Extracted Content: Rosario Hicks: Right, so start of the first meeting
  Michal Cline: Mm-hmm.
  Rosario Hicks: Uh. Right, so agenda of the first meeting. Where we uh We have twenty five minutes for this meeting.
  Antoinette Ortiz: Okay.
  Rosario Hicks: We uh are to get acquainted. So does everyone want to say who they are? that seem
  Michal Cline: Yeah.
  Rosario Hicks: sensible?
  Michal Cline: I'm Robin. I'm the Marketing.
  Cindy Kerns: I'm Louisa. I'm Cindy Kerns.
  Antoinette Ortiz: I'm Nick. I am the Designer
  Rosario Hicks: And I'm Alastair and I'm the project leader. Alright okay, so tool training. Um. Project plan. So does anyone have any uh thoughts as to the tool training that uh is required?
  Antoinette Ortiz: Tool training.
  Cindy Kerns: I'm not exactly sure what you mean by tool training.
  Rosario Hicks: am I. Oh I see, so we shouldn't really be
  Rosario Hicks: Oh right okay, so. So we have the project team, which is to um basically to come up with a new r remote control device. Uh we have uh the starting base was the original which has been in existence now for a period of time. And uh our idea is to uh to make the new remote control device uh more user friendly than the previous one, and to to be trendier, to be with it, and therefore to uh
  Antoinette Ortiz: Yeah.
  Rosario Hicks: to get a bigger market share and bigger audience. So um method of doing this is uh split up as you can see into uh the functional design, the conceptional design, and the detailed design. So um in each of these uh phases we'll uh basically be handing over to yourselves, the
  Antoinette Ortiz: Yes.
  Rosario Hicks: designers of this uh this device. And uh having uh meetings so that we can uh during the course of the day um come up with a better better inst implement than we had before. And therefore um have a successful uh conclusion to the day. Um and you'll be doing uh various designs uh throughout
  Michal Cline: Mm-hmm,
  Rosario Hicks: the day
  Michal Cline: okay.
  Rosario Hicks: to meet this end. So we've got tool training. Try out whiteboard. Uh. So we will um. Right so everyone's to uh supposedly uh draw their favourite animal over on the white board over there. I guess this is uh make sure the whiteboard works. So
  Antoinette Ortiz: Okay.
  Rosario Hicks: uh I don't know who wishes to go first. Do
  Cindy Kerns: I
  Rosario Hicks: you wish
  Cindy Kerns: don't
  Michal Cline: I dunno.
  Rosario Hicks: to
  Cindy Kerns: mind.
  Rosario Hicks: go f Have a first bash at uh whatever.
  Cindy Kerns: Um.
  Rosario Hicks: Ah
  Cindy Kerns: Let's
  Rosario Hicks: uh.
  Cindy Kerns: see. Good job I got pockets today.
  Michal Cline: Your microphone's
  Rosario Hicks: But now you you
  Michal Cline: just
  Rosario Hicks: uh you'll move out from the microphone and the camera. I
  Cindy Kerns: Are we
  Rosario Hicks: take
  Cindy Kerns: supposed
  Rosario Hicks: it that
  Cindy Kerns: to do this right now, do you think, or?
  Rosario Hicks: I would I would guess so. Or
  Michal Cline: Yeah.
  Antoinette Ortiz: You've lost
  Michal Cline: I don't
  Antoinette Ortiz: uh
  Michal Cline: know.
  Antoinette Ortiz: your microphone there.
  Cindy Kerns: Oh. Right
  Rosario Hicks: Technical problems.
  Cindy Kerns: here we go.
  Rosario Hicks: I mean you designers are meant to come up with these sort of things.
  Cindy Kerns: Okay. I think that I would have to say that my favourite animal is the cat. Little smiley cat there. Um and this would be because they're very independent, compared to dogs maybe. Um and they can be very very affectionate. Some people don't think so but I know very affectionate cats. Um. Um and they can look after themselves.
  Rosario Hicks: Next.
  Antoinette Ortiz: Okay, yeah. I'll
  Cindy Kerns: Shall I rub
  Antoinette Ortiz: I'll
  Cindy Kerns: that out, actually?
  Rosario Hicks: I don't see as there's any need to. There's plenty of space. I mean whatever.
  Michal Cline: We can have have a whole menagerie.
  Rosario Hicks: Exactly.
  Antoinette Ortiz: Shall I see if I can get across without just tangling everything. Okay. There's
  Rosario Hicks: We've
  Antoinette Ortiz: one.
  Rosario Hicks: had more time to prepare over this side, so we've all stuck our bits and pieces in our pockets.
  Antoinette Ortiz: Didn't think of that. 'Kay uh
  Rosario Hicks: The three
  Antoinette Ortiz: pens
  Rosario Hicks: pens
  Antoinette Ortiz: are
  Rosario Hicks: are
  Antoinette Ortiz: over here.
  Rosario Hicks: underneath.
  Antoinette Ortiz: I'll try the red pen. Okay. Um. I'm gonna go for the bear but I'll have a bash at it.
  Rosario Hicks: You get marks
  Antoinette Ortiz: Uh.
  Rosario Hicks: for artistic impression.
  Antoinette Ortiz: Ooh ooh I lost it there. I think I've just knocked the microphone. Um.
  Rosario Hicks: So you're just doing the face.
  Antoinette Ortiz: We'll g then we'll go for a a s small small bear. Um and I like my animal that looks nothing like a bear because um I dunno maybe because there's so many cartoon characters made up after the bear like the jungle book characters and stuff like that. Great.
  Michal Cline: Right.
  Michal Cline: Hello. Um I'm gonna go for the dog, and I'm gonna draw one badly as well. Uh.
  Michal Cline: looks like it's going to be a dachshund or something.
  Cindy Kerns: That's quite good.
  Michal Cline: Right. There's my dog. And they're always happy, so whenever whenever you're feeling sort of a bit a bit down or tired, they're always coming up and they're always um quite excited. So um you can always have a lot of fun with a dog. And they're also good for exercise as well. You can sorta get out and they they sorta never get tired. And and when they're tired they're quite cute as well, so. Okay, that's why I like dogs.
  Rosario Hicks: Right, um. Well I've not actually had too many pets uh over my uh time 'cause to be honest with you uh I'm not too keen on them anyway. Not to worry. So what my daughters have got at the moment is they've got uh a few fish and so hopefully um won't prove too difficult to draw. Uh
  Rosario Hicks: As you can see that my artist artistic work is useless as well. Anyway um. And uh one of the best uh things about fish is that they don't really take uh too much looking after because uh with most of the animals if you're going away on holiday or whatever, you've gotta spend money or get a friend or whatever to look after them for you. Whereas if you got fish, you just gotta put the food in a a a dripper feed which feeds them over the uh couple of weeks that you're away and uh change the water every couple of months, and buy in a few plants, so. Other than the fact that they keep dying, uh fish are uh are not are are are reasonable pets in that uh they're low maintenance.
  Michal Cline: Great.
  Rosario Hicks: Right. Okay, uh if we're still all with us. Right okay, so. Work has been done on uh this uh project where by um twenty five Euros is uh the uh expected uh selling price.
  Michal Cline: Mm-hmm.
  Rosario Hicks: That information has come from our marketing manager here.
  Michal Cline: Yeah.
  Rosario Hicks: So we're looking to sell internationally, not just in Europe. We're looking at um having our production costs limited to uh twelve and an half Euro per unit. And therefore making a profit margin of uh well not actually a profit margin it's uh because obviously you're gonna have overheads and various other costs to uh take uh from uh from that to give you your profit margin per unit. And so depending what the uh the overhead uh costs are will determine uh how many units we're uh looking to sell or projecting to sell at this point in time. So um Experience with remote control, first ideas. New remote. So I guess we're looking at um having a discussion at this point in time to help uh you um folks design our our new
  Antoinette Ortiz: Yes.
  Rosario Hicks: model as it were. So uh any any thoughts?
  Antoinette Ortiz: Um I with some remote controls the buttons were a little small so they're quite hard to press so maybe we make something with uh easy to press buttons. As that is the main function.
  Rosario Hicks: Okay, so so basically we're looking for some um we're looking for a device that is um robust
  Antoinette Ortiz: Yes.
  Rosario Hicks: and and therefore uh won't get damaged too easily. a device that is uh What was the other things you said there?
  Antoinette Ortiz: Um sort of easy to use so the
  Rosario Hicks: Easy
  Antoinette Ortiz: buttons
  Rosario Hicks: to use.
  Antoinette Ortiz: are accessible.
  Rosario Hicks: Use.
  Antoinette Ortiz: is easy to use and see.
  Rosario Hicks: And see.
  Antoinette Ortiz: Yes.
  Rosario Hicks: Okay. Uh.
  Cindy Kerns: Can I just check? Is this just a television remote? Because a lot of um systems are kind of T_V_ video combined now, or T_V_ D_V_D_ combined. And
  Rosario Hicks: Mm-hmm.
  Cindy Kerns: one of the most annoying things is having like five remotes in the house. So if you've got a combined system, it could be a combined remote.
  Michal Cline: Mm.
  Cindy Kerns: Or is it just a television that we're supposed to be doing?
  Rosario Hicks: Oh I w um basically I'll get back to you on that. But it seems to Michal Cline sensible, 'cause as you rightly said, there's nothing more annoying than having three or four devices littered about the uh
  Michal Cline: Yeah.
  Rosario Hicks: about the room. And uh So a device for for all remotes.
  Michal Cline: I've
  Antoinette Ortiz: Sorry, you go. You
  Michal Cline: Okay.
  Antoinette Ortiz: go.
  Michal Cline: Yeah. Um one of the things um we found from the market research is that people often get confused by the number of buttons on them as well. 'Cause there's quite often lots and lots. And um sometimes uh they sort of remote controls defeat their own purpose because you're sat in the chair and the remote is somewhere else in the room. So whereas in the past you'd have to get up to change the channel, now you have to get up to sort of pick up the remote. So so I don't we need to sort of maybe think about how um we could maybe uh develop a remote control which moves around the room.
  Rosario Hicks: Hmm.
  Cindy Kerns: Comes to your whistle.
  Michal Cline: That's that's maybe something for the future when you can talk to your television, but
  Antoinette Ortiz: Yeah.
  Rosario Hicks: But is it in a sense it's r um mutually exclusive. You can't have both
  Michal Cline: Yeah.
  Rosario Hicks: the th the one device and then have few buttons on it to 'cause you want you want simplicity as well, you want any idiot to be able to use it.
  Michal Cline: Yeah.
  Rosario Hicks: Whilst at the same time you want, as you rightly said, one remote for all.
  Michal Cline: Mm-hmm.
  Rosario Hicks: And so these are probably mutually exclusive options
  Antoinette Ortiz: Yes.
  Rosario Hicks: that
  Michal Cline: Mm-hmm.
  Rosario Hicks: uh Hmm you could argue that experience of using devices and similar devices as people get more and more used to using remotes, therefore they're more with handling
  Antoinette Ortiz: Yeah.
  Rosario Hicks: them, therefore you can make them more complicated as time goes on.
  Antoinette Ortiz: Maybe we could um have better instructions with the remote. Or are we just doing the design of the remote control itself, or sort of the instructions that would come with it?
  Rosario Hicks: Better instructions.
  Michal Cline: Yeah. I mean we've done some research um about sort of you know what the cutting edge sort of hand held devices are, and a lot of them sort of use you know they're like they're like mini laptops.
  Rosario Hicks: Mm-hmm.
  Michal Cline: So it's possible that we could devise a system where where you're you're basically sort of holding a a miniature computer which is controlling all your your sort of your television, your stereo, and where you know if you buy a new thing then it sort of you can link it to that as well, maybe.
  Rosario Hicks: Okay. Um well we've got five minutes before the end of the meeting. So uh we have to uh start winding up. Um is there Next meeting in thirty minutes.
  Antoinette Ortiz: 'Kay.
  Michal Cline: Okay.
  Rosario Hicks: So um Right, so we've got I_D_ the Come on, where's my
  Michal Cline: If you just click return it should be okay. It'll get rid of the message.
  Antoinette Ortiz: Or not.
  Michal Cline: If you hit just hit return and it should get rid of the message.
  Rosario Hicks: Oh
  Michal Cline: Oh you've
  Rosario Hicks: there
  Michal Cline: got.
  Rosario Hicks: we go. Yeah. That's what I was looking for. Right. So we've got function Oh what happened to the
  Cindy Kerns: I think that might be back to the start.
  Michal Cline: Yeah.
  Cindy Kerns: Um if you grab the kind of uh slide
  Antoinette Ortiz: slide
  Cindy Kerns: to the
  Antoinette Ortiz: four
  Cindy Kerns: left and pull it down?
  Michal Cline: Yeah.
  Rosario Hicks: Right.
  Rosario Hicks: Right.
  Antoinette Ortiz: Okay.
  Rosario Hicks: Sorry about that. Okay, so we've got um the working design for I_D_. For U_I_D_ the technical functions design. Marketing, the user requirement specification. Specific instructions will be sent to you by your person by your personal coach. So. Are we all clear what objectives we're looking to meet in the next thirty minutes?
  Michal Cline: Mm-hmm.
  Rosario Hicks: And
  Antoinette Ortiz: Yes.
  Rosario Hicks: I guess I'll try and write up some minutes of uh this meeting to uh to give it to you for the next
  Antoinette Ortiz: 'Kay,
  Rosario Hicks: meeting.
  Antoinette Ortiz: yes.
  Michal Cline: Mm-hmm.
  Cindy Kerns: I'm not exactly clear on what we're designing the rem remote for. Is this a mun multi-functional one or do we decide that ourselves as we go away and work on it?
  Antoinette Ortiz: I think you just said at the start it was a television remote control,
  Rosario Hicks: Television
  Antoinette Ortiz: so maybe we
  Cindy Kerns: Right.
  Rosario Hicks: remote
  Antoinette Ortiz: should just
  Rosario Hicks: control.
  Antoinette Ortiz: stick to that unless we get told otherwise.
  Rosario Hicks: That's true, 'cause during during the course of our day we might make decisions based on information or meetings that would change
  Michal Cline: Okay
  Rosario Hicks: where
  Michal Cline: cool.
  Rosario Hicks: we're going. But at this point in time I think you're right that uh shall we make it just a T_V_. Okay?
  Antoinette Ortiz: 'Kay.
  Rosario Hicks: So we will depart. We will stay here and uh and break off. And I'll do minutes and and we'll see you in half and hour.
  Antoinette Ortiz: Okay, that's great.
  Cindy Kerns: Okay.
  Michal Cline: Okay
  Rosario Hicks: Okay.
  Michal Cline: cheers.
  Rosario Hicks: Right s
Updated Content: The group introduced themselves and their roles to each other. Rosario Hicks introduced the project aim and agenda to the group. The group acquainted themselves with the meeting-room equipment by drawing on the whiteboard. Rosario Hicks discussed the projected production cost and price point for the device. The group began a discussion about their own experiences with using remote controls and about usability features to be included in the design. Rosario Hicks instructed Antoinette Ortiz to prepare the working design, Cindy Kerns to research technical functions, and Michal Cline to prepare the user requirement specification. The group discussed the function of the prototype and decided that they should restrict the remote to television for the time being.