Extracted Content: James Valencia: Okay, is everybody ready?
  Leonard Newsome: Yeah?
  Cory Stone: Yeah I'd to just put on my microphone here and I'll be right with you.
  James Valencia: Mm-hmm.
  Cory Stone: Okay?
  James Valencia: Um I take it you all have received instructions as to what you were supposed to do
  Leonard Newsome: Mm?
  Robert Frieden: Yes.
  James Valencia: and um I think the Marketing Manager probably should go first, addressing the needs and desires.
  Cory Stone: Okay you want Cory Stone to start right now?
  James Valencia: Yeah, mm-hmm.
  Cory Stone: Okay. Well, could you um put my slides up 'cause I think it might be helpful if uh we looked at the slides at the same time.
  James Valencia: Okay.
  James Valencia: You're participant four.
  Cory Stone: I'm participant four I believe. Yes uh-huh. 'Kay.
  James Valencia: Okay, and now I can uh full screen.
  Leonard Newsome: Open.
  James Valencia: Uh, okay, okay.
  Cory Stone: There we go. Okay well I think
  Leonard Newsome: And then full
  Cory Stone: we
  Leonard Newsome: screen
  Cory Stone: have introduced ourselves, so the functional requirements are is is part of my goal but why don't we pass right to the second slide. Cause that's where m my discussion starts. Right well um since I'm in charge of trying to figure out what we should put on this thing since I have to try to sell it.
  Leonard Newsome: Mm-hmm.
  Cory Stone: Um I thought that the method I should follow would be gather suggestions from everybody, and th the reason I just put that there like that is that uh in the init in the initial stage I think I should just be open to lots of suggestions. You know you can say anything you want no matter how silly it sounds you know it should run your car, it should heat up your motor if should um turn on your C_D_ whatever you want it
  Leonard Newsome: 'Kay.
  Cory Stone: to do um and then as we go on what we'll have to do is accept and eliminate these suggestions according to um design and budget feasibility. So I'll be coming to you um frequently as the Industrial Expert
  Leonard Newsome: Mm-hmm.
  Cory Stone: to tell Cory Stone how hard it's gonna be
  Leonard Newsome: Yeah.
  Cory Stone: to add a feature or how expensive
  Leonard Newsome: Yeah.
  Cory Stone: it's gonna be
  Leonard Newsome: Yeah.
  Cory Stone: or if your time, if it takes five years
  Leonard Newsome: Hmm
  Cory Stone: to develop this
  Leonard Newsome: hmm.
  Cory Stone: it's just something we can't
  Leonard Newsome: Mm.
  Cory Stone: do. So in the beginning just have a big puddle
  Leonard Newsome: Yeah.
  Cory Stone: of things that we anybody can th throw anything in and then just weed things out that can't be done for one reason or another, and then the things that seem the most attractive that to uh to a customer
  Leonard Newsome: Mm-hmm.
  Cory Stone: we'll try to then prioritise those.
  Leonard Newsome: Yeah.
  Cory Stone: So that was um what I meant there, and as I said on the slide there consulting the Industrial Engineer about that and the other thing is timing is really gonna be as important as money, because if we're gonna sell this thing, I think the best time to sell it is as a Christmas present. Twenty five Euros makes a nice little present, and we want it to be an impulse purchase, we
  Leonard Newsome: Mm.
  Cory Stone: want somebody to see it and think it's, gee I just gotta have that. And take out their wallet and buy it. So it's gotta be really attractive and it but it's gotta go to market by September, 'cause anything that you don't already have out there in September showing it around, isn't
  Leonard Newsome: Yeah.
  Cory Stone: gonna sell for Christmas. Um and then I'll be coming to you as the User Interface person to try to tell Cory Stone from your point of view what are the most friendly features that we could put on it and try to prior help Cory Stone with that prioritising
  Robert Frieden: Okay.
  Cory Stone: of uh of the features and of the the look and the colour and I'll be coming back to you to help weed out those suggestions from that point of view.
  Robert Frieden: Okay.
  Cory Stone: So I'll be coming to you for how much is it gonna cost us and how long is it gonna take
  Leonard Newsome: Mm
  Cory Stone: you,
  Leonard Newsome: mm-hmm.
  Cory Stone: and I'll be coming to you to tell Cory Stone what's gonna make
  Robert Frieden: What
  Cory Stone: somebody
  Robert Frieden: features.
  Cory Stone: take out their wallet you know, what what's what's gonna really be what they call a sizzle, 'cause we gotta
  Robert Frieden: S.
  Cory Stone: sell this sizzle.
  Robert Frieden: Yes.
  Cory Stone: A lot of times the thing that works the best from an engineering point of view isn't the thing that somebody's really just gonna take out their wallet and buy for Christmas for for their child or for
  Robert Frieden: Yes.
  Cory Stone: their husband or whatever. Okay can we go to the next slide please? Alright I I already did a little bit of research after our first meeting where we threw out some ideas and it looks to Cory Stone that within the budget that we're looking at the uh the whole house idea really isn't gonna be possible. So I'd like your suggestions to come back to the other slide where I was saying we we could suggest anything. I'd like the suggestions to be really specific, so that we'll have a list of things we can cross off, not something like you know whole house control what'll be And then I found on the internet from from my research that some extended electronic entertainment control should be possible. At the budget that we're looking at and at the price point we're looking at, we should be able to make it work the T_V_, the V_C_R_, the stereo set um maybe something else cute like a coffee pot or one other appliance
  James Valencia: Uh okay,
  Cory Stone: or maybe
  James Valencia: can
  Cory Stone: a lamp.
  James Valencia: can I
  Cory Stone: I
  James Valencia: at
  Cory Stone: have
  James Valencia: this
  Cory Stone: to wind
  James Valencia: point
  Cory Stone: up?
  James Valencia: interject um
  Cory Stone: Yeah, sure.
  James Valencia: something? Um we have received instruction from higher up that certain things should uh considered.
  Cory Stone: Okay.
  James Valencia: Um the one thing for example something to eliminate maybe that's the teletext, because that's sort of outdated
  Cory Stone: Okay.
  James Valencia: with the internet,
  Leonard Newsome: Mm-hmm.
  James Valencia: and according to to higher management the it should only control the T_V_, mostly because they feel that it's too comp complex a task
  Leonard Newsome: Complicated,
  James Valencia: to
  Leonard Newsome: yeah, of course.
  James Valencia: um to to include other things, and they are concerned with the time to market.
  Leonard Newsome: Yeah.
  Cory Stone: Of course, yeah.
  Robert Frieden: Okay.
  James Valencia: Okay. Um
  Cory Stone: Okay, so that's
  James Valencia: and
  Cory Stone: something
  James Valencia: the and the third thing that they wanna make sure um that their that the corporate image is being maintained, and that the corporate colour and design are being used on the product, so that it's easy that that that they can be easily identified as a product of of of the company, and that there's no mistake that it
  Leonard Newsome: Mm-hmm.
  James Valencia: could be somebody else who is bringing this out. So I just wanted to interject this here so we're not getting too much off track here with uh with the things we wanna look at. These were instructions from higher up so we have to eliminate uh these things, so it's
  Cory Stone: Okay
  James Valencia: only
  Cory Stone: so
  James Valencia: gonna be T_V_, but the one thing maybe that could be um eliminated is the teletext uh idea.
  Cory Stone: Okay.
  James Valencia: Mm 'kay.
  Robert Frieden: Okay.
  Cory Stone: Alright, thanks for that. Um alright now other things that I found out on in my research is that the complaints that people have about the remote controls that are out there now. 'Cause a lot of them take too much time to learn how to use, and that was thirty four percent but even more important the thing that we did address in our last meeting that frequently it's lost somewhere in the room. definitely do wanna address, uh we wanna s make it as simple as possible, we wanna make it um obvious and intuitive to use, and then the things about finding it we talked about the a light emitting thing as well as uh maybe a beep, and I think that those are things after my research that we definitely wanna try to incorporate. 'Kay can we go to the next slide please? Okay, so, my personal preferences in this um project are really have to concentrate on the sizzle. That is the selling point, the thing that's gonna make it an impulse purchase. Uh because once there's no be-back, well in sales they always say you know, be-backs don't come back. If somebody says, oh I'll come back and get it next week you're dead. They're never gonna come back and buy it. You've gotta make it attractive enough so they buy it now now now w now is a big word in in my book for selling this thing. And, in order to make it really sellable we've gotta shorten the learning curve, make sure it's really intuitive and easy to use. We have to have as few buttons as possible, because more buttons is more confusion, so that's why I'm saying, simplicity is good. Finding it's important, obviously you can't use it if you can't find it. So we've gotta concentrate on the features that help you find it, and I've already said this several times but I put it down in writing here, it should be an attractive impulse purchase at twenty five Euros. So it has to have enough value that when somebody looks at it they say, uh twenty five Euros I'm not gonna take that. Has to be so great that they're gonna say, uh twenty five Euros isn't much. Um and then maybe a motto, like we put fashion in electronics might be something we can use in our marketing campaign.
  Leonard Newsome: Yeah.
  Cory Stone: Okay that's uh about it for Cory Stone right now.
  James Valencia: Okay. And uh who would be next, uh, I guess that would be you.
  Leonard Newsome: Yeah
  James Valencia: Mm-hmm.
  Leonard Newsome: 'kay.
  James Valencia: You want Cory Stone to get your
  Leonard Newsome: Yeah
  James Valencia: slide show
  Leonard Newsome: yeah
  James Valencia: up?
  Leonard Newsome: sure.
  James Valencia: Mm-hmm.
  Leonard Newsome: Thank you.
  James Valencia: And you are number three?
  Leonard Newsome: Number two,
  James Valencia: Number
  Leonard Newsome: yeah.
  James Valencia: two.
  Leonard Newsome: Yeah exactly.
  James Valencia: Okay.
  Leonard Newsome: Uh can you
  James Valencia: Okay.
  Leonard Newsome: make it uh full screen please?
  James Valencia: Mm-hmm. Yep.
  Leonard Newsome: No, it's like a well you you have to press here. cup shape here?
  James Valencia: Yeah yeah, uh-huh.
  Leonard Newsome: The thir third. Yeah
  James Valencia: There, mm-hmm.
  Leonard Newsome: exactly. Uh so today I'm going to talk about the working design of the remote controller.
  Cory Stone: Okay.
  Leonard Newsome: Um can you go to the next sli slide please?
  James Valencia: Mm-hmm.
  Leonard Newsome: The metal is like uh in a remote controller you have a chip integrated circuit which is like a brain of the remote controller. It takes the power from a battery say a battery it it can be a elec an electric supply like you have to uh like uh switch connec connect connect your remote controller to uh power supply from the you know electricity or something like that. It should be a battery because uh uh remote controller should be like you you you should take it t to wherever you want
  Cory Stone: Mm-hmm.
  Leonard Newsome: and then um uh th this integrated circuitry takes energy from the power source and whatever like if you press a button it's like a input for the remote controller and it takes the input and it it transforms into a infro infrared bits and it sends it into the device, like a T_V_ or a air conditioner, something like that so. Uh a remote controller is specifically designed to a single device. If you want to design it for multiple devices then you should make all the devices compatible with the frequency like uh th the remote controller it sends some bits some uh waves like with a particular frequency the device should know what the frequency is. It should re re recognise the uh waves which are coming from the remote controller and it should take the action like if you press a button channel or something like that then uh the remote uh remote controller will send a send a se send
  Cory Stone: Signal.
  Leonard Newsome: a signal, and the T_V_ it should translate
  Robert Frieden: Receive.
  Leonard Newsome: that into like change the channel or something
  Cory Stone: Mm-hmm.
  Leonard Newsome: like that, change the volume control
  James Valencia: Mm-hmm.
  Leonard Newsome: and uh so uh I think it's hard to design a remote controller for multiple uh devices.
  Robert Frieden: Multi-purpose.
  Cory Stone: Yeah well
  James Valencia: Yo
  Cory Stone: that's
  James Valencia: and
  Cory Stone: already
  James Valencia: it's
  Cory Stone: been eliminated
  James Valencia: yeah
  Cory Stone: by management,
  Leonard Newsome: Uh yeah.
  James Valencia: but
  Cory Stone: so
  James Valencia: it's so.
  Cory Stone: we're off the hook.
  Leonard Newsome: Um.
  James Valencia: Yep.
  Leonard Newsome: So uh user interface controls the chip and accordingly the messages like there should be a user user in interface like you know switch pad or something like that buttons should be there. So uh you can control whatever you want, you want to change the channel you want to control the volume you you want to uh mute uh mute the uh T_V_ or you want to have a child lock or you want to do some operations there's a there should be some device to tell what to do to the uh in uh integrated circuit so that
  Cory Stone: Mm
  Leonard Newsome: the
  Cory Stone: okay.
  Leonard Newsome: integrated circuit can s send the signals and T_V_ can perform the actions. So can you go to the next
  Cory Stone: Okay.
  Leonard Newsome: slide please? So I I just would like to uh add some extra features to the remote controller
  Cory Stone: Mm-hmm.
  Leonard Newsome: um I think these are the very simple features and uh they don't take much uh uh much of the um um investment also, it's like el the text or buttons which uh which are there on the uh remote controller they those we can make uh um like fluorescent
  Cory Stone: Mm-hmm.
  Leonard Newsome: uh they'll be like light emitting if it is dark so that you can find your remote controller if it is dark. And ther there should be a beep if many buttons are pressed if suppose a child is playing with the remote controller and a and she she or he is pressing the buttons all at the time then there should be a beep saying that it's this this is not a a you know a a action, there can be no action taking to that so. And there should be a child lock, like uh uh you should be able to lock your remote controller so that uh um whatever buttons are pressed by a child they can't be like y you i you if you have ki kids and all then they'll be pl playing with the remote controllers so can lock the remote controller. If make it useable for more than one device it's a it's hard but I
  James Valencia: Yeah
  Leonard Newsome: think
  James Valencia: well
  Leonard Newsome: it's possible
  James Valencia: yeah
  Cory Stone: Well
  James Valencia: well
  Leonard Newsome: but
  James Valencia: that
  Cory Stone: we already
  James Valencia: has
  Leonard Newsome: it
  James Valencia: been e
  Leonard Newsome: uh yeah
  James Valencia: that
  Cory Stone: eliminated
  James Valencia: has
  Leonard Newsome: yeah
  James Valencia: been eliminated,
  Robert Frieden: Eliminated.
  Cory Stone: that.
  Leonard Newsome: yeah
  James Valencia: so that's
  Leonard Newsome: so
  James Valencia: that's
  Leonard Newsome: it's it's
  James Valencia: unfortunately
  Leonard Newsome: okay, yeah,
  James Valencia: a moot point
  Leonard Newsome: yeah.
  James Valencia: now. Mm-hmm.
  Leonard Newsome: And uh different shapes that we can do like uh we can have you know a all animals shapes or you know comfortable uh whi which can fit into your hands and um
  Cory Stone: Now
  Leonard Newsome: so
  Cory Stone: that's
  Leonard Newsome: that
  Cory Stone: good
  Leonard Newsome: uh
  Cory Stone: from a marketing point of view, the
  Leonard Newsome: Yeah,
  Cory Stone: fun
  Leonard Newsome: yeah,
  Cory Stone: the fun
  Leonard Newsome: yeah
  Cory Stone: shape.
  Leonard Newsome: and colours also, different
  James Valencia: Yeah
  Cory Stone: And that
  James Valencia: I
  Robert Frieden: Mm-hmm
  Leonard Newsome: colours,
  Cory Stone: you
  Robert Frieden: colours.
  Cory Stone: you
  Leonard Newsome: and
  Cory Stone: say that won't add too much to the budget? To
  Leonard Newsome: No no
  Cory Stone: d
  Leonard Newsome: no, it
  Cory Stone: the shape
  Leonard Newsome: won't uh
  Cory Stone: is
  Leonard Newsome: I
  Cory Stone: uh
  Leonard Newsome: don't think it will be like, you can have you know for uh if you want
  James Valencia: It just
  Leonard Newsome: ther
  James Valencia: build
  Leonard Newsome: there
  James Valencia: a mould
  Leonard Newsome: to be more
  James Valencia: basically and
  Leonard Newsome: Yeah
  James Valencia: uh
  Leonard Newsome: yeah. It's
  James Valencia: you
  Robert Frieden: Yes
  Leonard Newsome: it's
  James Valencia: know.
  Leonard Newsome: just
  Robert Frieden: exactly.
  Leonard Newsome: a s shape so it doesn't matter.
  James Valencia: As the budget we're looking at if you build one mould I don't think
  Leonard Newsome: Yeah.
  James Valencia: that's going to make a big difference whether it's gonna be square or
  Cory Stone: Do you think there's any chance of um having ser in having basically the same machine with the same buttons but maybe several different shapes?
  Leonard Newsome: Yeah that is also
  James Valencia: Oh yes.
  Leonard Newsome: possible I
  Cory Stone: Is that
  Leonard Newsome: uh
  Cory Stone: gonna
  Leonard Newsome: yeah
  Cory Stone: be
  Robert Frieden: Yes.
  Cory Stone: a
  Leonard Newsome: I
  Cory Stone: possible?
  Leonard Newsome: I
  Cory Stone: 'Cause
  Leonard Newsome: yeah.
  Cory Stone: that
  James Valencia: I
  Cory Stone: might
  James Valencia: think
  Cory Stone: help with the marketing.
  James Valencia: I think we will have to look
  Leonard Newsome: Yeah that
  James Valencia: at the
  Leonard Newsome: will
  James Valencia: budget
  Leonard Newsome: be
  James Valencia: on that but I think in principle that that would be that would be kind of fun,
  Leonard Newsome: Yeah
  Cory Stone: Because
  James Valencia: you know.
  Leonard Newsome: yeah.
  Cory Stone: we had something sort of sexy
  Leonard Newsome: Mm-hmm.
  Cory Stone: for adults and
  James Valencia: Yeah.
  Cory Stone: we could have something sort of
  James Valencia: Silly for
  Cory Stone: silly
  James Valencia: children.
  Leonard Newsome: Yeah,
  Cory Stone: for
  Leonard Newsome: for
  Cory Stone: children
  Leonard Newsome: children,
  James Valencia: Like
  Cory Stone: or a
  James Valencia: an
  Cory Stone: little
  Leonard Newsome: yeah
  James Valencia: animal
  Leonard Newsome: exactly.
  Cory Stone: animal
  Robert Frieden: Like
  James Valencia: or
  Cory Stone: shape
  Robert Frieden: a doll,
  Cory Stone: or
  Leonard Newsome: Yeah,
  Cory Stone: in
  Leonard Newsome: that's
  Cory Stone: a
  Robert Frieden: or
  Leonard Newsome: what,
  James Valencia: Yeah.
  Cory Stone: or a
  Leonard Newsome: yeah.
  Cory Stone: little elephant so they can remember where it is.
  Leonard Newsome: Yeah, exactly.
  Robert Frieden: Yes.
  Leonard Newsome: Yeah. And and If there are more buttons then it will be more complicated. If you have less features then your remote controller won't be attractive, so I think uh we need to make some buttons which are which are like um uh f in uh in intended for two or three operations, like if you press one button in one mode then it will change the channel, if you press the other button in another mode it will change the colour. So if you want to have less
  Cory Stone: Mm.
  Leonard Newsome: buttons we can have that option but I think it will complicate the matter more I think
  Cory Stone: Well,
  Leonard Newsome: so.
  Cory Stone: I think I think that that's something that we'll have to discuss um
  Leonard Newsome: Yep,
  Robert Frieden: Yes.
  Cory Stone: with the User
  Leonard Newsome: yeah.
  Cory Stone: Interface person because I think there's a lot of argument to be made for one button for one feature. Because I think one of the things were complaining about in my what I found out in my research is when they complained about how hard it is to learn a new one.
  Leonard Newsome: Mm-hmm.
  Cory Stone: The changing modes was something
  Leonard Newsome: Yeah, it's like you
  Cory Stone: I
  Leonard Newsome: know
  Cory Stone: mean you
  Leonard Newsome: yeah.
  Cory Stone: and I, all f all four of us we work
  Leonard Newsome: Yeah.
  Cory Stone: with computers all
  Leonard Newsome: Yeah,
  Cory Stone: the time,
  Leonard Newsome: yeah.
  Cory Stone: changing
  Robert Frieden: Okay.
  Cory Stone: modes is nothing for us, but people who
  James Valencia: Yeah, a little elderly, a little arthritic hand
  Cory Stone: N
  James Valencia: you
  Leonard Newsome: Mm-hmm.
  James Valencia: know,
  Cory Stone: and
  James Valencia: and and it's a small button and and
  Leonard Newsome: Yeah.
  James Valencia: it they don't press it exactly you know something else happens n not their favourite channel comes up but something
  Leonard Newsome: Yeah,
  James Valencia: else
  Robert Frieden: Something
  Leonard Newsome: yes.
  James Valencia: and they're
  Robert Frieden: else.
  James Valencia: very
  Cory Stone: And
  James Valencia: frustrated
  Cory Stone: that's and that's
  James Valencia: you
  Cory Stone: the kind
  James Valencia: know.
  Cory Stone: of thing people learn by feel, and um
  Leonard Newsome: Yeah, yeah you don't
  Cory Stone: you don't
  Leonard Newsome: us
  Cory Stone: feel
  Leonard Newsome: yeah
  Cory Stone: the
  Leonard Newsome: yeah,
  Cory Stone: mode
  Leonard Newsome: usually.
  Cory Stone: change.
  Leonard Newsome: Yeah.
  Cory Stone: So um maybe having buttons be various shapes might be a help
  Leonard Newsome: Yeah
  Cory Stone: too.
  Leonard Newsome: shapes also, different
  Cory Stone: You
  Leonard Newsome: shapes.
  Cory Stone: know, like the
  Leonard Newsome: Yeah
  Cory Stone: a
  Leonard Newsome: that
  Cory Stone: triangle
  Leonard Newsome: will
  Cory Stone: is for the
  Leonard Newsome: Mm-hmm.
  Cory Stone: volume and a square is for changing channels,
  Robert Frieden: Channels.
  Leonard Newsome: Yeah.
  Cory Stone: so that people can
  Leonard Newsome: Yeah.
  Cory Stone: uh develop a tactile sense of it. But
  Leonard Newsome: Yeah,
  Cory Stone: we'll get
  James Valencia: Mm,
  Cory Stone: to that with you.
  James Valencia: mm-hmm.
  Leonard Newsome: yeah, and
  Robert Frieden: Yes.
  Leonard Newsome: also text should be very clear so that there there won't be any ambiguities
  Cory Stone: That's
  Leonard Newsome: and
  Cory Stone: right,
  Leonard Newsome: uh
  Cory Stone: yeah. Now that's
  Leonard Newsome: So
  Cory Stone: a good point.
  Robert Frieden: Yes.
  Cory Stone: Yeah.
  Leonard Newsome: yeah. And uh display clock i if you want more features then we can display a clock it I I don't think it will take any money extra money because anyway we have an integrated circuit I think we can just definitely fit that feature into the circuit so
  Cory Stone: Yeah,
  Leonard Newsome: it's
  Cory Stone: that's that's a good that's a good
  James Valencia: Mm-hmm,
  Cory Stone: one,
  Leonard Newsome: Yeah,
  Robert Frieden: Mm
  Cory Stone: because
  Leonard Newsome: and
  Robert Frieden: yeah.
  Leonard Newsome: we display
  James Valencia: mm-hmm.
  Cory Stone: the clock
  Leonard Newsome: a clock.
  Cory Stone: would be really friendly,
  James Valencia: Yes.
  Cory Stone: and and
  Leonard Newsome: Yeah.
  Cory Stone: when is your favourite show
  James Valencia: Yes.
  Cory Stone: coming
  Leonard Newsome: Yeah,
  Cory Stone: on
  Leonard Newsome: and
  Robert Frieden: Yes.
  James Valencia: Yeah
  Leonard Newsome: then you
  James Valencia: you're
  Leonard Newsome: can
  James Valencia: sitting
  Leonard Newsome: just
  Cory Stone: and
  James Valencia: there
  Leonard Newsome: see your
  James Valencia: already
  Leonard Newsome: remote
  James Valencia: or maybe
  Leonard Newsome: controller
  James Valencia: you have
  Leonard Newsome: yeah
  James Valencia: no
  Leonard Newsome: yeah
  James Valencia: other
  Leonard Newsome: yeah so
  Cory Stone: Yeah, and a lot
  James Valencia: uh
  Cory Stone: of time there's not a clock on the screen, and you have
  Leonard Newsome: Yeah.
  Cory Stone: to go somewhere but you just wanna look at the news for a minute. Yeah that's that's good, the clock is good.
  Leonard Newsome: Yeah.
  Cory Stone: Okay.
  Leonard Newsome: Uh can you go to the next
  James Valencia: Mm-hmm.
  Leonard Newsome: slide please? Uh components uh the main components we need for uh it ha like buttons and uh underneath that there should be switch. And uh bulbs. Like uh we can have a bulb like whenever we are operating a remote controller or uh whenever the T_V_ is on suppose,
  Robert Frieden: Hmm.
  Leonard Newsome: then the remote controller should automatically have a b s light.
  Cory Stone: Mm-hmm.
  Leonard Newsome: Then it will be like if you switch on your T_V_ through anoth another source, not from through a remote remote controller and you you lost your remote controller maybe you can find with the light.
  Cory Stone: Mm-hmm.
  Leonard Newsome: Maybe we can have that. Whenever the T_V_ is on, remote controller will have a light.
  Cory Stone: Mm-hmm.
  Leonard Newsome: And then uh infrared bulbs.
  Cory Stone: Mm-hmm.
  Leonard Newsome: Um this is like uh when it is dark.
  James Valencia: Yeah, mm-hmm.
  Cory Stone: Mm-hmm.
  Leonard Newsome: And battery, there should be a battery for power supply, and
  Cory Stone: Mm-hmm.
  Leonard Newsome: a chip, chip which is like a brain to the remote
  James Valencia: Mm-hmm.
  Leonard Newsome: controller which does all the operations, and wires connecting all chips, which is uh lights, everything,
  James Valencia: Yeah.
  Leonard Newsome: so there should
  Robert Frieden: Okay.
  Leonard Newsome: be wires. And uh uh of course there should be a case where we can keep all the things and, you know different shapes or whatever it is there should be a case to put to give
  Robert Frieden: To
  Leonard Newsome: a
  Robert Frieden: keep
  Leonard Newsome: shape.
  Robert Frieden: the remote?
  Leonard Newsome: Yeah.
  Robert Frieden: Yeah.
  Cory Stone: Case.
  Robert Frieden: A case holder.
  Leonard Newsome: Yeah,
  Robert Frieden: A holder
  Leonard Newsome: holder.
  Robert Frieden: remote
  James Valencia: Holder,
  Robert Frieden: holder.
  James Valencia: yeah, mm-hmm.
  Leonard Newsome: Um uh can you move onto the next slide. Um next sli slide please. Um I have referred the site uh the homepage of the um our website, uh from where I have uh uh I got s few points.
  James Valencia: Mm-hmm.
  Leonard Newsome: That's it, that's it from Cory Stone now.
  James Valencia: Okay.
  Cory Stone: So it um we should visit this site and have a look at uh what's
  Leonard Newsome: Um.
  Cory Stone: up there? Or
  James Valencia: Well, you don't have to.
  Leonard Newsome: Uh it's not like that, I have referred the page to get new ideas or like
  Cory Stone: Okay.
  Leonard Newsome: what can be the working design to how it works and all and
  Cory Stone: Okay.
  Leonard Newsome: so and so.
  Cory Stone: So it might be helpful if we had a look at that.
  Leonard Newsome: Yeah if you want.
  Cory Stone: Okay,
  Leonard Newsome: Yeah,
  Cory Stone: thank
  Leonard Newsome: it's
  Cory Stone: you.
  Leonard Newsome: okay.
  Cory Stone: Could you go back to that slide where she had that uh s slide up Betsy?
  Leonard Newsome: Uh, it's actually there now, there on the screen.
  James Valencia: This one?
  Cory Stone: Yeah, okay, thank you.
  James Valencia: And Francine?
  Robert Frieden: Participant two.
  James Valencia: You are
  Robert Frieden: Yes.
  James Valencia: number two?
  Robert Frieden: No no, I'm three.
  James Valencia: You're three.
  Robert Frieden: I can?
  James Valencia: Would you want it
  Robert Frieden: Yes
  James Valencia: full full
  Robert Frieden: yes
  James Valencia: screen? Mm-hmm?
  Robert Frieden: yes.
  James Valencia: Okay.
  Robert Frieden: Okay. As uh User Interface Designer I did a little research to find out what are the features which a user would like to have on their remote.
  James Valencia: Mm-hmm.
  Robert Frieden: Yeah can you please go onto the next
  James Valencia: Mm-hmm.
  Robert Frieden: slide? So I found out that uh but uh the main purpose of a remote is to uh f control the function of a television at a far off distance at remote distance. Now for that, uh a remote controller should have a switch on off button by which a user can sit anywhere in the room in front
  James Valencia: Mm-hmm.
  Robert Frieden: of the T_V_ and he can control the functionalities different functionalities of the T_V_. There should be a signal uh something like a radio wave or a infrared light or a LED which can be used to change the different functionalities in the television if the user wants to uh change the channels or increase the volume he can change it.
  Cory Stone: Mm-hmm.
  Robert Frieden: Now there should be some timer to set for viewing a particular a particular programme or switching on and off a uh a particular programme according to the user
  James Valencia: On
  Robert Frieden: choice.
  James Valencia: the on on the remote.
  Robert Frieden: Yes.
  James Valencia: Yeah, mm-hmm.
  Robert Frieden: Yes. So if if he want to view a particular programme
  James Valencia: Mm-hmm.
  Robert Frieden: at say nine o'clock
  James Valencia: Mm-hmm.
  Robert Frieden: he can set the time,
  James Valencia: Right.
  Robert Frieden: and the T_V_ will automatically it will switch on at that particular time.
  James Valencia: Mm-hmm.
  Robert Frieden: So he can use that kind of uh uh properties of features and then there should be a child lock system if a particular channel is not to be
  James Valencia: Yes.
  Robert Frieden: viewed by a particular uh for
  James Valencia: By
  Robert Frieden: a
  James Valencia: your child,
  Robert Frieden: certain
  James Valencia: mm-hmm.
  Robert Frieden: age, then the parents can lock that particular channel so that the ch children cannot view that
  Cory Stone: Mm-hmm.
  Robert Frieden: channel.
  James Valencia: Mm-hmm.
  Robert Frieden: And uh the uh the uh and the one of the feature a user would like to have is the compactness of the co remote.
  James Valencia: Mm-hmm.
  Cory Stone: Mm-hmm.
  Robert Frieden: Uh t the remote should be compact and it should ha it should have as many buttons as possible for controlling different functionalities of the T_V_ television. And um uh as uh uh this is my personal preference that it should be in the shape of a T_ in alphabet for more compactability.
  James Valencia: Mm-hmm.
  Robert Frieden: And uh and uh and it is one more point which I noted it down, like uh the material which which which is used for remotes should be human friendly it should not cause any skin disease or something some al allergy
  James Valencia: Mm-hmm.
  Robert Frieden: to either children or to um
  James Valencia: Mm-hmm.
  Robert Frieden: ad
  Cory Stone: Mm,
  Robert Frieden: adult
  Cory Stone: 'kay.
  James Valencia: Mm-hmm.
  Robert Frieden: person. And it should have an uh it can have an alarm clock a a person if some if somebody wants to get up at around
  Leonard Newsome: Mm.
  Robert Frieden: eight eight P_M_ then he can set the time and it can be used as an alarm clock,
  James Valencia: Mm-hmm.
  Robert Frieden: and I don't think it will cost much to set an alarm clock inside a
  Leonard Newsome: Yeah,
  Robert Frieden: remote.
  Leonard Newsome: sure.
  James Valencia: Mm-hmm.
  Leonard Newsome: If there is a clock then there can be a
  Cory Stone: And an
  Leonard Newsome: alarm
  Cory Stone: alarm
  Robert Frieden: Yes,
  Cory Stone: clock,
  Leonard Newsome: clock.
  Cory Stone: yeah
  Robert Frieden: and
  Cory Stone: that should
  Robert Frieden: as
  Cory Stone: that should
  Robert Frieden: John Reece
  Cory Stone: be okay.
  Robert Frieden: said the buttons can be, uh can Cory Stone we can use the fluorescence to light up the buttons so different uh buttons will glow differently. So in even in the dark the user can know what buttons to use to switch on a particular channel. And uh uh the design of the uh um remote should be in such a way that there should not be any sharp projections so that if a child plays with a remote, he
  Leonard Newsome: Hmm.
  Robert Frieden: uh he should not be harmed in any way. And findings, uh I found out uh y um on different sites that uh there are different remotes which can be used, there are remotes which use the infrared for controlling the different functionalities, there are remotes which use the radio waves to control the functions and there are uh So uh there you have different uh types of remotes for different light source which are used which can be used for controlling the different functionalities of a television.
  Robert Frieden: Next slide. And these are my few personal preferences like it can be used for a multipurpose use. Not, uh no uh like it can it can be used as a T_V_ control as plus an alarm clock to set an alarm a timing and it should have a child lock, and then to save electricity uh there should not be uh much s move uh lots of circuits and all that. And if a person if if if parents wants the television to be switched off by ten o'clock then it should be switched off ten o at ten o'clock automatically, so that nobody else comes later
  Leonard Newsome: It's like
  Robert Frieden: and
  Leonard Newsome: a
  Robert Frieden: use it.
  Leonard Newsome: t okay, it's like a timer
  James Valencia: Timer, yeah,
  Robert Frieden: Timer.
  James Valencia: mm-hmm,
  Leonard Newsome: it's
  James Valencia: mm-hmm.
  Leonard Newsome: like a lock
  Robert Frieden: Yeah
  Leonard Newsome: to
  Robert Frieden: and
  Leonard Newsome: the television.
  Robert Frieden: then you can use a timer as well. Yes. Yeah that's it.
  James Valencia: Uh okay, now I have
  James Valencia: On my slide show basically we already we have already done the agenda, and uh on the closing uh basically there will be lunch break and all that. However uh the decision we have to take in this meeting is who is our target group.
  Robert Frieden: Okay.
  James Valencia: And uh what function, working design, how how does it work. So these are the two things we should come up wit with. So uh the first thing is pro maybe a little easier on uh who is our target group. Um. I guess in many ways everybody. Everybody
  Leonard Newsome: Mm,
  James Valencia: who has a T_V_.
  Leonard Newsome: T_V_,
  Robert Frieden: T_V_
  Leonard Newsome: yeah.
  Robert Frieden: television we was.
  James Valencia: Yeah, and I think today there are probably not many people who don't
  Leonard Newsome: Don't
  James Valencia: have a T_V_.
  Leonard Newsome: T_V_,
  James Valencia: There
  Leonard Newsome: yeah.
  James Valencia: are a few but in general not. Now, talking about the target group which is in a sense everybody, but I think within the target group we have subgroups. We have we have earlier it was mentioned about um for example elderly people
  Robert Frieden: Mm-hmm.
  James Valencia: who have limited function with their fingers and hands,
  Leonard Newsome: Hmm.
  James Valencia: so I think that's uh one group that's certainly important. Um then we have just the nervous people who can never press a little button on anything um unless it's really very clear.
  Leonard Newsome: Yeah.
  James Valencia: And uh I don't know how much we want to cater to children's use. I mean that's a question um whether that's important that children can really use it or not.
  Leonard Newsome: Mm.
  James Valencia: So this these are just some thoughts I have on it,
  Cory Stone: Mm-hmm.
  James Valencia: group we're gonna design this one thing
  Leonard Newsome: Yeah.
  James Valencia: or whether we're looking at what we like we we talking about different shapes,
  Cory Stone: Mm-hmm.
  James Valencia: whether that different shape also includes maybe different uh buttons
  Leonard Newsome: Mm-hmm.
  Cory Stone: Mm-hmm.
  James Valencia: uh for different groups.
  Cory Stone: Well you know there's the old motto, children under six never shop alone.
  James Valencia: Mm-hmm.
  Cory Stone: So if you've designed something that's very attractive to children um the mummy please mummy please um you know we want it now we wanna go to the store and see it um that has uh a lot of
  James Valencia: That has
  Cory Stone: marketing
  James Valencia: a lot of
  Cory Stone: pull.
  James Valencia: that has a lot of
  Leonard Newsome: Mm.
  James Valencia: appeal but I think uh I'm I'm talking about the functionality now on it whether we're looking at different groups. I think the children issue can be addressed with the shape
  Cory Stone: Mm-hmm.
  James Valencia: and with colours.
  Cory Stone: That's
  Leonard Newsome: Yeah.
  Robert Frieden: Different
  Cory Stone: right.
  James Valencia: You
  Robert Frieden: colours.
  James Valencia: know, like you make it nice and pink, fluorescent, banana colour
  Robert Frieden: Yes.
  James Valencia: or whatever
  Cory Stone: You can make a banana
  James Valencia: you
  Cory Stone: shaped
  James Valencia: know
  Cory Stone: one.
  Leonard Newsome: Yeah.
  James Valencia: yeah, for example you know.
  Leonard Newsome: Mm.
  James Valencia: But the question is really, who is our target group.
  Cory Stone: Mm-hmm.
  James Valencia: Do we look at one target group? And with the twenty five Euros you know can we can we afford to have uh I'm asking the technical people here whether um to look at sort of subgroups with maybe different buttons for each group how much would that throw us out of the cost we are supposed to
  Cory Stone: Respect.
  James Valencia: respect?
  Cory Stone: Mm.
  Robert Frieden: Okay. No uh generally we can we can design a remote which is mainly for people with uh f age from ten to um forty
  James Valencia: Right.
  Robert Frieden: and and then we can add on uh specific functional buttons for children as well as the elderly people or the people wit
  James Valencia: With
  Robert Frieden: with
  James Valencia: with
  Robert Frieden: who have nervous problems,
  James Valencia: Mm-hmm.
  Robert Frieden: yes.
  Leonard Newsome: We can design different remotes for different people, like for aged people there will be big buttons and you
  James Valencia: Well
  Robert Frieden: But
  Leonard Newsome: know.
  Robert Frieden: in
  James Valencia: that's
  Robert Frieden: a
  James Valencia: that's
  Robert Frieden: family
  Leonard Newsome: yeah. Children and everybody, yeah.
  Robert Frieden: They would like to buy just one and um just one which can be used all the three
  Leonard Newsome: Yeah
  Robert Frieden: uh
  Leonard Newsome: of course that we can do, but specifically if y if like elderly people want big buttons then you can't really make a bi big remote controller so maybe specifically you can design a big con remote controller for elderly and for children,
  Cory Stone: What
  Leonard Newsome: like
  Cory Stone: about
  Leonard Newsome: in a
  Cory Stone: the
  Leonard Newsome: different
  Cory Stone: electronics?
  Leonard Newsome: you know.
  Cory Stone: That's
  James Valencia: Yeah.
  Cory Stone: not really gonna change
  Robert Frieden: Cost effective.
  Cory Stone: much, is
  Leonard Newsome: No,
  Cory Stone: it?
  Leonard Newsome: it it doesn't cost,
  Cory Stone: That
  James Valencia: No
  Leonard Newsome: yeah.
  Cory Stone: that w that won't change much, will it
  Leonard Newsome: Yeah.
  Cory Stone: uh?
  Leonard Newsome: Doesn't doesn't
  James Valencia: The
  Cory Stone: I d I
  Leonard Newsome: doesn't
  James Valencia: the
  Cory Stone: wouldn't
  James Valencia: quest
  Leonard Newsome: matter.
  Cory Stone: think
  James Valencia: the
  Cory Stone: so.
  James Valencia: question to be addressed here is only who is the target group and how will it function,
  Cory Stone: Mm-hmm.
  James Valencia: and I think the how will it function is probably the question of the buttons you know,
  Cory Stone: Yeah.
  James Valencia: within the target group or subgroups. The question is only whether our budget will allow to have more than one design in a sense.
  Cory Stone: Yeah.
  James Valencia: I mean the basic design I understand will be the same, but the question is how much will that set us back if let's say uh forty percent we make large buttons and the rest
  Robert Frieden: Okay.
  James Valencia: we make regular buttons
  Leonard Newsome: Yeah.
  James Valencia: for example.
  Cory Stone: Yeah.
  James Valencia: So that remains to s to be seen but uh the target group as a whole is is basically everybody with a T_V_.
  Cory Stone: That's right,
  Robert Frieden: Yes.
  Cory Stone: and can we can we is it even feasible to make one one remote control with something for everyone, or would we have to use the same electronics and make three different shapes?
  James Valencia: Yeah, well that's that's
  Cory Stone: Um
  James Valencia: the question.
  Cory Stone: the same electronics and basically all that's gonna be different
  Leonard Newsome: Hmm
  Cory Stone: is the plastic case.
  Leonard Newsome: hmm.
  Cory Stone: And in that case we could probabl moulded plastic isn't all that expensive is it? Um you
  Leonard Newsome: Uh no.
  Cory Stone: as an
  Leonard Newsome: Mm,
  Cory Stone: industrial
  Leonard Newsome: I I
  Cory Stone: person?
  Leonard Newsome: I don't think no.
  James Valencia: Well maybe there's
  Leonard Newsome: It's
  James Valencia: there's an idea
  Leonard Newsome: not.
  James Valencia: you know t the new for example new portable phones?
  Cory Stone: Mm-hmm.
  James Valencia: They have like removable plastic cases,
  Cory Stone: Yeah.
  James Valencia: so you can have a striped one or you can have a fluorescent blue one, or whatever,
  Cory Stone: Mm-hmm.
  Robert Frieden: Okay.
  James Valencia: and maybe something like that, that in each package you know you have
  Cory Stone: Well there's a real
  James Valencia: you
  Cory Stone: idea
  James Valencia: you
  Cory Stone: yeah.
  James Valencia: have you have for example uh you have let's say a fluorescent blue on it
  Cory Stone: Mm-hmm.
  James Valencia: but then you have uh another colour or stripe whatever that already comes in a package.
  Leonard Newsome: Hmm.
  James Valencia: And
  Cory Stone: Yeah.
  James Valencia: then if people really want more colours they can buy it separately.
  Cory Stone: Right.
  Leonard Newsome: Yeah, like
  James Valencia: You
  Leonard Newsome: for
  James Valencia: know,
  Robert Frieden: Um
  Leonard Newsome: mobile phones we
  James Valencia: yes.
  Leonard Newsome: have uh different you know covers,
  Cory Stone: Mm-hmm.
  Leonard Newsome: like
  Robert Frieden: Yes.
  Leonard Newsome: designs
  James Valencia: That's right,
  Leonard Newsome: and
  James Valencia: and
  Leonard Newsome: all
  James Valencia: but
  Leonard Newsome: so that
  James Valencia: like
  Leonard Newsome: w
  James Valencia: if
  Leonard Newsome: we can
  Cory Stone: Uh
  James Valencia: if
  Leonard Newsome: have
  Cory Stone: yeah.
  James Valencia: then
  Leonard Newsome: that.
  James Valencia: everybody is is is tired of the fluorescent blue and of the striped or whatever they have as another one in the package, then they can go to the store and for a few uh
  Leonard Newsome: Yeah.
  James Valencia: Francs or Euros whatever they can buy
  Cory Stone: An alternate package.
  James Valencia: an alternate package with another two colours in it you know for example
  Cory Stone: Yeah.
  James Valencia: you
  Cory Stone: Okay.
  James Valencia: know.
  Robert Frieden: But uh yeah I I have a doubt like will it be cost wise effective if we if we design a remote having all the uh different features for different people or designing three different um remotes for three different categories of people.
  James Valencia: Well I think
  Leonard Newsome: Yeah, but
  James Valencia: I
  Cory Stone: Well
  Leonard Newsome: uh
  James Valencia: think
  Cory Stone: I think
  James Valencia: the
  Cory Stone: we
  James Valencia: idea
  Cory Stone: can only
  James Valencia: here is
  Cory Stone: aff,
  James Valencia: to uh to to
  Cory Stone: yeah.
  James Valencia: d design one remote
  Robert Frieden: Okay.
  Leonard Newsome: Yeah.
  James Valencia: and what the only change is gonna be um the funct
  Cory Stone: Cosmetic.
  James Valencia: d t yeah
  Robert Frieden: Of th
  James Valencia: uh
  Robert Frieden: okay.
  James Valencia: the functional functional cosmetics if you
  Robert Frieden: Okay.
  James Valencia: want to put it that way,
  Robert Frieden: Mm-hmm.
  James Valencia: um having maybe larger buttons or buttons that light up or buttons that are slightly differently shaped for people uh either for children um Five minutes that was I guess tha that's the old message.
  Cory Stone: Warning, finish
  James Valencia: Finish
  Cory Stone: meeting
  James Valencia: meeting
  Cory Stone: now.
  James Valencia: now. Um um.
  Cory Stone: Well we may have to come back to one or
  Leonard Newsome: Yeah,
  Cory Stone: two of these
  Leonard Newsome: maybe,
  Cory Stone: points
  Leonard Newsome: yeah,
  Cory Stone: at our next meeting but
  Leonard Newsome: yeah.
  Cory Stone: um
  James Valencia: But I think
  Leonard Newsome: If we do some more research,
  James Valencia: I
  Leonard Newsome: maybe
  James Valencia: I think
  Leonard Newsome: we.
  James Valencia: to sum it up the target group is basically everybody. If money permits we can address some features for some subgroups
  Cory Stone: Mm-hmm.
  Robert Frieden: Okay,
  James Valencia: within that.
  Leonard Newsome: Hmm
  Robert Frieden: mm-hmm.
  Leonard Newsome: yeah,
  Cory Stone: Okay
  Leonard Newsome: I
  Cory Stone: but
  James Valencia: Do
  Leonard Newsome: think
  James Valencia: we
  Cory Stone: we have
  James Valencia: agree,
  Cory Stone: to
  Leonard Newsome: maybe
  Cory Stone: l
  Leonard Newsome: seventy
  James Valencia: do we?
  Leonard Newsome: percent is a unique uh uh remote
  James Valencia: Do we
  Leonard Newsome: controller
  James Valencia: agree
  Leonard Newsome: and
  James Valencia: on
  Leonard Newsome: thirty percent
  James Valencia: on that
  Leonard Newsome: is
  James Valencia: in
  Leonard Newsome: yeah
  James Valencia: principle,
  Leonard Newsome: it's sort of
  James Valencia: like
  Leonard Newsome: like yeah.
  James Valencia: money will tell whether
  Leonard Newsome: Yeah,
  James Valencia: we will
  Leonard Newsome: yeah,
  James Valencia: be able
  Leonard Newsome: of
  James Valencia: to
  Leonard Newsome: course,
  James Valencia: do that
  Leonard Newsome: yeah.
  James Valencia: or not.
  Cory Stone: Okay,
  Robert Frieden: Yes.
  Cory Stone: fair
  James Valencia: Okay?
  Cory Stone: enough.
  Leonard Newsome: Mm-hmm.
  James Valencia: So now I understand it's lunch break. And um. So that's what we will do.
  Cory Stone: Okay.
  Robert Frieden: Okay.
  James Valencia: So hank you very much.
  Leonard Newsome: Thank you.
  James Valencia: And we'll see you after lunch.
Updated Content: The meeting begins and Cory Stone starts her presentation promptly, telling them that her research shows they need a focus- it is not possible to make a device that works on the whole house. James Valencia steps in and informs them that they have instructions to eliminate the teletext idea because it is too complicated, and also said they must maintain the corporate image by using corporate designs and colors. Cory Stone resumes, talking about how remotes often get lost and that a light emitter might be useful. Leonard Newsome gives her presentation, talking about components, materials, and energy sources. They discuss giving the control different shapes to suit both adults and children, making the buttons various shapes, and putting a display clock on the control. The interface designer presents, talking about the features users like on a remote and suggesting that they make the remote a T-shape and add an alarm clock function. They discuss their target group and the possibility of removable plastic cases. They close the meeting deciding to do more research on the plastic cases.