Extracted Content: Melissa White: Okay. Yeah. That's okay. That's okay.
  Melissa White: Okay.
  Esther Kulikowski: Am I starting now? Anytime? Oh sorry 'Kay. um. Alright, welcome back fro to the second meeting. And um I hope you had a productive last thirty minutes. Um, and um, I'll be taking minutes on this one, and um Being hooked up to the PowerPoint for this meeting isn't very necessary for uh myself, because it'll be more about uh, what you guys are bringing to the meeting today. Um, so, the first presentation we'll be looking at is Poppy's presentation And. um So, sorry? So, um, take it away Poppy.
  Melissa White: Okay. Um, do I need to
  Esther Kulikowski: It's, it's plugged in. So,
  Melissa White: plugged
  Esther Kulikowski: um
  Melissa White: in.
  Joan Yin: F_ eight, w. Function F_
  Melissa White: F_
  Joan Yin: eight
  Melissa White: okay. Function F_ eight. Sorry about this guys.
  Esther Kulikowski: No problem.
  Melissa White: 'Kay. is on. Right. Okay. I will take this time just to apologise. I, I only, uh, received my emails later on. 'Cause I was too busy carried away doing my own thing, which is not obviously not a very good part of a team-working thing. But there we go.
  Esther Kulikowski: I'm sure it's fine.
  Melissa White: Um, so I was looking at how we're going to go about the working design, and what we actually need to do, and what the remote control needs to do. And it needs to um allow a person to have a portable desi device, so they can control the television from wherever they are. They don't need to actually manually touch the television set. So, it gives them much more flexibility, and allows them to be where they want to be. Um, from Uh, on a functional side of things, we found out that wh from our previous meeting, we decided that there're certain points that will make our product unique. Um, one is the visibility in the dark, which was um Genevieve's idea. So we need to think about how we could bring this in um technically. And we could use illuminated buttons, which we are all familiar with when we're using a mobile phone, or um something fam familiar. A automatically, um lights up at first touch. Or we could use fluorescent materials which would just um take in the light during the day, and then as soon as they go off they would glow in the dark. Um, also we could use um an alarm. So if we lost the um remote control, perhaps there could be a button on the television set itself, which you could press, and then an alarm from the handset would sound where it was, hopefully in the room. Maybe behind a cushion or somewhere. Um, so that would work. Um, oop. Go back there. Um, another thing I think we d missed out on on the last meeting was the fact that we should consider the environmental impact of our design. Um, from previous researches I've carried out on other projects, um we've learnt about smart materials where um um specific alloys of metals have a shape memory. So they can be heated and um and cooled, and they change the shape of um the metal. So, for example, a screw that's holding something together could expand and it would force all the components apart. So um, the benefits of this for our product would be that when it came to the end of its product life, if it was heated, um everything would spring apart. So, all the um individual components could be easily separated, and then some could be reused, some could be recycled, and I think that would be very important for products now. Especially 'cause there's much uh responsibility for all the um companies who are coming up with like new designs. 'Cause all, we all know that our resources are being limited, and we have to be very environmentally conscious.
  Esther Kulikowski: Right, um, one question.
  Melissa White: Yeah.
  Esther Kulikowski: This, um, self-destructible uh metal, it allows for recycling materials?
  Melissa White: Um
  Esther Kulikowski: So that, um, someone could have this product for as long as they felt that they wanted it, and then once
  Melissa White: And then
  Esther Kulikowski: they contribute it, then that company can break
  Melissa White: Yeah.
  Esther Kulikowski: down the part, the parts better?
  Melissa White: Yeah they would, um you would make the, the product as you normally would, apart from the, the bits that hold it all together would be made out of this shape-memory alloy. And that's the part that would um allow all the other parts to be separated at the end. I mean, the user would return the p product to the company, 'cause it's the product's responsibility to get rid of what they've made. Um, and then the company could then just use, make use of this shape-memory alloys to split up the components,
  Esther Kulikowski: Yeah.
  Melissa White: and then either reuse some bits, and other bits which are obviously gonna wear out with time, or not usable, they might be like be able to put into scrap metal. Something like the case, if it's scratched or something, you would want to reuse it, but you might be able to melt it down and
  Esther Kulikowski: Mm-hmm.
  Melissa White: reuse it again somewhere else.
  Esther Kulikowski: Would we be the company that would break down these, or uh metals? Or would
  Melissa White: You
  Esther Kulikowski: we
  Melissa White: could we could probably
  Esther Kulikowski: contribute
  Melissa White: empl
  Esther Kulikowski: to another
  Melissa White: em
  Esther Kulikowski: group?
  Melissa White: employ a, a side company or something to do that for us. But it would be our responsibility to get that done and to dispose of the products that we made. For a certain percentage at least.
  Esther Kulikowski: Alright.
  Melissa White: Not every, not a hundred percent of everything we produce,
  Esther Kulikowski: Okay.
  Melissa White: but
  Esther Kulikowski: This sounds like a really great idea. One thing we have to consider is our uh one hundred percent um turnover goal that we have
  Melissa White: Yeah.
  Esther Kulikowski: for our financial
  Melissa White: Yeah.
  Esther Kulikowski: sector. Um, so we'll have to investigate how much that will cost
  Melissa White: Yeah.
  Esther Kulikowski: us, cost the company, um 'cause it sounds very labour-intensive. You would have to hire a number of people, and it might be more expensive.
  Melissa White: Well I the fact of the shape-memory alloys is that they, they don't need to be manually de um deconstructed. Like, you don't have to individually um unscrew all the screws. Because of this, their properties are smart material. All
  Esther Kulikowski: Mm-hmm.
  Melissa White: you need is just the heat, so they self-destruct themselves.
  Esther Kulikowski: Alright.
  Melissa White: So
  Esther Kulikowski: We'll still
  Melissa White: I
  Esther Kulikowski: have
  Melissa White: suppose
  Esther Kulikowski: to investigate
  Melissa White: it does need
  Esther Kulikowski: the
  Melissa White: like
  Esther Kulikowski: financial
  Melissa White: high
  Esther Kulikowski: implications.
  Melissa White: contact, yeah, you know high uh quality machinery, and very specific machinery, but
  Esther Kulikowski: Alright. I like the environmental approach. Um,
  Melissa White: Yeah.
  Esther Kulikowski: we'll have to see if that can meet our financial
  Melissa White: Okay.
  Esther Kulikowski: goals as well.
  Melissa White: Um also there is um components. This'll be how it uh will actually work. But I haven't put this plan together yet.
  Esther Kulikowski: I'm
  Melissa White: There
  Esther Kulikowski: sorry,
  Melissa White: we
  Esther Kulikowski: could
  Melissa White: go.
  Esther Kulikowski: you
  Melissa White: Sorry, should I go
  Esther Kulikowski: Those
  Melissa White: back.
  Esther Kulikowski: were um
  Melissa White: show the circuit diagram. Although I haven't come up with the final circuit yet.
  Esther Kulikowski: Okay.
  Melissa White: So I just put all those components in.
  Esther Kulikowski: So those are what, um, we'll c construct the remote. Those
  Melissa White: Yeah.
  Esther Kulikowski: are all the
  Melissa White: I it just shows what sort of energy source. It could be a battery, like rechargeable probably. Um, an' yeah, well how the infrared will actually be sent through the chip to be received by the chip on the television set itself.
  Esther Kulikowski: Alright. Great.
  Melissa White: Okay? So, now is it F_ eight again to escape? Or escape? There we go. Okay.
  Esther Kulikowski: Alright. Thank you very much.
  Melissa White: Thank you.
  Esther Kulikowski: And, um, the next presenter will be Tara.
  Melissa White: There you go Tara.
  Joan Yin: Thanks. Can you see?
  Eunice Nichols: Oh,
  Joan Yin: Do you think Is it uh, function eight yeah?
  Esther Kulikowski: Yeah.
  Melissa White: Function
  Eunice Nichols: Function F_
  Melissa White: F_
  Esther Kulikowski: Function
  Eunice Nichols: eight
  Melissa White: eight.
  Esther Kulikowski: F_ eight. Sorry.
  Melissa White: The one at the top.
  Joan Yin: Oh right. Okay.
  Eunice Nichols: That looks right.
  Esther Kulikowski: Yeah.
  Joan Yin: Okay. I'm the User um User Interface Designer. Uh, the technical functions design of the apparatus is the effect the apparatus should have. Um, in this case it's the function of the remote control, which is to send messages to the television, television set. By inspiration from other similar designs we'll try and come up with an original There're two functional design options. A multifunctional remote control, which can be used for several entertainment devices. And a single function remote control, used specifically for the television.
  Eunice Nichols: I'm sorry, what was that last one. Multifunctional and
  Joan Yin: Sorry. Um, a single function just for the television itself.
  Eunice Nichols: Ch Oh, I see.
  Joan Yin: Yeah. Um, multifunctional controls can be difficult to use, as the multitude of buttons can be confusing. A single function remote control is simpler to use, but it means you have to have other remote controls for your other entertainment devices.
  Eunice Nichols: 'Kay.
  Joan Yin: Um, I think that a single function remote control would be preferable, because it's easier to use. It'd be more compatible with a range of television sets, making it more internationally sellable. Um, it will make an original design more obtainable, as we have less functional necessities to include in the design. And it would be more profitable as it would be more simplistic. And less functions would have to be included. So it would be cheaper to make. And probably more sellable just because it's more compatible with a r a wider range of devices. Does anyone have any questions?
  Eunice Nichols: So as far as we know, um, a single function television remote control is us usable internationally?
  Joan Yin: Well, it's just that, when we're creating it, we're, we have to make it um compatible with different brands of devices.
  Eunice Nichols: Right.
  Joan Yin: And it would be easier to make it compatible with just different brands of television devices rather than other
  Eunice Nichols: D_V_D_s
  Joan Yin: ent,
  Eunice Nichols: and V_C_R_?
  Joan Yin: yeah,
  Eunice Nichols: Okay.
  Esther Kulikowski: Right.
  Joan Yin: other entertainment devices.
  Esther Kulikowski: Does everyone agree with this? Does anyone object and, and find the multifunctional might be a better way to go?
  Melissa White: Um, I was just wondering about the, what, what Genevieve said before, about having like some hidden controls like having the outer casing. And that would probably, um, I d, well well what you said before about it being a more profitable simplistic design. I suppose
  Joan Yin: Yeah.
  Melissa White: having that would complicate it a lot more.
  Joan Yin: Yeah.
  Melissa White: And limit the design. Do you think?
  Eunice Nichols: Yeah, I think I agree with the single design thing for now, because we're trying to do so much, that if we're trying a unique user-friendly,
  Melissa White: Yeah.
  Eunice Nichols: dadada, also multi also multifunctional, um, we're gonna go over budget for one thing. So
  Joan Yin: Yeah.
  Melissa White: Yeah. That's true.
  Joan Yin: Yeah.
  Esther Kulikowski: Mm-hmm.
  Melissa White: Yeah.
  Joan Yin: And with this we'll have more room in the budget probably to make a more original design.
  Melissa White: Yeah.
  Eunice Nichols: Mm-hmm.
  Joan Yin: We'll have more money to
  Esther Kulikowski: Yeah.
  Joan Yin: go into the design side of it.
  Melissa White: Okay. Yeah.
  Esther Kulikowski: Alright. Sounds great.
  Eunice Nichols: Mm, 'kay.
  Esther Kulikowski: Alright, well, um, are you ready for your presentation Genevieve?
  Eunice Nichols: Yes I am.
  Esther Kulikowski: Fabulous. Except you're not
  Eunice Nichols: Oh,
  Esther Kulikowski: hooked
  Eunice Nichols: I'm
  Esther Kulikowski: up to the
  Eunice Nichols: not hooked up, but other than that, completely ready.
  Esther Kulikowski: Great.
  Eunice Nichols: Okay.
  Eunice Nichols: Okay. Oh. I just lost my microphone.
  Esther Kulikowski: No
  Eunice Nichols: Just
  Esther Kulikowski: problem,
  Eunice Nichols: a moment.
  Esther Kulikowski: we can
  Eunice Nichols: Okay. So I'll be discussing the functional requirements of this remote control. Um, and I'll give you a little briefing on what that means exactly. Um, if you all remember from the email we got before our very first uh kick-off meeting, with the coffee machine? The functional requirements of that was to produce hot coffee quickly. Um, so what I'll be talking about now is the equivalent for a remote control. Um, so basically what needs and desires are to be fulfilled. Um, I've done some marketing research, a lot of interviews with remote control users, um, and some internet research. And I'll show you my findings. Oh, and firstly I wanted to remind you about our company motto and purpose. So we believe in providing international market with fashionable products. Um, hence our motto, we put the fashion in electronics. So I think that should be our priority here. Um, and we should also be looking to trends in clothing and interior design. Not just in electronic fashion. So that it's something that fits in the household.
  Esther Kulikowski: I'm sorry, what was that last thing that you just said?
  Eunice Nichols: Um, we should be looking towards trends in both clothing and interior design.
  Esther Kulikowski: Mm-hmm.
  Eunice Nichols: Any trends that are going on in, in
  Melissa White: Mm.
  Eunice Nichols: the public, even media, you know who's famous, what T_V_ shows are being
  Melissa White: Yeah.
  Eunice Nichols: watched, um, to influence our remote control. Okay, so the findings. Um, seventy five percent of users of remote controls find them ugly. Which is a, quite a significant number. Um, the other twenty five percent didn't specify if they love them or found them, you know, neutral. Eighty percent of users would spend more money when a remote control would look fancy. Current remote controls do not match well the operating behaviour of the user.
  Esther Kulikowski: I'm sorry, that eighty percent of users would spend more money when a remote control would look fancy. You mean that they would spend more money on a fancy-looking
  Eunice Nichols: Yeah, they're willing,
  Esther Kulikowski: remote control?
  Eunice Nichols: they're willing to spend money on a remote control with personality. As
  Esther Kulikowski: Okay.
  Eunice Nichols: opposed to your basic, you know, oval
  Melissa White: Mm.
  Eunice Nichols: black,
  Melissa White: Yeah.
  Eunice Nichols: all same size button remote control. Um, so it is something that people care about. It's not, it's not ignored in the household. Um, seventy five percent of remote control users said that they zap a lot. Zapping meaning they go through channels a lot. They're
  Melissa White: Mm-hmm.
  Eunice Nichols: you know thumb-masters. Um, and fifty percent of users say they only use ten percent of the buttons. That A very small amount. Thought that was interesting.
  Esther Kulikowski: Alright, so
  Melissa White: Mm.
  Esther Kulikowski: it might be very appealing if, um,
  Melissa White: the single
  Esther Kulikowski: we
  Melissa White: function.
  Esther Kulikowski: have very concise buttons. And
  Melissa White: Yeah.
  Esther Kulikowski: another thing with um lots of surfing, we'd probably have to work on something that could be um a lot more durable, because I find with um channel-changers that, um,
  Eunice Nichols: Yes.
  Esther Kulikowski: a lot of the numbers get rubbed down if they're
  Joan Yin: Yeah.
  Esther Kulikowski: printed on
  Melissa White: Yeah
  Esther Kulikowski: the button.
  Melissa White: that's
  Joan Yin: Yeah.
  Melissa White: a good point.
  Eunice Nichols: And actually to go with that, I'm gonna give you some statistics on the uh relevancy of the buttons, how much they're used. And uh how important the uh users find them. So the power button, obviously, in an hour is only used once. Hopefully the person's not turning on and off the T_V_. Um, but the relevance of that button is nine out of ten. So people wanna be able to turn on the T_V_ with the remote control. Um, as opposed to standing up and turning on the television set. Channel selection is used a hundred and sixty eight times on average per hour. That's a huge amount. This is the most important button. Um, so obviously when commercials come on they're changing it, so as you said we want a durable button that's not gonna run down. Relevance of that button, our users found was uh ten, ten out of ten. Uh, ditto for volume selection, so ten out of ten. And it's used on average four times an hour. Not as much as channel selection, but still significant. Um, audio settings is used on average zero point eight times an hour. Relevance is two. Screen settings, which means brightness, colour etcetera, zero point five times an hour. Um, and relevance of one point five. We're getting to specific statistics here. Teletext, um, now I'm not too clear on what that is. I don't know if you can help Eunice Nichols. Flipping pages. Is
  Joan Yin: It's
  Eunice Nichols: that
  Joan Yin: um
  Melissa White: It's like the news. Or like
  Joan Yin: It has
  Melissa White: information.
  Joan Yin: T_V_ has like information, it has information on holidays, the news,
  Esther Kulikowski: Yeah.
  Joan Yin: entertainment.
  Melissa White: The and
  Eunice Nichols: So
  Melissa White: what's
  Eunice Nichols: like
  Esther Kulikowski: It's
  Eunice Nichols: a
  Melissa White: on.
  Eunice Nichols: running
  Esther Kulikowski: um
  Eunice Nichols: banner, underneath
  Esther Kulikowski: No it's
  Joan Yin: No,
  Esther Kulikowski: a button
  Joan Yin: li
  Esther Kulikowski: that you
  Joan Yin: Yeah.
  Esther Kulikowski: press, and then you, uh, like a menu pops up.
  Joan Yin: Yeah.
  Esther Kulikowski: I haven't used it before
  Eunice Nichols: Oh.
  Esther Kulikowski: but
  Melissa White: It's
  Joan Yin: And you
  Melissa White: like
  Joan Yin: have page numbers like for the menu, and you press the page numbers with your remote, and
  Eunice Nichols: Okay.
  Melissa White: It's like
  Joan Yin: it,
  Melissa White: very
  Joan Yin: it'll come up.
  Melissa White: basic internet.
  Joan Yin: Very
  Melissa White: Sort
  Joan Yin: basic
  Melissa White: of,
  Joan Yin: internet,
  Melissa White: um
  Joan Yin: yeah.
  Eunice Nichols: Okay.
  Joan Yin: But you
  Eunice Nichols: Like
  Joan Yin: have
  Eunice Nichols: tells you the weather, and
  Joan Yin: Yeah. But
  Eunice Nichols: Okay.
  Joan Yin: you have no interaction back with it, you know. Like the internet you can send emails
  Melissa White: Yeah,
  Joan Yin: and
  Eunice Nichols: Right.
  Melissa White: it's
  Joan Yin: You've
  Melissa White: just
  Joan Yin: no interaction.
  Melissa White: information that um, like television timetables, what's on, what's on now, what's on next, on every
  Joan Yin: Yeah.
  Melissa White: channel, and
  Eunice Nichols: Alright. Well I guess I'm not with it, because I wasn't But it's, it's being used fourteen times an hour. Um, and has a r a high relevance of six point five. So it looks like something that we're gonna want to do some research on and
  Joan Yin: Yeah.
  Eunice Nichols: include
  Melissa White: Yeah.
  Eunice Nichols: on our remote control. Channel settings.
  Joan Yin: Uh, probably just tuning in the channels, would
  Eunice Nichols: P
  Joan Yin: it be?
  Eunice Nichols: Sorry. Changing the channels?
  Joan Yin: Tuning them in at the very start. You know if you get a new T_V_ set, you tune in all the channels,
  Eunice Nichols: Oh, okay.
  Joan Yin: do you th
  Melissa White: To get
  Joan Yin: do you
  Melissa White: the
  Joan Yin: think?
  Melissa White: right reception
  Joan Yin: Yeah.
  Melissa White: and
  Joan Yin: Yeah.
  Eunice Nichols: Yeah.
  Melissa White: picture,
  Eunice Nichols: Okay.
  Esther Kulikowski: Mm.
  Melissa White: I suppose.
  Eunice Nichols: Um, so it's not used very often, but people still find it relevant. Okay. Um, biggest frustrations of uh the people that we interviewed. Remote controls are often lost somewhere. So that was already discussed by Poppy. How we could have a, an alarm system so that people can find it. Um, takes too much time to learn how to use a new remote control. So it should be very user-friendly, you know. People know what to do very quickly. Um, remote controls are bad for R_S_I_.
  Melissa White: Repetitive
  Joan Yin: Repeti
  Melissa White: strain
  Joan Yin: Uh.
  Melissa White: injury.
  Eunice Nichols: Ah.
  Melissa White: I
  Eunice Nichols: Is
  Melissa White: think.
  Eunice Nichols: that what it is? People with arthritis and such?
  Esther Kulikowski: That's rather sad.
  Eunice Nichols: Um, maybe
  Melissa White: Oh,
  Eunice Nichols: our
  Melissa White: I'm guessing that's what it is.
  Joan Yin: Yeah,
  Melissa White: I'm not
  Joan Yin: yeah. I think
  Eunice Nichols: designers
  Joan Yin: it is.
  Eunice Nichols: can look into that. Um,
  Melissa White: Mm.
  Eunice Nichols: buttons that don't require, you know, very firm
  Melissa White: Yeah.
  Eunice Nichols: pushing, if they respond. But we'll have to also avoid, you know, buttons responding to the slightest touch as well. That's a problem.
  Melissa White: Yeah. It is.
  Eunice Nichols: Okay. Did you guys uh get that one down?
  Melissa White: Mm-hmm.
  Esther Kulikowski: Yep.
  Eunice Nichols: Um okay, here's some ideas for you. A large percentage of the public would pay for voice recognition on the remote controls. So I'll show you some numbers here. Um, so the youngest age group, fifteen to twenty five. Ninety one point two percent said that they would pay extra money to have voice recogni voice recognition included on their remote control. Um, and you can see that number decreases a bit with ol s Interestingly enough, twenty five to thirty five is the lowest amount. Um, that would, are willing to pay extra. So I guess we're gonna have to figure out what age group we're, we're targeting, and if and if voice recognition is something we wanna look into. And if we have the budget for it. Um, if we are targeting young adults, it looks like something that would pay off. Seeing as ninety percent, over ninety percent would pay for it.
  Esther Kulikowski: I agree with um if we're targeting young adults then it would be something we should look into.
  Eunice Nichols: Mm-hmm.
  Esther Kulikowski: Um, financially and and functionally. Um, and especially if we are um trying to be trendy, go with fashions,
  Melissa White: Mm.
  Esther Kulikowski: things like that. Um, ages like from thirty five to sixty five which show lower numbers probably won't be as concerned.
  Eunice Nichols: So that, that's a whole other field of research. I don't know if it'd be, if we'd still have a remote, or if you're talking to your television and saying change channel. Um and depending
  Esther Kulikowski: Mm-hmm.
  Eunice Nichols: on how many members
  Melissa White: Yeah.
  Eunice Nichols: you have in households. So it m it may be too complicated for us, but it's something
  Esther Kulikowski: Yeah.
  Eunice Nichols: to keep in mind anyway.
  Esther Kulikowski: And something that might further complicate it is that the T_V_ makes noise itself.
  Eunice Nichols: Right.
  Esther Kulikowski: Wonder
  Joan Yin: Yeah.
  Esther Kulikowski: if it would have
  Melissa White: And if there was conversation in the room at the same time,
  Eunice Nichols: Mm-hmm.
  Esther Kulikowski: Yeah.
  Melissa White: although in theory it doesn't tend to be when you're watching television, but could be very difficult to get the specific uh
  Esther Kulikowski: Yeah. If we're looking for a
  Melissa White: design.
  Esther Kulikowski: simplistic design, if
  Eunice Nichols: Mm-hmm.
  Melissa White: Yeah.
  Esther Kulikowski: We need to decide if that is our um intention is, is a simplistic
  Melissa White: Mm.
  Esther Kulikowski: design. Um, because if, if it is then I think voice, um voice-activated
  Eunice Nichols: It looks like
  Esther Kulikowski: Yeah, and that would sort of negate the whole remote control thing, because
  Eunice Nichols: Mm-hmm.
  Esther Kulikowski: if people can activate the television with their voice
  Eunice Nichols: It'd
  Esther Kulikowski: then they
  Eunice Nichols: be
  Esther Kulikowski: won't
  Eunice Nichols: like
  Esther Kulikowski: be
  Eunice Nichols: the
  Esther Kulikowski: using
  Eunice Nichols: ultimate
  Esther Kulikowski: a,
  Eunice Nichols: remote.
  Esther Kulikowski: they won't be talking into a remote, I'm sure.
  Eunice Nichols: Um okay. And th the last thing here was a, an L_C_D_ screen. So, I mean voice recognition might be a little too extreme for us. Not practical. Um an L_C_D_ screen though might be something that, you know, you can shift through pages kind of li the way this PowerPoint is working.
  Melissa White: Yeah.
  Eunice Nichols: So that you don't have so many buttons to deal with.
  Esther Kulikowski: Um, I don't know what an L_C_D_ screen is.
  Eunice Nichols: Oh sorry, just, just a screen, like a computer screen. S Or like um
  Joan Yin: Mobile phone.
  Eunice Nichols: Yeah.
  Melissa White: Mm.
  Joan Yin: Yeah.
  Eunice Nichols: Or Like an alarm clock. You'd have an L_C_D_ versus just a,
  Melissa White: What,
  Eunice Nichols: a
  Melissa White: what
  Eunice Nichols: normal
  Melissa White: would
  Eunice Nichols: clock.
  Melissa White: appear on the screen?
  Esther Kulikowski: I have no idea still. I'm sorry.
  Eunice Nichols: Oh just like an electronic screen. As opposed to just buttons. There would be like a little,
  Esther Kulikowski: Oh, on
  Eunice Nichols: like
  Esther Kulikowski: the remote.
  Eunice Nichols: on Yeah.
  Esther Kulikowski: Okay.
  Eunice Nichols: Like on the top of a cellphone, the the little
  Esther Kulikowski: Yeah.
  Eunice Nichols: L_C_D_ screen. Um, now that's, I, I dunno exactly what exactly we'd put on there. I guess the channel that you're on,
  Joan Yin: Yeah.
  Eunice Nichols: the v the volume setting.
  Joan Yin: Could it it It would be good if it had the actual programme that was on, and what was next. But that would probably be
  Melissa White: Like linked in with the teletext,
  Eunice Nichols: Mm-hmm.
  Joan Yin: Yeah.
  Melissa White: or sort
  Joan Yin: That
  Melissa White: of like
  Joan Yin: would be
  Melissa White: an
  Joan Yin: good, yeah.
  Melissa White: teletext at your fingers, without having
  Joan Yin: Yeah.
  Melissa White: to access that through the television.
  Joan Yin: Might be quite expensive to do that though.
  Melissa White: Mm, Yeah. Could be.
  Eunice Nichols: Well
  Esther Kulikowski: Right.
  Eunice Nichols: I guess that's something we can all take back to our respective research.
  Melissa White: Mm-hmm.
  Eunice Nichols: Um, and finally, whoops, my personal preferences and thoughts. Um, I think our priority really should be unique design. Um, we want something that people want in their home. Every remote control looks the same, so uh in my opinion it should be, um, user-friendly and unique. So the other stuff might be a little too, a little too gadgety for some people.
  Melissa White: Yeah.
  Eunice Nichols: Um, I th myself, voice recognition kind of scares Eunice Nichols off. So if we're, if we're
  Melissa White: Mm.
  Eunice Nichols: aiming to make this an international university, universally accepted product Um, and for all, the other thing is like age market. I mean if we wanted to concentrate on fifteen to twenty five years olds, we could go for the fancy stuff. But if we wanna make fifty million, and and have everyone want this remote control, we should maybe stick to the basics.
  Esther Kulikowski: Mm-hmm.
  Joan Yin: And we should keep in mind that fifteen to twenty five year olds might not have twenty five Euros to spend on a remote control.
  Eunice Nichols: Mm-hmm.
  Joan Yin: Like their priorities might not be a fancy remote control, when they're just starting out and,
  Eunice Nichols: Right. And we have to
  Joan Yin: yeah.
  Eunice Nichols: keep in mind the, the reliability of our research. I mean, you know, a sixteen year old boy would say, yeah I'd pay extra for voice recognition, until they realise that's three months allowance.
  Joan Yin: Yeah.
  Eunice Nichols: Um,
  Joan Yin: Yeah.
  Eunice Nichols: so I I think, I think the older generations we should be catering to a bit more.
  Joan Yin: Early twenties,
  Esther Kulikowski: Yeah.
  Joan Yin: that's the kind of age group.
  Esther Kulikowski: And if one of the largest,
  Joan Yin: Twenties.
  Esther Kulikowski: uh, or most complained about thing is that it takes so long to get to know how
  Eunice Nichols: Yeah.
  Esther Kulikowski: to use a
  Melissa White: Yeah.
  Esther Kulikowski: remote control, I'm sure that something like an L_C_D_ screen or remote control would be just furthering that problem.
  Melissa White: Yeah.
  Eunice Nichols: Yep.
  Melissa White: Complicated
  Esther Kulikowski: Yeah.
  Joan Yin: Yeah.
  Melissa White: jus complicating things even fo
  Esther Kulikowski: Alright.
  Melissa White: Mm.
  Eunice Nichols: Okay.
  Melissa White: Okay.
  Eunice Nichols: That's it for the market research.
  Esther Kulikowski: Okay. Before we go into uh more discussion on we want this design to look like, I've received some information from the management that will affect some of our decisions. Um, for one thing, because Having controls with D_V_D_, V_C_R_, that sort of thing, would really complicate the design of the remote control. Um, we've decided not to include them and make it a specific, just a specific television um function. decided that we would like to go with that anyway. Um, for many reasons. So um we have that decision sort of made for us. Another thing that might um affect other decisions is that um the management feels that teletext is outdated, because more people are using the internet now. And so uh we won't concern ourselves with um navigating the teletext option.
  Melissa White: Can I just interrupt?
  Esther Kulikowski: Yep.
  Melissa White: Would you like to plug in
  Eunice Nichols: Yeah. Maybe we
  Melissa White: your
  Eunice Nichols: can do the
  Melissa White: Have
  Esther Kulikowski: Okay,
  Melissa White: you
  Esther Kulikowski: sure.
  Melissa White: got a PowerPoint or not?
  Esther Kulikowski: Yeah I do. I'm
  Melissa White: Okay.
  Esther Kulikowski: looking at
  Melissa White: Thanks.
  Esther Kulikowski: looking at it right now.
  Eunice Nichols: There you go.
  Esther Kulikowski: thank you.
  Eunice Nichols: Oh, come back screen. Hmm.
  Melissa White: Were they, was the management suggesting use of the internet rather than teletext, or just avoiding both altogether?
  Esther Kulikowski: Um, well, I mean we don't have the resources or
  Melissa White: Yeah.
  Esther Kulikowski: or possibility
  Melissa White: Yeah.
  Esther Kulikowski: of using the internet with the remote control, but um they were just pretty much saying that
  Melissa White: Okay.
  Esther Kulikowski: the teletext would not
  Melissa White: Yeah.
  Esther Kulikowski: be used.
  Melissa White: Okay.
  Esther Kulikowski: Alright, and another thing. This is for the design, the design of the product is that um we wanna create, um more of a sense that people know that this is from our company. So,
  Melissa White: Right.
  Esther Kulikowski: um, all the remote controls must have our um We'll incorporate our logo and colour in in
  Melissa White: Yeah.
  Esther Kulikowski: some way.
  Melissa White: Yeah.
  Esther Kulikowski: So, um, perhaps um our logo on the bottom, or wherever you feel like it would look good.
  Melissa White: Okay.
  Esther Kulikowski: Um, it doesn't have to be the colour of our um
  Melissa White: Just
  Esther Kulikowski: of our company but, another thing is that, um we need to, we probably would have to have that colour and, and logo decided upon. Um, I'm assuming that we already have one, but for the purposes of this meeting I, I wasn't offered a, like a type of logo or colour, so
  Melissa White: Okay.
  Esther Kulikowski: if that
  Melissa White: Work
  Esther Kulikowski: could be
  Melissa White: on that.
  Esther Kulikowski: um somewhere on the design so that we can be recognisable.
  Eunice Nichols: It's probably R_ R_R_ in yellow.
  Joan Yin: Yeah.
  Melissa White: Yeah.
  Esther Kulikowski: The little R_ R_ yellow thing? Okay.
  Eunice Nichols: Yeah,
  Joan Yin: Yeah.
  Melissa White: Mm-hmm.
  Eunice Nichols: I think.
  Esther Kulikowski: Real Reaction? Okay. Um, yes, those are the changes. Um, so, now we need to discuss, um and come to a decision on our remote control functions, of, of how this is going to be. I'm just going to look at my notes for a second. Um, we have to decide on a target group and the functions of the remote control. So,
  Melissa White: Okay.
  Esther Kulikowski: um, we already know that it'll just be for the television. It'll It won't have teletext. But um, you know, we could discuss um those other options that you brought up, Genevieve.
  Eunice Nichols: Okay, so I Are we going to write off the L_C_D_ option?
  Melissa White: Yeah.
  Esther Kulikowski: Is
  Joan Yin: Yeah.
  Esther Kulikowski: that
  Eunice Nichols: Yeah?
  Esther Kulikowski: how most people feel about that?
  Melissa White: Yeah.
  Eunice Nichols: Okay.
  Esther Kulikowski: Okay.
  Eunice Nichols: So no L_C_D_, no teletext, and no voice recognition.
  Joan Yin: I think it would be annoying though if I don't use teletext that much, but if it was on your T_V_, you'd want to be able to use it, if
  Esther Kulikowski: Yeah, but another
  Joan Yin: You'd
  Esther Kulikowski: thing
  Joan Yin: Yeah.
  Esther Kulikowski: is that if we're reaching an international crowd, um, I know for one that in North America there
  Eunice Nichols: Yeah.
  Esther Kulikowski: is no such thing
  Joan Yin: So
  Esther Kulikowski: as teletext,
  Joan Yin: is it just
  Esther Kulikowski: so
  Eunice Nichols: Never
  Melissa White: Yeah.
  Esther Kulikowski: it'd be
  Eunice Nichols: heard
  Esther Kulikowski: really
  Eunice Nichols: of it.
  Esther Kulikowski: superfluous.
  Joan Yin: Okay. Alright.
  Esther Kulikowski: Yeah.
  Joan Yin: Right.
  Esther Kulikowski: I don't know about other countries besides the U_K_. Do you know if anywhere else
  Joan Yin: I don't
  Melissa White: I
  Joan Yin: know.
  Melissa White: don't know.
  Esther Kulikowski: has it?
  Joan Yin: I don't
  Melissa White: More
  Joan Yin: know.
  Melissa White: research required, I think.
  Esther Kulikowski: Alright.
  Melissa White: But if Was it a management decision that we're
  Esther Kulikowski: It was
  Melissa White: having
  Esther Kulikowski: a management
  Melissa White: Okay.
  Joan Yin: Yeah.
  Esther Kulikowski: decision,
  Melissa White: So
  Esther Kulikowski: so it's, it's pretty much out of our hands at this point.
  Melissa White: Okay.
  Joan Yin: Okay then.
  Esther Kulikowski: 'Kay. So, I guess we're looking at something rather simple.
  Eunice Nichols: Um, well I guess, just from my findings it looks like we wanna minimise buttons.
  Melissa White: 'Kay.
  Eunice Nichols: Um.
  Melissa White: Minimal
  Eunice Nichols: And the What was the word they used? F findability is important.
  Esther Kulikowski: Yeah. I think we should definitely go ahead with the alarm system idea
  Melissa White: Yeah
  Esther Kulikowski: that you
  Eunice Nichols: Mm-hmm.
  Esther Kulikowski: had.
  Joan Yin: Yeah.
  Esther Kulikowski: 'Cause
  Melissa White: okay.
  Esther Kulikowski: I'm sure that could be inex inexpensive because we could use the same kind of infrared
  Melissa White: Yeah. The same signalling.
  Esther Kulikowski: the same
  Melissa White: I mean
  Esther Kulikowski: signal through that and it could just like make a little beeping noise. It's not
  Melissa White: Or
  Esther Kulikowski: that expensive
  Melissa White: vibrate
  Esther Kulikowski: to do.
  Melissa White: just the same as a mobile phone. Like you just a,
  Esther Kulikowski: Yeah.
  Melissa White: a buzz or something.
  Eunice Nichols: Mm-hmm.
  Esther Kulikowski: Yeah.
  Melissa White: Yeah.
  Esther Kulikowski: Okay. I like that idea.
  Joan Yin: Would you be able to, um, put the little device anywhere? 'Cause uh isn't our remote control for all T_V_s, so
  Melissa White: If
  Joan Yin: you'd ha
  Melissa White: Do you mean the the link between the
  Joan Yin: Yeah, with the button
  Melissa White: Well,
  Esther Kulikowski: Yeah.
  Joan Yin: that you pressed.
  Esther Kulikowski: The button
  Melissa White: if the button
  Esther Kulikowski: Oh.
  Melissa White: was actually on
  Joan Yin: Yeah.
  Melissa White: Oh,
  Joan Yin: C 'cause
  Melissa White: yeah.
  Joan Yin: then it would only be a
  Esther Kulikowski: Minor detail
  Joan Yin: applicable
  Esther Kulikowski: there.
  Joan Yin: to one T_V_ set, so it would need to be something that
  Melissa White: Maybe
  Joan Yin: you could stick somewhere,
  Melissa White: Yeah, yeah.
  Joan Yin: or something.
  Melissa White: Maybe
  Esther Kulikowski: Yeah, it
  Melissa White: something
  Esther Kulikowski: would have t
  Melissa White: adhesive that you could like stick onto the back of
  Joan Yin: Yeah.
  Melissa White: any set that would be
  Esther Kulikowski: Mm-hmm.
  Melissa White: um yeah not very obtrusive. Obviously something small that's
  Joan Yin: Yeah.
  Melissa White: Yeah, that's a good point.
  Esther Kulikowski: Yeah. Then it wouldn't, it probably wouldn't be able to use It would be able to use the same reception on the remote c control I guess, but the actual device would have to have its own
  Melissa White: Yeah.
  Esther Kulikowski: infrared
  Joan Yin: Yeah.
  Esther Kulikowski: signaller. Okay.
  Melissa White: Yeah, okay.
  Joan Yin: Would it need a battery then?
  Esther Kulikowski: Maybe, um
  Melissa White: Pr probably.
  Esther Kulikowski: Probably, I mean.
  Melissa White: Unless it could
  Esther Kulikowski: That's your
  Melissa White: be
  Esther Kulikowski: department you'll have to
  Eunice Nichols: Mm.
  Esther Kulikowski: sort that out.
  Melissa White: Okay. Um, unless some way, it could have some universal connection to like the socket, the same socket that the T_V_'s supplied from. I mean the power for the T_V_.
  Joan Yin: Yeah.
  Melissa White: So,
  Esther Kulikowski: Yeah, you'll
  Melissa White: mm,
  Esther Kulikowski: have to Yeah,
  Melissa White: more
  Esther Kulikowski: you'll
  Melissa White: research
  Esther Kulikowski: have to
  Melissa White: into
  Esther Kulikowski: investi
  Melissa White: that one.
  Eunice Nichols: Mm.
  Esther Kulikowski: Do
  Melissa White: Yeah.
  Esther Kulikowski: some research on that, alright? Great. Um, alright, and I'm sure that, um um, the glow-in-the-dark, fluorescent, whatever, system, um is a go ahead. Is
  Melissa White: Y
  Esther Kulikowski: everyone interested
  Eunice Nichols: On
  Esther Kulikowski: in
  Eunice Nichols: the buttons?
  Esther Kulikowski: that?
  Joan Yin: I I like the light up suggestion. I think that would
  Melissa White: Yeah.
  Joan Yin: be better. 'Cause you know
  Esther Kulikowski: Yeah.
  Joan Yin: the way fluorescent lights lose their brightness
  Melissa White: Yeah.
  Joan Yin: after
  Melissa White: Yeah.
  Joan Yin: certain time, so
  Esther Kulikowski: Yeah.
  Melissa White: Yeah.
  Joan Yin: I would
  Eunice Nichols: it
  Joan Yin: go
  Eunice Nichols: doesn't
  Joan Yin: for
  Eunice Nichols: It could it could be a tactile thing as well. Um right, if w if we're minimising buttons, we might be able to make them actually larger. And there's something on it. S you know like
  Melissa White: Like a raised
  Eunice Nichols: up arrow down arrow for, for volume. Um, and I don't know what we could do for, for channels. S
  Joan Yin: Well just the numbers could be embossed, couldn't it? Like raised.
  Eunice Nichols: The numbers themselves.
  Joan Yin: Yeah.
  Eunice Nichols: But then
  Joan Yin: Could
  Eunice Nichols: the
  Joan Yin: be
  Eunice Nichols: like
  Joan Yin: raised.
  Eunice Nichols: up button and down button for the channel, channel changing.
  Joan Yin: Just little arrows, that
  Eunice Nichols: Yeah.
  Joan Yin: you could feel,
  Melissa White: Yeah
  Joan Yin: maybe?
  Esther Kulikowski: Hmm.
  Eunice Nichols: I just thought that it, it might be sucking more battery power, if there, if it is a light up. I'm not sure.
  Joan Yin: Yeah.
  Melissa White: That's
  Esther Kulikowski: Yeah.
  Melissa White: true. And
  Esther Kulikowski: But
  Melissa White: also
  Esther Kulikowski: I mean
  Melissa White: y, uh Heather you mentioned before, um like how it should be accessible to everybody.
  Esther Kulikowski: Yeah.
  Melissa White: Um, so like big b um buttons, for people you are visually impaired.
  Joan Yin: Yeah.
  Melissa White: The glow-in-the-dark
  Eunice Nichols: Mm-hmm.
  Melissa White: or light up won't make any difference anyway. So like you
  Joan Yin: That,
  Melissa White: say tactile
  Joan Yin: I think that's
  Melissa White: might be
  Joan Yin: good,
  Melissa White: better,
  Joan Yin: yeah.
  Melissa White: because it'd be more available to
  Esther Kulikowski: Yeah.
  Melissa White: everybody.
  Esther Kulikowski: Could we somehow We could, may, possibly, sorry, incorporate them both so that
  Eunice Nichols: Mm-hmm.
  Melissa White: Yeah.
  Joan Yin: Yeah.
  Esther Kulikowski: the
  Melissa White: Yeah.
  Esther Kulikowski: buttons could maybe be in the shape of the numbers themselves and
  Joan Yin: Yeah.
  Esther Kulikowski: be made out of some glow-in-the-dark
  Melissa White: Mm-hmm.
  Esther Kulikowski: material.
  Joan Yin: Yeah.
  Melissa White: Yeah.
  Esther Kulikowski: 'Cause
  Eunice Nichols: Mm-hmm.
  Esther Kulikowski: I d I don't think that glow-in-the-dark material, um, like the actual soft plastic, um, costs that much more
  Joan Yin: No,
  Melissa White: No,
  Joan Yin: I
  Esther Kulikowski: than other
  Joan Yin: wouldn't
  Esther Kulikowski: colours.
  Melissa White: it's
  Joan Yin: say so.
  Melissa White: not these days. I mean, it's quite easily
  Esther Kulikowski: Yeah.
  Melissa White: accessible.
  Eunice Nichols: I guess the other option, referring to the battery thing is, you know how cellphones will t light up for fifteen seconds
  Melissa White: Yeah.
  Eunice Nichols: or something, when
  Joan Yin: That's
  Eunice Nichols: you're s
  Melissa White: Yeah.
  Joan Yin: good Yeah
  Eunice Nichols: and then
  Joan Yin: that
  Eunice Nichols: it goes,
  Joan Yin: a good
  Eunice Nichols: so
  Joan Yin: idea.
  Eunice Nichols: if, if you're like changing the volume during a movie. I know, I'm thinking of mostly when
  Melissa White: Yeah.
  Eunice Nichols: you're watching a movie you turn all the lights off right.
  Joan Yin: Yeah.
  Eunice Nichols: And
  Melissa White: Yeah.
  Eunice Nichols: you don't want to turn on the lights, to turn it down, because there's suddenly an explosion, and it's gonna wake up the baby.
  Joan Yin: Yeah.
  Eunice Nichols: Um, so if you touch the button, it kind of reactivates it. It lights
  Joan Yin: That,
  Melissa White: Yeah.
  Eunice Nichols: up for
  Joan Yin: yeah,
  Melissa White: Yeah.
  Joan Yin: that's a good idea.
  Eunice Nichols: On self timer.
  Melissa White: So self-timed lighting.
  Eunice Nichols: Yeah.
  Esther Kulikowski: Alright we have five minutes left
  Melissa White: Um,
  Esther Kulikowski: um,
  Melissa White: I
  Esther Kulikowski: for the meeting, but I think we should discuss this light subject a little bit more before we close. Um, what was I missed the last moment, reading that. What were you talking about with the lighting up buttons?
  Eunice Nichols: Oh, just if it was kinda the same way that a cell You know how a cellphone will light up for about ten, fifteen seconds when you touch a button, after
  Esther Kulikowski: Yeah.
  Eunice Nichols: having not touched it for a while.
  Esther Kulikowski: Yeah.
  Eunice Nichols: Um, if instead of a constant light up on the, on the remote control, if it lights up for ten seconds when it's touched again.
  Esther Kulikowski: Mm. So it could be any button that would be pressed.
  Eunice Nichols: Yeah,
  Melissa White: Yeah.
  Eunice Nichols: and you, you touch it and it just kind of lights up a bit, and it gives
  Melissa White: So,
  Eunice Nichols: a faint
  Melissa White: self-timed
  Eunice Nichols: glow. So if you have all the lights off in your living room, you'll,
  Esther Kulikowski: Yeah.
  Eunice Nichols: you'll temporarily see it. Because usually you're not fooling around for it for more than what ten seconds.
  Melissa White: Yeah.
  Joan Yin: Yeah.
  Esther Kulikowski: Okay, so
  Eunice Nichols: So
  Melissa White: Yeah.
  Esther Kulikowski: That's probably feasible. So, do you think that we should do the lighting up thing, and the glow-in-the-dark thing, and the shape of the numbers? Do we have to kind of decide what we're gonna do with this.
  Eunice Nichols: Mm-hmm.
  Melissa White: I think the shape of the numbers is a really good idea.
  Joan Yin: Yeah.
  Esther Kulikowski: Yeah, okay.
  Melissa White: And I think
  Joan Yin: For
  Melissa White: that's
  Joan Yin: visually
  Melissa White: un unique
  Joan Yin: impaired,
  Melissa White: as well. I
  Esther Kulikowski: Yeah.
  Melissa White: mean, I haven't
  Joan Yin: yeah.
  Melissa White: seen that.
  Eunice Nichols: Mm-hmm.
  Melissa White: And as you're saying like numbers can wear off if they're just sort of like
  Esther Kulikowski: Yeah,
  Melissa White: painted on,
  Esther Kulikowski: yeah.
  Melissa White: you
  Esther Kulikowski: And it
  Melissa White: know
  Esther Kulikowski: could,
  Melissa White: printed.
  Esther Kulikowski: if it's that softer rubber material it'll be, maybe, um, uh, better for people with um
  Melissa White: durable.
  Esther Kulikowski: els no what's it called, R_S_I_, what was it that
  Melissa White: Oh
  Esther Kulikowski: we were
  Melissa White: yeah.
  Esther Kulikowski: talking about?
  Joan Yin: Yeah.
  Eunice Nichols: Oh right,
  Esther Kulikowski: Yeah.
  Melissa White: Yeah.
  Eunice Nichols: the
  Melissa White: Yeah. Repetitive
  Esther Kulikowski: Yeah instead of
  Melissa White: strain
  Esther Kulikowski: like hard
  Melissa White: injury.
  Esther Kulikowski: buttons. Okay.
  Melissa White: Mm-hmm.
  Esther Kulikowski: Um, did we want to go for the glow-in-the-dark look? Or
  Joan Yin: If
  Esther Kulikowski: did we want to go for the lighting up instantly? Like should we do both? Or we can have one or the other? Because it might, for, for our design purposes, I mean, the lighting up thing might be better because
  Eunice Nichols: Mm-hmm.
  Esther Kulikowski: glow-in-the-dark material has a funny kinda colour.
  Eunice Nichols: I
  Esther Kulikowski: And
  Eunice Nichols: was
  Esther Kulikowski: it might
  Eunice Nichols: gonna
  Esther Kulikowski: not
  Eunice Nichols: say,
  Esther Kulikowski: go with different like face plates that we might come up with.
  Eunice Nichols: Exactly.
  Melissa White: Yeah.
  Eunice Nichols: It the it might be perceived as tacky, glow-in-the-dark. It's kind
  Esther Kulikowski: Yeah.
  Eunice Nichols: of like Eighties neon-style.
  Melissa White: Yeah,
  Eunice Nichols: Um, whereas
  Melissa White: and
  Eunice Nichols: we're
  Melissa White: we
  Eunice Nichols: trying
  Melissa White: could
  Eunice Nichols: to be trendy and fashionable.
  Melissa White: Yeah
  Eunice Nichols: So
  Melissa White: there are now like loads, or a huge range of different colours that it could light up in as well, which could like link in with the company colours. Like it could be blue or green or yellow,
  Eunice Nichols: Mm-hmm.
  Esther Kulikowski: Right.
  Melissa White: or like
  Esther Kulikowski: Right.
  Melissa White: we've just limited t with the, just ordinary phosphorescent so
  Esther Kulikowski: Alright. So we've decided on lighting up
  Joan Yin: I was thinking
  Esther Kulikowski: things.
  Joan Yin: though, if it was glow-in-the-dark, you could put the um Real Reaction symbol as glow-in-the-dark, and then it would be constantly advertised.
  Melissa White: Yeah.
  Eunice Nichols: Mm.
  Melissa White: Every time the, that it lit
  Esther Kulikowski: Yeah.
  Melissa White: up, you c that could light up as
  Joan Yin: Yeah.
  Melissa White: well. Or,
  Joan Yin: Yeah.
  Melissa White: or
  Esther Kulikowski: Yeah.
  Melissa White: the, whate
  Esther Kulikowski: But with the same thing, I
  Eunice Nichols: That's
  Esther Kulikowski: mean.
  Eunice Nichols: true.
  Esther Kulikowski: If you touch the button
  Melissa White: Yeah.
  Esther Kulikowski: and then it
  Joan Yin: Yeah.
  Esther Kulikowski: could be,
  Joan Yin: Okay.
  Esther Kulikowski: it could be lit up as well. Is Are you okay with that?
  Joan Yin: Yeah.
  Esther Kulikowski: Okay. Cool. Um Alright. So I think that um
  Melissa White: Is
  Esther Kulikowski: that completes most of our um our more uh practical decisions. And now it's up to designing. And um making sure that this can be feasible.
  Eunice Nichols: What um
  Esther Kulikowski: And do you have anything
  Eunice Nichols: Oh
  Esther Kulikowski: Do
  Eunice Nichols: sorry.
  Esther Kulikowski: you have anything to say?
  Eunice Nichols: Yeah well, I was just gonna throw out there the thought about um personalising the remote control. Um, it, you, 'cause you mentioned face plates. So I I dunno if there's something that diff, you know like five different face plates. I dunno if this will start making it more complicated, but it could increase the popularity of the, of the remote.
  Melissa White: Okay.
  Joan Yin: Oh yeah.
  Melissa White: Like
  Eunice Nichols: Um
  Melissa White: you can have changeable
  Joan Yin: Interchangeable thing?
  Melissa White: um
  Eunice Nichols: Yeah,
  Melissa White: mobile covers
  Esther Kulikowski: Like an iPod
  Melissa White: or something.
  Joan Yin: That would
  Esther Kulikowski: or something?
  Joan Yin: be good.
  Eunice Nichols: Exactly,
  Melissa White: Yeah,
  Eunice Nichols: like
  Esther Kulikowski: Okay.
  Eunice Nichols: an
  Joan Yin: Yeah.
  Eunice Nichols: iPod. Exactly.
  Melissa White: or Okay.
  Eunice Nichols: Or, or like mobile
  Esther Kulikowski: Like a
  Eunice Nichols: ph.
  Esther Kulikowski: cellphone? Yeah.
  Eunice Nichols: And I dunno if we'd want to go with like T_V_ show themes or something. Like a Bart Simpson faceplate.
  Joan Yin: Yeah, and then that
  Eunice Nichols: But
  Joan Yin: would be uh more profitable like as a sideline to the remote
  Esther Kulikowski: Mm-hmm.
  Joan Yin: as well.
  Melissa White: Yeah.
  Joan Yin: Y
  Eunice Nichols: Mm-hmm.
  Joan Yin: Could buy
  Esther Kulikowski: Accessories.
  Eunice Nichols: Exactly.
  Joan Yin: extra
  Eunice Nichols: You could start out with
  Melissa White: Person
  Eunice Nichols: three, and if, if we hit it big then we can add
  Joan Yin: Yeah.
  Eunice Nichols: some on.
  Melissa White: Yeah. Well,
  Joan Yin: That's
  Melissa White: that's
  Joan Yin: a good idea.
  Melissa White: great.
  Esther Kulikowski: Yeah.
  Joan Yin: Yeah.
  Esther Kulikowski: I think that we should incorporate that.
  Melissa White: Interchangeable. Um,
  Esther Kulikowski: 'Cause
  Melissa White: als
  Esther Kulikowski: that wouldn't be very expensive at all. You'd
  Joan Yin: No.
  Esther Kulikowski: just get one mould,
  Melissa White: Yeah.
  Eunice Nichols: Mm-hmm.
  Melissa White: Interchan
  Esther Kulikowski: throw some plastic in it, you know.
  Melissa White: And also possible I mean, uh, we could gain out of that by advertising certain T_V_ shows, or
  Joan Yin: Oh
  Esther Kulikowski: Yeah.
  Joan Yin: yeah.
  Esther Kulikowski: Well, that might be com
  Eunice Nichols: Right.
  Esther Kulikowski: problematic with um copyright issues.
  Melissa White: Yeah.
  Esther Kulikowski: So,
  Melissa White: But if we, there
  Esther Kulikowski: if
  Joan Yin: If
  Melissa White: is
  Esther Kulikowski: it
  Joan Yin: w
  Esther Kulikowski: takes off then we'll,
  Melissa White: Yeah.
  Esther Kulikowski: we'll,
  Melissa White: We could
  Esther Kulikowski: we'll try that out.
  Melissa White: Um, the environmental factor, we didn't bring that up again.
  Eunice Nichols: Right.
  Esther Kulikowski: Right. We'll have to do more research. Like as of yet, that has nothing to do with, um, the way it'll look.
  Melissa White: Yeah.
  Esther Kulikowski: Um, does it need to be reached a de Do we need to reach a decision on that right now?
  Melissa White: Um,
  Esther Kulikowski: Because
  Melissa White: I've
  Esther Kulikowski: we need to investigate the financial implications.
  Melissa White: Okay.
  Esther Kulikowski: Okay.
  Melissa White: Let's
  Esther Kulikowski: Is it Does it need to be uh decided on now? Or
  Melissa White: I
  Esther Kulikowski: should we
  Melissa White: think we could probably leave that 'til later on,
  Esther Kulikowski: Okay.
  Melissa White: then.
  Esther Kulikowski: Good. Alright then. Anyone else have anything more to say before we close?
  Joan Yin: No.
  Melissa White: No.
  Esther Kulikowski: Alright, well. Let's have lunch and we'll discuss this later.
  Joan Yin: Okay.
  Melissa White: Okay.
  Esther Kulikowski: Alright?
  Melissa White: Thank you.
Updated Content: Esther Kulikowski opens the meeting, asking Melissa White to present first. Melissa White begins talking about the functional aspect of the working design and features to make the product unique, such as visibility in the dark, locator alarm, and environmentally-friendly materials. To make an environmental impact, they could use smart materials that can be heated and cooled so that the individual components easily separate to be reused or recycled. The group asks some questions about this idea and then the interface designer presents about technical functions, explaining the difference between a multifunctional and single function remote. The group discusses the two types and decides that a single function design is more suitable for the budget. Eunice Nichols presents on user requirements by using research done on remote control users. She summarizes these findings andexplains her personal preference for a user-friendly, unique design since certain features could be too complex. Esther Kulikowski receives some decision-affecting information from management, which she shares with the group. They have a discussion about the remote control functions and close the meeting.