Extracted Content: Thomas Price: Right, so start of the first meeting
  Marcus Chambers: Mm-hmm.
  Thomas Price: Uh. Right, so agenda of the first meeting. Where we uh We have twenty five minutes for this meeting.
  William Watson: Okay.
  Thomas Price: We uh are to get acquainted. So does everyone want to say who they are? that seem
  Marcus Chambers: Yeah.
  Thomas Price: sensible?
  Marcus Chambers: I'm Robin. I'm the Marketing.
  Gregory Edwards: I'm Louisa. I'm Gregory Edwards.
  William Watson: I'm Nick. I am the Designer
  Thomas Price: And I'm Alastair and I'm the project leader. Alright okay, so tool training. Um. Project plan. So does anyone have any uh thoughts as to the tool training that uh is required?
  William Watson: Tool training.
  Gregory Edwards: I'm not exactly sure what you mean by tool training.
  Thomas Price: am I. Oh I see, so we shouldn't really be
  Thomas Price: Oh right okay, so. So we have the project team, which is to um basically to come up with a new r remote control device. Uh we have uh the starting base was the original which has been in existence now for a period of time. And uh our idea is to uh to make the new remote control device uh more user friendly than the previous one, and to to be trendier, to be with it, and therefore to uh
  William Watson: Yeah.
  Thomas Price: to get a bigger market share and bigger audience. So um method of doing this is uh split up as you can see into uh the functional design, the conceptional design, and the detailed design. So um in each of these uh phases we'll uh basically be handing over to yourselves, the
  William Watson: Yes.
  Thomas Price: designers of this uh this device. And uh having uh meetings so that we can uh during the course of the day um come up with a better better inst implement than we had before. And therefore um have a successful uh conclusion to the day. Um and you'll be doing uh various designs uh throughout
  Marcus Chambers: Mm-hmm,
  Thomas Price: the day
  Marcus Chambers: okay.
  Thomas Price: to meet this end. So we've got tool training. Try out whiteboard. Uh. So we will um. Right so everyone's to uh supposedly uh draw their favourite animal over on the white board over there. I guess this is uh make sure the whiteboard works. So
  William Watson: Okay.
  Thomas Price: uh I don't know who wishes to go first. Do
  Gregory Edwards: I
  Thomas Price: you wish
  Gregory Edwards: don't
  Marcus Chambers: I dunno.
  Thomas Price: to
  Gregory Edwards: mind.
  Thomas Price: go f Have a first bash at uh whatever.
  Gregory Edwards: Um.
  Thomas Price: Ah
  Gregory Edwards: Let's
  Thomas Price: uh.
  Gregory Edwards: see. Good job I got pockets today.
  Marcus Chambers: Your microphone's
  Thomas Price: But now you you
  Marcus Chambers: just
  Thomas Price: uh you'll move out from the microphone and the camera. I
  Gregory Edwards: Are we
  Thomas Price: take
  Gregory Edwards: supposed
  Thomas Price: it that
  Gregory Edwards: to do this right now, do you think, or?
  Thomas Price: I would I would guess so. Or
  Marcus Chambers: Yeah.
  William Watson: You've lost
  Marcus Chambers: I don't
  William Watson: uh
  Marcus Chambers: know.
  William Watson: your microphone there.
  Gregory Edwards: Oh. Right
  Thomas Price: Technical problems.
  Gregory Edwards: here we go.
  Thomas Price: I mean you designers are meant to come up with these sort of things.
  Gregory Edwards: Okay. I think that I would have to say that my favourite animal is the cat. Little smiley cat there. Um and this would be because they're very independent, compared to dogs maybe. Um and they can be very very affectionate. Some people don't think so but I know very affectionate cats. Um. Um and they can look after themselves.
  Thomas Price: Next.
  William Watson: Okay, yeah. I'll
  Gregory Edwards: Shall I rub
  William Watson: I'll
  Gregory Edwards: that out, actually?
  Thomas Price: I don't see as there's any need to. There's plenty of space. I mean whatever.
  Marcus Chambers: We can have have a whole menagerie.
  Thomas Price: Exactly.
  William Watson: Shall I see if I can get across without just tangling everything. Okay. There's
  Thomas Price: We've
  William Watson: one.
  Thomas Price: had more time to prepare over this side, so we've all stuck our bits and pieces in our pockets.
  William Watson: Didn't think of that. 'Kay uh
  Thomas Price: The three
  William Watson: pens
  Thomas Price: pens
  William Watson: are
  Thomas Price: are
  William Watson: over here.
  Thomas Price: underneath.
  William Watson: I'll try the red pen. Okay. Um. I'm gonna go for the bear but I'll have a bash at it.
  Thomas Price: You get marks
  William Watson: Uh.
  Thomas Price: for artistic impression.
  William Watson: Ooh ooh I lost it there. I think I've just knocked the microphone. Um.
  Thomas Price: So you're just doing the face.
  William Watson: We'll g then we'll go for a a s small small bear. Um and I like my animal that looks nothing like a bear because um I dunno maybe because there's so many cartoon characters made up after the bear like the jungle book characters and stuff like that. Great.
  Marcus Chambers: Right.
  Marcus Chambers: Hello. Um I'm gonna go for the dog, and I'm gonna draw one badly as well. Uh.
  Marcus Chambers: looks like it's going to be a dachshund or something.
  Gregory Edwards: That's quite good.
  Marcus Chambers: Right. There's my dog. And they're always happy, so whenever whenever you're feeling sort of a bit a bit down or tired, they're always coming up and they're always um quite excited. So um you can always have a lot of fun with a dog. And they're also good for exercise as well. You can sorta get out and they they sorta never get tired. And and when they're tired they're quite cute as well, so. Okay, that's why I like dogs.
  Thomas Price: Right, um. Well I've not actually had too many pets uh over my uh time 'cause to be honest with you uh I'm not too keen on them anyway. Not to worry. So what my daughters have got at the moment is they've got uh a few fish and so hopefully um won't prove too difficult to draw. Uh
  Thomas Price: As you can see that my artist artistic work is useless as well. Anyway um. And uh one of the best uh things about fish is that they don't really take uh too much looking after because uh with most of the animals if you're going away on holiday or whatever, you've gotta spend money or get a friend or whatever to look after them for you. Whereas if you got fish, you just gotta put the food in a a a dripper feed which feeds them over the uh couple of weeks that you're away and uh change the water every couple of months, and buy in a few plants, so. Other than the fact that they keep dying, uh fish are uh are not are are are reasonable pets in that uh they're low maintenance.
  Marcus Chambers: Great.
  Thomas Price: Right. Okay, uh if we're still all with us. Right okay, so. Work has been done on uh this uh project where by um twenty five Euros is uh the uh expected uh selling price.
  Marcus Chambers: Mm-hmm.
  Thomas Price: That information has come from our marketing manager here.
  Marcus Chambers: Yeah.
  Thomas Price: So we're looking to sell internationally, not just in Europe. We're looking at um having our production costs limited to uh twelve and an half Euro per unit. And therefore making a profit margin of uh well not actually a profit margin it's uh because obviously you're gonna have overheads and various other costs to uh take uh from uh from that to give you your profit margin per unit. And so depending what the uh the overhead uh costs are will determine uh how many units we're uh looking to sell or projecting to sell at this point in time. So um Experience with remote control, first ideas. New remote. So I guess we're looking at um having a discussion at this point in time to help uh you um folks design our our new
  William Watson: Yes.
  Thomas Price: model as it were. So uh any any thoughts?
  William Watson: Um I with some remote controls the buttons were a little small so they're quite hard to press so maybe we make something with uh easy to press buttons. As that is the main function.
  Thomas Price: Okay, so so basically we're looking for some um we're looking for a device that is um robust
  William Watson: Yes.
  Thomas Price: and and therefore uh won't get damaged too easily. a device that is uh What was the other things you said there?
  William Watson: Um sort of easy to use so the
  Thomas Price: Easy
  William Watson: buttons
  Thomas Price: to use.
  William Watson: are accessible.
  Thomas Price: Use.
  William Watson: is easy to use and see.
  Thomas Price: And see.
  William Watson: Yes.
  Thomas Price: Okay. Uh.
  Gregory Edwards: Can I just check? Is this just a television remote? Because a lot of um systems are kind of T_V_ video combined now, or T_V_ D_V_D_ combined. And
  Thomas Price: Mm-hmm.
  Gregory Edwards: one of the most annoying things is having like five remotes in the house. So if you've got a combined system, it could be a combined remote.
  Marcus Chambers: Mm.
  Gregory Edwards: Or is it just a television that we're supposed to be doing?
  Thomas Price: Oh I w um basically I'll get back to you on that. But it seems to Marcus Chambers sensible, 'cause as you rightly said, there's nothing more annoying than having three or four devices littered about the uh
  Marcus Chambers: Yeah.
  Thomas Price: about the room. And uh So a device for for all remotes.
  Marcus Chambers: I've
  William Watson: Sorry, you go. You
  Marcus Chambers: Okay.
  William Watson: go.
  Marcus Chambers: Yeah. Um one of the things um we found from the market research is that people often get confused by the number of buttons on them as well. 'Cause there's quite often lots and lots. And um sometimes uh they sort of remote controls defeat their own purpose because you're sat in the chair and the remote is somewhere else in the room. So whereas in the past you'd have to get up to change the channel, now you have to get up to sort of pick up the remote. So so I don't we need to sort of maybe think about how um we could maybe uh develop a remote control which moves around the room.
  Thomas Price: Hmm.
  Gregory Edwards: Comes to your whistle.
  Marcus Chambers: That's that's maybe something for the future when you can talk to your television, but
  William Watson: Yeah.
  Thomas Price: But is it in a sense it's r um mutually exclusive. You can't have both
  Marcus Chambers: Yeah.
  Thomas Price: the th the one device and then have few buttons on it to 'cause you want you want simplicity as well, you want any idiot to be able to use it.
  Marcus Chambers: Yeah.
  Thomas Price: Whilst at the same time you want, as you rightly said, one remote for all.
  Marcus Chambers: Mm-hmm.
  Thomas Price: And so these are probably mutually exclusive options
  William Watson: Yes.
  Thomas Price: that
  Marcus Chambers: Mm-hmm.
  Thomas Price: uh Hmm you could argue that experience of using devices and similar devices as people get more and more used to using remotes, therefore they're more with handling
  William Watson: Yeah.
  Thomas Price: them, therefore you can make them more complicated as time goes on.
  William Watson: Maybe we could um have better instructions with the remote. Or are we just doing the design of the remote control itself, or sort of the instructions that would come with it?
  Thomas Price: Better instructions.
  Marcus Chambers: Yeah. I mean we've done some research um about sort of you know what the cutting edge sort of hand held devices are, and a lot of them sort of use you know they're like they're like mini laptops.
  Thomas Price: Mm-hmm.
  Marcus Chambers: So it's possible that we could devise a system where where you're you're basically sort of holding a a miniature computer which is controlling all your your sort of your television, your stereo, and where you know if you buy a new thing then it sort of you can link it to that as well, maybe.
  Thomas Price: Okay. Um well we've got five minutes before the end of the meeting. So uh we have to uh start winding up. Um is there Next meeting in thirty minutes.
  William Watson: 'Kay.
  Marcus Chambers: Okay.
  Thomas Price: So um Right, so we've got I_D_ the Come on, where's my
  Marcus Chambers: If you just click return it should be okay. It'll get rid of the message.
  William Watson: Or not.
  Marcus Chambers: If you hit just hit return and it should get rid of the message.
  Thomas Price: Oh
  Marcus Chambers: Oh you've
  Thomas Price: there
  Marcus Chambers: got.
  Thomas Price: we go. Yeah. That's what I was looking for. Right. So we've got function Oh what happened to the
  Gregory Edwards: I think that might be back to the start.
  Marcus Chambers: Yeah.
  Gregory Edwards: Um if you grab the kind of uh slide
  William Watson: slide
  Gregory Edwards: to the
  William Watson: four
  Gregory Edwards: left and pull it down?
  Marcus Chambers: Yeah.
  Thomas Price: Right.
  Thomas Price: Right.
  William Watson: Okay.
  Thomas Price: Sorry about that. Okay, so we've got um the working design for I_D_. For U_I_D_ the technical functions design. Marketing, the user requirement specification. Specific instructions will be sent to you by your person by your personal coach. So. Are we all clear what objectives we're looking to meet in the next thirty minutes?
  Marcus Chambers: Mm-hmm.
  Thomas Price: And
  William Watson: Yes.
  Thomas Price: I guess I'll try and write up some minutes of uh this meeting to uh to give it to you for the next
  William Watson: 'Kay,
  Thomas Price: meeting.
  William Watson: yes.
  Marcus Chambers: Mm-hmm.
  Gregory Edwards: I'm not exactly clear on what we're designing the rem remote for. Is this a mun multi-functional one or do we decide that ourselves as we go away and work on it?
  William Watson: I think you just said at the start it was a television remote control,
  Thomas Price: Television
  William Watson: so maybe we
  Gregory Edwards: Right.
  Thomas Price: remote
  William Watson: should just
  Thomas Price: control.
  William Watson: stick to that unless we get told otherwise.
  Thomas Price: That's true, 'cause during during the course of our day we might make decisions based on information or meetings that would change
  Marcus Chambers: Okay
  Thomas Price: where
  Marcus Chambers: cool.
  Thomas Price: we're going. But at this point in time I think you're right that uh shall we make it just a T_V_. Okay?
  William Watson: 'Kay.
  Thomas Price: So we will depart. We will stay here and uh and break off. And I'll do minutes and and we'll see you in half and hour.
  William Watson: Okay, that's great.
  Gregory Edwards: Okay.
  Marcus Chambers: Okay
  Thomas Price: Okay.
  Marcus Chambers: cheers.
  Thomas Price: Right s
Updated Content: The group introduced themselves and their roles to each other. Thomas Price introduced the project aim and agenda to the group. The group acquainted themselves with the meeting-room equipment by drawing on the whiteboard. Thomas Price discussed the projected production cost and price point for the device. The group began a discussion about their own experiences with using remote controls and about usability features to be included in the design. Thomas Price instructed William Watson to prepare the working design, Gregory Edwards to research technical functions, and Marcus Chambers to prepare the user requirement specification. The group discussed the function of the prototype and decided that they should restrict the remote to television for the time being.