excellent so i sent you the agenda it was on the in the project documents i do not know if you got a chance to just have a look at it anyway it is the meeting is going to follow more or less the same structure as last time so we will go round each of you in turn and you can give your presentations on what you have been up to and at the end of that we need to discuss what you have come up with so that we can make a decision on the key remote control concepts so that is we need to know about the components properties materials the user interface and any trends that the marketing expert has been watching right okay do you want to start again okay let me we have got 40 minutes right s so i have not made a powerpoint presentation yeah i i thought i will use the whiteboard instead you have not made a powerpoint okay okay let us hope the pen holds out so basically i will start off by i thought i will use the whiteboard because we have so many different options and what we can do is that we can start rubbing off the options that we do not require and putting in the options that are m or highlighting or underlining them or something like that okay so i will start again with a brief introduction to connect that anyway brief introduction to the insides of a remote control and then we can probably discuss the various components yeah yeah okay so w what you see here is so this is the outside of the remote right if you open it you have a circuit board here right and this is the chip that i was talking about last time this basically sends information to a tr transistor here which then sends the information to an l e d device here if you flip the printed circuit board and this is th the most important point here everything else is kind of okay so if you flip the circuit board this is what it looks like so you see for example a particular button attaches to a particular place on the p c b and on pressing this button i a circuit completes yeah the information goes to the chip which is somewhere here and the chip that tra then translates the code into an infra infrared radiation which goes goes out through there so the important point that i read over the website was that the configurations of these printed circuit circuit boards are quite cheap to make you can ge get them printed as you want to so w we can have a configuration irrespective of the cost the way we want to have right so that is the important point here so these are the different options that we have okay so the batteries i will start with the battery right so they can be simple which is like the normal batteries in our the cells yeah yeah thes these are the kind different kind of batteries that the company makes right so and dynamos yeah yeah does that mean like a wind up one a wind up remote so i do not know if even if you want to consider this but these are the different things that the company makes so th they will they will since they will come internally from the company they will be eas cheaper all these options okay so the 3rd one is the kinetic energy ones you could make the hand dynamo into an exercise bike and then people could exercise whilst watching t v yeah and charging their remote yeah yeah and stop worrying about the whole r s i from the remote thing cause that is just yeah it is a good option so what was what was this k ka the the kinetic energy one is that e they are usually modern watches since our hand keeps moving it keeps the watch ticking okay yeah but i dunno i if it is a good idea for a remote control because it will just lie there for a long while sometimes for a remote cause you yeah but as soon as you pick it up it moves and then again it re recharges or something yeah and the 4th option is the solar cells which are also made by the company yay environment friendly okay so i will list things and then we can come back and discuss what what we think from everybody is perspective yeah there are different cases that can be provided they can be basically the shape of the cases they can be flat they can be curved with one sided curved and one side flat and they can be curved with on both the sides these are the 3 options right you mean this would be like the the overall shape of the remote control yeah yeah would it be flat on both the sides would be curved from one side or whatever there were different kind of supplements available yeah like it can be in plastic rubber wood or titanium right okay did you say wool wo wo wood wood wood wood yeah 0 right a fluffy remote not wool yeah you will understand why when we get to my presenta 0 really okay huh the so we can use even a certain titanium is also used in the company to make some space design equipment so it is kind of it will be probably nicer to use because it relates to the overall image of the company but it cannot be used on a double curved surface if we choose this we cannot use titanium for for these 2 we can use titanium wood rubber or plastic yeah okay the interface options now so we can have push buttons like most remotes do and our company is an expert in making push buttons ooh we can have scroll wheels like the ones on mouse pointers sony sony ericsson mobile phones has it yeah yeah something like that so and they have they can even have an an integrated push button inside the scrolling thing okay the scroll plus push so this is something that has been recently developed by the company in the last decade so not too recent and l c d s we can have l c d s so these 2 are recent and and this is q quite old the various electronic options are so th this concerns firs 1st of all the the chips i i showed you at so there is there is a chip behind this one right the p c b is inexpensive so we can put put in whatever we want but the various integrated circuit options are we have either a simple one or a regular or advanced and the price goes up as we go down obviously okay so the good thing about wh wh why why we would want to use advanced u why we might want to use advanced is that l c d s can only come with the advanced chip the we need regular or advanced for scroll wheels right and the chip basically includes the infra infrared sender yeah besides this in electr under electronics also the company has started making a sample sender which is did not explained what i what it was but i am guessing that so they have a sample sender and a sample speaker so i am guessing that the sample speaker is probably something like you know as soon as you press a button it it give gives you feedback 15 or whatever yeah on and i dunno whether sample sender sender has to do something with voice recognition or not but anyway so these are the different options that we have okay so th that is that is basically now now i think that we can integrate you know the user interface and the marketing things in that keep taking out things from this and underlining things that are important yeah yeah excellent do you want to stay somewhere near the board so that if we need to you can sit down but just we might need you to leap up okay yeah yeah sure sure yeah okay what are you powerpoint or i have some powerpoint yeah right okay 0 do you think these pens can give you cancer of the hand kay some sort of radiation no it has got its little camera in there plug it in yeah okay is a yeah it should should do it yeah right interface concept okay to be honest actually i mentioned some some of the things which which could fit on the on the this talk this time i m i mentioned them already in the previous talk that is fine so yeah this time i might not have them on the slides but i i can just mention them aw again okay so i thought i would also include the definition of user interface so it is the aspects of a of of a computer system or program which can be seen by the user and and which the mechanisms that the user uses to control its operation and input data so this would p includes things like shape and size and buttons and voice recognition as well and color and so on the method i employed this time was a again having a look to related products and mainly on the internet and then analyze them from the point of view of user fen friendliness and also whether their appearance was was pleasant and then this this this can help us to decide which features we want to incorporate in our product so some findings so in in the case of many user interfaces they are just so full of buttons that it is actually hard to find the ones you you really want to use and and it is just confusing it takes y know time to learn okay and i thought i would just quickly show some of them that i found okay some of them are here well the picture is not very clear but as you can see there are actu oi 000 sorry for that is go back that is nice one ah no please okay so yeah they are quite big and have many many buttons actually of the of all these i personally p prefer this one because it is it is the smallest and and with with least with the smallest number of buttons as well and i would say even the appearance of some of them is kind of not so nice ugly okay so let us carry on with this so 0 other findings some new things used some of them were mentioned already by our technical designer our own company has developed a new in user interface wait no this is not the one okay there is a we can include voice recognition and it allows i it is possible to record 80 different voice samples on it so this this one was already mentioned the l c display it is yeah s another new development is a scroll button which was also th also already mentioned and our own manufacturing division ha has designed a new programmable speech sorry speaker unit i guess it is it should be yeah and this means that once it it it comes together with a voice recognition but it is once once the gadget recognizes the voice of the speaker there can be a pre programmed answer for example you can pick up the remote control and say something to it like hello and it says some hello and your name or whatever huh hi yeah so i mean this is also one of the n dev new developments which we might consider if we wanted to include sorry can you go back for a 2nd are you sure wha what this means a spinning wheel with the l c display 0 yeah are th it is like the like you said no the scroll scroll wheel yeah you can not no no the scroll button is a different thing i i have a picture if you just a moment i will i will show you i was not completely sure myself but i think it is just like it is it is a wheel it is like not separate buttons 0 okay the ipod thing yeah look this one here 0 it is like the ipod but i am i am not really sure whether whether you can really turn it round it is like you press this or this or g yeah no you can it is the ipod kind of it is like it is like where you you know how you have your your mouse huh and y you go round and i it is kind of like that and you spin round and it yeah alright right okay okay so instead of going down you just spin yeah yeah it is you just go round and it is a bit weird at 1st but it is actually very like fast huh i like the the wheels that click on the side you you get em much slower so it is quite good if you like searching quite a lot of stuff right huh do you know if you are lookin if you are th scrolling through the a to z of your music and you are looking for something at t then it is a lot faster than the wheel but you have got a lot less control over it right so maybe i should include that here as well l c d s plus spinning yeah yeah okay and the personal preferences are pretty much the same as as as last time it it has to be small simple okay we decided to include voice recognition so to have the standard major buttons like on off ch the channels and and then volume and then the rest would be a menu on the screen and i i also thought if we want to keep it small and nice and actually i i quite like the idea of a scroll a scrolling button i thought it could be for for voice like i dunno it like on a i like it used to be on walkmans or something there is i think there is no reason why we could not use something like this for for the remote control so yeah that is that is it excellent okay straight to trends and then we can discuss it all at once right okay i have put the copy of the presentation in the yeah the project documents excellent if you 2 could both do that as well in case we need to refer to it cool here it comes okay fabulous okay cool so what i did was to search the internet to come up with market trends and you know what users are going to be wanting in the the near future okay right now the 1st aspect is apparently twice as important as the 2nd aspect which is twice as important as the 3rd a aspect okay so i mean the the easy to use thing is fairly low down on the which i think given the target group is what you would expect really you know people want something new something technologically innovative and different so the whole idea with the l c d s and the spinning and the colors and the voice recognition is quite like quite the thing to go for okay and yeah it wants to look fancy fancy look and feel so maybe as you are discussing things is it okay if we just keep highlighting things here so yeah yeah sure yeah yeah yeah right so so it yeah so probably voice recognition is is kind of important right that is over on the interface if if you could put yeah and an yeah and maybe the l c d and spinning so that means we need an advanced thing okay i i have a point about l c d i dunno if it is the right point to take it up w l c d s are basically for feedback right to the user who is pressing buttons and the feedback can come through television itself so do we need an l c d on the remote depends how fast your television runs really do not do not you think i mean we have got one of those telewest boxes and you put the number in the remote and then you wait and then it goes to the t v and then you wait and then it comes so i it actually takes quite a long time and if you get the number in wrong then it is a bit of a pain so i think right you know a screen on the remote would probably cut down your time on that but like remotes do tend to get f thrown about a bit right it it is also quite nice though to to have something here so you do not interrupt the picture on the screen so if you are watching something you know yeah that is true yeah that is also and i it would be like i mean if you could make it integrate with the t v then it could come up with new information about what is on and you could just see that on the remote rather than yeah rather than having to interrupt your viewing pleasure yeah but i think maybe a way to do it would be a similar way to how you have your mobile phone you know right like you have the slidey ones and you have the flippy ones and then the screen is protected so it does not actually get scratched so you can have like what looks like a normal remote control you know or like a minimalist remote control yeah so you got your buttons one to 9 your on and off and your volume on that and then if you want to mess about with it right and then you can flip it open you flip it open and yeah okay so now we seem to have a consensus that l c d s are definitely the way to go because of style and yeah i think so yeah so that kind of decides your whole chip thing right yeah you you agree maarika yeah yep yeah yeah right so l c d s yeah definitely okay go on cool okay apparently fruit and vegetables will be providing inspiration sorry i discovered clip art so these will be an important feature for clothes shoes and furniture so i mean i am taking this to mean you know curviness do you know cause you do not tend to get flat vegetables yeah and possibly even uneven like not not symmet yeah you know yeah bit of asymmetry and stuff but that would be a good way to to get in the whole r s i issue in there because i mean if you think most people use the remote control with their right hand ha right hands so you want to you curve it so that it is suitable for use with the right hand right yeah i am not quite sure about the relevance of material will be spongy something a bit squishy and yeah but i mean y you have to yeah we we have we have rubber but there is a problem that i forgot to discuss with the with using so it could be like a rubbery yeah huh well i suppose you would not get a remote an electric shock off your remote control if it was made of rubber yeah and it would help if you drop it it protects it as well yeah yeah to some degree so if if we use latex cases they will not allow us to use solar cells as an energy source that is the constraint huh so we could use titanium wood or plastic or or if we want to use the the latex then we have to go with one of the other power things if it is made of rubber you could get the kinetic energy fairly easily there you could just bounce it up and down yeah w energy source from from bouncing it yeah tap it on the desk yeah you can have it as like a little ball to bounce that flips open yeah so yeah okay so probably double curved surface is the way to go yeah yeah yeah yeah or or curved at one end and flat on the top because i i am not sure if it is flat on both both the sides then ho how much easy would it be to reach for buttons etcetera you have to have a certain element of flatness i think yeah it it depends on the whole ergonomics of it you know it is like how you put your hands so y it is the least movement basically yeah yeah singe single side curved or double side curved does not say too much does it huh it no i d i do not think it makes a lot of difference i i have one of those s slidey phones and i mean the back is essentially straight but it is curvy so i think besides you have 4 sides to a thing so i mean does curved one side mean one side is straight and yeah cause the yeah right you know curved 2 sides means the whole thing is just a big curvy p thing right dunno di now did it say anywhere in your research material about this sliding stuff because according to the information that i have i think the onl only options that we have with the case is are these 3 yeah eith either we have a flat surfaced case or a curved surfaced case it does not say anything about whether technically you know this this stuff is available at all nothing to open them yeah it is it is more about the protecting the l c d which i think is where it came from right yeah yeah but no my research did not tell me anything which is why we have all the pictures cause i had nothing better to do with my time right okay okay cool anything else what have we got combine style with a level of functionality beauty and practicality and a thing of beauty and p function okay so cool thanks okay thanks looking at what we have got we we want an l c d display with a spinning wheel yeah let us let us try to r rub off things and yeah so hand dynamos are definitely out right yeah rub off some of those yeah it is not that is not streamlined and sexy having a having a wind up you you got a wind dynamo yeah yeah hum yeah okay kinetic energy does seem to have some kind of appeal but i think tha it is about the practicality of it really is not it it is yeah you know as against a watch which constantly keeps moving this this thing will have to be tapped every time which which might be very frustrating for the user i mean if depends how much how much movement it really needs kinetic energy it needs i do not have too much technical information on that yeah right pr presumably if they are suggesting it then we could use it okay let us keep it option keep an option yeah i would i would keep it on the flat co completely flat case is definitely out right yeah it is yeah we do not want that it is no it is not not vegetable it has to be at least curved from one side yeah okay we still have all all the options wood do you think wood will be a good idea n wood is i can not n how do you i mean you can not keep it really small you can not make it like thin and right the wood thing i can not imagine a m wooden remote control because you need to you n you need to put all the technology in so i mean if the case you add the case and it it becomes a bit bulky wi yeah yeah if if it is really thin if it is really thin it it is likely to break it is it is much more yeah yeah yeah and given that we are we are looking at more spongy material preferences i ha would think maybe rubber or plastic is more yeah u yeah wood is not really yeah right well it is not very cleanable either do you know yeah that is true yeah it is it is not a practical i mean it is it is alright for a table but for a remote control you know yeah and splinters and stuff and yeah okay wood is out yeah it just m does not make any sense i think is the thing with wood right yeah yeah in the case of remote control not really yeah okay now for the really interesting stuff the interface yeah right so the the push buttons is is our expertise in the industry but it seems to be out of trend you know nobody seems to be you have to have some push buttons do not you yeah but you i think for for the channel numb channel numbers you still need them would not you g yeah yeah right yeah so for channel numbers but 0 if if we have l c d displays that opens up a whole world you know if you have an l c d display then you can select almost everything on the l c d display but i th yeah but i think the l c d display is kind of yeah just for fast it is faster with a m yeah and w if we dis and when we s discussed that we might like this flipping open thing then i mean y you can use it as a normal remote control but if you do want to use l c d right yeah okay yeah then you flip it open but it is it it is more time consuming yeah yeah i think this is going back to the the graph at the beginning that i made where you know the buttons that people use all the time you want buttons for them and everything else menu driven right yeah and it yeah l l c d so in in the buttons we have for the channels also we have options do you do we enumerate everything from 0 to 9 or do we have just channel plus channel minus just to just to scroll no no i mean we we definitely need the the numbers because it is otherwise people do not want to flip through all the channels the numbers yeah yeah do we need them on as buttons or do we need them as l c d right or on the l c d we can you know g yeah i would think buttons yeah yeah i would say buttons because it is yeah buttons okay it is it is the i think the thing is so if someone just wants to turn on their t v and put on a channel i so then it should be easier to use than any other remote and then if someone wants to you know yeah yeah change the contrast on their t v and they should be able to do that and it should be accessible but you know alright i mean most of the time i mean there is a limit to how much the biggest techno geek can spend fiddling with the t v yeah right i think is the the the issue there okay so buttons definitely in but 0 shall we try to draw a prec i think that is what you guys are going to do next so if we put down the key things that we want okay okay okay so the components yeah right so what about the the scrolling yeah but n i i am not completely completely clear i yeah about the spinning wheel so i think it it does not make sense to have both like a scrolling and spinning thing e either or it is you can al include everything in the spinning if you yeah yeah in that case just spinning and not scrolling i would say g yeah i would say the s the s the spinning goes at a high speed to th to the scrolling wheel yeah so you have to decide whether you you know you want to be going so fast or not but i mean the the thing with this whole if y you are planning on making it out of rubber on the basis that it is spongy then i am not sure how well a scrolling wheel would work but if you have got a if if you have got a flipped thing ah but i mean you can effectively it is something that is curved on one side and flat on the other side but you folded it in half yeah but y your spinning wheel tends to go to one side th that would be on one side huh i am not sure it will be a good idea to construct the whole thing out of rubber yeah i i think so too i mean the case would be yeah the case would be rubber and the the buttons i it no i think it is just the casing rubber on the outside you want an outside of rubber and then open it up and or or at the corners edges just the edges covered by rubber or something like that yeah rubber buttons but then yeah everything else in plastic or even titanium if we want to use it yeah or maybe like interchangeable cases cause i know like we are going back to ipods again n the whole spinning wheel but i have like a you know obviously my ipod is not made of rubber but then i have a little rubber case that goes over the top of it and i can change the color theoretically to match my outfit right right right okay so so that gives us a more trendy look as well yeah i think the spinning wheel is definitely very now right yeah and we are going more for the trends than for the usability anyway right that is right that is what they are after yeah so i will rub that out and colors can be provided with the case rather than but we still need to te think about the color of our remote as such you know just keep it black or yeah i think we it was a a requirement that we use our th the colors of our company so would it be like yellow gray and black or something or i guess that does not fit in with the whole vegetable theme though yeah does bananas yeah banana is yellow yeah definitely yeah but i mean do you think we could incorporate the colors of the company into the buttons and then make the color of the main remote the color like vegetable colors do you know so you could have like i mean i suppose vegetable colors would be orange and green and some reds and maybe purple and that and then you would pick the buttons in company colors to to match with it green yeah okay okay if you g go over to the integrated circuits since we are having l c d s there there is no way that we are will be able to what we do need to consider we need the advanced yeah however is that the price is going up for the ever every such thing that we are considering yeah but since l c d s seems to be a definite yes so it seems to be one area where we would want to spend yeah so i will rub off the other 2 so are we discounting solar energy because rubber is going to be used in there somewhere or that was the 0 is 0 the constraint was yeah if solar panels with the rubber we can not have solar panels with rubber so yeah so yeah okay so we lose that i think shall we go for if we are going for rubber we think on as our case and then and the buttons as well i think yeah yeah i think we will have using the simple battery will be a safer option as compared to the kinetic energy one we have got 5 more minutes i mean a although it does seem interesting yeah yeah but it does not hold any advantages as such for a yeah yeah it is just a gimmick okay okay so r we understand this better now that the the speaker is for the feedback right it it says the things that you type in or something like that so yeah i think if we can if we can include them at not too much extra cost then i would put them in but if it is ye yeah we we do not have too much information about it yeah yeah but it it i think it should be quite cheap because it is from our own company yeah it is from the company so yeah okay so so th this is in as well then the sample speaker yeah okay right and the case is curved on one side but then flat flat so it is flipped into each other flat on the top yeah okay can i pull the thing out the back of your computer yeah sure j just so we can sorry do you want me to nothing it is right i am just there we go what does i c s mean i c s integrated circuits okay cool so it is advanced integrated circuits yeah 0 now i have gone too far we we are definitely going in for voice recognition as well as l c d s yeah yeah we are on our way okay so we have basically worked out that we are going with a simple battery the advanced chip and a curved on one side case which is folded in on itself made out of rubber and right yep the buttons are also rubber we are having push buttons on the outside and then on the inside an l c d with spinning wheel and we are incorporating voice recognition that is our overall concept and it is going to look sort of vegetable and be in bright vegetable colors huh so w w would with have the spinning wheel inside with the l c d or would it be on the outer i think it is on the imagine it would be inside okay so actually that could like really cut down your thing so you have got your outside which is like minimalist and then you open it up and you have got a screen and a spinning wheel which you can incorporate buttons into yeah okay so you have still not got like a lot of stuff in the yeah on the you have maybe got you know like if you are modeling on ipod you have got 5 buttons and a wheel and 4 of the buttons are in the wheel and the other one is the little bit inside the wheel yeah in the center yeah sure yeah okay so now we have got 30 minutes before our next meeting in the meantime the industrial designer over here is going to work on the look and feel design which i will presume he will work out what that means the user interface designer will work on the user interface design and the marketing expert is going to work on product evaluation and as well as that the 2 designers are going to work together on our prototype following those instructions that we have just come up with using modeling clay and you will get extra instructions from your personal coach cool is that all okay and anyone who has not put their their presentation in the project documents folder it would be good just so in case we have to refer to it yeah yeah okay cool i am going to go and sit on my own y ah nobody wants to talk to you i know i am hated unplug yourself i have got a bit tangled up in all this so but shall i move away 1st or shall i stay here with we need to i dunno maybe i would car
excellent so i sent you the agenda that was in the project document i do not have you got a chance to just have a look at it anyway the meeting is going to follow more or less the same structure as last time so we will go around each of you in turn and you can give your presentations on what you have been up to and at the end of that we need to discuss what you have come up with so that we can make a decision on the key remote control concepts so that is we need to know about the components properties materials the user interface and any trends that the marketing expert has been watching right okay do you want to start again okay we have got 40 minutes so i have not made a powerpoint presentation i thought i will use the whiteboard instead okay so basically i will start off by i thought i will use the whiteboard because we have so many different options and what we can do is that we can start to rubbing off the options that we do not require and putting in the options that are more highlighted underlining them or something like that okay so i will start again with a brief introduction to i will connect that anyway brief introduction to the insights of remote control and then we can probably discuss the various components okay so what you see here is this is the outside of the remote right if you open it you have a circuit board here and this is the chip that i was talking about last time this basically sends information to a transistor here which then sends the information to an led device here if you flip the printed circuit board and this is the most important point here everything else is kind of okay so if you flip the circuit board this is what it looks like so you see for example a particular button attaches to a particular place on the pcb yeah and on pressing this button a circuit completes the information goes to the chip which is somewhere here and the chip that then translates the code into an infrared radiation which goes goes out through there so the important point that i read over the website was that the configurations of these printed circuit boards are quite to make you can get them printed as you want to so we can have a configuration irrespective of the cost the way we want to have so that is the important point here so these are the different options that we have okay so so the batteries i will start with the battery so they can be simple which is like the normal batteries in our results these are the different kind of batteries that the company makes so hand dynamos does that mean like a wind up one yeah a wind up one may i do not know even if you want to consider this but these are the different things that the company makes so they will since they will come internally from the company they will be cheaper all these options so the 3rd one is the kinetic energy one you can make the hand dynamo into an exercise bike and then people could exercise whilst watching tv and charging their remote yeah and stop worrying about the whole rsi from the great thing it is a good option so what was the kinetic energy one is that they are usually in modern watches since a hand keeps moving it keeps the watch ticking but i do not know if it is a good idea for a remote control because it will just lie there for a long while sometimes as soon as you pick it up it moves and then again it recharges or something and the 4th option is the solar cells cells which are also made by the environment friendly okay so i will enlist things and then we can come back and discuss what we think from everybody is perspective there are different cases that can be provided they can be basically the shape of the cases they can be flat they can be curved with one sided curved and one sided and one side flat and they can be curved with on both the sides these are the 3 options you mean this would be like the the overall shape of the remote control yeah would it be flat on both the sides would be curved from one side there were different kind of supplements available like it can be in plastic rubber wood or titanium okay did you say wool wood wood yeah you understand why we get to purpose 0 really okay so we can use even so titanium is also used in the company to make some space design equipment so it is kind of it will be probably nicer to use because it relates to the overall image of the company but it cannot be used on a double curved surface if we choose this we cannot use titanium for these 2 we can use titanium wood rubber or plastic okay the interface options now so we can have push buttons like most remotes do and our company is an expert in making push buttons we can have scroll wheels like the ones on mouse pointers sony alex mobile phone maybe yeah something like that so and they have they can even have an integrated push button inside the scrolling so scroll plus push so this is something that has been recently developed by the company in the last decade so not too recent and lcds lcds we can have lcds these 2 are recent and and this is quite old the various electronic options are so this concerns 1st of all the chips i showed you that so there is a chip behind this one right the pcb is inexpensive so we can put in whatever we want but the various integrated circuit options are we have either a simple one or regular or advanced and the price goes up as we go down obviously okay so the good thing about why we would want to use advanced we might want to use advanced is that lcds can only come with the advanced chip we need regular or advanced for scroll wheels and the chip basically includes the infrared sender besides this under electronics also the company has started making a sample sender which they did not explain what it was but i am guessing that so they have a sample sender and a sample speaker so i am guessing that the sample speaker is probably something like you know as soon as you press a button it gives you feedback 15 or whatever yeah on and i do not know whether simple center has to do something with voice recognition or not but anyway so these are the different options that we have okay so that is that is basically now i think that we can integrate you know the user interface and the marketing things in that keep taking out things from this and underlining things that are important excellent do you want to stay somewhere near the board so that if we need to yeah yeah sure you can sit down but just we might need you to leap up what are you in powerpoint or i have some powerpoint yeah okay okay 0 yeah 0 yeah these pens can give you a cancer of the hand some of the radiation i have got his little camera in there click it in okay yeah it should do it interface concept okay to be honest actually i mentioned some of the things which could fit on the and this talk this time i mentioned them already in the previous talk so yeah this time i might not have them on the slides but i can just mention them again okay so i thought i would also include the definition of user interface so it is the aspects of a computer system or program which can be seen by the user and which the mechanisms that the user uses to control its operation and input data so this would include things like shape and size and buttons and voice recognition as well and color and so on the method i employed this time was again having a look to related products and mainly on the internet and then analyzed them from the point of view of user friendliness and also whether their appearance was pleasant and then this can help us to decide which features we want to incorporate in our product so some findings so in the case of many user interfaces they are just so full of buttons that it is actually hard to find the ones you really want to use and it is just confusing it takes time to learn okay and i thought i would just quickly show some of them that i found okay some of them here well the picture is not very clear but as you can see there are actually 00 sorry for that let us go back that is nice one 0 please okay so yeah they are quite big and have many many buttons actually of all these i personally prefer this one because it is the smallest and with the smallest number of buttons as well sense as well and i would say even the appearance of some of them is kind of not so nice okay so let us carry on with this so in other findings some new things used some of them were mentioned already by our technical designer our own company has developed a new user interface wait no this is not the one okay there is a we can include voice recognition and it allows it is possible to record 80 different voice samples on it so this one was already mentioned the lcd display yeah another new development is a scroll button which was also the also already mentioned and our own manufacturing division has designed a new programmable speech sorry a speaker unit i guess it should be and this means that once it comes together with a voice recognition but it is once once the gadget recognizes the voice of the speaker there can be a pre programmed answer for example you can pick up the remote control and say something to it like hello and it says hello and your name or what here so i mean this is also one of the new developments which we might consider if we wanted to include can you go back for a 2nd are you sure what this means the spinning wheel with the lcd display it is like the like you said no the scroll the scroll button is a different thing i have a picture if you just a moment i will show you i was not completely sure myself but i think it is just like it is a wheel it is like not separate buttons look this one here but i am not really sure whether you can really turn it around it is like you press this or this it is like where you you know how you have your mouse and you go around and it is kind of like that and you spin around and it okay so instead of going down you just spin you just go around it it is a bit weird at 1st but it is actually very fast like the wheels that click on the side you get a much slower so it is quite good if you are like searching quite a lot of stuff you know if you are scrolling through the a to z of your music and you are looking for something at t then it is a lot faster than the wheel but you have got a lot less control over it right i should include that here as well as cdis plus spinning less spinning yeah okay and the personal preferences are pretty much the same as last time it has to be small simple we decided to include voice recognition so to show the standard major buttons like on off the channels and then volume and then the rest will be the menu on the screen and i also thought if we want to keep it small keep it small and nice and actually i quite like the idea of the scrolling button it would be a voice like on like on like it can be in warpments or something i think there is no reason why we could not use something like this for the remote control so yeah that is it excellent okay straight to trends and then we can discuss it all at once okay i am going to be able to do that cool cool okay cool you know what users are going to be wanting in the near future okay now the 1st aspect is apparently twice as important to the 2nd aspect which is twice as important as the 3rd aspect so i mean the easy to use thing is fairly low down on the which i think given the target group is what you would expect you know people want something new something technologically innovative and different so the whole idea with the lcds and the spinning and the colors and the voice recognition is quite like quite the thing to go for and yeah it wants to look fancy so maybe as you are discussing things is it okay if we just keep highlighting things there right so that is over on the interface if you could put so probably voice recognition is kind of important right and maybe the lcd and spinning yeah okay i have a point about lcd i do not know if it is the right point to take it up lcds are basically for feedback right to the user who is pressing buttons and the feedback can come through the television itself so do we need an lcd on the remote depends how fast your television runs really do you think you have got one of those teleos boxes and you put the number in the remote and then you wait and then it goes to the tv and then you wait and then it comes so it actually takes quite a long time time and if you get the number wrong then it is a bit of a pain so i think you know a screen on the remote would probably cut down any time on that but like remotes do tend to get thrown about a bit right it is also quite nice though to have something here so you do not interrupt the picture on the screen so if you are watching something that is true yeah that is true i mean if you could make it integrate with the tv then it could come up with your information about what is on and you could just see that on the remote rather than yeah rather than having to interrupt your viewing pleasure but i think maybe a way to do it would be a similar way to how you have your mobile phone you know like you have the slidy ones and you have the flippy ones and then the screen is protected so it does not actually get scratched so you can have what looks like a normal remote control you know or like a minimalist remote control so you have got your buttons one to 9 you are on and off and your volume on that and then if you want to mess about it you flip it open okay so we seem to have a consensus that lcds are definitely the way to go because of style yeah so that kind of decides your whole chip thing right you agree yep yeah right so okay lcds yeah definitely go on okay apparently fruit and vegetables will be providing inspiration sorry i just give a big clipart so these will be an important feature for clothes shoes and furniture so i mean i am taking this to mean you know curviness do you know because you do not tend to get flat vegetables yeah and possibly even uneven like not a bit of asymmetry and stuff but that would be a good way to get in the whole rsi issue in there because i mean if you think most people use the remote control with their right hand right hand so you curve it so that it is suitable for use with right hand yeah i am not quite sure about the relevance of material will be spongy something a bit squishy and yeah but i am just like it could be like a rubbery we have rubber but there is some of the with using so if we use latex cases they will not allow us to use latex cases they will not allow us to use allow us to use solar cells as an energy source of the strength so we could use titanium wood or plastic or if we want to use the latex then we have to go with one of the other whether you could get the kinetic energy fairly easily there you can just tap it up and down you can have it as like a little bald it flips open so yeah so probably double curved surface is the way to go yeah yeah or curved at one and flat on the top because i am not sure if it is flat on both the sides then how much easy would it be to reach for buttons etc you have to have a certain element of flatness it depends on the whole type of normal thing it is like how you put your hands it is like how you put your hands so you can not really see single side curve or double side curve does not say too much does it no i do not think it makes a lot of difference i have one of those sly phones and i mean the back is essentially straight but it is curvy so besides you have 4 sides to a thing so i mean just curved one side means one side is straight right and you know curved 2 sides means the whole thing is just a big curvy put thing did it say anywhere in your research material about the sliding stuff because according to the information that i have i think the only options that we have with the cases are these 3 either we have a flat surface case or a curved surface case it does not say anything about whether technically this stuff is available at all yeah it is more about the protecting the lcd which i think is where it came on my research did not tell me anything which is why we have all the pictures because i had better to do with my time okay cool what have we got combined style with a level of functionality beauty and practicality and the thing is beautiful functions okay yes so looking at what we have got we want an lcd display with a spinning wheel let us try to rub off things so hand animals are definitely out right yeah that is not streamlined and sexy having a wind up kinetic energy does seem to have some kind of appeal but it is about the practicality of it really is not it you know as against a watch which constantly keeps moving this thing will have to be tapped every time which might be very frustrating for the user the user depends how much movement it really needs i do not have to much technically if they are suggesting it then we could use it okay let us keep it option i keep it on the flat completely flat case is definitely out right it has to be at least curved from one side yeah okay we still have all the options wood do you think wood will be i i can not how do you i mean you can not keep it really small you can not make it like thin and right i would think because you need to put all the technology in so i mean if the case you add the case yeah if it is really thin if it is really thin it is likely to break it is much more yeah and given that we are looking at more spongy material preferences would think maybe rubber or plastic is well it is not very cleanable either yeah that is true it is not a practical i mean it is right for a table but for remote control you know and splinters and stuff yeah yeah it does not make any sense i think yeah in the case of remote control not really okay now for the really interesting stuff the interface right so the push buttons is our expertise in the industry but but but you know but you know the push buttons is our expertise in the industry but it seems to be out of trend you know nobody is thinking i think for the channel number channel numbers you still need them would not you yeah yeah right so for channel numbers if we have lcd displays that opens up a whole world you know if you have an lcd display then you can select almost everything on the yeah but i think the lcd display is kind of yeah it is faster with a and if we when we discussed that we might like this open thing then i mean you can use it as a normal remote control but if you do want to use lcd then you will flip it open but it is it is more time consuming i think this is going back to the graph at the beginning that i made where you know the buttons the people use all the time you want buttons for them yeah and everything else yeah so in the buttons we have for the channels also we have options do we enumerate everything from 0 to 9 or do we have just channel plus channel minus just no no i mean i mean we definitely need the numbers because it is otherwise people do not want to flip through all the channels yeah do we need them on as buttons or do you need them as lcd on the lcd we can you know yeah i would say buttons because it is yeah it is i think the thing is so if someone just wants to turn on the tv and put on a channel then it should be easier to use than any of the remote and then if someone wants to you know change the contrast on their tv and you know they should be able to do that and it should be accessible but you know i mean most of the time i mean there is a limit to how much the biggest technology you can spend fiddling with the tv yeah i think is the issue there okay so buttons definitely input shall we try to draw our i think that is what you guys are going to do next so if we put down the key okay okay so components that we want what about the the scrolling yeah but i am not completely clear about the spinning wheel so i think it does not make sense to have both like a scrolling and spinning thing you cannot include everything in the spinning if you just spinning and not scrolling i would say that the spinning goes at a higher speed to the scrolling wheel so you have to decide whether you want to be going so fast or not i mean the thing with this whole if you are planning on making it out of rubber on the basis that it is spongy then i am not sure how well a scolding wheel would work but if you have got a flip thing effectively it is something that is curved on one side and flat on the other side but you have folded it in half yeah but your spinning wheel tends to go to one side that would be on one side i am not sure it will be a good idea to construct the whole thing out of rubber yeah i think so too i mean the case would be yeah the case would be rubber on the buttons or at the corner the edges covered by rubber or something like that everything else in plastic or even titanium if you want to use it or maybe like interchangeable cases because i know like we are going back to ipods again the whole spinning wheel but i have like a you know obviously my ipod is not made of rubber but then i have a little rubber case that goes over the top of it and i can change the color theoretically to match my outfit okay more trendy look as well yeah i think the spinning wheels definitely very now right yeah and we are going more for the trends than for the usability anyway that is right that is what you are after so i rub that out and colors can be provided with the case rather than but we still need to think about the color of our remote as such you know just to be black yeah i think it was a requirement that we use so the colors were a company so would it be like yellow gray and black or something or i guess that does not fit in with the whole vegetable thing bananas banana is yellow yeah definitely i mean do you think we could incorporate the colors of the company into the buttons and then make the color remain remote the color like vegetable colors you know so you could have like i mean i suppose vegetable colors would be orange green and some reds and maybe purple and that and then you take the buttons and companies and companies tell us to tonight okay okay if you go over to the integrated circuits since we are having lcds there is no way that we are we will be able to what we do need to consider however is that the price is going up with every such thing that we are considering but since lcds seems to be a definite yes yeah so it seems to be one area where we would want to spend so i will rub off the other 2 so we are discounting solar energy because rubber is going to be used in there somewhere or that was the 0 so the constraint was we can not have solar panels with rubber so yeah okay so we lose that i think should we go for if we are going for rubber we think it on as our case and then and the buttons as well i think yeah yeah i think we will have using the simple battery will be a safer option as compared to the kinetic energy one i mean although it does seem interesting but it does not hold any advantages as that yeah it is just a gimmick okay so we understand this better now that the speaker is for the feedback right it says the things that you type in or something like that yeah so i think if we can if we can include them at not too much extra cost then i would put them in we do not have too much information about it yeah but i think it should be quite cheap because it is from a company it is from the company okay so so this is in as well then yeah okay and the case is curved on one side but then flat on the top flat so it is flipped into each other okay can i pull the thing out the back of your computer just so we can sorry julie nothing it is like i will just what is ics mean ics you know ics integrated circuits okay okay so it is advanced integrated circuits yeah we are definitely going in for voice recognition as well as ncds yeah okay so we have basically worked out that we are going with a simple battery the advanced advanced chip and curved on one side case which is folded in on itself made out of rubber and the buttons are also rubber we are having push buttons on the outside and then on the inside an lcd with spinning wheel and we are incorporating voice recognition that is our overall concept and it is going to look sort of vegetal and be in bright vegetable colors so would we have the spinning wheel inside with the lcd or would it be on the outer i do not know it would be inside okay so actually that could like really cut down your things so you have got your outside which is like minimalist and then you open it up and you have got a screen and a spinning wheel which you can incorporate buttons into so you have still not got like a lot of stuff in the in the you have maybe got you know like if you are modeling on an ipod you have got 5 buttons and a wheel and 4 of the buttons are in the wheel and the other one is the little bit inside the wheel in the center yeah sure okay so now we have got 30 minutes before our next meeting in the meantime the industrial designer over here is going to work on the look and feel design which i presume will work out what that means the user interface designer will work on the user interface design and the marketing expert is going to work on product evaluation and as well as that the 2 designers are going to work together on our prototype following those instructions that we have just come up with using modeling clay and you will get extra instructions from your personal coach is that all okay and anyone who has not put their presentation in the project documents folder it would be good just so in case we have to refer to it cool i am going to go and sit on my end nobody wants to talk to you i know i am not i am hating i have got a bit tangled up in shall i move away 1st or shall i stay here i do not know maybe i would carry i am