okay well i think we are ready to begin right my name is adam duguid we are here because of real reaction we have in the group 0 ebenezer ademesoye would you like me to spell that s yeah go for it mate n e z n e z e r ebenezer and your role is i am the marketing expert you are the marketing expert okay next we have tarik rahman t a r i k t r i k and your role in this is industrial designer industrial designer and lastly we have dave cochrane and you are going to be the user interface is it user interface defin designer yes designer okay right this is the agenda for today is meeting as you can see w opening acquaintance tool training project plan discussion and closing we already got n through opening and partially through acquaintance so the reason we are here we are going to design a new remote control as you probably all know the very broad overview is original trendy and user friendly course we will have to go into a bit more detail than that but personally i think that the original is going to be a very key aspect to this design there is a lot of remote controls out there anyway so we are going to need something that is really going to set it apart this is how today seems to be going to work we are going to have the 3 kay phases as you have probably already been told the functional architectural and the detailed design 1st one is going to be covering the user requirement spec technical functions working design 2nd seems to be conceptual components properties materials and the last one is a detailed analysis of our design so far of course you have all got the similar emails i believe right what can i say ebenezer you want to have a you want to draw your favorite animal sure whiteboard kay s okay i will make this quick since we do not have much time kay so it is not the best picture in the world here we have an elephant 1st point begins with an e same like ebenezer also elephants have a very good memory much like myself and i can not remember back when i used to live back in nigeria but i think i used to have a pet elephant so elephants are big strong and gentle and they have great memories and they begin with the letter e just like ebenezer brilliantly done thank you thank you tarik would you like to have a shot at a bit of artistry 0 0 you can clip them to your belt 00 i think you ga do we take them off 0 right okay you should also l have your the lapel mic on as well the little ah ha the the 0 that is good we can clip them on okay yeah there was this microphone as well that you now where do i put the just somewhere yep the it is just across there that is it yep is this supposed to be clipped as well i think so yeah it will follow you if you yeah there you go you can probably just stick it in your pocket for now i would not worry too much should have good range destroying your elephant here here we have a tiger i have always loved tigers they are just they are big they are biggest cats i did a project on cats in the wild when i was a kid and it was my favorite cat just cause it was looks the best the stripes orange my dad used to talk about he is from bangladesh so he used to tell me all about them when he was when i was a kid and they are just the most feared of of animals in the wild so that is why i like them did not say an anything about me really but excellent thank you very much dave if you would like to have a dash the monkey the one f in fact this is a somewhat oblique reference in fact to well my i have a 33 y year old daughter who h who who who is affectionately known as miss monkey monkeys have attitude which i think is a good thing and i mean fr and from from the point of view of sort of the study of human evolution they and other primates are terribly interesting so i like monkeys and and th th th th thi thi this one seems to have perhaps more attitude than most cheers hardly what i would call the best drawing in the world but it will do for now also not quite as feared as your average tiger but cats are one of my favorite animals they are very independent they are snotty as hell at the best of times and what can you say you got to love those qualities in an animal right i think we have all managed to master the whiteboard there by looks of it so on to it project finance as you can see €125 per unit that is not a terrible lot as far as i am aware and we are hoping to sell them for 25 if we are aiming for €50000000 we are going to have to be selling an awful lot of them 0 that was profiting that was an amount so that is the amount made okay yep well 50000000 and if you are making €125 on each one then awful lot need to be sold yeah okay now we better actually just get on with the the meat of the project so i am going to guess that we have all used remote controls any ideas of where you think a new remote control could go into this market well one thing i am aware of is th there at the sort of v very high price end of the market there is there is a em emerging market for sort of touch screen l c d remotes that can be programmed in m much more sophisticated ways than sort of conventional models so you get the sort of you get you you can redesign the interface to your own needs you can program in macros and you get a much greater degree i mean you get in these sort of 3 in 15 in one whatevers but you can get integration between the different the the the diff the different things that it is designed to control to a much greater extent and you can have one you know one macro to turn the you know turn the t v to the right channel get the re rewind the tape in the v c r and get it to play once it is rewound for instance okay b it occurs to me there might be a niche for for a remote that aimed towards some of that sort of functionality but using a just conventional push button design and therefore putting it into a well much lower price bracket okay yeah tha that is true with the price range we are looking at going for a touch screen would probably be possibly out of our yeah absolutely prohibitive yeah 0 but you think again something to control multiple units in a simple fashion yeah i mean i would not like to say you g i mean you get ones that you can switch between multiple units but something that could operate between multiple units in a more integrated fashion some and ideally something into which it would have some at least limited facility for running macros would the the idea something along the lines of one on button would turn on say the video recorder the t v maybe the sound system as well all in one go is that kind of for instance let us say 00 or you know you pr you press say the play button for the d v d player and it turns the t v on and onto the right channel as well okay that sounds like a a good strong idea kay any takes on this well i have noticed that gaming c is becoming quite popular with television when i was younger we used to e play games using our cable using the cable subscribed the cable providers but our remote controls would get worn out really easily and the remote control was not a great kind of keyboar keypad for playing games so perhaps one that was more okay specialized for game playing or interactive television they they have recently brought out this new remote control for people to set their favorite channels or to record things instead of people entering in what time things start you simply stri slide a bar to say what time it begins and slide another bar to say what time it ends you know that is okay yeah i have heard i have seen the bar code design before yeah yeah it is it is taken out the y you do not have to be really clever to use a remote control i think for gaming you know you want you want some big buttons for up down left and right shoot you want to be able to change angles in interactive television so you need buttons to change the television angle the camera angles and stuff like that okay well we are beginning to run out of time now so we have got a couple of ideas we can we will have to work fast kay yeah alright as you can see we have got 30 minutes until the next meeting so we will have to try and decide on some of the basic functionality how the user interface might work that will be a key aspect especially if the idea of some kind of macros facility because you have to program it you have to have a lot of response back or at least some kind and we are going to maybe n try and have to figure out what the user wants what the user wants yes okay right has anybody got anything they would like to add at this stage anything they think that might have been missed so far well when you are talking about gaming and stuff do you think they should have some sort of stick on it rather than buttons 0 okay like control pads you know of games but or is that a bit ridiculous i i do not see why not almost everybody is probably used to a console by now and all of them incorporate small keypads on them in fact even the mobile phones these days are beginning to use them as well so it is probably an interface that most people are used to yeah and that could allow n easy navigation used as a joystick as well the other key feature that that would be a good idea built into it is t is is to make something you know fairly sort of ergonomic something that just fits fits as comfortably as possible into the hand but of course al al also allows for the possibility of a more sort of slightly unconventional or attractive sha shape for it overall okay so small stylish and something that is just a little different a curve something sort of sort of sl slightly sort of biomorphic in form which it would need to be to sort of conform to the shape of the hand more efficiently anyway okay that is definitely something that we should be able to do quite easily i would i would have hoped so anyway right i would say we finish this one up we get started i will get in i will write up what we have kind of quickly done and i will get that out to everybody kay yeah so okay as far as i am aware we leave the microphones here unless we get told otherwise and just take the laptops with us
okay well i think we are ready to begin right my name is adin dugood we are here because of real reaction we have in the group ebenezer ademisoy do you like me to spell it yeah go for it mate n e z n z e r ebenezer and your role is i am the marketing expert you are the marketing expert okay next we have tarak rahman t a r i k your role in this is industrial designer industrial designer and lastly we have dave cochern and you are going to be the user interface to user interface to design okay right this is the agenda for today is meeting as you can see the opening acquaintance tool training project plan discussion and closing we already got through opening and partially through acquaintance so the reason we are here we are going to design a new remote control as you probably all know the very broad overview is original trendy and user friendly of course we will have to go into a bit more detail than that but but personally i think that the original is going to be a very key aspect of this design there is a lot of remote controls out there anyway so we are going to need something that is really going to set it apart this is how today seems to be going to work we have the 3 k phases as you have probably already been told the functional and the detailed design 1st one is going to be covering the user requirement spec technical functions working design 2nd seems to be conceptual components properties materials and the last one is a detailed analysis of our design so far of course you have all got the similar emails i believe what can i say every user do you want to draw your favorite animal sure okay okay i will make this quick since we do not have much time  okay so it is not the best of the elephant 1st point 1st point begins with an e same like ebenezer also elephants have a very good memory much like myself and i can not remember back when i used to live in nigeria but i think i used to have a pet elephant so elephants are big strong and gentle and they have great memories and it began with the letter e just like ebenezer brilliantly done thank you derek would you like to have a shot at a bit of artistry it is supposed to come all the way 0 you can clip them to your belt 0 thank you you should also have your lapel mic on as well 0 that is good we can clip them on okay yeah there is this microphone as well that you just somewhere the other it is just across here the other it is just across here that is it yep i think so i will follow you if you i will follow you if you there you go you can probably just stick it in your pocket for now i would not worry too much i should have good range yeah destroying your outfit here i am sorry i am sorry it is good one all right here we have a tiger i have always loved tigers they are just they are biggest cats i did a project on cats of the wild when i was a kid and it was my favorite cat just because it looks the best the stripes orange my dad used to talk about he is from bangladesh so i used to tell me all about them when he was a kid and they are just the most feared of animals in the wild animals in the wild so that is why i like them i do not say i met me really well excellent thank you very much dave if you would like to have a dash so i am sorry thank you thank you a monkey this is a this is a somewhat a bleak reference in fact to i have a 3 year old daughter who is affectionately known as miss monkey monkeys have attitude which i think is a good thing and from the point of view the study of human evolution they and other privates are terribly interesting i like monkeys this one seems to have perhaps more attitude than most i am hardly hardly what i would call the best drawing in the world but it will do for now also not quite as feared as your average tiger but cats are one of my favorite animals they are very independent they are snotty as hell at the best of times and what can you say you have got all of those qualities in an animal i think we have all managed to master every whiteboard there by looks of it so on to it project finance as you can see €125 per unit that is not a terrible lot as far as i am aware we are hoping to sell them for 25 if we are aiming for €50000000 we are going to have to be selling an awful lot 0 that was proper name that was a amount so that is the amount made yeah okay well 50000000 and if you are making €125 in each one then awful lot need to be sold ok now we better actually just get on the meat of the project so i am going to guess that we have all used remote controls any ideas of where you think a new remote control could go into this market well one thing i am aware of is that at the very high price end of the market there is an emerging market for touch screen lcd cd remotes that can be programmed in much more sophisticated ways that are conventional models so you get the sort of you get you can redesign the interface to your own needs you can program in macros and you get a much greater degree of them i mean you get these sort of 3 and 15 whatever but you can get integration between the different the different things that is designed to control to a much greater extent you can have one macro to turn the tv to the right channel rewind the tape and the vcr and get it to play what is rewind for instance okay it occurs to me there might be a niche for a remote that aimed towards some of that sort of functionality but using a conventional push button design and therefore putting it into a much lower price bracket okay that is true with the price range we are looking at going for a touch screen would probably be possibly other absolutely prohibitive but you think again something to control multiple units in a simple fashion yeah i mean i mean you get ones that you can switch between multiple units but something that could operate between multiple units in a more integrated fashion some of this an idea something into which we have some at least limited facility for running macros would you be idea something along the lines of one on button would turn on say the video recorded the tv maybe the sound system as well on one go is that for instance as they are or you press play button for the dvd player and it turns the tv on and onto the right channel as well okay that sounds like a good strong idea any takes in this well i have noticed that gaming is becoming quite popular with television when i was younger we used to play games using cable using the cable subscribe cable providers but our remote controls get worn out really easily and the remote control is not a great kind of keypad for playing games so perhaps one that was more specialized for game playing or interactive television they recently brought out this new remote control for people to set their favorite channels or to record things instead of people entering in what time things start you simply slide a bar to say what time it begins and slide another bar to say what time it ends yeah i have seen the barcode design before yeah it is taken out the you do not have to be really clever to use a remote control i think for gaming you know you want some big buttons for up down left and right and shoot you want to be able to change angles and interact with television so you need buttons to change the television angle the camera angles and stuff like that okay well we are beginning to run out of time now so we have got a couple of of ideas we will have to work fast all right as you can see we have got 30 minutes until the next meeting so we will have to try and decide on some of the basic functionality how the user interface might work that will be a key aspect especially if the idea of some kind of macro facility because you have to program it you have to have a lot of response back or at least some kind and we are going to maybe try and have to figure out what the user wants what the user wants yes okay right has anybody got anything they would like to add at this stage anything they think that might have been missed so far well when you are talking about gaming and stuff do you think they should have some sort of stick on it rather than buttons 0 okay that is a like control like you know of games but is that a bit ridiculous i do not see why not almost everybody is probably used to a console by now and all of them incorporate small d pads on them in fact even the mobile phones these days are beginning to use them as well so it is probably an interface that most people are used to and that could allow easy navigation use as a joystick as well maybe the other key feature that would be a good idea of building it is to make something fairly sort of ergonomic something fits as comfortable as possible into the hand of course it also allows for the possibility of a more sort of slightly unconventional and attractive shape for it overall so small stylish and something that is just a little bit different slightly sort of biomorphic in form which it would need to be to sort of conform to the shape of the hand more efficiently anyway okay that is definitely something that we should be able to do quite easily i would have hoped so anyway right i would say we finished this one up we get started i will get them i will get them i will write up what we have kind of quickly done and i will get that out to everybody okay yeah so okay okay me and good journey i guess as far as i am aware we leave the microphones here unless we are told otherwise and just take the laptop with us i am