Extracted Content: Mary Mathews: Here we go. Welcome everybody. Um, I'm Abigail Claflin. You can call Antoinette Holman Abbie. 'S see. PowerPoint, that's not it. There we go. So this is our kick off meeting. Um and I guess we should all get acquainted. Let's shall we all introduce ourselves?
  Antoinette Holman: Hi I'm Chiara, I'm the um Marketing Expert Um. would you like Antoinette Holman to talk about my aims at the moment, or would you like Antoinette Holman to just say my name and then we can talk about business
  Mary Mathews: I think
  Antoinette Holman: later?
  Mary Mathews: we'll get around to that, yeah.
  Antoinette Holman: We'll
  Mary Mathews: So
  Antoinette Holman: get
  Mary Mathews: this
  Antoinette Holman: round
  Mary Mathews: is
  Antoinette Holman: to
  Mary Mathews: just
  Antoinette Holman: that later.
  Mary Mathews: introductions
  Antoinette Holman: My
  Mary Mathews: yeah.
  Antoinette Holman: name is Chiara and I'm Antoinette Holman.
  Mary Mathews: Okay. I forgot to s say I'm Mary Mathews but I figured you all knew that already, um so.
  Danielle Desler: I'm Stephanie I am Danielle Desler.
  Gloria Hillard: I'm Krista and I'm Gloria Hillard.
  Mary Mathews: Okay. Um so f here's our agenda for today. Um we're gonna do some tool training, project plan and discuss then close. Um so. So our aim is to produce a remote control that is original, trendy and user friendly. And to do this, we have to um there's certain things we have to consider about functional aspects and conceptual design of the thing. So. We'll get to that. Oh there it is. Right. Functional design, conceptual design and detailed design. So throughout our next couple of meetings we'll we'll be covering these things. Um so we're gonna try out our white board. If we'll all draw our favourite animal, to sum up the characteristics of that animal.
  Danielle Desler: So
  Mary Mathews: Okay.
  Danielle Desler: you want us to draw it and then talk about it? Or just draw it?
  Antoinette Holman: I think both.
  Mary Mathews: Yeah.
  Danielle Desler: Okay. Why don't
  Mary Mathews: Both.
  Danielle Desler: we do both.
  Mary Mathews: Yeah.
  Antoinette Holman: Who starts?
  Danielle Desler: Right.
  Antoinette Holman: We ought to decide who starts and all that. No?
  Mary Mathews: Any
  Antoinette Holman: Uh-huh.
  Mary Mathews: volunteers? Does anyone know what they wanna draw?
  Danielle Desler: Mm, I gotta think about it for a second like. Uh Does it have to be functional, trendy and user friendly?
  Mary Mathews: I don't think so.
  Danielle Desler: Um. Okay, I'll draw. I'll draw one. Make sure my things here.
  Danielle Desler: Uh-oh.
  Danielle Desler: Right.
  Danielle Desler: Okay, my favourite animal is see.
  Danielle Desler: Oops.
  Mary Mathews: A dolphin.
  Danielle Desler: Yeah, it's
  Mary Mathews: 'S like playing Pictionary.
  Danielle Desler: Yeah, I guess it has a fin on top too, yeah.
  Danielle Desler: It's my dolphin.
  Mary Mathews: So what characteristics do you like about your animal?
  Danielle Desler: I like its tail. Um, no, I think dolphins are really uh I dunno, they're smart and they they're cute and they like swimming and that's cool, like
  Mary Mathews: They're graceful.
  Danielle Desler: they're graceful yeah, and they're so
  Mary Mathews: Sleek.
  Danielle Desler: Yeah they're sleek and they look intelligent and I don't know, they're I guess it's the whole like binocular
  Mary Mathews: I don't know how
  Danielle Desler: vision
  Mary Mathews: intelligent
  Danielle Desler: thing.
  Mary Mathews: that one looks.
  Danielle Desler: Yeah he he doesn't look that smart. He's a I dunno um they're I think it's cool the the um the interaction that or the th things that the reasons people seem to like you know you get ex you know people are sitting on the beach and p they're like oh look there's dolphins and it's kinda like but they're you know they jump around in the water and they're happy and they're mammals, but they
  Mary Mathews: Yes. Does
  Danielle Desler: swim.
  Mary Mathews: anybody else wanna draw their animal?
  Gloria Hillard: Suppose I can draw an animal, yeah.
  Mary Mathews: Uh-oh there goes the ten. It's a cat.
  Gloria Hillard: Yeah. I don't know. They sleep all day, they're easy to draw.
  Mary Mathews: Do you wanna
  Antoinette Holman: Uh yeah.
  Mary Mathews: anything? I dunno
  Antoinette Holman: Well
  Mary Mathews: if
  Antoinette Holman: I
  Mary Mathews: the
  Antoinette Holman: had
  Gloria Hillard: I think the pen is
  Mary Mathews: the
  Gloria Hillard: running out of
  Mary Mathews: ah.
  Antoinette Holman: spare one. So I'll use the spare one. Um but it's harder to draw
  Danielle Desler: And
  Antoinette Holman: um.
  Danielle Desler: the pen's dying.
  Antoinette Holman: Um.
  Mary Mathews: A
  Antoinette Holman: Uh.
  Mary Mathews: horse.
  Danielle Desler: Horse.
  Antoinette Holman: Um I don't really know
  Mary Mathews: That's
  Antoinette Holman: how
  Mary Mathews: very
  Antoinette Holman: the legs
  Mary Mathews: good.
  Antoinette Holman: go, but anyway I will do that. Um, and the main reason is they're pretty. I think they're very pretty and they go well with the environment, and I like the way they run and I used to do horse riding and they're just very sort of sturdy and nice animals. And I like the way um they feel, sort of under under the hand, I think that's pretty much it. Um
  Mary Mathews: Yeah.
  Mary Mathews: This cord's
  Mary Mathews: Uh. Right. Actually I haven't thought of anything yet. Uh
  Mary Mathews: It's a pig. So I'm thinking we should design a remote control that's water resistant, strong and furry. What do you think, yeah?
  Danielle Desler: And furry.
  Mary Mathews: This is yeah, well like a cat, you know,
  Danielle Desler: Textile
  Mary Mathews: soft yeah.
  Danielle Desler: tactile, tactile remote
  Mary Mathews: Although
  Danielle Desler: control.
  Mary Mathews: uh I'll just put there. Right.
  Danielle Desler: You're dragging a you have a tail.
  Mary Mathews: Oh my gosh, this is disastrous. Sorry about that. Okay. So moving on. Our selling price goal is twenty five Euro and profit aim is fifty million Euro. So I'm guessing that we're not actually in Scotland, we're in some European country. Um, and we will hope to sell this internationally.
  Danielle Desler: Sorry can you just say that what's the what are our price goals again?
  Mary Mathews: Um selling price is twenty five Euro.
  Danielle Desler: Okay.
  Mary Mathews: Profit aim fifty million Euro.
  Antoinette Holman: How many should we sell then? Um, a lot,
  Mary Mathews: Anyone
  Antoinette Holman: two
  Mary Mathews: a mathematician?
  Antoinette Holman: two two million, two mi no, more f four million.
  Gloria Hillard: Two million.
  Antoinette Holman: Four million. And it well it's the profit so if a profit for each is twelve
  Gloria Hillard: Oh,
  Antoinette Holman: fifty,
  Gloria Hillard: yeah.
  Antoinette Holman: that'll do four million.
  Antoinette Holman: It is a lot. Uh.
  Mary Mathews: So f that's a fifty percent um uh. Um, I don't know what these mean because I didn't actually make the slide-show. Experience with remote control. So I guess we have to reflect on our experiences with remote controls to decide what um we would like to see in a convenient, practical, nice remote control. Um so do we have any initial ideas for uh how this remote control should be designed or formatted or the the buttons
  Antoinette Holman: Um,
  Mary Mathews: it should have.
  Antoinette Holman: I think one thing is that it should be easy to find
  Danielle Desler: I was
  Antoinette Holman: bec
  Danielle Desler: thinking that too.
  Antoinette Holman: yeah
  Mary Mathews: Yeah.
  Danielle Desler: I
  Antoinette Holman: bec
  Danielle Desler: think we should design something that has like a so you can like somehow like you I mean you always know where your T_V_ is, so just have a call button, I've always wanted that,
  Antoinette Holman: Yeah,
  Danielle Desler: so
  Mary Mathews: Yeah.
  Antoinette Holman: yeah
  Danielle Desler: like
  Antoinette Holman: yeah
  Danielle Desler: you
  Antoinette Holman: yeah
  Danielle Desler: can push
  Antoinette Holman: yeah.
  Danielle Desler: a button
  Mary Mathews: I mean
  Danielle Desler: on your
  Mary Mathews: you have
  Danielle Desler: T_V_
  Mary Mathews: it for the portable
  Danielle Desler: Yeah,
  Mary Mathews: phone, so
  Danielle Desler: yeah
  Mary Mathews: why not
  Danielle Desler: yeah
  Mary Mathews: yeah.
  Danielle Desler: yeah, so you should have a call button on your television to
  Antoinette Holman: Yeah.
  Danielle Desler: be able to find your remote control.
  Antoinette Holman: And even I think a little light. Um or even a maybe a vib a vibrating thing. I dunno but someth because it's usually under the sofa.
  Danielle Desler: Yeah.
  Antoinette Holman: In which case
  Danielle Desler: Yeah.
  Antoinette Holman: you're going to be l but if it has a sort of signal which isn't any sound I don't know
  Danielle Desler: Yeah.
  Antoinette Holman: if it's expensive maybe to
  Danielle Desler: I don't yeah I mean it
  Antoinette Holman: Maybe call is enough. But yeah.
  Danielle Desler: but like I mean just I mean like your phone even just has so
  Antoinette Holman: Yeah
  Danielle Desler: like
  Antoinette Holman: yeah
  Danielle Desler: it
  Antoinette Holman: yeah.
  Danielle Desler: can vibrate, it can light up and make
  Antoinette Holman: Yeah.
  Danielle Desler: noise and I dunno.
  Mary Mathews: What if it had something like um just like a magnet on the back of it and you could I mean j just to have some place to put it besides like a base.
  Danielle Desler: Yeah.
  Mary Mathews: You know like a portable
  Danielle Desler: Yeah,
  Mary Mathews: phone
  Danielle Desler: or if it
  Mary Mathews: has
  Danielle Desler: had a
  Mary Mathews: a base,
  Danielle Desler: yeah.
  Mary Mathews: like just to have a home for it.
  Antoinette Holman: Yeah yeah yeah yeah.
  Danielle Desler: Yeah, I mean
  Mary Mathews: 'Cause people just stick it on top of their T_V_, but the point of having a remote is not to have to walk over to the T_V_,
  Danielle Desler: Yeah.
  Mary Mathews: so
  Gloria Hillard: Well that's why it's always in the couch.
  Mary Mathews: Yeah.
  Danielle Desler: Yeah, in in the couch. I dunno, it seems like though that that would be hard, 'cause
  Mary Mathews: Yeah.
  Danielle Desler: you not you're not gonna be lazy
  Mary Mathews: Maybe
  Danielle Desler: anyway
  Mary Mathews: we should
  Danielle Desler: and
  Mary Mathews: design couches that have the remote control
  Danielle Desler: Yeah
  Mary Mathews: in
  Danielle Desler: so we
  Mary Mathews: the side
  Danielle Desler: the project
  Mary Mathews: arm.
  Danielle Desler: is now couches and
  Antoinette Holman: But
  Danielle Desler: remote
  Antoinette Holman: even
  Danielle Desler: controls.
  Antoinette Holman: just a thing to attach it to the w you know if you had a thing, a pretty object attached to the wall. But that would really
  Danielle Desler: Yeah.
  Antoinette Holman: make it more expensive. But it's only a plastic thing, r
  Danielle Desler: Yeah.
  Antoinette Holman: really,
  Mary Mathews: Yeah.
  Antoinette Holman: the thing on the wall. Something like that. And the other
  Mary Mathews: Do you
  Antoinette Holman: thing
  Mary Mathews: think it
  Antoinette Holman: is
  Mary Mathews: needs to be bigger to not lose, or does that
  Danielle Desler: Bigger.
  Mary Mathews: not factor
  Antoinette Holman: Not
  Mary Mathews: in?
  Antoinette Holman: well it needs
  Mary Mathews: Like
  Antoinette Holman: to be sort of
  Mary Mathews: Hand
  Danielle Desler: Hand-sized.
  Mary Mathews: hand held
  Antoinette Holman: Yeah.
  Mary Mathews: size, yeah.
  Antoinette Holman: I don't think you need a
  Mary Mathews: Not not huge, but
  Antoinette Holman: But definitely not well I don't know.
  Danielle Desler: It can't be that hard to put some kind of a noise on it.
  Antoinette Holman: No, it can't be,
  Gloria Hillard: No it really
  Danielle Desler: Or
  Antoinette Holman: uh-uh.
  Danielle Desler: like
  Gloria Hillard: wouldn't
  Mary Mathews: Huh.
  Gloria Hillard: be.
  Danielle Desler: or like a light thing. You know. I dunno.
  Antoinette Holman: Like spaceship.
  Danielle Desler: Yeah.
  Antoinette Holman: Right. Um
  Danielle Desler: Or make it mobile so it runs around and comes come find you yeah. That would be really I'm sure we could do that for twenty five
  Mary Mathews: Little
  Danielle Desler: Euros
  Mary Mathews: homing
  Danielle Desler: a pop.
  Mary Mathews: device.
  Danielle Desler: Yeah. Uh.
  Mary Mathews: Um. Okay. So what do we think this remote control should Five minutes.
  Antoinette Holman: Oh dear.
  Mary Mathews: Till the meeting oh right. This is what we have left.
  Danielle Desler: I also
  Mary Mathews: Um,
  Danielle Desler: think though that
  Mary Mathews: oh
  Danielle Desler: it shouldn't
  Mary Mathews: we just
  Danielle Desler: have too many buttons, 'cause I hate
  Gloria Hillard: Yeah,
  Danielle Desler: that
  Gloria Hillard: I
  Danielle Desler: when
  Gloria Hillard: agree.
  Danielle Desler: they have too many buttons and
  Antoinette Holman: Yeah,
  Mary Mathews: Yeah.
  Gloria Hillard: button
  Antoinette Holman: yeah yeah.
  Gloria Hillard: and the
  Danielle Desler: I
  Gloria Hillard: F_
  Danielle Desler: mean I know
  Gloria Hillard: button,
  Danielle Desler: it has
  Gloria Hillard: they
  Danielle Desler: to
  Gloria Hillard: don't
  Danielle Desler: have
  Gloria Hillard: do
  Danielle Desler: enough
  Gloria Hillard: anything.
  Danielle Desler: functions but like, I don't know you, just have like eight thousand buttons and you're like, no, you never use half of them.
  Mary Mathews: You
  Danielle Desler: So.
  Mary Mathews: what if um may be a little fancy but what if it had like a little screen, so it has less buttons but it still has all the functions.
  Danielle Desler: That would be cool.
  Mary Mathews: Like the
  Antoinette Holman: Yeah.
  Mary Mathews: way a mobile phone does.
  Danielle Desler: Yeah. I mean it just seems like
  Mary Mathews: So you could like
  Danielle Desler: yeah.
  Mary Mathews: um like if you have I dunno if you have satellite if you have a hundred channels, you can the way you do it on your radio is that you uh what do you call
  Antoinette Holman: Select.
  Mary Mathews: it s y yeah but you
  Antoinette Holman: Uh.
  Mary Mathews: can programme, so you can programme like your favourite channels, so like if you had a s
  Antoinette Holman: But, would you have the screen on the thing, or would you have it on the telly transmitting the screen.
  Mary Mathews: That's something we could decide.
  Danielle Desler: I
  Antoinette Holman: Because
  Danielle Desler: guess
  Mary Mathews: Mm.
  Danielle Desler: they would go together somehow? I dunno.
  Antoinette Holman: Because, I don't know if it's I think it's e expensive, if you have if you use the telly screen, 'cause the telly's
  Mary Mathews: Yeah.
  Antoinette Holman: already a screen, then you can pro sort of have a programming function, really easy sort of arrow up and down, on
  Mary Mathews: Yeah.
  Antoinette Holman: the remote, and then use the telly as a screen.
  Mary Mathews: Right.
  Antoinette Holman: But um
  Danielle Desler: I'm thinking
  Antoinette Holman: But
  Danielle Desler: kind
  Antoinette Holman: yeah for
  Danielle Desler: of
  Antoinette Holman: sure. Something like not it's not on the button but it's telling you what to do,
  Mary Mathews: Yeah.
  Antoinette Holman: is that what you mean?
  Mary Mathews: Yeah.
  Antoinette Holman: Right. Mm.
  Danielle Desler: Or like you h you see those you know people I'm thinking of like celebrity cribs kind of things when like they have all those these things that at their house you know their their entire house is so electronic, and they have like this one master control that and it's like a hand held like turns on everything sort of control and it has like a screen and like so I think it should be possible to have some kind of a screen, I don't know
  Antoinette Holman: Yeah.
  Danielle Desler: if it must be it would probably must be ex too expensive though t like I dunno.
  Antoinette Holman: But like
  Mary Mathews: Mm.
  Antoinette Holman: mobile phones have screens
  Danielle Desler: Yeah,
  Antoinette Holman: and they're cheap.
  Danielle Desler: yeah. Yeah
  Mary Mathews: Yeah.
  Danielle Desler: that's true.
  Mary Mathews: I mean, we have to remember our budget is twelve point
  Antoinette Holman: Yeah.
  Mary Mathews: twelve fifty for to actually make the device.
  Danielle Desler: Mm.
  Mary Mathews: Um
  Danielle Desler: Well, I guess
  Mary Mathews: but it's
  Danielle Desler: we have
  Mary Mathews: something
  Danielle Desler: to get to
  Mary Mathews: to
  Danielle Desler: that
  Mary Mathews: think
  Danielle Desler: later,
  Mary Mathews: about, yeah.
  Danielle Desler: yeah.
  Mary Mathews: I mean we'll have to see how much that would be.
  Antoinette Holman: Or some it i we can find out probably on the
  Mary Mathews: Yeah.
  Antoinette Holman: internet how much it's Um. Yeah, and the other thing you said that thing about robust and water um What was the word?
  Danielle Desler: Furry.
  Antoinette Holman: Water resistant. No but it's I thought, ah,
  Mary Mathews: was
  Antoinette Holman: spot on.
  Mary Mathews: just
  Antoinette Holman: Good feel, tact tactile,
  Mary Mathews: Yeah.
  Antoinette Holman: good tactile feel, maybe something didn doesn't make your hands sweat lot.
  Danielle Desler: Yeah. Mm, mm.
  Antoinette Holman: That's quite annoying.
  Mary Mathews: Maybe um just like a simple thing to have a clip on it, like so you can clip it to your
  Danielle Desler: Yeah.
  Mary Mathews: like that's another
  Antoinette Holman: Yeah, clip. Ooh. Um.
  Mary Mathews: Um. We should probably start wrapping up, um we've got some initial ideas that we can all look into. Um, and come up with some new ones for the next meeting, which will be in another thirty minutes. Um. So. Yeah. Gloria Hillard, what does that stand
  Gloria Hillard: Yeah
  Mary Mathews: for,
  Gloria Hillard: I think
  Mary Mathews: I_D_,
  Gloria Hillard: so.
  Mary Mathews: yeah um is going to be looking more into the working design. So I guess you'd be looking at lots of the things we discussed about screen and um that sort of thing. The something, what is the U_I_?
  Gloria Hillard: User.
  Danielle Desler: That's Antoinette Holman.
  Mary Mathews: Yeah, what does it stand for again?
  Danielle Desler: Uh, User Interface
  Mary Mathews: User
  Danielle Desler: design.
  Mary Mathews: Interface Designer. So that's gonna be more technical. I guess that maybe the working design has also to do with like the physical feat like just
  Danielle Desler: So
  Mary Mathews: the way
  Danielle Desler: technical
  Mary Mathews: it looks
  Gloria Hillard: The
  Danielle Desler: function.
  Gloria Hillard: working
  Mary Mathews: and
  Gloria Hillard: design
  Mary Mathews: the way
  Gloria Hillard: is
  Mary Mathews: it w
  Gloria Hillard: the structure.
  Mary Mathews: Yeah, yeah.
  Danielle Desler: What is technical functions exactl I I don't really know what
  Mary Mathews: Um, I guess you'd have to find out.
  Antoinette Holman: It says
  Gloria Hillard: Um.
  Antoinette Holman: on that email
  Gloria Hillard: It
  Antoinette Holman: but
  Gloria Hillard: was
  Danielle Desler: It
  Gloria Hillard: in
  Danielle Desler: does
  Antoinette Holman: it
  Gloria Hillard: the email.
  Danielle Desler: but it I just don't really
  Gloria Hillard: I wrote down what
  Antoinette Holman: It
  Gloria Hillard: mine
  Antoinette Holman: said
  Gloria Hillard: were.
  Danielle Desler: Yeah.
  Antoinette Holman: um It said
  Danielle Desler: What effect should the thing ha should it have, okay. Alright.
  Antoinette Holman: Yeah like
  Danielle Desler: And working design. Okay.
  Antoinette Holman: Be a medium between you and the telly
  Danielle Desler: Yeah,
  Antoinette Holman: I think,
  Danielle Desler: yeah.
  Mary Mathews: Mm.
  Antoinette Holman: that's uh
  Danielle Desler: Alright. And how it works, okay. Right. I'm I'm on task.
  Mary Mathews: And the M_E_, what does that stand for? M
  Gloria Hillard: Marketing.
  Mary Mathews: Marketing,
  Antoinette Holman: Marketing.
  Mary Mathews: right.
  Antoinette Holman: Oh it's written
  Mary Mathews: Um.
  Antoinette Holman: here, but um.
  Mary Mathews: So we'll be working on the user requirements, um Yeah.
  Antoinette Holman: Okay.
  Mary Mathews: So I guess that wraps it up. I'll see you all in thirty minutes. I just did.
Updated Content: The group introduced themselves to each other. Mary Mathews discussed the goals for the project and gave an agenda for the project as a whole. The group practiced using the meeting-room equipment by drawing on the whiteboard. Mary Mathews presented the projected profit and price point. The group discussed their experiences with remote controls. They complained that remotes got lost too easily, and suggested using a locator function. They also complained that remotes had too many buttons, and suggested incorporating a screen to simplify the interface but retain all of the functions. They also suggested making the remote water-resistant and including a clip. Mary Mathews instructed Gloria Hillard to research the working design and components, Danielle Desler to research the technical functions, and Antoinette Holman to research user requirements.