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