Extracted Content: Charles Washington: Right uh. So um. So where's the PowerPoint presentation? Sorry? Microsoft PowerPoint, right. Right, okay. So. Right. Okay, so we've got uh so we've got new project requirements. Um. So basically we've got three things, and we've got forty minutes in which to uh for this meeting to uh to discuss the various options. Um. Three presentations.
  Anthony Phelps: We have a I guess we have a presentation each, 'cause I've got one. Um.
  Daniel Alexander: Yeah.
  Joseph Stumpe: Yeah, I've got
  Charles Washington: I
  Joseph Stumpe: one
  Charles Washington: see,
  Joseph Stumpe: too.
  Charles Washington: right. That's nice to know, one from each of you. Um new project requirements. Um so do we want to do the presentation first, or do we want to um W I I got um or or three things basically, um relating to the remote being only for T_V_. We discussed that last time
  Anthony Phelps: Mm-hmm.
  Charles Washington: and in
  Joseph Stumpe: Mm-hmm.
  Charles Washington: actual fact that was pr pretty well what we came up with anyway. So in
  Joseph Stumpe: Mm-hmm
  Charles Washington: fact it actually f we won't be forestalled in a sense. Um we've got uh teletext outdated. Um did you get any information on that?
  Anthony Phelps: Uh we didn't, no.
  Daniel Alexander: No.
  Charles Washington: Right
  Anthony Phelps: I d I didn't
  Charles Washington: and
  Anthony Phelps: personally.
  Charles Washington: the corporate
  Joseph Stumpe: Hmm.
  Charles Washington: image was the uh final thing. So I I got that in email form. Um. Right okay. So I guess if we go ahead with the uh with the three presentations. So we'll start with yourself
  Anthony Phelps: Okay
  Charles Washington: on
  Anthony Phelps: that's
  Charles Washington: the
  Anthony Phelps: fine.
  Charles Washington: basis that uh
  Anthony Phelps: I'll just um I'll grab the wire out the back of this one.
  Charles Washington: Sorry, yep.
  Charles Washington: Oh.
  Daniel Alexander: What is it
  Anthony Phelps: I'm not quite
  Daniel Alexander: I think
  Anthony Phelps: sure
  Daniel Alexander: you've got
  Anthony Phelps: how
  Daniel Alexander: to do
  Anthony Phelps: it
  Daniel Alexander: um control F_ eight.
  Anthony Phelps: Control Doesn't seem to be quite working at the moment.
  Daniel Alexander: Shift F_ eight.
  Anthony Phelps: Alt function F_ eight. Again not doing anything.
  Joseph Stumpe: There's usually a little thing in the top right for the Oh
  Anthony Phelps: Oh.
  Daniel Alexander: Ah
  Joseph Stumpe: hang
  Daniel Alexander: there,
  Joseph Stumpe: on, it's just
  Daniel Alexander: it's doing
  Joseph Stumpe: coming
  Daniel Alexander: something.
  Joseph Stumpe: on.
  Anthony Phelps: pressed about five times now.
  Anthony Phelps: Okay, that's Joseph Stumpe.
  Anthony Phelps: Okay, um I have to go again.
  Charles Washington: it going?
  Anthony Phelps: Hopefully that should be it this time.
  Anthony Phelps: Okay, I think we're there. That's good. Okay, um Okay I'm gonna be looking at the working design. Um of the of the remote control. Um I've just got three sections, first is the research I made on the on the remote control itself um. And then that involves the components required in it and the systems uh design of the actual the actual remote. Um so having researched the existing models within the market, um I found my research off the internet. Um I've established what the components required for the remote control to function, actually are. And then also the methods in which these components interact together for the remote to actually do what you want it to do and how it connects with the television. Um the basic components are an energy source which I guess um in most existing models would be a battery supply. Whether that'll be sort of two batteries, four batteries, um it may vary. We then have
  Charles Washington: Okay.
  Anthony Phelps: the user interface, which is basically the like the the buttons on the actual remote. Um the various functions used for changing channel, uh channel up and down, volume, things like that. Um there's also a chip inside the remote which does all the computer type things. And then the sender, which um is usually, I've found, an infra-red device which sends a signal to the actual television. Um and the last part is receiver which is important in the system but is not actually part of the remote itself, because that's obviously found in the television. Um I'm gonna have to actually draw on the board because uh it was a little tricky on PowerPoint to get this working, so. I'll just go through there. S um um do we have a cloth to wipe this down with, or? Oh
  Daniel Alexander: I
  Anthony Phelps: I'll
  Daniel Alexander: think
  Charles Washington: Uh
  Daniel Alexander: it's
  Anthony Phelps: j
  Daniel Alexander: that
  Charles Washington: there's
  Daniel Alexander: little
  Charles Washington: the rubber on the right,
  Anthony Phelps: Oh I see.
  Charles Washington: I think.
  Anthony Phelps: Oh okay. I'll get rid
  Charles Washington: it's
  Anthony Phelps: of
  Charles Washington: magic.
  Anthony Phelps: the bear Okay that's great. Okay, so we start off with a um battery suppl Uh no, a power supply which we'd probably get it's probably gonna be the battery. Um we then have a particular button, which may be that's obviously there's lots and lots of different buttons. Um but this is how the basic system works. Um that sends after you press that that sends the message to the chip, which um then sends It sort of interprets which button you've pressed and then sends the appropriate message to the sender.
  Anthony Phelps: Um. So that's. That's the remote in itself, that's the components of the remote and how they work together. So this is the uh user interface. Um this is the chip itself, which then, and that's the that's the infra-red sender. And then on the separate thing we have on the on the television we have a a receiver. And the sender sends a message to the receiver. 'Kay.
  Charles Washington: So the the top bit's the power source, yes?
  Anthony Phelps: Ah yes, that's the power source. Um. going on to personal preferences, I've said that battery seems the best option for the actual remote, just because of the size. You don't want a a cable attached to the remote otherwise it's not it's not really a remote. Um and then the sender, and infra-red um has been used quite successfully. If the battery's on reasonable power, they always seem to work fairly well. You don't have to be point directly at the television itself.
  Charles Washington: So the
  Anthony Phelps: Um
  Charles Washington: battery is the in the sender.
  Anthony Phelps: Yes. 'Kay and that's it for the moment.
  Joseph Stumpe: Okay.
  Charles Washington: Okay. So, now more design.
  Daniel Alexander: Right. Thank you. Mine's not quite as complicated as all that.
  Charles Washington: That's what we like to hear.
  Daniel Alexander: Did I press function? Yeah.
  Charles Washington: Is it control function
  Daniel Alexander: Oh.
  Charles Washington: ei Oh, th
  Daniel Alexander: Um.
  Charles Washington: there you
  Daniel Alexander: Okay
  Charles Washington: go.
  Daniel Alexander: so I'm gonna talk a bit about the technical functions design. I'm Louisa, Daniel Alexander, as you know. Um so the m is to send signal the to the television set, so that a desired function is performed. Um an example of the function could be to change the volume up or down, uh so obviously you need two different buttons for that. Um to change the channel, either by pressing the number that you want or by channel up or down. Um to switch the television on or off, maybe a standby button. Um here are two example remotes. Um by the look of it they both have um kind of play and fast forward, rewind functions, so I think they incorporate a kind of video function which we won't have to worry about. Uh but as you can see, the left remote is quite um quite busy looking, quite complicated. Um whereas the right remote is much simpler, it looks much more user friendly. Um so my personal preference would be the right remote. So, it's got nice big buttons, it's got a very limited number of buttons. Um they're nice, kinda clearly labelled. Um I like the use of the kind of um symbols like the triangles and the squares and the arrows as well as the words on the um kind of play functions and all that. So it's very very user friendly, and it's got a little splash of colour. Could maybe do with some more colour. Um.
  Charles Washington: Well there's a couple of things there. Um we have to remember that we have our own um logo and colour scheme. So basically we'd have to uh we'd have to be putting that on um the the product.
  Daniel Alexander: Hmm. Do we get to see that? Will you be presenting
  Charles Washington: I haven't
  Daniel Alexander: that in a bit?
  Charles Washington: as yet, no. But uh I got uh I got an email that basically said to uh make sure that uh whatever device we come up with at the end of the day had to incorporate um the corporate colour and slogan. So uh I'm guessing that uh uh I notice on the bottom there it's got uh what's that? A_P_O_G_E_E_ that might be the corporate colour scheme, although the only the only colour I can see in that is the red.
  Daniel Alexander: Hmm.
  Anthony Phelps: Would you be able to get rid of the the extra buttons here, the the sort of circular section, because that seems to be for a video as well. So we could dispense with that little bit as well and just get it down to just the numbers and the volume.
  Daniel Alexander: What
  Anthony Phelps: Possibly?
  Daniel Alexander: do you mean by the circular section? Like
  Anthony Phelps: J
  Daniel Alexander: all
  Anthony Phelps: yeah
  Daniel Alexander: of
  Anthony Phelps: yeah
  Daniel Alexander: that
  Anthony Phelps: yeah
  Daniel Alexander: bottom
  Anthony Phelps: j
  Daniel Alexander: bit?
  Anthony Phelps: yeah just this little bit is that I think that's still um a video
  Daniel Alexander: Yeah.
  Anthony Phelps: remote part, so maybe we could get rid of that as well.
  Daniel Alexander: Yeah. And I don't really
  Charles Washington: Well
  Daniel Alexander: think that
  Charles Washington: b uh
  Daniel Alexander: you need
  Charles Washington: w
  Daniel Alexander: nine numbers. I mean how often do you use seven, eight and nine? I think just one to six and then channel up and down should be enough.
  Charles Washington: Well
  Daniel Alexander: Like
  Charles Washington: th
  Daniel Alexander: how
  Charles Washington: the
  Daniel Alexander: often do
  Charles Washington: on
  Daniel Alexander: you hit
  Charles Washington: the
  Daniel Alexander: nine?
  Joseph Stumpe: Mm-hmm.
  Charles Washington: Well uh for for general television purposes obviously you have channels one to five at this point in time, and we'd have to have some room for uh future such channels.
  Anthony Phelps: It's
  Charles Washington: But
  Anthony Phelps: just people are used to seeing
  Charles Washington: but
  Anthony Phelps: that, so if we didn't have them then
  Charles Washington: But,
  Anthony Phelps: they might think it's
  Charles Washington: well possibly but the the other thing is that with um the current expansion of uh channels uh in the process of taking place, certainly the button up and down, but uh I mean how many channels do we have to um actual television channels do we have to uh prepare for? I would have thought that uh it's forever expanding and at the moment we've got although you've onl you've got the five standard, you've got the B_B_C_ have come up with a further six and uh there's uh
  Joseph Stumpe: Mm-hmm.
  Charles Washington: I don't know exactly how many channels there are on uh when you take into account uh Sky and various
  Anthony Phelps: Hmm.
  Charles Washington: other um various others. So
  Daniel Alexander: Hmm.
  Charles Washington: I would've thought that we wouldn't, you know, rather Okay, if the time of flicking from one to other, but presumably it'll take a second 'cause you have to be able to stop it. Maybe you could have a fast forward on the on the channels that w and then you could dispense with more otherwise. Y you'd want you'd want to get fairly quickly to the channel that you wanted.
  Daniel Alexander: Um some remotes have kind of favourite options where if you always flick from channel one to channel six, um if that's a favourite you just like by-pass
  Charles Washington: Mm-hmm.
  Daniel Alexander: two to five.
  Charles Washington: Yeah, I s I suppose in a sense you could have um if you've got a hundred channels then if you had sort of an easy way of getting rather than having to go one to a hundred, you could go one to one to ten, ten
  Daniel Alexander: Hmm.
  Charles Washington: to twenty and then have a second button to get
  Joseph Stumpe: Mm-hmm.
  Charles Washington: you to the actual channel you want and that would cut down your time.
  Daniel Alexander: Mm. Um.
  Charles Washington: Anyway.
  Daniel Alexander: But I think a lot of um like Cable and Sky and stuff, that would be tuned to one channel, and then you'd have another remote for all of those channels. Like
  Anthony Phelps: Okay,
  Daniel Alexander: to get to
  Anthony Phelps: yeah.
  Daniel Alexander: fifty five and the higher numbers
  Charles Washington: Whatever.
  Daniel Alexander: Yeah.
  Charles Washington: Okay. Okay. Limit the number of buttons, user friendly.
  Daniel Alexander: But I suppose nine's not really excessive.
  Anthony Phelps: I suppose
  Daniel Alexander: I
  Anthony Phelps: with
  Daniel Alexander: suppose
  Anthony Phelps: nine
  Daniel Alexander: it does
  Anthony Phelps: you've
  Daniel Alexander: make
  Anthony Phelps: got
  Daniel Alexander: a
  Anthony Phelps: the
  Daniel Alexander: good
  Anthony Phelps: the
  Daniel Alexander: pattern.
  Anthony Phelps: like the last one which makes the tenth means you uh it's like uh multiples you can put them together so you can make any number. So with that we'd kind of by-pass
  Charles Washington: Yeah.
  Anthony Phelps: any problems with
  Charles Washington: Well that's true, yeah, you
  Anthony Phelps: Yeah.
  Charles Washington: could get fifty by five and a zero or whatever,
  Anthony Phelps: Yeah.
  Charles Washington: that that makes sense.
  Anthony Phelps: 'Cause that facilitates having all the numbers you could ever need.
  Charles Washington: Yeah.
  Anthony Phelps: Um.
  Joseph Stumpe: Mm-hmm.
  Charles Washington: Does.
  Daniel Alexander: Okay.
  Charles Washington: So w so what was the circular thing that you were
  Daniel Alexander: Um I think that's just for a video, so we wouldn't need any of that at all.
  Anthony Phelps: So we could get it
  Charles Washington: If
  Anthony Phelps: down
  Charles Washington: it's
  Anthony Phelps: to
  Charles Washington: just
  Anthony Phelps: what?
  Charles Washington: for T_V_, which is what it is at the moment.
  Daniel Alexander: Mm-hmm.
  Anthony Phelps: So we get to How many buttons have we got? We've just got ten, eleven twelve th I guess.
  Joseph Stumpe: Mm-hmm.
  Anthony Phelps: Um which isn't really too many. That'll be quite easy to make a user guide for a fourteen
  Charles Washington: Mm-hmm.
  Anthony Phelps: button remote.
  Charles Washington: Well we've we've got um that it's remote for T_V_ only otherwise project would become too complex with uh which would endanger the time to market
  Anthony Phelps: 'Kay.
  Charles Washington: was one of the considerations. I'm I don't know
  Joseph Stumpe: Mm-hmm.
  Charles Washington: d did you have that information behind the marketing, or was
  Joseph Stumpe: Um
  Charles Washington: I meant to give you that information?
  Joseph Stumpe: I'm not sure. I had I've had some market information, but
  Charles Washington: Right.
  Joseph Stumpe: not from the company, no.
  Charles Washington: Right, okay, so basically time to market seems to be important, therefore
  Anthony Phelps: 'Kay.
  Charles Washington: speed of delivery. We've only got about another four hours left.
  Daniel Alexander: Okay, so is everyone happy with that?
  Anthony Phelps: Ah yes yes,
  Joseph Stumpe: Okay.
  Anthony Phelps: that seems good.
  Daniel Alexander: Right well that's the end of my presentation.
  Joseph Stumpe: 'Kay. I'm gonna pull this off.
  Anthony Phelps: I think if you just give it a second to
  Charles Washington: Yeah,
  Anthony Phelps: maybe
  Charles Washington: I think
  Anthony Phelps: catch
  Charles Washington: she said twenty
  Anthony Phelps: up.
  Charles Washington: seconds to um
  Joseph Stumpe: Uh-huh. Okay.
  Anthony Phelps: I'm sure we'll have by the end of today.
  Joseph Stumpe: I'll give it another go.
  Joseph Stumpe: there. Right, we've done some research into the functional requirements that people want out of their remote control. And first off we should state that th the remote control's for controlling the T_V_ and um how do people use it? We asked them sort of which buttons were useful for them. Um how d how does a remote control look and feel for them, and what improvements would would they like to remote control. And we did that by sort of giving them a questionnaire that we'd prepared and asking them to fill in the answers. And three quarters of them found that remote controls are ugly and that a sort of even higher proportion would spend more for a sort of s uh a fancier remote control And that of all the buttons on the remote control, the sort of setting buttons for sort of the picture picture and brightness and the audio settings, um they weren't used very often at all. People concentrated on the channel buttons and the volume buttons and the power buttons. Uh we also asked them about speech recognition uh for remote control. And young people were quite receptive to this, but as soon as we got sort of over about into a thirty five to forty age forty five age group and older, people people weren't quite so keen on speech recognition. There's a lot more th there's a lot lot more older people who didn't know whether they wanted it or not as well. Um we also asked what frustrated people about remote controls and the number one frustration was that the remote was lost somewhere else in the room and that they couldn't find it. And the second second biggest frustration what that if they got a new remote control, it was difficult to learn um all the buttons and all the functions, and to find your way around it. Okay, so My personal preferences from the marketing is that we need to come up with some sort of sleek sort of good looking high high-tech A design which looks high-tech, basically. Um and that we should come up with fewer buttons than most of the controls on the market, and we should sort of concentrate on the channels and sort of power, and also volume and that sort of thing, as as Louisa said. Um we could maybe come up with a menu, a sort of a an L_C_D_ menu for other functions on the remote control. That's worth thinking about. Um and maybe we could think about speech recognition as well, because um sort of young people are perhaps the ones that are gonna buy buy our new product if we aim it at sort of you know sort of a high-tech design. That that might be the market that we're we're looking for. And we could maybe think about using speech recogniti recognition as a way to find the remote control if it's lost in a room, rather than sort of um having it to speech recognition to change the channels. 'Cause there's a problem with that in that the television makes noise, so it could end up talking to itself and changing its channel.
  Anthony Phelps: Mm.
  Joseph Stumpe: Okay um, and that's the end of the slide show. That's it. Cool.
  Daniel Alexander: Do
  Charles Washington: What was
  Daniel Alexander: a
  Charles Washington: that
  Daniel Alexander: lot
  Charles Washington: last
  Daniel Alexander: of um
  Charles Washington: wee bit there?
  Joseph Stumpe: Um about
  Charles Washington: Speech
  Joseph Stumpe: speech
  Charles Washington: recognition,
  Joseph Stumpe: recognition? Yeah.
  Charles Washington: But that was only for young people that preferred it, older people didn't.
  Joseph Stumpe: Youn young people pref Yeah, they s they said that they'd be interested in a remote control which offered that possibility and as you go up through the age groups, people got less and less interested in sort of a a remote control that you could talk to, so.
  Anthony Phelps: No what I maybe think is um it seems the technology would be quite advanced for that and they might end up costing more than our twelve fifty budget for
  Joseph Stumpe: Yeah.
  Charles Washington: Well that's
  Anthony Phelps: for
  Charles Washington: right.
  Anthony Phelps: the speech
  Joseph Stumpe: Yeah.
  Anthony Phelps: recognition.
  Joseph Stumpe: Yeah.
  Anthony Phelps: Um. And possibly the thing about the about the remote being lost we could have You know with your mobile phone, you lose that and you can ring it. Maybe we can have some kind of sensor which is kept somewhere where you can some kind of buzzer system between the two.
  Joseph Stumpe: Yeah.
  Anthony Phelps: So you can press a button which is always kept in one place and then it
  Joseph Stumpe: Uh-huh.
  Anthony Phelps: maybe buzzes to
  Joseph Stumpe: Yeah.
  Anthony Phelps: somewhere else, wherever the remote actually is.
  Joseph Stumpe: Yeah, we'd have t that would mean we'd have to put two products together as well, which
  Anthony Phelps: That is true, yes.
  Joseph Stumpe: which again would probably be a bit expensive,
  Anthony Phelps: Hmm.
  Joseph Stumpe: but
  Daniel Alexander: There's key rings um that you kind of whistle at or clap at, I can't remember,
  Joseph Stumpe: Yeah.
  Daniel Alexander: and then they whistle back, or something like that.
  Charles Washington: Sounds
  Joseph Stumpe: Yeah.
  Daniel Alexander: That'd
  Charles Washington: reasonable.
  Daniel Alexander: probably be really simple, they're cheap.
  Joseph Stumpe: Mm-hmm.
  Charles Washington: Yeah.
  Anthony Phelps: So I guess it'd be something we could
  Charles Washington: So
  Anthony Phelps: like attach to the or like the same technology could be put inside the
  Charles Washington: Well
  Anthony Phelps: inside
  Charles Washington: if
  Anthony Phelps: the remote.
  Charles Washington: you're trying to avoid having a second product 'cause obviously you could have a second product that gave you the right pitch which would set the remote off to say here I am sort of thing, you know without sound recognition. But if you I know. Um I was gonna say a sharp noise, you know a clapping of hand or whatever. You'd want to try and av just have the one product that
  Anthony Phelps: Yeah.
  Charles Washington: if
  Anthony Phelps: Yeah if we if we
  Joseph Stumpe: Mm-hmm.
  Anthony Phelps: could have it in the actual remote like everything in one
  Joseph Stumpe: Yeah.
  Anthony Phelps: one device.
  Charles Washington: Yeah. Um I dunno um talking about vo I mean obviously if you've got voice recognition then you can do it in that way because it'll recognise the voice and you can give it a command, a set command whatever that happened to be.
  Joseph Stumpe: Yeah.
  Charles Washington: But you've then got the point if if you're not going with uh voice recognition then
  Joseph Stumpe: Mm-hmm.
  Anthony Phelps: you could have an option to turn it off. Or Perhaps, um.
  Joseph Stumpe: Yeah.
  Anthony Phelps: So that would solve the problems with the T_V_ kind of speaking to the remote and changing its own channels.
  Charles Washington: Mm. So uh Any sugges Well, any conclusions?
  Joseph Stumpe: Um would it take quite a while to sort of develop the speech recognition software in the remote control?
  Anthony Phelps: Mm.
  Joseph Stumpe: Considering
  Charles Washington: Well if it does then we can't.
  Joseph Stumpe: Yeah.
  Charles Washington: It's that simple, because we've got uh th th three um primary um uh requisites from uh from and email uh that was sent to Joseph Stumpe whereby we had The design logo was one, which we've already mentioned. We've got um the remote was only for the television and not for because that would make it too complex and we have to get it market quickly.
  Joseph Stumpe: Mm-hmm.
  Charles Washington: And the uh third thing was that um teletext uh as far as uh the management is concerned, um is becoming dated uh due to the popularity of the internet.
  Joseph Stumpe: Okay.
  Charles Washington: So
  Anthony Phelps: 'Kay.
  Charles Washington: that means that uh so these are the sort of three um extra parameters that have been put on this uh project.
  Joseph Stumpe: Mm-hmm.
  Charles Washington: So we're being focused effectively directly at a television and
  Anthony Phelps: Yes.
  Charles Washington: it seems to Joseph Stumpe that the management is uh wanting us to go down a narrow path and not opening out. So anything that uh is to be added, such as voice recognition et cetera
  Anthony Phelps: Has to be simple
  Charles Washington: has
  Anthony Phelps: enough to
  Charles Washington: to be very simple and has to be very quick because time to market is is critical.
  Joseph Stumpe: Mm-hmm.
  Charles Washington: S
  Anthony Phelps: I suppose if we could get something in which was quite quick and simple that would give us an advantage over the other remotes.
  Charles Washington: It would.
  Anthony Phelps: Um.
  Charles Washington: But probably quick and simple is primary rather than
  Anthony Phelps: 'Kay.
  Charles Washington: added extras. Added extras would be nice, but the primary consideration is to get the project finished within uh this short time window,
  Joseph Stumpe: Mm-hmm.
  Charles Washington: which effectively now is sort of four hours. So and if and we've gotta get to the end. Uh d d I think I think first and foremost we've gotta get to the end and then get to the end with um added extras if possible.
  Anthony Phelps: Mm-hmm.
  Joseph Stumpe: Mm-hmm.
  Charles Washington: Okay.
  Joseph Stumpe: So
  Charles Washington: Right okay, uh so I need to Right. So I don't know how long we have left of our uh time. But we have to
  Joseph Stumpe: About
  Charles Washington: make
  Joseph Stumpe: five
  Charles Washington: the decisions
  Joseph Stumpe: minutes.
  Charles Washington: on uh the remote control functions and how we were planning to proceed so that at the next uh meeting each person that's got a a a task to do is clear
  Anthony Phelps: Yes.
  Charles Washington: from this meeting what that task is.
  Joseph Stumpe: Mm-hmm.
  Anthony Phelps: Um.
  Charles Washington: We'll also know w when the next meeting is I um so we'll know how long we've got to complete that task. And then we can report back at the next meeting and say right okay yes, we've achieved this or we haven't achieved this, this is how far we've progressed. Does
  Joseph Stumpe: Mm-hmm.
  Charles Washington: that make reasonable sense?
  Anthony Phelps: Yes that
  Daniel Alexander: Yeah.
  Anthony Phelps: seems
  Joseph Stumpe: Okay,
  Anthony Phelps: right.
  Joseph Stumpe: yeah.
  Charles Washington: So we have to come effectively to the decision on the remote functions so that you can decide what you're gonna be doing. And if dur between the time of this meeting finishing and the next meeting starting, if you get any additional information that uh only you have at
  Anthony Phelps: Mm-hmm.
  Charles Washington: that point in time you'd think would be relevant to other people in terms of their des decision making um process, then we should communicate that as quickly as possible
  Joseph Stumpe: Mm-hmm.
  Charles Washington: and not wait until the next meeting. Do it via
  Joseph Stumpe: Okay.
  Charles Washington: the email
  Joseph Stumpe: Yep.
  Charles Washington: so that rather than coming you know If you get the information just before the next meeting that's fine. Come along with it in the next meeting, we can discuss it then and
  Anthony Phelps: Okay.
  Charles Washington: take whatever action is appropriate. But if you get it well before the next meeting, let everybody else know 'cause that might have an impact on their uh
  Joseph Stumpe: Yeah.
  Charles Washington: on what they come up with effectively at the next meeting. Okay.
  Joseph Stumpe: Mm-hmm.
  Charles Washington: Right, is there
  Joseph Stumpe: So do we need to decide on the functions now? S
  Charles Washington: I would guess so.
  Daniel Alexander: Well I think it'd be really easy and it'd be a big advantage if we did have some sort of um kind of whistle back
  Joseph Stumpe: Mm-hmm.
  Daniel Alexander: kind of function.
  Joseph Stumpe: Yeah and
  Daniel Alexander: 'Cause that'll solve kind of the frustration of losing it.
  Joseph Stumpe: Yeah and that was that was the number one sort of frustration
  Charles Washington: Yep.
  Joseph Stumpe: that people said, so. I don't think there's anything else on the market that does that, so.
  Daniel Alexander: Yeah. I don't really know about the voice recognition thing.
  Charles Washington: I w well uh i
  Anthony Phelps: Maybe we should concentrate just on the whistle back function
  Charles Washington: Something
  Anthony Phelps: at the moment,
  Charles Washington: simple.
  Anthony Phelps: and if something
  Charles Washington: Uh if
  Anthony Phelps: comes
  Charles Washington: if
  Anthony Phelps: back
  Charles Washington: our primary consideration is to get it there in time, time's short, you want something to meet the major concerns of the consumer
  Daniel Alexander: Mm-hmm.
  Charles Washington: so that we can have
  Joseph Stumpe: Mm-hmm.
  Charles Washington: that as a selling point for the product, something that's quick and simple.
  Daniel Alexander: Yeah.
  Charles Washington: So,
  Daniel Alexander: And that
  Charles Washington: sounds
  Daniel Alexander: wouldn't put
  Charles Washington: good.
  Daniel Alexander: off the kind of older generation either, 'cause everyone can whistle or clap, and they wouldn't have to be kind of scared of this new technology.
  Charles Washington: Well, so maybe
  Joseph Stumpe: Mm-hmm.
  Charles Washington: a clap rather than a whistle would be On the basis that if we've got if we're catering to the whole age range, you want something that's easy to do, now something that doesn't
  Joseph Stumpe: No
  Charles Washington: like
  Joseph Stumpe: not
  Charles Washington: whis
  Joseph Stumpe: everyone
  Charles Washington: uh
  Joseph Stumpe: can whistle, can
  Charles Washington: Well
  Joseph Stumpe: they, though?
  Charles Washington: I I I don't know. Well If you think that more people can whistle than clap then that's fine, then go for that option, but if I would
  Joseph Stumpe: No,
  Charles Washington: have
  Joseph Stumpe: clapping,
  Anthony Phelps: I'd
  Charles Washington: thought
  Anthony Phelps: go
  Charles Washington: that
  Anthony Phelps: more
  Charles Washington: more people
  Joseph Stumpe: I
  Anthony Phelps: Yeah,
  Joseph Stumpe: think clapping,
  Anthony Phelps: f more
  Charles Washington: could
  Anthony Phelps: for
  Joseph Stumpe: yeah.
  Anthony Phelps: clap.
  Charles Washington: clap rather than whistle,
  Joseph Stumpe: Yeah.
  Charles Washington: so uh so clap option.
  Joseph Stumpe: Yeah.
  Charles Washington: Okay.
  Daniel Alexander: 'Kay we've already decided that we don't need a teletext button, haven't we?
  Charles Washington: Uh.
  Daniel Alexander: Is that one
  Charles Washington: Ef
  Daniel Alexander: of
  Charles Washington: effectively
  Daniel Alexander: the
  Charles Washington: that's what the that's what they're saying, that uh
  Daniel Alexander: Hmm.
  Charles Washington: if uh if people are now using the internet then you don't need teletext, so
  Joseph Stumpe: Taking out teletext,
  Charles Washington: so
  Joseph Stumpe: okay.
  Charles Washington: take out teletext.
  Anthony Phelps: Did we decide
  Daniel Alexander: Right.
  Anthony Phelps: on having the ten um the ten numbers and then the
  Daniel Alexander: Yeah, I think so,
  Anthony Phelps: the
  Daniel Alexander: so
  Anthony Phelps: little
  Daniel Alexander: zero
  Anthony Phelps: digit
  Daniel Alexander: to
  Anthony Phelps: next
  Daniel Alexander: nine.
  Anthony Phelps: to it which kind of
  Joseph Stumpe: Mm.
  Anthony Phelps: enabled you to put them together.
  Joseph Stumpe: I think nowadays you can just get ones where it gives you a sort of a second or two to press another number,
  Charles Washington: Yeah.
  Joseph Stumpe: so you can press any two and it'll sort of put them together.
  Anthony Phelps: Okay, ten numbers and then some kind of device to allow uh
  Joseph Stumpe: Yeah.
  Anthony Phelps: I'll put delay to allow um
  Joseph Stumpe: Yeah.
  Anthony Phelps: multiple numbers. Or multiple digits.
  Joseph Stumpe: Yeah.
  Anthony Phelps: Did we decide anything about um the other functions? As in setting the audio and tuning it and stuff like that? You had an had an idea about the menu?
  Joseph Stumpe: Uh we could possibly put an L_ a sort of a L_C_D_ menu in, but that again is probably an expense that
  Anthony Phelps: But just thinking um people probably I mean you don't have you only have to probably tune in the T_V_ once, but you have to be able to tune it that once.
  Joseph Stumpe: Yeah.
  Anthony Phelps: So and if finally the T_V_ breaks, you get a new one, you're gonna have to be able to tune it. You can't really avoid
  Joseph Stumpe: Mm-hmm.
  Anthony Phelps: that.
  Daniel Alexander: Hmm.
  Charles Washington: No.
  Anthony Phelps: Except the new digital markets which do it by themselves.
  Joseph Stumpe: Yeah.
  Anthony Phelps: So that'll
  Charles Washington: But
  Anthony Phelps: be in
  Charles Washington: the but that's relying on the television market changing
  Anthony Phelps: Yes.
  Charles Washington: to an automatic and if it is at the moment, that's fine. But at the moment it's not, so it seems to Joseph Stumpe that you have to have a device that caters, 'cause
  Anthony Phelps: Yeah.
  Charles Washington: otherwise it would make it uh your device would become inoperable,
  Anthony Phelps: Yeah.
  Charles Washington: or only operable in certain circumstances
  Anthony Phelps: Yeah
  Charles Washington: and
  Anthony Phelps: yeah.
  Daniel Alexander: Mm.
  Charles Washington: the idea is to have an international market which is
  Joseph Stumpe: Yeah.
  Charles Washington: And it's also m it's the the product we've got is something that's at the I would have said the lower end of the s of the cost scale, so
  Joseph Stumpe: Yeah.
  Charles Washington: we're not really going for something that's uh
  Joseph Stumpe: I s I suppose
  Charles Washington: terribly
  Joseph Stumpe: um
  Charles Washington: high-tech.
  Joseph Stumpe: if people are buying remotes, then they're probably buying it to replace another remote
  Charles Washington: Possibly.
  Joseph Stumpe: 'cause all most tellies come with remotes, so. I
  Charles Washington: That's right.
  Joseph Stumpe: mean we're maybe talking about replacing remotes for slightly older televisions, so we maybe need to keep the the tuning function in.
  Anthony Phelps: Yeah.
  Daniel Alexander: Yeah.
  Anthony Phelps: So how would this menu function work? Would you maybe have like one menu button, then you'd use the other buttons, maybe the number buttons to actually do the separate functions.
  Joseph Stumpe: Yeah,
  Daniel Alexander: Yeah,
  Joseph Stumpe: that would be
  Daniel Alexander: like
  Joseph Stumpe: a good
  Daniel Alexander: the volume
  Joseph Stumpe: idea,
  Daniel Alexander: or something.
  Joseph Stumpe: yeah.
  Anthony Phelps: Okay.
  Daniel Alexander: Yeah, 'cause you do need um kind of brightness and contrast and everything as well. My dad
  Joseph Stumpe: Mm-hmm.
  Daniel Alexander: was watching a film the other week and it was too dark, so I had to go through it and turn the brightness up.
  Anthony Phelps: we're
  Joseph Stumpe: Hmm.
  Anthony Phelps: gonna have the the individual numbers and then a menu function and maybe sort of a slightly more advanced um instruction booklet to come with it, to guide Presu uh I think it'd be quite hard just for people to grasp um just off like the menu use different buttons you maybe have to have like some better instructions of how
  Joseph Stumpe: Uh
  Anthony Phelps: that would actually work.
  Joseph Stumpe: I'm not sure whether the sort of having people have a booklet 'cause one the second most annoying thing that people found was having to learn the new one.
  Anthony Phelps: Right, okay
  Joseph Stumpe: So
  Anthony Phelps: um.
  Joseph Stumpe: maybe next to each of the buttons, you know each of them could have a number and then also a function written next to it, so you're basically pressing
  Anthony Phelps: that also goes back to the original design when we saw those two, and there was the one on the left hand side which had all like the double functions and stuff which kind of looked too busy and had
  Joseph Stumpe: Right.
  Anthony Phelps: too much on it, so.
  Joseph Stumpe: Okay.
  Daniel Alexander: Well,
  Charles Washington: Okay,
  Daniel Alexander: if we're
  Charles Washington: well.
  Daniel Alexander: trying to keep it slee sleek and sexy as well, have you seen those
  Charles Washington: Mm.
  Daniel Alexander: remotes where kind of um the bottom bit slides down, so there's
  Joseph Stumpe: Yeah.
  Daniel Alexander: kind of um everything
  Charles Washington: So y
  Daniel Alexander: else revealed? So you don't
  Charles Washington: Ah
  Daniel Alexander: use it that much, you don't have to see it all the time.
  Charles Washington: That's a very
  Daniel Alexander: But
  Charles Washington: good
  Daniel Alexander: it's
  Charles Washington: idea.
  Daniel Alexander: all there
  Anthony Phelps: That
  Daniel Alexander: if you
  Anthony Phelps: is
  Daniel Alexander: need
  Joseph Stumpe: Yeah,
  Anthony Phelps: that is
  Daniel Alexander: it.
  Anthony Phelps: a good idea actually.
  Joseph Stumpe: yeah.
  Anthony Phelps: Sor sort of a second.
  Charles Washington: So you keep um
  Daniel Alexander: Like a hidden panel.
  Charles Washington: Right we've got five minutes before we wind up this meeting, so I've been told.
  Anthony Phelps: Okay.
  Charles Washington: I don't know if you've got the same.
  Anthony Phelps: Uh not quite, but
  Charles Washington: Okay.
  Anthony Phelps: I guess.
  Charles Washington: So so keep um
  Anthony Phelps: Keep the other buttons but hide them away.
  Charles Washington: keep detailed functions um hidden at the back.
  Daniel Alexander: Hmm. And that'll be better for the older generation as well 'cause, well my dad doesn't like
  Charles Washington: Ah.
  Daniel Alexander: anything that you've got to kinda flick through a menu,
  Joseph Stumpe: Mm-hmm.
  Daniel Alexander: but he can pretty much read a button
  Charles Washington: Mm-hmm.
  Anthony Phelps: So
  Joseph Stumpe: Yeah.
  Daniel Alexander: if it's displayed properly.
  Anthony Phelps: So um we're gonna have to have to work out what's gonna be on these other functions as as well. So we're
  Joseph Stumpe: Yeah.
  Anthony Phelps: gonna have like two separate
  Charles Washington: That's right.
  Anthony Phelps: two separate lists, I guess.
  Joseph Stumpe: Yeah.
  Charles Washington: data functions hidden at back.
  Joseph Stumpe: So th the
  Charles Washington: Can bring out when needed.
  Joseph Stumpe: The detailed ones would be sort of brightness,
  Daniel Alexander: Yeah.
  Joseph Stumpe: uh sorta
  Charles Washington: That's right so we're dis So you've got which ones are gonna be on the front and which ones are gonna be on the back.
  Anthony Phelps: So
  Charles Washington: We
  Anthony Phelps: sh
  Charles Washington: have to decide.
  Anthony Phelps: Should we decide
  Joseph Stumpe: Mm-hmm.
  Anthony Phelps: in the next couple of minutes, and then
  Joseph Stumpe: Yeah.
  Charles Washington: I guess so.
  Anthony Phelps: So on the
  Charles Washington: So on front,
  Anthony Phelps: about the number.
  Charles Washington: numbers,
  Anthony Phelps: Um
  Daniel Alexander: And the volume?
  Anthony Phelps: the volume up and down.
  Charles Washington: volume.
  Anthony Phelps: Shall
  Daniel Alexander: Um.
  Anthony Phelps: we have a mute button as well?
  Charles Washington: Sorry?
  Anthony Phelps: A mute button as well.
  Daniel Alexander: Yeah.
  Charles Washington: Mm.
  Anthony Phelps: Yeah.
  Daniel Alexander: Yeah
  Anthony Phelps: Or
  Daniel Alexander: I think they're handy.
  Joseph Stumpe: Mm-hmm. And probably a power one as well. Dunno.
  Daniel Alexander: Have you seen the adverts? Like if you
  Joseph Stumpe: Mm-hmm.
  Daniel Alexander: boil the kettle that's full that's a waste.
  Joseph Stumpe: Yeah.
  Charles Washington: Mm-hmm.
  Daniel Alexander: If you leave your telly on standby it powers Blackpool for a certain amount of time. Like we should maybe try to discourage people from standby.
  Anthony Phelps: But then they might not buy it if they haven't got one. 'Cause
  Joseph Stumpe: Yeah.
  Anthony Phelps: people might
  Daniel Alexander: Yeah,
  Anthony Phelps: just
  Daniel Alexander: it's
  Anthony Phelps: be too
  Daniel Alexander: maybe
  Anthony Phelps: fickle
  Daniel Alexander: too much
  Anthony Phelps: and
  Daniel Alexander: of
  Anthony Phelps: not
  Daniel Alexander: a big
  Anthony Phelps: want to
  Daniel Alexander: issue
  Anthony Phelps: change.
  Daniel Alexander: for here.
  Joseph Stumpe: Yeah.
  Anthony Phelps: We can send out a flier with the device
  Charles Washington: So
  Anthony Phelps: saying that you shouldn't
  Charles Washington: so are
  Anthony Phelps: leave
  Daniel Alexander: Uh-oh
  Charles Washington: you having
  Anthony Phelps: it on
  Daniel Alexander: danger
  Anthony Phelps: stand-by.
  Charles Washington: the stand-by
  Daniel Alexander: sign.
  Charles Washington: on the front, then?
  Anthony Phelps: I think you probably should.
  Daniel Alexander: Yeah, but a little bit smaller. Compromise.
  Charles Washington: Well.
  Joseph Stumpe: Okay.
  Anthony Phelps: Um are we gonna have the channel up and down as well as the number buttons?
  Joseph Stumpe: Um 'cause yeah the market research said there is quite a lot of people do just zap around
  Anthony Phelps: Okay,
  Joseph Stumpe: and flick,
  Anthony Phelps: so we'll
  Joseph Stumpe: so.
  Anthony Phelps: have um
  Daniel Alexander: Right.
  Anthony Phelps: So we've got ten eleven twelve thirteen fourteen fifteen sixteen there?
  Joseph Stumpe: Um.
  Charles Washington: Channel up and down. What else have we got? What was that, sixteen?
  Joseph Stumpe: Numbers is ten, volume is twelve, th
  Charles Washington: Volume button.
  Joseph Stumpe: Yeah
  Charles Washington: How many
  Joseph Stumpe: si
  Charles Washington: volumes?
  Joseph Stumpe: One up, one down.
  Charles Washington: Right okay.
  Daniel Alexander: On mute.
  Joseph Stumpe: And a mute, yeah. That's sixteen isn't it, yeah.
  Anthony Phelps: Is there anything else? Um.
  Joseph Stumpe: I don't think so, no.
  Charles Washington: Power button, stand-by, channel, up and down. So is that it?
  Daniel Alexander: so.
  Charles Washington: Okay. That's sixteen buttons, you reckon. And then at the back?
  Joseph Stumpe: You've got brightness and contrast.
  Anthony Phelps: Maybe
  Daniel Alexander: And then
  Anthony Phelps: if we're gonna run out of time, one of us should come up with a list of these and then get back at the next meeting just at the start and say what they're gonna be.
  Charles Washington: Okay.
  Joseph Stumpe: Yeah.
  Charles Washington: So
  Daniel Alexander: Mm-hmm.
  Charles Washington: on the back it'll have brightness, contrast, anything else?
  Daniel Alexander: Uh
  Charles Washington: You're
  Daniel Alexander: there's
  Charles Washington: also
  Daniel Alexander: audio
  Charles Washington: gonna have
  Daniel Alexander: functions.
  Charles Washington: the channel tuner, as it were.
  Joseph Stumpe: Yeah.
  Anthony Phelps: So tuner up and down, I guess.
  Daniel Alexander: Yeah.
  Charles Washington: Tuner, would that have up and down?
  Anthony Phelps: Um up
  Daniel Alexander: I think they normally
  Anthony Phelps: Tune one
  Daniel Alexander: do.
  Anthony Phelps: way, tune
  Charles Washington: okay.
  Anthony Phelps: the o I I dunno I
  Joseph Stumpe: Yeah.
  Anthony Phelps: dunno possibly.
  Daniel Alexander: Yeah.
  Charles Washington: Okay.
  Joseph Stumpe: And then maybe sort of an enter button for sort of s you know, saying that you want that particular thing tuned in. So you go up and down and then it pick
  Anthony Phelps: Oh yeah
  Joseph Stumpe: it
  Anthony Phelps: and
  Joseph Stumpe: finds
  Anthony Phelps: th and a
  Joseph Stumpe: something
  Anthony Phelps: enter
  Joseph Stumpe: and
  Anthony Phelps: button
  Joseph Stumpe: then you
  Anthony Phelps: just
  Joseph Stumpe: wanna
  Anthony Phelps: to
  Joseph Stumpe: press
  Anthony Phelps: select. Yeah,
  Joseph Stumpe: enter
  Anthony Phelps: okay.
  Joseph Stumpe: to select it, yeah.
  Anthony Phelps: Um I guess we're keeping s it simple. We don't really need any other audio funct uh functions because it's just volume up, volume
  Charles Washington: Um
  Anthony Phelps: down.
  Charles Washington: up volume, yeah, I would have thought so.
  Anthony Phelps: Um.
  Joseph Stumpe: Yeah.
  Daniel Alexander: So I think um there's quite a lot of like Dolby surround studio, surround sort of things.
  Joseph Stumpe: Yeah.
  Charles Washington: Okay.
  Anthony Phelps: Do
  Daniel Alexander: Um
  Anthony Phelps: they have their
  Daniel Alexander: maybe
  Anthony Phelps: own
  Daniel Alexander: for the younger market.
  Anthony Phelps: do they have their own controls on their actual products, then, or do you have to do it via the remote?
  Daniel Alexander: Um I think they've got their own controls in this kind of like hidden panel.
  Anthony Phelps: Yeah I suppose if we've got their if they've got their own controls then we can avoid it for ours
  Charles Washington: Yeah.
  Anthony Phelps: just to keep it simple.
  Charles Washington: Yeah.
  Daniel Alexander: Oh no, I mean um like there's kind of individual buttons for them,
  Anthony Phelps: Oh, okay.
  Daniel Alexander: like on the T_V_ remote.
  Anthony Phelps: Right.
  Joseph Stumpe: Mm-hmm.
  Daniel Alexander: But I don't really know what they're for, I've never used them.
  Anthony Phelps: Um.
  Daniel Alexander: I just know they're something to do with
  Anthony Phelps: Maybe unless something
  Daniel Alexander: Dolby.
  Anthony Phelps: comes up then we should I
  Charles Washington: Well
  Anthony Phelps: think
  Charles Washington: you might get some research.
  Anthony Phelps: Well shall we look into that and just get back together.
  Charles Washington: Okay.
  Joseph Stumpe: Okay.
  Daniel Alexander: Right.
  Charles Washington: Right
  Joseph Stumpe: Right.
  Charles Washington: so I'll do the minutes of uh this meeting. And we'll meet back at I'm not sure. Um forty minutes, I believe is the time.
  Anthony Phelps: 'Kay.
  Joseph Stumpe: Okay.
  Charles Washington: Come on.
Updated Content: Charles Washington gave the group new requirements on product features. Anthony Phelps gave a presentation on the working design of the device. He presented all the necessary internal components and how they operate together. He gave his preferences on energy sources and senders. Daniel Alexander presented the necessary functions of the remote, then compared the interfaces of two existing remotes. The group discussed making their remote more user-friendly; they proposed eliminating rarely-used buttons and making it easier to skip through channels. Joseph Stumpe discussed user requirements with the group and showed that users wanted a fancier, less complicated remote that would not be easily lost. He suggested incorporating a menu and an LCD screen to satisfy these requirements. The group discussed how to incorporate a locator function. Charles Washington reminded the group to limit the number of complicated features due to the project's time constraints. The group had a discussion to decide on product features. They decided to include a clapping locator function and a device that allows the user to enter two numbers separately to get a two-digit number. Complicated functions will be hidden in a back panel.