles Dawes: else?
  Johnny Martin: that that's a good idea, because you know that's one of the most
  Joe Brown: Just
  Johnny Martin: important buttons.
  Charles Dawes: Okay.
  Joe Brown: Well, should it be larger buttons in general, you know like uh the examples that I had, they were swi quite small. So should we try and go for something that has l larger buttons?
  Ralph Hattaway: I think we should. Like I think that would be in a as in like in for the design, sorry, um. I think we should definitely go with buttons that don't look like a normal remote, 'cause most remotes have small square buttons,
  Charles Dawes: Mm.
  Ralph Hattaway: I think we should do something like
  Joe Brown: Ovals.
  Ralph Hattaway: maybe bigger and round like
  Joe Brown: Yeah,
  Ralph Hattaway: bubbles.
  Joe Brown: yeah.
  Charles Dawes: Okay. Okay, let's talk about all of our We'll come to decision later about all the components that we need to include, let's um wrap up this one, and I'm gonna go back to my PowerPoint, 'cause we need to discuss the new project requirements which you might've already seen flashed up on the screen a bit earlier. Wait, come back. Alright. Sorry, let's go through this. Alright. Here we go. New product requirements. First it's only going to be a T_V_ remote. We're trying not to over-complicate things. So no D_V_D_, no TiVo, no stereo.
  Johnny Martin: Okay.
  Charles Dawes: It's not gonna be multi-functional. Hey. And we th need to promote our company more, so we need to somehow include our colour and our company slogan on the remote. We're trying to get our name out there in the world. Okay. And you know what teletext is?
  Joe Brown: Yeah.
  Charles Dawes: in States we don't have it, but
  Joe Brown: I
  Ralph Hattaway: What
  Charles Dawes: um
  Joe Brown: know.
  Ralph Hattaway: is it?
  Charles Dawes: it's like they just have this channel where just has news and weather, kind of sports, it's very um bland looking, it's just text on the screen,
  Joe Brown: Yeah, it's like
  Charles Dawes: not
  Joe Brown: black,
  Charles Dawes: even Yeah,
  Joe Brown: black and
  Charles Dawes: just
  Joe Brown: white kind
  Charles Dawes: black
  Joe Brown: of
  Charles Dawes: with just
  Ralph Hattaway: Like running
  Charles Dawes: text.
  Ralph Hattaway: along the bottom?
  Charles Dawes: Yeah.
  Johnny Martin: You can
  Joe Brown: It'll
  Johnny Martin: also
  Joe Brown: give
  Johnny Martin: get
  Joe Brown: you
  Johnny Martin: the kind of the
  Joe Brown: the
  Johnny Martin: T_V_ guide
  Joe Brown: sports.
  Johnny Martin: so
  Ralph Hattaway: Wait, is it like the Weather Channel where it's got like the ticker running on the bottom
  Charles Dawes: Kind
  Joe Brown: Except
  Ralph Hattaway: or
  Charles Dawes: of.
  Ralph Hattaway: something?
  Joe Brown: the entire screen.
  Johnny Martin: It's the entire
  Charles Dawes: Yeah it's
  Johnny Martin: screen
  Charles Dawes: the whole screen.
  Johnny Martin: is just running information at random.
  Joe Brown: You can
  Charles Dawes: So
  Joe Brown: pick
  Charles Dawes: anyway
  Joe Brown: sports,
  Johnny Martin: Seemingly.
  Joe Brown: you can pick the news, you entertainment, you know it's like
  Ralph Hattaway: So it's like
  Charles Dawes: Right.
  Ralph Hattaway: a separate channel from like what
  Charles Dawes: Right.
  Ralph Hattaway: you're watching?
  Joe Brown: Yeah.
  Charles Dawes: But it's becoming out-dated now, because of the Internet. and we have twenty four hour news channels now too, so Those are our new product requirements.
  Ralph Hattaway: Okay.
  Johnny Martin: Okay. So,
  Charles Dawes: Alright.
  Johnny Martin: do we have to
  Charles Dawes: Mm-hmm.
  Johnny Martin: include the company colour within that?
  Charles Dawes: Yes. It's part of the logo. Okay.
  Joe Brown: Company colour being yellow.
  Charles Dawes: What we're going to do right now is come to some decisions, definitive that we can all agree on, about um the target group and the functions and just definite things that we need to do and then we'll close up the meeting. So. Alright. Whatever. Okay.
  Charles Dawes: So our target group is You mentioned um older people?
  Joe Brown: Mm-hmm.
  Charles Dawes: Would it just be universal for everyone, you think? Because I think even if something has large buttons,
  Joe Brown: It's gonna
  Charles Dawes: as
  Joe Brown: make
  Charles Dawes: long
  Joe Brown: it
  Charles Dawes: as they are not
  Joe Brown: nicer.
  Charles Dawes: childishly large, like even
  Joe Brown: Yeah.
  Charles Dawes: technically non-technically challenged people are gonna use it. I mean they want something user-friendly, so
  Johnny Martin: Mm well, even if we kept the regular standard size of remote, if we reduced the buttons down to the ones that people are saying that they use the most often and a couple extra, 'cause
  Charles Dawes: Yeah.
  Johnny Martin: they're saying they only use ten per cent of them,
  Charles Dawes: Yeah.
  Johnny Martin: then we should be able to accommodate fairly decent sized buttons.
  Charles Dawes: Okay, so we want um for our target group would we say, I mean, young and old, all age ranges, all um, not kids obviously, right? Or kids?
  Ralph Hattaway: No, kids need to know how to use a remote,
  Johnny Martin: Most
  Ralph Hattaway: I would
  Johnny Martin: of them
  Ralph Hattaway: think.
  Johnny Martin: will intuitively
  Ralph Hattaway: They gotta
  Johnny Martin: pick
  Ralph Hattaway: change
  Johnny Martin: it up
  Ralph Hattaway: between
  Johnny Martin: though.
  Ralph Hattaway: Disney Channel, Cartoon Network.
  Charles Dawes: Okay, so we're going to go anywhere from
  Ralph Hattaway: Yeah,
  Charles Dawes: kids
  Ralph Hattaway: I think we need it
  Charles Dawes: to
  Ralph Hattaway: all.
  Charles Dawes: adult in the age range Um what about technic technical um specifications, like how how technically literate are these people who are going to be using our remote?
  Ralph Hattaway: Um I would say we should say dumber than the average person.
  Joe Brown: We
  Charles Dawes: Okay.
  Joe Brown: should go for the lowest denominator.
  Ralph Hattaway: Yeah.
  Charles Dawes: Right, okay.
  Joe Brown: High
  Charles Dawes: So
  Joe Brown: school educated.
  Charles Dawes: so they need no technical experience to operate
  Johnny Martin: how 'bout little to no, because there is no way that you are gonna be able to make it no.
  Charles Dawes: Okay. And we also need to determine the specific functions of this, just to get it all out on paper. So we said it needs to send messages to the T_V_, needs to change the channel, turn on and off, just basic simple stuff like this. So if you have something just say it and we'll add it to my meeting minutes.
  Joe Brown: Well it's channel, on-off button,
  Charles Dawes: Mm-hmm,
  Joe Brown: volume,
  Charles Dawes: volume.
  Joe Brown: mute.
  Ralph Hattaway: And channel. Yeah. Those are the most important ones.
  Charles Dawes: Right. And we wanna keep um I'll make a note here that we wanna keep the number of buttons down. Correct, because people only use ten percent.
  Ralph Hattaway: Yeah.
  Charles Dawes: 'Kay. Hey, what
  Joe Brown: Um.
  Charles Dawes: else?
  Charles Dawes: Um.
  Johnny Martin: Do we want this thing to be able to be found easily?
  Charles Dawes: I think so. What do you
  Ralph Hattaway: Sure, yeah.
  Charles Dawes: A finding
  Johnny Martin: And
  Ralph Hattaway: I need
  Charles Dawes: kind
  Ralph Hattaway: we
  Charles Dawes: of
  Ralph Hattaway: we need a
  Charles Dawes: device
  Johnny Martin: like
  Ralph Hattaway: like
  Charles Dawes: or
  Johnny Martin: if
  Ralph Hattaway: homing
  Charles Dawes: Yeah,
  Johnny Martin: this is
  Joe Brown: Oh
  Ralph Hattaway: device.
  Johnny Martin: gonna
  Charles Dawes: ho
  Joe Brown: right
  Johnny Martin: get
  Joe Brown: yeah
  Johnny Martin: lost
  Charles Dawes: homing
  Joe Brown: okay.
  Johnny Martin: underneath
  Charles Dawes: device.
  Johnny Martin: the coach, how are we going to accommodate the quick
  Charles Dawes: Mm
  Johnny Martin: ability
  Charles Dawes: 'kay.
  Johnny Martin: to find
  Joe Brown: Tracking.
  Johnny Martin: it?
  Ralph Hattaway: Because
  Charles Dawes: Okay.
  Ralph Hattaway: people really are looking for a remote that's more high-tech.
  Charles Dawes: Right.
  Johnny Martin: What if we gave it a charger? And on the charger, just like a phone, like you get a portable phone and it's got a charger,
  Joe Brown: But
  Johnny Martin: and
  Joe Brown: you
  Johnny Martin: if
  Joe Brown: got
  Johnny Martin: you d
  Joe Brown: a base.
  Johnny Martin: leave your phone somewhere, you push the button to find it, and it finds th the phone beeps for you.
  Ralph Hattaway: Because
  Johnny Martin: It's useful for the remote phone.
  Charles Dawes: Hmm.
  Ralph Hattaway: Yeah.
  Charles Dawes: Would that add to our costs at all, I wonder?
  Ralph Hattaway: I would think so, because you'd have to develop a base.
  Charles Dawes: Right.
  Joe Brown: Well, if you have the base, you could start putting in a charger and then you have a different kind of battery.
  Johnny Martin: Yeah.
  Ralph Hattaway: Hmm.
  Johnny Martin: Rechargeable batteries are cheaper usually.
  Joe Brown: Yeah.
  Charles Dawes: Okay. I I think we can make a decision about that later. Uh we'll still put that as a point that we need to discuss. So that would include battery source Power source rather. Is it going to have a charger, or is it going to be run strictly off batteries? And we also need to deal with the issue you mentioned of speech recognition, if we want
  Ralph Hattaway: Right.
  Charles Dawes: that.
  Ralph Hattaway: Do w
  Joe Brown: Well, then we could If we have the speech recognition then we can start aiming at a like another kind of more handicapped disabled uh
  Charles Dawes: Mm.
  Joe Brown: demo demographic.
  Ralph Hattaway: Well, th there's the people who desire speech recognition, there's the different demog demographics have different desires, I don't know if you guys ge
  Charles Dawes: You could um
  Ralph Hattaway: It
  Charles Dawes: we
  Ralph Hattaway: wouldn't
  Charles Dawes: could
  Ralph Hattaway: copy
  Charles Dawes: hook it up.
  Ralph Hattaway: onto the
  Charles Dawes: Oh.
  Ralph Hattaway: the thing 'cause it's black, but all the different age groups have different desires for speech recognition. So basically older people don't really care. It's really the people twenty five to thirty five. I feel those are the people that really watch a lot of T_V_ though.
  Charles Dawes: Mm-hmm.
  Ralph Hattaway: They're the ones that get addicted to soap operas and
  Joe Brown: Well
  Charles Dawes: And
  Ralph Hattaway: just
  Charles Dawes: if
  Ralph Hattaway: sitcoms and stuff.
  Charles Dawes: and if we introduced it when they're this age, they're going to probably always buy a remote
  Ralph Hattaway: Right.
  Charles Dawes: that has
  Ralph Hattaway: So
  Joe Brown: Well, then then do you put the voice recognition do you put the r like receiver on the actual television, in the base, or in the actual remote,
  Charles Dawes: Right.
  Joe Brown: whereas if you just speak in general and you don't have to have the remote in your hand and like talk at it.
  Charles Dawes: Yeah. and the speech recognition could be part of the lost and found device, too. If we said,
  Ralph Hattaway: Right.
  Charles Dawes: find remote, locate remote, or something. A certain phrase then it could beep. I dunno. Just throwing it out there.
  Ralph Hattaway: Yeah.
  Charles Dawes: Well
  Joe Brown: Still fifteen minutes. Um.
  Charles Dawes: Okay, anything else we wanna discuss?
  Joe Brown: Well, do we wanna include the numbers like zero through nine? Can we conceive of leaving them out?
  Charles Dawes: Um.
  Ralph Hattaway: Wait, on the remote itself?
  Joe Brown: Yeah, like you have one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, zero.
  Ralph Hattaway: Well,
  Charles Dawes: How
  Ralph Hattaway: we definitely need those.
  Charles Dawes: how, yeah, how
  Johnny Martin: Yeah.
  Charles Dawes: would you leave those out?
  Joe Brown: Well, I don't know, I mean, if you can like well I don't
  Charles Dawes: Unless
  Joe Brown: know,
  Charles Dawes: you
  Joe Brown: if
  Charles Dawes: could
  Joe Brown: there's
  Charles Dawes: say
  Joe Brown: just a
  Charles Dawes: the
  Joe Brown: way
  Charles Dawes: channel.
  Joe Brown: of leaving them out?
  Johnny Martin: I think people would find that too foreign.
  Ralph Hattaway: Yeah.
  Charles Dawes: Yeah, that's true.
  Ralph Hattaway: You
  Charles Dawes: And
  Ralph Hattaway: definitely need
  Charles Dawes: also remember that in this day in age we need, you know, like a hundred button, too. I used to have a remote that did not even go up past like fifty. So I couldn't whenever I got cable, I had to get a new T_V_.
  Johnny Martin: It's when we get satellite.
  Charles Dawes: Mm. get your own remote, or digital cable.
  Johnny Martin: Yeah.
  Charles Dawes: 'Kay. Um. I guess, we're gonna discuss the project financing later, making sure that we can fit all of the stuff that we want to on our budget. Um.
  Johnny Martin: Yeah, 'cause I don't have any material pricing information available to Ralph Hattaway at the moment, so
  Charles Dawes: 'Kay. And don't forget we need to include the colour of our company and the logo.
  Joe Brown: The colour
  Ralph Hattaway: Wait.
  Joe Brown: being yellow?
  Charles Dawes: I'm guessing.
  Joe Brown: And how
  Ralph Hattaway: I feel
  Joe Brown: do
  Charles Dawes: And
  Joe Brown: we
  Ralph Hattaway: like
  Charles Dawes: the R_R_.
  Ralph Hattaway: a ye I feel
  Johnny Martin: R_
  Ralph Hattaway: like a
  Johnny Martin: the
  Ralph Hattaway: yellow
  Johnny Martin: double
  Ralph Hattaway: one
  Johnny Martin: R_.
  Ralph Hattaway: would be too garish.
  Charles Dawes: We could just
  Joe Brown: Can't
  Charles Dawes: have the
  Joe Brown: make
  Charles Dawes: logo
  Joe Brown: it entirely
  Charles Dawes: in yellow, or maybe a
  Johnny Martin: Or
  Charles Dawes: yellow
  Johnny Martin: is the
  Charles Dawes: light
  Johnny Martin: l
  Charles Dawes: for the keys.
  Ralph Hattaway: Or put like stripes, oh yeah, yellow
  Johnny Martin: Yeah,
  Ralph Hattaway: lights.
  Johnny Martin: yellow could be and it could doesn't have to be huge.
  Ralph Hattaway: Yeah.
  Joe Brown: Well if you have like a Hang on. If you have this sort of strip kind of down at the bottom the base of it, just like yellow with the R_R_.
  Charles Dawes: Right. So we've simplified, we don't need all those um play, fast-forward, rewind,
  Joe Brown: Right, yeah.
  Ralph Hattaway: Yeah.
  Charles Dawes: or no menu buttons. So we've pretty much pared it down to on-off, volume, mute, channel up and down, um the numbers Yeah.
  Ralph Hattaway: Yeah.
  Charles Dawes: Um can we go back to I'm gonna look really quickly back at those
  Joe Brown: Two examples.
  Charles Dawes: examples
  Joe Brown: Yeah.
  Charles Dawes: and see if there is anything. Which one is yours, technical functions
  Joe Brown: Oh, it's
  Charles Dawes: or
  Joe Brown: a
  Charles Dawes: functional
  Joe Brown: Yeah.
  Charles Dawes: requirement? Okay.
  Ralph Hattaway: Yeah, audi audio settings and screen settings, we need those like audio settings mono, stereo, pitch, screen settings like brightness, colour, or do we just want that accessed accessed from the television
  Charles Dawes: The T_V_.
  Ralph Hattaway: itself?
  Charles Dawes: I think that that's fine just for the T_V_. I mean how often does the average user need to do that kind of stuff?
  Joe Brown: Well, the other option is sort of like down at the bottom, like farther away, you just have this sort of box inset where it's like the buttons that you don't use as much, but
  Charles Dawes: Hmm.
  Joe Brown: occasionally you will use.
  Ralph Hattaway: Yeah, 'cause
  Joe Brown: and
  Ralph Hattaway: we need
  Joe Brown: so
  Ralph Hattaway: to
  Joe Brown: it's like
  Ralph Hattaway: we definitely need to have buttons for like sub-titles and things like that. It's 'cause the foreign film market is expanding and stuff, and like on television like I know f k living in Los Angeles it's tons of Spanish network television if it has English sub-titles it's definitely helpful.
  Charles Dawes: Couldn't we do that all through one button, something,
  Joe Brown: I don't well,
  Charles Dawes: a menu
  Joe Brown: I don't know.
  Charles Dawes: button, that pops up with a menu on the T_V_ that says, you know, audio, video, whatever, language, you know?
  Joe Brown: Right.
  Ralph Hattaway: So we need up, down, and side-to-side buttons.
  Joe Brown: Well, that
  Charles Dawes: For
  Joe Brown: could be
  Charles Dawes: the menus.
  Joe Brown: No you could just double up with like the channel or the volume buttons.
  Johnny Martin: Mm-hmm.
  Charles Dawes: That's true.
  Ralph Hattaway: Yeah,
  Joe Brown: Channel
  Ralph Hattaway: okay.
  Joe Brown: is just up and down.
  Ralph Hattaway: Okay, yeah.
  Joe Brown: And then add a
  Charles Dawes: Something that
  Ralph Hattaway: Such as, yeah, the
  Charles Dawes: looks
  Ralph Hattaway: one
  Charles Dawes: mayb you know.
  Ralph Hattaway: the one over there on the left the engineering
  Charles Dawes: Y
  Ralph Hattaway: centred
  Charles Dawes: right,
  Ralph Hattaway: one.
  Charles Dawes: right
  Joe Brown: Yeah.
  Charles Dawes: right right. That one?
  Joe Brown: So we just have it like add a menu button then for the various things needed,
  Charles Dawes: Right.
  Joe Brown: including v
  Charles Dawes: In
  Joe Brown: voice
  Charles Dawes: the middle
  Joe Brown: recognition if we have
  Charles Dawes: perhaps.
  Joe Brown: any like settings for voice recognition now included in the menu.
  Charles Dawes: Yep.
  Ralph Hattaway: Ooh, I just got an idea for a design.
  Charles Dawes: good.
  Charles Dawes: Anybody have anything else they'd like to bring up in this meeting?
  Johnny Martin: I had something, but I forgot.
  Charles Dawes: Okay. get out of here. Let's go back to the meeting closure then and see what we need to do next. Mm. Alright. After this meeting we're gonna be sent a questionnaire and summary again which we need to reply to that e-mail. And then we're gonna have lunch break. And after lunch thirty minutes of individual work time. Um I'm gonna put the minutes I put the minutes for the first meeting already in the project documents folder, if you'd like to review them. And I'm gonna type up the minutes for this one as well. Um here's what we're each going to do. The I_D_ is going to work on the components concept, um U_I_D_ the user interface concept, and you're going to do some trend watching. 'Kay. Specific instructions will be sent to you by your personal coach. And if anybody has anything they would like to add? No? Okay, well, this meeting is officially over. Thank you all.
Updated Content: Joe Brown presented the basic functions of the device and discussed the designs of two existing products, showing an example of the simple design that the group wants to implement. Ralph Hattaway presented feedback from users, showing that users want a simple but fancy-looking remote control and that young users want speech recognition. She discussed including only the most basic functions in the interface. Johnny Martin presented her internal design of the device and discussed the processor chip and the energy sources that will be integrated. She suggested integrating an extra lightbulb that lit up when the remote was communicating with the television. Charles Dawes gave the group new requirements for the product design. The group discussed marketing the product to a wide range of customers. They had a discussion about possibly including a locator function and speech recognition. They discussed integrating the company's yellow color and logo into the design, and decreasing the number of buttons in the main interface. Charles Dawes instructed Johnny Martin to prepare the components concept, Joe Brown to prepare the interface concept, and Ralph Hattaway to prepare a trendwatching report.