Extracted Content: Charles Collier: So
  Keith Heelan: So
  Charles Collier: I hope you're ready for this uh functional design meeting.
  Keith Heelan: Of course.
  Charles Collier: Um so I will take the minutes you mm you three are going to do presentation. Um uh we want to know to at the end to know the new project's requirement so we need uh to know the the user uh needs that we want to fulfil to fulfil the from the technical part we want to know how it going to work and um third part uh I don't remember which is not very good. Ah of course how, to to design this uh this
  Keith Heelan: Nice stuff
  Charles Collier: yeah. So um let's go for the three presentations, so first
  Keith Heelan: Who starts?
  Charles Collier: um Marketing
  Keith Heelan: Oh. Ha.
  Charles Collier: Expert.
  Keith Heelan: okay.
  Charles Collier: So wait a minute.
  Keith Heelan: So
  Charles Collier: Mm.
  Keith Heelan: I dunno if I can do that like this? Yeah? So it's being modified. Do you want yeah, open. Read only. I hope I saved it. So,
  Gabriel Ball: Sammy
  Keith Heelan: um
  Gabriel Ball: Benjo.
  Keith Heelan: yeah,
  Gabriel Ball: I know this
  Keith Heelan: this
  Gabriel Ball: name
  Keith Heelan: is
  Gabriel Ball: uh
  Keith Heelan: my name.
  Charles Collier: Sounds uh
  Gabriel Ball: We. met
  Keith Heelan: So
  Gabriel Ball: before.
  Keith Heelan: as you know, you I think you already know Keith Heelan, Sammy Benjo. I am the expert in marketing I want to tell you uh s want and uh like and dislike in remote controls, and I hope this is going to help you to to design it correctly. So next please. Uh-oh.
  Charles Collier: Mm
  Willis Nogle: Yeah, it
  Charles Collier: uh.
  Willis Nogle: is put F_ five.
  Charles Collier: Hmm.
  Keith Heelan: Hmm.
  Willis Nogle: The full page presentation,
  Keith Heelan: Yeah maybe
  Willis Nogle: yep.
  Keith Heelan: in the full page because
  Gabriel Ball: F_
  Keith Heelan: i
  Charles Collier: Okay.
  Gabriel Ball: F_ five.
  Willis Nogle: Yeah.
  Keith Heelan: I spent
  Willis Nogle: Yep.
  Keith Heelan: lots of time doing this presentation,
  Charles Collier: F_ five.
  Keith Heelan: so.
  Willis Nogle: Yeah.
  Keith Heelan: Uh-huh hmm okay.
  Charles Collier: Mm-hmm. Mm.
  Keith Heelan: So basically uh what I suggest is that uh instead of deciding ourself what what could be and what should be a good uh remote control, let's ask people who are users of remote controls how they feel about w the current remote controls, what they like, what they don't like and um and what they do with them by the way because they are supposed to be useful. Don't forget about that. So we've we've conducted a a survey on on the use of uh remote controls and I'd like to show you some of the results we found on this survey. And next please. Yeah, so basically what we found was that uh there are several things that the user don't like in remote controls. First of all, they find it very ugly. Current remote controls as you know they're the same as this one uh they're not nice colour, not nice shape, I mean they're all the same, and they're not l good looking. Um what is interesting is that in fact it seems that they were people are ready to pay for nice and look and fancy looking uh remote control, so I think we should probably spend lots of time in and effort in that um. And the other thing is that uh the the current remote controls are not so easy to use and it it the the current uh facilities that they offer do not match what people really want to use their remote controls. For instance uh we see that uh they zap very often so I think this is a very uh important uh functionality that it should be easy for them to to zap uh in one way or another. And most of the buttons uh on uh current remote controls are not used, so I think we should design something where some of the buttons which are those that are used should be easier to see and use than others that only a couple of people are using. Um next please. Now people are very frustrated w with their remote controls and they for instance uh they don't even find it it's it's often lost somewhere in the in the in your home and nobody knows where it
  Willis Nogle: Yeah.
  Keith Heelan: is. Maybe
  Gabriel Ball: Agree.
  Keith Heelan: if we have something where we
  Willis Nogle: Yeah.
  Keith Heelan: could ask the remote control please, where are you? Like
  Willis Nogle: Yeah.
  Keith Heelan: uh something to to like t I think phones. Some of the phones have some of this kind of s functionality. Uh of course phone you can always phone your phone but you can't phone
  Willis Nogle: You can
  Keith Heelan: your your
  Willis Nogle: you
  Keith Heelan: remote
  Charles Collier: Why
  Keith Heelan: control.
  Charles Collier: not?
  Willis Nogle: are.
  Keith Heelan: But why not? Yeah. And because of the fact that there are so many buttons in these remote controls that nobody use, in fact
  Willis Nogle: Hmm.
  Keith Heelan: they don't even know how to use them, so most of the the people say they they don't know how to they to use properly their r remote controls. And uh they are bad for R_S_I_ but uh I don't remember what is R_S_I_. So I think they are bad.
  Charles Collier: Okay uh tha that's look
  Gabriel Ball: R_S_I_
  Charles Collier: great.
  Gabriel Ball: mm-hmm.
  Keith Heelan: Mm-hmm. Mm nobody has any idea about that? Well I'll
  Willis Nogle: Yeah,
  Keith Heelan: check uh
  Willis Nogle: it's
  Keith Heelan: with my
  Willis Nogle: electromagnetic waves or something
  Keith Heelan: Oh,
  Willis Nogle: kind of maybe
  Gabriel Ball: No,
  Keith Heelan: okay,
  Willis Nogle: uh effect.
  Keith Heelan: I think
  Gabriel Ball: I
  Keith Heelan: it's
  Gabriel Ball: don't
  Keith Heelan: a technical
  Gabriel Ball: think so.
  Keith Heelan: thing which
  Willis Nogle: Yeah, because infrared
  Keith Heelan: our
  Willis Nogle: uses some
  Keith Heelan: Okay.
  Charles Collier: Mm-hmm.
  Willis Nogle: electromagnetic
  Charles Collier: Okay.
  Willis Nogle: technology,
  Gabriel Ball: Okay.
  Willis Nogle: and those
  Keith Heelan: So,
  Willis Nogle: waves
  Keith Heelan: it
  Willis Nogle: have high
  Keith Heelan: seems
  Gabriel Ball: But twenty
  Keith Heelan: that
  Gabriel Ball: six percent, do you know
  Keith Heelan: it's a
  Willis Nogle: Uh.
  Keith Heelan: lot of people for a
  Gabriel Ball: Twenty
  Keith Heelan: concept
  Charles Collier: Or something
  Keith Heelan: that we
  Charles Collier: we
  Keith Heelan: don't
  Charles Collier: don't
  Keith Heelan: know
  Charles Collier: know.
  Gabriel Ball: five.
  Keith Heelan: but
  Willis Nogle: Uh.
  Keith Heelan: we have to take this into account.
  Gabriel Ball: Every fourth, you
  Charles Collier: Mm-hmm.
  Gabriel Ball: know.
  Willis Nogle: Yeah it's
  Gabriel Ball: Every four
  Willis Nogle: People really
  Gabriel Ball: some of us knows.
  Charles Collier: Okay.
  Keith Heelan: So anyway
  Gabriel Ball: One
  Keith Heelan: that's
  Gabriel Ball: of
  Keith Heelan: for
  Gabriel Ball: us
  Keith Heelan: what the biggest frustration uh of the user and um
  Willis Nogle: Yeah. Yeah.
  Keith Heelan: what else do I have? Next slide? Ah yeah.
  Gabriel Ball: Mm-hmm.
  Keith Heelan: So we've listed a couple of uh
  Gabriel Ball: Functions.
  Keith Heelan: s uh functions that may be uh used by u the user in the current uh available uh remote controls and uh well the tables look very nice to read but what is important is to understand that the power button is not used often because in general you use it only once per session, but it is very relevant. People want to have a power button. Channel selection is uh o often used very often used and indeed uh very relevant.
  Keith Heelan: Ah now I remember what is R_S_I_ it's repetitivity stress injury. We have to be careful with that word but
  Willis Nogle: Uh.
  Keith Heelan: uh anyway I continue my presentation so yeah, channel selection is um very important, very often used. Volume is not often used but people uh want to have control on volume and that makes sense of course.
  Keith Heelan: All of them. they're not often used and they are s more or less relevant. It seems that people find teletext teletext uh relevant, even if I personally never use it but seems that it's average relevant at least, so.
  Charles Collier: I have been told that we uh don't consider teletext, that it's out of date now because of internet.
  Keith Heelan: I can tell you that uh in a l in a scale between one and ten relevant uh not relevant to relevant people scored a six on this, which is not as uh these these two one were had I think ten I think.
  Charles Collier: Mm-hmm.
  Keith Heelan: But but if you compare with these ones, uh I think they scored a one or two. Not very
  Willis Nogle: Hmm.
  Keith Heelan: relevant, so if if there are good reason not to put teletext it's okay but just know that people find it somehow relevant.
  Charles Collier: Mm-hmm
  Gabriel Ball: Mm-hmm.
  Keith Heelan: That's for the main functions I think and uh then we can ask uh ourself uh what people don't have that may be useful. For instance I think net next slide. One of the thing the trend uh that uh you are probably aware of is the possibility the eventual possibility of having speech recognition in your remote control, so you wouldn't have to tap tap in your buttons but just tell your remote control or whatever you need you have what you want. So we've conducted a survey about uh whether people would like or not to have uh this kind of uh functionality in their remote control and as we can see it really depends on the age. Young people, probably because it's a buzz word, find it very relevant. And uh as the age goes up the the relevance goes down.
  Willis Nogle: Yeah.
  Keith Heelan: So now it really depends on the kind of uh targeting uh wha who are we targeting with this remote control? I think if we
  Willis Nogle: 'Cause
  Keith Heelan: are targeting young people then uh it's probably something we have to consider. If we are targeting you very old people this is something they really don't know why they this should be so
  Charles Collier: Mm-mm.
  Keith Heelan: now this
  Charles Collier: Okay.
  Keith Heelan: is of course, depends on that. And um I don't have any conclusion, I didn't have time the meeting was very tight, so that's basically my findings. And uh, if you have any question?
  Charles Collier: Mm I think it's good, okay. You done a good
  Gabriel Ball: I
  Keith Heelan: I can
  Gabriel Ball: got
  Charles Collier: review.
  Keith Heelan: go back.
  Gabriel Ball: one question,
  Willis Nogle: you.
  Keith Heelan: Yeah one question, yeah?
  Gabriel Ball: uh you are a Market Expert so
  Keith Heelan: I am.
  Gabriel Ball: should we aim at the young people or not?
  Keith Heelan: I think we should aim at the young people. But uh I think they are they are those uh who might be more interested in a in a new device.
  Willis Nogle: Mm.
  Keith Heelan: In general the the early adopters of a new device are young people, less than
  Gabriel Ball: Okay,
  Keith Heelan: more
  Willis Nogle: Mm.
  Keith Heelan: than
  Gabriel Ball: then teletext is used less.
  Charles Collier: Mm-hmm.
  Keith Heelan: Then teletext is useless for them I think,
  Gabriel Ball: Okay.
  Keith Heelan: yeah. Because they they have other means of finding
  Gabriel Ball: Mm-hmm.
  Keith Heelan: their
  Charles Collier: Mm-hmm
  Keith Heelan: information.
  Gabriel Ball: Mm-hmm.
  Charles Collier: mm
  Keith Heelan: Yeah.
  Charles Collier: mm. Okay.
  Keith Heelan: But
  Charles Collier: That's good
  Keith Heelan: yeah.
  Willis Nogle: Mm,
  Charles Collier: point.
  Gabriel Ball: Mm.
  Willis Nogle: yep.
  Gabriel Ball: Okay.
  Keith Heelan: Nope. 'Kay?
  Charles Collier: Okay.
  Willis Nogle: Thank you.
  Charles Collier: So um now I think it's the turn of the the I'm not sure um
  Charles Collier: Of the technical function, so
  Keith Heelan: So
  Charles Collier: uh
  Keith Heelan: I think it's you,
  Willis Nogle: Uh it's
  Keith Heelan: huh? No?
  Gabriel Ball: That's
  Willis Nogle: techni
  Gabriel Ball: Keith Heelan.
  Willis Nogle: function
  Charles Collier: what effect
  Keith Heelan: No,
  Willis Nogle: of
  Keith Heelan: user requiremen
  Willis Nogle: Yeah.
  Charles Collier: Okay. Wait a
  Willis Nogle: I
  Charles Collier: second.
  Willis Nogle: have to do
  Charles Collier: Argh.
  Willis Nogle: working design so uh.
  Charles Collier: So
  Gabriel Ball: That's
  Charles Collier: you're
  Gabriel Ball: but this but number three, yes. Mm-hmm. So, my name is Mark Dwight, and um I am responsible for User Interface Design. However, uh mm Project Manager asked Keith Heelan to give you some presentation about technical functions design. Uh, as I'm a more an artist that's gonna be less technical functions but more User Interface and current intentions and everything which is linked with this. So next
  Charles Collier: Okay.
  Gabriel Ball: slide please.
  Charles Collier: Let's go.
  Gabriel Ball: And uh a general method which is seems
  Willis Nogle: Mm.
  Gabriel Ball: to be very useful for our task is not to forget about uh Occam razor. We should never complicate things too much. We should only make a remote control, nothing more. Nothing more than this, just a remote control. 'Cause current remote
  Keith Heelan: Makes sense.
  Gabriel Ball: controls they are never easy enough to use. So, make a click, please. So here is this remote control. It's quite a standard one, but it's not from a T_V_, it's from a much easier device like air conditioning or something. But you know, we can use it for a T_V_ easily. Only buttons we need is on off, volume, channels and maybe some options or something else, and please make a click, compared to this one which
  Willis Nogle: It's
  Gabriel Ball: one would you prefer? I guess
  Willis Nogle: Yeah,
  Gabriel Ball: this.
  Keith Heelan: I would say
  Willis Nogle: yeah.
  Keith Heelan: the simplest one as long as there are the uh I find the buttons that I need every time I need a button.
  Gabriel Ball: Sure,
  Willis Nogle: Yeah.
  Gabriel Ball: sure.
  Willis Nogle: Maybe it can be yeah middle of like,
  Gabriel Ball: Yeah,
  Willis Nogle: between those two li
  Gabriel Ball: and our method is going to be, provide simple
  Charles Collier: Oh sorry.
  Gabriel Ball: simple desires into simple actions.
  Keith Heelan: Nice. Nice sentence.
  Gabriel Ball: Findings.
  Charles Collier: Okay. Oh sorry.
  Gabriel Ball: Our question of the style, we should remember that our company puts fashion into electronics and we should never forget about it. Concept.
  Willis Nogle: S you
  Gabriel Ball: Be
  Willis Nogle: should
  Gabriel Ball: simple.
  Willis Nogle: yeah.
  Gabriel Ball: Be simple and you'll lean on this market. Market is a of remote controls you know it better,
  Keith Heelan: Mm.
  Gabriel Ball: it's very well, it's it's not an easy field to to play, you know? So be simple. For personal preferences I think that to make a baby-proof remote control it got to be a titanium. It's a really good style, it going to be look like like this. It is unbreakable and it is very universal. W we'll have a screen with a back light which can change colours,
  Keith Heelan: Mm-hmm.
  Gabriel Ball: and we can put all the options into this screen. We'll need only few buttons. All the other things can be controlled through the screen. And all these buttons should be easy to find and to click, 'cause when you watch a movie and you want to change something, you always try to find a good button and click it, but you should do it by touching it and finding it easily just by touch. So Press I would propose this concept for design, just few buttons,
  Willis Nogle: Mm.
  Gabriel Ball: a screen with a back light which can change colours, titanium I think, and uh what else? I got just very few and good ideas. We need power and volume. And let us include two nice features into this device, first, power on and off can be made fully automatic. When you go to the sofa, take your control and point it to the T_V_,
  Charles Collier: It's
  Keith Heelan: Hmm.
  Charles Collier: off. It's on.
  Gabriel Ball: the T_V_ turns on.
  Keith Heelan: And when does it turn off?
  Gabriel Ball: When you don't touch the control but you go out of the
  Keith Heelan: Oh
  Gabriel Ball: For
  Keith Heelan: so you have a
  Gabriel Ball: for enough time like uh you
  Keith Heelan: sensing sensor machine that uh
  Gabriel Ball: It's
  Keith Heelan: knows
  Gabriel Ball: a question to our technical
  Keith Heelan: Tech
  Gabriel Ball: design, our two engineers. And another nice feature that I would like to implement is uh volume control. Suppose you set u you set up some volume and then you move out or you move to the other corner of the room and take your control with you. Like, you want to to change the chair or you want to move to the armchair from the sofa or
  Charles Collier: Or you want to go to
  Gabriel Ball: something,
  Charles Collier: the kitchen.
  Gabriel Ball: and then the volume changes.
  Keith Heelan: Mm-hmm.
  Gabriel Ball: It's easy to do, you just control the
  Keith Heelan: According to your distance
  Willis Nogle: Distance.
  Keith Heelan: to
  Gabriel Ball: According to the distance.
  Keith Heelan: and the angle maybe, if you have a
  Gabriel Ball: Yeah
  Keith Heelan: stereo system.
  Gabriel Ball: yeah yeah.
  Keith Heelan: Uh I'm
  Gabriel Ball: So
  Keith Heelan: not sure about the screen, wha what is the use usefulness of the screen? Uh is it a touch screen by the way?
  Gabriel Ball: I think it can be just a menu which can be controlled with a left, right, up, down and enter.
  Keith Heelan: So it gives
  Willis Nogle: Yeah.
  Keith Heelan: instructions but uh it has to be with an back light somehow.
  Gabriel Ball: So, its main purpose in fact is a back light,
  Willis Nogle: Mm-hmm.
  Keith Heelan: Okay.
  Gabriel Ball: which change colours, which makes it easier to find, and each can it can respond for your voice, like it can turn on the light for you just to f find it easily, yeah?
  Keith Heelan: Okay.
  Charles Collier: Mm.
  Gabriel Ball: So basically that's it.
  Charles Collier: Um I see that you target uh several s application not only T_V_ but i like we talk about um universal uh remote control.
  Gabriel Ball: Can be easily done,
  Charles Collier: Yeah.
  Gabriel Ball: 'cause you got simple designs, y we should put it to simple actions.
  Charles Collier: Hmm.
  Gabriel Ball: Let it be universal, so you want to use it for your hi-fi system. You want to change tracks and you want to adjust volume.
  Charles Collier: Mm-hmm.
  Gabriel Ball: Just
  Willis Nogle: Mm.
  Gabriel Ball: few actions, a few actions for everything.
  Charles Collier: Hmm. S
  Gabriel Ball: All the rest, we sh we'll put it into this menu on the screen.
  Charles Collier: Mm. Since we were targeting a really soon uh uh date for the the the um i issuing of this uh remote control I think we will only concentrate on T_V_ for the moment
  Willis Nogle: Mm.
  Charles Collier: and
  Gabriel Ball: Okay, okay.
  Willis Nogle: Yeah
  Charles Collier: then
  Willis Nogle: and it
  Charles Collier: maybe
  Willis Nogle: mm.
  Charles Collier: m
  Gabriel Ball: Okay,
  Charles Collier: make
  Gabriel Ball: but it's quite
  Charles Collier: it
  Gabriel Ball: universal
  Charles Collier: more generalised
  Willis Nogle: Mm.
  Gabriel Ball: you know.
  Charles Collier: yeah.
  Gabriel Ball: We can just extend it to any
  Willis Nogle: Mm.
  Gabriel Ball: device.
  Keith Heelan: So for instance if I want to go to directly to channel twenty five, how would I do can I do that with this? Yeah mm let's say I am uh on channel eight now. You know these days we have hundreds of channels, that's not so
  Gabriel Ball: Mm-hmm.
  Keith Heelan: easy to go just next next next when you have hundreds of channels.
  Gabriel Ball: In fact
  Keith Heelan: Or is
  Gabriel Ball: I would
  Keith Heelan: it?
  Gabriel Ball: propose another solution. Basically you use just four or five channels,
  Keith Heelan: Most
  Gabriel Ball: right?
  Keith Heelan: people yeah.
  Gabriel Ball: Yeah. So uh set up your T_V_ set like channels that you use they're one, two, three and five, and you will never have to go to a twenty fives channel.
  Keith Heelan: In fact in in one uh remote control that I've seen, instead of doing that d you could just say these are the cha ch channel three, twenty eight, forty eight and uh sixty four are those that I want to by cycled with my next button.
  Charles Collier: Yeah it's
  Keith Heelan: I uh
  Charles Collier: it's the same
  Willis Nogle: Yeah.
  Charles Collier: solution, I think.
  Keith Heelan: B yeah.
  Charles Collier: Hmm.
  Willis Nogle: But even we can have some uh L_C_D_ display, like you can uh
  Keith Heelan: Go
  Willis Nogle: de
  Keith Heelan: to
  Willis Nogle: you
  Keith Heelan: channel
  Willis Nogle: can just
  Keith Heelan: twenty five.
  Willis Nogle: button the number and
  Keith Heelan: One
  Willis Nogle: then
  Keith Heelan: thing
  Willis Nogle: it
  Keith Heelan: is
  Willis Nogle: go
  Keith Heelan: that
  Willis Nogle: t
  Keith Heelan: as I said
  Willis Nogle: because
  Keith Heelan: in my presentation people really do like to z zap. So
  Willis Nogle: Yeah.
  Keith Heelan: even if they are only watching four or five channels,
  Gabriel Ball: Mm-hmm.
  Keith Heelan: I think
  Willis Nogle: But
  Keith Heelan: they
  Willis Nogle: still
  Keith Heelan: want to zap out of the one hundred channels,
  Willis Nogle: Yeah.
  Keith Heelan: just because this is one kind of thing they do,
  Charles Collier: Yeah
  Keith Heelan: zapping.
  Charles Collier: uh on zap
  Willis Nogle: Yeah.
  Charles Collier: it's only next next
  Keith Heelan: And it's
  Charles Collier: next
  Keith Heelan: only
  Charles Collier: next
  Keith Heelan: next.
  Willis Nogle: Yeah.
  Charles Collier: next,
  Keith Heelan: Yeah
  Charles Collier: yeah.
  Keith Heelan: so but
  Gabriel Ball: Mm.
  Keith Heelan: you have to
  Charles Collier: Mm-hmm.
  Gabriel Ball: We got these buttons here.
  Keith Heelan: Okay.
  Gabriel Ball: Next next.
  Willis Nogle: Yeah..
  Gabriel Ball: Or say this can be back.
  Willis Nogle: Yeah. But otherwise like we can put some display on numbers and then they can just press
  Keith Heelan: So
  Willis Nogle: suppose
  Keith Heelan: it would be
  Willis Nogle: two five they just press two and five and then
  Keith Heelan: Okay.
  Willis Nogle: Yeah.
  Charles Collier: Maybe we can make uh different modes for each button and you
  Willis Nogle: Yeah.
  Charles Collier: can change mode zapping
  Willis Nogle: Yeah,
  Charles Collier: mode
  Willis Nogle: yeah.
  Charles Collier: or
  Keith Heelan: Mm-hmm. Alright.
  Charles Collier: uh current
  Willis Nogle: Yeah,
  Charles Collier: chan
  Willis Nogle: yeah. Yeah
  Keith Heelan: Listening
  Willis Nogle: but since we are focusing
  Keith Heelan: more.
  Willis Nogle: only on T_V_ remote controls
  Charles Collier: Yeah.
  Willis Nogle: so
  Keith Heelan: Mm-hmm.
  Willis Nogle: we can have more functions for T_V_ uh if you want to go for a universal then we ought to limit for functions for each of our devices.
  Charles Collier: Mm-hmm.
  Keith Heelan: Okay.
  Gabriel Ball: Could we carry out some research if we w really need this, like how many people really need to go to channel number twenty five and then to sixty four?
  Keith Heelan: Well I could could uh have a look at that
  Willis Nogle: Yeah. Yeah.
  Keith Heelan: maybe.
  Gabriel Ball: Okay.
  Keith Heelan: I'll check in my department if there's someone specialist in that.
  Gabriel Ball: Okay.
  Keith Heelan: Although I don't know.
  Charles Collier: Okay.
  Gabriel Ball: Alright? Thanks for your attention.
  Charles Collier: Uh you're finish? Okay. So now the technical aspects of this new device. Mm.
  Willis Nogle: Two. Yeah, if Sorry.
  Charles Collier: You prefer it.
  Willis Nogle: Yeah. Uh as you know, I am mister Ramaro. I am an expert in uh industrial design of all electronic devices and I previously devised many uh like digital calculators and electronic calculators. So now I'll briefly describe the working design of our remote control. Well, as you know the basic function of remote control is sending some message to the the device, like T_V_ or V_C_R_ or D_V_D_ player etcetera. So we will have a p portable device which will send message to the the main device like T_V_. So we need to have some energy source to do what to do the functions, what we want on this portable device. And usually this so to do these functions we need an interface, which basically some kind of pressing buttons or keys or like moving jack or something like that. And then these messages these key buttons can be transferred into some kind of message and then it will process by the chip and then it will generate some information to the main device. It's generally in the form of infrared or some kind of s sensor information. Then we will have the main control in the main device to do the particular action what we want. So, basically we need uh since we are focusing on our interface device remote control we need few components, mainly the energy source like the battery and then we have user interface like uh the keypad and you know buttons we want, and then we have some chip, it's mainly digital signal processing chip because since we are I am one doing mostly digital uh devices we ought to have some kind of processor which take care of all these functions and put it in some digital format. And then we'll have the infrared L_E_D_ source which sends the information to the main device. Then we'll have switch in our main uh um device to do particular operations, and we ought to do different codes for different T_V_s, so
  Charles Collier: Mm-hmm.
  Willis Nogle: some T_V_s will have different encryption codes for doing s s uh channel changing
  Charles Collier: Okay.
  Willis Nogle: and these things.
  Charles Collier: To make it quite uh an universal uh device
  Willis Nogle: Yeah yeah,
  Charles Collier: uh.
  Willis Nogle: because the people don't use one particular brand so
  Charles Collier: Mm.
  Willis Nogle: or at least we have more more than five brands, which
  Charles Collier: Okay.
  Willis Nogle: are really good. So we need to check their specifications and do their uh encryption that's passing information to the T_V_ device. So we need to have particular encryption codes.
  Charles Collier: Okay.
  Willis Nogle: Then, components, so we have the main uh energy source and then we will have some buttons and then we will have infrared uh source and then we have some inside some chip in in the device. Uh since I don't have much time so I'll input the connections to all this components. And since I also want to know feedback from our Marketing Expert and User
  Charles Collier: Mm-hmm.
  Willis Nogle: Interface, so if you want to add some more components we
  Charles Collier: Mm-hmm.
  Willis Nogle: can
  Charles Collier: And
  Willis Nogle: incorporate
  Charles Collier: from from
  Willis Nogle: them.
  Charles Collier: the discussion we had do you
  Willis Nogle: Yeah.
  Charles Collier: can you make it on the whiteboard, or
  Willis Nogle: Yeah,
  Charles Collier: mm.
  Willis Nogle: I'm sure, because since our User Interface speech recognition and also Marketing
  Charles Collier: Mm-hmm.
  Willis Nogle: Expert for the speech recognition is really handy,
  Keith Heelan: Mm-hmm.
  Charles Collier: Mm-hmm.
  Willis Nogle: so we can have another, like uh s simple speech recogniser on our D_S_B_
  Charles Collier: Mm.
  Willis Nogle: chip. Since we have some kind of uh energy this is our this normal battery, so this battery, once you s switch on it will take power and we can have some speech recognition and in our g generally small digital signal processing chip so that and we will put uh the small uh simple speech recogniser and
  Charles Collier: On
  Willis Nogle: we can also train the speech recogniser for particular user so you just
  Charles Collier: Uh train it, okay.
  Willis Nogle: yeah,
  Keith Heelan: Mm-hmm.
  Charles Collier: Mm-hmm.
  Willis Nogle: so that we just use simple
  Gabriel Ball: Too complex.
  Willis Nogle: recog no
  Keith Heelan: But
  Willis Nogle: but
  Keith Heelan: uh very
  Willis Nogle: but
  Keith Heelan: very good to sell.
  Willis Nogle: Yeah. No, even in even simple mobile device like any mobile brand you can have these voice dialers or
  Keith Heelan: Think
  Willis Nogle: these
  Keith Heelan: of
  Willis Nogle: things,
  Keith Heelan: a all
  Gabriel Ball: Okay.
  Keith Heelan: these young
  Willis Nogle: yeah.
  Keith Heelan: people who would love to say that this remote control only works for them,
  Gabriel Ball: Okay.
  Willis Nogle: Yeah.
  Keith Heelan: and ha ha you cannot use my remote control, because
  Charles Collier: Mm.
  Keith Heelan: it's targeted
  Willis Nogle: Yeah.
  Keith Heelan: to Keith Heelan. Whatever.
  Charles Collier: And what
  Willis Nogle: So
  Charles Collier: about the price of this component?
  Willis Nogle: Uh maybe we can make uh
  Charles Collier: It
  Willis Nogle: it
  Charles Collier: mm
  Willis Nogle: in five Euros and
  Charles Collier: okay.
  Willis Nogle: even
  Keith Heelan: Hmm.
  Willis Nogle: less
  Keith Heelan: Cheap.
  Willis Nogle: than that, because we want to have
  Keith Heelan: Millions.
  Willis Nogle: uh millions and
  Charles Collier: Mm.
  Willis Nogle: in bulk, so we can make really simp
  Charles Collier: Okay.
  Willis Nogle: and
  Keith Heelan: Cheap.
  Willis Nogle: we want to make really simple device because we have only very few words like like power, switch on
  Charles Collier: Mm-hmm.
  Willis Nogle: or some like then we'll have something like this um we'll have volume and then we will have s particular channel, so users can
  Keith Heelan: The
  Willis Nogle: listen.
  Keith Heelan: user uh
  Charles Collier: Mm-hmm.
  Keith Heelan: will just be able to say uh please can you uh pump up the vo pump up the volume or or it
  Willis Nogle: Ye
  Keith Heelan: will be something like volume,
  Willis Nogle: No, yeah,
  Keith Heelan: up,
  Willis Nogle: a
  Keith Heelan: down.
  Willis Nogle: user can use any kind of sender but they should have this prompt volume and
  Keith Heelan: Okay.
  Willis Nogle: then
  Charles Collier: With a keywords and
  Willis Nogle: yeah
  Charles Collier: yeah.
  Willis Nogle: volume and decrease or increase, so
  Keith Heelan: Okay.
  Willis Nogle: we try to only recognise those
  Keith Heelan: Couple
  Willis Nogle: words
  Keith Heelan: of words.
  Willis Nogle: and
  Charles Collier: Mm-hmm mm.
  Willis Nogle: and because we can't really say user to say same wording then it become
  Charles Collier: Mm-hmm.
  Willis Nogle: more mechanical and
  Keith Heelan: Okay.
  Willis Nogle: yeah.
  Charles Collier: Okay.
  Gabriel Ball: Um.
  Willis Nogle: And then we can have channel they can say, okay I want eight, because we don't know like users have different programmes, I mean they don't really follow same channels strict uh so we just want channel number, we don't want like B_B_C_ or C_N_N_ or something
  Keith Heelan: Of course
  Willis Nogle: else
  Charles Collier: Okay.
  Keith Heelan: uh
  Willis Nogle: because
  Keith Heelan: it has to
  Willis Nogle: it
  Gabriel Ball: Okay.
  Willis Nogle: will
  Keith Heelan: be
  Willis Nogle: be complicated so we'll have only these three uh main basic uh
  Keith Heelan: Okay.
  Willis Nogle: anyway volume is not really speech recognition problem, it's it it will be take care of our main
  Gabriel Ball: No you know it's a conceptual
  Willis Nogle: mm.
  Gabriel Ball: question, 'cause now I see th this the picture in front of my eyes like a user taking his remote control and shouting into it, volume up, volume
  Keith Heelan: But
  Gabriel Ball: up,
  Keith Heelan: then I
  Gabriel Ball: and
  Keith Heelan: think you
  Gabriel Ball: and he's coming you know, he's really annoyed with this,
  Keith Heelan: you
  Gabriel Ball: down, up, down.
  Keith Heelan: First of all I I think this is not uh functionality that it is going to be instead of using
  Charles Collier: No,
  Keith Heelan: the buttons.
  Charles Collier: in no not
  Keith Heelan: It's
  Charles Collier: only
  Keith Heelan: on
  Charles Collier: speech,
  Keith Heelan: top
  Charles Collier: yeah.
  Keith Heelan: of using the button.
  Gabriel Ball: Okay, for
  Charles Collier: I
  Gabriel Ball: this
  Charles Collier: it's
  Gabriel Ball: budget
  Charles Collier: an option.
  Gabriel Ball: like twelve Euros.
  Keith Heelan: Well, I dunno.
  Willis Nogle: Yeah actually we we can have one switch to like uh switch on, on and off, this processor and This really, suppose like here we have our main chip which controls power, volume and this part and this D_S_P_s.
  Gabriel Ball: Mm-hmm.
  Willis Nogle: Again, this to have some interaction like suppose people use D_S_P_ then it particularly sends some information to the chip like in some form, like volume and like this key. So
  Gabriel Ball: Okay..
  Willis Nogle: it may not be like very expensive, because since we are only focusing on
  Keith Heelan: T_V_.
  Willis Nogle: T_V_ remote control so
  Charles Collier: Okay.
  Gabriel Ball: Mm-hmm,
  Willis Nogle: and we have
  Gabriel Ball: mm-hmm.
  Willis Nogle: only few
  Charles Collier: Sho
  Willis Nogle: things here
  Charles Collier: to to train, okay.
  Willis Nogle: Yeah.
  Gabriel Ball: Did you consider the r gest uh gesture recognition? Like, if I want to put volume up I like do mm I take my remote control do like something like
  Willis Nogle: Um
  Gabriel Ball: roll 'em up
  Willis Nogle: uh
  Gabriel Ball: or roll 'em down.
  Charles Collier: Mm.
  Willis Nogle: uh this point we didn't consider because it's
  Keith Heelan: Very expensive,
  Willis Nogle: it's
  Keith Heelan: no?
  Willis Nogle: very expensive because v our target is only like
  Charles Collier: And
  Willis Nogle: twelve
  Charles Collier: well,
  Willis Nogle: point five Euros
  Charles Collier: what
  Gabriel Ball: Mm
  Charles Collier: about
  Willis Nogle: and
  Gabriel Ball: why?
  Charles Collier: the idea of
  Gabriel Ball: That's
  Charles Collier: automatic
  Gabriel Ball: just
  Charles Collier: on off on
  Keith Heelan: And
  Charles Collier: the
  Keith Heelan: volume
  Willis Nogle: Yeah,
  Keith Heelan: control.
  Willis Nogle: even automatic
  Charles Collier: button, yeah.
  Willis Nogle: on off is also a bit problematic, because it different criteria for different people like so suppose people are really uh they just uh they don't touch the remote and mm y
  Keith Heelan: So but
  Willis Nogle: you don't
  Keith Heelan: uh
  Willis Nogle: know how much time you need to switch on or switch off and
  Keith Heelan: Sh should we target a a user personalised uh uh remote control? So in in a given room there might be more than one remote control. We would uh have each one
  Willis Nogle: Yay yeah.
  Keith Heelan: and uh with our own personal uh settings.
  Willis Nogle: Yeah that can be possible, especially for power settings, so user can say okay, suppose they're watching a tennis match or something then they can say okay
  Keith Heelan: Hmm.
  Willis Nogle: uh after one hour I
  Charles Collier: Wouldn't that make
  Willis Nogle: They can
  Charles Collier: uh
  Willis Nogle: make
  Charles Collier: arguments?
  Keith Heelan: Yeah, of
  Charles Collier: I
  Keith Heelan: course.
  Charles Collier: want uh
  Keith Heelan: That's no problem, we will sell more.
  Willis Nogle: Yeah we can have
  Charles Collier: And we
  Gabriel Ball: We
  Charles Collier: can
  Gabriel Ball: got
  Charles Collier: increase this
  Gabriel Ball: a
  Charles Collier: the strength
  Keith Heelan: Yeah exactly.
  Charles Collier: y you can
  Gabriel Ball: really
  Charles Collier: buy
  Gabriel Ball: good Market
  Charles Collier: one
  Gabriel Ball: Expert.
  Charles Collier: with
  Willis Nogle: Yeah.
  Gabriel Ball: Let's send more, let's sell more. Okay.
  Charles Collier: Mm-hmm. Okay. You have mm something else to say?
  Willis Nogle: Uh,
  Charles Collier: Uh.
  Willis Nogle: not very much, like
  Charles Collier: No.
  Willis Nogle: yeah.
  Keith Heelan: Okay. Thanks.
  Charles Collier: Okay,
  Willis Nogle: Thank you.
  Charles Collier: thanks.
  Willis Nogle: Yep. Thank you.
  Charles Collier: So
  Willis Nogle: Can you just yeah.
  Charles Collier: mm mm I think, okay, we're just on time. Um mm mm. So, we're now going to l have the lunch break.
  Keith Heelan: Mm great.
  Charles Collier: Then we will work again for thirty minutes individual work, and um we will uh meet again for the next meeting, and uh in this one want to to be more focused on the individual actions the um on the components so uh you will focus on the component
  Willis Nogle: Yeah
  Charles Collier: concept
  Willis Nogle: yeah.
  Charles Collier: um uh of course the
  Willis Nogle: Mark
  Charles Collier: U_I_D_
  Willis Nogle: will
  Charles Collier: Mark will be uh focused on the user interface concept and uh our m Market Expert Sammy Benjo uh on the trend watching. So um of course like before specific instruction will be sent to you by your personal personal coach. Well I think that's all. And we have um maybe we have to we say, only for T_V_, not teletext? Uh I think automatic on off control uh it's not possible.
  Willis Nogle: Uh it's
  Keith Heelan: Difficult.
  Willis Nogle: in current price,
  Charles Collier: Yeah,
  Willis Nogle: yeah.
  Charles Collier: maybe in the next
  Willis Nogle: Yeah.
  Charles Collier: uh step if we make it work um.
  Willis Nogle: But speech recogniser can be
  Charles Collier: Yeah,
  Willis Nogle: possible.
  Charles Collier: implemented. O okay, we
  Keith Heelan: Mm-hmm.
  Charles Collier: can think about that. And um do you see something else?
  Keith Heelan: No.
  Gabriel Ball: Uh, should it be equipped with the uh, with uh speakers?
  Keith Heelan: Speakers
  Gabriel Ball: Like,
  Keith Heelan: in the remote
  Gabriel Ball: you want
  Keith Heelan: cont
  Gabriel Ball: to find it, you shout
  Keith Heelan: Oh yeah.
  Gabriel Ball: control,
  Charles Collier: Uh yeah that's
  Gabriel Ball: and it answers is I'm here? Or
  Keith Heelan: It just beeps. That would be enough.
  Gabriel Ball: Just beeps?
  Charles Collier: Or maybe
  Keith Heelan: Something
  Charles Collier: you
  Keith Heelan: very
  Charles Collier: want
  Keith Heelan: cheap.
  Charles Collier: to phone him.
  Keith Heelan: But that's
  Willis Nogle: Yeah
  Charles Collier: Since
  Willis Nogle: yeah
  Keith Heelan: ex
  Charles Collier: now
  Willis Nogle: yeah.
  Charles Collier: all
  Keith Heelan: that's expensive.
  Charles Collier: yeah?
  Keith Heelan: Uh.
  Willis Nogle: Yeah, especially
  Charles Collier: Think
  Willis Nogle: the power, it really consumes because
  Charles Collier: Uh-huh.
  Willis Nogle: it should be all the time on and
  Keith Heelan: Well I
  Charles Collier: And uh
  Keith Heelan: I heard of devices where you just uh whistle them and
  Charles Collier: And
  Keith Heelan: and they
  Charles Collier: it's answered.
  Keith Heelan: because
  Willis Nogle: Yeah.
  Keith Heelan: of the the frequency they
  Willis Nogle: Yeah.
  Keith Heelan: they just
  Gabriel Ball: I can't whistle.
  Keith Heelan: answer to that.
  Gabriel Ball: No,
  Keith Heelan: You can't whistle.
  Gabriel Ball: no,
  Keith Heelan: Uh-huh.
  Gabriel Ball: I can't.
  Keith Heelan: Or a clap.
  Gabriel Ball: Mm.
  Charles Collier: Clap
  Keith Heelan: You can clap.
  Charles Collier: clap
  Keith Heelan: Can you?
  Willis Nogle: Yeah.
  Charles Collier: clap it's a good
  Keith Heelan: Clap is good.
  Charles Collier: I
  Willis Nogle: Yeah.
  Charles Collier: I think
  Keith Heelan: Tak
  Charles Collier: it's universal.
  Keith Heelan: Just a
  Charles Collier: What about
  Keith Heelan: suggestion.
  Gabriel Ball: Okay.
  Charles Collier: people without hand? Yeah.
  Keith Heelan: With only one hand?
  Willis Nogle: Yeah I think it's good.
  Keith Heelan: These are not our target
  Charles Collier: Mm
  Keith Heelan: people.
  Charles Collier: uh okay.
  Willis Nogle: But it's a good feature I guess yeah we need to
  Charles Collier: Mm-hmm.
  Willis Nogle: think about more
  Charles Collier: Okay.
  Willis Nogle: how to incorporate it.
  Gabriel Ball: Just don't interfere with other devices like 'cause
  Keith Heelan: Mm-hmm.
  Gabriel Ball: like all these people do that their lights are turning on with clapping.
  Keith Heelan: Oh
  Willis Nogle: Oh.
  Keith Heelan: that's e that already exists
  Gabriel Ball: Yeah,
  Keith Heelan: okay
  Gabriel Ball: I got it
  Keith Heelan: okay.
  Gabriel Ball: at my home,
  Charles Collier: Mm-hmm.
  Gabriel Ball: like.
  Keith Heelan: Oh yeah, you do
  Gabriel Ball: Oops.
  Keith Heelan: have. Wow.
  Willis Nogle: Ah
  Keith Heelan: You're
  Willis Nogle: it's
  Keith Heelan: trendy.
  Charles Collier: Mm-hmm, so let's to think s
  Keith Heelan: Think about
  Charles Collier: so
  Keith Heelan: it.
  Charles Collier: that
  Keith Heelan: Yeah,
  Charles Collier: yeah. I
  Keith Heelan: okay.
  Charles Collier: think that could be in the component uh concept
  Willis Nogle: Yeah.
  Charles Collier: uh. It yes.
  Keith Heelan: Okay.
  Charles Collier: Okay.
  Keith Heelan: Good we're done?
  Charles Collier: So, yeah
  Willis Nogle: Yeah.
  Charles Collier: let's,
  Keith Heelan: Right,
  Charles Collier: go
  Keith Heelan: thanks.
  Charles Collier: to lunch.
  Willis Nogle: Thank you, thank you very much.
Updated Content: Charles Collier opened the meeting and stated the agenda to the team members. Keith Heelan discussed the findings of a survey which indicated that current remotes are ugly, difficult to use, have a number of unused buttons, frustrate users when misplaced, and contribute to RSI. Keith Heelan also stated that young users like speech recognition and that users in general want buttons for power, channel selection, volume control, and a few lesser used settings. Gabriel Ball presented existing remotes to exemplify the need for simpler designs, discussed the use of components such as titanium and a back-lit LCD screen, and discussed other features to consider such as color options. Willis Nogle discussed the interior workings of a remote and how to handle universal capability and speech recognition. After Charles Collier's closing, Charles Collier recapped some decisions and the team discussed how to handle the issue of locating a remote when misplaced.