Extracted Content: Sanjuanita Bradley: All set? Okay. Cool. Right. So um basically I'm just gonna go over real quickly um some news I've just got from the board on how we're supposed to do with this um remote control. And then I'm gonna turn over to you guys to make brief presentations um on what you've found and then we'll have a bit of discussion. So basically uh what I've just found out from the board I dunno if you guys got this email as well but it needs to be television only. So no we're not doing D_V_D_,
  Connie Fisher: Okay.
  Sanjuanita Bradley: we're not doing anything else, it's just gonna be a television remote. Um it also needs to have the company colours included in it. Um so that's red and black. And it has to have the slogan, case you guys forget the slogan it's, we put fashion in electronics. Um and no teletext. I'm not sure what teletext is but I'm assuming you guys do, so we don't wanna include that um in this particular design. For reasons that I don't really know. There's but it's the board so there you go. So basically um given those guidelines which will have some effect on how we design we'll discuss it later I mean 'cause it's television only we'll be able to change our uh um well we can s sacrifice more function for a better television remote. Anyway. So I'm gonna turn over to Carrie Schnader uh to go ahead and make a presentation on
  Carrie Schnader: Okay. So do I unplug
  Connie Fisher: Gotta
  Sanjuanita Bradley: Oh,
  Connie Fisher: plug
  Sanjuanita Bradley: right yeah.
  Connie Fisher: you in.
  Carrie Schnader: this bit here?
  Sanjuanita Bradley: Yep.
  Sanjuanita Bradley: Might have to hit function F_ eight but it looks like it's gonna come up. Yep. Cool.
  Carrie Schnader: Okay. Right. That's page one of my presentation.
  Sanjuanita Bradley: Brilliant.
  Connie Fisher: Very nice For. your first PowerPoint it's lovely.
  Carrie Schnader: So the uh method. We're gonna have to understand how remote controls work and res uh successfully complete this project. Um remote control works as follows. This is all pretty basic stuff you guys. Um sends message to another system, so there's an energy source involved in that like a battery or solar power, something along those lines, there's an integrated circuit, which is the microchip, actually compose the messages and usually the way a a remote control works is it sends infrared bits to another system. A user interface controls the chip, basically that's the casing and the buttons and um accordingly the messages as well. So my findings, um I just did a preliminary study here and uh I found that too much metal in remote design could potentially cause interference with the ability of the remote to send commands. And too much metal can cause remotes to behave unexpectedly by receiving false signals. Um too much metal is used sometimes and people pick up radio signals and the like, and there's also the possibility of the remote catching on fire and injuring the customer, just think of those lawsuits, that'd be really bad. Therefore I suggest primarily plastic construction.
  Sanjuanita Bradley: 'Kay.
  Carrie Schnader: Um, components. Just some ideas that I had, um, energy source, it's kinda hip to be eco friendly so I thought maybe we could do something with solar power with an alkaline battery backup. Um the user interface, I was since we can't use metal I was thinking maybe a high grade recycled plastic.
  Sanjuanita Bradley: Mm.
  Carrie Schnader: The chip, um, silicon based chip I don't really see any way around that, we can't really be different in that respect. Um, the sender well I'm thinking infrared 'cause it is the industry standard, multi channel, that's a word I made up, I don't really know what it means.
  Sanjuanita Bradley: 'Kay.
  Carrie Schnader: Uh PAL
  Sanjuanita Bradley: Fair enough.
  Carrie Schnader: and N_T_S_C_ compatible and uh probably a two hundred foot range.
  Sanjuanita Bradley: 'Kay.
  Carrie Schnader: Uh and the receiver of course is any number of electronic devices. Um but in this case it'll only be T_V_s. Um personal preferences, I really think that we should use plastic as opposed to metal, um, the company simply
  Connie Fisher: Fine.
  Carrie Schnader: can't afford this kinds of lawsuits which adm admittedly is gonna come at the cost of a certain aesthetic value, 'cause we were thinking
  Sanjuanita Bradley: Is is there a way that we can use um modern types of polymers, or mo modern types of plastics that maybe do have some kind of aesthetic value um like if a white like if we talk about like well like on the lapt on these laptops and other
  Carrie Schnader: Right.
  Sanjuanita Bradley: ones
  Connie Fisher: It
  Sanjuanita Bradley: they
  Connie Fisher: needs,
  Sanjuanita Bradley: use a
  Connie Fisher: yeah.
  Sanjuanita Bradley: a pretty nice, you can do i is there some kind of nice colo der quality plastic that we can work with?
  Carrie Schnader: Yeah that shouldn't be a problem. Um for example the plastic they have on your laptop there is something that's perfectly possible for
  Sanjuanita Bradley: Okay,
  Carrie Schnader: us to do.
  Sanjuanita Bradley: okay.
  Connie Fisher: Cool.
  Carrie Schnader: That's
  Sanjuanita Bradley: Great.
  Carrie Schnader: the end of my presentation.
  Sanjuanita Bradley: Thank you very much Nathan. Um if next we can have the um User Interface Developer go ahead and make a brief presentation that'd be great as well. S plug yourself in here.
  Sanjuanita Bradley: Mm. Um hit function F_ eight real quickly, hold down Mm.
  Connie Fisher: Looks like you're in okay.
  Carrie Schnader: Is it plugged in well? There it goes. Computer
  Ruthie Smith: Th
  Carrie Schnader: adjusting.
  Connie Fisher: There you go.
  Sanjuanita Bradley: There you go. Sweet.
  Ruthie Smith: Well so. Here we have a functions design presentation. Um so a few of the requirements we need here. Uh we n basically need to operate an electronic device, it needs to be universal um and possibly uh operate several different types of devices although we now uh find that
  Sanjuanita Bradley: Yeah
  Ruthie Smith: uh
  Sanjuanita Bradley: sorry I
  Ruthie Smith: that
  Sanjuanita Bradley: couldn't get that g to use before.
  Ruthie Smith: that's no problem. Um so some of my findings. Um basically wanna send messages uh to a television set.
  Ruthie Smith: I think we're all quite uh quite uh intelligent and know know what a normal remote control does. Um now some of the other things I found is a a complicated remote control sorry that we can't quite
  Sanjuanita Bradley: Oh yeah
  Ruthie Smith: see
  Sanjuanita Bradley: look
  Ruthie Smith: my
  Sanjuanita Bradley: at
  Ruthie Smith: red
  Sanjuanita Bradley: that.
  Carrie Schnader: Mm.
  Ruthie Smith: there very well but uh this remote control has many functions um so it can do a lot of things but it uh it is quite complicated and most
  Sanjuanita Bradley: Mm-hmm.
  Ruthie Smith: users will find it uh find that they won't use most of the functions because they don't know how to use them and don't wanna take the time to learn how to do it. As you also notice it's quite a boring design. Um. Another remote control, slightly different, it's a simpler remote control uh many less buttons but uh has many fewer functions, um m much easier for the user to manipulate and use. Um it also has a bit of a cheap look and it's also quite boring. So my personal preferences. Revolutionise
  Sanjuanita Bradley: Nice.
  Ruthie Smith: the idea of uh a remote control. Um so attain the functionality of a complicated device but use a simple formatted display uh for the user to to work with. And I was gonna add another uh slide here but I didn't quite have time there. Um.
  Sanjuanita Bradley: Okay.
  Ruthie Smith: Just incorporating some of the ideas that we had previously like uh having multiple face but it's uh.
  Sanjuanita Bradley: Great. Thanks for that Ron.
  Connie Fisher: Right. Does that mean I'm
  Sanjuanita Bradley: 'Kay
  Connie Fisher: up?
  Sanjuanita Bradley: yep that's you.
  Connie Fisher: I think so. Okay.
  Ruthie Smith: I can plug you in.
  Connie Fisher: Oh that would be perfect. Thank you. Slide show up and running. Or not.
  Sanjuanita Bradley: Give it a little
  Connie Fisher: Uh.
  Sanjuanita Bradley: bit.
  Connie Fisher: Oh there we go. Perfect. Okay. So this is Connie Fisher. Um basically I was looking through some marketing reports that we've got we had a usability test where we were actually sort like watching a hundred people use T_V_ remotes and see what it is that they're using and then they filled out a questionnaire about what they like and what they don't about their general T_V_ remote control practices. Um pretty much through testing we were finding out that most of the time, everybody's used to using changing the channel, turning it on, using the volume, m the majority of the time that's all that's going on, the other functions happen, for some people they're important, but the primary uses are really really basic. Um and so big complicated remotes like one we saw in the last presentation are really not the general public's use, they're not using a lot of it, they don't need it, they even find it frustrating when there are all those buttons that they don't know what to do with. And um we also found out that uh fifty percent of our people, their the worst thing about a remote is how often they lose it. And then they can't find it in the room. So I think what we were talking about with a pager or something, will really come into play with a lot of these people. Um there's also a survey about what they liked about remotes, and pretty much they all think they're hideous and not very useful, and the younger demographics are all really interested in voice recognition options. I don't know if that's something we're ready to look into technically, that's up to the design people, but it is s something worth thinking about, especially since the younger demographic's obviously the one that's gonna keep growing, so if that's the direction we're headed in it's something to think about. Um but basically it really is the primary functions and getting it to look nice, which are the standards. So it's a good start for us.
  Sanjuanita Bradley: That's great. Thank you Sarah. Right.
  Connie Fisher: Need to unplug
  Sanjuanita Bradley: So
  Connie Fisher: this?
  Sanjuanita Bradley: um yep I'll just uh switch that
  Connie Fisher: Need it
  Sanjuanita Bradley: back
  Connie Fisher: back.
  Sanjuanita Bradley: here. I'll finish up with just a bit of discussion
  Connie Fisher: There you go.
  Sanjuanita Bradley: plan on for the next phase.
  Sanjuanita Bradley: Right so I think we've covered most of these important questions through this um through you guys's presentations um we've got uh y Carrie Schnader suggests uh or pretty much emphatically suggested that we need to go with plastic. Um Sarah, she's recommended that we go for simpler functions, so fewer functions um but we need to decide who are we selling this to, you s your stats suggested that seventy five percent of people under thirty five wanted,
  Connie Fisher: Oh right.
  Sanjuanita Bradley: thought about voice control, um so do we wanna go for that, or do we want to go for an older demographic, and my thought is um we've got w if we're gonna go for a sleek look I mean we are putting the fashion in electronics um.
  Connie Fisher: We're not catering to the pensioners of the world
  Sanjuanita Bradley: Yes.
  Connie Fisher: I don't think so.
  Sanjuanita Bradley: So maybe this we should look into this younger demographic. Um.
  Connie Fisher: Right.
  Sanjuanita Bradley: So uh we need to wonder ah h about how we make it better and smaller and faster um think we're constrained to plastics very well, we've got this idea, Ron was saying we need to think about uh revolutionising the way it's looking
  Connie Fisher: Right.
  Sanjuanita Bradley: um, which might be easier given that we're going for simpler function and that we're
  Connie Fisher: Uh.
  Sanjuanita Bradley: only going for a telly. Um so um. How th this voice operation thing is I think is a good idea um assuming that it's doable, um at least for the basic controls, maybe we can balance
  Connie Fisher: Right.
  Sanjuanita Bradley: it that way, you
  Carrie Schnader: Mm.
  Sanjuanita Bradley: know we can see. Okay you can't say record alias tonight at seven P_M_ but we might be able to say um volume up.
  Connie Fisher: Yeah.
  Carrie Schnader: Right. I think it would be possible to uh combine the locator device and the voice recognition technology.
  Sanjuanita Bradley: Mm.
  Connie Fisher: Oh. That could work. I like that.
  Carrie Schnader: With a simple command like locate.
  Connie Fisher: Yeah.
  Carrie Schnader: And then
  Connie Fisher: Something very basic.
  Carrie Schnader: it could start to beep
  Connie Fisher: Right.
  Carrie Schnader: and
  Sanjuanita Bradley: Right.
  Carrie Schnader: therefore be found.
  Ruthie Smith: Sounds
  Connie Fisher: Is that only
  Ruthie Smith: good.
  Connie Fisher: gonna be within our two hundred foot range then?
  Carrie Schnader: Oh yeah I think that's
  Connie Fisher: Okay.
  Carrie Schnader: very doable.
  Sanjuanita Bradley: The difficulty wh would be in um I think like i you couldn't speak into the remote that you're trying to find. 'Kay you have something that picks up
  Carrie Schnader: Mm.
  Sanjuanita Bradley: a voice
  Connie Fisher: Yeah.
  Sanjuanita Bradley: from far away
  Carrie Schnader: It's a good point.
  Sanjuanita Bradley: If it's hidden under the couch but then again you have this wee this wee thing you know that's just a little chip or whatever that has the page button, maybe that could be voice activated too.
  Ruthie Smith: A little
  Connie Fisher: Mm.
  Ruthie Smith: sticky pad to stick on top of your uh television. And
  Connie Fisher: Yeah.
  Ruthie Smith: you just say something to into that and it
  Sanjuanita Bradley: Yeah.
  Carrie Schnader: Yeah.
  Ruthie Smith: finds
  Connie Fisher: K
  Ruthie Smith: your
  Sanjuanita Bradley: Or an isolated magnet or something like, or you know something that wouldn't interfere I don't know that'd
  Connie Fisher: Yeah.
  Sanjuanita Bradley: be the technical thing but yeah I like that, I like that, the voice recognition for the paging system.
  Ruthie Smith: The other thing is we might be able to handle the simplicity of a remote control and kind of put the more complicated things into a voice control. So it could be sold to both the younger market
  Connie Fisher: True.
  Ruthie Smith: and the older market. And the younger market could use kind of the voi voice control method and the older market
  Connie Fisher: Making
  Ruthie Smith: might
  Connie Fisher: it just
  Ruthie Smith: might
  Connie Fisher: an option?
  Ruthie Smith: k
  Carrie Schnader: Mm.
  Ruthie Smith: exactly
  Connie Fisher: Yeah.
  Ruthie Smith: and might consider the older market could use the simpler design with
  Connie Fisher: Right.
  Ruthie Smith: the traditional buttons and what not.
  Carrie Schnader: I
  Sanjuanita Bradley: Yeah.
  Carrie Schnader: was thinking
  Connie Fisher: Are we still
  Carrie Schnader: uh
  Connie Fisher: thinking about this screen sorry.
  Carrie Schnader: Oh
  Connie Fisher: Go
  Carrie Schnader: go
  Connie Fisher: ahead.
  Carrie Schnader: ahead.
  Connie Fisher: The uh if we're gonna do this touch pad screen thing, it would be
  Sanjuanita Bradley: Mm-hmm.
  Connie Fisher: still, do we know if that's an option technically right
  Ruthie Smith: 'S
  Connie Fisher: now
  Ruthie Smith: definitely
  Connie Fisher: to that?
  Ruthie Smith: an option technically.
  Connie Fisher: Okay.
  Ruthie Smith: I've looked into uh costs of uh touch screen methods
  Connie Fisher: Okay.
  Ruthie Smith: and what not, they seem to be uh you know almost
  Connie Fisher: We're doing okay.
  Ruthie Smith: as cheap as a button method at this point.
  Connie Fisher: 'Cause
  Sanjuanita Bradley: Okay.
  Connie Fisher: it seems like an interesting option especially because then you could have like your primary screen just be these you know four or five basic functions, you can have
  Sanjuanita Bradley: Mm.
  Connie Fisher: menu
  Carrie Schnader: Yeah.
  Connie Fisher: options or something to have all these other complicated voice recognition, settings, things that you're not gonna use every day and that a lot of people aren't gonna use but it is an option there for this hi-tech market that sort of re is the sleek thing we're going for.
  Carrie Schnader: Gotta wonder though, if we're adding so much technology to this one remote, are we still gonna be able to meet out twelve pou our twelve
  Sanjuanita Bradley: Mm-hmm.
  Carrie Schnader: fifty
  Connie Fisher: True.
  Carrie Schnader: Euro you
  Connie Fisher: Worth
  Carrie Schnader: know
  Connie Fisher: looking
  Carrie Schnader: goal
  Connie Fisher: into.
  Carrie Schnader: for selling these things.
  Sanjuanita Bradley: Mm-hmm.
  Carrie Schnader: It
  Connie Fisher: Yeah.
  Carrie Schnader: seems
  Sanjuanita Bradley: Mm-hmm.
  Carrie Schnader: like, we're not gonna be able to handle all these functions with just one microchip. The microchip is probably the most expensive part of
  Connie Fisher: True.
  Sanjuanita Bradley: Okay.
  Carrie Schnader: the the whole mechanism.
  Connie Fisher: Yeah.
  Carrie Schnader: So
  Sanjuanita Bradley: Okay.
  Carrie Schnader: it's just something to consider.
  Sanjuanita Bradley: Absolutely. um well yeah I guess we'll cross that bridge um in a la slightly later stages of development um but yeah I know, that's perfectly viable question. Mm 'kay um so I'm seeing that we're gonna just basically focus on this young demographic group, aim it at them, but then in a sense that its bells and whistles are available for anybody who wants them but basically we'll make a sleek simple
  Connie Fisher: Mm-hmm.
  Sanjuanita Bradley: functioned um uh remote control. Um I think this voice recognition thing is a we've got a market for it uh I don't think there's too
  Connie Fisher: Mm.
  Sanjuanita Bradley: many, we'd more or less be cornering the market on it as well, we don't have many um.
  Connie Fisher: Yeah.
  Sanjuanita Bradley: I appear to have lost my microphone. Mm. Right um we don't have many people or there's not very many competitors out there that do that so cool. Um right. I guess we've c we've touched on most of this. The idea of a paging function, a touch screen, and face plates. Um. The thing with I see would there not be a we'd have to maybe sacrifice the face plates for a touch screen?
  Ruthie Smith: Um I'm not sure that's sincerely correct, I think
  Sanjuanita Bradley: Okay.
  Ruthie Smith: if you kind of take the example of a mobile phone that uh trying to pass a portion of the device is not interchangeable whereas the surrounding portions
  Connie Fisher: Mm.
  Ruthie Smith: are interchangeable.
  Sanjuanita Bradley: Okay.
  Connie Fisher: Just the casing.
  Ruthie Smith: We could have the casing, the the face plates.
  Sanjuanita Bradley: Okay.
  Carrie Schnader: Back to the uh the cost the material. We have to ask whether we're going to include a certain number of face plates with the package? That's something I w for say we're including
  Connie Fisher: Mm.
  Carrie Schnader: three or four face plates, it's gonna drive the cost up.
  Sanjuanita Bradley: Mm.
  Carrie Schnader: And
  Connie Fisher: Yeah.
  Carrie Schnader: the other question is, if we do include them are we really in a position to evaluate that market? We haven't done any tests on face plates and whether
  Connie Fisher: Right.
  Carrie Schnader: See
  Sanjuanita Bradley: Okay.
  Carrie Schnader: if there if there's even interest out there.
  Sanjuanita Bradley: Okay. Right.
  Carrie Schnader: Off the top of my head it sounds kind of like a gimmick that wouldn't really go anywhere.
  Sanjuanita Bradley: Yeah 'cause then ha you
  Connie Fisher: Mm.
  Sanjuanita Bradley: would have to who all it's not like with cell phones like where you have a you know Nokia model X_ and then ten people make face plates for it, we'd
  Connie Fisher: Right.
  Carrie Schnader: Yeah.
  Sanjuanita Bradley: be just our model of pho of t remote control.
  Connie Fisher: Well in the publicity of a face plate on a phone is you have it out and around, it is sort of emblematic whereas
  Sanjuanita Bradley: Mm-hmm.
  Connie Fisher: you're just sit at home, so unless somebody comes
  Sanjuanita Bradley: Mm.
  Connie Fisher: over
  Sanjuanita Bradley: Mm-hmm.
  Connie Fisher: to watch T_V_
  Sanjuanita Bradley: Yeah.
  Ruthie Smith: Well hopefully some people have people coming t over to w
  Connie Fisher: True.
  Ruthie Smith: to hang out at
  Connie Fisher: True.
  Ruthie Smith: your house and most people
  Connie Fisher: True.
  Ruthie Smith: have their televisions in the living room. Uh.
  Sanjuanita Bradley: Alright well we can
  Connie Fisher: Yeah.
  Sanjuanita Bradley: we can discuss that one further when we think about
  Connie Fisher: Oh yeah.
  Sanjuanita Bradley: um whether th when we do costs
  Ruthie Smith: Sure.
  Sanjuanita Bradley: and so forth, um. True, if plastic is dead cheap and if we're making the whole thing out of plastic anyway um yeah we'll cross that bridge later um but yeah we will have to evaluate what's most important. Um I think we've had a bit of discussion already on this thing, n s there any other questions comments that came up in these presentations?
  Ruthie Smith: Well have we confirmed that we're gonna go ahead with a uh touch screen um
  Sanjuanita Bradley: Yeah yeah
  Ruthie Smith: Interface?
  Sanjuanita Bradley: okay. Um Yeah I think that would be best. Let's based on what sh on what you guys have all said to Connie Fisher let's go for a plastic built or uh b plastic cased 'cause tha tha that's easy on the cost, try to look for some kind of high quality recycled plastic as you recommended and I think that's a great idea. With a touch screen for the basic functions. Um And we'll yeah tha let's provisionally let's go for a touch screen one with several submenus um for possible extra stuff that one basically put the channel and the on and off switch on the touch screen. Um do we have Mm wait a minute it occurs to Connie Fisher that if we have a touch screen people are going to have to recharge their remote controls. Yet
  Connie Fisher: True.
  Sanjuanita Bradley: at the same time that might help for this whole complaint of it being lost.
  Connie Fisher: 'Cause it would have a docking base?
  Sanjuanita Bradley: Mm-hmm. But then again that costs as well.
  Connie Fisher: Yeah.
  Sanjuanita Bradley: Hmm.
  Ruthie Smith: So these new lithium batteries they last twenty years even with the touch screen?
  Sanjuanita Bradley: Do they?
  Ruthie Smith: Those
  Sanjuanita Bradley: Okay.
  Ruthie Smith: new ones.
  Connie Fisher: Can we afford
  Carrie Schnader: Can we
  Connie Fisher: that?
  Carrie Schnader: afford to include one of those?
  Connie Fisher: And will somebody buy it if we don't?
  Sanjuanita Bradley: Well I I don't think yeah I can't see anybody buying a lap a remote control that they have to plug in so we'd have to see some kind of new
  Connie Fisher: Right.
  Sanjuanita Bradley: battery technology. Okay so let's go with a um touch screen with um some kind of you know with with some kind of cutting edge battery technology
  Connie Fisher: For twelve Euros?
  Sanjuanita Bradley: Yeah well hey you know well it's it's worth looking into, if not we can always
  Connie Fisher: It is.
  Sanjuanita Bradley: default to just doing a a well
  Connie Fisher: Fair enough.
  Sanjuanita Bradley: presented plastic simple you know so
  Connie Fisher: The
  Sanjuanita Bradley: you
  Connie Fisher: basics.
  Sanjuanita Bradley: know. Well yeah I mean you can put the we could I I dunno I mean I suppose we could put the the basics on the centre easiest you know, you know people know the channel and volume function make them large and easy to get at and then the the other the other bits and bobs
  Connie Fisher: Mm.
  Sanjuanita Bradley: you know go through menu um w we'll do the aesthetics. Okay so we'll touch screen and the battery,
  Connie Fisher: 'Kay.
  Sanjuanita Bradley: focus on um uh presentation. Um it's th uh with this voice recognition option as well um just as for the simple functions the um the on off, channels, volume,
  Carrie Schnader: Right.
  Sanjuanita Bradley: um and um a small paging function. Even if you can't do voice recognition for the paging you know just some kind of simple button that's just a I guess another infrared signal to the remote control and while to emit some kind of paging. Just
  Carrie Schnader: Okay.
  Sanjuanita Bradley: a beep. Um right so any comments? Thoughts before we break into go into the next round of individual work on this.
  Carrie Schnader: Since we're doing uh touch screen, do we wanna look into the possibility of people being able to input different types of skins for the you know the actual interface part of it and things like that? Or is it just gonna be one touch screen for everybody.
  Ruthie Smith: Be interesting.
  Connie Fisher: Mm.
  Carrie Schnader: What what would be on that touch screen? 'Cause you said earlier that we have to think about company colours and um logo or
  Connie Fisher: And
  Carrie Schnader: something or motto,
  Connie Fisher: oh.
  Carrie Schnader: I can't remember exactly
  Connie Fisher: Yeah the
  Carrie Schnader: what you said.
  Ruthie Smith: We put fashion
  Connie Fisher: the fashion
  Ruthie Smith: into
  Connie Fisher: do.
  Ruthie Smith: electronics.
  Connie Fisher: Yeah.
  Sanjuanita Bradley: W it's my understanding that if you were going to do a skin you'd need to have some way for people to download or import skins
  Connie Fisher: Right, and then you're
  Sanjuanita Bradley: into
  Connie Fisher: dealing
  Sanjuanita Bradley: the remote
  Connie Fisher: with ports
  Sanjuanita Bradley: control.
  Connie Fisher: and cords and
  Sanjuanita Bradley: Yeah I think perhaps
  Carrie Schnader: 'S too much.
  Sanjuanita Bradley: good idea
  Connie Fisher: Yeah.
  Sanjuanita Bradley: but yeah I think that that one m might just be um and they just yeah I think that one might just be out of the range for this particular
  Connie Fisher: For now.
  Sanjuanita Bradley: a P_D_A_ would they would makes a lot of sense for a P_D_A_ 'cause you're gonna be using it to connect up to things anyway but I dunno, what do you guys think?
  Carrie Schnader: Think we just need to come up with a nice black and red
  Connie Fisher: Yeah. Nice.
  Carrie Schnader: interface on the touch screen. That'd
  Ruthie Smith: Yeah.
  Carrie Schnader: be okay.
  Ruthie Smith: Uh I I'm I'm in agreement with that, I'm wondering
  Connie Fisher: Um.
  Ruthie Smith: how we're gonna get uh we put fashion into electronics
  Connie Fisher: Well but
  Ruthie Smith: onto
  Connie Fisher: if we're
  Ruthie Smith: this
  Connie Fisher: gonna
  Ruthie Smith: device.
  Connie Fisher: use a touch screen where it's gonna come on like on your cell phone it'll have your
  Sanjuanita Bradley: Hmm.
  Connie Fisher: your carrier provider name come up first like while it's loading and then it goes away, perhaps it could be like a temporary
  Sanjuanita Bradley: Mm.
  Connie Fisher: Comes on every time you turn it on and then that's it 'cause it is a bit much to have it like engraved
  Carrie Schnader: Mm.
  Connie Fisher: on the back or
  Sanjuanita Bradley: Yeah.
  Connie Fisher: something
  Carrie Schnader: True.
  Connie Fisher: I think.
  Sanjuanita Bradley: Yeah.
  Ruthie Smith: I'm hoping for a subliminal maybe half a millisecond
  Connie Fisher: Yeah.
  Ruthie Smith: as it turns on.
  Connie Fisher: Y
  Sanjuanita Bradley: Yeah. Yeah I know I d it seems like it would suffice to have just the R_R_ on there.
  Ruthie Smith: Mm-hmm.
  Connie Fisher: Yeah
  Sanjuanita Bradley: Jus
  Connie Fisher: you would think. But.
  Sanjuanita Bradley: But apparently not.
  Connie Fisher: If it
  Carrie Schnader: People
  Connie Fisher: comes
  Sanjuanita Bradley: So.
  Connie Fisher: from
  Carrie Schnader: aren't gonna
  Connie Fisher: above.
  Carrie Schnader: want their remote to boot up and to see flashing things come on. They just want it to be on and ready to go.
  Connie Fisher: Yeah.
  Sanjuanita Bradley: Yeah. Well fair enough. Um and yeah that would help the battery life too and if it the remote they do have to press a button for the remote to turn on. But then again who wants to turn on a remote control.
  Ruthie Smith: Well
  Sanjuanita Bradley: Kind
  Ruthie Smith: all
  Sanjuanita Bradley: of
  Ruthie Smith: you
  Sanjuanita Bradley: if
  Ruthie Smith: have to
  Sanjuanita Bradley: i
  Ruthie Smith: do is touch the screen and it automatically
  Connie Fisher: Mm.
  Sanjuanita Bradley: Oh
  Ruthie Smith: goes
  Sanjuanita Bradley: to wake
  Ruthie Smith: on.
  Sanjuanita Bradley: up okay
  Ruthie Smith: Yep.
  Sanjuanita Bradley: or go into like
  Ruthie Smith: Goes
  Sanjuanita Bradley: a dormant
  Ruthie Smith: into a
  Sanjuanita Bradley: mode.
  Ruthie Smith: sleep mode.
  Sanjuanita Bradley: Okay. Oh yeah I like that I like the idea of um putting the logo in the boot up screen, nice. Um. Um cool so any last things before we break? Alright. Fair enough.
  Connie Fisher: We're
  Sanjuanita Bradley: Sounds
  Connie Fisher: good?
  Sanjuanita Bradley: good. I'm gonna save th a copy of this in case you guys need any reminders. I'm gonna save a copy of this and the minutes that I'll do it in a second and put them in the shared folder for later reference.
  Ruthie Smith: I've put my files in the shared folder as well.
  Sanjuanita Bradley: Brilliant.
  Connie Fisher: Yeah.
  Sanjuanita Bradley: That's fab guys. Cool.
Updated Content: Sanjuanita Bradley went over new requirements for the project: that the device was solely to control television, and that there would not be a teletext component. Carrie Schnader gave his presentation on the basic components of a remote control device, and advised the group to use plastic for the casing material instead of metal. Ruthie Smith presented the technical functions of remote controls and compared the interfaces of two existing remote control products. Connie Fisher made a presentation of the needs and the desires of the consumer and emphasized simplicity as one of the most desired features. The group discussed in more detail the features that will be added to the device: the possible applications of voice recognition, the touch screen menu interface, faceplates, and the look of the company logo.