Extracted Content: Rose Harteau: Think we can first
  Kimberly Smith: Right
  Dawn Collazo: Mm.
  Kimberly Smith: it was function F_ eight or something. This one right
  Dawn Collazo: Tha
  Kimberly Smith: there.
  Dawn Collazo: Okay.
  Kimberly Smith: Okay.
  Dawn Collazo: Who is gonna do a presentation
  Kimberly Smith: Think we all Huh.
  Dawn Collazo: You will as well?
  Kimberly Smith: Oh I thought we all were. Yeah, I have
  Dawn Collazo: Okay.
  Kimberly Smith: one too, okay. S
  Dawn Collazo: Yep.
  Kimberly Smith: Whoops I forgot to put the thing on
  Rose Harteau: Right. I just wanna 'cause basically I can't re I've really crap at remembering everyone's name so I just wanna rather than going uh Miss Marketing and Miss this and Miss that
  Kimberly Smith: Okay.
  Rose Harteau: wanted to know your names again.
  Dawn Collazo: Okay I'm
  Rose Harteau: just gonna leave this up here 'cause
  Kimberly Smith: Yeah.
  Rose Harteau: I'll
  Dawn Collazo: Okay.
  Rose Harteau: you know.
  Kimberly Smith: Sure, that's a good idea.
  Rose Harteau: So
  Dawn Collazo: I'm Catherine with a C_. C_A_T_H_ E_R_ I_N_E_.
  Rose Harteau: Okay, and
  Kimberly Smith: Uh Gabriel.
  Rose Harteau: Gabriel. E_L_ is
  Kimberly Smith: E_L_.
  Rose Harteau: it? 'Kay. And you're
  Dana Browning: I
  Rose Harteau: s
  Dana Browning: am Reissa. R_E_I_S_S_A_.
  Rose Harteau: r
  Dana Browning: Double S_ yeah yeah. Sorry.
  Rose Harteau: R_E_I_S_S_ Okay. 'S just a bit nicer calling people by their names I think
  Dawn Collazo: Right. True.
  Rose Harteau: Uh. right.
  Dana Browning: Mm 'kay.
  Rose Harteau: Okay, right, welcome to meeting B_. Um this is gonna go a lot better than the last meeting, basically, uh 'cause I know what I'm supposed to be doing now. I am your Project Manager, and, uh yeah, I'm just here to sort of liaise between the three of you and get things going, get people talking and and I'm gonna be making notes and sending them off to the powers that be and stuff basically. Um right, this for the purposes of this meeting what this meeting is all about is um I'm gonna have some presentations from all three of you, what you've been working on for the last wee while, when you haven't been getting hit with spam on your computers and and, you know, filling out silly questionnaires and things. But hopefully you've been actually been doing something productive. So we're gonna each of you gonna give us a litt a little presentation.
  Dana Browning: Mm.
  Rose Harteau: Um. Then we're gonna work, you know, from each of your presentations. We'll we'll uh talk about what we actually need as a final coming together of it all. Um and then we'll, yeah, we'll sort of conclude anything else comes up at the end of it.
  Dawn Collazo: How long is the meeting?
  Rose Harteau: This meeting it's not very long. It's uh probably down to about thirty five minutes now.
  Dawn Collazo: Okay.
  Rose Harteau: So I want each of your presentations to not be too long, five
  Dawn Collazo: No problem.
  Rose Harteau: five minutes, something like that. Um if you haven't done a PowerPoint thingy, it doesn't matter, it it just it just says that you it's that's just one particular medium. If you haven't had time to prepare one, you can draw stuff on the noteboard, you can talk to us, you can you know however you want to do your little presentation, basically, you can. Don't feel pressurised into using this thing. 'Cause I don't. Uh okay. So um. You okay over there? Reissa,
  Dana Browning: I'm fine. Yeah.
  Rose Harteau: are you uh b are you joining in with this meeting here
  Dana Browning: I uh yeah, yeah.
  Kimberly Smith: Think she's
  Rose Harteau: or are y or
  Kimberly Smith: finishing
  Dana Browning: D
  Rose Harteau: are
  Dana Browning: I mean,
  Rose Harteau: y or are
  Dana Browning: I
  Kimberly Smith: up
  Dana Browning: I'm
  Kimberly Smith: her
  Rose Harteau: you
  Kimberly Smith: presentation.
  Dana Browning: finishing
  Rose Harteau: are you just
  Dana Browning: off my
  Rose Harteau: are you
  Dana Browning: presentation.
  Rose Harteau: just uh doing some Internet shopping there?
  Dana Browning: No no. Uh I'm done. Okay.
  Rose Harteau: Okay, jolly good. Alright, let's have um well, we all know that it's it's a remote control that we're gonna be dealing with. I
  Dana Browning: Mm.
  Rose Harteau: think the first thing we should look at is um probably the um what it is that it is actually supposed to be. So that's gonna be you Catherine,
  Dawn Collazo: Okay.
  Rose Harteau: if we wanna hear from you first.
  Dawn Collazo: Okay. Um just connecting this.
  Dawn Collazo: Are we
  Rose Harteau: You
  Dawn Collazo: getting
  Rose Harteau: don't have to
  Dawn Collazo: i
  Rose Harteau: worry about screwing it in just
  Dawn Collazo: Really? Okay.
  Rose Harteau: there you go.
  Dawn Collazo: Cool. Okay. So I've got a very quick uh Uh. Okay. so um I've oh no, you can't see a thing. Oh well, I'm gonna draw it on the board then. It's
  Kimberly Smith: Oh.
  Dawn Collazo: in blue uh, and I couldn't change it. We
  Rose Harteau: Ah.
  Dawn Collazo: it's fine on my screen, but never mind. So um the idea is that we've got the energy source um, which in our case will pr, oh well okay, never mind. So um I think maybe uh two batteries, I dunno what they're called six, or something like
  Rose Harteau: Mm-hmm.
  Dawn Collazo: that. Uh and then um then on the uh remote control itself will have um the sender for the signal, which could be uh an infra-red signal, um which will be sent by an electronic chip. And uh the chip will be controlled by the user interface. So we'll hear about that later from Gabriel.
  Rose Harteau: Mm-hmm.
  Dawn Collazo: And uh the sender will send to the telly itself an infra-red signal to tell it to switch on or switch channels. Um and that's it really for the working design.
  Rose Harteau: Great. Okay.
  Dawn Collazo: Sorry the presentation wasn't very uh clear
  Rose Harteau: I prefer
  Dawn Collazo: but
  Rose Harteau: the pe I prefer the human
  Dawn Collazo: Really?
  Rose Harteau: touch personally.
  Dawn Collazo: Cool.
  Rose Harteau: Yeah.
  Dawn Collazo: Um, should I erase this
  Rose Harteau: Do you wanna
  Dawn Collazo: or
  Rose Harteau: just give us a moment, I just
  Dawn Collazo: Okay.
  Rose Harteau: wanna copy this down. Um
  Dawn Collazo: Fine.
  Rose Harteau: I dunno if you guys have got any questions for Catherine on any of this?
  Dawn Collazo: Or suggestions?
  Dana Browning: Is a battery like the only way of
  Dawn Collazo: Well, it's just, you don't want it plugged in really, s
  Kimberly Smith: Yeah, alternate energy source, like win wind power or
  Dana Browning: No,
  Dawn Collazo: In
  Dana Browning: no
  Dawn Collazo: indoors.
  Rose Harteau: Yeah,
  Dana Browning: No
  Rose Harteau: you
  Dana Browning: I meant
  Rose Harteau: blow
  Dana Browning: like
  Rose Harteau: on it and i
  Dana Browning: No 'cause like cha
  Kimberly Smith: Bicycle
  Dana Browning: 'cause
  Kimberly Smith: power.
  Dana Browning: always changing um um batteries can get like annoying. The battery's down and maybe, I dunno,
  Dawn Collazo: I dunno, swi
  Dana Browning: solar
  Dawn Collazo: I
  Dana Browning: charged?
  Dawn Collazo: th I th I think changing your batteries once every six months is not really a pain, but
  Rose Harteau: Yeah, it's
  Dana Browning: Mm.
  Rose Harteau: worked for the last fifty
  Dana Browning: Yeah.
  Rose Harteau: years you know.
  Kimberly Smith: One question I have, and I don't know how much control we have over this is um, as far as the infra-red signal, do we have control over, you know, how far away you can be from the receiving unit, the the T_V_, and still have it be operational? I mean, maybe we want one with a strong signal stream.
  Rose Harteau: How far away is your television?
  Dawn Collazo: Yeah.
  Rose Harteau: It's
  Kimberly Smith: Uh
  Rose Harteau: never gonna be more than
  Dawn Collazo: Well, the thing
  Rose Harteau: it's
  Dawn Collazo: is
  Rose Harteau: never
  Dawn Collazo: uh
  Rose Harteau: gonna be,
  Dawn Collazo: you
  Rose Harteau: you
  Dawn Collazo: you
  Rose Harteau: kno
  Dawn Collazo: don't
  Rose Harteau: unless you've got a T_V_ the size of a football pitch, it's not doesn't have to go that far, does it? Doesn't have to go through a wall, because you're not gonna be looking through a wall.
  Dana Browning: Yeah,
  Kimberly Smith: That's
  Dana Browning: but if
  Kimberly Smith: true.
  Dana Browning: like you're on the phone in the other room and you need turn television off or something and you don't really want to go into the put the telephone down, and go into the other room.
  Dawn Collazo: Well, we can make the the signal strong enough to go through walls if if you fancy it. I didn't think about that
  Dana Browning: How about
  Dawn Collazo: but
  Dana Browning: Bluetooth? Instead of using infra-red, use Bluetooth.
  Dawn Collazo: Why not?
  Dana Browning: Isn't
  Dawn Collazo: I just
  Dana Browning: that a better
  Dawn Collazo: think
  Dana Browning: signal?
  Dawn Collazo: that it's it's gonna cost more and
  Rose Harteau: Yeah,
  Dawn Collazo: I'm
  Rose Harteau: yeah
  Dawn Collazo: I'm
  Rose Harteau: I
  Dawn Collazo: not
  Rose Harteau: d it
  Dawn Collazo: sure
  Rose Harteau: sounds
  Dawn Collazo: it's
  Rose Harteau: like you
  Dawn Collazo: you're gonna use
  Rose Harteau: you w
  Dawn Collazo: it.
  Rose Harteau: don't wanna overcomplicate things.
  Dana Browning: Mm.
  Rose Harteau: You know we don't need
  Dawn Collazo: It's a
  Rose Harteau: it.
  Dawn Collazo: fancy idea uh it's quite nice, but then I don't th I dunno, either you if you wanna watch the telly you're in the room, you are gonna
  Rose Harteau: Yeah, exactly. Basically,
  Dawn Collazo: But
  Rose Harteau: we're we're desi we're designing and marketing a television remote control unit. We're not w w w w designing something that you can plug in a headset to and and you know connect to your laptop computer and stuff. It's uh
  Dana Browning: Mm.
  Dawn Collazo: Oh, we can we can keep the idea if you i We can see
  Dana Browning: 'S just an
  Dawn Collazo: at
  Dana Browning: idea.
  Dawn Collazo: a later stage, maybe, I don't
  Rose Harteau: Okay.
  Rose Harteau: Right, well done, Catherine. Um Gab Gabriel let's
  Kimberly Smith: Okay.
  Rose Harteau: uh let's hear from you on on on
  Dawn Collazo: Do you need the border?
  Rose Harteau: such
  Kimberly Smith: Uh
  Rose Harteau: things.
  Kimberly Smith: I'm just gonna use the PowerPoint
  Dawn Collazo: Okay.
  Kimberly Smith: uh.
  Dawn Collazo: Sorry.
  Kimberly Smith: Technical. Okay.
  Dana Browning: Adjusting.
  Kimberly Smith: Okay, so, while this is warming up, there it is
  Dana Browning: Yeah.
  Kimberly Smith: uh. So I'm doing the user interface design.
  Rose Harteau: Mm-hmm.
  Kimberly Smith: Yeah, and basically uh, as far as methods, I was I was looking looking at looking at uh already existing remotes, trying to find some inspiration from designs that are already out there. Thinking of what we can retain, what we can do away with, uh what we what we can perfect a little bit as far as design um. we don't want to do something that's too radical of a change, I guess, I mean people want a remote that's familiar, that has their favourite functionalities um and and does the basics,
  Rose Harteau: Mm yeah.
  Kimberly Smith: but Um so we can improve what's out there and maintain that, the basic functionality that people want. Um so things that seem like absolute must-haves uh would be a volume control, um so up-down keys for that, uh channel keys up-down, but then also a numerical key pad so that they can just key directly to the channel that they want, rather than doing up-down, and uh a mute button. Uh one thing that I didn't include here, that I forgot that we talked about last time, was doing um some sort of lock uh function. Uh,
  Rose Harteau: Okay.
  Kimberly Smith: I don't I dunno, uh that's one possibility. And so in the research that I was doing there's basically two types of remotes, ones that are engineering centred and ones that are more user centred, which I don't know if I can access the web page from here, but I can show you uh. Yeah. So this is a engineer centred one, so you see it's rather busy, but it also lets you play your movie, stop your movie, fast-forward, all this,
  Rose Harteau: Mm-hmm.
  Kimberly Smith: um freeze frame. Uh and this is a user centred one. Uh it's
  Rose Harteau: Yeah.
  Kimberly Smith: it's easier to g just glance at this and see what's possible to do, you're not gonna be staring at it for five minutes.
  Rose Harteau: Great.
  Kimberly Smith: And I judging from what what we all talked about during our last meeting I kind of gathered that that's what we were going after, uh or the direction we were going in at least. Um. So, the engineering centred ones uh provide a lot of functionality, but it can be a little bit overwhelming, so the user centred ones just focus on ease of use. Uh and this sort of overlaps with what the marketing person uh, Reissa, because
  Dana Browning: Mm.
  Kimberly Smith: uh we we need to find out what what people want before we make firm decisions
  Rose Harteau: Yeah.
  Kimberly Smith: on this. So uh, yeah, that's Dana Browning.
  Rose Harteau: Great. Okay. Now that's I just have a q a q question for you. This w um research that you've been doing looki looking at other, you know, existing units stuff. Um have you found that anyone else has do has looked into the locking function
  Kimberly Smith: No that
  Rose Harteau: or
  Kimberly Smith: that that seemed like a novel idea as f as far as I know. I mean obviously another exists like you like you said in in mobile phones.
  Rose Harteau: Yeah.
  Kimberly Smith: That was sort of the inspiration for it. Um I've never seen that with in in all my years in in
  Rose Harteau: Yeah.
  Kimberly Smith: the remote business. I've, haven't I've never seen a locking functionality. I dunno, what uh do you guys have a a yea or nay on that a feeling about whether that's really necessary?
  Rose Harteau: Um I would say it's If it's simple to do, which I think it probably should be,
  Kimberly Smith: Yeah.
  Rose Harteau: even if it's a physical, you know, a f a like a f a physical switch or a physical cover for the remote,
  Kimberly Smith: Mm-hmm.
  Rose Harteau: even something like that,
  Kimberly Smith: 'Kay.
  Rose Harteau: um then yes, it's like, you know, like s you said earlier on ab ab ab a flip thing,
  Kimberly Smith: Right.
  Rose Harteau: something like that, being physical. Look into. Um I've had word down from head office that something that we should be centred well, something we should take into account is um we've gotta keep the corporate image within this remote control unit. It's gotta d look like it's in the R_ and R_.
  Kimberly Smith: Mm.
  Rose Harteau: You know, the the company it's it's, from what I can see from our other products, are yellow with blue writing on them.
  Kimberly Smith: Right.
  Dana Browning: Mm.
  Rose Harteau: Um.
  Kimberly Smith: And our motto is is we put the fashion
  Rose Harteau: We put
  Kimberly Smith: in
  Rose Harteau: the
  Kimberly Smith: electronics.
  Rose Harteau: fashion in electronics.
  Dana Browning: Mm.
  Kimberly Smith: I
  Rose Harteau: There
  Kimberly Smith: think
  Rose Harteau: you go.
  Kimberly Smith: I think we have to carry that mental.
  Rose Harteau: So it's kinda gotta look it's gotta look new and s you know something fashionable. If
  Kimberly Smith: Mm.
  Rose Harteau: if remote control well, if telephones can be fashionable, then maybe remote control units can be.
  Dana Browning: Mm.
  Kimberly Smith: Well yeah these, I think, we can so we talked about the layout in my presentation and what I didn't mention yet really is is the sort of like the ergonomic
  Rose Harteau: Yeah.
  Kimberly Smith: design.
  Rose Harteau: Because we
  Kimberly Smith: I t
  Rose Harteau: need
  Kimberly Smith: I think we can make big improvements over these two that you see here, I mean.
  Rose Harteau: Yeah.
  Kimberly Smith: Uh,
  Rose Harteau: Great.
  Kimberly Smith: everything is going t ergonomic, you know, there's you know mice for your computers that are very ergonomic and keyboards and that could be one of our niches p sort of uh uh in the market, I guess.
  Rose Harteau: Okay,
  Kimberly Smith: Um.
  Rose Harteau: fantastic. Right,
  Dana Browning: Okay.
  Rose Harteau: well done, Gabriel. Um Reissa.
  Dana Browning: Where does it go
  Rose Harteau: Let's
  Dana Browning: into?
  Rose Harteau: plug you in, baby.
  Dana Browning: Here?
  Kimberly Smith: Yeah.
  Dana Browning: The blue thing.
  Kimberly Smith: Uh, yeah, this is getting all. Mm. Yeah, then you just have to do function F_ eight and it should come up.
  Dana Browning: Well, function F_ eight. No
  Rose Harteau: Yeah,
  Kimberly Smith: Yeah,
  Rose Harteau: w it
  Kimberly Smith: it just takes
  Rose Harteau: it just
  Kimberly Smith: a second
  Dana Browning: oh.
  Rose Harteau: takes a wee while.
  Kimberly Smith: uh.
  Dana Browning: Come on. Right. Okay. Okay. Well, for our marketing report uh we observed remote control users in a usability lab, and also gave so this is research and we also gave participants um questionnaires to fill out. Um total number of people tested were a hundred just so you know, so that hundred people were tested and these were the findings. So seventy five per cent of users find the remote control ugly. Okay, so they don't like the look of the remote control. Um eighty f eighty per cent of them would spend more money if the rem remote control looked really cool and fancy. So I think we all agree with that. Um current remote controls do not match well with the operating behaviour of the user. So, they don't like like the way they operate it doesn't like match how people behave. Um per cent of the users say that they only use ten per cent of the buttons on a remote, so probably if you have like one, two, three, four, five, the whole up to z ten, they probably don't use those, they only use the up and down channel.
  Rose Harteau: 'Cause we've only got five channels.
  Dana Browning: exactly. That's another thing. Um seventy five per cent of users say they zap. Not quite sure what they mean, zap, goes like.
  Rose Harteau: I think that's k flicking quickly between channels.
  Kimberly Smith: Yeah, you
  Dana Browning: Yeah.
  Kimberly Smith: wanna navigate the channels quickly
  Rose Harteau: Yeah.
  Kimberly Smith: I guess.
  Dana Browning: Mm. Um takes too much time to learn how to use a new remote. I think especially for uh the older generation. I know my grandmother doesn't like mobile phones, takes ages to work how to use. Anyway um and they also remotes often get lost in the room, so nobody can find them.
  Kimberly Smith: Mm.
  Dana Browning: So maybe tracking devices is a good idea. Um personal preferences.
  Rose Harteau: Wow. You are a child of technology, aren't you?
  Dana Browning: Um so yeah um I was thinking something easy to use, especially for older people. Um has to look really cool, flashy groovy for people to buy it. And it's easy to find, so I don't know whether maybe and also we asked them whether they wanted whether they'd be interested in um voice activating. So voice activation. So and this was what we came up with. Then if you look fifteen to twenty five this is age, sorry, age groups. So fifteen to twenty five said like ninety two ninety one per cent of them
  Rose Harteau: So
  Dana Browning: said
  Rose Harteau: there
  Dana Browning: yes.
  Rose Harteau: you go, yeah.
  Dana Browning: Um so basically the majority except for the forty five to fifty five year olds for some reason didn't want a voice activated one. And neither did the older generation, but the younger generation who we are catering for, like who have most of the money nowadays, do want a voice act speech recognition
  Rose Harteau: Uh but do the younger
  Dana Browning: in a remote.
  Rose Harteau: generation have the money?
  Kimberly Smith: No I would I
  Rose Harteau: They
  Kimberly Smith: would
  Rose Harteau: they
  Kimberly Smith: say the
  Rose Harteau: don't.
  Kimberly Smith: older
  Rose Harteau: It's
  Kimberly Smith: the older
  Rose Harteau: older
  Kimberly Smith: people,
  Rose Harteau: generation, they're the ones
  Dana Browning: Well
  Rose Harteau: that have gone
  Dana Browning: the
  Kimberly Smith: yeah.
  Rose Harteau: out
  Dana Browning: twenty
  Rose Harteau: and
  Dana Browning: five to thirty five year old, and thirty five, and the thirty five to forty five, forty five point seven per cent
  Rose Harteau: People
  Dana Browning: say no, so
  Rose Harteau: people from the age of thirty f there's a big drop off there. For people up to the age of thirty five, you're kinda saying, yeah, they want it. Um but no they're not sort of most people that have the money are people from the age of thirty five to fifty five,
  Kimberly Smith: Yeah, that would be my guess as
  Rose Harteau: uh
  Kimberly Smith: well.
  Rose Harteau: 'cause they're the ones
  Dana Browning: So
  Rose Harteau: that
  Dana Browning: they
  Rose Harteau: have
  Dana Browning: don't
  Rose Harteau: been working for twenty years. Um d
  Dana Browning: Well
  Rose Harteau: and tha and that's a that's quite a minority there, so yeah, it's not even like fifty fifty that's th thirty five per cent.
  Dana Browning: These guys are growing up.
  Kimberly Smith: about just from the the prospective of our manufacturing cost? I mean if if it's twelve fifty per unit.
  Rose Harteau: Yeah.
  Kimberly Smith: I mean, okay, there's
  Dana Browning: Voice activation might not be the best.
  Rose Harteau: I would say scra
  Kimberly Smith: Uh.
  Rose Harteau: I'd say scrap that straight off.
  Dana Browning: Um also with um with buttons, a thing called R_S_I_, so wrist sense
  Kimberly Smith: Repetitive strain uh
  Dana Browning: Huh?
  Kimberly Smith: rep repetitive strain injury
  Dana Browning: Yeah,
  Kimberly Smith: or like
  Dana Browning: repetitive
  Kimberly Smith: from doing
  Dana Browning: strains injury, so they don't I think people who watch T_V_ maybe too often, keep changing channel hurts their wrist. I
  Dawn Collazo: Well
  Dana Browning: don't think
  Dawn Collazo: maybe they shouldn't watch
  Rose Harteau: So
  Dana Browning: so.
  Dawn Collazo: so
  Rose Harteau: y
  Dawn Collazo: much
  Rose Harteau: so
  Dawn Collazo: T_V_
  Rose Harteau: it's so
  Dawn Collazo: then.
  Rose Harteau: it's so you got so that's something we should have a look into then
  Dana Browning: Yeah
  Rose Harteau: i when
  Kimberly Smith: Mm.
  Dana Browning: maybe
  Rose Harteau: desi
  Dana Browning: not
  Rose Harteau: when
  Dana Browning: so hard.
  Rose Harteau: designing the ergonomics of see
  Kimberly Smith: Mm.
  Rose Harteau: have a look if um there's any w any medical
  Dawn Collazo: Maybe
  Rose Harteau: background
  Dawn Collazo: it could
  Rose Harteau: we
  Dawn Collazo: be,
  Rose Harteau: can
  Dawn Collazo: instead
  Rose Harteau: find
  Dawn Collazo: of
  Rose Harteau: out about
  Dawn Collazo: pressing
  Rose Harteau: this.
  Dawn Collazo: button it could be just touching a
  Dana Browning: Yeah.
  Rose Harteau: Let's
  Dana Browning: Maybe
  Rose Harteau: jus we just want need to cover our arses so that people aren't gonna sue us in ten years' time, say your remote control gave Dana Browning repetitive strain injury.
  Kimberly Smith: Yeah, we
  Dana Browning: Mm.
  Kimberly Smith: should probably consult with our legal department uh.
  Rose Harteau: Yeah. They're having a lunch break at the moment, but yeah.
  Dana Browning: Yeah.
  Rose Harteau: I'll see if I
  Kimberly Smith: Yeah.
  Rose Harteau: can get see if I can get hold of them for the next meeting.
  Kimberly Smith: I think we can do some really in in that department, the the ergonomic department,
  Rose Harteau: Yeah.
  Kimberly Smith: we can make some some really good improvements.
  Dana Browning: Mm. Maybe th the buttons not so high up so you don't have to press so much,
  Kimberly Smith: Mm.
  Dana Browning: or we just like flat buttons, something. Yeah.
  Rose Harteau: Okay.
  Dana Browning: So that is Dana Browning.
  Rose Harteau: That's great, thank you very much for that, Reissa. Um okay, so we've basically we've decide we've d we've decided that it's gonna be, you know uh, we're going for a basic television remote. It's gotta be safe to use, it's gotta look cool.
  Dana Browning: Mm.
  Rose Harteau: It's gotta be cheap. S um.
  Dana Browning: Mm.
  Rose Harteau: Now going back to the uh industrial design of it, you know, we were looking at whether to use maybe infra-red or Bluetooth. I think, we should just go with the simplest option on everything, uh and that would be infra-red, energy source, that would be batteries. Uh mean we we can look into using the s, you know, the little tiny weeny batteries, all like special long-lasting batteries. Um. But a in there's no I don't think there's any point in making a remote control unit that's gonna last for fifty years, because technology will have changed and, you know, we won't have televisions in ten years' time. So
  Dawn Collazo: Yep.
  Rose Harteau: I think we're all um pretty sussed on that. Um anyone have any questions?
  Dana Browning: Mm.
  Rose Harteau: Everybody happy in their work?
  Kimberly Smith: Yeah, it seems like we're all on the pretty much on the same page.
  Rose Harteau: Now this is good, we've got a good structure going on. We all know where we're going to. Have you been ge has have any of you lot been getting loads of crap spam on your computers?
  Kimberly Smith: Oh it's probably just you, 'cause you're Rose Harteau.
  Dana Browning: Well, just questionnaires.
  Rose Harteau: Yeah.
  Kimberly Smith: Sell trying to sell your things.
  Rose Harteau: Yeah, stuff. Um okay. Do oh have you guys found out if we can if we can e-mail stuff to each other?
  Dana Browning: Yeah, you can.
  Rose Harteau: Right.
  Kimberly Smith: Okay.
  Rose Harteau: Do all you all know my e-mail address?
  Kimberly Smith: No I don't.
  Dana Browning: I
  Dawn Collazo: Well,
  Kimberly Smith: I
  Dana Browning: think he's participant
  Dawn Collazo: in the project
  Dana Browning: one,
  Dawn Collazo: announcement,
  Dana Browning: aren't you?
  Dawn Collazo: you've got the addresses, I think.
  Kimberly Smith: Uh
  Dawn Collazo: So Project Manager, it's
  Kimberly Smith: Oh, it's
  Dawn Collazo: participant
  Kimberly Smith: just participant
  Dawn Collazo: one
  Kimberly Smith: one
  Dawn Collazo: at
  Kimberly Smith: oh okay. Yeah.
  Rose Harteau: Can
  Dawn Collazo: A_M_I_.
  Rose Harteau: you all d e-mail Dana Browning your e-mail addresses?
  Kimberly Smith: Well it's just
  Dawn Collazo: You have
  Kimberly Smith: w
  Dawn Collazo: them
  Kimberly Smith: it's
  Dawn Collazo: i
  Kimberly Smith: just it's just
  Dawn Collazo: you have them,
  Kimberly Smith: par participant
  Dawn Collazo: but
  Kimberly Smith: one,
  Dawn Collazo: we'll
  Kimberly Smith: participant
  Dawn Collazo: send you
  Kimberly Smith: two.
  Dawn Collazo: an e-mail.
  Rose Harteau: Send
  Dawn Collazo: You want
  Rose Harteau: Dana Browning, yeah
  Dawn Collazo: to have friends, don't you?
  Rose Harteau: yeah, okay.
  Kimberly Smith: So are we headed towards like a b a big yellow and black remote as far as maybe that's our next meeting
  Rose Harteau: Is
  Kimberly Smith: that
  Rose Harteau: it
  Kimberly Smith: we
  Rose Harteau: yellow
  Kimberly Smith: discuss
  Rose Harteau: and black
  Kimberly Smith: that.
  Rose Harteau: or is it yellow and blue? I I kind of thought it was blue writing on a yellow background, but I might be just going
  Kimberly Smith: Well,
  Rose Harteau: a bit
  Kimberly Smith: it's like white on i white and blue on a black background with white with yellow borders.
  Rose Harteau: Okay.
  Kimberly Smith: Maybe that's
  Rose Harteau: Well,
  Kimberly Smith: like getting ahead of ourselves.
  Dawn Collazo: It wouldn't
  Rose Harteau: maybe
  Dawn Collazo: be
  Rose Harteau: you can come up with a few with a couple of different
  Kimberly Smith: Mm.
  Rose Harteau: ideas?
  Dana Browning: Can't we have different colours in the remotes, so somebody can choose different col like does
  Rose Harteau: Well,
  Dana Browning: it have
  Kimberly Smith: Mm.
  Rose Harteau: see the
  Dana Browning: to be
  Rose Harteau: thing
  Dana Browning: of a certain?
  Rose Harteau: is is we've gotta keep the company image. It's gotta say people have gotta look at this remote control and instantly recognise that it's a Real Reaction
  Dana Browning: But if
  Rose Harteau: i
  Kimberly Smith: Mm.
  Dana Browning: it's
  Rose Harteau: product.
  Dana Browning: a R_R_, it would be Real Reaction, like if it had
  Rose Harteau: There's
  Dana Browning: a symbol
  Rose Harteau: loads
  Dana Browning: on
  Rose Harteau: of
  Dana Browning: it.
  Rose Harteau: companies that
  Kimberly Smith: Mm.
  Rose Harteau: called R_R_. This is slog but this is the slogan, this is the the the
  Kimberly Smith: And
  Rose Harteau: the
  Kimberly Smith: this
  Rose Harteau: type.
  Kimberly Smith: is something that came on down from from the higher ups,
  Rose Harteau: Yeah.
  Kimberly Smith: so, I mean, we are sort of beholden to them.
  Dana Browning: So we have to have it one colour.
  Rose Harteau: Well, not necessarily.
  Kimberly Smith: Not one colour, but the
  Rose Harteau: But
  Kimberly Smith: pattern
  Rose Harteau: we have to
  Kimberly Smith: needs
  Rose Harteau: incorporate
  Kimberly Smith: to be recognisable.
  Rose Harteau: it.
  Dana Browning: Mm.
  Rose Harteau: Not necessarily even if i it just has to ye but you have to look at the product and instantly know that it's one of
  Dawn Collazo: Well
  Rose Harteau: our
  Dawn Collazo: you
  Rose Harteau: products
  Dawn Collazo: could
  Rose Harteau: as
  Dana Browning: Mm.
  Rose Harteau: opposed to a Sony product or a, you know, a Panasonic product. It's got to
  Dawn Collazo: It could
  Rose Harteau: so
  Dawn Collazo: come
  Rose Harteau: maybe, so you can have a look at our our other products and see if they all follow a s similar vein, perhaps.
  Dawn Collazo: But it could come in different colours and have the R_R_ colours just
  Rose Harteau: Yeah.
  Dawn Collazo: somewhere like just around the lock button could be the R_R_ logo
  Rose Harteau: Yeah.
  Dawn Collazo: or colours and
  Dana Browning: Mm.
  Dawn Collazo: If.
  Rose Harteau: Quite poss yeah. Well this is all your department. Mm okay. Well, well done everybody. And um, I think we uh stop for lunch now.
  Kimberly Smith: Yeah, pretty soon I think, I guess that's now.
  Dana Browning: Are we are we finished ahead of schedule?
  Rose Harteau: We might possibly have done.
  Dawn Collazo: Cool.
  Kimberly Smith: Alright, see you all soon.
  Rose Harteau: If we've if we've finished at five minutes before the meeting's supposed to finish, then that means we get an extra five minutes for lunch.
  Dana Browning: 'Kay uh.
  Rose Harteau: Yeah, there you go.
  Rose Harteau: Right. I just have to there's a few little bits and pieces I have to write down, but Take your headsets off, kick back, smoke 'em if you got 'em.
Updated Content: Rose Harteau had the team members re-introduce themselves and then briefed the team on his own duties and on the meeting agenda. Dawn Collazo discussed the interior workings of a remote and the team discussed options for batteries and infra-red signals. Kimberly Smith discussed what features the remote was required to have and presented two existing products which were based on different concepts. Rose Harteau then introduced some new requirements to bear in mind when designing the remote. Dana Browning presented research on consumer preferences on remotes in general and on voice recognition and the team discussed the option to have an ergonomically designed remote. Rose Harteau briefed the team on the decisions made so far and the team discussed color options for the remote.