Extracted Content: Jennifer Swiney: So we come to the third meetings. I have good. Um so in the last meeting we have discussed the functional design and now we will talk about the conceptual design. So we
  Mary Schultz: Okay
  Jennifer Swiney: will talk about
  Mary Schultz: so
  Jennifer Swiney: some
  Mary Schultz: I think I
  Jennifer Swiney: specific
  Mary Schultz: will
  Jennifer Swiney: details.
  Mary Schultz: do my presentation on the components concept so can you please uh open uh I'm participant two. Components
  Jennifer Swiney: This
  Mary Schultz: design. Okay so uh the first thing uh I have done is to to made a review together with the uh manufactural uh department and have which components was uh available to build a remote control. So for energy sources we have we have to choose between the solar energy, hand dynamo and uh kinetic um well uh kinetic uh technique to to store the energy. We also um we also can put a regular battery in the in the remote control.
  Jennifer Swiney: Uh
  Mary Schultz: Now
  Jennifer Swiney: this is what we have decided in the last meeting. But if we use battery
  Mary Schultz: Yeah b uh f well uh I meant uh by by battery I meant uh I will not have a uh a wire between the remote control and the energy source but uh I didn't fou we didn't decide yet which kind of battery we will put inside the the remote. So uh it's a point to discuss. Then uh the case material we have uh uh also several choices, like wood, rubber, titanium or latex. But uh well it's not a a re uh well a real issue for the from the technical uh point of view. Concerning the interface uh we can we can put mm just simple buttons or scrolls or buttons uh much more complicated, but it also requires that the chip to process
  Maritza Garcia: Mm.
  Mary Schultz: the button is more complicated so. And uh this is the last point, the choice of chips. So what I have f found is that I think basic battery or kinetic uh energy uh collection is the is the better way to provide energy because I think solar energy wi won't work in a cluttered uh
  Maritza Garcia: Mm.
  Mary Schultz: uh environment. So um so I think we can start with these two main things. For the case uh well uh I think that uh titanium is um is a good choice because it's trendy and it's uh it's uh well it's modern and uh user are are are mm will be uh very happy to have a a a nice remote. For the interface uh I think that we can ach achieve uh all the desired functionalities by s just uh using uh rubber buttons, simple buttons and th thus this allow to use a regular chip that are uh well cheaper.
  Maritza Garcia: Mm.
  Mary Schultz: And s so uh we can move to the next slide.
  Maritza Garcia: Sorry.
  Mary Schultz: Yeah.
  Maritza Garcia: What is this single curved what does it mean?
  Mary Schultz: Well uh uh i i it's uh it's the the shape of the um
  Maritza Garcia: So it's
  Mary Schultz: of
  Maritza Garcia: it's
  Mary Schultz: the
  Maritza Garcia: not
  Mary Schultz: remote. You you will have the well um the the curve will fit into
  Maritza Garcia: Yo
  Mary Schultz: your
  Maritza Garcia: l
  Mary Schultz: hand when you
  Maritza Garcia: yeah. When
  Mary Schultz: grab
  Maritza Garcia: you hold
  Mary Schultz: the
  Maritza Garcia: on it, it is comfortable to hold.
  Mary Schultz: Yeah. It's more confog f comfortable that if these
  Maritza Garcia: Okay.
  Mary Schultz: uh it's completely flat.
  Maritza Garcia: Yeah. And the battery, is it kind of a rechargeable or it doesn't matter?
  Mary Schultz: Yeah the um that's the point. The kinetic one is uh y you can recharge uh by the um
  Maritza Garcia: That that's what it means by
  Mary Schultz: Yeah and
  Maritza Garcia: kinetic.
  Mary Schultz: by well by just by moving the ar uh
  Maritza Garcia: Okay.
  Mary Schultz: your arm the
  Maritza Garcia: Mm-hmm.
  Mary Schultz: mm well the remote will uh accumulate energy.
  Maritza Garcia: Okay.
  Mary Schultz: But I d I don't know it's if it is feasible because I don't know if yet if
  Maritza Garcia: Mm.
  Mary Schultz: if the user will move enough
  Maritza Garcia: Mm.
  Mary Schultz: to provide
  Maritza Garcia: Okay.
  Mary Schultz: the remote um
  Maritza Garcia: Yeah.
  Mary Schultz: all the necessary energy.
  Maritza Garcia: Yeah. We we might check with our R_ and D_ department to see if they this product
  Mary Schultz: Yeah.
  Maritza Garcia: ready
  Mary Schultz: And
  Maritza Garcia: for market.
  Mary Schultz: yeah and so can you go to the next slide please. So and uh that's uh that summarize well what I have said.
  Maritza Garcia: Mm mm.
  Mary Schultz: So
  Maritza Garcia: Wha
  Mary Schultz: uh you're right we can uh see in our uh R_ and D_ uh
  Maritza Garcia: Ah the department.
  Mary Schultz: if the kinetic metal is sufficient
  Maritza Garcia: Mm.
  Mary Schultz: to provide enough energy. That's it.
  Maritza Garcia: Uh
  Maritza Garcia: So I um keep in touch with the R_ and D_ department.
  Mary Schultz: Oh yeah I take care, it's all right.
  Maritza Garcia: So the titanium case is the normal case that I'll show you some pictures that I have and you tell Leah Salisbury whether they are titanium case or not.
  Mary Schultz: All
  Maritza Garcia: 'Cause I am
  Mary Schultz: right.
  Maritza Garcia: not very sure,
  Mary Schultz: Yeah.
  Maritza Garcia: plastic, titanium or whatever. There's another point I want to make, is that the uh well you've seen them I le na my presentation that um I point out some why buttons are not the mm not the only ways you can use Yeah. Yeah, maybe n
  Jennifer Swiney: We will, okay.
  Jennifer Swiney: Three.
  Maritza Garcia: Yeah. So the user interface is uh i it uses the aspect uh of a computer system, a programme which can be seen or heard or otherwise perceived by the human user and the commands and mechanism the user uses to control its operation and input data. So you s this gives you the ways to input data and we have uh we are more we emphasise more on the graphical user interface here. The idea is to represent buttons as figures, diagrams, symbols and on so you you can easily when you look at the symbols you understand what it is doing.
  Jennifer Swiney: What's the function of this
  Maritza Garcia: Yeah.
  Jennifer Swiney: button.
  Maritza Garcia: Yeah. So.
  Jennifer Swiney: I think it makes the the interface really
  Maritza Garcia: Ea easy to use. So next one.
  Jennifer Swiney: Graphical user
  Maritza Garcia: function
  Jennifer Swiney: interface.
  Maritza Garcia: five. So I can use the button, the mouse maybe.
  Jennifer Swiney: use of pictures.
  Maritza Garcia: Yeah. So next line. So the here are some examples. So they cluster the buttons together. They group them into col they colour them and uh they have different forms as well. Mm but this interface are kind of confusing. Uh basically there are too many buttons. Right. Next one.
  Mary Schultz: Yeah.
  Maritza Garcia: So some people are propose voice recognition and so ah by the way I receive an email from the from one our departments saying that the voice recognition has been used in the coffee machine for this by a company when you tell the you say good morning coffee machine and the machine are reply to you.
  Mary Schultz: Mm-hmm
  Maritza Garcia: So
  Mary Schultz: mm
  Maritza Garcia: I just
  Mary Schultz: mm.
  Maritza Garcia: got an email saying that. And it seems like this voice recognition technology is ready to be used so we might consider that,
  Mary Schultz: Yeah
  Maritza Garcia: supposedly.
  Mary Schultz: fine.
  Maritza Garcia: The next one. Mm so somebody some people use uh some people use a spinning wheel th with the L_C_ display so instead of using the mm buttons you have a L_C_D_ screen and then there you can u you can use that as buttons, you can use that as real so so that could be an option as well. Touch screen, I mean.
  Jennifer Swiney: Yeah.
  Maritza Garcia: Next one. And some people propose a scroll button. Integrated with push buttons or you may have scroll button instead of p just the push button. Like the one we have here. Uh, next one. So mm
  Jennifer Swiney: Mm-hmm.
  Maritza Garcia: so there are a few aspects that I collected here. So s basically this deals with special users, children, handicapped people, old people, and uh mm and prog basically they are programmable, specially for children. And uh mm yeah yeah. And then they also secure uh covers, to protect uh secure and hidden programming and battery covers that will protect your settings. So But we don't have to integrate all these complicated features. I'm just saying that the currently in the market there are there are control there are remote controllers f customisable for different people. Yeah, so that's the point. The next one. And uh you see this is the one where you have the protection cover. Mm maybe useful for children, they migh you you they only see the buttons outside. And for adults wh where you have more control you can see the one inside. So the adults might wanna have a key to lock that to pr so children will not touch the button inside.
  Mary Schultz: Yeah.
  Maritza Garcia: Yeah.
  Mary Schultz: S a good idea.
  Maritza Garcia: The next one. So this guy this is another company that provides big buttons. At I see that that is useful for old people and then you don't get it lost. But for our product we don't need a big one because you have voice recognition
  Mary Schultz: Yeah.
  Maritza Garcia: e eventually with use. And you can call your remote controller if you don't know where it is. T_V_ remote controller where are you? And then, he will beeps and to say that I am here, for example. Is it possible?
  Jennifer Swiney: We should
  Leah Salisbury: Yeah.
  Jennifer Swiney: include
  Mary Schultz: Yeah.
  Jennifer Swiney: speech synthesis in this case, no?
  Maritza Garcia: Uh?
  Mary Schultz: Yeah
  Leah Salisbury: Yeah.
  Mary Schultz: but uh as Norman say if uh there is uh already a commercial product
  Maritza Garcia: Yeah.
  Mary Schultz: available who t who do this we we can check uh to integrate
  Maritza Garcia: Yeah.
  Mary Schultz: it i
  Maritza Garcia: Yeah.
  Mary Schultz: into our uh new remote control.
  Maritza Garcia: Yeah. And uh, this is another one where you can uh the the the part that's a V_ standing for the volume. So there's a up arrow and a down arrow. top on the top up arrow if
  Jennifer Swiney: Mm-hmm.
  Maritza Garcia: you up arrow there's a V_ like as as if it's turning down so it's confusing interface, so I
  Mary Schultz: Yeah
  Maritza Garcia: wanna
  Mary Schultz: yeah.
  Maritza Garcia: avoid this kind of thing in the design. And here are is uh here is a s short summary that I summary that I compiled after the findings I found. Big buttons are convenient, voice recognition helps, push buttons, scroll buttons, spinning wheels can be used as navigation tools. And uh user customisable is important and finally simplicity simplicity is the key. Yeah. So we have many concepts
  Mary Schultz: Hmm.
  Maritza Garcia: there but we have to choose later on
  Mary Schultz: Yeah.
  Maritza Garcia: which ones are important to be used. And basically
  Mary Schultz: Well I
  Maritza Garcia: uh
  Mary Schultz: I think you it's it's it's fine you have uh reviewed all all the
  Maritza Garcia: Yeah.
  Mary Schultz: possibilities but uh uh well uh i if we consider that uh the user interface is displayed on the T_V_ screen
  Maritza Garcia: Mm-hmm.
  Mary Schultz: I don't think we nee uh we need much buttons in the remote since we
  Maritza Garcia: Yeah.
  Mary Schultz: we just have to navigate and to have a okay or enter key or
  Maritza Garcia: Mm.
  Mary Schultz: things like that, because uh adding wheels or scrolls uh makes the thing more complicated and more
  Maritza Garcia: Mm.
  Mary Schultz: expensive also, so.
  Maritza Garcia: Okay.
  Jennifer Swiney: Or maybe we can include the user manual in the in the remote control and we should have just a button like help and you say uh and you ik you press the button help and maybe you see the the user
  Mary Schultz: Yeah.
  Jennifer Swiney: m
  Mary Schultz: That's
  Jennifer Swiney: might
  Mary Schultz: a good
  Jennifer Swiney: in
  Mary Schultz: idea.
  Jennifer Swiney: the in the T_V_.
  Mary Schultz: To have a help button.
  Maritza Garcia: A help button.
  Mary Schultz: Yeah.
  Jennifer Swiney: Yeah.
  Maritza Garcia: So you are display on the screen.
  Mary Schultz: On
  Jennifer Swiney: On
  Maritza Garcia: So
  Mary Schultz: the T_V_
  Jennifer Swiney: T_V_
  Mary Schultz: screen. On
  Maritza Garcia: on
  Mary Schultz: the
  Maritza Garcia: the
  Mary Schultz: T_V_
  Maritza Garcia: T_V_
  Jennifer Swiney: T_V_
  Maritza Garcia: screen.
  Mary Schultz: screen
  Jennifer Swiney: screen.
  Mary Schultz: the
  Jennifer Swiney: So
  Mary Schultz: uh
  Jennifer Swiney: just you
  Maritza Garcia: Okay.
  Jennifer Swiney: push
  Mary Schultz: how to
  Jennifer Swiney: the
  Mary Schultz: use
  Jennifer Swiney: button
  Mary Schultz: your
  Jennifer Swiney: and
  Mary Schultz: remote.
  Maritza Garcia: Okay.
  Jennifer Swiney: we will
  Leah Salisbury: Oh.
  Maritza Garcia: Okay. So that eliminates all the complicated documentation,
  Jennifer Swiney: Yeah.
  Maritza Garcia: okay. So
  Leah Salisbury: But
  Maritza Garcia: wi
  Leah Salisbury: people are often enough looking at the help, once they see
  Jennifer Swiney: If
  Leah Salisbury: the
  Jennifer Swiney: the
  Leah Salisbury: help
  Jennifer Swiney: if
  Leah Salisbury: button they say oh this is a complicated stuff.
  Jennifer Swiney: No In the case
  Mary Schultz: Uh
  Jennifer Swiney: where
  Mary Schultz: yeah.
  Jennifer Swiney: they need help,
  Leah Salisbury: It's a psychology.
  Jennifer Swiney: in the case where they need
  Mary Schultz: In a marketing
  Jennifer Swiney: help.
  Mary Schultz: point
  Leah Salisbury: Okay.
  Mary Schultz: of view.
  Leah Salisbury: And
  Maritza Garcia: Yeah.
  Leah Salisbury: let us see what the market demands. We could
  Jennifer Swiney: Yeah.
  Leah Salisbury: just go to my presentation.
  Mary Schultz: But uh wel well I
  Jennifer Swiney: It's
  Mary Schultz: think
  Jennifer Swiney: just for user customizable,
  Leah Salisbury: Yeah that's
  Jennifer Swiney: for
  Leah Salisbury: right.
  Jennifer Swiney: kids or old people.
  Maritza Garcia: Mm.
  Leah Salisbury: I mean
  Jennifer Swiney: So
  Leah Salisbury: it just showed us the remote with an cap which could be used for kids and if you remove the
  Jennifer Swiney: So it's the same
  Leah Salisbury: Same remote with some
  Jennifer Swiney: Can be used by both
  Leah Salisbury: Both
  Jennifer Swiney: kids
  Leah Salisbury: yeah.
  Jennifer Swiney: and
  Maritza Garcia: Mm.
  Jennifer Swiney: old people.
  Maritza Garcia: Well uh what I s propose is that uh you know a remote controller, i it could be a cube, is uh a small device that uh looks like a cube and maybe you can just change the um the buttons, if you ch turn one side you get one one buttons, you turn the other side you get the other buttons, so for maybe new generation people who get used to the computer they want lots of controls.
  Jennifer Swiney: Maybe for kids, kids they like uh
  Maritza Garcia: Small
  Jennifer Swiney: t no
  Mary Schultz: Uh
  Jennifer Swiney: l
  Mary Schultz: well.
  Jennifer Swiney: they
  Mary Schultz: So
  Jennifer Swiney: like
  Maritza Garcia: Yeah.
  Jennifer Swiney: to
  Mary Schultz: le le let's see what
  Maritza Garcia: Let's
  Mary Schultz: uh
  Maritza Garcia: see the
  Mary Schultz: what
  Maritza Garcia: market demand.
  Mary Schultz: people
  Leah Salisbury: And
  Mary Schultz: want.
  Leah Salisbury: then we
  Maritza Garcia: What
  Leah Salisbury: decide what
  Maritza Garcia: what market
  Leah Salisbury: what we can
  Maritza Garcia: yes
  Leah Salisbury: yeah.
  Maritza Garcia: yes.
  Leah Salisbury: So we just made an marketing survey of what people need from our remotes and how it could be special from the other remotes. And we got the best on the responses from the questionnaires. Uh we also have some prizes for the most creative solutions. And we found the following solutions which we could which would be helpful for our design. So seventy percent of the users, they find their remote controls very ugly, they don't find it pleasant to use in the size or usage or anything. And eighty percent of the people they are always l I mean they are willing to spend more money if the remote control would look fancy. And the current remote controls do not match well the operating behaviour of the user. And seventy five percent of the users said they zap a lot. And fifty
  Jennifer Swiney: Yeah.
  Leah Salisbury: percent say they use only ten percent of the buttons,
  Mary Schultz: Yeah.
  Leah Salisbury: so
  Jennifer Swiney: Mm-hmm.
  Leah Salisbury: the rest of the ninety percent of the buttons they're not
  Maritza Garcia: Yeah.
  Leah Salisbury: used most of the times.
  Maritza Garcia: Yes.
  Leah Salisbury: So this were the findings which we found. And also they cited frustrations with the present remote controls. Most of fifty percent of the time the remote controls are lost somewhere in the room and people are always searching for them rather than watching the T_V_.
  Maritza Garcia: Yeah.
  Leah Salisbury: And by the time they found the remote control the program is finished. So
  Mary Schultz: Yeah.
  Leah Salisbury: they're frustrated a lot And um if the remote control is too complicated it takes much time to learn the
  Maritza Garcia: Mm.
  Leah Salisbury: functionality
  Mary Schultz: Mm, the
  Leah Salisbury: of
  Mary Schultz: functionalities
  Leah Salisbury: it.
  Mary Schultz: yeah.
  Leah Salisbury: So you can just see the percentage, fifty percent people they responded that they always lose their remotes and thirty four percent they say that it's quite difficult to learn if it's too complex.
  Mary Schultz: Yeah.
  Leah Salisbury: So keeping in view all these findings and the frustrations I think this should be the solution for them. We should have an L_C_D_ on the rem remote control.
  Maritza Garcia: Oh.
  Mary Schultz: Well mm w well I I I don't really see the advantage of having uh L_C_D_ on the on the remote control if we have a a
  Maritza Garcia: Big screen.
  Mary Schultz: a big screen and uh display on the screen. It's
  Leah Salisbury: Mm-hmm?
  Mary Schultz: yeah of course it's fancy trendy and so on but it's it's expensive to produce
  Maritza Garcia: Yeah.
  Mary Schultz: and it's
  Leah Salisbury: I mean
  Mary Schultz: not
  Leah Salisbury: as
  Mary Schultz: really
  Leah Salisbury: our survey says that people are willing to pay more if
  Mary Schultz: Yeah.
  Leah Salisbury: their remotes are fancy. So if we have a L_C_D_ on the remote, rather than looking onto the T_V_ you just look into a remote and navigate it. It's the same menu
  Maritza Garcia: Mm yeah.
  Leah Salisbury: as we have saw that iPod
  Mary Schultz: Yeah
  Leah Salisbury: remote
  Mary Schultz: yeah.
  Leah Salisbury: control.
  Maritza Garcia: Mm.
  Leah Salisbury: We just play
  Maritza Garcia: The thing
  Leah Salisbury: around
  Mary Schultz: Yeah but when you play with the iPod you don't have a big screen in front of you,
  Maritza Garcia: Yeah.
  Leah Salisbury: Yeah.
  Jennifer Swiney: You can
  Maritza Garcia: Yeah.
  Mary Schultz: s
  Jennifer Swiney: use this screen instead of the
  Maritza Garcia: Yeah.
  Jennifer Swiney: big se screen,
  Maritza Garcia: If
  Jennifer Swiney: instead
  Maritza Garcia: you
  Jennifer Swiney: of
  Maritza Garcia: re-use
  Jennifer Swiney: use
  Maritza Garcia: the
  Jennifer Swiney: the
  Maritza Garcia: existing screen,
  Jennifer Swiney: yeah.
  Maritza Garcia: we element eliminate the L_C_D_, after all the L_C_D_ just to display
  Jennifer Swiney: Hmm.
  Maritza Garcia: and if you have the colourful screen you can make the display colourful, fancy,
  Leah Salisbury: Yeah.
  Maritza Garcia: as fancy as the one on the L_C_D_,
  Mary Schultz: Yeah.
  Maritza Garcia: maybe even better. So
  Leah Salisbury: I mean this were the points
  Maritza Garcia: Yeah.
  Leah Salisbury: which we got from the market
  Mary Schultz: Yeah. Yeah yeah.
  Leah Salisbury: demands. So
  Maritza Garcia: Yeah.
  Mary Schultz: So I th I I
  Leah Salisbury: the other
  Mary Schultz: think
  Leah Salisbury: one
  Mary Schultz: we we can focus on the uh on the fancy look on the uh
  Maritza Garcia: Yeah. More on a fancy
  Leah Salisbury: Yeah that's
  Maritza Garcia: design.
  Leah Salisbury: fine. Yeah.
  Mary Schultz: on the speech
  Leah Salisbury: I mean
  Mary Schultz: recognition
  Leah Salisbury: that's
  Mary Schultz: if the technology is available but well I think
  Maritza Garcia: Yeah.
  Mary Schultz: L_C_D_ will uh will uh make us spend a lot of money for
  Maritza Garcia: Mm.
  Mary Schultz: not so big results.
  Maritza Garcia: Remember
  Leah Salisbury: Mm-hmm.
  Maritza Garcia: we have a s budget
  Jennifer Swiney: But
  Maritza Garcia: for the cost of producing the remote controller.
  Jennifer Swiney: Yeah.
  Maritza Garcia: Yeah.
  Leah Salisbury: Uh yeah
  Maritza Garcia: So
  Leah Salisbury: we
  Maritza Garcia: i
  Leah Salisbury: have
  Maritza Garcia: is
  Leah Salisbury: uh
  Maritza Garcia: so the thing is you can find out how much an L_C_D_ will cost and then we'll decide again.
  Leah Salisbury: I mean that should be found out by the Industrial Designers.
  Maritza Garcia: Uh maybe you can find out the price and tell us next time.
  Mary Schultz: So
  Maritza Garcia: Is i if
  Mary Schultz: price
  Maritza Garcia: i
  Mary Schultz: of uh L_C_D_ display.
  Maritza Garcia: Yeah.
  Leah Salisbury: And it's
  Mary Schultz: And
  Leah Salisbury: always good to have an voice recognition
  Maritza Garcia: Yeah.
  Leah Salisbury: for the remote
  Maritza Garcia: And
  Leah Salisbury: controls.
  Maritza Garcia: also the cost for the speech recognition.
  Jennifer Swiney: Mm.
  Mary Schultz: Yeah.
  Maritza Garcia: Ask our R_
  Jennifer Swiney: It's
  Maritza Garcia: and
  Jennifer Swiney: for
  Maritza Garcia: D_ department.
  Jennifer Swiney: it's just for small vocabulary.
  Maritza Garcia: Yeah.
  Leah Salisbury: Yeah
  Jennifer Swiney: We
  Leah Salisbury: it's o only
  Jennifer Swiney: it's
  Leah Salisbury: for
  Jennifer Swiney: not
  Leah Salisbury: a limited vocabulary,
  Maritza Garcia: Yeah.
  Jennifer Swiney: yeah.
  Leah Salisbury: say
  Maritza Garcia: And ho
  Leah Salisbury: eighty commands or so.
  Jennifer Swiney: Yeah.
  Maritza Garcia: Yeah.
  Mary Schultz: Yeah okay.
  Maritza Garcia: And also
  Mary Schultz: And
  Maritza Garcia: the scroller button, how much will it cost.
  Mary Schultz: Well uh compared to the to s the simpl simpler
  Jennifer Swiney: Yeah.
  Mary Schultz: simplest
  Leah Salisbury: Mm,
  Jennifer Swiney: Push
  Mary Schultz: button.
  Leah Salisbury: the scroll
  Jennifer Swiney: push.
  Leah Salisbury: button, from the survey we never see that people would like to have
  Mary Schultz: Yeah.
  Leah Salisbury: some scrolling button. Because
  Mary Schultz: Yeah I think
  Leah Salisbury: they they
  Mary Schultz: that
  Leah Salisbury: just they're just frightened to use the scrollings
  Maritza Garcia: Yeah.
  Leah Salisbury: or help button.
  Mary Schultz: Yeah I I I think that uh well uh as we have seen in the in the presentation uh well uh about uh uh fifty percent of the of the percent
  Maritza Garcia: Don't use the buttons.
  Mary Schultz: n choose the button so uh I think to have uh five uh simple
  Maritza Garcia: Yeah.
  Mary Schultz: button is sufficient
  Maritza Garcia: Yeah.
  Mary Schultz: for our
  Maritza Garcia: Yeah.
  Mary Schultz: functionality.
  Maritza Garcia: Yeah.
  Leah Salisbury: Yeah.
  Jennifer Swiney: It doesn't mean that the other buttons are not
  Maritza Garcia: Important.
  Jennifer Swiney: necessary or important.
  Mary Schultz: Yeah. But
  Jennifer Swiney: But they are just less
  Leah Salisbury: They're
  Jennifer Swiney: used
  Leah Salisbury: not used much.
  Jennifer Swiney: compar yeah.
  Mary Schultz: But the uh the thing is is i is that we can add a functionality on the on the T_V_ screen like
  Maritza Garcia: Yeah.
  Mary Schultz: uh a a list of function
  Maritza Garcia: Yeah.
  Mary Schultz: and then you choose
  Maritza Garcia: Mm.
  Mary Schultz: with the with the button to
  Maritza Garcia: Yeah,
  Mary Schultz: well
  Maritza Garcia: yeah.
  Mary Schultz: you navigate and you
  Maritza Garcia: So so the at
  Jennifer Swiney: Or
  Maritza Garcia: most
  Jennifer Swiney: maybe we
  Maritza Garcia: more
  Jennifer Swiney: can
  Maritza Garcia: power
  Jennifer Swiney: u
  Maritza Garcia: uh.
  Jennifer Swiney: uh or maybe we can uh make this the ten percent of button more bigger than the others.
  Mary Schultz: Yeah.
  Jennifer Swiney: So.
  Mary Schultz: But if i i if we if we could have a a a display uh g a user interface that is very complete on the T_V_ screen I think that just five buttons are sufficient,
  Maritza Garcia: Yep.
  Mary Schultz: one to go up left right down and uh enter
  Maritza Garcia: Yeah.
  Mary Schultz: and you you you just select the functionality you want to access
  Maritza Garcia: Mm.
  Mary Schultz: or things like
  Maritza Garcia: Mm.
  Mary Schultz: that.
  Maritza Garcia: Yeah.
  Mary Schultz: You don't have to to switch to a channel
  Maritza Garcia: Yeah.
  Mary Schultz: to another
  Jennifer Swiney: Mm.
  Mary Schultz: uh
  Leah Salisbury: Or it could be like this, as the people say, if they have a L_C_D_ on the remote not on the television. Because when you have the L_C_D_ onto the television screen you miss the picture in the background, we are most focused on the commands. So
  Mary Schultz: Yeah
  Leah Salisbury: if you
  Mary Schultz: but
  Leah Salisbury: have then L_C_D_ in the remote, you just have a menu, and increasing and lower these signs here to change the programs and this menu when you press the menu, in the L_C_D_ displays as you go on pressing the menu it faster displays volume, then the program, then the brightness, contrast and all
  Maritza Garcia: Mm.
  Leah Salisbury: the stuff. And
  Mary Schultz: Yeah
  Leah Salisbury: accordingly
  Mary Schultz: but
  Leah Salisbury: you can just increase or decrease.
  Maritza Garcia: Mm.
  Mary Schultz: if
  Jennifer Swiney: It's
  Mary Schultz: you look at the L_C_D_ you you don't look at the T_V_ screen so
  Maritza Garcia: Mm. I if
  Mary Schultz: i i it's
  Maritza Garcia: Mm.
  Mary Schultz: not really worth to get
  Maritza Garcia: Mm.
  Mary Schultz: to have the image if you don't look
  Maritza Garcia: Yeah.
  Mary Schultz: at,
  Jennifer Swiney: And
  Mary Schultz: so.
  Jennifer Swiney: I think it's increases the cost of the
  Mary Schultz: Yeah.
  Jennifer Swiney: the remote control if you use
  Leah Salisbury: Yeah that
  Jennifer Swiney: L_C_D_.
  Leah Salisbury: has to be checked out.
  Maritza Garcia: I think that
  Jennifer Swiney: I
  Maritza Garcia: there's no contradiction here, because if there are few buttons, you don't have to look at your your controller any more because you know where the buttons are,
  Mary Schultz: Yeah.
  Maritza Garcia: so if you wanna control the screen d sh sharpness you just say sharpness and then you t turn you just press lef increase or decrease button and the same for the volume
  Leah Salisbury: Yeah.
  Maritza Garcia: and the channel, if you had the speech recognition there you just shout your channel, just tell your channel and then you don't even have to look at the butto at the controller so finally
  Leah Salisbury: Okay.
  Maritza Garcia: that wil eliminates the the need for L_C_D_, with the help of speech recogniser you can
  Leah Salisbury: I mean,
  Maritza Garcia: Yeah.
  Leah Salisbury: better if we could just check all the cost with L_C_D_ and also with the speech recognition.
  Maritza Garcia: Mm.
  Mary Schultz: Yeah.
  Leah Salisbury: And then we could find which would
  Maritza Garcia: Mm.
  Leah Salisbury: would be a more
  Maritza Garcia: Mm.
  Leah Salisbury: suitable in this case.
  Maritza Garcia: Yeah. A and
  Leah Salisbury: And the third problem was to find the remote control. Always, so fifty percent of the people say they lose the remotes.
  Mary Schultz: Well so we we can think about a well a a vocal command like uh
  Maritza Garcia: Mm.
  Mary Schultz: find and when the remote control uh
  Maritza Garcia: Where,
  Mary Schultz: hears
  Jennifer Swiney: You will
  Mary Schultz: fine
  Jennifer Swiney: listen to a peep,
  Mary Schultz: well
  Jennifer Swiney: special
  Mary Schultz: yeah
  Maritza Garcia: yeah.
  Mary Schultz: just
  Jennifer Swiney: peep.
  Mary Schultz: uh to make him beep
  Leah Salisbury: Yeah that's right, that's exactly
  Mary Schultz: or t
  Leah Salisbury: what I mean by voice commander. Or
  Mary Schultz: Yeah.
  Leah Salisbury: it could be also
  Maritza Garcia: Yeah.
  Leah Salisbury: something like this, uh it's always
  Maritza Garcia: Mm.
  Leah Salisbury: boring to change the batteries of the remotes control,
  Mary Schultz: Yeah.
  Leah Salisbury: so we have some one charger there and whenever we don't use the remote control
  Maritza Garcia: Put it back
  Leah Salisbury: we put
  Mary Schultz: Put
  Maritza Garcia: at the
  Leah Salisbury: it
  Maritza Garcia: charge.
  Leah Salisbury: in the charger.
  Maritza Garcia: Yeah.
  Leah Salisbury: And when we're using that t remote and if we misplace somewhere, in the charger we have a small button, and just by pressing the button in the charger the uh remote control beeps,
  Mary Schultz: Yeah.
  Maritza Garcia: Yeah.
  Leah Salisbury: wherever
  Jennifer Swiney: Okay.
  Leah Salisbury: it is.
  Mary Schultz: And that's a good idea, that's simple,
  Jennifer Swiney: Yeah.
  Maritza Garcia: Mm.
  Leah Salisbury: I mean
  Mary Schultz: like
  Leah Salisbury: it
  Mary Schultz: in
  Leah Salisbury: doe
  Mary Schultz: phones.
  Leah Salisbury: it also doesn't require a voice command, because
  Mary Schultz: Yeah.
  Leah Salisbury: there are
  Jennifer Swiney: But
  Leah Salisbury: problems
  Jennifer Swiney: you
  Leah Salisbury: with
  Jennifer Swiney: don't
  Leah Salisbury: a voice
  Jennifer Swiney: you don't
  Leah Salisbury: command.
  Jennifer Swiney: have to move
  Maritza Garcia: Hmm.
  Jennifer Swiney: the the charger.
  Maritza Garcia: Mm.
  Leah Salisbury: Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean
  Maritza Garcia: Th
  Leah Salisbury: charger
  Jennifer Swiney: You
  Leah Salisbury: would
  Jennifer Swiney: have
  Maritza Garcia: yeah.
  Leah Salisbury: be
  Jennifer Swiney: to
  Leah Salisbury: fixed
  Jennifer Swiney: keep
  Leah Salisbury: because it's
  Jennifer Swiney: it.
  Mary Schultz: Yeah.
  Leah Salisbury: always with
  Maritza Garcia: Mm yeah.
  Leah Salisbury: electricity plugged.
  Mary Schultz: Yeah if
  Maritza Garcia: Yeah.
  Mary Schultz: there
  Jennifer Swiney: Okay.
  Mary Schultz: if there uh there
  Maritza Garcia: Mm.
  Mary Schultz: is nuff not enough battery.
  Maritza Garcia: Mm. There's
  Mary Schultz: Also
  Maritza Garcia: mm.
  Mary Schultz: and
  Maritza Garcia: Mm.
  Mary Schultz: uh uh the remote is lost.
  Maritza Garcia: Yeah.
  Leah Salisbury: Yeah that's right.
  Maritza Garcia: That we can what we can do is we can program a function whereby when you press the switch off T_V_ button, the off button, the remote there be s uh instruction on the screen, please charge charge Leah Salisbury.
  Mary Schultz: Yeah.
  Maritza Garcia: You never get it lost because uh every time you're off the computer the T_V_ you are asked the the command the T_V_ com remote controller would tell you to put it back to where to the charger.
  Leah Salisbury: It's an good reminder,
  Maritza Garcia: Yeah.
  Leah Salisbury: right.
  Maritza Garcia: So you will never get lost
  Mary Schultz: Okay.
  Maritza Garcia: yeah.
  Jennifer Swiney: Maybe for some people lazy
  Maritza Garcia: Yeah.
  Jennifer Swiney: people.
  Maritza Garcia: Yeah because everything is programmed inside.
  Jennifer Swiney: Yeah yeah.
  Maritza Garcia: So it's it's uh it's all about strategy, y
  Leah Salisbury: And of course the final point is a fancy look.
  Maritza Garcia: Mm.
  Leah Salisbury: As we have seen earlier the remotes which were displayed by
  Maritza Garcia: Mm.
  Leah Salisbury: Norman they weren't fancy,
  Mary Schultz: They were ugly.
  Leah Salisbury: I mean mm
  Mary Schultz: They
  Leah Salisbury: very
  Maritza Garcia: Yeah,
  Leah Salisbury: big or
  Maritza Garcia: yeah.
  Leah Salisbury: something
  Jennifer Swiney: Mm.
  Leah Salisbury: with lot of buttons. I think we should have something
  Mary Schultz: Well
  Leah Salisbury: it
  Mary Schultz: the last one with the um
  Maritza Garcia: With uh two two
  Mary Schultz: yeah with the two parts was
  Maritza Garcia: two parts
  Mary Schultz: uh
  Maritza Garcia: controller.
  Mary Schultz: original,
  Leah Salisbury: I mean
  Mary Schultz: so
  Leah Salisbury: uh I mean uh I mean uh you see if it's like that even a kid who wants to have a control he could just plug it and
  Mary Schultz: Yeah.
  Leah Salisbury: use it, you can't avoid him. But you can have an button for child lock.
  Maritza Garcia: Yeah.
  Mary Schultz: Yeah.
  Maritza Garcia: Mm.
  Leah Salisbury: So just by pressing the button with
  Maritza Garcia: Mm.
  Leah Salisbury: some code, you t you put a lock
  Maritza Garcia: Mm.
  Leah Salisbury: onto the remote,
  Maritza Garcia: Mm.
  Leah Salisbury: so that he can't use even
  Mary Schultz: Well
  Maritza Garcia: Mm.
  Mary Schultz: we can think about uh having uh on the on the on the user interface when you switch on the T_V_
  Leah Salisbury: Mm
  Maritza Garcia: Mm.
  Leah Salisbury: uh
  Mary Schultz: you can uh well write a code or choose a category,
  Jennifer Swiney: Or
  Maritza Garcia: Mm.
  Mary Schultz: if it is kids, uh
  Maritza Garcia: Yeah.
  Mary Schultz: things like that.
  Leah Salisbury: That's right.
  Maritza Garcia: Mm.
  Jennifer Swiney: Or maybe you have to to show some specific programmes for kids and
  Maritza Garcia: Mm.
  Jennifer Swiney: then just
  Maritza Garcia: these
  Jennifer Swiney: just
  Maritza Garcia: are probl
  Jennifer Swiney: yeah
  Maritza Garcia: yeah.
  Jennifer Swiney: just push uh kids button
  Maritza Garcia: Mm. Mm.
  Jennifer Swiney: so it's automatically.
  Maritza Garcia: Mm.
  Jennifer Swiney: So if he.
  Leah Salisbury: I think these other four points they're the market demands and so it's for the user interface design
  Mary Schultz: So for
  Leah Salisbury: and
  Mary Schultz: mm
  Maritza Garcia: Mm.
  Leah Salisbury: industrial
  Jennifer Swiney: Yeah.
  Leah Salisbury: design
  Mary Schultz: yeah.
  Leah Salisbury: to
  Mary Schultz: So
  Leah Salisbury: just
  Mary Schultz: for
  Leah Salisbury: think
  Mary Schultz: my part I will check the prices the um the prices difference uh of what to use, where to use, and s
  Leah Salisbury: Yeah
  Mary Schultz: uh
  Leah Salisbury: I think it
  Mary Schultz: and
  Leah Salisbury: should
  Mary Schultz: so
  Leah Salisbury: be clearer
  Mary Schultz: on.
  Leah Salisbury: for us in the next meeting that
  Mary Schultz: Yeah.
  Leah Salisbury: th uh these could be included.
  Maritza Garcia: Mm. I think we need to define also a s the set of vocabularies for the speech recogniser
  Mary Schultz: Yeah.
  Maritza Garcia: because uh if you want uh say we can sort by channels or sort by T_V_ programs, you have to decide a category of vocabularies for them. If numbers, they're easy,
  Jennifer Swiney: Mm-hmm.
  Maritza Garcia: but if name the channel by by name
  Mary Schultz: Well I think we can we can have just numbers for channels and you can say to your remote control like uh sports and then on the T_V_ you have a list with with uh uh well
  Maritza Garcia: Mm.
  Mary Schultz: with sports program playing now and
  Leah Salisbury: No,
  Mary Schultz: and uh
  Leah Salisbury: we have a problem there. You see uh if you have a voice commands and you are s you are watching a score on uh basketball score or something, and if the score comes twenty four thirty five, you've just say twenty five and
  Jennifer Swiney: Yeah
  Leah Salisbury: suddenly
  Jennifer Swiney: it's yeah.
  Leah Salisbury: the screen the channel goes to twenty five. So I think
  Mary Schultz: That's
  Maritza Garcia: Mm.
  Leah Salisbury: there
  Mary Schultz: right,
  Leah Salisbury: should be
  Mary Schultz: yeah,
  Leah Salisbury: a prefix
  Mary Schultz: yeah.
  Leah Salisbury: to some numbers
  Mary Schultz: Well but well e every possible word uh has a probability to come about of the T_V_
  Maritza Garcia: Yeah.
  Mary Schultz: so.
  Leah Salisbury: I mean the the you just check all the probability that saying T_V_ twenty five and just ordinary twenty five.
  Maritza Garcia: Mm.
  Mary Schultz: Yeah
  Leah Salisbury: Ordinary
  Mary Schultz: yeah.
  Leah Salisbury: twenty five you almost there's a probability of being said
  Mary Schultz: Yeah
  Maritza Garcia: Mm.
  Mary Schultz: but
  Leah Salisbury: around sixty
  Mary Schultz: well
  Leah Salisbury: seventy percent
  Mary Schultz: okay.
  Leah Salisbury: and T_V_ twenty five I dunno it will be round
  Maritza Garcia: Mm.
  Leah Salisbury: about one or two percent.
  Jennifer Swiney: Mm-hmm.
  Maritza Garcia: Mm.
  Leah Salisbury: So it's better to have some prefix before the number.
  Maritza Garcia: But I I I think that the user would like wou would like to associate the channel or call the channel rather than than the numbers.
  Leah Salisbury: Yeah something, some code.
  Maritza Garcia: You say numbe channel number five of the T_V_ correspond to something else
  Mary Schultz: Yeah
  Maritza Garcia: in
  Mary Schultz: yeah.
  Maritza Garcia: the channel. So some people may want to say, I want to see this
  Mary Schultz: Mm
  Maritza Garcia: channel.
  Mary Schultz: mm. Well
  Leah Salisbury: That will
  Mary Schultz: I
  Leah Salisbury: be too big. And
  Jennifer Swiney: Or
  Leah Salisbury: it will
  Jennifer Swiney: just
  Leah Salisbury: be difficult for the vocabulary also.
  Maritza Garcia: Yeah. Check with the v R_ and D_ department the
  Jennifer Swiney: It's
  Maritza Garcia: capability
  Jennifer Swiney: difficult
  Maritza Garcia: of
  Jennifer Swiney: to
  Maritza Garcia: recogniser.
  Jennifer Swiney: to just say the the name of the channel.
  Maritza Garcia: Uh?
  Jennifer Swiney: It will be difficult to say just the name of the channel. Because
  Maritza Garcia: Well,
  Jennifer Swiney: you have
  Maritza Garcia: it's
  Jennifer Swiney: to
  Maritza Garcia: convenient
  Jennifer Swiney: s t
  Maritza Garcia: for
  Jennifer Swiney: uh
  Maritza Garcia: the user.
  Jennifer Swiney: a ch yeah but you have to to have all the name of the channel in your vocabulary.
  Leah Salisbury: Als might be you just forgot
  Jennifer Swiney: Or maybe
  Leah Salisbury: the channel name, you
  Mary Schultz: Yeah.
  Leah Salisbury: kno only know the number. Then
  Maritza Garcia: The
  Jennifer Swiney: Or maybe
  Maritza Garcia: uh
  Jennifer Swiney: the user
  Maritza Garcia: uh
  Jennifer Swiney: can create
  Maritza Garcia: mm.
  Jennifer Swiney: his own vocabulary,
  Maritza Garcia: Mm.
  Jennifer Swiney: just pronouncing the
  Maritza Garcia: I I think that
  Jennifer Swiney: the
  Maritza Garcia: I
  Jennifer Swiney: name
  Maritza Garcia: have
  Jennifer Swiney: of channels and
  Maritza Garcia: mm
  Jennifer Swiney: include
  Maritza Garcia: mm
  Jennifer Swiney: in the vocabulary.
  Maritza Garcia: I think there's another way you can do is that uh you can uh if when the user ch press a button to choose the channel for example, then what you can do is that the you can make the T_V_ screen to split them into small little little squares of images where you you you have a snapshot of every channel, so let's say it's a four by four matrix of the images, so now what you do is f looking at the all the sixteen channels available at one time, you just use the control button uh, you
  Leah Salisbury: Yeah,
  Maritza Garcia: just you
  Leah Salisbury: the.
  Maritza Garcia: you just choose the the option you want and then you just hit the button and then you go to that channel. So
  Jennifer Swiney: Or lets the user create his
  Maritza Garcia: Mm.
  Jennifer Swiney: own vocabulary
  Maritza Garcia: So
  Jennifer Swiney: of
  Maritza Garcia: you
  Jennifer Swiney: channel.
  Maritza Garcia: you don't use the speech recogniser in that way.
  Jennifer Swiney: No. Just you have uh in the beginning you have uh t you have to train you have to create the vocabulary
  Maritza Garcia: Oh, okay.
  Jennifer Swiney: by yourself.
  Maritza Garcia: Yeah.
  Mary Schultz: Well I uh I
  Jennifer Swiney: By
  Mary Schultz: also
  Jennifer Swiney: associating each channel with the name or
  Mary Schultz: I I also think about uh another problem, if if there is uh more than one person who is watching T_V_
  Leah Salisbury: Yeah
  Mary Schultz: the
  Jennifer Swiney: And
  Mary Schultz: s
  Jennifer Swiney: for
  Leah Salisbury: yeah,
  Jennifer Swiney: each one
  Mary Schultz: well
  Jennifer Swiney: has
  Mary Schultz: the
  Jennifer Swiney: his
  Mary Schultz: the speech uh
  Jennifer Swiney: own.
  Mary Schultz: r recogniser should be able to distinguish between the two. Because uh
  Maritza Garcia: Mm.
  Mary Schultz: I remember when I was a young child
  Jennifer Swiney: Or
  Mary Schultz: with
  Jennifer Swiney: you have
  Mary Schultz: my sister
  Jennifer Swiney: to
  Maritza Garcia: Yeah, I wanna watch
  Leah Salisbury: Yeah.
  Jennifer Swiney: s
  Mary Schultz: we
  Maritza Garcia: this, I wanna watch
  Mary Schultz: yeah
  Maritza Garcia: that.
  Mary Schultz: we always want to w to watch different emission at the at the same time so it's a pr it could be a problem if uh if well if someone passes by when you are watching T_V_ and say oh T_V_ thirty and just run,
  Maritza Garcia: Mm.
  Mary Schultz: s
  Leah Salisbury: A and in the same lines we would have a one more problem. If we are using the television in the different environments, say in the factories or in the shops
  Mary Schultz: Yeah, yeah.
  Leah Salisbury: where there is a lot of noise
  Jennifer Swiney: Yeah.
  Leah Salisbury: and this voice commands if they fail to work, that would bring a bad name bad uh reputation
  Maritza Garcia: Mm.
  Leah Salisbury: for our company. So
  Jennifer Swiney: Mm.
  Leah Salisbury: I think we should specify some pre-requirements if we want to use a voice commands, say that it should be used in an silent homely environment or
  Mary Schultz: Yeah.
  Leah Salisbury: s something.
  Jennifer Swiney: Or we can switch on or switch off the the special,
  Leah Salisbury: Yeah that's right that should be an option.
  Jennifer Swiney: yeah.
  Maritza Garcia: Mm.
  Mary Schultz: Yeah that's well I think that's a good uh a good option because it's simple and uh simple
  Maritza Garcia: Hmm.
  Mary Schultz: to implement also, so.
  Leah Salisbury: I think these are the practical problems. So we need to take care of them in the design.
  Jennifer Swiney: Maybe we'll discuss them in next meeting. It's time to close this meeting.
  Mary Schultz: Okay.
  Maritza Garcia: Well, you
  Leah Salisbury: Okay.
  Maritza Garcia: you stay a five minutes.
  Leah Salisbury: Oh it came there on three minutes back
  Jennifer Swiney: Yeah.
  Leah Salisbury: so we are I think we can just press the
  Jennifer Swiney: Okay.
  Leah Salisbury: okay.
  Mary Schultz: Okay. So
  Jennifer Swiney: Thanks
  Mary Schultz: I see
  Jennifer Swiney: for
  Mary Schultz: ya.
  Leah Salisbury: Okay.
  Jennifer Swiney: your collaborations.
  Leah Salisbury: See you another thirty minutes.
Updated Content: Mary Schultz presented options for each component. He suggested kinetic energy, a titanium case, and rubber push buttons. The group will ask if the kinetic energy component can provide enough energy. Maritza Garcia introduced the graphical user interface to the group and suggested using an LCD screen. He presented several existing products and suggested the following: large buttons; voice recognition; either push, scroll, or spinning buttons; and incorporating some customizable components. The group discussed including a help button; it was decided that it would make the device seem more complicated. Leah Salisbury presented that users found remotes too easily lost, complicated, and ugly. He showed that users were willing to pay more for a fancy remote. He suggested the LCD screen; the group felt that it was better to utilize the user's television as a display screen, but that they would inquire about cost before deciding. The group will inquire about the cost of voice recognition and scroll buttons. The group discussed incorporating a locator function and customization for children. They discussed the sensitivity of the voice recognizer to other noises; the group will ask about the capability of the recognizer.