Extracted Content: Jessica Burton: Okay. Uh good afternoon.
  Brenda Walburn: Good afternoon.
  Jessica Burton: This is our third meeting already. I hope you enjoyed your lunch. I did anyway. Um let's see. Presentation three. Okay this is um the second phase uh we're going to discuss today. It's the conceptual design meeting. And a few points of interest in this meeting um are the conceptual specification of components. Uh conceptual specification of design. And also trend-watching. Um these are hopefully the points you addressed in uh your pre uh presentations going show Brenda Walburn in a few minutes. Um but first I'll show you the agenda. Uh first the opening. Then we have three presentations. Uh after that we have to come to a decision on remote control concepts. How we're going to make it. And then we're closing. We have about forty minutes. Uh so I suggest let's get started. Uh did someone encounter any problems during the preparation? No?
  Brenda Boone: No.
  Jessica Burton: Everything fine? That's nice. Then a little uh thing about the last meeting. Uh these are the points um we agreed on. The requirements and the target market. Uh requirements are uh teletext, docking station, audio signal, small screen, with some extras that uh button information. And we are going to use default materials. Um does somebody have any comments on these requirements? Maybe? No? These are just the the things we thought of, so maybe if you figured something else or thought of something else, just let Brenda Walburn know. And maybe we can uh work it out. And we're going to target uh sixty to to eighty year old customers. So now everybody knows what we're do we're doing, um I suggest let's get started with the presentations. So shall we keep the same uh line-up as uh last time?
  Brenda Walburn: Sure.
  Jessica Burton: Okay.
  Brenda Walburn: I'll start off then.
  Jessica Burton: Good luck.
  Brenda Walburn: Doh.
  Brenda Walburn: 'Kay I'm uh gonna inform you about the trend-watching I've done over the past few days. Um we've done some market research. We distributed some more enquetes, questionnaires. And um besides that um I deployed some trend-watchers to Milan and Paris to well get all of the newest trends. And I've consulted some additional trend-watch trend-watchers, after the original trend-watchers return, about what the the best design would be. Um okay these are some overall findings. Um most important thing is the fancy design. Um the research indicated that that was by far the most important factor. Um innovativeness was about half as important as the fancy design. By innovativeness this means um functions which are not featured in other remote controls. Um about half of, half as important as the innovativeness was the was easy to use. Um for our um group, we're focusing on the people of sixty to eighty y years old, this is um, these factors are slightly more equal. 'Kay these are some more group specific findings. Uh the older people prefer dark colours. Uh they like recognisable shapes, and familiar material. And our surveys have indicated that especially wood is pretty much the material for older people. Um this is, this image will give you a little bit of an impression about um the look-and-feel that um the remote should have. Um this leads us to some personal preferences. Uh the remote control and the docking station should uh blend in in the in the room. Um so this would mean no uh eye-catching designs. Just keep it simple and Well the docking station and small screen would be our main points of interest, because this would be the These would uh be the innovativeness in the remote control. So this would be very important that we at least include these features. Um well the trend-watchers I consulted advised that it b should be, the remote control and the docking station should be telephone-shaped. So you could imagine that uh the remote control will be standing up straight in the docking station. This is not really This is pretty much a new shape to uh older people. So they would prefer uh a design where the remote control just lies flat in the docking station. So it would be kinda more telephone-shaped. Um besides that we would advise um to bring two editions, one with a wood-like colour and maybe feel, and one with a grey-black colour. The wood-like for the more uh exclusive people. People with more money. Uh the grey-black colour for well people with less means. That would be all.
  Jessica Burton: Okay. Thank you. Any questions about the
  Brenda Walburn: Any
  Jessica Burton: the trends?
  Brenda Walburn: questions?
  Jessica Burton: Mayb
  Brenda Boone: Mm no.
  Jessica Burton: No? Okay, we go on to the next one.
  Brenda Boone: Um 'kay um. uh some uh research uh a about um designing of an interface. Um the uh last meeting uh we had a about um uh using a f few buttons. So uh um uh that's w what I what I want to uh uh to do in uh our design. So um finding an attractive uh way to control uh the remote control. Um the uh I found some uh something about uh speech uh recognition. So maybe uh we uh uh that. Uh and uh using a little uh display. So um findings. Um yeah just um we have just to focus on the primary um functions. So uh only uh buttons uh for uh sound, um for uh on-off, um uh shifting u up uh sa uh ca channel or uh down shifting down. Um uh let's see. Um yeah and Uh we uh need some uh new a attractive functions uh uh which attract uh uh people for using it. So uh it's uh like a speak uh speech uh recognition and um a special button for selecting uh subtitles. Just uh what we uh mentioned uh last uh meeting. Um and yeah overall um user-friendly. So uh using uh large large buttons. Um It's uh possible to uh uh to make um quite cheap uh system for uh speech uh recognition. Um you can think about um uh when you lost your um remote control, you can uh call it and um it gives an um sig signal. So uh uh yeah. And and uh for uh shifting up a sen uh c ch channel or uh for um uh putting out uh sound or something, you can uh just give a sign uh say um sound off or A and uh yeah. Television uh put the sound off uh put the sound off uh. Um Let's see. Uh yeah. I was thinking about the special uh button for uh subtitles, um just one button to keep it uh simple. Uh one push on the button uh you get uh uh small uh subtitles. Um double push push um, if double click, um so uh you get uh big uh subtitles, for uh people uh um uh which c f uh who can't uh read small uh subtitles. So uh Um Yeah and w we have to keep uh in general buttons uh so um we've got um the buttons we have to use. The on-off, sound on-off, sound higher or lower, um the numbers, uh zero to uh uh nine. Um the general buttons m more general b one button for shifting up and shifting down uh channel. Um also we want to uh use a little d display uh for um for displaying the uh the functions of the buttons. And um we can uh build in a function f which uh shows the channel or some uh which the t television is on. So um made a little uh picture of uh it. Um See. Um yeah. Just um we can put uh the on-off button uh over in this uh corner, um almost uh e all uh remote controls uh are using a on-off button on that place. Um so uh people uh will uh recognise uh um the button. So um D display uh of it, it's uh just a small display. Uh um you can put it uh on top. Um it's uh most uh uh place where people uh, most of looks at. So uh um and a special uh button for shifting up uh and uh shifting down uh channel, um it's uh on place where um the thumb of of the So you you can uh easily uh shift up or shift down. Um it's uh quite uh handy place. So um and uh all the f functions for subtitle uh one button, uh for sound uh Uh and uh for our design, um uh we have to discuss about it uh I think uh so uh the form of it so
  Jessica Burton: Okay.
  Brenda Boone: And that's it.
  Jessica Burton: Uh thank you.
  Marlene Ridgway: Okay. About the components design. Um for the energy source we can use a basic battery or, a as an optional thing, a kinetic energy, like in a watch, which you just shake and it produces energy. But if we choose for that option, the docking station would c become obsolete. So I don't think it's really an option. Uh for the casing, uh the uh manufacturing department can deliver uh a flat casing, single or double curved casing. we're gonna use. It's uh doesn't uh imply any technical restrictions. Uh as a case supplement, we could um, I thought of that l later, uh a rubber uh belt, like a anti-slip. Uh for the b buttons, we can use plastic or rubber. And the chip-set, um it says simple here, but it should be advanced, because we're using an L_C_D_ uh screen. And as uh the trend-watcher presentation showed, um people like wood, but it raises the price and it doesn't really fit the image, unless we would start two product lines. Form should follow function overall. Um well the kinetic energy source is rather fancy. But depends on what we want. I think we should disc discuss that. Um for the case, uh the supplement and the buttons, it really depends on the designer. And the chip-set uh really should be advanced because otherwise uh it would really be a simple uh remote control. And that's it.
  Jessica Burton: Okay. Thank you. So that brings us to the discussion about our concepts. Mm. 'Kay.
  Jessica Burton: So these are the points we have to discuss. Um first I think we can talk about the energy source, since that's um has a pretty big influence on production price, uh and image. Uh so uh f I think first of all we have to see uh it is possible to introduce kinetic energy
  Marlene Ridgway: Yes
  Jessica Burton: in our
  Marlene Ridgway: w
  Jessica Burton: budget,
  Marlene Ridgway: there
  Jessica Burton: I think.
  Marlene Ridgway: there are four options. We could use the basic normal battery.
  Jessica Burton: Yeah.
  Marlene Ridgway: Uh a hand dynamo. But I don't think that's really an option.
  Jessica Burton: Okay.
  Marlene Ridgway: You don't wanna swing before you can watch television.
  Jessica Burton: Yeah.
  Marlene Ridgway: Uh solar cells. But not every room is very
  Brenda Boone: Mm.
  Marlene Ridgway: light so it's
  Jessica Burton: No.
  Marlene Ridgway: not a very good option. Or the kinetic energy.
  Jessica Burton: Yeah. Okay.
  Brenda Walburn: And how exactly does the kinetic energy work?
  Marlene Ridgway: Well
  Brenda Walburn: You
  Marlene Ridgway: y
  Brenda Walburn: just
  Marlene Ridgway: you basically shake your
  Brenda Walburn: You
  Marlene Ridgway: remote,
  Brenda Walburn: use it and
  Marlene Ridgway: and
  Brenda Walburn: it
  Marlene Ridgway: then it
  Brenda Walburn: works.
  Marlene Ridgway: powers up. Yeah.
  Jessica Burton: Yeah.
  Brenda Walburn: Okay.
  Brenda Boone: Nah.
  Brenda Walburn: Well personally I don't think that older people like to shake their remote control before they use it.
  Marlene Ridgway: Yeah. That's true.
  Brenda Walburn: And besides that you mentioned it would make the docking station obsolete.
  Marlene Ridgway: Oh.
  Brenda Walburn: And I think our docking station could be one of the marketing issues with which we can um get great popularity for our product.
  Jessica Burton: Yeah.
  Brenda Boone: But
  Brenda Walburn: Um
  Brenda Boone: what's
  Brenda Walburn: wel
  Brenda Boone: the function? Yeah f for loading up uh the batteries.
  Brenda Walburn: Yeah you could load
  Brenda Boone: B
  Brenda Walburn: up the
  Brenda Boone: b
  Brenda Walburn: batteries, you could um insert the find the lost remote control function in there.
  Brenda Boone: Okay but uh it won't use uh much e energy uh I I believe. Uh it's uh just a small display so I believe uh it will run on one battery for um six months or f or or more. So
  Jessica Burton: Uh
  Brenda Boone: I believe one battery uh is just enough. Uh so
  Jessica Burton: Uh well I think
  Brenda Walburn: That's true.
  Jessica Burton: uh elderly people just like to have everything in place. And I don't think they they like uh remotes just laying everywhere in their rooms.
  Brenda Boone: Okay.
  Jessica Burton: So maybe a docking station will help them give the remote
  Brenda Boone: Yeah.
  Jessica Burton: a
  Brenda Boone: That's
  Jessica Burton: place.
  Brenda Boone: true. Yeah.
  Jessica Burton: And also what you said. Um you can introduce voice recognition by uh finding back
  Brenda Boone: Mm-hmm.
  Jessica Burton: your remote.
  Brenda Boone: Yeah.
  Jessica Burton: But I think it's um more efficient and cheaper to put it in the docking station. So you have a but button on your docking station which you can push, and then it starts beeping.
  Brenda Boone: Okay.
  Jessica Burton: And then we can we can still use
  Brenda Boone: Yeah.
  Jessica Burton: the voice recognition, but maybe then for only the the channels.
  Brenda Boone: Uh.
  Jessica Burton: That's
  Brenda Walburn: I'm wondering
  Jessica Burton: safe.
  Brenda Walburn: um what will the voice recognition mean for the production price?
  Jessica Burton: Yeah. That's a good
  Marlene Ridgway: Mm
  Jessica Burton: point.
  Marlene Ridgway: I don't have any information on pricing. So I'll have to ask the manufacturing department.
  Brenda Boone: Mm.
  Brenda Walburn: 'Cause in our earlier um market research, if you'd allow Brenda Walburn to
  Jessica Burton: Yeah,
  Brenda Walburn: go
  Jessica Burton: sure.
  Brenda Walburn: to the flat board,
  Jessica Burton: Go
  Brenda Walburn: SMARTboard.
  Jessica Burton: ahead.
  Brenda Walburn: Um so it was open here. Um we also um asked if w they would, if people would pay more for speech recognition in a remote control. Well you can see here, our target group would not do that.
  Jessica Burton: No.
  Brenda Walburn: So if that would increase the price for which we're selling our remote control
  Brenda Boone: Mm.
  Brenda Walburn: I would greatly advise not to do it.
  Jessica Burton: Yeah.
  Brenda Walburn: I think that would be better to uh insert in our other product, that is meant for the
  Jessica Burton: Yeah.
  Brenda Walburn: younger people.
  Marlene Ridgway: But that
  Brenda Boone: 'Kay.
  Marlene Ridgway: would also go for the L_C_D_ screen then I guess. It's a bit higher percentage, but
  Brenda Walburn: Um well this is Yeah but this is here the question was, would you prefer it. So that doesn't really mean they wouldn't pay extra for it. And on top of that the L_C_D_ screen would um help in making the remote control easier to use.
  Brenda Boone: Yeah.
  Jessica Burton: Yeah.
  Brenda Walburn: And
  Marlene Ridgway: Okay.
  Brenda Walburn: I think a voice recognition function would not make the remote control much
  Jessica Burton: Easier
  Brenda Walburn: easier
  Jessica Burton: to
  Brenda Walburn: to use.
  Jessica Burton: use? No, I think that's a good point.
  Brenda Boone: But uh is uh our uh research um about um bi large uh L_C_D_ sh uh display, or uh just a small one uh we want to uh use?
  Brenda Walburn: Um well this was for like an L_C_D_ screen like you would have on a on the the most advanced mobile phones.
  Brenda Boone: Okay.
  Brenda Walburn: So pretty large.
  Brenda Boone: Yeah.
  Jessica Burton: Yeah. I personally think the L_C_D_ screen we wanna use, with the extra information, I think nobody has anything against it. Because
  Brenda Boone: No.
  Jessica Burton: it's just uh some extra information, and it's easy to ignore as well.
  Brenda Boone: Yeah.
  Jessica Burton: So if you don't wanna use it you just don't use it. And um yeah I think the um Maybe we have to uh discard the voice recognition. Because it will increase cost uh signifi uh significantly. And I don't think the I don't think it will be a lot easier to use, as well.
  Brenda Boone: Yeah.
  Jessica Burton: So that brings us back to the energy. If we don't have the voice recognition, it will it won't use a lot of energy to use.
  Brenda Boone: Mm-hmm.
  Jessica Burton: Um So in that case we could use kinetic uh energy, but I think just a simple battery which you can reload on a docking station is just as good. And much cheaper as well.
  Brenda Boone: Yeah.
  Jessica Burton: So
  Marlene Ridgway: And that's the best choice.
  Jessica Burton: Okay let Brenda Walburn just choose for the battery. That brings us to the chip.
  Marlene Ridgway: Well there isn't any choice there because
  Jessica Burton: Just
  Marlene Ridgway: we're using
  Jessica Burton: the advanced.
  Marlene Ridgway: the the the the display. So it's gotta be advanced.
  Jessica Burton: Okay,
  Brenda Walburn: 'Kay.
  Jessica Burton: advanced chip. And then we get to the point of the case. Um which brings us a little bit back to marketing as well. Uh if we wanna choose for wood or the black and grey. Or both? Um as we saw there is not Yeah wood is a lot more expensive to produce.
  Brenda Walburn: Mm-hmm.
  Jessica Burton: Um but I think it will attract elderly people who wanna have something exclusive, which they can show off to their
  Brenda Walburn: Mm-hmm.
  Jessica Burton: grandkids. Look I've got a new remote
  Brenda Walburn: Well
  Jessica Burton: control,
  Brenda Boone: Uh
  Jessica Burton: and uh
  Brenda Boone: I
  Brenda Walburn: And
  Brenda Boone: dunno.
  Brenda Walburn: I think most important factor there is the wooden colour. So it wouldn't actually have to be wood,
  Jessica Burton: Yeah.
  Brenda Walburn: if it's just
  Jessica Burton: That's right.
  Brenda Walburn: wood-coloured.
  Brenda Boone: Mm.
  Jessica Burton: But with colour was a lot more expensive? Or?
  Marlene Ridgway: Mm I dunno.
  Jessica Burton: You don't know?
  Marlene Ridgway: I'll have to uh
  Jessica Burton: I think
  Marlene Ridgway: research.
  Jessica Burton: so because Yeah.
  Brenda Walburn: Probably.
  Brenda Boone: Mm.
  Jessica Burton: It's a lot more difficult to to handle and to to get in the right shape.
  Brenda Boone: Uh is it possible uh to make um changeable uh case. So um uh you 'cause uh Yeah with uh mobile phones uh uh so uh like the Nokia
  Jessica Burton: Yeah.
  Brenda Boone: mobile phones, uh when you can change the case of it.
  Jessica Burton: Change
  Brenda Boone: So
  Jessica Burton: the cases. Yeah.
  Brenda Boone: maybe it's possible uh possibility. So um um you have just to make one um standard um remote control,
  Jessica Burton: You can sell the cases.
  Brenda Boone: Yeah.
  Jessica Burton: Yeah I. think that's a very good option. Because um then you can advertise as well with the Give your grandfather a new case
  Brenda Boone: Yeah.
  Jessica Burton: for his remote control, or whatever. Because that's a it's something extra, it's something other remotes don't have,
  Brenda Boone: Yeah.
  Jessica Burton: which we can
  Brenda Walburn: Yeah
  Jessica Burton: get a great
  Brenda Walburn: that
  Jessica Burton: advantage
  Brenda Walburn: is true.
  Jessica Burton: point. So and then you can make them with colour. Black and grey, other colours
  Brenda Boone: Yeah.
  Jessica Burton: as well.
  Brenda Walburn: Yeah. We would have to look carefully into the design
  Jessica Burton: Costs.
  Brenda Walburn: though. 'Cause we would have to make one w uh control which would fit in with a wooden cover and a plastic cover.
  Jessica Burton: Yeah.
  Brenda Walburn: The more original one, or the more standard one.
  Jessica Burton: Yeah.
  Brenda Walburn: So that would
  Jessica Burton: So you suggest we should design two different telephones on
  Brenda Walburn: Well
  Jessica Burton: which
  Brenda Walburn: I wouldn't
  Jessica Burton: you can
  Brenda Walburn: design
  Jessica Burton: apply,
  Brenda Walburn: a telephone but
  Jessica Burton: yeah remote controls, on which you can apply different case covers,
  Brenda Walburn: Well no I
  Jessica Burton: for
  Brenda Walburn: think
  Jessica Burton: example.
  Brenda Walburn: w we should just, we should then just design one um
  Jessica Burton: Remote.
  Brenda Walburn: one remote, but it would have to be fancy with either the wood cover or the
  Jessica Burton: Yeah.
  Brenda Walburn: plastic one.
  Jessica Burton: Okay.
  Brenda Walburn: So, but that shouldn't be too much of a problem.
  Jessica Burton: So everybody's okay with the changing covers?
  Marlene Ridgway: Yes.
  Jessica Burton: I
  Brenda Boone: Yeah.
  Jessica Burton: think that's a good uh good option. Changing case covers.
  Brenda Walburn: Um I heard our Industrial Designer talk about uh flat, single and double curved.
  Marlene Ridgway: Yes.
  Jessica Burton: Yeah.
  Brenda Walburn: explain that a little more?
  Marlene Ridgway: Well the the general like most older remotes are flat, just straight.
  Brenda Walburn: Mm-hmm.
  Marlene Ridgway: And uh our d manufacturing department can also deliver single curved or double curved ca curved cases.
  Brenda Walburn: And what would single curved and double curved mean?
  Marlene Ridgway: Um it would just only affect the form, for as far as I know. So it's j really just up to the design department what we're gonna use.
  Brenda Walburn: Okay.
  Marlene Ridgway: It doesn't really matter for the price or the functionality.
  Brenda Walburn: So we can pretty much just
  Marlene Ridgway: Pick one
  Brenda Walburn: do whatever
  Marlene Ridgway: you like,
  Brenda Walburn: we want.
  Marlene Ridgway: yes.
  Jessica Burton: Mm.
  Brenda Walburn: 'Kay.
  Jessica Burton: Okay.
  Brenda Walburn: That's good.
  Jessica Burton: Uh but the form has to be um It has to It's has to be possible to stand up? Or just only to
  Brenda Walburn: No
  Jessica Burton: lie down?
  Brenda Walburn: just to lie down.
  Brenda Boone: okay.
  Jessica Burton: And the the
  Brenda Walburn: We'll
  Jessica Burton: cover
  Brenda Walburn: go for that.
  Jessica Burton: of the the docking station is also on top of the television then? Or not?
  Brenda Walburn: Well or besides it.
  Jessica Burton: And you can just yeah then click it in. That's okay. Um so the interface. What type of interface do we want to use? Um maybe you can make a little drawing of it on the
  Brenda Walburn: Mm-hmm.
  Jessica Burton: on the the board.
  Brenda Boone: Mm.
  Jessica Burton: Does somebody have ideas for a form or
  Brenda Boone: Uh we can just use the regular form of it, but it's um not quite uh fancy. So um Yeah.
  Brenda Walburn: Um you uh said you wanted to put the um changing channels button on the right side, so you could,
  Brenda Boone: Yeah.
  Brenda Walburn: so your thumb would be easily
  Brenda Boone: Yeah.
  Brenda Walburn: Well uh I think that was a very good point 'cause I pointed out earlier that a lot of remotes cause R_S_I_. So that would be great for that. Um I thought maybe we could just make one of those buttons on both the left and the right side.
  Brenda Boone: For
  Brenda Walburn: For
  Brenda Boone: uh
  Brenda Walburn: left-handed users
  Brenda Boone: Uh for Yeah yeah.
  Brenda Walburn: also.
  Jessica Burton: Yep.
  Brenda Boone: Mm. Yeah we um Is it possible to um program it s so uh you got on the left side uh or on the right side uh buttons for for shifting u up and shifting up? And on the uh other uh uh o other side uh buttons for uh shifting, uh for for the sound?
  Brenda Walburn: For the
  Brenda Boone: Or
  Brenda Walburn: volume.
  Brenda Boone: Or isn't
  Brenda Walburn: Um
  Brenda Boone: it?
  Jessica Burton: Mm.
  Brenda Walburn: well that could Yeah we could do that but I'm not sure if that would be very good for the easy, ease of
  Jessica Burton: Usabili
  Brenda Walburn: use.
  Jessica Burton: Yeah
  Brenda Boone: Yeah
  Jessica Burton: ease
  Brenda Boone: okay.
  Jessica Burton: of use will be a lot more difficult, and then it's
  Brenda Boone: Uh.
  Brenda Walburn: But if we would make um a changing channels and changing volume button on both sides, that would certainly yield great options for the design of the remote.
  Brenda Boone: Mm.
  Brenda Walburn: 'Cause it could be made all symmetrical and stuff.
  Brenda Boone: Yeah but
  Jessica Burton: But you have extra buttons.
  Brenda Boone: Yeah.
  Jessica Burton: So people can get confused.
  Brenda Boone: Yeah.
  Brenda Walburn: That is true.
  Brenda Boone: Yeah.
  Jessica Burton: Especially if they have the same writings on it.
  Brenda Boone: See um yeah. Or we have to make a left uh
  Jessica Burton: Can't
  Brenda Boone: For
  Jessica Burton: we make
  Brenda Boone: lefties
  Jessica Burton: uh
  Brenda Boone: and
  Jessica Burton: Can't we make a remote which you can flip over and use on the same
  Brenda Boone: Um
  Jessica Burton: functions as the normal one?
  Brenda Boone: You mean um
  Jessica Burton: Then you have
  Brenda Boone: Yeah
  Jessica Burton: to
  Brenda Boone: if
  Jessica Burton: Let's see if I ca A blank one. And then you get
  Jessica Burton: Here's a little L_C_D_ screen. Uh now I have to think.
  Jessica Burton: It's a plus and a min. No it's not very handy I think.
  Brenda Boone: Mm
  Jessica Burton: Because
  Brenda Boone: no.
  Jessica Burton: the plus and the min will be opposite and
  Brenda Boone: Yeah.
  Brenda Walburn: Yeah.
  Jessica Burton: all kinds of No that's not gonna work. I guess. Maybe
  Brenda Boone: Um
  Jessica Burton: we should Yeah. But is it a problem that left-handed persons use a different hand? I think the functions are that basic that nobody should have any problems with uh
  Brenda Walburn: Yeah.
  Jessica Burton: choosing a channel
  Brenda Walburn: That is
  Jessica Burton: or
  Brenda Walburn: true.
  Brenda Boone: Yeah. It's just uh u using uh your thumb.
  Jessica Burton: Y
  Brenda Boone: So
  Jessica Burton: yeah.
  Brenda Boone: um
  Jessica Burton: Yeah.
  Brenda Boone: it's
  Jessica Burton: I think we could just uh leave it a normal shape.
  Brenda Boone: Yeah.
  Marlene Ridgway: Yeah.
  Jessica Burton: Uh but maybe we have to make it a l a bit more fancy. In one or ano another way.
  Brenda Boone: Yeah. Um
  Marlene Ridgway: I think we should start by by choosing a case. Because that's the basis
  Brenda Boone: Yeah
  Marlene Ridgway: you're building on.
  Brenda Boone: yeah.
  Jessica Burton: Yeah.
  Brenda Walburn: Yeah.
  Jessica Burton: Um
  Marlene Ridgway: So I could
  Jessica Burton: yeah
  Marlene Ridgway: draw
  Jessica Burton: just
  Marlene Ridgway: them out. Let's look at the flat case. Oh. It's from the side so it's
  Brenda Boone: Mm-hmm.
  Brenda Walburn: Mm-hmm.
  Marlene Ridgway: rather normal.
  Jessica Burton: Yeah.
  Marlene Ridgway: The the single curved so I'm not really sure what they're gonna look like, but I think it's something like this.
  Marlene Ridgway: So this type should be better for you or better Should prevent
  Jessica Burton: Easier?
  Marlene Ridgway: repetitive strain injury a bit. And the double curved s looks something like this I guess.
  Brenda Boone: Mm.
  Marlene Ridgway: So th those are the three options we have.
  Jessica Burton: 'Kay.
  Brenda Walburn: Mm.
  Jessica Burton: I suggest um the single curved, because maybe the curve is pretty good to put the the screen in. Uh so that elderly people can uh use the remote control and at the same time look easily at the screen, because it's a bit,
  Brenda Boone: So um
  Jessica Burton: it has a bit of a angle.
  Brenda Boone: Do you say this um S uh Uh you got like uh sort of a I believe There?
  Brenda Walburn: Mm-hmm.
  Brenda Boone: So um you want to put a display over here? Or not?
  Jessica Burton: Yeah.
  Brenda Boone: Yeah.
  Jessica Burton: I think so. Yeah.
  Brenda Boone: Um Yeah.
  Jessica Burton: But
  Brenda Boone: Uh
  Jessica Burton: now it's
  Brenda Boone: we can make it
  Jessica Burton: Do
  Brenda Boone: um
  Jessica Burton: you have it upside down or
  Brenda Boone: Mm?
  Jessica Burton: Do you
  Brenda Boone: That's
  Jessica Burton: have it
  Brenda Boone: the top. So
  Jessica Burton: this
  Brenda Boone: uh
  Jessica Burton: that's
  Brenda Boone: this
  Jessica Burton: top?
  Brenda Boone: top. This down.
  Jessica Burton: Okay.
  Brenda Boone: Um maybe it's possible to uh make this side like um Let's see. Um Colour uh okay. Uh to make this side um like mm the right colour. Um bit like so uh um in the form of your hand. So um Uh it's an
  Jessica Burton: Yeah.
  Brenda Boone: So so the remote control have to um lay in your hand. So uh it's possib um yeah for
  Jessica Burton: So
  Brenda Boone: s
  Jessica Burton: get
  Brenda Boone: so
  Jessica Burton: your
  Brenda Boone: and
  Jessica Burton: mouse. Yeah.
  Brenda Boone: And to put uh the the buttons for um changing uh the channel uh over here uh
  Jessica Burton: Yeah. That's a good one.
  Brenda Boone: Yeah.
  Marlene Ridgway: Yeah.
  Jessica Burton: But I think it's better to put the screen uh on top.
  Brenda Boone: Uh
  Jessica Burton: So just
  Brenda Boone: rem
  Jessica Burton: flip it a hundred and eighty degrees around then you
  Brenda Boone: Yeah
  Jessica Burton: get
  Brenda Boone: but this place um
  Jessica Burton: here. If you can have this one, you turn it like this. And then flip it upside down.
  Brenda Boone: Uh it's Yeah I dunno um
  Jessica Burton: Because uh maybe your hand is in the way, if you have the display
  Brenda Boone: Yeah.
  Brenda Walburn: Mm-hmm.
  Jessica Burton: here.
  Marlene Ridgway: It's more logical to have it on top as well because,
  Jessica Burton: I think i
  Brenda Boone: Yeah
  Marlene Ridgway: like on your mobile phone,
  Brenda Boone: so
  Marlene Ridgway: it's always above.
  Brenda Walburn: Yeah.
  Jessica Burton: On top.
  Brenda Boone: So
  Jessica Burton: Yeah.
  Marlene Ridgway: Oh maybe you should just s start on a blank page.
  Brenda Walburn: Yeah.
  Jessica Burton: So then we get
  Jessica Burton: Here's That's the curve.
  Brenda Boone: Five minutes.
  Jessica Burton: Here the display, and then buttons. Yeah and then we can have a little bit off here and here maybe. Just that's for left hand and right hand users.
  Brenda Boone: Yeah.
  Brenda Walburn: Mm-hmm.
  Jessica Burton: And then h the rest of the buttons over
  Brenda Boone: Yeah.
  Jessica Burton: here.
  Brenda Boone: But um the on-off button, um still on the top
  Jessica Burton: Yeah
  Brenda Boone: uh
  Jessica Burton: still
  Brenda Boone: Yeah.
  Jessica Burton: here jus
  Brenda Boone: Yeah.
  Jessica Burton: That's
  Brenda Walburn: And I'd prefer the corners to be round.
  Jessica Burton: Yeah.
  Brenda Boone: Yeah. 'Kay.
  Brenda Walburn: Think
  Jessica Burton: Should
  Brenda Walburn: that would
  Jessica Burton: be
  Brenda Walburn: be
  Jessica Burton: more
  Brenda Walburn: better.
  Jessica Burton: bit more friendly, yeah.
  Brenda Walburn: Friendly on the eye.
  Jessica Burton: 'Kay. Supplements. That's okay. Where's my mouse? Then We've got a general idea of the concepts and the materials we're going to use. So now for the next meeting uh we'll have to look at the look-and-feel design. It's important that the corporate design image uh is going to be in the remote. So check out the corporate website maybe. The user interface design, it's the same story. And product evaluation. So Marlene Ridgway and User Interface Designer are going to work together on this one. But you're going to get your instructions I think sended by the coach. So just um I will put these um minutes on the in the folder.
  Marlene Ridgway: Okay.
  Jessica Burton: And then we're going to uh try to finish our project, and uh make a good design for all the grandfathers and grandmothers, I think. Which are Uh let's see. I'm not sure if you're going to start right away to work together or I think you're going to fill in the questionnaires first.
  Brenda Boone: Yeah.
  Brenda Walburn: Yeah.
  Jessica Burton: And then you'll get a message.
  Brenda Boone: Yeah.
  Jessica Burton: So that's uh basically it. Maybe this one? Then we can save this one in the folders group. Uh yes, it's here.
  Brenda Walburn: Yeah.
  Jessica Burton: SMARTboard, there it it. So if you wanna have a look at it, it's over there in the projects folder.
  Brenda Boone: Yeah.
  Jessica Burton: And then I guess we'll start in thirty minutes again. Thank
  Brenda Walburn: Very
  Jessica Burton: you.
  Brenda Walburn: good.
  Marlene Ridgway: Okay.
  Brenda Boone: Okay.
Updated Content: Jessica Burton opened the meeting and recapped the decisions made in the previous meeting. Brenda Walburn discussed his personal preferences for the design of the remote and presented the results of trend-watching reports, which indicated that there is a need for products which are fancy, innovative, easy to use, in dark colors, in recognizable shapes, and in a familiar material like wood. Brenda Boone discussed the option to include speech recognition and which functions to include on the remote. Marlene Ridgway discussed which options he preferred for the remote in terms of energy sources, casing, case supplements, buttons, and chips. The team then discussed and made decisions regarding energy sources, speech recognition, LCD screens, chips, case materials and colors, case shape and orientation, and button orientation.