Extracted Content: Jon Heishman: Okay. Hello everyone.
  Rick Pitt: Hi.
  Richard Saroop: Hi.
  Todd Valadez: Hi.
  Jon Heishman: Um how uh we doing
  Rick Pitt: Yeah, good.
  Jon Heishman: Uh first we going uh over the minutes of the last meeting, more or less.
  Todd Valadez: Mm-hmm.
  Jon Heishman: Um in the last meeting uh the marketing manager had presented uh her method of working, meaning gathering i suggestions from everyone to see how she best could market uh this this product at the within the budget uh that was given. Uh in general the idea is that it should be something that is not difficult to use. Um it's also an item people lose So we should address that. And, of course, it should be something s s that is very simple to use. In addition to that to make it sell, of course, uh the marketing manager w wishes that it be very attractive, or like she says put some sizzle into it in one way or another so that the people are buying it now because, in particular with smaller items, that's a very important fact, 'cause um if they say, well, I go home and think about it, that won't work. Um also mentioned was it should be uh it should have a very short learning curve. And maybe it could be sold by using a slogan.
  Rick Pitt: Hmm.
  Jon Heishman: Our technical manager has then said that she feels it should have a chip that has infra-red bits and it has an interface controls w interface that controls the chip. Therefore, messages uh will be controlled in the same manner. There should be extra features like lid buttons, maybe a beep. If too many buttons are pressed, mm uh uh child lock um and uh maybe a display clock so that people could um you could see the time, you know, what show they want to watch. Also mentioned was uh maybe different shapes. So the components of the thing should be button, bulbs, infra infra-red bulbs, battery, chips, wires, and maybe some kind of a holder uh for the for the uh item. Francino who is our um
  Todd Valadez: Interface designer.
  Jon Heishman: interface designer um uh has mentioned that the that it, of course, should have an on-off button, and also has mentioned an interesting feature that it should have maybe a channel lock. Particularly with maybe small children that they couldn't uh watch a channel that is undesirable. It should be compact. Her personal favourite was it should be T-shaped. And maybe have an anar alarm-clock. And the material should possibly be not of non-allergic nature. Uh the different systems uh that exist are infra-red or radio-waves. Uh maybe it should have uh electri electrici electricity saving feature. And even possibly a timer to so that people can program their favourite uh uh program on th right from the remote.
  Todd Valadez: Yes.
  Jon Heishman: Uh are we all in agreement that that's about what we discussed last time?
  Rick Pitt: Yeah.
  Todd Valadez: Yes
  Jon Heishman: Okay.
  Richard Saroop: Yeah I think pretty much is it. Yeah. Mm-hmm
  Jon Heishman: Okay, then we I'm looking for three presentations. And uh I don't know whether the order matters much uh, I don't I don't think so, so whoever
  Todd Valadez: Okay,
  Jon Heishman: w wants
  Todd Valadez: I can start first.
  Jon Heishman: Yeah, okay.
  Todd Valadez: Okay. Now my slide,
  Jon Heishman: Okay,
  Todd Valadez: please.
  Jon Heishman: your slides. Okay. Oh, come on, close already. And that's number two, right?
  Todd Valadez: Three.
  Jon Heishman: Three.
  Todd Valadez: Participant three. Yes.
  Todd Valadez: Okay.
  Jon Heishman: Okay.
  Todd Valadez: Now as an interface designer, I would give more emphasis on the interface, how the remote looks like so that it is sellable, it is attractive to customers. Next, please. Okay. Now the function of a remote is to send messages to the television. This messages could be uh switch message or to next message or swapping the channels or switching onto a particular channel, like you can have the numbers one, two, three, four, up to nine.
  Jon Heishman: Nine what? Nine channel uh switches?
  Todd Valadez: Pardon Richard Saroop?
  Jon Heishman: Nine channel switches? Is
  Todd Valadez: Yes,
  Jon Heishman: Yeah.
  Todd Valadez: nine
  Jon Heishman: Mm-hmm.
  Todd Valadez: numbers.
  Jon Heishman: Mm-hmm.
  Todd Valadez: And then you have swapping of uh button
  Jon Heishman: Mm-hmm.
  Todd Valadez: by which using which you can swap the channels if you don't want to see the third channel you can swap it to the fourth channel or vice versa. Then it should have a next button, and next button channel by which you can keep on uh v uh
  Rick Pitt: Going
  Todd Valadez: mm
  Jon Heishman: Mm-hmm.
  Rick Pitt: to the nex
  Todd Valadez: eh
  Rick Pitt: next.
  Todd Valadez: scrolling the channels one
  Jon Heishman: Mm-hmm.
  Todd Valadez: by one. Next slide, please.
  Jon Heishman: Mm-hmm.
  Todd Valadez: Then you should have a button which should which ca which can be used for increasing or decreasing the volume.
  Jon Heishman: Mm-hmm.
  Todd Valadez: Then, there should be a button which can give subtitles for a particular program which is going on a television. For example, if you are watching a French program and you would like to have a subtitles in English,
  Jon Heishman: Mm-hmm.
  Todd Valadez: then there should be a channel which can trigger this mechanism in the television so that the user can see uh the the subtitles on the screen. Then there should d uh there should be some buttons which can control features like the colour, colour of the picture, the contrast, sharpness, brightness of the picture. Now there should be a memory switch. There should be a mute button. Suddenly if if if uh uh viewer he gets a telephone call, and if he want he doesn't want to switch off the uh T_V_, but he he can reduce the sound, he can bring the volume down and he can watch he can uh while talking he can watch the T_V_. Now the most important feature I would like to have in my remote would be the speech recognition feature. It's an integrated progra programmable sample sensor speaker unit. So a remote can be th can be uh designed which can have the voice recognisers, you can record your own voice
  Jon Heishman: Mm-hmm.
  Todd Valadez: which can be recognised by as voice recogniser in the television, for example, if you want to see we if you want to see the ninth channel if you say just say ninth channel, uh th now the the uh yeah, the remote
  Jon Heishman: Mm-hmm.
  Todd Valadez: will automatically it will switch to the ninth channel.
  Jon Heishman: Mm-hmm.
  Todd Valadez: So the T_V_ will have some recogniser which will recognise the user's voice and accordingly it will change its functionalities.
  Jon Heishman: Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
  Todd Valadez: So this is one of the very important feature a remote control can have. So this is one one of the interface which can be created.
  Jon Heishman: Mm-hmm.
  Todd Valadez: A very simple interface which has all the t uh uh important features. Then, please,
  Jon Heishman: Mm-hmm.
  Todd Valadez: next slide.
  Jon Heishman: Mm-hmm.
  Todd Valadez: Then, these are some of the remotes which are different in shape and colour, but they have many buttons.
  Jon Heishman: Mm-hmm.
  Todd Valadez: So uh sometimes the user finds it very difficult to recognise which button is for what function and all that. So you can you can design an interface which is very simple, and which is user-friendly. Even a kid can use that.
  Jon Heishman: Mm-hmm.
  Todd Valadez: So can you go on t t uh to the next slide. Yeah, so this is one of the interface or one of the remote which has this vi voice recogniser.
  Jon Heishman: Mm-hmm.
  Todd Valadez: And this has multi-purpose use, it can be used for T_V_, it can be used for cable-satellite, it can be used for V_C_R_, D_V_D_s and audio. And this has in-built voice recogniser. Can you go on to the next slide? Yeah, now this is an interface for a chil uh for a remote uh uh which a child can use.
  Jon Heishman: Mm-hmm.
  Todd Valadez: Uh this is user-friendly, it's very attractive and uh children can use it as well as they can play with it. And this comes with different colours, different shapes.
  Rick Pitt: Mm.
  Jon Heishman: Mm-hmm.
  Todd Valadez: And this this uh child uh interface has minimum buttons and all the important uh buttons are there in this small, compact, attractive child interface. Next slide, please. Now this is a big over-sized remote which cannot be misplaced or it's impossible to misplace.
  Richard Saroop: You don't know
  Todd Valadez: this.
  Richard Saroop: Richard Saroop. I could
  Todd Valadez: So this
  Richard Saroop: lose
  Todd Valadez: is
  Richard Saroop: that
  Todd Valadez: No
  Richard Saroop: in a minute.
  Todd Valadez: this is a very big, you cannot misplace it anywhere. So this is a jumbo universal remote control and it's impossible to im misplace or lose.
  Jon Heishman: Mm-hmm.
  Todd Valadez: This i this is one such interface which can be created. And the personal preference uh would be a spe uh uh to incorporate speech recognisers uh which will respond to user's voice for a particular
  Jon Heishman: Mm-hmm.
  Todd Valadez: uh function.
  Jon Heishman: Right.
  Todd Valadez: Thank you, that's
  Jon Heishman: Mm-hmm.
  Jon Heishman: Okay, thank you very much. Uh any comments on uh her presentation?
  Richard Saroop: Well, um looks like we still have quite a choice of things out there.
  Rick Pitt: Mm-hmm.
  Richard Saroop: Um what uh I'm No suggestion's bad.
  Todd Valadez: Mm yes.
  Richard Saroop: But uh we're gonna have to narrow it down a little more. I don't think that we can get uh the too big to misplace, I think it's just funny. Um I
  Todd Valadez: Okay.
  Jon Heishman: Yeah, I I th I think
  Richard Saroop: don't think that's gonna be our impulse purchase at the checkout counter.
  Todd Valadez: Okay.
  Richard Saroop: It's it's gonna be a little bit
  Jon Heishman: No,
  Richard Saroop: too
  Jon Heishman: I
  Richard Saroop: unwieldy.
  Jon Heishman: think the these are her presentations,
  Richard Saroop: Yeah
  Jon Heishman: but
  Richard Saroop: mm. Mm-hmm.
  Jon Heishman: uh as far as the decision making we getting
  Richard Saroop: Have
  Jon Heishman: to
  Richard Saroop: to
  Jon Heishman: that
  Richard Saroop: come back
  Jon Heishman: after
  Richard Saroop: to that
  Todd Valadez: We
  Richard Saroop: later.
  Todd Valadez: can.
  Jon Heishman: after
  Richard Saroop: Okay.
  Jon Heishman: but if I just wanted to know whether anybody had any any anything to add to her
  Richard Saroop: No,
  Jon Heishman: presentation.
  Richard Saroop: I think her presentation was good, and
  Jon Heishman: Mm right.
  Richard Saroop: she really explored all the options. Yeah.
  Jon Heishman: Mm-hmm. Ho who wants to go next um?
  Rick Pitt: Yeah, maybe.
  Jon Heishman: Mm-hmm. Okay, and you
  Rick Pitt: Participant two.
  Jon Heishman: Uh okay.
  Rick Pitt: Uh the next one, sorry.
  Jon Heishman: Oops.
  Rick Pitt: It's it was the old one. Components.
  Jon Heishman: The components design. Mm-hmm. Okay.
  Rick Pitt: Um this time I'm I'm going to um concentrate more on the components
  Richard Saroop: Mm-hmm.
  Rick Pitt: and the technical side of the remote controller design. Uh, can you go on to the
  Jon Heishman: Mm-hmm.
  Rick Pitt: next slide, please. I have just brief uh down few uh components which we require for the remote control uh construction. Uh the first one is case to keep all the components like integrated circuit, battery, etcetera, etcetera, it's like Uh it can be a plastic one, hard plastic, so that it can be strong, even if you just uh uh, you know, if you if it falls down, then it doesn't break. So it should be strong.
  Jon Heishman: Mm-hmm.
  Rick Pitt: And uh uh there are no harmful materials used in that. And it should be recyclable.
  Jon Heishman: Mm-hmm.
  Rick Pitt: Uh and
  Richard Saroop: Mm-hmm.
  Rick Pitt: uh,
  Richard Saroop: Good point.
  Rick Pitt: yeah, and also uh using of colouring compon components like uh if we want to have different colours, blue, red, green, so uh uh we have to use uh some colouring compone compone components. And uh the second important thing is uh uh uh integrated circuit. Uh which uh we can use a highly sophisticated one because it's like the it's like the heart of the remote controller. If it is not efficient then everything wi is going to be uh like um the lef ess less efficient so it you should we should have a highly sophisticated one. And it should be resistant to high as well as uh low temperatures. Suppose if it is thirty-eight degrees outside forty degrees outside, it should it should uh be able to re uh resist the uh temperature uh uh highs and uh high temperatures and low temperatures. And uh it should be with uh um equipped with timer and alarm facility. And the uh other component we should uh we have in the remote controller is a resistor uh which is like uh uh i it is very very much important for the electricity uh flow through through through the uh remote controller and uh also a capacitor which is a b which is a m I think it's it's like a battery, capacitor. Can you
  Richard Saroop: Mm-hmm.
  Rick Pitt: go on to the next slide, please?
  Jon Heishman: Mm-hmm.
  Rick Pitt: Uh a diode, a transistor, a resonator, these are all this uh technical uh electri electronic compons uh components which are which we have to use in a remote controller. A battery uh, I would like to suggest one thing uh if we uh if we will be able to make a res rechargeable battery then we sh we need not go for a high performance battery,
  Richard Saroop: Mm-hmm.
  Rick Pitt: even if it is a low performance battery it ca it can't l it can't charge much. It it it's not a high voltage battery. Then also we can If it is a rechargeable one, then uh people can use it for a long time, so in that way we can cut cut the cost, but w uh uh that we have to make the battery as rechargeable one. And we we have a circuit board uh in a remote controller. Can you go to the next slide, please. And how it works, how the remote controller works. When you press a button
  Jon Heishman: Go away.
  Rick Pitt: Thank you. Uh when you press a button, when you do that, you complete a specific connection that means when you when you press a button there will be a s a small circuit underneath the button, and it will send some signals through the wires, and then uh the chip will send start connection and knows that which button is pressed. Suppose you have pressed channel one button, number one you have pressed, then the uh chip will know that the number one button was pressed. It pros produces a mors morse code line signal specific to that button. Every button, every individual button, has its own morse code. Suppose uh the uh user has pressed butto button one, then it will have a spe the circuit will generate a specific morse code to b that that button, and the transistor will amplify the signal and send then to the L_E_D_ which translates the signal into infrared light. Like you have got a signal by pressing a button. That's a d a morse code has been generated by the integrated circuit. Now, that signal, that morse code, has to be amplified by the transistor. That is the use of transist transistor we which we use in the remote controller. It will amplify the signal and it will send it to the L_E_D_ and which translates the signal into an infra infrared bits. The sensor on the T_V_ can see the infrared light, and seeing the signal seeing the signal re it reacts appropriately, that when it sees the amplified mo morse code signal, then it will uh it will uh know which uh what what action it has to uh do. Then it will do the appropriate action. So uh this is how the remote controller works.
  Todd Valadez: It works.
  Rick Pitt: Can you go to the next slide, please. Yeah, I have few pictures. remote controller uh it's it's it this is a normal remote controller.
  Richard Saroop: Mm-hmm.
  Rick Pitt: And to the next slide, please. And where we had a a few buttons and all. And uh if you open the remote controller you have this circui circuit board
  Richard Saroop: Mm-hmm.
  Rick Pitt: and few electronic components, like you can see a chip there
  Richard Saroop: Mm-hmm.
  Jon Heishman: Mm-hmm.
  Rick Pitt: which is having eighteen pins, and also a capac uh a capacitor, three resistors and also a resonator uh um mm yeah, and di and a diode transistor.
  Jon Heishman: Mm-hmm.
  Rick Pitt: The electronic components uh all of the electronic components have all those uh things like a chip and d diode transistors an Yeah, di um can y uh you can see the T_A_ double one eight three five
  Jon Heishman: Mm-hmm.
  Rick Pitt: labelled
  Todd Valadez: Mm
  Rick Pitt: uh
  Todd Valadez: yes.
  Rick Pitt: chip
  Jon Heishman: Mm-hmm.
  Richard Saroop: Yes.
  Rick Pitt: um. Uh you can also see the uh uh the green two green things are uh these are they are they are resistors,
  Todd Valadez: Mm-hmm.
  Rick Pitt: and uh just beside that you can see a transistor, and a uh uh cylinder shape, uh that one is a capacitor. Uh and also there are uh um resistors uh sorry, ther there is a diode.
  Jon Heishman: Mm-hmm.
  Rick Pitt: Can you go
  Jon Heishman: Mm-hmm.
  Rick Pitt: go on to the next slide. So uh this is the circuit board. The green one is a circuit board. Actually, uh building a circuit bo board is pretty pretty uh easy and also it's a it's a l l inexpensive. Uh it's it costs less than what you print on a paper, because uh uh when you when you are building uh some circuits some um uh circuits and also wires, it's it's better to go for printing, because uh you can build these kind of k circuit boards on a on a bulk and it's just printing, nothing
  Todd Valadez: Mm-hmm.
  Rick Pitt: like uh, you know, you don't need to use wires and all. It's not exactly wires we are using. It's just printing something on a board. Tha tho those prints will acti act as wires and ci uh circuits. So th that green uh thing is a circuit board, and also you can see uh there are b s like uh um access for buttons, like when you press a button, the circuit under the button will be activated uh th it will it will he get some signals from it and it will uh it
  Todd Valadez: Transmit.
  Rick Pitt: will ch its ch se send a signal signals to the, yeah, um integrated circuit. Can you go to the next slide, please. Uh so this is these are the circuits un underneath the buttons. Uh can you see the black uh, round marks?
  Jon Heishman: Mm-hmm.
  Rick Pitt: They
  Richard Saroop: Yes.
  Rick Pitt: they are the circuits. Next, please. And um like uh we have uh designed uh before we have seen some uh few things like instead off buttons we have some scrolls. Uh b but a b a push-button requires a simple chip underneath it, but whereas a scroll wheel requires normally a regular chip which is a higher price range.
  Richard Saroop: Okay.
  Rick Pitt: Like for s scrolls we have to go for a sophisticated and and
  Todd Valadez: Okay.
  Rick Pitt: k uh uh uh full a complete chip. Uh and a as energy source we offer a basic battery, a more ingenious uh hard dynamo, um a kinetic provision of energy, more than what is that you shake casually to provide energy. So that also we can have in a battery, uh or we can use solar sells.
  Richard Saroop: Hmm,
  Rick Pitt: Uh.
  Richard Saroop: that's interesting.
  Rick Pitt: Yeah. Uh yeah uh the product can be de delivered into different cases. Uh usually, the cases and card flat that w we
  Todd Valadez: Okay.
  Rick Pitt: see usually uh d uh a normal remote controller. Um.
  Jon Heishman: Okay.
  Rick Pitt: Yeah.
  Jon Heishman: And you have more pictures. Uh we have five minutes to the end
  Rick Pitt: Yeah,
  Jon Heishman: of the meeting.
  Rick Pitt: maybe d uh I have just one more slide, I think. Um. Like we can have a ma material such as plastic, rubber, wood, titanium, but titanium we can't use. Um and also for electronics we can use a simple and regular um re or an advanced chip on the print, um also infra it includes the infrared se sender. Um yeah the uh for the movie just to j develop uh samples and so spe sample speaker. An Yeah, that's it. It's all for Richard Saroop now, thank
  Jon Heishman: Okay,
  Rick Pitt: you.
  Jon Heishman: well thank you. Any particular comments by anybody?
  Richard Saroop: Uh yeah, on the scroll and the push-button, um ca you can achieve scrolling by repeatedly pushing a button?
  Rick Pitt: No, no, no, th the the the scrolling wheels are different, like you can go for a sw switches like buttons or scrolls,
  Richard Saroop: Mm-hmm.
  Rick Pitt: uh which which we used to do before ten ten years before, I think. Now, nobody uses that because you need you need a a k sophisticated chip and all. So I think
  Richard Saroop: Um.
  Rick Pitt: it's better we go for uh um ordinary buttons.
  Richard Saroop: We'll just go for push
  Rick Pitt: Yeah
  Richard Saroop: buttons
  Rick Pitt: uh yeah,
  Richard Saroop: for
  Todd Valadez: Push-buttons.
  Richard Saroop: in
  Rick Pitt: push-buttons.
  Richard Saroop: the interest
  Rick Pitt: Yeah.
  Richard Saroop: of cost.
  Rick Pitt: Yeah.
  Richard Saroop: Okay.
  Jon Heishman: We don't have a lot of time left and we will still have to make a decision, and Richard Saroop has to present her
  Richard Saroop: Okay.
  Jon Heishman: her
  Richard Saroop: Go right
  Jon Heishman: thing.
  Richard Saroop: to my first my next slide.
  Jon Heishman: Uh okay.
  Richard Saroop: Um alright, my method is uh I'm interested in what the competition is doing, and wanna see how we can make ourselves different from the competition, so I've really been looking at the press and the ads that are out there for other remote controllers. I s I spend a lot of time on the internet um surfing around doing the same thing. And then when I'm out um in people's houses or at meetings or anything like that, I try to notice what kind of remote controls people have, and if it's convenient in the conversation I ask about it. And I would encourage you all to do the same. Um and my findings from this is that, you know, small is beautiful. Um people like something that really fits in their hand.
  Todd Valadez: 'Kay.
  Richard Saroop: Simple is beautiful. They don't want to have to squint at small print um, they want buttons whose functions are obvious, and they want um as few buttons as possible, and they don't care for the mode thing. They want each button to do something. And eye-catching is important. It's gotta look cute, it's gotta look appealing. Go ahead, I'm trying to finish fast for you. Um and our preference is, as far as I'm concerned, are we got to get to the market before the competition. Ours has to be look really great and it has to come out before the others, so that we have a leg up on time to sell it and push it before other people get out their Christmas item. And we should develop one or two features we can really dwell on in our ad campaign. If we try to tell people it has too many great features, um the consumer just gets confused and we don't get anywhere. So we've gotta narrow our selection down to li two things, I think, that we gonna say are really great about our our our new product. And I've been looking around um at what designs every year different things are popular. And in my research this year I found out that fruit and vegetable shapes are really popular. And people are tired of hard plastic and hard metal. They are more back into soft feel, spongy feeling things, things with maybe a little cloth on them. So those are things maybe we wanna look at as far as saleability of the item.
  Todd Valadez: Mm-hmm.
  Jon Heishman: Okay. Uh that concludes the presentation of everyone. And what we really have to decide in this meeting is um the concept of the remote.
  Richard Saroop: Mm-hmm.
  Jon Heishman: And uh so what do we think on the concept of the remote?
  Richard Saroop: You wanna try to come back to yours, and
  Todd Valadez: Uh yes,
  Jon Heishman: Y
  Richard Saroop: limit
  Todd Valadez: I would
  Richard Saroop: yours
  Todd Valadez: like
  Richard Saroop: a
  Todd Valadez: to
  Richard Saroop: bit?
  Todd Valadez: include this feature which is called as voice recogniser.
  Richard Saroop: Okay.
  Jon Heishman: Okay. Mm-hmm.
  Rick Pitt: Mm-hmm.
  Richard Saroop: So speech recognition is most important as far as you're concerned?
  Rick Pitt: Yeah, but w
  Richard Saroop: Yeah h that could that
  Rick Pitt: Yeah.
  Richard Saroop: could
  Jon Heishman: I
  Richard Saroop: that
  Jon Heishman: think
  Richard Saroop: could
  Jon Heishman: that's
  Richard Saroop: be our star feature. That that be really good, yeah,
  Rick Pitt: Yeah,
  Jon Heishman: Mm-hmm.
  Richard Saroop: I agree
  Rick Pitt: but
  Richard Saroop: with
  Rick Pitt: but
  Richard Saroop: that.
  Rick Pitt: I what I'm uh very very much doubtful how how uh far it will work, because a speech recogniser like i it it has its own uh uh problems,
  Richard Saroop: Distance
  Rick Pitt: issues.
  Richard Saroop: problem?
  Rick Pitt: Yeah, it's not distance problem it it's
  Todd Valadez: Mm-hmm.
  Rick Pitt: recognising a person's voice, like maybe different people will be having different voices, so
  Richard Saroop: Uh.
  Rick Pitt: it like it's uh everything
  Jon Heishman: Well,
  Rick Pitt: so
  Jon Heishman: you you
  Rick Pitt: i
  Jon Heishman: teach You have to teach
  Rick Pitt: So
  Jon Heishman: uh
  Rick Pitt: to get a good recogni recognising
  Todd Valadez: No,
  Rick Pitt: system,
  Todd Valadez: it's
  Rick Pitt: it's
  Todd Valadez: it's,
  Rick Pitt: a
  Todd Valadez: uh yeah,
  Rick Pitt: costly
  Todd Valadez: it
  Rick Pitt: thing,
  Todd Valadez: it's
  Rick Pitt: I think.
  Todd Valadez: like your recording of uh all uh um a question already, and then you're expecting an answer from th For example, you have a T_V_ system, I'm the user
  Rick Pitt: Mm-hmm.
  Todd Valadez: and my family members are the user, I will already record
  Rick Pitt: Yeah, but
  Todd Valadez: uh
  Rick Pitt: Yeah.
  Todd Valadez: a question
  Rick Pitt: Mm-hmm.
  Todd Valadez: like, uh good morning, like around eight o'clock I want to see the news
  Rick Pitt: Mm-hmm.
  Todd Valadez: in the television. So I'll say just good morning and the T_V_ will switch on.
  Rick Pitt: Mm-hmm.
  Todd Valadez: It will recognise my voice
  Rick Pitt: Yeah.
  Todd Valadez: and will switch
  Jon Heishman: Okay,
  Todd Valadez: on.
  Jon Heishman: before we get too far off here um, the components of the concept is the energy. What kind of energy do we foresee?
  Richard Saroop: I
  Jon Heishman: Battery.
  Richard Saroop: think I think battery,
  Jon Heishman: Battery.
  Todd Valadez: Battery.
  Richard Saroop: and I think we all agreed on that. That
  Todd Valadez: Yes.
  Richard Saroop: that's that's gonna
  Rick Pitt: Yeah.
  Richard Saroop: be most cost-effective
  Rick Pitt: Yeah.
  Richard Saroop: and the best thing.
  Jon Heishman: Okay then chip on print.
  Rick Pitt: Yeah.
  Richard Saroop: Yep.
  Todd Valadez: Yes.
  Jon Heishman: Okay. And the case. And I think we all agree on the case, we wanna have something uh maybe bright, colourful.
  Rick Pitt: Yeah.
  Richard Saroop: Bright, colourful,
  Todd Valadez: And compact.
  Rick Pitt: And also strong.
  Richard Saroop: trendy trendy design,
  Rick Pitt: Trendy,
  Todd Valadez: Trendy design
  Richard Saroop: and strong.
  Rick Pitt: yeah.
  Todd Valadez: and compact.
  Jon Heishman: Mm-hmm. Trendy design, compact and strong.
  Richard Saroop: Mm-hmm.
  Todd Valadez: Yes.
  Jon Heishman: User interface concept, uh interface type, supplements That will be your
  Rick Pitt: Uh.
  Jon Heishman: area I think, right, Jana.
  Rick Pitt: Um like the switches, like we use buttons for user interface.
  Todd Valadez: Push-buttons.
  Jon Heishman: Put uh k
  Rick Pitt: Push-buttons.
  Jon Heishman: I guess uh for yeah. And Not sure what they mean
  Todd Valadez: And
  Jon Heishman: by supplements.
  Rick Pitt: Yeah.
  Todd Valadez: Supplements
  Richard Saroop: Well, I think
  Todd Valadez: like
  Richard Saroop: that
  Todd Valadez: different types of features buttons,
  Richard Saroop: Yeah,
  Todd Valadez: like can
  Richard Saroop: or
  Todd Valadez: have
  Jon Heishman: Oh,
  Todd Valadez: a
  Jon Heishman: like
  Todd Valadez: f mute button
  Richard Saroop: or
  Todd Valadez: or
  Richard Saroop: like her speech
  Todd Valadez: a
  Richard Saroop: recognition
  Jon Heishman: Oh.
  Todd Valadez: swapping
  Richard Saroop: would also
  Todd Valadez: button.
  Richard Saroop: be a supplement. Her
  Jon Heishman: A what?
  Richard Saroop: speech recognition
  Jon Heishman: Right,
  Richard Saroop: feature
  Jon Heishman: right,
  Todd Valadez: Recogniser.
  Richard Saroop: would
  Jon Heishman: right,
  Richard Saroop: be a supplement.
  Jon Heishman: mm-hmm.
  Rick Pitt: Mm yeah.
  Todd Valadez: Yes.
  Richard Saroop: Okay, so why don't we put down speech recognition if possible
  Rick Pitt: Hmm.
  Richard Saroop: pending some more research from our industrial engineer on how expensive
  Rick Pitt: Mm-hmm.
  Richard Saroop: that is.
  Rick Pitt: Yeah.
  Jon Heishman: Right.
  Todd Valadez: Yes.
  Jon Heishman: Okay. Uh our next meeting will be in thirty minutes, and the uh I_D_ is to this is the individual actions to be taken until then, to have the look and feel design, and uh the U_I_D_ is supposed to uh come up with the user interface design,
  Rick Pitt: Mm-hmm.
  Jon Heishman: and Richard Saroop with the product evaluation.
  Richard Saroop: Okay.
  Jon Heishman: In this phase, the two of you, Jana and Francine, have to work together on a prototype
  Todd Valadez: Okay.
  Jon Heishman: using modelling clay, it says here. You will receive
  Rick Pitt: Mm-hmm.
  Jon Heishman: specific instructions will be sent to you by your coaches.
  Todd Valadez: Okay.
  Jon Heishman: Um if you have any questions, you know, you you can always uh contact Richard Saroop um or uh or your coach, I suppose.
  Richard Saroop: Wherever they're hiding?
  Jon Heishman: Um so um I think we conclude the meeting here and we come back in uh uh thirty minutes,
  Rick Pitt: Yeah.
  Todd Valadez: Okay.
  Jon Heishman: according to our timetable here. Thank you very much.
  Rick Pitt: Thank
  Todd Valadez: Thank
  Rick Pitt: you.
  Todd Valadez: you.
Updated Content: Jon Heishman opens the meeting by going over the minutes of the last meeting. The interface specialist begins her presentation by highlighting important remote functions and showing examples of remote interfaces. The group comments on her presentation, and then Rick Pitt begins presenting. She talks about the technical electronic components of the remote, explains how a remote works, and shows a few pictures revealing the insides of a normal remote control. She suggests giving the remote a strong shell so it is durable, using a rechargable battery, and not adding a scroll wheel because it requires a sophisticated chip. Richard Saroop presents, talking about user preferences for a small, simple, eye-catching, cute, appealing, and functional remote. Fruit and vegetable shapes are popular this year, so a soft, spongy remote perhaps covered with cloth could make the item marketable. The group discusses the issues surrounding speech recognition, noting that if it is good quality it could be costly. They about the power source and review the objectives of the product. Jon Heishman closes the meeting by telling each member what task she is to complete.