okay 0 i totally yeah cause i moved it is put it over here then we do not have to worry about it ready for this all set cool alright it is powerpoint time i have done more powerpoints in this particular experiment than i have ever done in my life before this experiment which is kind of fun yeah 0 man so here we have our detailed design meeting where we will look at the prototype and right so i finally figured out what this whole 2nd bullet point is about in my that my coach was sending to me it means i am supposed to read the minutes from the previous meeting 0 really okay i think huh i do not know otherwise it is just saying i am the secretary and i am therefore i am taking the minutes s so just to go just real briefly to go over minutes from last meeting i will open them slowly no wait for it wait for it yeah that is not you no that is how the wait this is this is very high powered stuff here double clicking there we go so basically the moral of the story from our last minute last meeting was that we that we had meetings from we had presentations done by the industrial designer or from nathan and ron and from sarah about what we can do here and what sort of limitations we are operating with excuse me what limitations we are operating under what kind of risk we would be looking at with some of the various approaches we were discussing and we essentially came to the conclusion that we should develop a remote with voice recognition i e that had a vaguely non remote like shape because you did not really need to use it as a remote since you could just use your voice that would include some mostly just the simple design features for a television operation but with a slide or a fold out bay for more advanced functions for users and the the u i d and the i d were asked to go ahead and start developing a prototype for us to look at so that is sorted back to the main meet here go ahead and take it away guys well we have assembled our prototype what is to be said about it we took into account a lot of the things that we went over in the last meeting some of the most important things to consider are that we decided not to go for the touch screen which you can see and opted for some very large buttons for the primary functions this is going to be the on off button and we have these buttons to go through the channels and then 2 volume buttons down here d we decided those were the most important buttons and then for the more advanced functions there is a slide out panel here and you can see that there are lots of other things going on but this actually can slide back in and provides a very nice esthetic when it is all put away as far as the whole visible light thing we decided to go with the multiple colors coming out why not ah nice fair enough of course if that is annoying for some people that function can be turned off perfect no it is important to we talked a quite a bit about you know the the interchangeable faces and what we have done here is come up with a bit of a natural look here f we call it fruity if you will go ahead right appropriate okay right of course that is interchangeable and i think it would be desirable for the for the regular product in the in the in the in the 1st packaging to be something a little bit more subdued but this is kind of something that can be done and as you can see on the television there we have the voice detector device on the top there kay it is an option 0 right that is this here ah i see so that that will work quite well with with regard to finding this contraption what other things do we see here well if you give it a touch it does have actually a bit of a spongy feel so i think that will work well with regards to our market and let us see well clearly there is going to be some more colors and what not available do you have anything else to add to that i worried about the materials it is the entire thing is covered in a rubber coating so it is very durable it is not going to break like some types of plastic that is dropped and of course as you can see and if you touch it it does have that nice squishy feel it is actually important to note that the television you know if there is an earthquake or anything like that that i it actually is edible inside fact i dunno if you noticed but i wrote the the company is name on the telephone screen i thought that was kinda nice 0 well done yeah yeah 0 ok nice this was actually an apple on the inside do we need to worry about rot factors this it is encased in a new type of 0 okay there is preservatives involved we do not need to worry okay polymer yeah yeah it is fine we got a bit ahead of ourselves i know we are not talking about making televisions at this point or anything like that but fair enough edible televisions it is a wave of the future no but it is a couple years off at least it is pos a possible new product okay but i think that is i think that sums up the main features of our of the remote i dunno if you guys have any questions or f whether that whether we need to worry about any other marketing areas or anything of that nature brilliant right did we come in under budget we did yeah this cost well to put this into production we are looking at about what was our goal it was €1250 and this actually came in at about 1199 so i was quite pleased with that one thing that we did not do obviously we had a choice with the buttons whether to use scroll buttons or standard rubber buttons but we just went for a classic rubber button and since we did that we did not have to use as many microchips which was quite nice and that is what helped keep the cost down brilliant so even though it has a lot of modern technology for example the voice recognition in a lot of ways it is just a simple remote and i think if we shopped around for other manufacturers we might be able to get even cheaper okay did we talk about the voice recognition option and 0 no we have not talked about that yet have we so so yeah on the back here you all noticed this area here which is actually the voice recognition console and i think it is nicely designed into the into the overall look okay yeah but basically the voice recognition incorporates the latest designs that our research team has been able to cufw come up with basically quite similar to the coffee maker design that we were talking about earlier and kay i think that has given a proven ease of use and what not yeah and allows features like the remote actually talking back to the user so right cool any questions do we have other for lack of a better word skins no no i think that is covers in play now or are those ones going to be developed later once we see how the couple we have g go or do you want to answer this one or do you want me to answer it do we know where we stand on that yet well we did not quite have enough material 0 i was not expecting a prototype i just did not know if you guys had any in mind yet yeah yeah 0 i see right well as you can see this is just a most superficial layer and it would be very easy to put another layer of something else like okay just veneer really yeah right okay actually this bottom red ring here just unclips and then you put a a new a new a new plate on top of that and the whole thing okay right so i mean there are i we definitely priced out a spongy even spongier non natural look materials which i think worked out fine yeah there is okay we also continued on with the ideas that f following apple is color schemes with the kind of the light orange and the green kay okay very cool it is not it is not quite a a face plate it is more like a pseudo face plate because it is simple enough that in the factory it could we could very easily put a different one on it okay it locks into place such that you know it is pretty permanent but at the same time if we want to go the other way it is just a matter of a couple of adjustments and we could go the face plate way if you know what i mean okay yep it is still an option if we need it yeah very cool nice job right yeah thanks guys that is very very good work i like it brilliant what we need to discuss now is the finance of it i got me you have got you provided a number that actually sounds quite nice the trouble is i was just given this by finance it is a spreadsheet of the parts and i have just tentatively put in what it is going to look like 0 ooh i am just going to clear this out real quickly but it looks like so we will just if we can just itemize what is in here we have got this it is a solar cell thing right right we did not really touch on that but it it is in there yep with a back up battery with the ba okay and the voice recognition area actually doubles as as the solar cell area clever clever well done yeah so i guess that would mean we have got a bit of a it is a s a speaker and a sensor at the same time is not it yeah yeah it is just making use of the same space and the same materials but okay and the case it is more of a single curved case i guess would be that be the general yeah one big curve i guess you could say and we have got a rubber skin material basically throughout push button interface with this other drop down so maybe we have got 2 push button interfaces do not we yeah and a special i guess it is we have got a sort of a wood materi a rubbery type material that throughout yeah yeah special and s i guess you have to mark special color and special form as well do not you cause it i it is very unconventional i like to think of it as unconventional yeah it is it is quite unique i like it yeah it is so it looks like m come in at 16 a bit over budget 0 huh does not match up does it so what we could do perhaps a simple fix would maybe to switch away from the solar cells or take out the back up battery how do you feel about that i mean i think that if we are talking about it being one of our main selling features being environmental and without the batteries and what not although it does still have a battery so i am not sure that you know what the sell is on that yeah i mean we could take we could take the battery out of it you see and it would probably work 99% of the time but you are going to have to set up a call center for that one of the time when people are calling and saying 0 look my remote is not working what am i going to do k people would be real upset i think in the long run it is better to keep the battery true it is hard to scrap the whole cell battery idea cause that is so integral to the theme that we have what is difficult we have all these things integral to the to the design of it that we just can not back out of now nah it would have to be seems like we would have to go back to square one in a way if we were going to try to undo one bit we would probably have to undo most of it yeah although we do not want to get rid of the whole environmental i mean obviously the solar cell is a big piece of the way we are marketing this as like a natural new thing but honestly if we cut that one piece out we are actually coming in under budget if i have done my math correctly i mean you might be able to sway me on the idea that we our main selling point could be already this voice recognition thing i mean that is what sets us apart right i mean which it is yeah that is what setting us into this young market i mean that is where we started from so i do not know and i mean you know perhaps when the cell technology comes down in price we can bring that back into the game but it looks like at this point that may be out of our league and the reality is you know for me from an ideological stand point i would like to stick with the the solar cell right but i h kind of have to throw myself in the in the business structure model here and you know i think i think that i think that we need to come to a compromise here and maybe move ahead with the project right yeah right it is either or yeah without the solar cell yeah i think unfortunately that is our best option i guess we might have to do that it is the only way we are going to get below our goal is not it of 1250 cause we can not remove the push buttons cause they are and we can not get rid of the i mean removing the changing the case would not be so much of a it kind of yeah yeah savings nor would changing the case materials so yeah that looks like to be the only thing yeah so that would be the it is a major change but yeah got to do what you got to do alright so we are in agreement on that unfortunately i think we are no i think that was a good compromise you brought forward sarah right moving along swiftly so i guess now we just go to the project evaluation which i will allow sarah to take over that would be me cord ah of course sorry no problem whoosh can you reach that would be great thank you yep that would be great i did not even do that one on purpose either damn okay basically i was just evaluating from what we know of how our product is working right now with the criteria that we set at the beginning of these are the things we needed to do these are the things that look like we feel they are important so i was looking at basic design things does it fulfill its functions as a remote is the design what we wanted it to do i are technologies up to where we hoped they would be and does it fulfill the esthetic qualities that our original market research was looking for basic questions like you know does it turn on does it respond to voice recognition and overall in general it looks like it is coming up to par the only thing is with with the pull out panel that is can it take some adjusting because it is a new sort of interface that looked like it was coming up rough but then once you get used to it it does make a lot of sense so i think overall we are headed in the right direction really good so they like that spongy feel yeah it looks like it is going over well so and the paging function works well that is good to hear we worked hard on that one 6 we are we are good yeah we did yeah it is i think eventually if we do branch out with this product maybe we do have a higher budget options and if it goes over with this model we can look into wider range voice recognition like from other rooms of the house and stuff but for now what we have got is working in the range we need it for so it is all good brilliant i am bit disappointed about losing the solar panel but it is okay that is everything from me yeah yeah it is a set back but okay do you need the cord back w we might have we might have lost that granola market again that we are yeah i was just go on i know well they do not own tellys anyway do they i guess that is true true right so this one is a bit unclear to me to be perfectly fair i got this slide from the coach and i am not sure what it is connected to so i guess we are going to discuss our project process and that is going to go into my report so i guess this is the point where we go out of role it looks like and talk about our satisfaction for room for creativity and so forth and how that all worked okay i guess as in within the team or i think so yeah right so it is just kind of a open mic kind of thing or okay i think it is i i think so kay i think hope i am not screwing up an experiment it is now you are in charge so there you go but i trust that she would jump in if i was so okay fair enough yeah whatever right so any thoughts are we considering these points here yeah okay i think they are starting blocks yeah what do you guys feel about the process you know i think in general for a day is worth of work we actually were relatively productive considering the little amount of input we had going in and the technology has definitely been a help it is really been interesting to try out all this new stuff we did not use the whiteboard at all no we did not no no no whiteboard we could now if that would make up for it but really and i feel like if you guys had been designing in here perhaps that would have changed but because of room constraints and does not really matter also had i not been intrigued about the pen i do not think i would have used it at all i did not write barely anything yeah i think i was taking notes more often than usual just cause i liked the pen yeah yeah it is true was pretty cool tack though yeah definitely i am disappointed i did not get a note back from my personal coach as you write your personal coach yeah but i did not get a response so we will see what if you get a response 2 or 3 months from now okay that would be kinda creepy that would be weird attempts to contact coach ineffective well what kind of coaching is that really what if i really needed something i so i do not n i think there was a lot of room for creativity we could do whatever basically what we wanted until the budget came down on us i think so and even then we did get a decent product turned out although it is not everything we wanted it to be yeah with the natural look that is very natural very natural look organic really that is the brilliance of they had a p they had a peeler in here and highly resourceful team mates might i add which is always a plus yeah yeah i think yeah re i thought it was like really creative actually i mean i think the teamwork was good as well yeah i am impressed and to prove that we were not wasteful we did not waste a single bit of play doh we used every bit nice all 4 of those little containers including the s the multi colored wave pattern yeah i guess my one my one criticism is that we did not have enough colors to work with we only had 4 was not enough yeah you could have developed multiple skins really had you had more colors i know it could have been amazing 0 well what did you guys think about the the the roles they were good yeah it is f kind of fun it was yeah i think it was pretty clever cause we were never able to get too far off track because the information came in at the right time and kind of filled in the gaps enough true at the same time you had enough room to kind of just make things up which was kind of fun do your own though i did feel like th the level of information dropped off severely over the course of the day yeah i mean maybe it is just me but i did not actually get any information for the last presentation at all that is true i i got this spreadsheet nothing i did not even get an email like that was it so yeah i feel like that was slightly lacking but then you know fill in the blanks on your own level of creativity upped well i think that was i think that was an issue i kept finding with regard to well no but also yeah when i was reporting about what each of us was doing i was often confused as to what you were doing and then i also felt like you know a lot of our discussion would center around n specifically what my task was because that was kind of the interface portion which was what the whole project was about but and then in the end i think our jobs kind of melded together a little bit more whatever of what to do huh that was not very much you know yeah yes very much so yeah that was fun which was fine i think the most helpful thing out of everything was getting the the powerpoint slides already put together for you cause if we did not have that there is no way we could have got all that done in time yeah already having the formatted stuff helped a lot very much so cool and i think your leadership was quite good it was really good yeah she said i i i she actually made a comment off boy you are getting into this and i really i think it is true i did get i i felt like i got way too into it yeah that is kind of a good thing though you know give the rest of us some structure to work with so hey i felt like i slipped into it a lot it is kinda fun i dunno an so is that the 1st time you have taken on that kind of role the 1st time i have ever done anything like yeah project project management i usually organize crap it is one thing to do you know set up a party with your friends you know yeah yeah little different but you guys felt that you could keep the yeah suspension of disbelief kind of like like the role and the okay yeah yeah i except for a couple moments where it just got out of hand and i knew we were all lying through our teeth other than that yeah i had to admit as soon as w we started i mean as soon as we got the play doh i could only imagine th you know the whole concept of really trying to stick with reality went out the window yeah yeah maybe in in legos you know possibly be fun with legos too like make a remote control or spaceship we used to have spaceship legos did you guys ever used to build spaceships with legos everybody knows best spaceships ever 0 yeah still have em yeah totally you guys felt like there was enough teamwork in all yeah i think so yep you do not no i no i dunno i d i i dunno i do not i i was just i though we did not actually i mean other than minor discussion at meetings there was not except for the actual building yeah but i feel like if this was a team project there actually would have been much more of the collaborative like brainstorming it is true huh use the board well and this would have been 6 months worth of work not like 3 hours worth of meetings yeah i mean i think had the issue been more serious we probably would have brainstormed more during our meetings as a team yeah that is true yeah course i am i am conscious of the idea of the project manager asking if you guys feel like there is a team you know it is like kind of like like it d yeah that is kind of but yeah interesting it is kind of fascinating was not it i mean the whole process of wonder why is there anything about the way that we got so much inform what was it that kept us from going to the the board i do not know i i do not know if there was a ri i th mine was the mics i did not feel like getting up and down and dealing with all these wires i was afraid i was going to break something actually yeah that is it cause the mics are loose and each time you get up it is s a possibility of tripping over something or getting tangled or yeah yeah yeah well i dunno what i would have shown on that board true but it did not even occur to me as an option i mean i do not know that i would have but i know that i consciously did not nor i i mean it is just like the paper i do not know what i really needed the paper for true because i have got this laptop yeah standard i just used it cause it is literally right in front of me yeah i want to see the output files from these from the digital paper well it looks really professional i want to see wh wh what my my handwriting looks like digitized because my handwriting is crap i know yeah that is it i mean just to see what it looks like in p d f format or something usually i would do a lot more doodling too but i did not because i know i felt like i needed to be professional so i did not like draw all over my paper and stuff okay well not entirely but still i doodled less than i usually do t i i am curious about what the de briefing is going to be like you know like what is the what exactly we are looking for here so is this all we need to get through i dunno i am not sure what the new ideas found i is about i guess new ideas it did it just say in an email that we need to discuss that is it well that is the thing i got i in the email i got this powerpoint file but this slide was just there that slide was like that i did not change this one at all well ch i guess we are on the right track yeah well any new ideas with regard to remote control concepts w i kinda like th no none i think they still do their job i think they are fine actually yeah you can not i am thinking outside the little square box though with literally in like form i do not yeah yeah maybe a s a circle would be alright different yeah does kinda make you wonder i mean how much can you do with a remote control it is like inventing a new car yeah yeah you can it is still got to be technically car shaped or it will not fit on the road you know yeah do not know what is that kay our limited ability to think outside the box kind of so this was other costs are we back into project mood i dunno i think this is 0 how long was our meeting supposed to be how much time do we have left 40 ish i i i we should go on a bit yeah about the project eval i dunno about you guys but i felt like a bit under stimulated on the whole thing like what like you know what am i really doing you know what is yeah at the beginning it started out and i felt actually like under pressure like the 1st couple were taking a lot of work and i was like had like all this brainstorming i was doing and then suddenly i was like well it is just another 2 minute presentation that you guys do not really care about anyway so type away yep yeah why hey huh i think it was the real you know you know what i mean like we all sort of knew where we were headed with it so it did not feel like it mattered anymore yeah yeah definitely when when i 1st filled out the questionnaire i was marking it probably higher in terms of how much i had to how much i stressed over it and then by the time i got to the last one i was like you know not very much whatever yeah think it was also realization of you basically just copy and paste what is given to you into your presentation which was not so clear to me at the beginning yeah very much yeah i actually did not do that at all though every single one i a all the presentations i either added slides or edited em i di 0 i added like 5 slides too but i see i only got blank ones 0 did you really i just got blank ones and what really my slides were all blank they would have a title maybe and they were just empty yeah mine too me too did they not have they did not like mine yeah they did not come like this like with this was what it looks like like with those words already on it this is what that looked like literally just like that no no interesting i wondered why yours always looked so more complicated huh huh huh i deleted slides i think i added a slide one time i added many slides every time yeah hey with the whole new background being innovative yeah that was class that was pretty cool it was a high moment of the whole experiment interesting any other thoughts come to mind i want to know how our product would fare i can not just leave it there i think it would fail i think it would be a huge disaster especially if it looks like that i think it would take extensive marketing okay an apple with a red button on top even i am skeptical but you know the whole even you yeah i do not we kind of designed it to look little bit like a face yeah but i know it is it is a happy face actually that looked a lot more like a tongue from previous to fr some other design modifications builds i hope you appreciate the incorporation of some tin foil from a random kit kat bar that happened to be consumed i i noticed that by accident interesting well huh an interesting day all in all i would say yeah it is yeah i would say so so again i reiterate my question of how different we are comp compared to the other groups especially between culture groups and what not i know i know it seemed like everything flowed pretty logically i want to see a i you know from the the the basics to the conce although the whole concepts thing the whole concepts phase i do not think i really understood like the concept yeah well the id okay the notion of yeah i mean i it is not like i have a concept of a mug is material it is just it is what it is cause it is such a functional item yeah you know maybe i rather than concepts i it should be th thought of we sh i i thought of i thought of rather than in terms of concepts i thought of it in terms of like proposed idea and then the final would be like th the actual specified prototype or whatever i dunno but all in all it is kinda interesting so we have more slides or no just this closing one no we have established that the costs were not really within budget but we could s you know do it we got it to be we did the project evaluation based on sarah is evaluation of on off switches and like cutting corners kind of though it was really technically an evaluation of the product not the project in general which i am not sure is the same thing at the time that just i made more sense but i could see if they were really asking about us true yeah cause we di we had a thu think about it yeah and it is all recorded woo hoo yeah what i am going to i am going to put i am supposed to do this final report thing at the end so i will put all that into the final report as well yay or as much as seems like maybe not like the articles and stuff like because and if and so forth but i will put most of it in the reports i make it sound eloquent it would be so cool if we get a copy of the recording 0 i have to done i have i have done transcription before and it is really ridiculous how many words people say like just in the middle of their sentences like that that mean nothing nice 0 yeah there is a whole branch of psychology that looks into that psycholinguistics what the uhs and the really there is a guy studying it here yeah he is studying ums and ahs or something filler words or yep they are called disfluencies yeah disfluencies that is a good word for it yeah we like our fancy phrases and terminologies for things just add some prefixes sounds classier exactly i will save this into the project documents i find myself hitting the send and receive button on the email a lot just out of boredom like c come on gimme something i yeah pretty compulsively during meetings like yeah yeah 0 yeah yeah i know come on give me some information well to be fair we are we are hooked we are all hooked on the internet so i mean i do the yeah we are addicts that is scary yeah it is scary well just around that 8 or or 9 people that are i know imagine we went the 1st 10 y 15 years of our lives without the internet it is only in the last 10 that we are like where is the internet yeah i mean you know it just in the past 5 we have gone from 288 modems to broadband all the time i yeah dude i think we have had internet for like 18 years true no we have but i not in the sense that it is so un you know ubiquitous i yeah yeah but it is not regular i mean my grandparents had it in the 80s and i got it in 94 but still it is crazy huh so in the 80s my grammy does computer science back in the states and so they had an e d u and governor network there is basically the fundamental structures but it was not household to household yet because it had not been right yeah it was to the like 7 universities or something partitioned off and stuff yeah that was him you guys ready to celebrate yeah that is our last step apparently does that include like champagne or something exciting celebration should i think so kay i guess we can probably call that meeting to an end for the most part i think that is a closer cool has it been 40 minutes or whatever this has been long enough celebrate where do you find that i have no idea is that the only song you have there is another one is this one of those media player huh yep w 0 that is awesome the default track maybe i have a different one i thought it was david burns look into the eyeball that is one that seems to be shipping with it shipped with for a while maybe this is the new version so is that a close yeah i guess we will call that a a doner okay that is the end of the meeting fab thank you gentlemen i feel like i am signing off
0 i am going to all me 0 i told me i can not even yeah because i moved it all set all set all right it is powerpoint time i have done more powerpoints in this particular experiment than i have ever done in my life before this experiment yeah which is kind of fun so here we have our detailed design meeting where we will look at the prototype right so i finally figured out what this whole 2nd bullet point is about in my that my coach was sending to me it means i am supposed to read the minutes from the previous meeting 0 really okay i think i do not know otherwise it is just saying i am the secretary and i am therefore i am taking the minutes so just to go just real briefly to go over minutes from the last meeting i will open them slowly no wait for it wait for it yeah that is not you no that is not me wait this is very high powered stuff here double clicking there we go so basically the moral story from our last meeting was that we had meetings from we had presentations done by the industrial designer or from nathan and ron and from sarah about what we can do here and what sort of limitations we are operating with or excuse me what limitations were operating under what kind of risk we would be looking at with some of the various approaches we were discussing and we essentially came to the conclusion that we should develop a remote with their voice recognition that had a vaguely non remote like shape because you did not really need to use it as a remote since you could just use your voice it would include mostly just the simple design features for a television operation but with a slide or a fold out bay for more advanced functions for users and the uid and the id were asked to go ahead and start developing a prototype for us look at so that is sorted back to the main meet here go ahead and take it away guys well we have assembled our prototype what is to be said about it we took into account a lot of the things that we went over in the last meeting some of the most important things to consider are that we decided not to go for the touchscreen which you can see and opted for some very large buttons for the primary functions this is going to be the on and off button and we have these buttons to go through the channels and then 2 volume buttons down here we decided those were the most important buttons and then for the more advanced functions there is a slide out panel here you can see that there are lots of other things going on but this actually can slide back in it provides a very nice esthetic when it is all put away as far as the whole visible light thing we decided to go with multiple colors coming out why not of course if that is annoying for some people that function can be turned off perfect now it is important to we talk to quite a bit about you know the interchangeable faces and what we have done here is come up with a bit of a natural look here right we call it broody appropriate right of course that is interchangeable and i think it would be desirable for the you desirable for the regular product in the 1st packaging to be something a little bit more subdued but this is kind of something that can be done and as you can see on the television there we have the voice detector device 0 right on the top there so that will work quite well with regard to finding this contraption what other things do we see here if you give it a touch it does have actually a bit of a spongy feel so i think that will work well in regards to our market let us see well clearly there is going to be some more colors and whatnot available do you have anything else to add to that i am worried about the materials the entire thing is covered in the rubber coating so it is very durable it is not going to break like some types of plastic that is dropped and of course as you can see if you touch it it does have that nice squishy feel it is actually important to note that the television you know if there is an earthquake or anything like that it actually is edible inside i do not know if you noticed but i wrote the company is name 0 well done yeah this is actually an apple on the inside do we need to worry about rot factors it is encased in a new type of 0 okay there is preserved as involved in it we got a bit ahead of ourselves i know we are not talking about making televisions edible televisions it is a wave of the future it is a couple years off at least a possible new product but i think that sums up the main features of the remote i do not know if you guys have any questions or whether we need to worry about any other marketing areas or anything of that nature did we come in under budget we did yeah this costs well to put this into production looking at about what was our goal it was $1250 and this actually came in about $1199 so i was quite pleased with that one thing that we did not do obviously we had a choice with the buttons whether to use scroll buttons or standard rubber buttons but we just went for a classic rubber button and since we did that we did not have to use as many microchips which was quite nice that is what helped keep the cost down right so even though it has a lot of modern technology for example the voice recognition a lot of ways it is just a simple remote i think if we shopped around for other manufacturers we might be able to get it even cheaper did we talk about the voice recognition option 0 no we have not talked about it so on the back here you will notice this area here which is actually the voice recognition console and i think it is nicely designed into the into the overall look but basically the voice recognition incorporates the latest designs that our research team has been able to come up with basically quite similar to the coffee maker design that we were talking about earlier and i think that has given a proven ease of use and whatnot yeah and allows features like the remote actually talking back to the user cool any questions no no i think that is do we have other for lack of a word skins covers in play now are those going to be developed later once we see how the couple we have go or do we know we stand on that yet well we did not quite have enough material 0 i was not expecting a prototype i just know if you guys had me in mind yet right well as you can see this is just a most superficial layer it would be very easy to put another layer just something else actually this bottom red ring here just unclips and then you put a new plate on top of that so i mean there are we definitely priced out a spongy even spongier non natural look which i think worked out fine we also continued on with the ideas of following apple is color schemes with kind of the light orange and the green it is not quite a faceplate it is more like a pseudo faceplate because it is simple enough that in the factory we could very easily put a different one on it walks into place such that it is pretty permanent for the same time if we want to go the other way it is just a matter of a couple of adjustments we could go the face plate way if you know what i mean yep it is still an option yeah very cool nice job right yeah thanks guys that is very good work i like it brilliant what we need to discuss now is the finance of it you have provided a number that actually sounds quite nice the trouble is i was just given this by finance it is a special spreadsheet of the parts and i have just tentatively put in what it is going to look like i am just going to clear this out real quickly but it looks like so we will just if we can just itemize what is in here we have got this it is a solar cell thing right right with a backup battery it is in there with the back okay the voice recognition area actually doubled as the solar cell area clever clever well done so i guess that would mean we have got a bit of a it is a speaker and a sensor at the same time is not it yeah it is just making use of the same space and the same materials in the case it is more of a single curved case i guess that would be the general yeah one big curve i guess you could say and we have got a rubber skin material basically throughout push button interface with this other drop down so maybe we have got 2 push button interfaces do not we yeah and special i guess we have got a sort of a wood material a rubbery type material yeah special throughout yeah i guess you would have to mark special color and special form as well i am sure because it is very unconventional yeah it is quite unique i like it yeah so it looks like a bit over budget 0 i just know so what we could do perhaps a simple fix would maybe to switch away from the solar cells or take out the backup battery how do you feel about that i mean i think that if we were talking about it being one of our main selling features being environmental and without the batteries and whatnot although it does still have a battery so i am not sure that you know what the sell is on that i mean we could take the battery out of it you see and it probably worked 99% of time but you are going to have to set up a call center for that one of time and people are calling and saying 0 look my remote is not working what am i going to do people would be really upset i think in the long run it is better to keep keep the battery and it is hard to scrap the whole solar battery idea because that is so integral to the theme that we have well it is difficult we have all these things integral to the design of it that we just can not back out of now it would have to be it seems like we would have to go back to square one in a way if we were going to try to undo one bit we would probably have to undo most of it although we do not want to get rid of the whole environmental i mean obviously the solar cell is a big piece of the way we are marketing this is like a natural new thing but honestly if we cut that one piece out we are actually coming in under budget if i have done my math correctly i mean you might be able to sway me on the idea that our main selling point could be already this voice recognition thing i mean that is what sets us apart right yeah that is what is setting us into this young market i mean that is what we started from so i do not know and i mean you know perhaps when the cell technology comes down in price we can bring that back into the game but it looks like at this point that may be out of our league and the reality is you know for me from an idea of that logical standpoint i would like to stick with the solar cell but i kind of have to throw myself in the business structure and model here and you know i think it is either or i think that i think that we need to come to a compromise here and maybe move ahead with the project without the solar cell yeah i think unfortunately that is our best option it is the only way we are going to get below goal is in 1250 because we can not remove the push by the because they are yeah we can not get rid of the i mean removing the changing the case would not be so much of a so much of nor would changing the case materials so yeah that looks like to be the only thing so that it is a major change but yeah all right so we are in agreement on that unfortunately i think we are i think that was a good compromise you brought forward to right moving along swiftly so i guess now we just go to the project evaluation which i will allow sarah to take one that would be me cord 0 of course sorry no problem can you reach that would be great thank you that would be great i did not even do that one on purpose either okay basically i was just evaluating from what we know of how our products working right now with the criteria that we set at the beginning of these are the things we needed to do these are the things that look like we feel they are important so i was looking at basic design things basic design things does it fulfill its functions as a remote is the design what we wanted to do are our technologies up to where we would hoped they would be and does it fulfill the extended qualities that our original market research was looking for basic questions like you know does it turn on does it respond to voice recognition and overall in general it looks like it is coming up to par the only thing is with the pullout panel that is going to take some adjusting because it is a new sort of interface that looked like it was coming up rough but then once you get used to it it does make a lot of sense so i think overall we are headed in the right direction really good so range voice recognition like from other rooms of the house and stuff but for now what we have got is working in the range we need it for so it is all good really i am at this point losing the solar panel yeah it is okay yeah it is a setback but okay do you need the cord back we might yeah we might have lost that granola market again 0 they do not tell these anyway do they i guess that is true right so this one is a bit unclear to me to be perfectly fair i got this slide from the coach and i am not sure what it is connected to so i guess we are going to discuss our project process and that is going to go into my report so i guess this is the point where we go out a role it looks like and talk about our satisfaction for a room for creativity and so forth and how that all worked i guess as in within the team i think so yeah right so it is just kind of open mic kind of thing i think so it is now you are charged so there you go i am not screwing up an experiment but i trust that she would jump in if i was so okay fine on me whatever right so any thoughts are we considering these points here yeah i think they are starting blocks yeah what did you guys feel about the process you know i think in general for a day is worth of work we actually are relatively productive considering the little amount of input we had going in and the technology has definitely been to help it is really been interesting to try out all this new stuff we did not use the whiteboard at all no no whiteboard we could now if that had makeup board really and i feel like if you guys had been designing in here perhaps that would have changed but because of room constraints it does not really matter also had i not been intrigued about the pen i do not think i would have used it at all i did not write barely anything yeah i think i was taking notes more often than usual just kind of like the pen yeah that is true it was a pretty cool tack though i am disappointed i did not get a note back for my personal coach did you write your personal coach yeah but i did not get a response what if you get a response to 2 or 3 months from now okay that would be kind of creepy attempts to contact coach well what kind of coaching is that really what if i really needed something so i think there was a lot of room for creativity we could do whatever basically wanted until the budget came down on us and even then we did get a decent product turned out although it is not everything we wanted it to be yeah with the natural look it is very natural look organic really it is brilliant so they had a peeler in here and highly resourceful teammates might i add which is always in class yeah i thought it was really creative actually yeah i am impressed the teamwork was good to prove that we were not wasteful we did not waste a single bit of play doh we used to every bit nice all 4 of those little containers including the multicolored wave pattern my one criticism was that we did not have enough colors to work with we only had 4 yeah you could have developed multiple skins really i know more color it would be amazing i love what did you guys think about the roles they were good yeah it is kind of fun yeah it was i think it is pretty clever because we were never able to get too far off track because the information came in at the right time and kind of filled in the gaps enough the same time you had enough room to kind of just make things do your own do your own though i did feel like the level of information dropped off severely over the course of the day yeah i mean maybe it is just me but i did not actually get any information for that this presentation at all that is true i got the spreadsheet i did not even get an email like that was it so yeah i feel like that was slightly lacking but then you know fill in the blanks on your own level of creativity up well i think that was an issue i kept finding with regard to what to do well no but also yeah when i was reporting about what each of us was doing i was often confused as to what you were doing that was not very much and then i also felt like you know a lot of our discussion would center around specifically what my task was because that was kind of the interface portion which is what the whole project was about very much so but and then in the end i think our jobs kind of melded together a little more that was fun i think the most helpful thing out of everything was getting the powerpoint slides already put together for you because if we did not have that there is no way we could have got all that done in time very much so cool i think your leadership was quite good it was she actually made a comment off on the boy you are getting into this and i really it is true i did get it i felt like i got way too into it that is kind of a good thing though i feel like i slipped in a lot give the rest of us some structure to work with so hey so is that the 1st time you are taking on that kind of rule the 1st time i have ever done anything like yeah project management i usually organize crap it is one thing to do you know set up a party with your friends yeah you know a little different but you guys felt that you could keep the yeah suspension of disbelief kind of like the role except for a couple moments where it just got out of hand and i knew we were all lying through our teeth other than that i had to admit as soon as we started i mean as soon as we got the play doh i can not even imagine you know the whole concept of really trying to stick with reality went out the window yeah yeah maybe legos you know possibly legos too like a remote control or a spaceship we should just have spaceship legos do you guys ever used to build a spaceship 0 yeah yeah everybody knows totally best spaceships ever you guys felt like there is enough teamwork and all yeah i think so yeah no i do not know i do not know i do not i was just no we did not actually i mean other than minor discussion in meetings there was not except for the actual building yeah but i feel like if this was a team project there actually would have been much more of the collaborative like brainstorming and used the board well and this would have been 6 months worth of work not like yeah 3 hours worth of meetings i mean i think had the issue being more serious we probably would have brain storm more during our meeting so that is true yeah of course i am conscious of the idea of the project manager asking if you guys feel like there is a team it is that kind of like yeah that is kind of but yeah interesting it is kind of fascinating was not it i mean the whole process of i wonder why is there anything about the way that we got so much what was it that kept us from going to the board i do not know i do not know if there was a record mine was the mics i did not feel like getting up and down and dealing with all these wires i was afraid i was going to break something the mics are loose and each time you get up it is a possibility of tripping over something getting tangled or well i do not know what i would have shown on the board true but it did not even occur to me as an option i mean i do not know that i would have but i know that i consciously did not i mean it is just like the paper i do not know what i really needed the paper for true because i have got this laptop yeah i just used it because it was literally right in front of me i want to see the output files from the digital paper i want to see what my handwriting looks like digitized because my handwriting is crap yeah i mean just to see what it looks like in pdf format or something usually i would do a lot more doodling too but i did not i know i felt like i needed to be professional so i did not like drawl them in my paper and stuff okay well not entirely but still i do it less than i usually do i am curious about what the debriefing is going to be like you know like what is the what exactly we are looking for here so is this all i need to go through i do not know i am not sure what the new ideas found it is about ideas did it just say in an email that we need to discuss that well that is the thing in the email i got this powerpoint file but this slide was just there that slide was like that  i did not change this one at all wow and i guess we are on the right track yeah i am on any new ideas with regard to remote control concepts no i kind of like it i think they still do their job yeah they are fine actually i am thinking outside the little square box though it is literally in like form yeah maybe a circle would be all right yeah different this is kind of make you wonder i mean how much can you do with a remote control it is like inventing a new car yeah yeah you can it is still got to be technically car shaped and will not fit on the road yeah do not know   where is that a limited ability i will be back into i do not know i think this is well how long was our meeting supposed to be how much time is 40 ish i we should go on a bit yeah about the project eval i do not know about you guys but i felt like a bit under stimulated on the whole thing like what like you know what am i really doing you know what is yeah at the beginning it started out and i felt actually like under pressure like the 1st couple yeah taking a lot of work and i was like had like all these brainstorming i was doing and then suddenly i was like well it is just another 2 minute presentation that you guys do not really care about anyway so you know what i mean like we we also knew where we were headed with it so it did not feel like it mattered anymore when i 1st filled up the question i was marking it probably higher in terms of how much i had to how much i stressed over it and by the time i got to the last it was like whatever i think there was also a realization of basically just copy and paste what is given to you into your presentation which was not so clear to me at the beginning i actually did not do that at all though every single one all the presentations i either added slides or edited them 0 i added like 5 slides see i only got blank ones i just got blank ones what really my slides were all blank they would have a title maybe yeah mine too and they were just empty me too they did not like mine yeah they did not come like this like this was what it looks like like with those words already on it literally just like that interesting i wonder why yours always looked so more complicated i did not need slides i think i added it i have a slide one time i did many slides every time with the whole new background being innovative that was pretty cool that was class it is a high moment of experiment interesting i want to know how our product was there i think it would fail i think it would take extensive marketing okay the red button on top even i have the skeptical but you know the whole even you we kind of designed it to look a little bit like a face i know it is here brian it is a happy face actually that looked a lot more like a tongue previous to build other design modifications i hope you appreciate the incorporation of some tin flail from a random kit cat bar that happened to be consumed by accident interesting an interesting day all in all of and all yeah i would say so so again i reiterate my question of how different we are compared to the other groups especially between culture groups and whatnot i know i know it seemed like everything is flowed pretty logically you know from the basics to the concept although the whole concepts thing the whole concepts phase i do not think i really understood like the concept well the idea okay the notion of functional item yeah i mean it is not like i have a concept of a mug is material it is just it is what it is yeah you know maybe rather than concepts it should be thought of we should i thought of it i thought of it i thought of it in terms of concepts i thought of it in terms of like proposed idea and then the final would be like the actual specified prototype or whatever i do not know but i know it is kind of interesting so we have more slides or no just this closing one we have established that the cost were not really within budget but we could you know do we got it to be we did the project evaluation based on based on that sarah is evaluation of on off switches it was really technically an evaluation of the product not the project in general which i am not sure is the same thing at the time that just made more sense but i could see if they were really asking about us yeah because we had to think about it yeah and it is all recorded woohoo and what i am going to put i am supposed to do this final report thing at the end so i will put all that into the final report as well or as much as it seems like maybe not like the articles and stuff like because and if and so forth but i will put most of it in the reports it would be so cool if we get a copy of the recording i have had to done i have done transcription before and it is really ridiculous how many words people say like just in the middle of their sentences like that that mean nothing there is a whole branch of psychology that looks into that psycholinguistics there is a guy sitting it here yeah he is studying the odds or something yep they are called disfluencies disfluencies that is a good word for it yeah we like our fancy phrases and terminologies just add some prefixes sounds classier exactly i will save this into the project i find myself hitting the send and receive button on the email a lot yeah pretty compulsively straight yeah i know something come on give you some information well to be fair we are all hooked on the internet yeah so i mean i do we are addicts that is scary yeah it is scary i will just throw on that area there i know imagine we went the 1st 10 15 years of our lives without the internet it is only in the last 10 that we are like where is the internet i mean you know just in the past 5 we have gone from 28 8 modems to broadband all the time i think we have had internet for like 18 years no we have but not in the sense that it is so you know ubiquitous my grandparents had it in the 80s and i got it in 94 but still it is crazy so in the 80s my grandma did computer science back in the states and so they had an edu and governor network there was basically the fundamental structures but it was not household to household yet because it had not been yeah it was to the like 7 universities or something yeah that was him you guys were ready to celebrate yeah that is our last day does that include like champagne or something exciting should i think you can probably call that meeting to an end i think that is a closer cool has it been 40 minutes sort of because it has been long enough celebrate where did you find that i have no idea that is the only song you have there is another one this is windows media player huh that is awesome the default track i thought it was david burns looking to the eyeball that is the one it seems to be shipping with it i hardly shipped with for a while maybe this is a new version so is that a close yeah i guess we will call that a dinner that is the end of the meeting fab thank you gentlemen i feel good to find it on