Extracted Content: Ross Watts: All hooked up. Okay, so now we are here at the functional design meeting. Um hopefully this meeting I'll be doing a little bit less talking than I did last time 'cause this is when you get to show us what you've been doing individually. The agenda for the meeting, I put it in the sh shared documents folder. I don't know if that meant that you could see it or not. Did anyone?
  Don Mason: No.
  Randall Lewis: Mm.
  Ross Watts: No. Oh well. Um I'll try and the meeting as well so if you check in there, there's a shared project documents folder. Um and it should be in there.
  Don Mason: Mm. Um um wi on on a what? Oh project project documents, yeah,
  Ross Watts: Project
  Don Mason: yeah,
  Ross Watts: documents,
  Don Mason: yeah, okay.
  Ross Watts: yeah. So I'll put it in
  Don Mason: Oh okay,
  Ross Watts: there. Is
  Don Mason: yeah.
  Ross Watts: it best if I send you an email maybe, to let you know it's there?
  Don Mason: Yes,
  Ross Watts: Yep.
  Don Mason: I think so.
  Ross Watts: I'll do that next time. Um I'll act as secretary for this meeting and just take minutes as we go through, and then I'll send them to you after the meeting. The main the main focus of this meeting is your presentations that you've been preparing during the time, so we'll go through each of you one by one. Um then we need to briefly discuss the new project requirements that were sent to us. I
  Don Mason: Yeah,
  Ross Watts: just
  Don Mason: the
  Ross Watts: sent
  Don Mason: last minute, yeah,
  Ross Watts: at the last minute,
  Don Mason: yeah.
  Ross Watts: I'm sorry about that, but we can see how that affects what
  Don Mason: Yeah.
  Ross Watts: you were you were doing. Um and then we need to, by the end of the meeting come to some kind of decision on who our target group's going to be and what the functions of the remote control that's the the main goal is to come up with those two things, target group and functions of the remote control. And we've got forty minutes to do that in. So I would
  Randall Lewis: You said
  Ross Watts: say
  Randall Lewis: uh targ
  Ross Watts: yeah?
  Randall Lewis: target groups, what mean?
  Ross Watts: As
  Don Mason: Um
  Ross Watts: uh who it is that we're going to be trying to sell this thing to,
  Randall Lewis: Uh okay, 'kay.
  Ross Watts: yeah.
  Randall Lewis: So are
  Ross Watts: So we need to yeah, we need to have a fairly defined group
  Randall Lewis: Okay.
  Ross Watts: that that we want to focus on and then look at the functions um of the dem remote control itself. So with that I think it's best if I hand over to you. Does anyone have
  Randall Lewis: Alright.
  Ross Watts: a preference for going first?
  Randall Lewis: I can go first,
  Ross Watts: You wanna go
  Don Mason: Okay.
  Ross Watts: first?
  Randall Lewis: yeah.
  Ross Watts: Okay,
  Don Mason: Hmm.
  Ross Watts: so we need to unplug my laptop and plug in yours. I assume we just pull it out?
  Don Mason: Mm.
  Randall Lewis: Right. Um so f from the
  Ross Watts: Just before you start, to make it easier, would you three mind emailing Joshua Flores your presentations? Once we you don't have
  Don Mason: Okay,
  Ross Watts: to do it now
  Don Mason: yeah,
  Ross Watts: but when
  Don Mason: afterwards, yeah,
  Ross Watts: once
  Don Mason: okay.
  Ross Watts: you go back,
  Randall Lewis: Right sure.
  Ross Watts: just so that I don't have to scribble everything down.
  Randall Lewis: Uh okay. So n uh with uh with regard to the uh working design of this uh uh remote control uh I've identified um a few basic uh components of the remote and uh se uh from the design, functional design perspective um c we can now uh know wha what exactly components are and how how they work together with each other. So this is the method that uh I'll mostly be following in my um in my uh role. Um the identification of the components, uh and uh since since I'm dealing only with the technical aspects, I would need feedback from the marketing person uh and uh from the user interface person.
  Ross Watts: Hmm.
  Randall Lewis: Uh we'll then integrate this into the product design at a technical level and uh basically update and come up with a new design, so it's a cyclical process. Okay, so these were the basic findings from today. The last three bullets have been integrated from uh the last minute uh email. Uh I just quickly jotted them down. Um so basically uh the as I told you the identification of how the remote control works and what are the various parts to it uh and what are the different processes um and how the parts uh communicate with each other. Um okay, so e the mee email said that teletext is now outdated, so we need to do away with that functionality of the remote control. Um also uh the remote control should be used only for television, because incorporating other features um makes it more comp complex. And the reason why teletext is outdated because uh of internet and uh the availability of internet over television. How however, our our remote control would only be dealing uh with the the use for television, in order to keep things simple. Um also the management wants that um our design should be unique uh it so it should incorporate um colour and the slogan uh that our company um has it as its standard. Okay, so he he here is a functional overview of the remote control. Um there's basically an energy source at the heart uh which feeds into the chip and the user interface. The user interf interface communicates with the chip, so I'll basic go over to the
  Randall Lewis: Okay. So if uh if this is our energy source and this is a cell, uh it communicates uh it feeds energy into the into the chip, which basically finds out h uh how how to do everything. There is a user interface here. So whe when the user presses a button, it feeds into the chip and the chip then generates a response and takes the response to an infrared terminal, um which then so the output of the chip is an infrared bit code, which is then communicated to the remote site, which h has an infrared receiver. Um the there can be uh a bulb here or something to indicate whether the remote is on or communicating. Um so these are the essent so a all the functionality of the remote control, whatever new functions that we need to do, um make the chip more complicated uh
  Ross Watts: Mm-hmm.
  Randall Lewis: and bigger, basically.
  Randall Lewis: Okay. Um so i in my personal preferences um I'm hoping that we can ke keep the design as simple and clear as possible. This would uh help us uh to upgrade our technology at a future point of time. And uh also if we can incorporate uh the latest features in our chip design, so that our um uh remote control does not become outdated soon and it's compatible with mot most uh televisions. That's about it. So
  Ross Watts: Okay.
  Don Mason: Thanks.
  Randall Lewis: anything that you would like to know or
  Ross Watts: Do you have any um i idea about costs at this point?
  Randall Lewis: No,
  Ross Watts: Br
  Randall Lewis: I don't have any idea about what each component costs. Um
  Ross Watts: Okay.
  Randall Lewis: yeah.
  Ross Watts: 'Cause that's something
  Randall Lewis: Anything else?
  Ross Watts: to consider, I guess, if we're
  Randall Lewis: Yeah.
  Ross Watts: if we're using more advanced technology, it might
  Randall Lewis: Certainly, yeah. So
  Ross Watts: increase
  Randall Lewis: so tha yeah,
  Ross Watts: the
  Randall Lewis: we
  Ross Watts: price.
  Randall Lewis: definitely need to operate within our constraints,
  Ross Watts: Yeah.
  Randall Lewis: but um unfortunately I I do not have any data, so uh I just identified the functional components for
  Ross Watts: That's
  Randall Lewis: that.
  Ross Watts: fine. Are there any more questions, or shall we just skip straight to the next one and then we can discuss all of them together
  Don Mason: I
  Ross Watts: at
  Don Mason: think
  Ross Watts: the end?
  Don Mason: we need like some general discussion at the end
  Ross Watts: Yeah,
  Don Mason: probably.
  Randall Lewis: Yeah,
  Ross Watts: I think that will do.
  Don Mason: Yeah.
  Randall Lewis: okay.
  Ross Watts: Okay, so do you want to
  Don Mason: Yeah, I think since since we were discussing some um issues then
  Ross Watts: Yes,
  Don Mason: I I
  Ross Watts: shall
  Don Mason: I would like to continue
  Ross Watts: shall
  Don Mason: okay,
  Ross Watts: we pull this
  Don Mason: yeah.
  Ross Watts: up? I think that has to come out of
  Randall Lewis: Yeah.
  Ross Watts: there.
  Randall Lewis: Mm
  Ross Watts: Yeah.
  Randall Lewis: 'kay.
  Don Mason: Thanks.
  Ross Watts: Yeah, I thought
  Don Mason: Oh i
  Ross Watts: those last minute things, they're gonna hit you the worst.
  Don Mason: Okay, I hope wait. Should it just
  Randall Lewis: I it'll take some time.
  Ross Watts: It ta takes a little
  Don Mason: There's just
  Ross Watts: Oh,
  Don Mason: nothing.
  Ross Watts: and have you you need to then also press on yours,
  Don Mason: Oh right, right, right,
  Ross Watts: function
  Don Mason: um
  Ross Watts: F_ eight, so the blue function key at the bottom
  Don Mason: Okay.
  Ross Watts: and F_ eight.
  Don Mason: Nothin okay,
  Randall Lewis: Oh,
  Don Mason: something
  Randall Lewis: there it is, yeah.
  Don Mason: is coming
  Ross Watts: Now
  Don Mason: up.
  Ross Watts: it's coming,
  Randall Lewis: It'll come up, it
  Ross Watts: computer
  Randall Lewis: um uh
  Don Mason: No signal?
  Ross Watts: no
  Randall Lewis: no signal.
  Ross Watts: signal.
  Don Mason: Why?
  Ross Watts: Maybe again?
  Randall Lewis: Yeah yeah, it says something now,
  Don Mason: Oh.
  Randall Lewis: adjusting
  Don Mason: My my computer went blank now.
  Ross Watts: Okay,
  Don Mason: Adjusting.
  Ross Watts: adjusting.
  Don Mason: But I don't see
  Ross Watts: There
  Don Mason: anything
  Ross Watts: we go,
  Randall Lewis: Okay.
  Ross Watts: there we go.
  Don Mason: I don't see anything on my computer now. This
  Randall Lewis: Oh, that's
  Don Mason: is the
  Ross Watts: Oh,
  Don Mason: problem,
  Ross Watts: if
  Randall Lewis: strange.
  Ross Watts: you
  Don Mason: but
  Ross Watts: press if you press function and that again there's there's usually three modes, one where it's only here, one where
  Randall Lewis: Okay.
  Ross Watts: it's only there, and one where it's both.
  Don Mason: Um.
  Randall Lewis: And
  Ross Watts: Okay, so one
  Randall Lewis: one
  Ross Watts: more
  Randall Lewis: more time.
  Ross Watts: time.
  Don Mason: Uh now it's okay. No? No.
  Ross Watts: Should
  Randall Lewis: Mm.
  Ross Watts: yeah just wait for a moment, adjusting.
  Don Mason: Oh okay. Okay,
  Ross Watts: Okay.
  Don Mason: that's fine, that's good. Okay, let's start from the beginning. So I'm going to speak about technical functions design uh just like some some first issues that came up. Um 'kay, so the method I was um adopting at this point, it's not um for the for the whole um period of the um all the project but it's just at th at this very moment.
  Ross Watts: Mm-hmm.
  Don Mason: Um uh my method was um to look at um other um remote controls, uh so mostly just by searching on the web and to see what um functionality they used. And then um after having got this inspiration and having compared what I found on the web um just to think about what the de what the user really needs and what um what the user might desire as additional uh functionalities. And yeah, and then just to um put the main function of the remote control in in words.
  Ross Watts: Mm-hmm.
  Don Mason: Um so the findings uh were um that the main function of the remote control is is just sending messages to the television set, so this quite straightforward. And uh w some of the main functions would be switching on, switching off, uh then the user would like to switch the channel um for example just m changing to the next channel to to flip through all all of the possible channels, or then mm uh the other possibility would be that um she might just want to choose one particular channel, so we would need the numbers. And and also the volume is very important. Um um
  Randall Lewis: Sorry,
  Don Mason: I
  Randall Lewis: cou
  Don Mason: als
  Randall Lewis: could you go back for
  Don Mason: okay.
  Randall Lewis: a second? Uh switching on off channel, uh volume, okay, that's great.
  Don Mason: 'Kay. Um um among the findings I found that m m most of the curr mm presently available remote controls also include other mm functionalities um in their design, like operating a V_C_R_, but they don't seem to be able to deal with D_V_D_ players, but then there are surely there are many other functionali functions that could possibly be added to them, but according to the last minute update um
  Ross Watts: Mm-hmm.
  Don Mason: actually um we do not want to have all this complicated functions added to our design. So my personal preferences would be uh to keep the mm the whole remote control small um just like the physical size. And then it must be easy to use, so it must follow some conventions um like whereabouts you find the on off button and maybe the colour tends to be red or something. Um then yeah, the must-have buttons would be on off and then the channel numbers and then um the one that allows us to go to the next or the previous channel, and then volume has to be there. But then um other functionalities um could be just uh there could be a menu button and you could change things on the screen then, um for example brightness and mm similar functions could be just um done through the menu. And yeah, the last question I had about whether we wanted to incorporate n uh more functionalities, the answer was already no because of the last minute update.
  Ross Watts: Mm-hmm.
  Don Mason: So at the for the time being that's uh that's all. If you
  Ross Watts: Yeah.
  Don Mason: have questions
  Ross Watts: If I mean that was the the directive that came through from management, but if we had a a decent case for that we really think it's important to include video and D_V_D_, I could get back to them and see. It's w it's just whether it's worth arguing about.
  Don Mason: Yeah, and also it's it's um other question is uh because there are so many different And there are so many different things that could possibly be included because
  Ross Watts: Mm-hmm.
  Don Mason: besides video and D_V_D_ there are the mm um video C_D_s and whatever, so
  Ross Watts: Yeah.
  Don Mason: it might be problematic to to choose between
  Ross Watts: Mm-hmm.
  Don Mason: all these possible things.
  Ross Watts: Okay. Are there any questions for clarification of Maarika before we go on to the next one?
  Randall Lewis: So in the u user interface requirements uh uh uh we we have been able to identify what are the basic buttons that we do want. Um but um so so at this stage, uh how we go about implementing those button we will not identify or I mean in we can completely do away with buttons But uh is is there any uh uh any thoughts on that?
  Don Mason: Um well, I think the buttons are still mm kind of the most um easy for the user to use, I mean
  Randall Lewis: Right.
  Don Mason: um what other options would you have? A little screen or something, but this would be really
  Randall Lewis: Yeah,
  Don Mason: kind of
  Randall Lewis: and
  Don Mason: I
  Randall Lewis: it'll
  Don Mason: think a lot
  Randall Lewis: make
  Don Mason: of
  Randall Lewis: the
  Don Mason: learning
  Randall Lewis: costs
  Don Mason: for the user
  Randall Lewis: yeah.
  Don Mason: and and I mean the user just wants to get um get a result um quickly, not to spend time in like um giving several orders um
  Randall Lewis: Right.
  Don Mason: I dunno.
  Ross Watts: Mm-hmm.
  Don Mason: I think I th I would I would think the put the buttons, but if if you have other mm proposals
  Randall Lewis: Uh I
  Don Mason: um.
  Randall Lewis: think the
  Ross Watts: Mm.
  Randall Lewis: co costs will also play a big role when we come to know about them. So
  Don Mason: Yeah.
  Ross Watts: Mm.
  Randall Lewis: well we can probably wait until t we have more knowledge on that.
  Don Mason: Yeah.
  Randall Lewis: Uh i if the if the costs allow, we can have like an L_C_D_ display and uh with um because we do want something fancy and fashionable as well.
  Don Mason: Mm-hmm.
  Randall Lewis: So
  Ross Watts: Mm-hmm.
  Randall Lewis: yeah?
  Don Mason: Yep.
  Randall Lewis: Cool.
  Ross Watts: Sure, we can discuss that maybe after the next one.
  Joshua Flores: Cool.
  Ross Watts: Do
  Joshua Flores: Do
  Ross Watts: you want
  Joshua Flores: wanna
  Ross Watts: to
  Joshua Flores: give Joshua Flores the little cable thing?
  Ross Watts: yeah.
  Don Mason: Uh am I going in the right direction? No. Wait.
  Joshua Flores: Yeah.
  Ross Watts: Oh, I'm
  Don Mason: comes.
  Ross Watts: getting hungry.
  Don Mason: Okay, here you are.
  Joshua Flores: Cool.
  Joshua Flores: Ah, that's why it won't meet. Okay, cool.
  Ross Watts: You set?
  Joshua Flores: Yep, cool. Okay, functional requirements.
  Ross Watts: Uh we need to do the function key thing so that it comes up on
  Joshua Flores: Alright,
  Ross Watts: here.
  Joshua Flores: yeah.
  Ross Watts: Hello.
  Randall Lewis: try
  Ross Watts: Is
  Randall Lewis: to
  Ross Watts: it
  Randall Lewis: press
  Ross Watts: plugged
  Joshua Flores: It's working.
  Ross Watts: in
  Randall Lewis: oh,
  Ross Watts: prop
  Randall Lewis: okay,
  Ross Watts: it's working? Okay.
  Randall Lewis: yep.
  Ross Watts: Excellent.
  Joshua Flores: Cool, okay. So what I have, wh where I've got my information from is a survey where the usability lab um observed remote control use with um a hundred subjects and then they gave them a questionnaire. Um so it was all about, you, how people feel about the look and feel of the remote control, you know. What's the most annoying things about remote controls and um the possibility of speech recognition and L_C_D_ screens in remote control. Not that they actually gave Joshua Flores any answers on the L_C_D_ screens, so I should have taken that bit out, but anyway. Um okay, so. What they found is that people don't like how current remote controls are, so you know, definitely you should be looking at something quite different. Um seventy five percent of users find most remote controls ugly. Uh the other twenty five percent have no fashion sense. Uh eighty percent of users would spend more to get um you know, a nice looking remote control. Um current remote controls, they don't match the user behaviour well, as you'll see on the next slide. Um I dunno what zapping is, but
  Ross Watts: It's um switching between channels, sort of randomly going through.
  Joshua Flores: Oh, right. But you have that little thing that comes up at the bottom and tells you what's on. Um okay,
  Randall Lewis: Mm.
  Joshua Flores: fifty percent of users say they only use ten percent of the buttons, so that's going back to what, you know, we were saying earlier about, you
  Randall Lewis: Right.
  Joshua Flores: know, do you need all the buttons on the remote control,
  Ross Watts: Mm.
  Joshua Flores: they just make it look ugly. Okay? Cool. Um so this is my little
  Ross Watts: Ooh,
  Joshua Flores: graph
  Ross Watts: that's
  Joshua Flores: thing.
  Ross Watts: a bit difficult to see.
  Joshua Flores: Mm
  Ross Watts: If
  Joshua Flores: k
  Ross Watts: you explain it to us it'll be fine.
  Joshua Flores: Okay, well, I can send it to all of you.
  Ross Watts: Yeah.
  Joshua Flores: What it is is um it's cones, 'cause I thought they'd be more exciting. Um
  Ross Watts: I
  Joshua Flores: but
  Ross Watts: liked the, I liked
  Joshua Flores: ooh
  Ross Watts: the litt ooh
  Joshua Flores: where's it go?
  Ross Watts: come back.
  Joshua Flores: Back. Oh.
  Ross Watts: No.
  Joshua Flores: Oh yes, cool. Okay, I'm gonna stop playing with the little pointy thing.
  Randall Lewis: Mm-hmm.
  Joshua Flores: Um okay, so like what it shows is how much things are used relatively and what
  Ross Watts: Okay.
  Joshua Flores: you can clearly see from that is the thing that's used most is the channel selection. What you can't see is volume selection, it's a little bit higher than all the others.
  Ross Watts: Mm-hmm, that's the next one along, yeah?
  Joshua Flores: Yeah, so what the graph shows is that, you know, power, channel selection and volume selection are important, and the rest of them, you know, nobody really uses
  Ross Watts: Mm-hmm.
  Joshua Flores: and so that's the the numbers along the top represent their like um their importance, you
  Ross Watts: Mm-hmm.
  Joshua Flores: know, so on a scale of one to ten, how important is that and, you know, channel selection and volume selection are absolutely essential, and the power, well it's not quite so essential, apparently, although I don't understand how it couldn't be, um and everything else, I think, you know, you can forget about having those buttons on the remote control, 'cause they're just not needed, and they're not used.
  Ross Watts: Mm-hmm.
  Joshua Flores: Okay. This is the bit that the email messed up for Joshua Flores and that's what I was fiddling about with at the beginning of the thing. Okay, cool. So um okay, so this is what people find annoying about remote controls. Uh that they get lost, that the uh you know, they're not intuitive and that they're bad for repetitive strain injury.
  Ross Watts: Mm-hmm.
  Joshua Flores: I think if you're watching enough T_V_ to get repetitive strain injury from um you
  Ross Watts: The remote
  Joshua Flores: know, watching
  Ross Watts: control.
  Joshua Flores: T_V_, then that's the least of your problems, but you know,
  Randall Lewis: Mm.
  Joshua Flores: it's up there. Um that yeah. Okay, so um I mean the the R_S_I_ thing would be that, like when you have the computer keyboards and you keep your wrists up would be
  Randall Lewis: Right.
  Joshua Flores: something that encourages you want something with an ergonomic t design that encourages good use of the remote control and
  Ross Watts: Mm-hmm.
  Randall Lewis: Mm-hmm.
  Joshua Flores: you know, not straining your wrists watching T_V_.
  Randall Lewis: Hmm.
  Joshua Flores: Yes. Okay, cool. Right, um sorry this is pink because I was copying and pasting the table, and I didn't have time to white it out again.
  Ross Watts: That's alright.
  Joshua Flores: Um okay, but that shows how people whether they would pay more for voice recognition software. So you can see from that that, you know, younger people to the age of thirty five are quite likely to pay quite a lot more f well quite are quite likely to pay more for voice recognition software, whereas as people get older, they're a bit more sceptical about it and they're less willing to to try it. Um so clearly voice recognition is something to think about, but um you know I d I do wonder how well that would work given that a T_V_, you know, tends to be people talking
  Ross Watts: Mm.
  Joshua Flores: and um, you know, how are you going to stop it from just flipping channels whilst watching T_V_.
  Randall Lewis: Right.
  Joshua Flores: Um okay? Cool. Um okay, so these are my personal preferences. So you have sleek, stylish, sophisticated, you know, so something that's, you know, a bit cool. you know, functional, so it's useful, but minimalist. Um there's a there's an important thing that, you know, people use when, you know, when you're filling up your home, you know, a lot of people fill up their home with bits of crap, basically, you know, and you've got all this stuff, and you're just like, what the hell is that, who is ever gonna use it? You know, so things should either be functional or beautiful or preferably both, so I think we need to aim
  Randall Lewis: Mm.
  Joshua Flores: for both.
  Randall Lewis: Mm.
  Joshua Flores: Um okay, then a long battery life, like you were talking about earlier and um, you know, I was thinking that solar power would be quite cool because, you know, your remote control just sits there, and you could just sit it in the sunshine and save the environment a bit. Um and then like a locator, so you know, kind of like you have for a mobile phone or not
  Randall Lewis: Mm.
  Joshua Flores: a mobile phone
  Randall Lewis: Some kind
  Ross Watts: Keys
  Randall Lewis: of a ring,
  Ross Watts: and things
  Randall Lewis: some
  Ross Watts: like
  Joshua Flores: Yeah,
  Ross Watts: that,
  Joshua Flores: that's it, you know.
  Ross Watts: Whistle and it
  Joshua Flores: I know, it's
  Ross Watts: screams
  Joshua Flores: weird.
  Ross Watts: at you,
  Joshua Flores: My flatmate
  Ross Watts: yeah.
  Joshua Flores: and I were talking about this on the way into uni this morning and I was like I need to get one for everything. So yeah, so maybe something where you clap and then it beeps, something a kind of sound that you don't often hear on the T_V_,
  Ross Watts: Mm-hmm.
  Randall Lewis: Right.
  Joshua Flores: you know, 'cause you don't want your remote control beeping every five minutes, 'cause you you'd then deliberately lose it by throwing it out the window or something. So okay?
  Randall Lewis: Hmm.
  Joshua Flores: Cool. That's Joshua Flores.
  Ross Watts: That's you,
  Randall Lewis: Okay,
  Ross Watts: excellent.
  Don Mason: Um that's
  Randall Lewis: that's great,
  Don Mason: very good,
  Randall Lewis: thanks.
  Don Mason: very interesting.
  Ross Watts: Um. I'm just gonna tick yes. So, we've got about ten, fifteen minutes to
  Randall Lewis: Mm.
  Ross Watts: discuss
  Randall Lewis: I think one of the very interesting things that came up in um uh Ka Kate
  Joshua Flores: Cat's.
  Randall Lewis: Cat Cat's
  Joshua Flores: Ca.
  Randall Lewis: uh presentation was um uh this this issue of uh uh like voice recognition being more popular with uh younger people. So if we need to have a target group um then uh I think as far as the m motto of our company is concerned, if we want to have something sleek and uh you know, good looking uh we are better off targeting a younger audience then um you know, people who are comparatively elderly. Um.
  Ross Watts: Mm-hmm.
  Joshua Flores: Yeah, I mean that's the thing is that it didn't say in the survey, you know,
  Randall Lewis: Right.
  Joshua Flores: whether, you know, these are the people that will pay more for a more stylish remote control, but I'm assuming, you know, yes.
  Randall Lewis: Right. Bu
  Ross Watts: Yeah.
  Randall Lewis: but
  Don Mason: Mm-hmm.
  Randall Lewis: but the survey did say that f things like voice recognition are more popular with them, so if you want to put in something stylish, then uh
  Ross Watts: Mm-hmm.
  Randall Lewis: th it'll certainly be more popular with this i ye with the younger people as compared to older
  Ross Watts: Yeah.
  Randall Lewis: people, yeah.
  Ross Watts: Then again I guess the th where it was most popular was the fifteen to twenty five bracket
  Randall Lewis: Right,
  Ross Watts: and
  Randall Lewis: and
  Ross Watts: the I don't know how often they're buying televisions.
  Randall Lewis: Right.
  Joshua Flores: Well,
  Randall Lewis: Mm.
  Joshua Flores: that's when you go to uni, isn't it? So,
  Ross Watts: Yeah,
  Joshua Flores: you
  Ross Watts: but you don't
  Joshua Flores: know
  Ross Watts: have much money,
  Don Mason: Yeah.
  Ross Watts: generally.
  Don Mason: Yeah,
  Ross Watts: I would've
  Don Mason: you share
  Ross Watts: thought it's
  Don Mason: a television or something that yeah.
  Ross Watts: it's more that twenty five to thirty five, when people are really moving out and they've got their first job and they want their nice toys and
  Randall Lewis: Right.
  Joshua Flores: Yeah.
  Randall Lewis: But uh still, if if you can go back to that slide and
  Ross Watts: O
  Randall Lewis: uh,
  Ross Watts: oh
  Randall Lewis: how
  Ross Watts: it's
  Joshua Flores: Oh, I've
  Ross Watts: on
  Randall Lewis: popular
  Ross Watts: sorry,
  Joshua Flores: unplugged
  Randall Lewis: was
  Ross Watts: we unplugged
  Randall Lewis: it?
  Joshua Flores: it. Do you want
  Randall Lewis: Oh,
  Ross Watts: it.
  Randall Lewis: oh,
  Joshua Flores: Joshua Flores to
  Randall Lewis: okay.
  Ross Watts: Here, let Joshua Flores
  Randall Lewis: That's alright, if you can just look it up on your computer,
  Ross Watts: Yeah.
  Joshua Flores: Yeah.
  Randall Lewis: wh uh um people between twenty five to thirty five, uh how popular
  Joshua Flores: Seventy
  Randall Lewis: was
  Joshua Flores: six
  Don Mason: It was
  Joshua Flores: point
  Don Mason: seventy
  Randall Lewis: so it was
  Joshua Flores: three
  Randall Lewis: sti
  Don Mason: something,
  Joshua Flores: percent.
  Randall Lewis: still
  Don Mason: yeah,
  Randall Lewis: still quite popular
  Don Mason: yeah.
  Randall Lewis: amongst them.
  Joshua Flores: Yeah.
  Ross Watts: Mm-hmm.
  Randall Lewis: So even they are seventy six percent, is that high
  Joshua Flores: Yeah,
  Randall Lewis: amount?
  Ross Watts: Yeah.
  Joshua Flores: I kn I mean I know what you're saying about the fifteen to twenty five year olds, but I mean it has been proven that that people of that age group have a higher disposable income because they don't have like I mean, you know,
  Ross Watts: Yeah,
  Joshua Flores: if
  Ross Watts: they've
  Joshua Flores: you're at
  Ross Watts: got
  Joshua Flores: university,
  Ross Watts: no commitments
  Joshua Flores: you're paying
  Ross Watts: and
  Joshua Flores: your rent, but you don't have a mortgage, you don't have a life insurance policy,
  Randall Lewis: Alright.
  Ross Watts: usually
  Joshua Flores: you don't
  Ross Watts: not a car and all
  Joshua Flores: normally
  Ross Watts: of those
  Joshua Flores: have
  Ross Watts: things.
  Joshua Flores: a car, yeah, so.
  Ross Watts: Kids.
  Randall Lewis: Yeah.
  Joshua Flores: You're
  Ross Watts: Yeah.
  Joshua Flores: still
  Randall Lewis: So you're
  Joshua Flores: learning
  Randall Lewis: more
  Joshua Flores: to drive
  Randall Lewis: likely to
  Joshua Flores: actually,
  Randall Lewis: b
  Joshua Flores: so that just costs more than a car,
  Randall Lewis: Yeah.
  Joshua Flores: but yeah. Um so I mean like it is an age group to target, really,
  Ross Watts: Yeah,
  Joshua Flores: I think.
  Ross Watts: and if we're if we're talking twenty five Euros as a price, that's not unaffordable, even for
  Joshua Flores: No, I mean that's
  Ross Watts: young
  Joshua Flores: what,
  Ross Watts: people.
  Joshua Flores: that's like fifteen Pounds?
  Ross Watts: Yeah.
  Joshua Flores: You know, I
  Don Mason: Yeah this this
  Joshua Flores: think
  Don Mason: is not unaffordable, but the problem is whether people need it, whether they do have a T_V_ to
  Ross Watts: Yeah.
  Don Mason: use its full
  Joshua Flores: Yeah,
  Randall Lewis: Yeah.
  Joshua Flores: I d I don't know many people without a T_V_.
  Don Mason: Yeah.
  Ross Watts: But
  Joshua Flores: We
  Ross Watts: do
  Joshua Flores: didn't
  Ross Watts: they
  Joshua Flores: have a T_V_ last year, and everyone thought we were off our heads, you
  Ross Watts: But
  Joshua Flores: know.
  Ross Watts: the T_V_s are often kind of
  Don Mason: Common,
  Ross Watts: someone's
  Don Mason: the students
  Ross Watts: old
  Don Mason: yeah,
  Ross Watts: T_V_
  Don Mason: yeah.
  Ross Watts: that's
  Don Mason: The s
  Ross Watts: blah
  Don Mason: the
  Ross Watts: blah
  Don Mason: stu
  Ross Watts: and
  Don Mason: yeah, and
  Ross Watts: be a bit
  Don Mason: the
  Ross Watts: strange
  Don Mason: remote control
  Ross Watts: to have a
  Don Mason: might
  Ross Watts: fancy
  Don Mason: not yeah,
  Ross Watts: rome remote.
  Don Mason: it might
  Randall Lewis: Mm.
  Don Mason: not even function with the old T_V_.
  Joshua Flores: Yeah, I d
  Ross Watts: Mm.
  Joshua Flores: well we've we've
  Randall Lewis: Bu
  Joshua Flores: got quite
  Randall Lewis: but even
  Joshua Flores: a d decent
  Randall Lewis: even in
  Joshua Flores: T_V_.
  Randall Lewis: the case of twenty five to thirty five it's
  Don Mason: Yeah,
  Randall Lewis: quite
  Don Mason: we're still
  Randall Lewis: popular,
  Ross Watts: Yeah.
  Don Mason: yeah.
  Randall Lewis: right? So mm uh are
  Don Mason: Or
  Joshua Flores: Yeah.
  Don Mason: w maybe
  Randall Lewis: are
  Don Mason: we can
  Randall Lewis: are
  Don Mason: just kind of uh uh
  Joshua Flores: I think I think the fact that, you know, ninety one point two percent of fifteen to twenty five year olds are saying yes, I would pay more for a voice recognition
  Ross Watts: Yeah.
  Randall Lewis: Mm.
  Joshua Flores: remote control, does say quite a lot really. You know, so I
  Ross Watts: Yeah.
  Joshua Flores: mean that and the disposable income and I don't think it's something to ignore, you know.
  Don Mason: Yeah, but at the same time I think maybe we can we can just decide to to have both of these groups as our
  Ross Watts: Yeah.
  Don Mason: target, because actually I mean they're all still
  Joshua Flores: Is
  Don Mason: re young
  Joshua Flores: not a massive
  Don Mason: people.
  Joshua Flores: difference,
  Don Mason: Yeah.
  Joshua Flores: you know.
  Ross Watts: Yeah,
  Joshua Flores: No,
  Ross Watts: if we
  Joshua Flores: do
  Ross Watts: ta if
  Joshua Flores: totally.
  Ross Watts: we take
  Randall Lewis: Mm.
  Ross Watts: fifteen to thirty five, but that
  Don Mason: Yeah.
  Ross Watts: then does imply that we should try and incorporate voice recognition. Is that gonna
  Randall Lewis: Um
  Ross Watts: have a an implication
  Randall Lewis: I
  Ross Watts: for the
  Randall Lewis: was having a a
  Ross Watts: technical
  Randall Lewis: general
  Ross Watts: specs?
  Randall Lewis: outlook on um m most like sophisticated features, but voice recognition itself I'm not very sure about, because one of the p uh things that Cat pointed out was uh uh how do we go about implementing it?
  Ross Watts: Mm-hmm.
  Randall Lewis: Uh and
  Joshua Flores: You do
  Randall Lewis: uh
  Joshua Flores: have it in your mobile phone though, don't you? Because you have like I mean every
  Ross Watts: Yeah.
  Joshua Flores: mobile phone now has like call this person and
  Randall Lewis: Yeah.
  Joshua Flores: it calls them.
  Randall Lewis: But how frequently
  Don Mason: Yeah.
  Randall Lewis: do we use it anyway and um
  Don Mason: Yeah.
  Randall Lewis: uh h ho how good is it, you know uh voice recognition softwares are still
  Joshua Flores: I don't know.
  Randall Lewis: quite
  Ross Watts: Yeah. With
  Randall Lewis: uh
  Ross Watts: um
  Don Mason: An
  Ross Watts: but with a T_V_ remote it's gonna be quite limited if we're t saying the main things people want to do is on
  Randall Lewis: Yeah.
  Ross Watts: off channel
  Don Mason: Yeah.
  Ross Watts: five,
  Joshua Flores: Yeah.
  Randall Lewis: Right.
  Ross Watts: louder,
  Joshua Flores: S
  Ross Watts: tha
  Joshua Flores: so
  Randall Lewis: Right.
  Ross Watts: that should be relatively simple.
  Randall Lewis: Okay.
  Joshua Flores: y you'd
  Randall Lewis: O
  Joshua Flores: maybe need a code word. Do you know what I mean?
  Randall Lewis: Right.
  Ross Watts: Mm.
  Joshua Flores: So like when you say change, except that's being said quite a lot on T_V_, so maybe like, you know, remote. I mean how often do people say remote on T_V_?
  Ross Watts: Yeah.
  Randall Lewis: Mm.
  Joshua Flores: Although I only watch Charmed, so really I wouldn't know but like so you'd just say remote five, you
  Randall Lewis: Right.
  Joshua Flores: know, remote ten,
  Randall Lewis: Yeah.
  Ross Watts: Mm-hmm.
  Joshua Flores: remote one two nine.
  Randall Lewis: Okay, so it seems
  Don Mason: Yeah.
  Randall Lewis: like a feasible thing to implement
  Ross Watts: Yeah, but
  Randall Lewis: uh
  Ross Watts: maybe if you
  Randall Lewis: for
  Ross Watts: wanna look
  Randall Lewis: for
  Ross Watts: into
  Randall Lewis: a limited
  Ross Watts: that just to just
  Randall Lewis: yeah.
  Ross Watts: to check. Um, so if we go for the the fifteen to thirty five age group
  Don Mason: Yeah but
  Ross Watts: and
  Don Mason: uh
  Ross Watts: then of course
  Don Mason: um
  Ross Watts: we're going to get th anyone who's older than thirty five who wants to look young and hip and trendy
  Don Mason: Yeah,
  Ross Watts: and
  Don Mason: yeah
  Ross Watts: has
  Don Mason: sure,
  Ross Watts: the money, then they'll
  Don Mason: yeah, yeah.
  Ross Watts: they'll still go for the same
  Don Mason: Yeah.
  Ross Watts: advertising.
  Joshua Flores: I don't think there's a lot of uh voice recognition remote
  Don Mason: Yeah,
  Joshua Flores: controls.
  Don Mason: w well now the v the voice recognition if if it works wonderfully w we could possibly do away with all buttons, but I think this is not really the right moment yet, because people are just so used to buttons and
  Ross Watts: Yeah,
  Don Mason: um, yeah it's it's kind
  Ross Watts: I think
  Don Mason: of
  Randall Lewis: Mm.
  Ross Watts: we need
  Don Mason: safer,
  Ross Watts: both.
  Don Mason: so
  Randall Lewis: W
  Don Mason: we we need both,
  Randall Lewis: What
  Don Mason: so the voice
  Randall Lewis: uh
  Don Mason: recognition would be just an extra, it wouldn't really
  Ross Watts: Yeah.
  Don Mason: reduce the size of the remote.
  Randall Lewis: Mm.
  Ross Watts: Mm.
  Randall Lewis: What wh uh what I was thinking is that there is this uh separation between what the channels are on T_V_ and how they are numbered on the remote control. If we can do with away with that, our product can be really popular uh in the sense that uh a person can say, I want to watch uh I_T_V_ one instead of saying that I want to go onto
  Ross Watts: Uh-huh.
  Randall Lewis: channel number forty five.
  Joshua Flores: Yeah,
  Ross Watts: Uh-huh.
  Randall Lewis: Yeah,
  Joshua Flores: that
  Randall Lewis: so
  Joshua Flores: would be another
  Randall Lewis: if
  Joshua Flores: way
  Randall Lewis: uh if
  Joshua Flores: to do it.
  Randall Lewis: something like that can be incorporated,
  Ross Watts: So that if that was in the the
  Randall Lewis: some
  Ross Watts: voice
  Randall Lewis: kind of
  Ross Watts: recognition, that
  Joshua Flores: Yeah,
  Ross Watts: would be
  Joshua Flores: but
  Ross Watts: great.
  Joshua Flores: then the code word would be even more important, because I mean Sky
  Ross Watts: Yeah.
  Joshua Flores: advertise on every channel, don't
  Ross Watts: Yeah.
  Randall Lewis: Mm-hmm.
  Joshua Flores: they, you know, so then it would be you'd be watching Charmed, and then the Sky advert would come on and it would change to Sky.
  Ross Watts: Watch Sky and
  Joshua Flores: Yeah,
  Randall Lewis: Alright.
  Ross Watts: yeah.
  Joshua Flores: yeah, and
  Randall Lewis: Yeah,
  Joshua Flores: that
  Randall Lewis: that's
  Joshua Flores: would be really annoying.
  Randall Lewis: Right.
  Ross Watts: Mm-hmm. But that's
  Don Mason: Yeah
  Ross Watts: definitely
  Don Mason: but
  Randall Lewis: Mm.
  Ross Watts: a
  Don Mason: m but on the other
  Ross Watts: possibility.
  Don Mason: hand, remote control isn't as close to you you probably might just just uh speak into it and
  Ross Watts: Yeah.
  Don Mason: and the T_V_ would be already further away, so it might not
  Joshua Flores: Yeah.
  Don Mason: pick up the other things coming
  Joshua Flores: Do
  Don Mason: from
  Joshua Flores: you not
  Don Mason: there.
  Joshua Flores: think that defeats the object of having voice recognition on a remote control though?
  Ross Watts: So that you can yell at it,
  Joshua Flores: Yeah, you know, so
  Ross Watts: yeah.
  Joshua Flores: you have to have the remote control. It's more like if you lost it and it's down the sofa sometime, you can yell at it and it'll just change it, you can look for it later,
  Ross Watts: Yeah.
  Joshua Flores: yeah.
  Ross Watts: Alright.
  Don Mason: Yeah, but then the remote control I think I mean um the idea is kind of it's it's not that it's sitting there on on top of the television, because then you could already yell at the television and you wouldn't you you wouldn't need the remote control, so the remote control is still something you keep n
  Joshua Flores: Yeah,
  Don Mason: near yourself.
  Joshua Flores: yeah, I suppose nearer to you but a b like if you have surround sound then
  Randall Lewis: Mm
  Ross Watts: Mm.
  Randall Lewis: yeah and it might become very difficult from a distance for the television to understand what you're saying because of the noise
  Don Mason: Yeah,
  Randall Lewis: factor
  Don Mason: yeah,
  Ross Watts: Yeah.
  Don Mason: yeah.
  Randall Lewis: for the remote control being cl
  Don Mason: No, but
  Randall Lewis: I
  Don Mason: I I
  Randall Lewis: mean
  Don Mason: I
  Randall Lewis: it'll
  Don Mason: was
  Randall Lewis: it'll
  Don Mason: just defending the
  Randall Lewis: mm.
  Don Mason: the
  Ross Watts: Yeah.
  Don Mason: fact why why we want to keep the remote control close to us, a
  Randall Lewis: Yeah.
  Don Mason: and
  Ross Watts: Yeah.
  Don Mason: uh not to yell at it from the distance.
  Randall Lewis: Mm.
  Ross Watts: Yeah.
  Randall Lewis: So uh wh another thing uh that can be used is that uh there can be a beeper button on the T_V_, so you can go and press that button and
  Ross Watts: Mm-hmm.
  Randall Lewis: um and the remote control, wherever it is, it'll beep, so
  Ross Watts: That's
  Randall Lewis: we we can probably
  Don Mason: Okay.
  Randall Lewis: come to
  Ross Watts: but
  Randall Lewis: know
  Joshua Flores: Yeah.
  Ross Watts: then
  Randall Lewis: where
  Ross Watts: if
  Randall Lewis: it
  Ross Watts: you're
  Randall Lewis: is.
  Ross Watts: buying the remote separately, but y you could have
  Don Mason: Oh
  Ross Watts: something,
  Don Mason: yeah, yeah.
  Ross Watts: but i if it was something that you could like stick onto the T_V_ or something,
  Randall Lewis: Right, yeah,
  Don Mason: Okay,
  Ross Watts: some
  Randall Lewis: yeah,
  Ross Watts: like a
  Don Mason: yeah,
  Ross Watts: two p
  Randall Lewis: yeah.
  Ross Watts: if you bought
  Don Mason: mm-hmm.
  Ross Watts: it in a two part pack, so one part attaches
  Joshua Flores: Yeah,
  Ross Watts: to
  Joshua Flores: 'cause
  Ross Watts: the T_V_.
  Joshua Flores: it's it's quite important that you don't lose the the bit
  Ross Watts: The
  Joshua Flores: to
  Ross Watts: l
  Joshua Flores: locate the remote control.
  Ross Watts: Well
  Randall Lewis: Alright,
  Ross Watts: that's right,
  Randall Lewis: yeah.
  Ross Watts: but it solves the problem of having different noises.
  Joshua Flores: Yeah, definitely, yeah.
  Ross Watts: Yeah. Okay, I think we're gonna have to wrap this up um. But if we go away with that that kind of general um specification in mind that we're looking at fifteen to thirty five year olds, we want it to look simple, but still have the buttons so it's easy to use, but only those key
  Don Mason: The
  Ross Watts: buttons,
  Don Mason: major ones,
  Ross Watts: the major
  Don Mason: yeah.
  Ross Watts: buttons and then one sort of menu one, and then voice recognition included as an option
  Don Mason: Mm-hmm.
  Randall Lewis: Right.
  Ross Watts: um but that obviously needs a little bit more working out as to whether it's really feasible
  Randall Lewis: Okay.
  Ross Watts: and some of those problems we were mentioning um. What we have to do now is to go back to our little places, complete our questionnaire and some sort of summarisation, which y you'll get immediately by email. Send Joshua Flores your presentations so that I can use them to make the minutes, and then we've got a lunch break
  Don Mason: Mm-hmm.
  Ross Watts: and after lunch we go back to our own little stations and have thirty minutes more work. Um I'll put the minutes in that project documents folder, but I'll send you an email when I do it, so
  Randall Lewis: So
  Ross Watts: that you know.
  Randall Lewis: where
  Ross Watts: It should
  Randall Lewis: exactly
  Ross Watts: be on your desktop,
  Randall Lewis: is this i
  Ross Watts: so on the
  Randall Lewis: Ah, okay.
  Ross Watts: yeah.
  Randall Lewis: Yeah.
  Don Mason: Yeah.
  Ross Watts: So I'll put it I'll put them there as soon as I've written
  Don Mason: Did you
  Ross Watts: them.
  Don Mason: find it? It's
  Randall Lewis: Yeah,
  Don Mason: just
  Randall Lewis: yeah
  Don Mason: yeah,
  Randall Lewis: in that
  Don Mason: yeah.
  Randall Lewis: one, right yeah.
  Ross Watts: Yeah, and email them round.
  Joshua Flores: Oh, so y you want our um PowerPoint presentations in there,
  Ross Watts: Yeah,
  Joshua Flores: hey?
  Ross Watts: that would be great.
  Joshua Flores: Okay.
  Don Mason: Oh so so we'll just put
  Ross Watts: Oh
  Don Mason: them
  Ross Watts: yeah,
  Don Mason: i there,
  Ross Watts: put them
  Don Mason: we
  Ross Watts: in
  Don Mason: we
  Ross Watts: there.
  Don Mason: yeah,
  Ross Watts: Yeah,
  Don Mason: w
  Joshua Flores: There
  Don Mason: we
  Joshua Flores: you go.
  Don Mason: won't
  Ross Watts: then you don't
  Don Mason: even
  Ross Watts: have to
  Don Mason: okay.
  Ross Watts: email them.
  Joshua Flores: But is everyone's called functional requirements?
  Ross Watts: No,
  Randall Lewis: No.
  Ross Watts: they're all called something slightly different. Technical requirements
  Joshua Flores: Okay,
  Ross Watts: and something something,
  Joshua Flores: so that's good.
  Ross Watts: yeah.
  Don Mason: Yeah.
  Joshua Flores: That's
  Ross Watts: So,
  Joshua Flores: Joshua Flores done.
  Ross Watts: if you put them in there, we'll all be able to see them and refer to them if we need to.
  Joshua Flores: Okay, cool.
  Ross Watts: Um as to where we're going from here, you're going to look at the components concept.
  Randall Lewis: Right.
  Ross Watts: Yeah? Whatever that means.
  Don Mason: Yeah.
  Ross Watts: Yeah.
  Randall Lewis: I guess I'll find out.
  Ross Watts: You'll be looking you'll be looking at the user interface
  Don Mason: Uh something
  Ross Watts: concept,
  Don Mason: conceptual, yeah.
  Ross Watts: on something conceptual and you're watching trends to see how we go and surely voice recognition'll fall off the map or something that um we'll
  Randall Lewis: Wha
  Ross Watts: keep keep
  Randall Lewis: what
  Ross Watts: our
  Randall Lewis: was
  Ross Watts: options
  Randall Lewis: it again
  Ross Watts: op hmm?
  Randall Lewis: that I was supposed to look into? Con
  Ross Watts: Components,
  Randall Lewis: components, oh.
  Don Mason: Hmm. Sorry, but
  Ross Watts: yeah.
  Don Mason: um the next meeting um are we going to have it um right after lunch or shall
  Ross Watts: No,
  Don Mason: we prepare
  Ross Watts: we have
  Don Mason: our
  Ross Watts: we have after lunch we have thirty minutes
  Don Mason: To
  Ross Watts: to
  Don Mason: prepare,
  Ross Watts: ourselves
  Don Mason: okay,
  Ross Watts: to prepare,
  Don Mason: yeah, that's
  Ross Watts: so
  Don Mason: good.
  Ross Watts: that's fine, w before lunch we just have to complete the questionnaire and some sort of summary.
  Don Mason: Okay.
  Ross Watts: Okay? Right
  Don Mason: Cool.
  Ross Watts: on time. Okay, so you can I guess we'll see you for lunch in
  Don Mason: Okay,
  Ross Watts: a sec?
  Don Mason: see you.
Updated Content: Ross Watts opens the meeting by stating that they will address functional design and then going over the agenda. Randall Lewis gives his presentation, explaining how remote controls function and giving personal preference to a clear, simple design that upgrades the technology as well as incorporates the latest features in chip design. The interface specialist gives her presentation next, addressing the main purpose of a remote control. She pinpoints the main functions of on/off, channel-switching, numbers for choosing particular channels, and volume; and also suggests adding a menu button to change settings such as brightness on the screen. She gives preference to a remote that is small, easy to use, and follows some conventions. The group briefly discusses the possibility of using an LCD screen if cost allows it, since it is fancy and fashionable. Joshua Flores presents, giving statistical information from a survey of 100 subjects. She prefers a remote that is sleek, stylish, sophisticated, cool, beautiful, functional, solar-powered, has long battery life, and has a locator. They discuss the target group, deciding it should be 15-35 year olds. After they talk about features they might include, Ross Watts closes the meeting by allocating tasks.