Extracted Content: Shane Wafer: So
  Shane Wafer: Hello.
  Brian Hillery: Good afternoon. Sorry I'm a little late.
  Shane Wafer: No problem
  Brian Hillery: Got stuck in the traffic.
  Shane Wafer: Okay. That's possible on uh this time of day. Starts at three o'clock. Uh
  Brian Hillery: Yeah.
  Shane Wafer: Uh, let Brian Hillery see. Our fourth and last meeting. There he is. Yes. Okay this our last meeting. In this meeting we will discuss our final design. And we will do some evaluation about the, not only the product, but also the project. And then we're going to close the project today as well. So after this you be free to go and uh spend all your money. And this uh design, detailed design meeting uh we will discuss uh the look-and-feel of the design, the usability interface design, and we will do the product evaluation. Um, in order to do that we have this agenda. We'll have the prototype presentation first. Then we will set up some evaluation cri um criteria. Then we will look at the finance. Uh we will have to see if everything we wanna do is also possible within our budget. Because everything costs money, and the more functions you wanna have the more money it will cost. So we have to see if it fits within the twelve and a half Euro per remote. But we will see that later. Then we will do the project uh evaluation, and the closing after that. We've got forty minutes. So we will be finished at half past three. But first um we will do the this is prototype presentation. So, if some
  Randy Turek: Okay.
  Shane Wafer: yeah if somebody wants step forward.
  Randy Turek: Well this what Brian Hillery Richard came up with. The default spot for the on-off button. The mute button just below that. Then there's the volume and channel selectors. Simple plus-minus button. Uh we thought of a help button. If you hold it and you press another button, uh the help goes to the L_C_D_ screen. Then there's the zero to one to zero buttons. A button for teletext. A button for the subtitles. And the company logo. And uh we'll have to see from testing uh how the users take it.
  Shane Wafer: Okay.
  Brian Hillery: Um, is this the moment where we
  Vito Towns: So
  Brian Hillery: ask or can ask questions about the functionality?
  Randy Turek: Sure
  Vito Towns: Yeah.
  Randy Turek: uh
  Vito Towns: Yeah.
  Randy Turek: just pop in at any time.
  Brian Hillery: Um, when you're in teletext there usually are buttons where you just you just press it and you g go to the next teletext page.
  Vito Towns: Uh, uh the uh as th as the normal uh remote controls uh So um You put it uh you um came in uh page uh one hundred. Now
  Brian Hillery: Mm-hmm.
  Vito Towns: you can use the normal uh one to zero buttons. And you But you can also uh use the um button th for uh changing the S so shifting.
  Brian Hillery: Okay.
  Vito Towns: yeah shifting up in on t on t down. So
  Brian Hillery: Okay. Um Yeah.
  Shane Wafer: Okay. Uh but um I thought in a few meetings earlier we uh uh tried to keep it uh simple.
  Vito Towns: Oh yeah?
  Shane Wafer: Uh just a few buttons and large buttons. But uh I think these are altogether quite a quite a few buttons. So I'm wondering if we if we neely really need all of those buttons.
  Randy Turek: I think if you look at most controls, they've got more buttons than this.
  Shane Wafer: That's right.
  Randy Turek: And
  Vito Towns: Yeah.
  Randy Turek: well the on-off button, it's it's a necessity. You
  Vito Towns: Yeah.
  Shane Wafer: Yeah.
  Randy Turek: can't drop that one. The volume and channel buttons, you need you obviously need those those.
  Shane Wafer: Yeah.
  Randy Turek: The mute button could be replaced uh by pressing the volume-down button twice. So we could cancel that one. I think the help button really is necessary
  Vito Towns: Yeah
  Randy Turek: because
  Vito Towns: yeah.
  Randy Turek: there's no other way to know when someone wants to know what a button does.
  Shane Wafer: Mm.
  Vito Towns: Uh, or you can build in uh when you press uh one button uh
  Shane Wafer: Long
  Vito Towns: uh
  Shane Wafer: time.
  Vito Towns: Yeah.
  Shane Wafer: Yeah. If
  Vito Towns: But
  Shane Wafer: you put
  Vito Towns: m Yeah. We disc discuss that already. But uh we think uh old people uh don't know that uh option. So uh they just put in uh put press uh the button and uh
  Shane Wafer: Yeah. Okay.
  Randy Turek: Well, you can't leave out the number buttons I guess.
  Vito Towns: And uh
  Shane Wafer: Yeah.
  Randy Turek: And
  Shane Wafer: Uh teletext and subtitles are
  Randy Turek: Yeah.
  Shane Wafer: yeah
  Vito Towns: Oh.
  Shane Wafer: necessary.
  Brian Hillery: Yeah.
  Shane Wafer: Okay.
  Randy Turek: So it's rather basic already.
  Brian Hillery: Yeah. Think so. That's what I pointed out earlier. If you just make a for just the T_V_ there's just not much to gain here.
  Vito Towns: Yeah.
  Shane Wafer: Yep. Okay. So we had somebody about th interfa Something about the design of the buttons there?
  Randy Turek: Yeah, they're It's
  Vito Towns: Yeah.
  Shane Wafer: Just n normal
  Randy Turek: rather
  Shane Wafer: plain
  Randy Turek: hard
  Vito Towns: Yeah,
  Randy Turek: to
  Vito Towns: it
  Randy Turek: draw
  Shane Wafer: buttons.
  Randy Turek: on the white-board. But they're supposed to be equal sized, round, with a with a little logo on it for the for the volume, the
  Vito Towns: Yeah
  Randy Turek: the triangle
  Shane Wafer: Yeah.
  Vito Towns: yeah.
  Randy Turek: and
  Vito Towns: Just
  Randy Turek: stuff.
  Vito Towns: to recognise
  Shane Wafer: 'Kay.
  Vito Towns: it, so
  Randy Turek: Just for
  Vito Towns: uh
  Randy Turek: recognition.
  Vito Towns: Uh yeah and now we don't need uh LEDs or um
  Shane Wafer: No.
  Vito Towns: Y uh s some uh remote controls uh do it also,
  Shane Wafer: No.
  Vito Towns: but um uh because we use the little display we don't uh have to use it. Uh
  Shane Wafer: Yeah.
  Vito Towns: so
  Shane Wafer: Okay.
  Randy Turek: So and for the materials we've just chosen for rubber buttons.
  Vito Towns: Nay.
  Randy Turek: With
  Shane Wafer: Yep.
  Randy Turek: a a different colour than the case. So they jump out.
  Shane Wafer: Okay.
  Randy Turek: And uh that's about it.
  Shane Wafer: That's nice. Then because we only have thirty minutes left, I will move on to the finance part, which is pretty exciting, to see if it's all possible what we wanna do. And I can tell you that we're going to have a pretty hard time producing this for twelve and a half Euros.
  Vito Towns: Mm.
  Shane Wafer: If we see I don't know if I've filled in correctly, so just correct Brian Hillery if you see uh something wrong. I counted two batteries. But maybe we can also use one. I don't know if it's
  Brian Hillery: Since
  Shane Wafer: possible.
  Brian Hillery: it rechargeable.
  Shane Wafer: It's rechargeable. That's
  Vito Towns: Yeah
  Shane Wafer: right.
  Vito Towns: we can u just uh
  Shane Wafer: Okay. That's two Euros off.
  Vito Towns: 'Kay.
  Shane Wafer: We need the advanced chip. So there's
  Randy Turek: Yep.
  Shane Wafer: not much to uh to save there. Here we have the single curves. Uh we can see that the difference between uncurved and the single curved is one Euro.
  Vito Towns: Mm.
  Shane Wafer: Um, I don't know, but I think the single curved is good for design,
  Vito Towns: Yeah.
  Shane Wafer: and also for the display to have a prominent place on the remote control.
  Randy Turek: Yes.
  Shane Wafer: I think we have to keep that.
  Vito Towns: Yeah.
  Shane Wafer: Then we have the case material supplements. It's plastic. It's the cheapest one we need. So that's uh not much to save either. But then the biggest costs are the buttons. So maybe we really should try to
  Vito Towns: Okay.
  Shane Wafer: discard some buttons to uh keep our costs low.
  Vito Towns: Yeah.
  Shane Wafer: Because you have to we will have to get the twelve and a half Euros at the end. Um, so if we Let's fir first count
  Vito Towns: Uh
  Shane Wafer: the buttons we have now. Because
  Vito Towns: Sixteen,
  Shane Wafer: I
  Vito Towns: I believe so.
  Shane Wafer: Sixteen. Nah, that will be even more then. Eighteen Euros. So,
  Vito Towns: Uh seventeen.
  Shane Wafer: seventeen.
  Brian Hillery: Um
  Vito Towns: Uh with the help button.
  Shane Wafer: Okay,
  Randy Turek: Yep.
  Shane Wafer: including the
  Brian Hillery: Damn.
  Shane Wafer: help?
  Vito Towns: Yeah.
  Shane Wafer: Yeah. Uh seventeen. I think we can uh discard the help and the mute button uh by pressing down volume long, or pressing down a a number
  Randy Turek: Yep.
  Shane Wafer: long. That saves us uh one Euro already. 'Cause then we have got fifteen I think?
  Randy Turek: Yeah.
  Brian Hillery: Wouldn't Yeah.
  Shane Wafer: Fifteen
  Brian Hillery: No.
  Shane Wafer: buttons.
  Brian Hillery: That wouldn't be an option.
  Shane Wafer: And
  Brian Hillery: Uh,
  Shane Wafer: this
  Brian Hillery: d
  Shane Wafer: is
  Brian Hillery: I assume you'd count the volume and channel thingies for two buttons each, right?
  Shane Wafer: No those are one,
  Vito Towns: Yeah.
  Shane Wafer: I think.
  Brian Hillery: Well, think
  Vito Towns: Where
  Brian Hillery: actually
  Vito Towns: did
  Brian Hillery: there're two
  Vito Towns: uh
  Brian Hillery: buttons,
  Vito Towns: Uh,
  Brian Hillery: aren't they?
  Vito Towns: it's just one button. But, um Yeah. There were uh two uh for one big button. But they are uh more expensive than the small ones. Uh, yeah.
  Shane Wafer: Yeah
  Vito Towns: So
  Shane Wafer: but th it's not stated in this
  Vito Towns: It's just a.
  Shane Wafer: files. So maybe we can we can even make one button with the volume and the channel in one, by
  Brian Hillery: Well
  Shane Wafer: pressing
  Brian Hillery: I was thinking, maybe you could just integrate three of those numbers to one button.
  Shane Wafer: That's possibility as well.
  Brian Hillery: That would cut the cost.
  Shane Wafer: So And it's good for the design as well. So you can make Uh let's see. If you make this
  Shane Wafer: Looks a bit like uh a cross. Plus. Min.
  Vito Towns: But I don't don't know if if it's
  Shane Wafer: Uh s yeah
  Vito Towns: cheaper.
  Shane Wafer: channel.
  Vito Towns: So uh,
  Shane Wafer: Yeah
  Vito Towns: we've
  Shane Wafer: w
  Vito Towns: still got four buttons, but just um So
  Shane Wafer: Yeah th I think they count uh the materials.
  Vito Towns: You got uh not not a butt button itself, but uh on the um
  Shane Wafer: Yeah on the chip there.
  Vito Towns: Yeah. On
  Shane Wafer: Yeah.
  Vito Towns: the chip
  Randy Turek: Yeah.
  Vito Towns: you've got still
  Brian Hillery: Mm-hmm.
  Vito Towns: uh four
  Shane Wafer: That's
  Vito Towns: uh
  Shane Wafer: right. That's right.
  Vito Towns: four buttons. So
  Brian Hillery: Yeah.
  Shane Wafer: But I think because we have the advanced chip
  Vito Towns: Yeah, but
  Shane Wafer: we can just count this as one button. But No but I
  Brian Hillery: But,
  Shane Wafer: think
  Brian Hillery: I think this really is four buttons anyhow.
  Randy Turek: Yes.
  Shane Wafer: Yeah. Maybe it is, but then it seems to Brian Hillery that it's impossible to get the twelve and a half Euros. Also the
  Brian Hillery: Yes.
  Shane Wafer: L_C_ display,
  Randy Turek: Uh that's
  Shane Wafer: I
  Randy Turek: that's
  Shane Wafer: think
  Randy Turek: a big
  Shane Wafer: it's,
  Randy Turek: cost.
  Shane Wafer: I think it's too expensive for the display we use.
  Randy Turek: If we leave out the display we can also save money on the chip.
  Shane Wafer: That's right, but what's the big advantage of our remote then?
  Brian Hillery: Only the docking station, I guess.
  Shane Wafer: Yeah.
  Randy Turek: Which isn't the the docking station isn't even in this c s schematic.
  Shane Wafer: No.
  Randy Turek: So it's not even
  Shane Wafer: That's
  Randy Turek: taken
  Shane Wafer: extra.
  Randy Turek: into the price.
  Shane Wafer: That's extra. That's right.
  Brian Hillery: Maybe we should to a different supplier.
  Shane Wafer: That's an option. Poland. Something.
  Brian Hillery: Yeah.
  Shane Wafer: Polish supplier. Don't you think we can, if we can count this as v as one button, and integrate th uh these buttons in three, then we save a lot of money as well.
  Randy Turek: We we could save money on it. But would it make the remote more usable for elderly people?
  Brian Hillery: Yeah, that's what I'm wondering.
  Randy Turek: My mother can't even send send an S_M_S_ message. So
  Shane Wafer: Yeah. That's a point.
  Brian Hillery: Um
  Vito Towns: Are we gonna buy a um a remote control uh when you can uh use it? So um Yeah. We m uh we must um stay below the um below um twelve uh fifty or
  Shane Wafer: Yep.
  Randy Turek: Yeah.
  Vito Towns: Can't uh go um
  Shane Wafer: No.
  Brian Hillery: Well, since the market research indicated that older people spend their money easier, more easy, maybe it's feasible to just put the price of the remote up a little. Especially since we have those
  Vito Towns: Nay.
  Brian Hillery: nice features.
  Shane Wafer: Yeah but uh we have to stick to the twelve and a half Euros. We don't have any more budget to
  Randy Turek: The margin
  Shane Wafer: develop
  Vito Towns: Is it
  Randy Turek: will
  Vito Towns: impossible
  Randy Turek: get
  Shane Wafer: it.
  Randy Turek: too small.
  Vito Towns: to
  Randy Turek: Yeah.
  Shane Wafer: Yeah.
  Vito Towns: But it
  Shane Wafer: So
  Vito Towns: is possible to make one uh for uh twelve fifty. I don't think
  Shane Wafer: It
  Vito Towns: so.
  Shane Wafer: is. If
  Brian Hillery: It
  Shane Wafer: you
  Brian Hillery: would
  Shane Wafer: leave
  Brian Hillery: be a be
  Shane Wafer: out
  Brian Hillery: a
  Shane Wafer: the L_C_
  Brian Hillery: pretty
  Vito Towns: S
  Brian Hillery: rigid
  Shane Wafer: display.
  Brian Hillery: one.
  Shane Wafer: And if you use
  Vito Towns: Yeah.
  Shane Wafer: less buttons. Say
  Randy Turek: Ten.
  Vito Towns: But,
  Shane Wafer: Or you can
  Vito Towns: you can't use
  Shane Wafer: take
  Vito Towns: uh
  Shane Wafer: the single chip. There it is.
  Vito Towns: Yeah. But we want to make a
  Shane Wafer: But then
  Vito Towns: uh
  Shane Wafer: w
  Vito Towns: so uh uh fancy and a good uh Yeah.
  Shane Wafer: Good looking.
  Vito Towns: Uh, wi with n Oh, with uh
  Shane Wafer: Yeah.
  Vito Towns: attractive uh o options. So uh, you can stay uh below uh twelve fifty. So
  Shane Wafer: I think
  Brian Hillery: Or
  Shane Wafer: it's
  Brian Hillery: b
  Shane Wafer: uh difficult as well, but
  Brian Hillery: Basically becoming a choice between like either a good remote and a higher production cost, or just
  Randy Turek: No remote.
  Brian Hillery: any other remote control.
  Shane Wafer: Or we can leave out the ten buttons and take one scroll wheel for the programme numbers.
  Vito Towns: Scroll-wheel's
  Shane Wafer: Then w
  Vito Towns: one.
  Shane Wafer: Because
  Randy Turek: That's
  Shane Wafer: then
  Vito Towns: No, it
  Shane Wafer: we save ten buttons. Then
  Vito Towns: Yeah.
  Shane Wafer: we have five and one. And and see. If we have this one and we've got the advanced W uh,
  Randy Turek: We're getting closer.
  Shane Wafer: we're getting
  Vito Towns: Yeah.
  Shane Wafer: close.
  Brian Hillery: But how does scroll-wheel work here?
  Shane Wafer: Then you will Or maybe you can um scroll. If you scroll you will see the numbers on the L_C_D_ display. Until you've
  Randy Turek: Yeah.
  Shane Wafer: got the right number, then you push it.
  Brian Hillery: That would bring up the price of the scroll-wheel also.
  Shane Wafer: Alright.
  Brian Hillery: Integrated
  Shane Wafer: It's gotta
  Brian Hillery: scroll-wheel
  Shane Wafer: scroll and
  Vito Towns: Mm.
  Shane Wafer: push.
  Brian Hillery: push-button.
  Shane Wafer: Okay but
  Brian Hillery: But
  Shane Wafer: then you
  Brian Hillery: Yeah.
  Shane Wafer: you can push uh some other button as well.
  Randy Turek: You could just not scroll for a half a second.
  Shane Wafer: Yeah.
  Randy Turek: So
  Shane Wafer: That's right. So
  Randy Turek: you
  Shane Wafer: if
  Randy Turek: won't
  Shane Wafer: you scroll
  Randy Turek: need a button.
  Shane Wafer: to a number and then you wait a half second, then it g turns to that channel.
  Brian Hillery: I think that would be like the end of our usability.
  Vito Towns: D yeah.
  Shane Wafer: But it would definitely crop cost, a lot.
  Brian Hillery: Yeah, but
  Shane Wafer: And we need the battery. And the regular chip is not possible? It has to be advanced?
  Randy Turek: If you want to use an L_C_D_ screen you
  Shane Wafer: It has
  Randy Turek: you need
  Shane Wafer: to be
  Randy Turek: an advanced
  Shane Wafer: advanced.
  Randy Turek: chip, yes.
  Vito Towns: Hmm.
  Shane Wafer: Yeah. Okay. And we can save a Euro by a flat design. That's an option we can
  Randy Turek: Yep.
  Vito Towns: Ja ja.
  Shane Wafer: Then we're almost there.
  Randy Turek: Yeah if you v could just leave out one more button.
  Shane Wafer: Yeah. So if we
  Vito Towns: Yeah, or we have to uh skip the subtitle uh button.
  Randy Turek: Yeah.
  Shane Wafer: Yeah but I think
  Vito Towns: So
  Shane Wafer: that's
  Vito Towns: Yeah
  Shane Wafer: That is a big advantage, if we're
  Vito Towns: Yeah it's a big advantage. But
  Shane Wafer: But
  Vito Towns: um,
  Shane Wafer: Can we use
  Vito Towns: it's
  Shane Wafer: can't we integrate the teletext and the subtitles in one button?
  Randy Turek: I
  Vito Towns: Uh,
  Randy Turek: think
  Vito Towns: yeah.
  Randy Turek: so. Yeah.
  Brian Hillery: Well,
  Shane Wafer: If you push
  Brian Hillery: think it's
  Shane Wafer: it
  Brian Hillery: pretty much
  Shane Wafer: three
  Brian Hillery: the
  Shane Wafer: times?
  Vito Towns: Yeah.
  Brian Hillery: teletext subtitles are right now you just push the teletext button, go to page eight eight eight,
  Shane Wafer: Yeah.
  Brian Hillery: and
  Vito Towns: Yeah.
  Brian Hillery: teletext disappears. But the subtitles stay there.
  Vito Towns: But if you push
  Brian Hillery: I
  Vito Towns: the
  Brian Hillery: think that's
  Vito Towns: teletext
  Brian Hillery: the case on
  Vito Towns: button
  Brian Hillery: most
  Vito Towns: twice
  Randy Turek: What if you have to scroll
  Vito Towns: It's
  Randy Turek: to page
  Vito Towns: uh
  Randy Turek: eighty eight? Eight hundred eighty eight.
  Vito Towns: One
  Shane Wafer: Ah that's
  Vito Towns: m uh
  Shane Wafer: not
  Brian Hillery: Well,
  Shane Wafer: really
  Brian Hillery: that could
  Shane Wafer: that
  Brian Hillery: be
  Vito Towns: one
  Brian Hillery: just
  Vito Towns: b uh, a
  Brian Hillery: uh
  Vito Towns: few
  Brian Hillery: like the
  Vito Towns: buttons.
  Brian Hillery: scroll to eight, click, scroll to eight, click, scroll to eight, click.
  Randy Turek: Yeah. Okay.
  Brian Hillery: But then again that would be d j just pretty much not an option for older people, who don't
  Randy Turek: No.
  Brian Hillery: even know what a scroll-wheel is.
  Vito Towns: Yeah.
  Brian Hillery: Holding a
  Shane Wafer: No.
  Brian Hillery: remote with which they expect to have like ten buttons for the numbers one to zero. With only five buttons on it. And a scroll-wheel.
  Shane Wafer: I think if you make a good advertisement uh on television and in the in the guide, you can explain to the people how to use the scroll wheel. If you just make it real simple. Because it saves it saves a lot of money. And we can keep our L_C_D_ screen, which can provide extra information. How to use the scroll wheel. How to use the other
  Brian Hillery: True.
  Shane Wafer: bu buttons
  Brian Hillery: True.
  Shane Wafer: as subtitles.
  Vito Towns: Hmm.
  Shane Wafer: And it's good for the innovative design as well. If you would erase these. Mm eraser?
  Shane Wafer: And we put uh
  Shane Wafer: Looks a bit odd maybe.
  Brian Hillery: That's a pretty big scroll wheel.
  Shane Wafer: That is
  Shane Wafer: Something like that. Then, yeah. We've got the scroll-wheel. One, two, three, four, five buttons, if we erase this one.
  Shane Wafer: And these are two buttons then.
  Randy Turek: We could make two buttons out of that. And just um If you press the volume button you
  Shane Wafer: Yeah.
  Randy Turek: can control the volume with the scroll-wheel. So that would save two buttons. If you do
  Shane Wafer: Yeah.
  Randy Turek: the same for the channel.
  Shane Wafer: That's really a good good idea, I think. And it will make the use of the scroll wheel
  Randy Turek: More
  Shane Wafer: uh
  Randy Turek: obvious.
  Shane Wafer: more obvious indeed. So we make one for the volume, one for the channel.
  Shane Wafer: Plus scroll.
  Randy Turek: So if we
  Shane Wafer: That's right. So we've got one, two, three. Yeah, we can leave the teletext in if we want.
  Randy Turek: Yeah.
  Vito Towns: Yeah.
  Shane Wafer: That's m
  Randy Turek: So
  Shane Wafer: that's better.
  Brian Hillery: So this is five
  Randy Turek: If
  Brian Hillery: buttons.
  Randy Turek: we leave out all those buttons, perhaps you can go with the flat flat case. And make it smaller overall. So
  Shane Wafer: Y
  Randy Turek: if
  Shane Wafer: yeah.
  Randy Turek: you put the the volume and channel buttons on the same height as the on-off button, the
  Shane Wafer: Mm yeah.
  Randy Turek: screen right behi under that, than the scroll button
  Shane Wafer: Uh yeah,
  Randy Turek: you
  Shane Wafer: and then
  Randy Turek: get
  Shane Wafer: you can
  Randy Turek: a a much smaller remote.
  Vito Towns: Uh yeah.
  Shane Wafer: That's right.
  Randy Turek: And it
  Shane Wafer: So
  Randy Turek: sh
  Shane Wafer: we can decrease this one to four buttons.
  Randy Turek: Yeah?
  Brian Hillery: Right now we have five.
  Vito Towns: But uh, you can make a f quite a big uh remote remote control for uh just the same price as a small one.
  Shane Wafer: Yeah.
  Vito Towns: Just uh
  Shane Wafer: That's
  Vito Towns: you
  Shane Wafer: no problem.
  Vito Towns: only have to pay for the double curved or single curved. It uh
  Shane Wafer: Yeah.
  Vito Towns: it's a bit uh
  Shane Wafer: Yeah. It's uh it's more the moulds in which they are being made, I think. Single
  Brian Hillery: Mm.
  Shane Wafer: curved is really easy to just fill in. And cases come right out of the machine. And single curved you have to have a different uh different machine, than a flat one. I think this is a really easy one. Um, what does everybody think about a flat or a single curved design? Freek, what do you think?
  Brian Hillery: Well, I still think we should go for the single curve design.
  Randy Turek: Yeah.
  Brian Hillery: But then again,
  Randy Turek: Richard's argument was
  Brian Hillery: all
  Randy Turek: very
  Brian Hillery: these
  Vito Towns: Yeah.
  Brian Hillery: changes
  Randy Turek: good.
  Shane Wafer: Yeah.
  Brian Hillery: are not
  Randy Turek: Yeah.
  Brian Hillery: really okay
  Shane Wafer: Yep.
  Brian Hillery: with Brian Hillery. But since
  Shane Wafer: We have to cut costs.
  Brian Hillery: we just have to.
  Vito Towns: Yeah.
  Shane Wafer: Yeah. Yeah
  Brian Hillery: I'd
  Shane Wafer: I'm
  Brian Hillery: rather
  Shane Wafer: ag
  Brian Hillery: just go to the board and
  Shane Wafer: Ask for more
  Brian Hillery: get
  Shane Wafer: money.
  Brian Hillery: us to spend eighteen dollars a a
  Shane Wafer: Yeah.
  Brian Hillery: remote.
  Shane Wafer: Yeah. I am agreeing
  Brian Hillery: Or do
  Shane Wafer: with
  Brian Hillery: some
  Shane Wafer: the
  Brian Hillery: market
  Shane Wafer: usability.
  Brian Hillery: research and
  Shane Wafer: Yeah.
  Brian Hillery: see what the options are.
  Shane Wafer: Yeah. But th um I think we can then keep the single curved one. Just to express our L_C_D_ screen a bit more.
  Randy Turek: Yep.
  Brian Hillery: Yeah.
  Shane Wafer: So
  Vito Towns: Yeah.
  Shane Wafer: people will use it more, and especially for the help functions, it will be good if we have scroll bar, scroll button. It will be necessary to have good help function, as well.
  Shane Wafer: So this is scroll.
  Shane Wafer: I think it was better to have this price list a bit earlier. Before
  Brian Hillery: Yes.
  Shane Wafer: we went on to
  Brian Hillery: Definitely.
  Shane Wafer: the
  Vito Towns: The th
  Shane Wafer: to the whole design. But I'm glad we could make a bit.
  Brian Hillery: Yeah.
  Shane Wafer: It's pretty different, if you
  Brian Hillery: It's
  Shane Wafer: saw
  Brian Hillery: pretty
  Shane Wafer: the
  Brian Hillery: different.
  Shane Wafer: last one
  Brian Hillery: But
  Shane Wafer: than this one.
  Brian Hillery: this is not really like for the group we were making our remote.
  Vito Towns: No.
  Brian Hillery: This will really require a lot of marketing
  Shane Wafer: Yeah. It will.
  Brian Hillery: to get this to sell.
  Shane Wafer: Yeah.
  Brian Hillery: 'Cause
  Vito Towns: But um
  Brian Hillery: if older people like familiar forms and familiar stuff. This is not familiar for them.
  Shane Wafer: No, but
  Brian Hillery: So
  Shane Wafer: I
  Brian Hillery: we're
  Shane Wafer: think
  Brian Hillery: gonna have to do a lotta convincing them.
  Shane Wafer: I think the most
  Vito Towns: But they know the scroll-buttons from uh old radios. Uh they cal also uh buttons like that for uh
  Brian Hillery: Yeah.
  Shane Wafer: That's right.
  Vito Towns: changing uh channels. So
  Shane Wafer: We can let
  Vito Towns: maybe it's
  Shane Wafer: l
  Vito Towns: uh
  Shane Wafer: We can stick it out, a bit. Like a old old
  Vito Towns: Yeah.
  Shane Wafer: buttons.
  Vito Towns: Yeah.
  Shane Wafer: Maybe that's recognisable for them as well.
  Vito Towns: Yeah.
  Shane Wafer: Yeah. That's a good one. So, I'm afraid we have to move on. And it's uh it's b uh less frightening, I think. If they see this design they think oh, there are only five buttons, and uh
  Vito Towns: Yeah.
  Shane Wafer: But
  Brian Hillery: That's
  Shane Wafer: we
  Brian Hillery: true.
  Shane Wafer: will see.
  Brian Hillery: Might uh might be confusing too.
  Shane Wafer: Yeah. That's
  Brian Hillery: They'd
  Vito Towns: Mm-hmm.
  Shane Wafer: definitely
  Brian Hillery: be like, what?
  Shane Wafer: right.
  Brian Hillery: Only five buttons?
  Shane Wafer: Yeah.
  Vito Towns: But very special, so uh
  Shane Wafer: I would buy
  Brian Hillery: Yeah.
  Shane Wafer: it.
  Brian Hillery: But you're not sixty.
  Shane Wafer: That's right. I would buy it if I was six. No I don't know. What it costs under twelve and a half Euros? No? Uh, yes they are.
  Vito Towns: No.
  Shane Wafer: No. But we can go on with the project evaluation.
  Brian Hillery: Mm-hmm.
  Shane Wafer: Let's see. I can sit down I think. We still have fifteen minutes left, so we're nice on schedule.
  Randy Turek: Yeah.
  Shane Wafer: Um, the project process.
  Brian Hillery: So um, I like set up all these criteria. And
  Shane Wafer: Evaluation
  Brian Hillery: evaluation
  Shane Wafer: criteria.
  Brian Hillery: of the
  Shane Wafer: That's right. That was the
  Brian Hillery: thingy.
  Shane Wafer: the point I forgot. I should There we are. Evaluation criteria.
  Brian Hillery: Thank you.
  Shane Wafer: Go ahead. We've got five minutes I think for those criteria.
  Brian Hillery: Five more minutes?
  Shane Wafer: No we've got fifteen minutes but
  Brian Hillery: Okay.
  Shane Wafer: Uh yes. What?
  Brian Hillery: 'Kay so I did some literature study study, and analysis of the requirements we set up earlier.
  Shane Wafer: Uh yeah.
  Brian Hillery: Translated it into criteria, which would be these. Um, is the remote fancy? The shape, look and feel. Innovative? What new functions are there? Uh, easy to use? Uh, learnability is a very important factor here. Uh, is it functional? Are there not too many functions uh among the functions? And are the those functions that are there, are they useful? And the cost. The target group. Is the remote really for the group we're making it for? And recognability. If our company is If it is easily recognisable that our company made it? And So we're supposed to evaluate it right now.
  Shane Wafer: Okay.
  Brian Hillery: Let's see. Oh I have to say this was a little hard, because the minutes of our last meeting were not here.
  Shane Wafer: Yeah, that's
  Vito Towns: Mm.
  Shane Wafer: because my pen failed to upload his data.
  Brian Hillery: Okay.
  Vito Towns: Yeah?
  Shane Wafer: I
  Brian Hillery: Interesting.
  Shane Wafer: tried to but it's uh it's giving errors by downloading
  Brian Hillery: So
  Shane Wafer: the software.
  Vito Towns: Mm. 'Kay.
  Brian Hillery: Is the design fancy, on a scale of one to seven?
  Shane Wafer: I think it's fancy.
  Randy Turek: Six.
  Shane Wafer: Yeah.
  Vito Towns: Uh six.
  Brian Hillery: We all go for six?
  Vito Towns: Yeah.
  Shane Wafer: Six.
  Brian Hillery: Good. Um, is the design innovative?
  Shane Wafer: Very.
  Vito Towns: Mm.
  Brian Hillery: I think so, with
  Vito Towns: Sh
  Brian Hillery: our L_C_D_
  Shane Wafer: Subtitles,
  Brian Hillery: screen, docking station,
  Shane Wafer: buttons.
  Brian Hillery: scroll-buttons.
  Shane Wafer: Yeah.
  Randy Turek: Yeah.
  Shane Wafer: Seven.
  Brian Hillery: Seven?
  Vito Towns: Yeah.
  Shane Wafer: Yeah. So we've got twenty cents for our docking station, huh?
  Brian Hillery: Should be do-able.
  Shane Wafer: Yeah. That's right.
  Brian Hillery: Is the design easy to use?
  Vito Towns: Mm. Not
  Shane Wafer: That's
  Vito Towns: really.
  Shane Wafer: a bit dodgy.
  Brian Hillery: Well Would be for us. But
  Vito Towns: For old people
  Shane Wafer: I would
  Vito Towns: I
  Shane Wafer: say
  Vito Towns: I
  Shane Wafer: four.
  Randy Turek: Four
  Vito Towns: W
  Randy Turek: or five.
  Shane Wafer: Four
  Randy Turek: Yes.
  Shane Wafer: or
  Vito Towns: Yeah.
  Shane Wafer: five between.
  Vito Towns: Four.
  Shane Wafer: Between four or five.
  Brian Hillery: I'd go for four, too.
  Vito Towns: Yeah.
  Shane Wafer: Yeah. Is it functional?
  Brian Hillery: Is the design functional? Um, do we have all functions that we want to include?
  Shane Wafer: Yes.
  Vito Towns: N Yeah.
  Brian Hillery: I think we do. Do we have too many functions?
  Randy Turek: No.
  Shane Wafer: No.
  Vito Towns: No.
  Brian Hillery: I don't think so. It's pretty slim.
  Shane Wafer: Think it's uh seven.
  Brian Hillery: Seven. and do we um take care of the biggest frustrations of the remote control? Like it getting lost and
  Vito Towns: Mm
  Brian Hillery: R_S_I_
  Randy Turek: Mm, we haven't
  Vito Towns: m
  Randy Turek: thought of that one.
  Brian Hillery: influences?
  Shane Wafer: It was.
  Brian Hillery: Think we do.
  Shane Wafer: I had them worked out. Mm. They are ugly, not very functional, and getting lost.
  Brian Hillery: Are the
  Vito Towns: Yeah.
  Brian Hillery: production costs within the preset limits? Well they are now.
  Shane Wafer: Yeah.
  Brian Hillery: Does the design fit the group of focus?
  Randy Turek: I think
  Vito Towns: Mm,
  Randy Turek: that's a three.
  Vito Towns: th yeah.
  Brian Hillery: Yeah.
  Shane Wafer: No I think
  Brian Hillery: I think
  Shane Wafer: with our
  Brian Hillery: it doesn't.
  Shane Wafer: new
  Vito Towns: Yeah.
  Shane Wafer: radio button, I think it's uh
  Vito Towns: Uh
  Shane Wafer: I think it's better.
  Vito Towns: We have to test
  Brian Hillery: I don't
  Vito Towns: it s
  Brian Hillery: know.
  Vito Towns: But
  Randy Turek: I still I think it's
  Brian Hillery: I think
  Shane Wafer: I think
  Randy Turek: too
  Shane Wafer: it
  Randy Turek: m too fancy. Too too
  Brian Hillery: I think
  Randy Turek: flashy.
  Brian Hillery: a radio button is not exactly what older people expect to have a remote control.
  Vito Towns: Uh, yeah, true.
  Shane Wafer: Yeah. I would give it a four.
  Brian Hillery: I'm not sure. I think I'd go for two.
  Vito Towns: I go for three. So
  Shane Wafer: Then we have to do the three. It's the
  Brian Hillery: 'Kay.
  Brian Hillery: Is the company company recognisable?
  Shane Wafer: Yes
  Vito Towns: Yeah
  Shane Wafer: it
  Vito Towns: yeah.
  Brian Hillery: Well,
  Shane Wafer: is.
  Brian Hillery: we have the logo there.
  Shane Wafer: Yeah.
  Brian Hillery: So
  Shane Wafer: And they wanna put fashion in their products. Uh in the slogan of the company. And we have the removable front cases.
  Vito Towns: Yeah.
  Shane Wafer: So,
  Brian Hillery: Yeah.
  Shane Wafer: I think it's very recognisable. Yep.
  Brian Hillery: So that will be this. I was also supposed to calculate the score, but thought we would have another private
  Shane Wafer: We've got a calculate
  Brian Hillery: thingy after
  Shane Wafer: it.
  Brian Hillery: this.
  Shane Wafer: Mm?
  Randy Turek: Twendag
  Brian Hillery: Is this
  Randy Turek: sieven
  Brian Hillery: Like after
  Randy Turek: an
  Brian Hillery: this,
  Randy Turek: twendag.
  Brian Hillery: are we done? Or
  Shane Wafer: N We've gonna
  Brian Hillery: We're gonna
  Shane Wafer: We're
  Brian Hillery: go
  Shane Wafer: going
  Brian Hillery: to our
  Shane Wafer: to
  Brian Hillery: other
  Shane Wafer: evaluate
  Brian Hillery: room again.
  Shane Wafer: it.
  Brian Hillery: Well, anyhow. These are seven factors times seven is forty something. Two? No. Nine?
  Shane Wafer: Forty nine.
  Brian Hillery: Uh, minus one. Minus three, minus four. Minus four. So that would be minus eight. Forty one
  Shane Wafer: Forty one.
  Brian Hillery: out of forty nine.
  Shane Wafer: That's Around
  Brian Hillery: Okay.
  Shane Wafer: eighty percent. What is it?
  Brian Hillery: Guess I'll just type that in on the bottom here.
  Shane Wafer: That's eighty four percent. I
  Vito Towns: Hmm.
  Shane Wafer: think that's a pretty nice score.
  Randy Turek: Yeah.
  Vito Towns: Yeah.
  Brian Hillery: Hmm. 'Kay. So that will be the evaluation.
  Shane Wafer: Okay. Thank you. So, that brings us to the project evaluation. Yep. Thank you. Project process. Did we move through the right phases, you think? Along the process?
  Randy Turek: Yes.
  Vito Towns: Yeah. But it
  Brian Hillery: Think we should have a should have had the finance thingy a lot earlier.
  Vito Towns: Yeah.
  Shane Wafer: That's right.
  Brian Hillery: In the design phase.
  Shane Wafer: So lack of information about prices.
  Brian Hillery: Yeah.
  Randy Turek: Yeah.
  Vito Towns: Yeah.
  Randy Turek: That's
  Brian Hillery: Definitely.
  Randy Turek: true.
  Shane Wafer: Okay. Uh Okay. Satisfaction. Was there room for creativity?
  Brian Hillery: No.
  Shane Wafer: No?
  Brian Hillery: Not too much. No.
  Shane Wafer: It's because of the finance sheet.
  Vito Towns: Yeah.
  Shane Wafer: Yeah.
  Randy Turek: Yeah, there w there was enough
  Brian Hillery: Yeah,
  Randy Turek: room,
  Brian Hillery: true.
  Randy Turek: but the finance
  Brian Hillery: But
  Shane Wafer: The
  Randy Turek: uh
  Shane Wafer: room
  Vito Towns: Yeah.
  Shane Wafer: was Yeah.
  Brian Hillery: And I would've liked to go for the younger users also. And just to be able to access internet and get something of your own.
  Vito Towns: Mm.
  Shane Wafer: Restrictions. Internet access. 'Kay. Leadership. Was it clear what everybody had to do uh according to their roles and functions?
  Randy Turek: Yes.
  Shane Wafer: Yeah?
  Brian Hillery: Yeah.
  Vito Towns: Yeah.
  Shane Wafer: Teamwork? Did
  Vito Towns: So
  Shane Wafer: it work out? Working together? Also, you two of you with the uh
  Randy Turek: Yes, was okay.
  Shane Wafer: last
  Vito Towns: Yeah.
  Shane Wafer: phase? Nice.
  Randy Turek: The tasks are very structured, so you can just do step by step and
  Vito Towns: Mm-hmm.
  Brian Hillery: Mm-hmm.
  Randy Turek: it's very easy.
  Shane Wafer: tasks. Okay. Were the means sufficient for the tasks uh we had to do? Or were they too much?
  Randy Turek: Well,
  Vito Towns: Mm.
  Randy Turek: the smart-board, the d d drawing is just a pain in the ass, but
  Shane Wafer: Smart-board.
  Randy Turek: The digital the digital pen is very nice.
  Vito Towns: Yeah.
  Shane Wafer: If it wants
  Brian Hillery: Yeah.
  Vito Towns: But
  Shane Wafer: to download its uh
  Randy Turek: Yes.
  Brian Hillery: Yeah.
  Randy Turek: Yeah.
  Vito Towns: Uh
  Shane Wafer: data. Failed download. Smart-board was irritating. So you rather wanted to have a flip-over? Or something
  Randy Turek: A flip-over
  Shane Wafer: else?
  Vito Towns: Yeah. A flipper's
  Randy Turek: or a more
  Vito Towns: uh easier,
  Randy Turek: precise
  Vito Towns: so
  Randy Turek: uh
  Vito Towns: Yeah.
  Brian Hillery: Yeah.
  Shane Wafer: Faster
  Randy Turek: digit
  Shane Wafer: as well,
  Randy Turek: Yes.
  Shane Wafer: I think. Yeah. Flip-over.
  Vito Towns: But if you want to share uh of uh when you make um a picture like this uh on the presentation, it's easier to uh share it with uh other people. Uh so uh you can sh
  Shane Wafer: Yeah.
  Vito Towns: save it uh and uh put it on the internet, or uh uh in shared f uh folder or uh sh uh shared
  Brian Hillery: Yeah,
  Vito Towns: directory.
  Brian Hillery: I tried to
  Vito Towns: So
  Brian Hillery: open the file
  Vito Towns: So
  Brian Hillery: on my laptop,
  Vito Towns: Yeah?
  Brian Hillery: but
  Randy Turek: No.
  Vito Towns: No?
  Randy Turek: Didn't work.
  Brian Hillery: not possible.
  Shane Wafer: Uh you need a smart board uh
  Brian Hillery: Yeah.
  Shane Wafer: application I think.
  Vito Towns: T can uh
  Shane Wafer: But
  Vito Towns: can you
  Shane Wafer: I think
  Vito Towns: export
  Shane Wafer: you can
  Vito Towns: it uh
  Shane Wafer: Yeah.
  Vito Towns: like a
  Shane Wafer: Should be possible.
  Brian Hillery: no.
  Vito Towns: Yeah.
  Shane Wafer: Yeah you can export it as image. Must Yeah must be
  Brian Hillery: Should've done that then.
  Shane Wafer: So the sharing of the information was uh was okay?
  Brian Hillery: Pen is here.
  Randy Turek: Yes.
  Shane Wafer: Uh, network.
  Vito Towns: Uh.
  Shane Wafer: Yeah, pen is here on the table.
  Vito Towns: Uh, yeah. So you
  Shane Wafer: Yeah.
  Vito Towns: can Uh
  Brian Hillery: Mm.
  Shane Wafer: It's
  Vito Towns: It's
  Shane Wafer: possible.
  Vito Towns: possible.
  Brian Hillery: Yeah.
  Shane Wafer: Okay.
  Vito Towns: Okay.
  Shane Wafer: That's nice. Have we found new ideas for having this kind of meetings? Or
  Vito Towns: Um, yeah
  Shane Wafer: Yeah.
  Vito Towns: Um it's uh easier to uh to do the th things that are like that on a computer.
  Shane Wafer: Yeah.
  Vito Towns: Uh, so uh just l uh
  Shane Wafer: So
  Vito Towns: like uh at u university uh
  Shane Wafer: Yeah.
  Vito Towns: So
  Shane Wafer: So everybody
  Brian Hillery: Mm-hmm.
  Shane Wafer: puts his own score. And
  Vito Towns: Yeah.
  Shane Wafer: then
  Brian Hillery: Yeah.
  Shane Wafer: it mediates the score, and
  Vito Towns: Yeah.
  Shane Wafer: you can get one
  Randy Turek: Yeah.
  Shane Wafer: Yeah. That's better. So that's uh How do we call?
  Shane Wafer: Evaluation criteria.
  Shane Wafer: Okay. Mm, any more ideas? Or questions about the project? Or about the product?
  Vito Towns: Mm.
  Shane Wafer: Because I think then that we get to our last sheet. Are the costs within the budget?
  Vito Towns: Mm yeah.
  Shane Wafer: Yeah.
  Brian Hillery: They are.
  Randy Turek: Considering
  Shane Wafer: Do we
  Randy Turek: we are not going to make a docking station.
  Shane Wafer: Docking station. That's a good point. But maybe because of the docking station the price of the remote can also be a little bit higher?
  Brian Hillery: Yeah.
  Shane Wafer: Uh
  Randy Turek: Perhaps.
  Shane Wafer: and I think you can compensate that as well.
  Vito Towns: Mm.
  Shane Wafer: So I think that shouldn't be the biggest problem, because it's very cheap to make as well.
  Randy Turek: Mm-hmm.
  Vito Towns: Yeah.
  Shane Wafer: Do we think we gonna get the twelve and a half million? Or what was it?
  Brian Hillery: Fifty grand.
  Shane Wafer: Fifteen fifteen million. I think we will. If we gonna export this product. It's
  Brian Hillery: Yeah.
  Shane Wafer: innovative. Especially in America. People are pretty decadent.
  Vito Towns: Yeah. Mm.
  Shane Wafer: Sometimes.
  Brian Hillery: Yeah, still I
  Vito Towns: Yeah.
  Brian Hillery: think I mean if we're n gonna make a scroll-button anyway
  Shane Wafer: You
  Brian Hillery: it'd
  Shane Wafer: can
  Brian Hillery: be
  Shane Wafer: do
  Brian Hillery: more
  Shane Wafer: more.
  Brian Hillery: for the younger people than for the older people.
  Shane Wafer: Yeah.
  Vito Towns: Ah.
  Brian Hillery: So maybe we should just re-focus.
  Shane Wafer: Just put it on the market for everybody. You
  Vito Towns: Ah.
  Brian Hillery: Or
  Shane Wafer: can
  Brian Hillery: specifically for
  Shane Wafer: you
  Brian Hillery: younger
  Shane Wafer: can change
  Brian Hillery: people.
  Shane Wafer: markets where by changing the front covers.
  Vito Towns: Ah.
  Shane Wafer: That's one thing you can
  Brian Hillery: That's true.
  Shane Wafer: change it with. So you can also try to uh reach the younger people by uh putting fancy covers on on the market. Just as a test. See how it works. That's I think a good advantage.
  Brian Hillery: Yeah, I think then it would be way more uh popular with younger people than it is, than would be with older people.
  Shane Wafer: Yeah.
  Brian Hillery: Even if it were their covers.
  Vito Towns: Hmm.
  Shane Wafer: Uh, uh
  Brian Hillery: But
  Shane Wafer: then I think we can have our little celebration, right now. That's it.
  Brian Hillery: Party party.
  Shane Wafer: Yeah. I think we still have to fit in one more questionnaire.
  Vito Towns: Where's the champagne?
  Brian Hillery: 'Kay.
  Shane Wafer: I think. I don't know. I didn't get a message from the from ending of the
  Vito Towns: Uh, I believe y uh
  Shane Wafer: Oh
  Brian Hillery: Oh
  Shane Wafer: I
  Brian Hillery: you
  Shane Wafer: think
  Brian Hillery: did.
  Shane Wafer: I have one now. Five more minutes? Oh that's
  Vito Towns: Okay.
  Shane Wafer: nice. Then we still have some questions. If somebody has some questions they can ask them now. Or we can put these in the project folder as well.
  Brian Hillery: Mm-hmm.
  Shane Wafer: Maybe that's
  Vito Towns: Yeah.
  Shane Wafer: Export as picture, I think.
  Brian Hillery: Yeah.
  Vito Towns: Yeah.
  Shane Wafer: Hmm. This is another network, I guess.
  Shane Wafer: Does somebody see the project folder? I don't. Hmm. My Documents.
  Vito Towns: Uh maybe uh they will save it. So uh
  Shane Wafer: Yeah, I'll just
  Brian Hillery: Yeah,
  Shane Wafer: put it
  Brian Hillery: it
  Shane Wafer: in
  Brian Hillery: probably
  Shane Wafer: My Documents
  Brian Hillery: will.
  Shane Wafer: and uh That's okay.
  Shane Wafer: Okay. I think I'm going to make our final presentation now.
  Brian Hillery: Oh yeah, you're supposed to make
  Shane Wafer: And then
  Brian Hillery: a final
  Shane Wafer: I will be back in about ten minutes to show you the final presentation.
  Vito Towns: Okay.
  Randy Turek: Okay.
  Shane Wafer: Summary of the project.
  Brian Hillery: Are we supposed to go into our own rooms again?
  Vito Towns: Uh maybe we have to fill uh another
  Shane Wafer: Yeah.
  Vito Towns: questionnaire.
  Shane Wafer: Questionnaire.
  Vito Towns: So uh
  Shane Wafer: I think you
  Brian Hillery: Yeah.
  Shane Wafer: all get a questionnaire in
  Vito Towns: Yeah.
  Shane Wafer: in your room.
  Vito Towns: Yeah.
  Shane Wafer: And then I'll meet you in I think about ten minutes,
  Randy Turek: Okay.
  Shane Wafer: or something.
  Vito Towns: Okay.
  Shane Wafer: Okay. Thank you. Hopefully my pen will download its software.
  Brian Hillery: Yeah.
  Shane Wafer: Oh. Or data.
  Brian Hillery: That'd be nice.
Updated Content: In the detailed design meeting the team created a prototype. Along with buttons for numbers, channel selector, volume, mute, on-off, teletext, and subtitles, the prototype included an LCD screen and a help button for functional information. One rechargable battery, single-curve form and plastic case, brought the total cost to 17 Euros. To reduce this cost, it was decided to replace most buttons with a scrollwheel. The remaining buttons were one for channel selection, one for volume (both assisted by the scrollwheel), teletext, on-off and the help button. A suggestion to target the product to a younger or perhaps more general group was met with approval. All these components were re-arranged in a revised prototype. It was evaluated on a scale from 1 to 7 on the basis of the following criteria: fancy design (6), technological innovation (4), functionality (7), consideration of the target group (3). The remote was also recognisable as a fashionable Real Reaction product. The project process was deemed well-structured, although everyone thought it would have been better had they known the component prices at an earlier stage. Teamword and leadership were good, but room for creativity impeded by budget constraints.