Extracted Content: Rachel Whitaker: Okay.
  Janet Melton: 'Kay so we'll try to zip through this, since we're short on time. Welcome everybody. Um hope your sessions went well. Um so this is our functional design meeting, we're going to consider um user needs, technical effects, and the working design of our remote control. Um I've been taking meetings on the minute minutes on the meetings, and I'll be putting them in the shared documents folder so if there's anything you need to refer to you can find them in there. Um I'll get the ones up for next time, um they're not finished yet. Right. Um so can we have updates from everyone from what you've worked on just kind of a quick summary of anything interesting that you'd like to share
  Rachel Whitaker: And I can
  Janet Melton: or discuss
  Rachel Whitaker: start if
  Janet Melton: in
  Rachel Whitaker: you
  Janet Melton: this
  Rachel Whitaker: want.
  Janet Melton: sure.
  Rachel Whitaker: Is there an order? No. We haven't
  Janet Melton: Hm?
  Rachel Whitaker: decided on an order.
  Janet Melton: No,
  Rachel Whitaker: First.
  Janet Melton: any any order's fine.
  Rachel Whitaker: Okay.
  Janet Melton: Yeah.
  Rachel Whitaker: Um, how do I put this
  Diane Griffin: Just
  Rachel Whitaker: I'll just
  Diane Griffin: uh
  Rachel Whitaker: put the cable in.
  Janet Melton: Oh yeah, sorry.
  Rachel Whitaker: Is that it? Can you see? Oh, here. Okay. So what happens it doesn't work?
  Janet Melton: It sh it takes a few seconds I think.
  Diane Griffin: You may need to
  Tracy Carter: Who's that?
  Rachel Whitaker: No. Is it in the
  Diane Griffin: But
  Rachel Whitaker: right
  Diane Griffin: sometimes
  Rachel Whitaker: thing?
  Diane Griffin: you have to do it it's like a three set setting cycle, so press it a couple times, hold down function and then press
  Rachel Whitaker: Oh wait,
  Diane Griffin: F_ eight.
  Rachel Whitaker: um. Uh. You need to help Rachel Whitaker.
  Janet Melton: Uh-huh, and then press function.
  Rachel Whitaker: Yeah.
  Janet Melton: and F_ eight.
  Tracy Carter: Could you just plug it back into hers because
  Rachel Whitaker: Oh,
  Tracy Carter: she had
  Rachel Whitaker: wait.
  Tracy Carter: oh.
  Rachel Whitaker: is that it?
  Diane Griffin: Adjusting.
  Janet Melton: Here we are.
  Diane Griffin: The cable might be a little loose or something.
  Rachel Whitaker: Right
  Diane Griffin: Oh,
  Rachel Whitaker: here we
  Diane Griffin: you got
  Rachel Whitaker: are.
  Diane Griffin: it.
  Janet Melton: Oh. Is it on?
  Rachel Whitaker: We're here.
  Janet Melton: Okay.
  Rachel Whitaker: Okay, um. In order to see what the functional requirements were to be found, um a hundred people were tested in a usability laboratory through just their habits to n know their habits were observed and questionnaires were given out. Um, the findings in in some cases matched what we were talking about. Custome Customers and users don't like the way remote controls look, they don't like the way they feel, they don't think they match their operating behaviour, and an example is what we were talking about, the buttons, they only use ten per cent of the buttons, so later on there's a study of the buttons that they use most and I think we should design according to these buttons. Easy to lose, and R_S_I_. I don't know what R_S_I_ means. Um the person that did the questionnaire obviously did, I don't have a
  Janet Melton: Hm.
  Rachel Whitaker: clue. Um, according to the frequency of use and the relevance of each buttons, I have made a list of the buttons that we should focus on in order of importance. So the most important buttons are those to do with channel selection. They're used about a hundred and sixty times per hour. And um yeah so and and people like to zap a lot apparently, so this is the order. Channel selection, teletext, volume, and power. The other ones are the settings, and they're used less than you know zero point eight to zero point five times per hour, and this means that I think we can we could have like a a button for all the settings, and then, just one, and then from there go on to the audio on the screen, either on the remote or on the television. Um, about the screen, and speech recognition, some people are more willing than others to actually pay for that. And if we look at the market, f people from well from fifteen to thirty five year old year olds, I don't really know how to describe this, um ninety one to seventy six percent of people in that age range are willing to pay more for this sort of product, while people that are above thirty five years ol um years old go from thirty five percent to eight percent, so people that are sixty five for example wouldn't actually pay for this sort of thing. Um I don't I don't know um what the decision to be made is, but I think that the people that actually do buy remotes m more are those like teenagers and young professionals and um, most likely, but we should discuss this together. And that's all I have to say about the matter,
  Janet Melton: 'Kay.
  Rachel Whitaker: um. Shall I what do I do? Do I give this to someone else?
  Janet Melton: Yeah. Just move right on.
  Tracy Carter: Right. So get this.
  Tracy Carter: Okay so now I need to press F_ eight, what is it?
  Janet Melton: Uh function
  Rachel Whitaker: Function
  Janet Melton: F_
  Rachel Whitaker: F_
  Janet Melton: eight.
  Rachel Whitaker: eight.
  Tracy Carter: 'Kay. What's function?
  Janet Melton: It's the little blue w it's
  Tracy Carter: Oh
  Janet Melton: the
  Tracy Carter: function,
  Janet Melton: one
  Tracy Carter: I
  Janet Melton: th
  Tracy Carter: see
  Janet Melton: yeah.
  Tracy Carter: it. There we go.
  Janet Melton: Yeah should be It should be yeah.
  Tracy Carter: Okay. Um. This my presentation about the uh technical functions design and I basically just tried to focus on um just what what functions we need and how to make that the best function for the user. So uh and I just sort of like thought about it myself and looked on the internet. And okay so basically um I think i uh like it is really important that we sort of get this done in a user friendly and fashionable way. Um so I think things like uh you know keeping buttons together that like close together that um are used in the same way, uh or um maybe that making 'em the same colour, keeping the number of buttons the uh leas you know to a minimum, and also things like is it is it um is it uh can you c y small enough large enough I'm not sure we c I guess we would need to do some research about, I would, about what size is appropriate and that sort of thing, um but basically we need to make sure that it turns on and off the T_V_. Does it have like capacity to change the channels? Um does it do or do we need to have like functions for cable or V_C_R_? And then, is it findable, and uh how do we wanna do that? And um I just thought that these two remotes were pretty boring, um I dunno if this will work but And I think we can find something that's more fun to look at and use than either of those. Just I mean I like the one on the right better, just because it does have fewer buttons, uh but I mean I think we sh can sort of think about things like um like colour and you know size, shapes, that sort of thing, to best fit the user. That concludes my presentation. Okay. You need the little thingy.
  Tracy Carter: Ooh.
  Diane Griffin: How do I um
  Rachel Whitaker: S
  Rachel Whitaker: That's on view. Oh.
  Diane Griffin: Right. Okay so this is on the working design, which is sort of the uh mechanical functions of the remote, um and the method I used was to basically look at and incorporate ideas from our last meeting. Um so I think we need two basic functions which is just the basic remote functions, the user can input a channel or volume setting and it will be output to the T_V_. And also we talked about um a location function where maybe you could press a button on the T_V_ and it would send sort of signal to the remote where it would beep or flash or vibrate or whatever to tell you where the remote is. So the components we need are an energy source to power the remote, um input which would probably be buttons, although um we just talked about voice recognition, processor to take the information, um something to transmit it to the T_V_, and we also need something on the remote that would receive the location signal and have an output, like possibly a beep or a vibration. And also you need a sender for location signal, which would probably be a separate um thing that we'd have to sell with the remote and people could stick it on their T_V_ or stick it on their wall. And this is just sort of an overview of how the remote works. Power comes from the battery, goes to the chip, um and then it is sent from there to an infrared bulb which is probably the easiest way to send to the T_V_. And then for the location function, you would have a sender on the T_V_ which would output some sort of signal, um we could use I_R_ but we'd probably wanna use radio instead. That signal would go to a receiver which it would process it, and it would be output in the form of a buzzer or a light lighting up. Um so my personal preferences for how to build the remote would probably be uh, battery for the energy source, that way you wouldn't have to plug it in, um a button pad for input, um we can purchase a pre-made chip which will handle all the processing stuff, I_R_ transmitter to communicate to the T_V_, that's just sort of standard, um so most T_V_s have an I_R_ receiver. Probably a radio receiver to send out location function and to receive it and I'd probably say a buzzer for the location function on the remote itself. So that concludes my presentation.
  Janet Melton: 'Kay.
  Tracy Carter: Do you know about like I dunno,
  Diane Griffin: Mm?
  Tracy Carter: you seem like you know about
  Diane Griffin: Yeah, uh I d I was an engineer
  Tracy Carter: Okay.
  Diane Griffin: before I came here.
  Tracy Carter: Cool.
  Janet Melton: Okay. Well thank you everybody. Um we have we'll discuss that and then I just wanna mention some new project requirements that came in. Um, teletext is apparently outdated, so due to internet popularity, so that's off the list. Um, also our remote should be used only for television, um, no extra internet kinda fancy things, just the remote and the television. Um and also we need to incorporate our corporate image onto this, so um the phrase is, we put fashion in electronics, so let's be fashionable I guess. Um if we have something I mean silver and and gold or yellow are our colours, so if we had a like a kind of silver one like you saw, and yellow writing, something like that. Okay. Um. So we need to make some decisions on the remote control functions. Um, yeah. Do Let's I guess we should yeah make some kind of brainstorming,
  Tracy Carter: Like
  Janet Melton: see
  Tracy Carter: in terms
  Janet Melton: what we can
  Tracy Carter: of
  Rachel Whitaker: How it looks
  Tracy Carter: how
  Rachel Whitaker: or
  Tracy Carter: it looks, or like what
  Janet Melton: wha
  Tracy Carter: it does?
  Janet Melton: what um well probably our target group and how it's gonna going to appeal to our target group
  Tracy Carter: Okay.
  Janet Melton: and I dunno the the s the buttons and what it does and
  Tracy Carter: Yeah.
  Janet Melton: that sort of thing.
  Tracy Carter: Okay.
  Janet Melton: So.
  Tracy Carter: So Is our target group then people so do we wanna go ahead and design this thing with the finder button? So
  Janet Melton: I think that
  Diane Griffin: It's
  Janet Melton: seems
  Diane Griffin: easy to
  Janet Melton: to
  Diane Griffin: implement.
  Janet Melton: yeah.
  Tracy Carter: Okay.
  Janet Melton: Mm.
  Tracy Carter: So
  Rachel Whitaker: the the
  Tracy Carter: the
  Rachel Whitaker: buzzer you
  Tracy Carter: yeah,
  Rachel Whitaker: mean,
  Tracy Carter: yeah,
  Rachel Whitaker: yeah,
  Tracy Carter: yeah.
  Diane Griffin: Locator.
  Rachel Whitaker: for sure,
  Tracy Carter: So
  Rachel Whitaker: yeah.
  Tracy Carter: then our target age group would be the nineteen to thirty five range,
  Janet Melton: Yeah,
  Tracy Carter: what
  Janet Melton: teenagers
  Tracy Carter: was it?
  Janet Melton: and young professionals.
  Rachel Whitaker: Well that's for speech recognition.
  Tracy Carter: Oh.
  Diane Griffin: Well
  Janet Melton: Oh,
  Rachel Whitaker: And screen.
  Janet Melton: uh.
  Rachel Whitaker: That's only for
  Diane Griffin: I
  Rachel Whitaker: speech
  Diane Griffin: was thinking
  Rachel Whitaker: recognition
  Diane Griffin: about
  Rachel Whitaker: and
  Diane Griffin: that
  Rachel Whitaker: screen.
  Diane Griffin: but uh I mean speech recognition is really hard to programme, and also,
  Janet Melton: Yeah.
  Diane Griffin: if the T_V_ is on it's making sound and the people on the T_V_ are talking, and if somebody says like one, then the T_V_'s gonna switch itself to channel one,
  Rachel Whitaker: Yeah yeah
  Diane Griffin: or
  Tracy Carter: Yeah.
  Janet Melton: Mm.
  Rachel Whitaker: yeah.
  Diane Griffin: it
  Rachel Whitaker: I
  Diane Griffin: seems
  Rachel Whitaker: mean
  Diane Griffin: like a silly,
  Tracy Carter: Yeah.
  Diane Griffin: I'm not sure how you would implement it.
  Rachel Whitaker: I just put the values in.
  Janet Melton: And
  Rachel Whitaker: But
  Janet Melton: if
  Rachel Whitaker: um
  Janet Melton: if you
  Rachel Whitaker: the
  Janet Melton: consider
  Rachel Whitaker: screen
  Janet Melton: our
  Rachel Whitaker: is
  Janet Melton: budget,
  Rachel Whitaker: the same as
  Janet Melton: it
  Rachel Whitaker: what,
  Janet Melton: probably
  Diane Griffin: It's a cool idea
  Janet Melton: if you consider
  Diane Griffin: but
  Janet Melton: our budget, to
  Tracy Carter: Yeah.
  Janet Melton: h have speech recognition programmed in every single remote might be a little
  Rachel Whitaker: Yeah, I'm
  Janet Melton: pricey.
  Rachel Whitaker: happy with
  Janet Melton: Yeah.
  Rachel Whitaker: that. Completely.
  Tracy Carter: Hu yeah.
  Janet Melton: Right so um
  Tracy Carter: Okay so are we gonna have just some kind of a like we'll have the buzzer
  Janet Melton: yeah.
  Tracy Carter: on the som like on the T_V_ itself.
  Diane Griffin: Well you would have to have a button on a T_V_
  Rachel Whitaker: Yeah.
  Diane Griffin: or on your wall or some place
  Janet Melton: Yeah.
  Diane Griffin: since the T_V_ already has power.
  Tracy Carter: Yeah.
  Diane Griffin: Yeah you click the button, it's gonna send out a signal, and I was thinking, I_R_ is line of sight, so unless the remote is like actually in front of the T_V_ it's not gonna work, um so probably like a radio signal like on a
  Tracy Carter: Okay.
  Diane Griffin: on a
  Tracy Carter: Okay.
  Rachel Whitaker: Yeah.
  Diane Griffin: cell phone.
  Rachel Whitaker: Okay.
  Tracy Carter: Alright.
  Janet Melton: Okay.
  Diane Griffin: Sends out a signal and then the the remote hears the signal and so it beeps probably.
  Tracy Carter: Okay.
  Janet Melton: So you you'd need like a separate base for that or like something
  Diane Griffin: It would have
  Janet Melton: you
  Diane Griffin: to
  Janet Melton: can
  Diane Griffin: be sold separately because
  Janet Melton: right.
  Diane Griffin: if the sender's on the remote then you'd have to find the remote first to click the button to
  Janet Melton: Yeah,
  Diane Griffin: find the remote.
  Janet Melton: yeah.
  Rachel Whitaker: So do you plug it in the T_ you plug it in T_V_, this
  Diane Griffin: Yeah, it'd
  Rachel Whitaker: thing?
  Diane Griffin: probably just stick it on your T_V_ so
  Rachel Whitaker: Okay.
  Diane Griffin: if you need to find the remote, click
  Rachel Whitaker: Okay.
  Diane Griffin: the button.
  Tracy Carter: So it's now like a two-part
  Diane Griffin: Yeah,
  Tracy Carter: thing.
  Diane Griffin: so it would be
  Tracy Carter: Okay.
  Diane Griffin: a two part package.
  Tracy Carter: Alright.
  Rachel Whitaker: Okay.
  Tracy Carter: So we get to design that too. Make it fashionable. Um, okay.
  Janet Melton: So do you think even though we're not talking about speek speech recognition our target group should still be teenagers and young professionals.
  Diane Griffin: Yeah I think
  Rachel Whitaker: Yeah.
  Diane Griffin: so.
  Janet Melton: Huh.
  Rachel Whitaker: Just there.
  Janet Melton: Okay.
  Rachel Whitaker: Mm. Are we um should that thing be on the thing to put the you s you talking about a home for it. Do you
  Janet Melton: Yeah.
  Rachel Whitaker: still want to build a little thing next to the telly or to p hang on the wall or shall we leave that for now?
  Janet Melton: We probably leave that. I mean I guess one takes care of the other,
  Rachel Whitaker: Okay.
  Janet Melton: like
  Tracy Carter: Yeah.
  Janet Melton: um if you can yeah if you can call it then it's
  Tracy Carter: Then it can live anywhere.
  Janet Melton: Yeah.
  Rachel Whitaker: Okay.
  Tracy Carter: Yeah.
  Rachel Whitaker: For the so you have that button, that so there's is there a light or shall we leave just have a radio?
  Diane Griffin: Um
  Rachel Whitaker: Are we just
  Diane Griffin: on the
  Rachel Whitaker: having
  Diane Griffin: T_V_
  Rachel Whitaker: a radio?
  Diane Griffin: or on the phone?
  Rachel Whitaker: On the phone.
  Diane Griffin: Um
  Tracy Carter: T
  Diane Griffin: it seemed
  Rachel Whitaker: You don't
  Diane Griffin: like a
  Rachel Whitaker: need a light.
  Diane Griffin: a beep seemed the most
  Rachel Whitaker: Yeah
  Diane Griffin: reasonable
  Rachel Whitaker: yeah
  Diane Griffin: to Rachel Whitaker,
  Rachel Whitaker: yeah.
  Diane Griffin: I think
  Janet Melton: Yeah.
  Diane Griffin: that's what the phone
  Rachel Whitaker: Yeah
  Diane Griffin: has,
  Rachel Whitaker: yeah.
  Janet Melton: Yeah.
  Diane Griffin: I mean when you need to find your phone, you just have someone call it and it starts ringing somewhere and then you can figure out
  Janet Melton: And
  Diane Griffin: that it's
  Janet Melton: like
  Diane Griffin: in the
  Janet Melton: if
  Diane Griffin: couch
  Janet Melton: the
  Diane Griffin: or
  Janet Melton: if
  Diane Griffin: wherever.
  Janet Melton: the phone's under the couch, you
  Rachel Whitaker: You
  Janet Melton: might
  Rachel Whitaker: can
  Janet Melton: not
  Rachel Whitaker: hear
  Janet Melton: see the
  Rachel Whitaker: it's
  Janet Melton: light,
  Rachel Whitaker: under the
  Janet Melton: so
  Rachel Whitaker: couch yeah.
  Janet Melton: yeah.
  Tracy Carter: So
  Rachel Whitaker: Um,
  Tracy Carter: i Yeah.
  Rachel Whitaker: So need the other buttons. So we have this
  Janet Melton: So
  Rachel Whitaker: mm.
  Janet Melton: I mean the two remotes that you had shown r I don't remember
  Rachel Whitaker: Mm-hmm.
  Janet Melton: who
  Tracy Carter: That
  Janet Melton: showed
  Tracy Carter: was
  Janet Melton: them,
  Tracy Carter: that
  Janet Melton: yeah
  Tracy Carter: was Rachel Whitaker.
  Janet Melton: you you did um, they're I mean one looked like it was for V_C_R_ type thing, and the other looked like just
  Tracy Carter: I
  Janet Melton: television.
  Tracy Carter: think w I think they're both sort of just like general remo they're both general
  Janet Melton: Oh really.
  Tracy Carter: remotes. And
  Janet Melton: 'Cause that
  Tracy Carter: uh
  Janet Melton: that is something we have to decide, is whether we want to have V_C_R_ capabilities.
  Tracy Carter: Yeah.
  Diane Griffin: Does anyone know if V_C_R_s are the same across international?
  Janet Melton: They're not
  Rachel Whitaker: They're not,
  Janet Melton: no.
  Rachel Whitaker: no.
  Diane Griffin: Okay, so you'd
  Tracy Carter: S
  Diane Griffin: need like a whole different
  Janet Melton: Yeah,
  Diane Griffin: set of buttons
  Janet Melton: that's
  Rachel Whitaker: It
  Diane Griffin: for
  Janet Melton: right,
  Diane Griffin: everybody's
  Rachel Whitaker: not
  Janet Melton: yeah.
  Rachel Whitaker: V_H_S_
  Diane Griffin: V_C_R_s.
  Janet Melton: But
  Rachel Whitaker: here?
  Janet Melton: D_V_D_ probably is.
  Diane Griffin: Yeah, other than that region and coding thing.
  Tracy Carter: Um
  Rachel Whitaker: But V_C_R_s
  Janet Melton: And and if we're if we're targeting young professionals and teenagers, I mean it's gonna be D_V_D_ type,
  Rachel Whitaker: Yeah.
  Janet Melton: that's
  Rachel Whitaker: Yeah,
  Janet Melton: the
  Rachel Whitaker: for
  Janet Melton: the
  Rachel Whitaker: sure.
  Janet Melton: technology
  Tracy Carter: Yeah.
  Diane Griffin: Mm-hmm.
  Janet Melton: these days.
  Tracy Carter: So. Okay, let's see if I can I think still though, it shouldn't be that hard to take like just reduce the number of buttons you know,
  Janet Melton: Yeah.
  Tracy Carter: like 'cause if you just have like one menu button, that works like with a you know, or you can just kind of scroll through the
  Janet Melton: Yeah.
  Tracy Carter: options u
  Rachel Whitaker: Well
  Tracy Carter: that
  Rachel Whitaker: for
  Tracy Carter: come
  Rachel Whitaker: sure
  Tracy Carter: up
  Rachel Whitaker: we
  Tracy Carter: on the
  Rachel Whitaker: need
  Tracy Carter: T_V_.
  Rachel Whitaker: the um I think we can just design the channels? I mean power's
  Janet Melton: S
  Rachel Whitaker: just a button,
  Tracy Carter: Yeah.
  Diane Griffin: Mm-hmm.
  Janet Melton: Huh.
  Rachel Whitaker: and it's not used that much, s and
  Tracy Carter: Yeah.
  Rachel Whitaker: it's usually that red
  Tracy Carter: Yeah.
  Rachel Whitaker: and I think it's quite nice to keep it like
  Tracy Carter: Yeah.
  Rachel Whitaker: red.
  Janet Melton: You know, I've seen some remotes that where you just hold one, like if you hold one down it's it's a different colour than the other buttons but that turns it on. So you don't actually have a separate power button,
  Rachel Whitaker: Oh
  Janet Melton: it's
  Rachel Whitaker: okay,
  Janet Melton: just
  Rachel Whitaker: yeah.
  Tracy Carter: It seems like that would be
  Janet Melton: But
  Tracy Carter: hard though. I mean, like because unless you
  Janet Melton: It might
  Tracy Carter: know
  Janet Melton: be confusing.
  Tracy Carter: yeah.
  Janet Melton: Yeah.
  Tracy Carter: Just 'cause I wouldn't I would probably pick it up and just
  Janet Melton: Yeah.
  Tracy Carter: be like uh why is there no on
  Janet Melton: Besides
  Tracy Carter: button.
  Janet Melton: you like to be able
  Diane Griffin: Yeah,
  Janet Melton: to go
  Diane Griffin: I never
  Rachel Whitaker: Yeah.
  Janet Melton: power.
  Diane Griffin: think to hold something
  Janet Melton: I
  Tracy Carter: Yeah.
  Diane Griffin: down.
  Tracy Carter: B
  Janet Melton: have the power
  Tracy Carter: Yeah.
  Janet Melton: I guess. So we definitely want a power button and numbers.
  Tracy Carter: Yeah.
  Janet Melton: Right.
  Rachel Whitaker: Well even um iPod thing, like um, I don't know if people like this
  Tracy Carter: That
  Rachel Whitaker: scrolling
  Tracy Carter: sort of like
  Rachel Whitaker: I
  Tracy Carter: joystick
  Rachel Whitaker: don't know.
  Tracy Carter: flat
  Janet Melton: Mm.
  Tracy Carter: touch
  Rachel Whitaker: Yeah.
  Tracy Carter: thing, yeah.
  Rachel Whitaker: Because people li seem now the iPod's out people seem to like this thing that there's no Know you don't have one two three
  Tracy Carter: Yeah,
  Rachel Whitaker: four
  Tracy Carter: yeah.
  Rachel Whitaker: five
  Tracy Carter: I think that's an interesting idea, 'cause
  Janet Melton: Mm.
  Tracy Carter: it's cool, it's it's funny like you f like I just I don't have an iPod but like I, you know, I just like started messing around with one of my friend's the other day, and you just sort of and it's funny how you pick it up and you just figure out how to use it quite easily, like it's not that hard,
  Janet Melton: Yeah.
  Tracy Carter: you know.
  Rachel Whitaker: Yeah yeah, it's just and it's one thing
  Tracy Carter: Yeah,
  Rachel Whitaker: which has
  Tracy Carter: and
  Rachel Whitaker: everything.
  Tracy Carter: it is yeah. It is really but do you need a screen then, do you have to have a screen then?
  Rachel Whitaker: Well can't it tell the like can't you
  Diane Griffin: Yeah, you
  Rachel Whitaker: if
  Diane Griffin: can
  Rachel Whitaker: you
  Diane Griffin: have the number going
  Rachel Whitaker: you
  Tracy Carter: Yeah.
  Rachel Whitaker: can
  Diane Griffin: around
  Rachel Whitaker: have the number
  Diane Griffin: in the corner.
  Tracy Carter: Okay.
  Rachel Whitaker: on the telly going
  Tracy Carter: Yeah.
  Rachel Whitaker: like one two three four five
  Tracy Carter: Yeah.
  Rachel Whitaker: once you scroll
  Tracy Carter: Okay
  Rachel Whitaker: and then
  Tracy Carter: so we
  Janet Melton: Oh
  Tracy Carter: have
  Janet Melton: that's
  Tracy Carter: this
  Janet Melton: gonna
  Tracy Carter: like scrolling sort of button.
  Janet Melton: Is that like on
  Tracy Carter: Like a
  Janet Melton: on
  Tracy Carter: disc.
  Janet Melton: a mouse pad where
  Tracy Carter: Yeah.
  Janet Melton: like kind
  Tracy Carter: Yeah.
  Janet Melton: of
  Tracy Carter: It's
  Janet Melton: okay.
  Tracy Carter: like it's just like the same
  Janet Melton: I've
  Rachel Whitaker: It's
  Janet Melton: never
  Rachel Whitaker: like
  Tracy Carter: technology
  Janet Melton: used
  Rachel Whitaker: l
  Janet Melton: one.
  Tracy Carter: as a mouse
  Rachel Whitaker: this
  Janet Melton: No.
  Tracy Carter: pad.
  Rachel Whitaker: like that, and
  Janet Melton: Okay.
  Rachel Whitaker: then you do that.
  Janet Melton: Okay.
  Tracy Carter: Yeah. Yeah
  Rachel Whitaker: And
  Tracy Carter: and
  Rachel Whitaker: then
  Tracy Carter: then.
  Rachel Whitaker: you can have um if you actually just want to zap, you can have like a thing like that, and that, and then it can just be plus and minus.
  Tracy Carter: Okay. So like it's like a little part of the circle that Or it
  Rachel Whitaker: Yeah,
  Tracy Carter: oh
  Rachel Whitaker: you can
  Tracy Carter: so it's just
  Janet Melton: Well
  Tracy Carter: a region
  Janet Melton: i
  Tracy Carter: of the circle that you can
  Rachel Whitaker: Yeah, click
  Tracy Carter: zap.
  Rachel Whitaker: o actually
  Tracy Carter: Okay.
  Rachel Whitaker: click
  Janet Melton: We could
  Rachel Whitaker: on to
  Janet Melton: we could
  Rachel Whitaker: have
  Janet Melton: even have four buttons, like, if that's the if that's the mouse, you could have the volume
  Rachel Whitaker: Yeah.
  Janet Melton: and the channel changers
  Tracy Carter: Yeah.
  Janet Melton: just like on that as well.
  Tracy Carter: be like the top it and the bottom So do you need to
  Diane Griffin: Doesn't
  Tracy Carter: okay.
  Diane Griffin: it rotate though, so it'll be
  Tracy Carter: Well
  Diane Griffin: moving
  Tracy Carter: y you
  Diane Griffin: around.
  Tracy Carter: have to you have to like be able to change the function of it to like
  Rachel Whitaker: What do you mean the function?
  Tracy Carter: I mean like okay, 'cause so I dunno, I guess Okay so when you g scroll your thumb like around it, it'll s like say you're go you're going clockwise. That that means you're gonna go up the channels, and then you
  Rachel Whitaker: Yeah.
  Tracy Carter: scroll the other way and it'll go down.
  Rachel Whitaker: Yeah.
  Diane Griffin: Mm-hmm.
  Tracy Carter: But then so if you wanna switch to the to u do you have to switch to a function where like y so you're either in that mode or you're in the mode where like it just has like the four like you know this is channel that way, that's that way and volume is up and down.
  Rachel Whitaker: Yeah but it knows for some
  Tracy Carter: It
  Rachel Whitaker: reason.
  Tracy Carter: just
  Rachel Whitaker: The iPod knows.
  Tracy Carter: It just kno the iPod knows. S
  Diane Griffin: If it works on an iPod then it works.
  Tracy Carter: Yeah.
  Janet Melton: Huh.
  Tracy Carter: So you just you just
  Diane Griffin: I don't
  Tracy Carter: can
  Diane Griffin: have
  Tracy Carter: either
  Diane Griffin: one.
  Tracy Carter: do this or like you can just touch it if you want.
  Rachel Whitaker: Well for the volume you have to press the middle,
  Tracy Carter: Okay. That's
  Rachel Whitaker: and
  Tracy Carter: what
  Rachel Whitaker: then
  Tracy Carter: I mean. Okay.
  Rachel Whitaker: go up.
  Tracy Carter: Okay so you have to like
  Diane Griffin: Oh.
  Tracy Carter: press this middle region and then you can scroll up, go up
  Rachel Whitaker: And
  Tracy Carter: and down.
  Rachel Whitaker: then
  Janet Melton: So
  Rachel Whitaker: well
  Janet Melton: it's like
  Rachel Whitaker: if you
  Janet Melton: holding
  Rachel Whitaker: do that it goes, but if you like that makes more sense 'cause there's already ones with up and down
  Janet Melton: You can
  Rachel Whitaker: here,
  Janet Melton: o
  Rachel Whitaker: that I've seen.
  Janet Melton: And you you is there an extra actual button? Or are you actually you're just using the mouse to go up and down.
  Rachel Whitaker: Well what you
  Janet Melton: Like
  Rachel Whitaker: for the
  Tracy Carter: It's
  Rachel Whitaker: iPod
  Tracy Carter: like a b
  Rachel Whitaker: you press an w right if you're on the channel let's
  Janet Melton: Mm-hmm.
  Rachel Whitaker: say, then you press on the middle
  Janet Melton: Mm-hmm.
  Rachel Whitaker: and then if you do that again the volume goes up, and
  Janet Melton: Right.
  Rachel Whitaker: if you do that it goes down.
  Janet Melton: Mm-hmm.
  Rachel Whitaker: But if you wanna keep it with volume here and here, I'm pretty sure
  Janet Melton: this for channels, right,
  Rachel Whitaker: Yeah.
  Janet Melton: then y wouldn't the volume need to be separate somehow? Like you could just have
  Rachel Whitaker: I don't know, you
  Janet Melton: Oh,
  Rachel Whitaker: could click
  Janet Melton: like
  Rachel Whitaker: and then have it up and
  Tracy Carter: Like
  Rachel Whitaker: down,
  Janet Melton: Oh
  Rachel Whitaker: but
  Janet Melton: you
  Rachel Whitaker: I think
  Janet Melton: could actually
  Tracy Carter: I think we can go on the fact that it does just work with the
  Rachel Whitaker: Yeah
  Tracy Carter: iPod.
  Rachel Whitaker: yeah
  Diane Griffin: Yeah.
  Janet Melton: Yeah.
  Tracy Carter: But
  Rachel Whitaker: yeah.
  Tracy Carter: the only thing is like, iPods are so expensive, like, it has to be is that part of
  Janet Melton: Is that what makes them
  Tracy Carter: yeah,
  Janet Melton: expensi I think
  Tracy Carter: I
  Janet Melton: it's
  Tracy Carter: dunno,
  Janet Melton: all of they
  Tracy Carter: I dunno.
  Janet Melton: have
  Diane Griffin: I don't
  Janet Melton: so
  Diane Griffin: think
  Janet Melton: much
  Diane Griffin: so.
  Janet Melton: memory though,
  Tracy Carter: You don't
  Janet Melton: that's
  Tracy Carter: think so?
  Janet Melton: it's
  Diane Griffin: I
  Tracy Carter: Okay.
  Diane Griffin: don't think it's the
  Rachel Whitaker: I think
  Diane Griffin: wheel
  Rachel Whitaker: it
  Diane Griffin: dealy.
  Janet Melton: Yeah.
  Rachel Whitaker: Yeah.
  Janet Melton: I think
  Tracy Carter: Okay.
  Janet Melton: it's the uh h it's their capabili I mean they it can hold what like five thousand
  Diane Griffin: Yeah.
  Janet Melton: songs
  Tracy Carter: Yeah.
  Janet Melton: or something.
  Tracy Carter: I'm thinking we could if if we're hav So ba I mean but an iPod
  Diane Griffin: re-programmable
  Tracy Carter: just has that
  Diane Griffin: aren't
  Tracy Carter: circle
  Diane Griffin: they? You
  Tracy Carter: thing
  Janet Melton: Yeah.
  Diane Griffin: can put
  Tracy Carter: you
  Diane Griffin: on
  Tracy Carter: know.
  Diane Griffin: your songs and then put on a
  Janet Melton: Yeah.
  Diane Griffin: different set, that's
  Janet Melton: Yeah.
  Diane Griffin: probably why they're expensive,
  Tracy Carter: Yeah.
  Diane Griffin: they're like little
  Janet Melton: S
  Diane Griffin: computers.
  Tracy Carter: Yeah. Well like since it just has the circle thing, you could make it a qui a kind of cool shape, like it could be a cool
  Rachel Whitaker: Yeah.
  Tracy Carter: sort of
  Diane Griffin: Mm-hmm.
  Tracy Carter: you know, because it could be circular,
  Rachel Whitaker: Yeah
  Tracy Carter: you
  Rachel Whitaker: yeah
  Tracy Carter: know,
  Rachel Whitaker: yeah.
  Tracy Carter: or something weird like
  Rachel Whitaker: Well
  Tracy Carter: that,
  Rachel Whitaker: it could
  Tracy Carter: just
  Rachel Whitaker: just be simple instead of being a l mass. Because, the other thing, I didn't tell you all my presentation, is that people find it find that it's a big waste of time to have to learn how to use your remote
  Tracy Carter: Yeah.
  Rachel Whitaker: and that's
  Janet Melton: Mm.
  Rachel Whitaker: another thing they complained about.
  Tracy Carter: Yeah.
  Rachel Whitaker: Um, what other buttons were there? Volume oh we've ts just said that.
  Tracy Carter: So okay.
  Rachel Whitaker: Channel selection.
  Tracy Carter: This is just for T_V_, it's not for or it is does need to be compatible with
  Diane Griffin: I
  Janet Melton: Um
  Diane Griffin: A D_V_D_ is simple, you just have play,
  Tracy Carter: Yeah.
  Diane Griffin: pause,
  Tracy Carter: So
  Rachel Whitaker: Menu.
  Tracy Carter: how do
  Janet Melton: You
  Diane Griffin: eject,
  Tracy Carter: you
  Janet Melton: know
  Tracy Carter: switch
  Janet Melton: actually our our new project requirements,
  Diane Griffin: and
  Janet Melton: I'm
  Diane Griffin: menu
  Janet Melton: not sure
  Diane Griffin: maybe.
  Janet Melton: if they meant o onl use only for television as in not for D_V_D_ or just not
  Diane Griffin: Oh yeah.
  Janet Melton: internet type things. So I'll I'll
  Tracy Carter: Okay.
  Janet Melton: check that and update you on the next
  Tracy Carter: So like if we had
  Janet Melton: But
  Tracy Carter: that
  Janet Melton: we'll hold off on that 'cause
  Tracy Carter: Yeah.
  Janet Melton: But s yeah
  Rachel Whitaker: But
  Janet Melton: uh.
  Rachel Whitaker: D_V_D_ players usually have their own remote.
  Tracy Carter: That's true, yeah.
  Janet Melton: Yeah.
  Tracy Carter: So, I know I'm not c really
  Diane Griffin: But it's
  Tracy Carter: clear
  Diane Griffin: cool
  Tracy Carter: on
  Diane Griffin: to have
  Tracy Carter: what
  Diane Griffin: it all on one, because
  Rachel Whitaker: Yeah,
  Diane Griffin: you
  Tracy Carter: Yeah,
  Diane Griffin: wanna turn
  Rachel Whitaker: yeah,
  Diane Griffin: it
  Tracy Carter: yeah.
  Rachel Whitaker: yeah.
  Diane Griffin: on then you wanna turn up the volume, and then you wanna go to
  Janet Melton: Mm.
  Diane Griffin: the menu,
  Rachel Whitaker: Yeah.
  Tracy Carter: So
  Diane Griffin: so
  Tracy Carter: you'd have
  Janet Melton: Mm.
  Tracy Carter: to have like
  Diane Griffin: you don't
  Tracy Carter: I
  Diane Griffin: wanna
  Tracy Carter: think
  Diane Griffin: switch.
  Tracy Carter: you would have to have like a function switch button, you know somewhere so like you can you're either on T_V_, you're on D_V_D_ or you're on V_C_R_,
  Janet Melton: Yeah.
  Tracy Carter: or you're like.
  Diane Griffin: Well
  Tracy Carter: So
  Diane Griffin: but D_V_D_ is only like four buttons.
  Rachel Whitaker: Yeah, it
  Tracy Carter: Yeah,
  Rachel Whitaker: is
  Tracy Carter: but
  Rachel Whitaker: only
  Tracy Carter: I mean
  Rachel Whitaker: fun
  Tracy Carter: like to switch
  Janet Melton: But
  Tracy Carter: the fun
  Janet Melton: i
  Tracy Carter: so like to switch the function of the little circle disc, the touch
  Diane Griffin: Oh.
  Tracy Carter: pad.
  Janet Melton: Yeah.
  Diane Griffin: But I think the circle only does channel isn't applicable to D_V_D_ really 'cause you don't wanna
  Tracy Carter: Yeah but it it
  Diane Griffin: but
  Tracy Carter: would
  Diane Griffin: volume
  Tracy Carter: be
  Diane Griffin: is and volume is actually controlled on the T_V_ so you don't have to switch.
  Tracy Carter: So but I'm saying like, does it make sense to have like some kind of a button, so like you're if you're on T_V_, like you can switch channels, but then if uh if you're on D_V_D_ then like the channel bu like the the region of the disc that was for channels is for like switching to different tracks or s you know, to different I mean do we need to think about that, that like
  Janet Melton: Um,
  Diane Griffin: Yes we
  Janet Melton: yeah,
  Diane Griffin: can try
  Janet Melton: let's
  Diane Griffin: that.
  Janet Melton: think about it 'cause we need to wrap up. Um
  Rachel Whitaker: Okay.
  Janet Melton: let's see. Um so everyone's gonna go finish their questionnaire, uh then when we come back after lunch we'll have thirty minutes of individual work, um yeah, so think about the things we've discussed and bring some new ideas to our next meeting. See you soon.
Updated Content: Rachel Whitaker gave a presentation about user requirements as shown through a usability study and demonstrated that only a small number of functions on a remote were used with frequency. She suggested focusing the interface design on the most frequently used functions. Tracy Carter presented some questions that should be considered in making the device user-friendly and displayed two existing remote controls for comparison. Diane Griffin discussed the necessary internal components and how they operated together, and presented her preferences for the type of each component to be used. Janet Melton gave the group several new requirements for the project. The group discussed several product features and decided that the remote will feature a locator function and will not feature speech recognition. The group discussed whether or not the remote should control multiple devices. They discussed important button functions to include and increasing usability by incorporating a scroll wheel in the design. Janet Melton instructed the other participants to fill out a questionnaire and to work on their individual presentations for the next meeting.