Extracted Content: Carey Williams: Right uh. So um. So where's the PowerPoint presentation? Sorry? Microsoft PowerPoint, right. Right, okay. So. Right. Okay, so we've got uh so we've got new project requirements. Um. So basically we've got three things, and we've got forty minutes in which to uh for this meeting to uh to discuss the various options. Um. Three presentations.
  Kayla Beatty: We have a I guess we have a presentation each, 'cause I've got one. Um.
  Pamela Lail: Yeah.
  Rosa Alba: Yeah, I've got
  Carey Williams: I
  Rosa Alba: one
  Carey Williams: see,
  Rosa Alba: too.
  Carey Williams: right. That's nice to know, one from each of you. Um new project requirements. Um so do we want to do the presentation first, or do we want to um W I I got um or or three things basically, um relating to the remote being only for T_V_. We discussed that last time
  Kayla Beatty: Mm-hmm.
  Carey Williams: and in
  Rosa Alba: Mm-hmm.
  Carey Williams: actual fact that was pr pretty well what we came up with anyway. So in
  Rosa Alba: Mm-hmm
  Carey Williams: fact it actually f we won't be forestalled in a sense. Um we've got uh teletext outdated. Um did you get any information on that?
  Kayla Beatty: Uh we didn't, no.
  Pamela Lail: No.
  Carey Williams: Right
  Kayla Beatty: I d I didn't
  Carey Williams: and
  Kayla Beatty: personally.
  Carey Williams: the corporate
  Rosa Alba: Hmm.
  Carey Williams: image was the uh final thing. So I I got that in email form. Um. Right okay. So I guess if we go ahead with the uh with the three presentations. So we'll start with yourself
  Kayla Beatty: Okay
  Carey Williams: on
  Kayla Beatty: that's
  Carey Williams: the
  Kayla Beatty: fine.
  Carey Williams: basis that uh
  Kayla Beatty: I'll just um I'll grab the wire out the back of this one.
  Carey Williams: Sorry, yep.
  Carey Williams: Oh.
  Pamela Lail: What is it
  Kayla Beatty: I'm not quite
  Pamela Lail: I think
  Kayla Beatty: sure
  Pamela Lail: you've got
  Kayla Beatty: how
  Pamela Lail: to do
  Kayla Beatty: it
  Pamela Lail: um control F_ eight.
  Kayla Beatty: Control Doesn't seem to be quite working at the moment.
  Pamela Lail: Shift F_ eight.
  Kayla Beatty: Alt function F_ eight. Again not doing anything.
  Rosa Alba: There's usually a little thing in the top right for the Oh
  Kayla Beatty: Oh.
  Pamela Lail: Ah
  Rosa Alba: hang
  Pamela Lail: there,
  Rosa Alba: on, it's just
  Pamela Lail: it's doing
  Rosa Alba: coming
  Pamela Lail: something.
  Rosa Alba: on.
  Kayla Beatty: pressed about five times now.
  Kayla Beatty: Okay, that's Rosa Alba.
  Kayla Beatty: Okay, um I have to go again.
  Carey Williams: it going?
  Kayla Beatty: Hopefully that should be it this time.
  Kayla Beatty: Okay, I think we're there. That's good. Okay, um Okay I'm gonna be looking at the working design. Um of the of the remote control. Um I've just got three sections, first is the research I made on the on the remote control itself um. And then that involves the components required in it and the systems uh design of the actual the actual remote. Um so having researched the existing models within the market, um I found my research off the internet. Um I've established what the components required for the remote control to function, actually are. And then also the methods in which these components interact together for the remote to actually do what you want it to do and how it connects with the television. Um the basic components are an energy source which I guess um in most existing models would be a battery supply. Whether that'll be sort of two batteries, four batteries, um it may vary. We then have
  Carey Williams: Okay.
  Kayla Beatty: the user interface, which is basically the like the the buttons on the actual remote. Um the various functions used for changing channel, uh channel up and down, volume, things like that. Um there's also a chip inside the remote which does all the computer type things. And then the sender, which um is usually, I've found, an infra-red device which sends a signal to the actual television. Um and the last part is receiver which is important in the system but is not actually part of the remote itself, because that's obviously found in the television. Um I'm gonna have to actually draw on the board because uh it was a little tricky on PowerPoint to get this working, so. I'll just go through there. S um um do we have a cloth to wipe this down with, or? Oh
  Pamela Lail: I
  Kayla Beatty: I'll
  Pamela Lail: think
  Carey Williams: Uh
  Pamela Lail: it's
  Kayla Beatty: j
  Pamela Lail: that
  Carey Williams: there's
  Pamela Lail: little
  Carey Williams: the rubber on the right,
  Kayla Beatty: Oh I see.
  Carey Williams: I think.
  Kayla Beatty: Oh okay. I'll get rid
  Carey Williams: it's
  Kayla Beatty: of
  Carey Williams: magic.
  Kayla Beatty: the bear Okay that's great. Okay, so we start off with a um battery suppl Uh no, a power supply which we'd probably get it's probably gonna be the battery. Um we then have a particular button, which may be that's obviously there's lots and lots of different buttons. Um but this is how the basic system works. Um that sends after you press that that sends the message to the chip, which um then sends It sort of interprets which button you've pressed and then sends the appropriate message to the sender.
  Kayla Beatty: Um. So that's. That's the remote in itself, that's the components of the remote and how they work together. So this is the uh user interface. Um this is the chip itself, which then, and that's the that's the infra-red sender. And then on the separate thing we have on the on the television we have a a receiver. And the sender sends a message to the receiver. 'Kay.
  Carey Williams: So the the top bit's the power source, yes?
  Kayla Beatty: Ah yes, that's the power source. Um. going on to personal preferences, I've said that battery seems the best option for the actual remote, just because of the size. You don't want a a cable attached to the remote otherwise it's not it's not really a remote. Um and then the sender, and infra-red um has been used quite successfully. If the battery's on reasonable power, they always seem to work fairly well. You don't have to be point directly at the television itself.
  Carey Williams: So the
  Kayla Beatty: Um
  Carey Williams: battery is the in the sender.
  Kayla Beatty: Yes. 'Kay and that's it for the moment.
  Rosa Alba: Okay.
  Carey Williams: Okay. So, now more design.
  Pamela Lail: Right. Thank you. Mine's not quite as complicated as all that.
  Carey Williams: That's what we like to hear.
  Pamela Lail: Did I press function? Yeah.
  Carey Williams: Is it control function
  Pamela Lail: Oh.
  Carey Williams: ei Oh, th
  Pamela Lail: Um.
  Carey Williams: there you
  Pamela Lail: Okay
  Carey Williams: go.
  Pamela Lail: so I'm gonna talk a bit about the technical functions design. I'm Louisa, Pamela Lail, as you know. Um so the m is to send signal the to the television set, so that a desired function is performed. Um an example of the function could be to change the volume up or down, uh so obviously you need two different buttons for that. Um to change the channel, either by pressing the number that you want or by channel up or down. Um to switch the television on or off, maybe a standby button. Um here are two example remotes. Um by the look of it they both have um kind of play and fast forward, rewind functions, so I think they incorporate a kind of video function which we won't have to worry about. Uh but as you can see, the left remote is quite um quite busy looking, quite complicated. Um whereas the right remote is much simpler, it looks much more user friendly. Um so my personal preference would be the right remote. So, it's got nice big buttons, it's got a very limited number of buttons. Um they're nice, kinda clearly labelled. Um I like the use of the kind of um symbols like the triangles and the squares and the arrows as well as the words on the um kind of play functions and all that. So it's very very user friendly, and it's got a little splash of colour. Could maybe do with some more colour. Um.
  Carey Williams: Well there's a couple of things there. Um we have to remember that we have our own um logo and colour scheme. So basically we'd have to uh we'd have to be putting that on um the the product.
  Pamela Lail: Hmm. Do we get to see that? Will you be presenting
  Carey Williams: I haven't
  Pamela Lail: that in a bit?
  Carey Williams: as yet, no. But uh I got uh I got an email that basically said to uh make sure that uh whatever device we come up with at the end of the day had to incorporate um the corporate colour and slogan. So uh I'm guessing that uh uh I notice on the bottom there it's got uh what's that? A_P_O_G_E_E_ that might be the corporate colour scheme, although the only the only colour I can see in that is the red.
  Pamela Lail: Hmm.
  Kayla Beatty: Would you be able to get rid of the the extra buttons here, the the sort of circular section, because that seems to be for a video as well. So we could dispense with that little bit as well and just get it down to just the numbers and the volume.
  Pamela Lail: What
  Kayla Beatty: Possibly?
  Pamela Lail: do you mean by the circular section? Like
  Kayla Beatty: J
  Pamela Lail: all
  Kayla Beatty: yeah
  Pamela Lail: of
  Kayla Beatty: yeah
  Pamela Lail: that
  Kayla Beatty: yeah
  Pamela Lail: bottom
  Kayla Beatty: j
  Pamela Lail: bit?
  Kayla Beatty: yeah just this little bit is that I think that's still um a video
  Pamela Lail: Yeah.
  Kayla Beatty: remote part, so maybe we could get rid of that as well.
  Pamela Lail: Yeah. And I don't really
  Carey Williams: Well
  Pamela Lail: think that
  Carey Williams: b uh
  Pamela Lail: you need
  Carey Williams: w
  Pamela Lail: nine numbers. I mean how often do you use seven, eight and nine? I think just one to six and then channel up and down should be enough.
  Carey Williams: Well
  Pamela Lail: Like
  Carey Williams: th
  Pamela Lail: how
  Carey Williams: the
  Pamela Lail: often do
  Carey Williams: on
  Pamela Lail: you hit
  Carey Williams: the
  Pamela Lail: nine?
  Rosa Alba: Mm-hmm.
  Carey Williams: Well uh for for general television purposes obviously you have channels one to five at this point in time, and we'd have to have some room for uh future such channels.
  Kayla Beatty: It's
  Carey Williams: But
  Kayla Beatty: just people are used to seeing
  Carey Williams: but
  Kayla Beatty: that, so if we didn't have them then
  Carey Williams: But,
  Kayla Beatty: they might think it's
  Carey Williams: well possibly but the the other thing is that with um the current expansion of uh channels uh in the process of taking place, certainly the button up and down, but uh I mean how many channels do we have to um actual television channels do we have to uh prepare for? I would have thought that uh it's forever expanding and at the moment we've got although you've onl you've got the five standard, you've got the B_B_C_ have come up with a further six and uh there's uh
  Rosa Alba: Mm-hmm.
  Carey Williams: I don't know exactly how many channels there are on uh when you take into account uh Sky and various
  Kayla Beatty: Hmm.
  Carey Williams: other um various others. So
  Pamela Lail: Hmm.
  Carey Williams: I would've thought that we wouldn't, you know, rather Okay, if the time of flicking from one to other, but presumably it'll take a second 'cause you have to be able to stop it. Maybe you could have a fast forward on the on the channels that w and then you could dispense with more otherwise. Y you'd want you'd want to get fairly quickly to the channel that you wanted.
  Pamela Lail: Um some remotes have kind of favourite options where if you always flick from channel one to channel six, um if that's a favourite you just like by-pass
  Carey Williams: Mm-hmm.
  Pamela Lail: two to five.
  Carey Williams: Yeah, I s I suppose in a sense you could have um if you've got a hundred channels then if you had sort of an easy way of getting rather than having to go one to a hundred, you could go one to one to ten, ten
  Pamela Lail: Hmm.
  Carey Williams: to twenty and then have a second button to get
  Rosa Alba: Mm-hmm.
  Carey Williams: you to the actual channel you want and that would cut down your time.
  Pamela Lail: Mm. Um.
  Carey Williams: Anyway.
  Pamela Lail: But I think a lot of um like Cable and Sky and stuff, that would be tuned to one channel, and then you'd have another remote for all of those channels. Like
  Kayla Beatty: Okay,
  Pamela Lail: to get to
  Kayla Beatty: yeah.
  Pamela Lail: fifty five and the higher numbers
  Carey Williams: Whatever.
  Pamela Lail: Yeah.
  Carey Williams: Okay. Okay. Limit the number of buttons, user friendly.
  Pamela Lail: But I suppose nine's not really excessive.
  Kayla Beatty: I suppose
  Pamela Lail: I
  Kayla Beatty: with
  Pamela Lail: suppose
  Kayla Beatty: nine
  Pamela Lail: it does
  Kayla Beatty: you've
  Pamela Lail: make
  Kayla Beatty: got
  Pamela Lail: a
  Kayla Beatty: the
  Pamela Lail: good
  Kayla Beatty: the
  Pamela Lail: pattern.
  Kayla Beatty: like the last one which makes the tenth means you uh it's like uh multiples you can put them together so you can make any number. So with that we'd kind of by-pass
  Carey Williams: Yeah.
  Kayla Beatty: any problems with
  Carey Williams: Well that's true, yeah, you
  Kayla Beatty: Yeah.
  Carey Williams: could get fifty by five and a zero or whatever,
  Kayla Beatty: Yeah.
  Carey Williams: that that makes sense.
  Kayla Beatty: 'Cause that facilitates having all the numbers you could ever need.
  Carey Williams: Yeah.
  Kayla Beatty: Um.
  Rosa Alba: Mm-hmm.
  Carey Williams: Does.
  Pamela Lail: Okay.
  Carey Williams: So w so what was the circular thing that you were
  Pamela Lail: Um I think that's just for a video, so we wouldn't need any of that at all.
  Kayla Beatty: So we could get it
  Carey Williams: If
  Kayla Beatty: down
  Carey Williams: it's
  Kayla Beatty: to
  Carey Williams: just
  Kayla Beatty: what?
  Carey Williams: for T_V_, which is what it is at the moment.
  Pamela Lail: Mm-hmm.
  Kayla Beatty: So we get to How many buttons have we got? We've just got ten, eleven twelve th I guess.
  Rosa Alba: Mm-hmm.
  Kayla Beatty: Um which isn't really too many. That'll be quite easy to make a user guide for a fourteen
  Carey Williams: Mm-hmm.
  Kayla Beatty: button remote.
  Carey Williams: Well we've we've got um that it's remote for T_V_ only otherwise project would become too complex with uh which would endanger the time to market
  Kayla Beatty: 'Kay.
  Carey Williams: was one of the considerations. I'm I don't know
  Rosa Alba: Mm-hmm.
  Carey Williams: d did you have that information behind the marketing, or was
  Rosa Alba: Um
  Carey Williams: I meant to give you that information?
  Rosa Alba: I'm not sure. I had I've had some market information, but
  Carey Williams: Right.
  Rosa Alba: not from the company, no.
  Carey Williams: Right, okay, so basically time to market seems to be important, therefore
  Kayla Beatty: 'Kay.
  Carey Williams: speed of delivery. We've only got about another four hours left.
  Pamela Lail: Okay, so is everyone happy with that?
  Kayla Beatty: Ah yes yes,
  Rosa Alba: Okay.
  Kayla Beatty: that seems good.
  Pamela Lail: Right well that's the end of my presentation.
  Rosa Alba: 'Kay. I'm gonna pull this off.
  Kayla Beatty: I think if you just give it a second to
  Carey Williams: Yeah,
  Kayla Beatty: maybe
  Carey Williams: I think
  Kayla Beatty: catch
  Carey Williams: she said twenty
  Kayla Beatty: up.
  Carey Williams: seconds to um
  Rosa Alba: Uh-huh. Okay.
  Kayla Beatty: I'm sure we'll have by the end of today.
  Rosa Alba: I'll give it another go.
  Rosa Alba: there. Right, we've done some research into the functional requirements that people want out of their remote control. And first off we should state that th the remote control's for controlling the T_V_ and um how do people use it? We asked them sort of which buttons were useful for them. Um how d how does a remote control look and feel for them, and what improvements would would they like to remote control. And we did that by sort of giving them a questionnaire that we'd prepared and asking them to fill in the answers. And three quarters of them found that remote controls are ugly and that a sort of even higher proportion would spend more for a sort of s uh a fancier remote control And that of all the buttons on the remote control, the sort of setting buttons for sort of the picture picture and brightness and the audio settings, um they weren't used very often at all. People concentrated on the channel buttons and the volume buttons and the power buttons. Uh we also asked them about speech recognition uh for remote control. And young people were quite receptive to this, but as soon as we got sort of over about into a thirty five to forty age forty five age group and older, people people weren't quite so keen on speech recognition. There's a lot more th there's a lot lot more older people who didn't know whether they wanted it or not as well. Um we also asked what frustrated people about remote controls and the number one frustration was that the remote was lost somewhere else in the room and that they couldn't find it. And the second second biggest frustration what that if they got a new remote control, it was difficult to learn um all the buttons and all the functions, and to find your way around it. Okay, so My personal preferences from the marketing is that we need to come up with some sort of sleek sort of good looking high high-tech A design which looks high-tech, basically. Um and that we should come up with fewer buttons than most of the controls on the market, and we should sort of concentrate on the channels and sort of power, and also volume and that sort of thing, as as Louisa said. Um we could maybe come up with a menu, a sort of a an L_C_D_ menu for other functions on the remote control. That's worth thinking about. Um and maybe we could think about speech recognition as well, because um sort of young people are perhaps the ones that are gonna buy buy our new product if we aim it at sort of you know sort of a high-tech design. That that might be the market that we're we're looking for. And we could maybe think about using speech recogniti recognition as a way to find the remote control if it's lost in a room, rather than sort of um having it to speech recognition to change the channels. 'Cause there's a problem with that in that the television makes noise, so it could end up talking to itself and changing its channel.
  Kayla Beatty: Mm.
  Rosa Alba: Okay um, and that's the end of the slide show. That's it. Cool.
  Pamela Lail: Do
  Carey Williams: What was
  Pamela Lail: a
  Carey Williams: that
  Pamela Lail: lot
  Carey Williams: last
  Pamela Lail: of um
  Carey Williams: wee bit there?
  Rosa Alba: Um about
  Carey Williams: Speech
  Rosa Alba: speech
  Carey Williams: recognition,
  Rosa Alba: recognition? Yeah.
  Carey Williams: But that was only for young people that preferred it, older people didn't.
  Rosa Alba: Youn young people pref Yeah, they s they said that they'd be interested in a remote control which offered that possibility and as you go up through the age groups, people got less and less interested in sort of a a remote control that you could talk to, so.
  Kayla Beatty: No what I maybe think is um it seems the technology would be quite advanced for that and they might end up costing more than our twelve fifty budget for
  Rosa Alba: Yeah.
  Carey Williams: Well that's
  Kayla Beatty: for
  Carey Williams: right.
  Kayla Beatty: the speech
  Rosa Alba: Yeah.
  Kayla Beatty: recognition.
  Rosa Alba: Yeah.
  Kayla Beatty: Um. And possibly the thing about the about the remote being lost we could have You know with your mobile phone, you lose that and you can ring it. Maybe we can have some kind of sensor which is kept somewhere where you can some kind of buzzer system between the two.
  Rosa Alba: Yeah.
  Kayla Beatty: So you can press a button which is always kept in one place and then it
  Rosa Alba: Uh-huh.
  Kayla Beatty: maybe buzzes to
  Rosa Alba: Yeah.
  Kayla Beatty: somewhere else, wherever the remote actually is.
  Rosa Alba: Yeah, we'd have t that would mean we'd have to put two products together as well, which
  Kayla Beatty: That is true, yes.
  Rosa Alba: which again would probably be a bit expensive,
  Kayla Beatty: Hmm.
  Rosa Alba: but
  Pamela Lail: There's key rings um that you kind of whistle at or clap at, I can't remember,
  Rosa Alba: Yeah.
  Pamela Lail: and then they whistle back, or something like that.
  Carey Williams: Sounds
  Rosa Alba: Yeah.
  Pamela Lail: That'd
  Carey Williams: reasonable.
  Pamela Lail: probably be really simple, they're cheap.
  Rosa Alba: Mm-hmm.
  Carey Williams: Yeah.
  Kayla Beatty: So I guess it'd be something we could
  Carey Williams: So
  Kayla Beatty: like attach to the or like the same technology could be put inside the
  Carey Williams: Well
  Kayla Beatty: inside
  Carey Williams: if
  Kayla Beatty: the remote.
  Carey Williams: you're trying to avoid having a second product 'cause obviously you could have a second product that gave you the right pitch which would set the remote off to say here I am sort of thing, you know without sound recognition. But if you I know. Um I was gonna say a sharp noise, you know a clapping of hand or whatever. You'd want to try and av just have the one product that
  Kayla Beatty: Yeah.
  Carey Williams: if
  Kayla Beatty: Yeah if we if we
  Rosa Alba: Mm-hmm.
  Kayla Beatty: could have it in the actual remote like everything in one
  Rosa Alba: Yeah.
  Kayla Beatty: one device.
  Carey Williams: Yeah. Um I dunno um talking about vo I mean obviously if you've got voice recognition then you can do it in that way because it'll recognise the voice and you can give it a command, a set command whatever that happened to be.
  Rosa Alba: Yeah.
  Carey Williams: But you've then got the point if if you're not going with uh voice recognition then
  Rosa Alba: Mm-hmm.
  Kayla Beatty: you could have an option to turn it off. Or Perhaps, um.
  Rosa Alba: Yeah.
  Kayla Beatty: So that would solve the problems with the T_V_ kind of speaking to the remote and changing its own channels.
  Carey Williams: Mm. So uh Any sugges Well, any conclusions?
  Rosa Alba: Um would it take quite a while to sort of develop the speech recognition software in the remote control?
  Kayla Beatty: Mm.
  Rosa Alba: Considering
  Carey Williams: Well if it does then we can't.
  Rosa Alba: Yeah.
  Carey Williams: It's that simple, because we've got uh th th three um primary um uh requisites from uh from and email uh that was sent to Rosa Alba whereby we had The design logo was one, which we've already mentioned. We've got um the remote was only for the television and not for because that would make it too complex and we have to get it market quickly.
  Rosa Alba: Mm-hmm.
  Carey Williams: And the uh third thing was that um teletext uh as far as uh the management is concerned, um is becoming dated uh due to the popularity of the internet.
  Rosa Alba: Okay.
  Carey Williams: So
  Kayla Beatty: 'Kay.
  Carey Williams: that means that uh so these are the sort of three um extra parameters that have been put on this uh project.
  Rosa Alba: Mm-hmm.
  Carey Williams: So we're being focused effectively directly at a television and
  Kayla Beatty: Yes.
  Carey Williams: it seems to Rosa Alba that the management is uh wanting us to go down a narrow path and not opening out. So anything that uh is to be added, such as voice recognition et cetera
  Kayla Beatty: Has to be simple
  Carey Williams: has
  Kayla Beatty: enough to
  Carey Williams: to be very simple and has to be very quick because time to market is is critical.
  Rosa Alba: Mm-hmm.
  Carey Williams: S
  Kayla Beatty: I suppose if we could get something in which was quite quick and simple that would give us an advantage over the other remotes.
  Carey Williams: It would.
  Kayla Beatty: Um.
  Carey Williams: But probably quick and simple is primary rather than
  Kayla Beatty: 'Kay.
  Carey Williams: added extras. Added extras would be nice, but the primary consideration is to get the project finished within uh this short time window,
  Rosa Alba: Mm-hmm.
  Carey Williams: which effectively now is sort of four hours. So and if and we've gotta get to the end. Uh d d I think I think first and foremost we've gotta get to the end and then get to the end with um added extras if possible.
  Kayla Beatty: Mm-hmm.
  Rosa Alba: Mm-hmm.
  Carey Williams: Okay.
  Rosa Alba: So
  Carey Williams: Right okay, uh so I need to Right. So I don't know how long we have left of our uh time. But we have to
  Rosa Alba: About
  Carey Williams: make
  Rosa Alba: five
  Carey Williams: the decisions
  Rosa Alba: minutes.
  Carey Williams: on uh the remote control functions and how we were planning to proceed so that at the next uh meeting each person that's got a a a task to do is clear
  Kayla Beatty: Yes.
  Carey Williams: from this meeting what that task is.
  Rosa Alba: Mm-hmm.
  Kayla Beatty: Um.
  Carey Williams: We'll also know w when the next meeting is I um so we'll know how long we've got to complete that task. And then we can report back at the next meeting and say right okay yes, we've achieved this or we haven't achieved this, this is how far we've progressed. Does
  Rosa Alba: Mm-hmm.
  Carey Williams: that make reasonable sense?
  Kayla Beatty: Yes that
  Pamela Lail: Yeah.
  Kayla Beatty: seems
  Rosa Alba: Okay,
  Kayla Beatty: right.
  Rosa Alba: yeah.
  Carey Williams: So we have to come effectively to the decision on the remote functions so that you can decide what you're gonna be doing. And if dur between the time of this meeting finishing and the next meeting starting, if you get any additional information that uh only you have at
  Kayla Beatty: Mm-hmm.
  Carey Williams: that point in time you'd think would be relevant to other people in terms of their des decision making um process, then we should communicate that as quickly as possible
  Rosa Alba: Mm-hmm.
  Carey Williams: and not wait until the next meeting. Do it via
  Rosa Alba: Okay.
  Carey Williams: the email
  Rosa Alba: Yep.
  Carey Williams: so that rather than coming you know If you get the information just before the next meeting that's fine. Come along with it in the next meeting, we can discuss it then and
  Kayla Beatty: Okay.
  Carey Williams: take whatever action is appropriate. But if you get it well before the next meeting, let everybody else know 'cause that might have an impact on their uh
  Rosa Alba: Yeah.
  Carey Williams: on what they come up with effectively at the next meeting. Okay.
  Rosa Alba: Mm-hmm.
  Carey Williams: Right, is there
  Rosa Alba: So do we need to decide on the functions now? S
  Carey Williams: I would guess so.
  Pamela Lail: Well I think it'd be really easy and it'd be a big advantage if we did have some sort of um kind of whistle back
  Rosa Alba: Mm-hmm.
  Pamela Lail: kind of function.
  Rosa Alba: Yeah and
  Pamela Lail: 'Cause that'll solve kind of the frustration of losing it.
  Rosa Alba: Yeah and that was that was the number one sort of frustration
  Carey Williams: Yep.
  Rosa Alba: that people said, so. I don't think there's anything else on the market that does that, so.
  Pamela Lail: Yeah. I don't really know about the voice recognition thing.
  Carey Williams: I w well uh i
  Kayla Beatty: Maybe we should concentrate just on the whistle back function
  Carey Williams: Something
  Kayla Beatty: at the moment,
  Carey Williams: simple.
  Kayla Beatty: and if something
  Carey Williams: Uh if
  Kayla Beatty: comes
  Carey Williams: if
  Kayla Beatty: back
  Carey Williams: our primary consideration is to get it there in time, time's short, you want something to meet the major concerns of the consumer
  Pamela Lail: Mm-hmm.
  Carey Williams: so that we can have
  Rosa Alba: Mm-hmm.
  Carey Williams: that as a selling point for the product, something that's quick and simple.
  Pamela Lail: Yeah.
  Carey Williams: So,
  Pamela Lail: And that
  Carey Williams: sounds
  Pamela Lail: wouldn't put
  Carey Williams: good.
  Pamela Lail: off the kind of older generation either, 'cause everyone can whistle or clap, and they wouldn't have to be kind of scared of this new technology.
  Carey Williams: Well, so maybe
  Rosa Alba: Mm-hmm.
  Carey Williams: a clap rather than a whistle would be On the basis that if we've got if we're catering to the whole age range, you want something that's easy to do, now something that doesn't
  Rosa Alba: No
  Carey Williams: like
  Rosa Alba: not
  Carey Williams: whis
  Rosa Alba: everyone
  Carey Williams: uh
  Rosa Alba: can whistle, can
  Carey Williams: Well
  Rosa Alba: they, though?
  Carey Williams: I I I don't know. Well If you think that more people can whistle than clap then that's fine, then go for that option, but if I would
  Rosa Alba: No,
  Carey Williams: have
  Rosa Alba: clapping,
  Kayla Beatty: I'd
  Carey Williams: thought
  Kayla Beatty: go
  Carey Williams: that
  Kayla Beatty: more
  Carey Williams: more people
  Rosa Alba: I
  Kayla Beatty: Yeah,
  Rosa Alba: think clapping,
  Kayla Beatty: f more
  Carey Williams: could
  Kayla Beatty: for
  Rosa Alba: yeah.
  Kayla Beatty: clap.
  Carey Williams: clap rather than whistle,
  Rosa Alba: Yeah.
  Carey Williams: so uh so clap option.
  Rosa Alba: Yeah.
  Carey Williams: Okay.
  Pamela Lail: 'Kay we've already decided that we don't need a teletext button, haven't we?
  Carey Williams: Uh.
  Pamela Lail: Is that one
  Carey Williams: Ef
  Pamela Lail: of
  Carey Williams: effectively
  Pamela Lail: the
  Carey Williams: that's what the that's what they're saying, that uh
  Pamela Lail: Hmm.
  Carey Williams: if uh if people are now using the internet then you don't need teletext, so
  Rosa Alba: Taking out teletext,
  Carey Williams: so
  Rosa Alba: okay.
  Carey Williams: take out teletext.
  Kayla Beatty: Did we decide
  Pamela Lail: Right.
  Kayla Beatty: on having the ten um the ten numbers and then the
  Pamela Lail: Yeah, I think so,
  Kayla Beatty: the
  Pamela Lail: so
  Kayla Beatty: little
  Pamela Lail: zero
  Kayla Beatty: digit
  Pamela Lail: to
  Kayla Beatty: next
  Pamela Lail: nine.
  Kayla Beatty: to it which kind of
  Rosa Alba: Mm.
  Kayla Beatty: enabled you to put them together.
  Rosa Alba: I think nowadays you can just get ones where it gives you a sort of a second or two to press another number,
  Carey Williams: Yeah.
  Rosa Alba: so you can press any two and it'll sort of put them together.
  Kayla Beatty: Okay, ten numbers and then some kind of device to allow uh
  Rosa Alba: Yeah.
  Kayla Beatty: I'll put delay to allow um
  Rosa Alba: Yeah.
  Kayla Beatty: multiple numbers. Or multiple digits.
  Rosa Alba: Yeah.
  Kayla Beatty: Did we decide anything about um the other functions? As in setting the audio and tuning it and stuff like that? You had an had an idea about the menu?
  Rosa Alba: Uh we could possibly put an L_ a sort of a L_C_D_ menu in, but that again is probably an expense that
  Kayla Beatty: But just thinking um people probably I mean you don't have you only have to probably tune in the T_V_ once, but you have to be able to tune it that once.
  Rosa Alba: Yeah.
  Kayla Beatty: So and if finally the T_V_ breaks, you get a new one, you're gonna have to be able to tune it. You can't really avoid
  Rosa Alba: Mm-hmm.
  Kayla Beatty: that.
  Pamela Lail: Hmm.
  Carey Williams: No.
  Kayla Beatty: Except the new digital markets which do it by themselves.
  Rosa Alba: Yeah.
  Kayla Beatty: So that'll
  Carey Williams: But
  Kayla Beatty: be in
  Carey Williams: the but that's relying on the television market changing
  Kayla Beatty: Yes.
  Carey Williams: to an automatic and if it is at the moment, that's fine. But at the moment it's not, so it seems to Rosa Alba that you have to have a device that caters, 'cause
  Kayla Beatty: Yeah.
  Carey Williams: otherwise it would make it uh your device would become inoperable,
  Kayla Beatty: Yeah.
  Carey Williams: or only operable in certain circumstances
  Kayla Beatty: Yeah
  Carey Williams: and
  Kayla Beatty: yeah.
  Pamela Lail: Mm.
  Carey Williams: the idea is to have an international market which is
  Rosa Alba: Yeah.
  Carey Williams: And it's also m it's the the product we've got is something that's at the I would have said the lower end of the s of the cost scale, so
  Rosa Alba: Yeah.
  Carey Williams: we're not really going for something that's uh
  Rosa Alba: I s I suppose
  Carey Williams: terribly
  Rosa Alba: um
  Carey Williams: high-tech.
  Rosa Alba: if people are buying remotes, then they're probably buying it to replace another remote
  Carey Williams: Possibly.
  Rosa Alba: 'cause all most tellies come with remotes, so. I
  Carey Williams: That's right.
  Rosa Alba: mean we're maybe talking about replacing remotes for slightly older televisions, so we maybe need to keep the the tuning function in.
  Kayla Beatty: Yeah.
  Pamela Lail: Yeah.
  Kayla Beatty: So how would this menu function work? Would you maybe have like one menu button, then you'd use the other buttons, maybe the number buttons to actually do the separate functions.
  Rosa Alba: Yeah,
  Pamela Lail: Yeah,
  Rosa Alba: that would be
  Pamela Lail: like
  Rosa Alba: a good
  Pamela Lail: the volume
  Rosa Alba: idea,
  Pamela Lail: or something.
  Rosa Alba: yeah.
  Kayla Beatty: Okay.
  Pamela Lail: Yeah, 'cause you do need um kind of brightness and contrast and everything as well. My dad
  Rosa Alba: Mm-hmm.
  Pamela Lail: was watching a film the other week and it was too dark, so I had to go through it and turn the brightness up.
  Kayla Beatty: we're
  Rosa Alba: Hmm.
  Kayla Beatty: gonna have the the individual numbers and then a menu function and maybe sort of a slightly more advanced um instruction booklet to come with it, to guide Presu uh I think it'd be quite hard just for people to grasp um just off like the menu use different buttons you maybe have to have like some better instructions of how
  Rosa Alba: Uh
  Kayla Beatty: that would actually work.
  Rosa Alba: I'm not sure whether the sort of having people have a booklet 'cause one the second most annoying thing that people found was having to learn the new one.
  Kayla Beatty: Right, okay
  Rosa Alba: So
  Kayla Beatty: um.
  Rosa Alba: maybe next to each of the buttons, you know each of them could have a number and then also a function written next to it, so you're basically pressing
  Kayla Beatty: that also goes back to the original design when we saw those two, and there was the one on the left hand side which had all like the double functions and stuff which kind of looked too busy and had
  Rosa Alba: Right.
  Kayla Beatty: too much on it, so.
  Rosa Alba: Okay.
  Pamela Lail: Well,
  Carey Williams: Okay,
  Pamela Lail: if we're
  Carey Williams: well.
  Pamela Lail: trying to keep it slee sleek and sexy as well, have you seen those
  Carey Williams: Mm.
  Pamela Lail: remotes where kind of um the bottom bit slides down, so there's
  Rosa Alba: Yeah.
  Pamela Lail: kind of um everything
  Carey Williams: So y
  Pamela Lail: else revealed? So you don't
  Carey Williams: Ah
  Pamela Lail: use it that much, you don't have to see it all the time.
  Carey Williams: That's a very
  Pamela Lail: But
  Carey Williams: good
  Pamela Lail: it's
  Carey Williams: idea.
  Pamela Lail: all there
  Kayla Beatty: That
  Pamela Lail: if you
  Kayla Beatty: is
  Pamela Lail: need
  Rosa Alba: Yeah,
  Kayla Beatty: that is
  Pamela Lail: it.
  Kayla Beatty: a good idea actually.
  Rosa Alba: yeah.
  Kayla Beatty: Sor sort of a second.
  Carey Williams: So you keep um
  Pamela Lail: Like a hidden panel.
  Carey Williams: Right we've got five minutes before we wind up this meeting, so I've been told.
  Kayla Beatty: Okay.
  Carey Williams: I don't know if you've got the same.
  Kayla Beatty: Uh not quite, but
  Carey Williams: Okay.
  Kayla Beatty: I guess.
  Carey Williams: So so keep um
  Kayla Beatty: Keep the other buttons but hide them away.
  Carey Williams: keep detailed functions um hidden at the back.
  Pamela Lail: Hmm. And that'll be better for the older generation as well 'cause, well my dad doesn't like
  Carey Williams: Ah.
  Pamela Lail: anything that you've got to kinda flick through a menu,
  Rosa Alba: Mm-hmm.
  Pamela Lail: but he can pretty much read a button
  Carey Williams: Mm-hmm.
  Kayla Beatty: So
  Rosa Alba: Yeah.
  Pamela Lail: if it's displayed properly.
  Kayla Beatty: So um we're gonna have to have to work out what's gonna be on these other functions as as well. So we're
  Rosa Alba: Yeah.
  Kayla Beatty: gonna have like two separate
  Carey Williams: That's right.
  Kayla Beatty: two separate lists, I guess.
  Rosa Alba: Yeah.
  Carey Williams: data functions hidden at back.
  Rosa Alba: So th the
  Carey Williams: Can bring out when needed.
  Rosa Alba: The detailed ones would be sort of brightness,
  Pamela Lail: Yeah.
  Rosa Alba: uh sorta
  Carey Williams: That's right so we're dis So you've got which ones are gonna be on the front and which ones are gonna be on the back.
  Kayla Beatty: So
  Carey Williams: We
  Kayla Beatty: sh
  Carey Williams: have to decide.
  Kayla Beatty: Should we decide
  Rosa Alba: Mm-hmm.
  Kayla Beatty: in the next couple of minutes, and then
  Rosa Alba: Yeah.
  Carey Williams: I guess so.
  Kayla Beatty: So on the
  Carey Williams: So on front,
  Kayla Beatty: about the number.
  Carey Williams: numbers,
  Kayla Beatty: Um
  Pamela Lail: And the volume?
  Kayla Beatty: the volume up and down.
  Carey Williams: volume.
  Kayla Beatty: Shall
  Pamela Lail: Um.
  Kayla Beatty: we have a mute button as well?
  Carey Williams: Sorry?
  Kayla Beatty: A mute button as well.
  Pamela Lail: Yeah.
  Carey Williams: Mm.
  Kayla Beatty: Yeah.
  Pamela Lail: Yeah
  Kayla Beatty: Or
  Pamela Lail: I think they're handy.
  Rosa Alba: Mm-hmm. And probably a power one as well. Dunno.
  Pamela Lail: Have you seen the adverts? Like if you
  Rosa Alba: Mm-hmm.
  Pamela Lail: boil the kettle that's full that's a waste.
  Rosa Alba: Yeah.
  Carey Williams: Mm-hmm.
  Pamela Lail: If you leave your telly on standby it powers Blackpool for a certain amount of time. Like we should maybe try to discourage people from standby.
  Kayla Beatty: But then they might not buy it if they haven't got one. 'Cause
  Rosa Alba: Yeah.
  Kayla Beatty: people might
  Pamela Lail: Yeah,
  Kayla Beatty: just
  Pamela Lail: it's
  Kayla Beatty: be too
  Pamela Lail: maybe
  Kayla Beatty: fickle
  Pamela Lail: too much
  Kayla Beatty: and
  Pamela Lail: of
  Kayla Beatty: not
  Pamela Lail: a big
  Kayla Beatty: want to
  Pamela Lail: issue
  Kayla Beatty: change.
  Pamela Lail: for here.
  Rosa Alba: Yeah.
  Kayla Beatty: We can send out a flier with the device
  Carey Williams: So
  Kayla Beatty: saying that you shouldn't
  Carey Williams: so are
  Kayla Beatty: leave
  Pamela Lail: Uh-oh
  Carey Williams: you having
  Kayla Beatty: it on
  Pamela Lail: danger
  Kayla Beatty: stand-by.
  Carey Williams: the stand-by
  Pamela Lail: sign.
  Carey Williams: on the front, then?
  Kayla Beatty: I think you probably should.
  Pamela Lail: Yeah, but a little bit smaller. Compromise.
  Carey Williams: Well.
  Rosa Alba: Okay.
  Kayla Beatty: Um are we gonna have the channel up and down as well as the number buttons?
  Rosa Alba: Um 'cause yeah the market research said there is quite a lot of people do just zap around
  Kayla Beatty: Okay,
  Rosa Alba: and flick,
  Kayla Beatty: so we'll
  Rosa Alba: so.
  Kayla Beatty: have um
  Pamela Lail: Right.
  Kayla Beatty: So we've got ten eleven twelve thirteen fourteen fifteen sixteen there?
  Rosa Alba: Um.
  Carey Williams: Channel up and down. What else have we got? What was that, sixteen?
  Rosa Alba: Numbers is ten, volume is twelve, th
  Carey Williams: Volume button.
  Rosa Alba: Yeah
  Carey Williams: How many
  Rosa Alba: si
  Carey Williams: volumes?
  Rosa Alba: One up, one down.
  Carey Williams: Right okay.
  Pamela Lail: On mute.
  Rosa Alba: And a mute, yeah. That's sixteen isn't it, yeah.
  Kayla Beatty: Is there anything else? Um.
  Rosa Alba: I don't think so, no.
  Carey Williams: Power button, stand-by, channel, up and down. So is that it?
  Pamela Lail: so.
  Carey Williams: Okay. That's sixteen buttons, you reckon. And then at the back?
  Rosa Alba: You've got brightness and contrast.
  Kayla Beatty: Maybe
  Pamela Lail: And then
  Kayla Beatty: if we're gonna run out of time, one of us should come up with a list of these and then get back at the next meeting just at the start and say what they're gonna be.
  Carey Williams: Okay.
  Rosa Alba: Yeah.
  Carey Williams: So
  Pamela Lail: Mm-hmm.
  Carey Williams: on the back it'll have brightness, contrast, anything else?
  Pamela Lail: Uh
  Carey Williams: You're
  Pamela Lail: there's
  Carey Williams: also
  Pamela Lail: audio
  Carey Williams: gonna have
  Pamela Lail: functions.
  Carey Williams: the channel tuner, as it were.
  Rosa Alba: Yeah.
  Kayla Beatty: So tuner up and down, I guess.
  Pamela Lail: Yeah.
  Carey Williams: Tuner, would that have up and down?
  Kayla Beatty: Um up
  Pamela Lail: I think they normally
  Kayla Beatty: Tune one
  Pamela Lail: do.
  Kayla Beatty: way, tune
  Carey Williams: okay.
  Kayla Beatty: the o I I dunno I
  Rosa Alba: Yeah.
  Kayla Beatty: dunno possibly.
  Pamela Lail: Yeah.
  Carey Williams: Okay.
  Rosa Alba: And then maybe sort of an enter button for sort of s you know, saying that you want that particular thing tuned in. So you go up and down and then it pick
  Kayla Beatty: Oh yeah
  Rosa Alba: it
  Kayla Beatty: and
  Rosa Alba: finds
  Kayla Beatty: th and a
  Rosa Alba: something
  Kayla Beatty: enter
  Rosa Alba: and
  Kayla Beatty: button
  Rosa Alba: then you
  Kayla Beatty: just
  Rosa Alba: wanna
  Kayla Beatty: to
  Rosa Alba: press
  Kayla Beatty: select. Yeah,
  Rosa Alba: enter
  Kayla Beatty: okay.
  Rosa Alba: to select it, yeah.
  Kayla Beatty: Um I guess we're keeping s it simple. We don't really need any other audio funct uh functions because it's just volume up, volume
  Carey Williams: Um
  Kayla Beatty: down.
  Carey Williams: up volume, yeah, I would have thought so.
  Kayla Beatty: Um.
  Rosa Alba: Yeah.
  Pamela Lail: So I think um there's quite a lot of like Dolby surround studio, surround sort of things.
  Rosa Alba: Yeah.
  Carey Williams: Okay.
  Kayla Beatty: Do
  Pamela Lail: Um
  Kayla Beatty: they have their
  Pamela Lail: maybe
  Kayla Beatty: own
  Pamela Lail: for the younger market.
  Kayla Beatty: do they have their own controls on their actual products, then, or do you have to do it via the remote?
  Pamela Lail: Um I think they've got their own controls in this kind of like hidden panel.
  Kayla Beatty: Yeah I suppose if we've got their if they've got their own controls then we can avoid it for ours
  Carey Williams: Yeah.
  Kayla Beatty: just to keep it simple.
  Carey Williams: Yeah.
  Pamela Lail: Oh no, I mean um like there's kind of individual buttons for them,
  Kayla Beatty: Oh, okay.
  Pamela Lail: like on the T_V_ remote.
  Kayla Beatty: Right.
  Rosa Alba: Mm-hmm.
  Pamela Lail: But I don't really know what they're for, I've never used them.
  Kayla Beatty: Um.
  Pamela Lail: I just know they're something to do with
  Kayla Beatty: Maybe unless something
  Pamela Lail: Dolby.
  Kayla Beatty: comes up then we should I
  Carey Williams: Well
  Kayla Beatty: think
  Carey Williams: you might get some research.
  Kayla Beatty: Well shall we look into that and just get back together.
  Carey Williams: Okay.
  Rosa Alba: Okay.
  Pamela Lail: Right.
  Carey Williams: Right
  Rosa Alba: Right.
  Carey Williams: so I'll do the minutes of uh this meeting. And we'll meet back at I'm not sure. Um forty minutes, I believe is the time.
  Kayla Beatty: 'Kay.
  Rosa Alba: Okay.
  Carey Williams: Come on.
Updated Content: Carey Williams gave the group new requirements on product features. Kayla Beatty gave a presentation on the working design of the device. He presented all the necessary internal components and how they operate together. He gave his preferences on energy sources and senders. Pamela Lail presented the necessary functions of the remote, then compared the interfaces of two existing remotes. The group discussed making their remote more user-friendly; they proposed eliminating rarely-used buttons and making it easier to skip through channels. Rosa Alba discussed user requirements with the group and showed that users wanted a fancier, less complicated remote that would not be easily lost. He suggested incorporating a menu and an LCD screen to satisfy these requirements. The group discussed how to incorporate a locator function. Carey Williams reminded the group to limit the number of complicated features due to the project's time constraints. The group had a discussion to decide on product features. They decided to include a clapping locator function and a device that allows the user to enter two numbers separately to get a two-digit number. Complicated functions will be hidden in a back panel.