all hooked up okay so now we are here at the functional design meeting hopefully this meeting i will be doing a little bit less talking than i did last time cause this is when you get to show us what you have been doing individually the agenda for the meeting i put it in the sh shared documents folder i do not know if that meant that you could see it or not did anyone no no 0 well i will try and do that for the next meeting as well so if you check in there there is a shared project documents folder and it should be in there wi on on a what 0 project project documents yeah yeah yeah okay project documents yeah so i will put it in there 0 okay yeah is it best if i send you an email maybe to let you know it is there yes i think so yep i will do that next time i will act as secretary for this meeting and just take minutes as we go through and then i will send them to you after the meeting the main the main focus of this meeting is your presentations that you have been preparing during the time so we will go through each of you one by one then we need to briefly discuss the new project requirements that were sent to us i just sent at the last minute i am sorry about that but we can see how that affects what you were you were doing yeah the last minute yeah yeah yeah and then we need to by the end of the meeting come to some kind of decision on who our target group is going to be and what the functions of the remote control that is the the main goal is to come up with those 2 things target group and functions of the remote control and we have got 40 minutes to do that in so i would you said targ target groups what does that mean say yeah as who it is that we are going to be trying to sell this thing to yeah okay kay so are so we need to yeah we need to have a fairly defined group that that we want to focus on and then look at the functions of the dem remote control itself okay so with that i think it is best if i hand over to you does anyone have a preference for going 1st alright i can go 1st yeah you want to go 1st okay okay so we need to unplug my laptop and plug in yours i assume we just pull it out right so f from the just before you start to make it easier would you 3 mind emailing me your presentations once we you do not have to do it now but when once you go back just so that i do not have to scribble everything down okay yeah afterwards yeah okay right sure okay so n with with regard to the working design of this remote control i have identified a few basic components of the remote and se from the design functional design perspective w i c we can now know wha what exactly the components are and how how they work together with each other so this is the method that i will mostly be following in my in my role the identification of the components and since since i am dealing only with the technical aspects i would need feedback from the marketing person and from the user interface person we will then integrate this into the product design at a technical level and basically update and come up with a new design so it is a cyclical process okay so these were the basic findings from today the last 3 bullets have been integrated from the last minute email i just quickly jotted them down so basically the as i told you the identification of how the remote control works and what are the various parts to it and what are the different processes and how the parts communicate with each other okay so e the mee email said that teletext is now outdated so we need to do away with that functionality of the remote control also the remote control should be used only for television because incorporating other features makes it more comp complex and the reason why teletext is outdated because of internet and the availability of internet over television how however our our remote control would only be dealing with the the use for television in order to keep things simple also the management wants that our design should be unique it so it should incorporate color and the slogan that our company has it as its standard okay so he he here is a functional overview of the remote control there is basically an energy source at the heart which feeds into the chip and the user interface the user interf interface communicates with the chip so i will basic go over to the okay so if if this is our energy source and this is a cell it communicates it feeds energy into the into the chip which basically finds out h how how to do everything there is a user interface here so whe when the user presses a button it feeds into the chip and the chip then generates a response and takes the response to an infrared terminal which then so the output of the chip is an infrared bit code which is then communicated to the remote site which h has an infrared receiver the there can be a bulb here or something to indicate whether the remote is on or communicating so these are the essent so a all the functionality of the remote control whatever new functions that we need to do make the chip more complicated and bigger basically okay so i in my personal preferences i am hoping that we can ke keep the design as simple and clear as possible this would help us to upgrade our technology at a future point of time and also if we can incorporate the latest features in our chip design so that our remote control does not become outdated soon and it is compatible with mot most televisions that is about it thanks so anything that you would like to know or okay do you have any i idea about costs at this point no i do not have any idea about what each component costs br yeah okay anything else cause that is something to consider i guess if we are if we are using more advanced technology it might yeah certainly yeah so so tha yeah we definitely need to operate within our constraints increase the price yeah but unfortunately i i do not have any data so i just identified the functional components for that that is fine are there any more questions or shall we just skip straight to the next one and then we can discuss all of them together at the end i think we need like some general discussion at the end probably yeah i think that will do yeah okay yeah okay so do you want to yeah i think since since we were discussing some design issues then i i i would like to continue okay yeah yes shall shall we pull this up i think that has to come out of there yeah yeah kay thanks yeah i thought those last minute things they are going to hit you the worst 0 i okay i hope wait should it just i it will take some time it ta takes a little there is just nothing 0 and have you you need to then also press on yours function f 8 so the blue function key at the bottom and f 8 0 right right right okay nothin okay something is coming up 0 there it is yeah now it is coming computer no signal it will come up it no signal no signal why maybe again yeah yeah it says something now adjusting 0 my my computer went blank now okay adjusting adjusting but i do not see anything i do not see anything on my computer now there we go there we go okay this is the problem but 0 that is strange 0 if you press if you press function and that again there is there is usually 3 modes one where it is only here one where it is only there and one where it is both okay and one more time okay so one more time now it is okay no no should yeah just wait for a moment adjusting 0 okay okay okay that is fine that is good okay let us start from the beginning so i am going to speak about technical functions design just like some some 1st issues that came up kay so the method i was adopting at this point it is not for the for the whole period of the all the project but it is just at th at this very moment my method was to look at other remote controls so mostly just by searching on the web and to see what functionality they used and then after having got this inspiration and having compared what i found on the web just to think about what the de what the user really needs and what what the user might desire as additional functionalities and yeah and then just to put the main function of the remote control in in words so the findings were that the main function of the remote control is is just sending messages to the television set so this quite straightforward and w some of the main functions would be switching on switching off then the user would like to switch the channel for example just m changing to the next channel to to flip through all all of the possible channels or then the other possibility would be that she might just want to choose one particular channel so we would need the numbers and and also the volume is very important i als okay sorry cou could you go back for a 2nd switching on off channel volume okay that is great kay among the findings i found that m m most of the curr presently available remote controls also include other functionalities in their design like operating a v c r but they do not seem to be able to deal with d v d players but then there are surely there are many other functionali functions that could possibly be added to them but according to the last minute update actually we do not want to have all this complicated functions added to our design so my personal preferences would be to keep the the whole remote control small just like the physical size and then it must be easy to use so it must follow some conventions like whereabouts you find the on off button and maybe the color tends to be red or something then yeah the must have buttons would be on off and then the channel numbers and then the one that allows us to go to the next or the previous channel and then volume has to be there but then other functionalities could be just there could be a menu button and you could change things on the screen then for example brightness and similar functions could be just done through the menu and yeah the last question i had about whether we wanted to incorporate n more functionalities the answer was already no because of the last minute update so at the for the time being that is that is all if you have questions yeah if i mean that was the the directive that came through from management but if we had a a decent case for that we really think it is important to include video and d v d i could get back to them and see it is w it is just whether it is worth arguing about yeah and also it is it is other question is because there are so many different and there are so many different things that could possibly be included because besides video and d v d there are the video c d s and whatever so it might be problematic to to choose between all these possible things yeah okay are there any questions for clarification of maarika before we go on to the next one so in the u user interface requirements we we have been able to identify what are the basic buttons that we do want but so so at this stage how we go about implementing those button we will not identify or i mean in we can completely do away with buttons and have some kind of a fancy user interface or something like that but is is there any any thoughts on that well i think the buttons are still kind of the most easy for the user to use i mean what other options would you have right a little screen or something but this would be really kind of i think a lot of learning for the user and and i mean the user just wants to get get a result quickly yeah and it will make the costs yeah not to spend time in like giving several orders i dunno right i think i th i would i would think the put the buttons but if if you have other proposals i think the co costs will also play a big role when we come to know about them so well we can probably wait until t we have more knowledge on that yeah yeah i if the if the costs allow we can have like an l c d display and with because we do want something fancy and fashionable as well so yeah yep cool sure we can discuss that maybe after the next one cool do you want to yeah do you want to give me the little cable thing am i going in the right direction yeah no wait okay here it comes 0 i am getting hungry okay here you are cool ah that is why it will not meet okay cool you set yep cool okay functional requirements we need to do the function key thing so that it comes up on here alright yeah hello try to press 0 okay yep is it plugged in prop it is working it is working okay excellent cool okay so what i have wh where i have got my information from is a survey where the usability lab observed remote control use with a 100 subjects and then they gave them a questionnaire so it was all about you know how people feel about the look and feel of the remote control you know what is the most annoying things about remote controls and the possibility of speech recognition and l c d screens in remote control not that they actually gave me any answers on the l c d screens so i should have taken that bit out but anyway okay so what they found is that people do not like how current remote controls are so you know definitely you should be looking at something quite different 75% of users find most remote controls ugly the other 25% have no fashion sense 80% of users would spend more to get you know a nice looking remote control current remote controls they do not match the user behavior well as you will see on the next slide i dunno what zapping is but it is switching between channels sort of randomly going through 0 right but you have that little thing that comes up at the bottom and tells you what is on okay 50% of users say they only use 10% of the buttons so that is going back to what you know we were saying earlier about you know do you need all the buttons on the remote control they just make it look ugly right okay cool so this is my little graph thing ooh that is a bit difficult to see k if you explain it to us it will be fine okay well i can send it to all of you yeah what it is is it is cones cause i thought they would be more exciting but ooh where is it go i liked the i liked the litt ooh come back back 0 no 0 yes cool okay i am going to stop playing with the little pointy thing okay so like what it shows is how much things are used relatively and what you can clearly see from that is the thing that is used most is the channel selection okay what you can not see is volume selection it is a little bit higher than all the others that is the next one along yeah yeah so what the graph shows is that you know power channel selection and volume selection are important and the rest of them you know nobody really uses and so that is the the numbers along the top represent their like their importance you know so on a scale of one to 10 how important is that and you know channel selection and volume selection are absolutely essential and the power well it is not quite so essential apparently although i do not understand how it could not be and everything else i think you know you can forget about having those buttons on the remote control cause they are just not needed and they are not used okay this is the bit that the email messed up for me and that is what i was fiddling about with at the beginning of the thing okay cool so okay so this is what people find annoying about remote controls that they get lost that the you know they are not intuitive and that they are bad for repetitive strain injury i think if you are watching enough t v to get repetitive strain injury from you know the remote control watching t v then that is the least of your problems but you know it is up there that yeah okay so i mean the the r s i thing would be that like when you have the computer keyboards and you keep your wrists up would be something that encourages you want something with an ergonomic t design that encourages good use of the remote control and you know right not straining your wrists watching t v yes okay cool right sorry this is pink because i was copying and pasting the table and i did not have time to white it out again that is alright okay but that shows how people whether they would pay more for voice recognition software so you can see from that that you know younger people to the age of 35 are quite likely to pay quite a lot more f well quite are quite likely to pay more for voice recognition software whereas as people get older they are a bit more skeptical about it and they are less willing to to try it so clearly voice recognition is something to think about but you know i d i do wonder how well that would work given that a t v you know tends to be people talking and you know how are you going to stop it from just flipping channels whilst watching t v right okay cool okay so these are my personal preferences so you have sleek stylish sophisticated you know so something that is you know a bit cool you know functional so it is useful but minimalist there is a there is an important thing that you know people use when you know when you are filling up your home you know a lot of people fill up their home with bits of crap basically you know and you have got all this stuff and you are just like what the hell is that who is ever going to use it you know so things should either be functional or beautiful or preferably both so i think we need to aim for both okay then a long battery life like you were talking about earlier and you know i was thinking that solar power would be quite cool because you know your remote control just sits there and you could just sit it in the sunshine and save the environment a bit and then like a locator so you know kind of like you have for a mobile phone or not a mobile phone some kind of a ring some keys and things like that yeah yeah that is it you know whistle and it screams at you yeah i know it is weird my flatmate and i were talking about this on the way into uni this morning and i was like i need to get one for everything so yeah so maybe something where you clap and then it beeps something a kind of sound that you do not often hear on the t v you know right cause you do not want your remote control beeping every 5 minutes cause you you would then deliberately lose it by throwing it out the window or something so okay cool that is me that is you excellent okay that is great thanks that is very good very interesting i am just going to tick yes so we have got about 1015 minutes to discuss i think one of the very interesting things that came up in ka kate cat cat is presentation was this this issue of like voice recognition being more popular with younger people cat is ca so if we need to have a target group then i think as far as the m motto of our company is concerned if we want to have something sleek and you know good looking we are better off targeting a younger audience then you know people who are comparatively elderly yeah i mean that is the thing is that it did not say in the survey you know whether right you know these are the people that will pay more for a more stylish remote control but i am assuming you know yes right bu but but the survey did say that f things like voice recognition are more popular with them so if you want to put in something stylish yeah then th it will certainly be more popular with this i ye with the younger people as compared to older people yeah yeah then again i guess the th where it was most popular was the 15 to 25 bracket and the i do not know how often they are buying televisions right and right well that is when you go to uni is not it so you know yeah but you do not have much money generally yeah yeah you share a television or something that yeah i would have thought it is it is more that 25 to 35 when people are really moving out and they have got their 1st job and they want their nice toys and right yeah but still if if you can go back to that slide and how popular was it 00 it is on sorry we unplugged it 0 i have unplugged it do you want me to 00 okay here let me that is alright if you can just look it up on your computer wh people between 25 to 35 yeah yeah how popular was so it was sti still still quite popular amongst them 763% it was 70 something yeah yeah yeah so even they are 76% is that high amount yeah i kn i mean i know what you are saying about the 15 to 25 year olds yeah but i mean it has been proven that that people of that age group have a higher disposable income because they do not have like i mean you know if you are at university you are paying your rent but you do not have a mortgage you do not have a life insurance policy you do not yeah they have got no commitments and alright usually not a car and all of those things normally have a car yeah so kids yeah you are still learning to drive actually so that just costs more than a car but yeah yeah so you are more likely to b yeah so i mean like it is an age group to target really i think yeah and if we are if we are talking €25 as a price that is not unaffordable even for young people no i mean that is what that is like £15 yeah you know i think yeah this this is not unaffordable but the problem is whether people need it whether they do have a t v to use its full yeah yeah i d i do not know many people without a t v yeah yeah but do they we did not have a t v last year and everyone thought we were off our heads you know but the t v s are often kind of someone is old t v that is blah blah and be a bit strange to have a fancy rome remote common the students yeah yeah the s the stu yeah and the remote control might not yeah it might not even function with the old t v bu but even even in the case of 25 to 35 it is quite popular right yeah i d well we have we have got quite a d decent t v yeah we are still yeah yeah so are are are or w maybe we can just kind of yeah i think i think the fact that you know 912% of 15 to 25 year olds are saying yes i would pay more for a voice recognition remote control does say quite a lot really yeah you know so i mean that and the disposable income and i do not think it is something to ignore you know yeah yeah but at the same time i think maybe we can we can just decide to to have both of these groups as our target yeah because actually i mean they are all still re young people is not a massive difference you know yeah yeah if we ta if we take 15 to 35 but that then does imply that we should try and incorporate voice recognition no do totally yeah is that going to have a an implication for the technical specs i was having a a general outlook on m most like sophisticated features but voice recognition itself i am not very sure about because one of the p things that cat pointed out was how do we go about implementing it and you do have it in your mobile phone though do not you because you have like i mean every mobile phone now has like call this person and it calls them yeah yeah but how frequently do we use it anyway and h ho how good is it you know voice recognition softwares are still quite yeah yeah i do not know yeah with but with a t v remote it is going to be quite limited if we are t saying the main things people want to do is on off channel 5 an yeah yeah yeah right louder tha that should be relatively simple s so right okay y you would maybe need a code word 0 do you know what i mean right so like when you say change except that is being said quite a lot on t v so maybe like you know remote i mean how often do people say remote on t v yeah although i only watch charmed so really i would not know but like so you would just say remote 5 you know remote 10 remote 129 right yeah okay so it seems like a feasible thing to implement for for a limited yeah yeah yeah but maybe if you want to look into that just to just to check so if we go for the the 15 to 35 age group yeah but and then of course we are going to get th anyone who is older than 35 who wants to look young and hip and trendy and has the money yeah yeah sure yeah yeah then they will they will still go for the same advertising yeah i do not think there is a lot of voice recognition remote controls yeah w well now the v the voice recognition if if it works wonderfully w we could possibly do away with all buttons but i think this is not really the right moment yet because people are just so used to buttons and yeah it is it is kind of safer so we we need both yeah i think we need both w what so the voice recognition would be just an extra it would not really reduce the size of the remote yeah what wh what i was thinking is that there is this separation between what the channels are on t v and how they are numbered on the remote control if we can do with away with that our product can be really popular in the sense that a person can say i want to watch i t v one instead of saying that i want to go onto channel number 45 huh yeah that would be another way to do it huh yeah so if if something like that can be incorporated some kind of so that if that was in the the voice recognition that would be great yeah but then the code word would be even more important because i mean sky advertise on every channel do not they you know yeah yeah so then it would be you would be watching charmed and then the sky advert would come on and it would change to sky watch sky and yeah yeah yeah and that would be really annoying alright yeah that is right but that is definitely a possibility yeah but m but on the other hand remote control is not as close to you you probably might just just speak into it and and the t v would be already further away yeah so it might not pick up the other things coming from there yeah do you not think that defeats the object of having voice recognition on a remote control though so that you can yell at it yeah yeah you know so you have to have the remote control it is more like if you lost it and it is down the sofa sometime you can yell at it and it will just change it you can look for it later yeah yeah alright yeah but then the remote control i think i mean the idea is kind of it is it is not that it is sitting there on on top of the television because then you could already yell at the television and you would not you you would not need the remote control so the remote control is still something you keep n near yourself yeah yeah i suppose nearer to you but a b like if you have surround sound then yeah and it might become very difficult from a distance for the television to understand what you are saying because of the noise factor for the remote control being cl i mean it will it will yeah yeah yeah yeah no but i i i was just defending the the fact why why we want to keep the remote control close to us yeah a and not to yell at it from the distance yeah yeah yeah so wh another thing that can be used is that there can be a beeper button on the t v so you can go and press that button and and the remote control wherever it is it will beep so we we can probably come to know where it is that is but then if you are buying the remote separately but y you could have something okay yeah 0 yeah yeah but i if it was something that you could like stick onto the t v or something right yeah yeah yeah okay yeah some like a 2 p if you bought it in a 2 part pack so one part attaches to the t v yeah cause it is it is quite important that you do not lose the the bit to locate the remote control the l well that is right but it solves the problem of having different noises alright yeah yeah definitely yeah yeah okay i think we are going to have to wrap this up but if we go away with that that kind of general specification in mind that we are looking at 15 to 35 year olds we want it to look simple but still have the buttons so it is easy to use but only those key buttons the major buttons and then one sort of menu one the major ones yeah and then voice recognition included as an option but that obviously needs a little bit more working out as to whether it is really feasible and some of those problems we were mentioning right okay what we have to do now is to go back to our little places complete our questionnaire and some sort of summarisation which y you will get immediately by email send me your presentations so that i can use them to make the minutes and then we have got a lunch break and after lunch we go back to our own little stations and have 30 minutes more work i will put the minutes in that project documents folder but i will send you an email when i do it so that you know so where exactly is this i it should be on your desktop so on the yeah ah okay yeah yeah so i will put it i will put them there as soon as i have written them did you find it it is just yeah yeah yeah yeah in that one right yeah yeah and email them round 0 so y you want our powerpoint presentations in there hey yeah that would be great okay 0 so so we will just put them i there we we yeah w we will not even okay 0 yeah put them in there yeah then you do not have to email them there you go but is everyone is called functional requirements no they are all called something slightly different no technical requirements and something something yeah okay so that is good yeah that is me done so if you put them in there we will all be able to see them and refer to them if we need to okay cool as to where we are going from here you are going to look at the components concept right yeah whatever that means yeah yeah i guess i will find out you will be looking you will be looking at the user interface concept something conceptual yeah on something conceptual and you are watching trends to see how we go and surely voice recognition will fall off the map or something that we will keep keep our options op wha what was it again that i was supposed to look into con components 0 components yeah sorry but the next meeting are we going to have it right after lunch or shall we prepare our no we have we have after lunch we have 30 minutes to ourselves to prepare to prepare okay yeah that is good so that is fine w before lunch we just have to complete the questionnaire and some sort of summary okay okay right on time cool okay so you can i guess we will see you for lunch in a sec okay see you
all hooked up okay so now we are here at the functional design meeting hopefully this meeting i will be doing a little bit less talking than i did last time because this is when you get to show us what you have been doing individually individually the agenda for the meeting i put it in the shared documents folder i do not know if that meant that you could see it or not no 0 well i will try and do that for the next meeting as well so if you check in there there is a shared project documents folder and it should be in there and i am on the work or project documents yeah yeah okay yeah so i will put it in there okay is it best if i send you an email maybe to let you know it is there yes thanks i will do that next time i will act as secretary for this meeting and just take minutes as we go through and then i will send them to you after the meeting the main focus of this meeting is your presentation presentations that you have been preparing during the time so we will go through each of you one by one then we need to briefly discuss the new project requirements that were sent to us yeah the last minute yeah i am sorry about that but we can see how that affects what you were you were doing and then we need to by the end of the meeting come to some kind of decision on who our target group is going to and what the functions of the remote control that is the main goal is to come up with those 2 things target group and functions of the remote control and we have got 40 minutes to do that in so i would say you said target groups what does that mean so who it is that we are going to be trying to sell this thing to me okay so we need to yeah we need to have a we need to have a fairly defined group that we want to focus on and then look at the functions of the remote control itself so with that i think it is best if i hand over to you does anyone have a preference for going 1st i can go 1st you can go 1st okay so we need to unplug my laptop and plug your i assume we just pull it out so from the just before you start to make it easier would you 3 mind emailing me your presentations once we you do not have to do it now but once you go back just so that i do not have to scribble everything down okay so with regard to the working design of this remote control i have identified a a few basic components of the remote and from the design functional design perspective we can now know what exactly the components are and how they work together with each other so this is the method that i will mostly be following in my in my role the identification of the components and since i am dealing only with the technical aspects i would need feedback from the marketing person and from the user interface person we will then integrate this into the product design at a technical level and basically update and come up with a new design so it is a cyclical process okay so these were the basic findings from today the last 3 bullets have been integrated from the last minute email i just quickly jotted them down so basically as i told you the identification of how the remote control works and what are the various parts to it and what are the different processes and how the parts communicate with each other okay so the email said that teletext is now outdated so we need to do away with that functionality of the remote control also the remote control should be used only for television because incorporating other features makes it more complex and the reason why teletext is outdated because of internet and the availability of internet over television however our remote control will only be dealing with the use for television in order to keep things simple also the management wants that our design should be unique so it should incorporate color and the slogan that our company has it as its standard okay so here is a functional overview of the remote control there is basically an energy source at the heart which feeds into the chip and the user interface the user interface communicates with the chip so i will basically go over to the so if this is our energy source this is a cell it communicates it feeds energy into the chip which basically finds out how to do everything there is a user interface here so when the user presses a button it feeds into the chip and the chip then generates a response and takes the response to an infrared terminal so the output of the chip is an infrared bitcode which is then communicated to the remote site which has an infrared receiver there can be a bulb here or something to indicate whether the remote is on or communicating so these are the essential so all the functionality of the remote control whatever new functions that we need to do make the chip more complicated and bigger basically okay so in my personal preferences i am hoping that we can keep the design as simple and clear as possible this would help us to upgrade our technology at a future point of time and also if we can incorporate the latest features in our chip design so that our remote control does not become outdated soon and is compatible with most televisions that is about it so anything that you would like to know or do you have any idea about costs at this point no i do not have any idea about what each component costs that is something to consider i guess if we are using more advanced technology it might certainly yeah so that yeah we definitely need to operate within our constraints yeah but unfortunately i do not have any data so i just identified the functional components that is fine are there any more questions or should we just skip straight to the next one and then we can discuss all of them together i think we need like some general discussion at the end yeah i think that will do okay so do you want to yeah i think since we were discussing some design issues then i would like to continue okay should we pull this up i think that has to come out of there yeah thanks yeah i thought those last minute things are going to hit you at worst okay we hope right should it just it will take some time it takes a little there is just nothing and have you you need to then also press on your 0 right right right f 8 so the blue function key at the bottom okay and f 8 nothing okay something is coming out it will come up no signal no signal why maybe again yeah yeah it says something now 0 my computer one blank now okay interesting adjusting but i do not see anything i do not see anything on my computer now this is the problem if you press function and that again there is usually 3 modes one where it is only here one where it is only there and one where it is built okay so one more time and now it is okay no no just wait for a moment adjusting okay okay that is fine that is good okay let us start from the beginning so i am going to speak about technical functions design just like some some 1st issues that came up okay so the method i was adopting at this point it is not for the whole period of the of the project but it is just at this very moment and my method was to look at other remote controls so mostly just by searching on the web and to see what functionality they used and then after having got this inspiration and having compared what i found on the web and just to think about what they usually really needs and what the user might desire as additional functionalities and then just to put the main function of the remote control in words so the findings were that the main function of the remote control is is just sending messages to the television set so this is quite straightforward and some of the main functions would be switching on switching off and then the user would like to switch the channel for example just changing to the next channel to flip through all of the possible channels or then the other possibility would be that she might just want to choose one particular channel so we would need the numbers and and also the volume is very important i was so could you go back for a 2nd switching on off channel okay that is good okay among the findings i found that most of the current presently available remote controls also include other functionalities in their design like operating a vcr but they do not seem to be able to deal with dvd players but then there are surely there are many other functional functions that could possibly be added to them but according to their last minute update actually we do not want to have all these complicated functions added to our design so my personal preferences would be to keep the the whole remote control small just like the physical size and then it must be easy to use so it must follow some conventions like whereabouts you find the on off button and maybe the color tends to be red or something then yeah the must have buttons would be on off and then the channel numbers and then the one that allows us to go to the next or the previous channel and then volume has to be there but then other functionalities could be just there could be a menu button and you could change things on the screen then for example brightness and similar functions could be just done through the menu and yeah the last question i had about whether we wanted to incorporate more functionalities the answer was already no because of the last minute update so for the time being that is all if you have questions i mean that was the directive that came through from management but if we had a decent case for that we really think it is important to include video on dvd i could get back to them and see it is just whether it is worth arguing about yeah and also it is the question is because there are so many different that could possibly be included because besides video and dvd there are the video cds and whatever so it might be problematic to choose between all these possible things okay are there any questions for clarification verification of marica before we go on to the next one so in the user interface requirements we have been able to identify what are the basic buttons that we do want but so at this stage how we go about implementing those buttons we will not identify or i mean we can completely do away with buttons and have some kind of a fancy user interface fancy user interface or something like that but is there any thoughts on that well i think the buttons are still kind of the most easy for the user to use i mean what other options would you have a little screen or something but this would be really kind of i think a lot of learning for the user and i mean the user just wants to get a result quickly not to spend time in like giving several orders i do not know i think i would i would think the buttons but if you have other proposals yeah i think the cost will also play a big role when we come to know about them so we can probably wait until we have more knowledge on that yeah if the costs allow we can have like an lcd display and because we do want something fancy and fashionable as well so yeah yeah sure we can discuss that maybe after the next one cool do you want to do you want to yeah alright am i going in the right direction no wait here i am getting hungry okay here you are cool that is why it went to okay cool okay cool okay we need to we need to do the function key thing so that it comes up on how so that it comes up on her hi hello i try to press okay it is working yeah excellent okay so what i have right where i have got my information from is a survey where the usability lab observed remote control use with a 100 subjects and then they gave them a questionnaire so it was all about you know how people feel about the looking feel of the remote control you know what is the most annoying things about remote controls and the possibility of speech recognition in lcd screens in remote control not that they actually gave me any answers on the lcd screen so i should have taken that bit out but anyway okay so what they found is that people do not like how current remote controls are so you know definitely you should be looking at something quite different 75% of users find remote controls ugly the other 25% have no fashion sense 80% of users would spend more to get you know a nice looking remote control current remote controls they do not match the user behavior well as you will see on the next slide i do not know what zapping is but it is switching between channels sort of randomly going through 0 right but you have that little thing that comes up at the bottom and tells you what is on okay 50% of users say they only use 10% of the button so that is going back to what you know we were saying earlier about you know do you need all the buttons on the remote control it just make it look ugly okay cool so this is my little graph thing difficult to see if you explain it to us it will be fine okay well i can send it to all of you what it is is it is cones because i thought they would be more exciting i like that 0 come back back all right cool okay i am going to stop playing with the little point of things okay so like what it shows is how much things are used relatively and what you can clearly see from that is the thing that is used most is the channel selection what you can not see is volume selection is a little bit higher than all the others that is the next one along yeah yeah so what the graph shows is that you know power channel selection and volume selection are important and the rest of them you know nobody really uses and so that is the numbers along the top represent they are like they are important you know so on a scale of one to 10 how important is that and you know channel selection volume selection are absolutely essential and the power well it is not quite so essential apparently although i do not understand how it can be and everything else i think you know you can forget about having those buttons on the remote control because they are just not needed and they are not used okay this is the bit that the email messed up for me that is what i was fiddling about with at the beginning okay cool so okay so this is what people find annoying about remote controls that they get lost that they are not intuitive and that they are bad for repetitive strain injury i think if you are watching enough tv to get repetitive strain injury from you know watching tv that is the least of your problem but you know except there yeah okay so i mean the rsi thing would be that like when you have the computer keyboards and you keep your wrist up will be something that encourages you want something with an ergonomic design that encourages good use of the remote control and not straining your wrists watching tv yes okay cool right sorry this is pink because i was copying and pasting the table i did not have time to write it out again okay but that shows how people whether they would pay more for voice recognition software so you can see from that that you know younger people so age of 35 are quite likely to pay quite a lot more well quite are quite likely to pay more for voice recognition software whereas as people get older they are a bit more skeptical about it and they are less willing to try it so clearly voice recognition is something to think about but you know i do wonder how well that would work given that a tv you know tends to be people talking and you know how are you going to stop it from just flipping channels whilst watching tv okay cool okay so these are my personal preferences so you have sleek stylish sophisticated you know so something that is you know a bit cool you know functional so it is useful but minimalist there is an important thing that you know people use when you know when you are filling up your home you know a lot of people fill up their home with bits of crap basically you know and you have got this stuff and you are just like what the hell is that who is ever going to use it you know so things should either be functional or beautiful or preferably both so i think we need to aim for both okay then a long battery life like you were talking about earlier and you know i was thinking that solar power would be quite cool because you know your remote control just sits there and you could just sit it in the sunshine and save the environment a bit and then like a locator so you know kind of like you have a mobile phone or not a mobile phone some kind of a ring yeah that is it you know whistle and it it is weird my flatmate and i were talking about this on the way into uni this morning and i was like i need to get one for everything so yeah so maybe something where you clap and then it beeps something it kind of sound that you do not often hear on the tv you know because you do not want your remote control beeping every 5 minute because you would then deliberately lose it by throwing out the window or something so okay cool that is me that is you excellent very good so we have got about 1015 minutes to discuss i think one of the very interesting things that came up in kate cat cat is presentation was this issue of voice recognition being more popular with younger people so if we need to have a target group then i think as far as the motto of our company is concerned if you want to have something sleek and good looking we are better of targeting a younger audience than you know people who are comparatively elderly yeah i mean that is the thing is that it did not say in the survey you know whether you know these are the people that will pay more for more stylish remote control but i am assuming you know yes but but the survey did say that things like voice recognition are more popular with them so if you want to put in something stylish then it will certainly be more popular with this year with younger people as compared to older people then again i guess where it was most popular was the 15 to 25 bracket right and i do not know how often they are buying television well that is when you go to uni is not it yeah but you do not have much money generally yeah you share a television or something it is more that 25 to 35 when people are really moving out and they have got their 1st job and they want their nice toys yeah but still if you can go back to that slide and how popular i have unpluged it do you want me to that is all right if you can just look it up on your computer people between 25 to 35 how popular was it was still quite popular amongst them even they are 76% is a higher yeah i mean i know what you are saying about the 15 to 25 yards but i mean it has been proven that people of that age group have a high disposable income because they do not have like i mean you know if you are at university you are paying your rent but you do not have a mortgage you do not have a life insurance policy usually not a car normally have a car you still learn to survive actually so that just costs more than a car but yeah so i mean like it is an age group to target really and if we are talking €25 there is a price that is not unaffordable even for no i mean that is well that is like £15 you know yeah not unaffordable but the problem is whether people need it whether they do have a tv yeah yeah i do not know many people without tv yeah but do they have a tv last year and everyone thought we were off ahead but the tvs are often kind of someone is old tv that is blah blah blah yeah and the remote control might not yeah remote it might not even function with the old tv yeah well we have got quite but even in the case of 25 to 35 it is quite popular right so maybe we can just kind of i think the fact that you know 912% of 15 to 25 year olds are saying yes i would pay more for a voice recognition remote control does say quite a lot really you know so i mean that and the disposal of full income i do not think it is something to ignore you know yeah but at the same time i think maybe we can just decide to have both of these groups as our target because actually i mean are still young people it is not a massive difference yeah if we take 15 to 35 but that then does imply that we should try and incorporate voice recognition is that going to have an implication i was having a general outlook on most like sophisticated features but voice recognition itself i am not very sure about because one of the things that kat pointed out was how do we go about implementing it you do have it in your mobile phone though do not you because you have like i mean every mobile phone now has you know like call this person and it calls it how frequently do we use it anyway and how good is it you know voice recognition software are still quite with them but with a tv remote it is going to be quite limited if we are saying the main things people want to do is on off channel 5 right louder that should be relatively simple you would maybe need a code word do you know what i mean right so like when you say change so that has been said quite a lot on tv so maybe like you know remote i mean how often do people say remote on tv although i only watch chan so really i would not but like say just say remote 5 you know remote 10 remote one to 9 okay so it seems like a feasible thing to implement yeah but maybe if you want to look into that just to just to check so if we go for the 15 to 35 age group and then of course we are going to get anyone who is older than 35 who wants to look young and hip and trendy and have money then they will still go for the same advertising i think there is a lot of voice recognition well now the voice recognition if it works wonderfully we could possibly do away with all buttons but i think this is not really the right moment yet because people are just so used to buttons and yeah it is kind of safer so we need both so the voice recognition would be just an extra it would not really reduce the size of the remote what what i was thinking is that there is this separation between what the channels are on tv and how they are numbered on the remote control if we can do away with that our product can be really popular in the sense that a person can say i want to watch itv one instead of saying that i want to go on channel number 45 yeah that would be another way so if something like that can be incorporated so that was in the voice recognition that would be great yeah but then the code word would be even more important because i mean sky advertise on every channel to me you know so then it would be you would be watching charms and then the sky advert would come on and it would change the sky yeah yeah and that would be really annoying right but on the other hand remote control is close to you you probably might just speak into it and the tv would be already farther away so it might not pick up the things coming from there do you not think that defeats the objects of having voice recognition on a remote control so that you can yell at it yeah you know so you have to have the remote control it is more like if you lost it it is down the sofa and you can yell at it and it will just change it you can look for it later yeah all right yeah but then the remote control i think i mean the idea is kind of it is not that it is sitting there on top of the television because then you could already yell at the television and you would not you would not need the remote control so the remote control is still something you keep near yourself yeah i suppose near to you but like if you have surround sound then yeah and it might become very difficult from a distance for the television to understand what you are saying because of the noise yeah yeah yeah yeah but i was just defending the fact why we want to keep the remote control close to us and not to yell at it from the distance yeah so another thing that can be used is that there can be a beeper button on the tv so you can go and press that button and the remote control wherever it is it will beep but then if you are buying the remote separately but you could have something but if it was something that you could like stick onto the tv or something like if you bought it in a 2 part pack so one part attaches to the tv yeah because it is quite important that you do not lose the bit to locate the remote control well that is right but it solves the problem of having different noises yeah definitely yeah yeah okay i think we are going to have to wrap this up but if we go away with that that kind of general specification in mind that we are looking at 15 to 35 year olds we want it to look simple but still have the button so it is easy to use but only those key buttons the major buttons and then one sort of menu one and then voice recognition included as an option but that obviously needs a little bit more working out as to whether it is really feasible and some of those problems we were mentioning what we have to do now is to go back to our little places complete our questionnaire and some sort of summarisation which you will get immediately by email send me your presentations so that i can use them to make the minutes and then we have got a lunch break and after lunch we go back to our own little stations and have 30 minutes more work i will put the minutes in that project documents folder but i will send you an email when i do it so that you know it should be on your desktop 0 okay yeah so i will put them there as soon as i have written did you find it yeah yeah yeah and email them round 0 so you want our powerpoint presentations in there here yeah that would be great so we will just put them in there yeah then you do not have to email them but is everyone called functional requirements no they are all called something slightly different technical requirements and something something so if you put them in there we will all be able to see them and refer to them if we need to okay cool as to where we are going from here you are going to look at the components concept right yeah whatever that means yeah i guess i will find out you will be looking at the user interface face conceptual something conceptual and you are watching trends to see how we go and surely voice recognition or fall off the map or something that we will keep our option what was it again i was supposed to look into components components sorry but the next meeting are we going to have it right after lunch or shall we prepare our we have after lunch we have 30 minutes to prepare okay yeah that is good that is fine but before lunch we just have to complete the questionnaire and some sort of summary okay okay cool right on time okay so you can i guess we will see you for lunch okay see you