is everyone ready to start yeah yes yeah okay great well welcome to the 3rd meeting of conceptual design i will just get the powerpoint presentation up and running okay on the agenda for this for this particular meeting we will have your 3 presentations on what you have done since our last meeting after we came up with some general ideas of our design and then we have to make some key decisions on on our remote control concept and how we are going to make it what materials we are going to use and that sort of thing the meeting will be 40 minutes long okay and we will once again have poppy as our 1st presenter okay alright and i will switch up powerpoint thank you okay should be just loading okay 0 although i can not see it on my screen that says go here okay i have been doing some research into the different components that we could use what is available to us f to actually make the remote control 1st of all we have to look at how the remote control is actually made and what is it happens inside the casing which is more your field thes main internal feature is a circuit board which contains all the elec electronics and also the contacts with the power source which is not necessarily a battery as we are about to see there are several components of the circuit board that we need to consider where we will be getting them from what they will be made of including the integrated circuit which is also known as the chip which is where all the main information is contained diodes transistors resonators resistors and capacit capacitors all need to be considered as well and all their positioning in the circuit are they all included like mandatorily or r are these different options these they are all different options they are all separate apart from the chip yeah which we will probable decide whether we buy a simple a regular advanced we can go into that later all the other things are individual components that we would have to get in separately and work out the most like effective circuit including all the wires and everything like that and the l e d of course that is a light emitting diode so we could so we have got flex flexibility with colors and things with that as well okay there are lots of different possibilities for the energy source we could use a basic battery but that brings with it like they need to be recharged and the bulk the size of it as well and they are not so great to dispose of environmentally there is a hand powered dynamo which is a sort of thing that was used for torches 50 years ago a bit out of date kinetic energy is something that has been recently developed what is a hand powered dynamo where you manually charge up the power like you wind up something just every every once in a while sorry just every once in a while or constantly yeah every once in a while i think but it is alright it would be kind of strange to always be cranking it i think yeah yeah it would be like going a step back in time i do not think it would really be with kind of cutting edge technology no whereas kinetic energy is a new idea that is being used by some watches and other devices where you just shake the device and it gives it power i mean the kinetic energy is transformed into power to make the circuit work or there is solar power which we have been considering inside a building which is where it is going to be used might not be quite so useful right but good to look into renewable energy always the way lots of considerations for the case like what sort of shape it would be curved or flat that has got a lot to do with the ergonomics like how it is comfortable and s sits in the hand we do not want something that is huge and you can not pick up or too small or too slidy i know i have had a remote control before which you could not tell which was the front and the back cause it had so many buttons on and the shape was so symmetrical that i would be pressing like a volume button instead of the on button because you can not really see which way round it is right we also can choose what materials the we could use metal we could use rubber which might be more ideal for the anti r s i it is like the same sort of rubber that is used in stress balls and things like that so it is very like soft not so stressful on your hands wood again stepping back in time again there i do not think that is quite up to date with what we are looking for here yeah titanium is not going to be possible even though it just it beyond our budget really but would have been maybe for future projects right our choice for buttons as well we have developed some we have got some good advances in technology with our research team have found some new multiple option scroll buttons i think that was brought up for they are basically quite a flexible design modern you do not have to use individual buttons you can just slide up and down i am sure we are all quite familiar with those on mobiles or computer laptop pads yeah one thing with the scroll buttons though it it we would have to have an l c d yeah that is true display and the glow in the dark thing and that would lead to an advanced yeah if we have yeah might be difficult we are going on to that later with the advanc with the l c d that means we would need a really advanced chip yeah and it is unlikely that that is going to be in our budget also we have got the integrated pushbutton which is what we are most familiar with it is the most straightforward but you can in like incorporate that with a scroll button as well got decisions to make there and this is what i was just saying before linked in the different depends on what type of buttons we have and the inputs simple would go with the pushbutton regular you could link with the scroll button and the advanced we would have to go with a l c d s display right my personal preferences i think we could go for the kinetic energy source i do not i think that is quite an advanced kind of technology it is not been seen before so it could be quite a a novelty factor attractive as well and also energy saving cause you are producing the energy you do not need an external sort of battery supply or solar panels you just give it a shake yeah sounds brilliant to me rubber casing i thing would probably the best if we are going for the anti r s i and like more choice with esthetics like it could be pretty much any color we want and gives you yeah more flexibility there and probably the regular chip as opposed to the simple then we could possibly have the scroll and the push but no l c d cause we probably can not afford that one yeah one concern with the rubber casing is that it would be rubber encapsulating all of these chips and diodes and delicate technology as like as the exterior this is the one thing that is protecting its innards i think that would there would be an in sort of more internal casing and the rubber would just be the what is in contact with the human yeah yeah another thing is it might be more difficult if it is a rubber exterior talking about putting on interchangeable plates yeah is it i do not see how a like a rubber plate going on top it would stay there like if it was sort of like a clip on plastic plate it would work that way maybe if the if it was just kind of a more of a rubber coating which was on to a case w so it was kind of the whole thing would be removable like plastic with rubber kind of on top yeah like i can not think of what yeah well there is there is a certain phone that has like a rubber casing b like a nokia it is yeah yeah or like an you can get sort of outer casing for ipods and something that is just it is protective as well it is yeah yeah like the skin yeah it it stops it i mean it would reduce the impact if it was dropped or something as well cause it would not damage itself so easily yeah alright i think i maybe a mixture of both there maybe so maybe the okay yeah yeah so the actual remote would be hard plastic and the casings rubber and then yeah yeah yeah okay and the buttons obviously are rubber yeah yeah yeah okay yeah that sounds good i is it possible to put designs onto this type of rubber as far as i know it should be okay we will just say yeah yeah yes just why not yeah yeah alright i like the kinetic energy source idea yeah i thought that was i do not know when people will be moving a remote around a lot yeah tha but i think that it is worth it kinetety kinetic energy source it could make an we could have any kind of style yeah it would not be as heavy or bulky and yeah yeah just for environmental reasons yeah i guess it is a bit scary cause it has not been done before yeah so it seems we would have to do more research on it or i dunno if you could have a battery pack yeah like as a backup for something backup yeah so there is there is a one battery because most remotes use 2 batteries i believe yeah yeah yeah so if it was running off of one battery as a that would be good yeah yeah some alternative just in case something went wrong right maybe we could you were saying about solar power ma maybe not working indoors but a lot of calculators yeah have solar power that is true i just thought of that yeah so maybe that could be incorporated as yeah may maybe that could be the backup yeah instead of a battery yeah although it needs some light does not it like solar backup yeah do do those calculators yeah i suppose s but some yeah you can watch a t v in the dark then so if we are doing yeah if we are but thing is it is not you do not need the solar all the time i do not know how it works it can be stored it can be like you can have the solar energy and then it can store that energy and use it yeah yeah it just needs to be in light for a certain amount of time per day yeah like a few hours a day yeah i think that might be a little impractical though yeah i think sometimes it is just shoved under under a cushion and yeah yeah that is true it could easily yeah like people do not want to have to worry about that yeah yeah yeah i suppose it would be really annoying if you get to think 0 no i forgot to charge my remote today like if the kinetic thing i think what is best about that is that it is instant energy yeah yeah yeah you do not have to you know you can shake it a few times or whatever yeah and it works or just like pick it up when you are going to use it yeah yeah i suppose instead of you do not have to like make sure it is in the right place to charge and yeah yeah alright cool k okay is that the end of your presentation yeah yeah alright thank you there we go thanks 0 it is not on my screen it was not on mine either why i do not know why i think i just i just used the mouse on there you do not know why 0 okay is it that one yeah that is yeah i am just going to go through the interface concept with yous now 1st of all i will explain what a user interface is it is the aspects of a computer system which can be seen or otherwise perceived for example heard or felt maybe or by the human user and it is also the commands that the user uses to control its operation and to input data there are 2 types of user interfaces there is the graphical user interface which emphasizes the use of pictures for output and a pointing device for example a mouse for input control so that is sort of like the scroll thing we were talking about 0 okay yeah yeah i am not really sure about the pictures that maybe that is on an l c d screen or maybe it is the the buttons or pictures or something yeah yeah do you think it is so i suppose sometime after you yeah cause i am sorry because command interface requires you to type textual commands and input at a keyboard so the numbers are sort of like a keyboard yeah you are pressing the numbers for for what you want yeah so you must for the graphical user you must need some kind of presentation for the graphics like an l c d screen i s i suppose where on some buttons you would have like the power would be s some kind of symbol yeah and if you wanted to go onto teletext or i know we are not having that but i mean a similar thing you yeah they have there is a like little picture with a screen with lines across it which i suppose it is that sort of thing like the the symbol on the button yeah yeah but if we are having a simplified display anyway w that we probably will not have to focus so much on that yeah we will be doing it will be more the on the numbers and the volume yeah yeah it would be more a command interface and then yeah i suppose we need to think of symbols for like the volume display and stuff like that yeah so it is just draf graphical for the pointing aspect the infrared is like that is considered a i no i think it is to do with the actual symbols that are on the that is on the buttons of the remote control and per okay so when it says pointing device that does not include for inp well it could be a wee scroller thing and something could come up on the screen yeah i think they are talking about l c d type things okay yeah okay yeah but i think we are going to go with the command interface anyway to make it more simplistic yeah but the we could incorporate some of the graphical user points as in just to make it m nicer to look at maybe what do you mean like i can not think of an example but sort of like little pictures rather than 0 yeah like how the buttons like a little sound instead of saying volume like a little speaker or something yeah as a button though yeah something y so it is a keyboard in the shape of it right yeah m perha yeah okay yeah maybe yeah i like that idea the co we have decided that the command interface would be the most useful for a remote control as it would be less complicated and the controls would be more user friendly the remote control would be cheaper to design so that we would have more money in the budget to target the design area of the interface you know make it more trendy and original we will have more money if we keep it simple yeah i am sure i like kinetic energy would probably dip into the budget yeah yeah a bit more too yeah seeing as it is quite a new technology we we also have to keep in mind when we are designing our more user friendly remote control that a lot of interfaces consist of a clutter of buttons that that their functions colors and forms are not always helpful yeah that is true yeah that is in like the buttons with all the different like colors for different choices and things yeah it can be a bit yeah overwhelming and that all interfaces are different so that does not improve the use of the produ product so we need to come up with something that is easy to understand and maybe learn from the mistakes of other interfaces that can be too complicated for people to use yep does anyone have any questions do you think that we should keep all the buttons to one same color just to keep it give it a simplistic look i think if we go with the design plate thing we will have to just because of color clashing and if we wanted to so and yeah yeah and we might i mean depending on what comes out of the design we might have to stick to just black buttons but but what about the lighting up effect you mean different colors for the lighting or well i thought we had decided that we would if you touched one of the buttons they would all light up and so if they were black it would not be possible for them to light up 0 i see what you are saying well y if they were white they would glow probably if they were made out of rubber 0 so you are picturing the light is coming from the back i kinda pictured it as kind of coming from the sides and lighting it up frontwards 0 but but i guess you mean from the back 0 where would the light come from okay i would assume like an internal light that comes through okay yeah yeah so there would have to have to be some parts maybe transparent around the buttons or something right yeah and well rubber is a more translucent product too so we have that taken care of yeah yeah it should be able to in the phone that i was thinking of as well when you change the covers of it the the little buttons that actually you know that contro control stuff are behind the rubber li yeah so you can change the buttons when you are changing the faces 0 do you know what i mean yeah 0 cause it is just the wee control yeah thing that is behind it they they insert over okay so i mean we do not have to decide on one color each face could have its own color of buttons maybe well if they are raised up buttons yeah so that you can feel them we were talking about it being more a lot more tangible t it might be more difficult to do yeah if they are if they are sticking up if it is flat then like 0 like on a cellphone or a mobile phone it is like all very flat and you just have to sort of press down on these tiny little buttons but yeah yeah i think it would be possible i do not think it would make that much difference i mean the the dimensions of it cause if it is just like constructed in the same way as like the front cover of a mobile phone you can like take off the hard cover and then there is the like say the buttons and then you get to the circuit i do not think it would matter that the buttons were bigger through the the top casing i am sure you could f work it out to fit in the casing without causing too much difficulty yeah i am sure that would be fine okay yeah alright if it is do able we can do yeah sounds good to me so that is everything then okay alright thank you okay is that my turn then that means you are up yeah alright yeah i have a shorter report for you today it took a while to get this you are not plugged in yet 0 that is a very good point okay so this report is about trend watching basically so we can live up to our our purpose of having a very fashionable remote control sorry there we go so just so you know my method was mainly web web based research this time around i also spoke with fashion experts in milan new york and paris and i looked at the design reports from previous years here at real remote just so c we can work off of them see how fashions have changed so i will list the 3 most important aspects that i have come across and they they are each more important than the one that comes after it the 1st one is that there should be a fancy look and feel instead of the current functional look and feel this should be our priority as we have been saying the 2nd most important aspect is that a remote sh that the remote control should be technologically innovative so i think we have done a lot of talking about that just with lighting and the buttons and the face plates so it looks like we will be able to keep on track with that and the 3rd most important aspect is that the remote control should be easy to use so pretty basic there and the recent fashion update according to fashion watchers in paris and milan is that fruit and vegetables will be the most important theme for clothes shoes and furniture also in contra in contrast to last year the feel of the material is expected to be spongy again we have already discussed that with rubber versus hard plastic buttons so my personal preferences here of course as we we have already talked about the personal face plates in this meeting and i would like to stick to that the fruits and vegetable themes i do not know if that is going to work for us it sounds something that you would use on kitchenware i do not know if we want to do it on remotes it could be one of the options maybe for the television that people have in their kitchen the temporary light up idea sounds like we are going to stick to that and then tying in a trendy look with user friendliness yeah yeah it is the fruits and vegetables is the only area that i find rather jarring everything else we can really we can really it is strange do according to our plans already given the market but fruits and vegetables seems a very strange idea for a remote control it is it is a little but it it is everywhere yeah well so maybe we i have seen a lot of purses with olives on them you know yeah but i i think i think if we stick to t v based you know maybe t v shows or yeah yeah or color schemes but they still need to fit into people is decor though we right i think we possibly could take a more abstract design like look at the basic shapes of different fruits and vegetables and then just really like strip it down to like really basic shapes i mean we do not have to make something in the shape of a strawberry but it could have the curves of a strawberry or something yeah the yeah yeah or a strawberry seed or a leaf the essence of strawberry or just like you know really make it a quite abstract if that is fits in more with what we are doing yeah yeah instead of fruits and vegetables just if you look at it straightforward it is a bit yeah yeah yeah it does not s quite fit in with the trendy well obviously it does if that is the current theme yeah but may maybe we could go more directly i do not know yeah but initially i dunno i think if we just sort of tone it down a bit yeah and like not not yeah tone it down i guess yeah yeah like more like photos of fruit on on our product yeah or banana shaped one thing i was thinking though is i dunno if you all remember from our kickoff meeting we talked about our favorite animals yeah so maybe there could be animal based you know because a lot of people have a house cat or or a dog that might be getting you know too specific and we should see what the success of the 1st face plates are but it is something to keep in mind and did you have any questions pretty straightforward yeah yeah okay alright given that information we need to start making some more specific decisions so i will need to hook up the powerpoint again there you go have you guys been saving your powerpoint presentations to the okay i did not for the 1st one but i have now but it is still around right yeah okay hopefully where do you have to save it to project documents i think okay okay i am just trying to make this pop up now alright here we go okay so we have to decide now exactly what we are going to do so energy we 0 okay kay 0 no i can not write it in when it is in this setting does anyone know how to take it out of yeah just escape i think the powerpoint yeah okay so back to decisions energy we have decided on kinetic right kinetic yeah yeah okay so that is good are we going to have a backup or do we just but would a backup really be necessary i mean will people just use the battery if there is no if there is i think maybe we could just go for the kinetic energy and if there is backup be bold and innovative and hope this works and well hope that it works yeah yeah i think yeah there is like no reason why it would not work right i think no so i i think we should just like take advantage of like using this to its full potential yeah it could even be one of our selling points go for it it could be fully kinetic energy yeah yeah yeah yeah environmentally conscious or something is everyone happy with that so if it is not working they just have to shake it a bit and that revitalizes it yeah yeah okay hope so alright the next decision is chip on print i do not exactly know what that means it was whether we went for the simple the regular or the advanced chip and that linked in with what buttons we would going to have so right and we were going for more simplistic style right yeah it was so that was without the l c d yeah so that means we are not doing the advanced yeah so it depends on whether we wanted the scroll buttons or just the push buttons i think we decided on the pushbuttons right yeah i don yeah so that is the simple yeah would we need a more advanced one for the lighting the interior lighting system yeah possibly so it is probably going to be the regular chip that we are going to need yeah so it is a medium okay so regular chip that is called medium or regular regular sorry kay regular chip 0 is regular not simple yeah lighting yeah if we because of the lighting that we have decided to put in as well it is for the lighting yeah right right right okay and cases does this is this dependent on shape or what it is made of or what so th i think this is just like going to be the a very outer case which we will decide on rubber yeah yeah well i guess plastic and coated in rubber rubber yeah plastic coat yeah plastic with rubber plastic rubber coat coating and interchangeable interchangeable yeah still going for that yeah interchangeable plates yeah okay user interface concept this is your time to shine we decided on the component i i i am sorry i have lost my powerpoint thing so i can not remember what it is ca it is the component your screen think it was called command interface was it 0 yeah yeah command interface the command inter command interface ouch the command line interface yeah did you say command line yeah okay line interface alright and supplements what is that all about i think that is well we have not really made any decisions about what we are going to do about the cluster of button functions colors and forms in the in consistent use like what what are ideas to combat these problems you know how different interfaces are very different and can be confusing because because of their difference and because of the different clusters of buttons that they have we have not really decided what to do about that what are our choices here well it is just w where where shall we locate the buttons what kind of functions wi shall we have you mean like we will have the numbers of the channels and we will have the channel changer and volume and power the power volume so pretty just just the basic button functions yeah like i do not know if we should go into like adjusting light levels things like that because different televisions will have may yeah tone contrast and things yeah that is a bit that was on one of my presentations about how often it was used do you remember that yeah it was minima well it was not the l yep yeah yeah it was hardly ever used really i w should i bring it up yeah yeah that would be good and most televisions will come with a remote yeah and surely that would be like quite specific to the individual television so yeah each television yeah kay well we know we want numbers the ch t screen settings was used 05 times an hour so tw twice every once every 2 hours and it was considered a one5 relevance on a scale of 10 that is brightness color tone all that you do not change that often yeah i think most of that comes like on the i individual television set itself does not it i am sure it has its own buttons so you do not necessarily need to have it on remote yeah it does yeah and different televisions yeah like we i do not know if we can make a remote that would be universal to all the different kinds of yeah so we are just going for power channels volume changes like that volume the other one was audio settings mono stereo pitch i mean i sometimes use that some t v s will have the option of like living room style movie style yeah and that they say that is used 08 times an hour which is actually somewhat high like almost once an hour yeah relevance of 2 0 we have 5 minutes to finish our meeting crap okay let us do this fast well that did not some up on mine should we have audio it only comes up on mine usually it w it would seem silly if we would having anything else just have an audio button though 0 do you know yeah i do not i it is it is a problem with the international appeal i think if we have audio because we do not know how other televisions work but we but we know that everyone has this and it is the same yeah i guess that it affects the marketing cause it i have it is a good sales ploy to say are not you annoyed with remote controls that have all these buttons yeah this one has channel volume and your channe and your power yeah that is it that could be a sales pitch we can just go for make it a selling point that it is just the basic yeah yeah simple and yeah yeah i brilliant okay alright yeah good and okay in closing cause we only have 5 minutes we will be meeting again in 30 minutes you will be working poppy will be working on the look and feel design wait a minute is that right yep and the user interface design so this is where the trendy stuff comes in and you will be evaluating the product poppy and tara will have to work together using modeling clay and your personal coach will give you the rest of the information of what needs to happen okay alright so anyone else have something to say i just have one question about the whole fruit and vegetable aspect yeah yeah are we seeing as that was the most popular thing that came up out of your market research i thi i think we should keep to that rather than moving to animals or something because even if that may not seem obvious to us if that is what the surveys brought out i think that we should probably go along with that yeah yeah yeah so i suppose that will come out in our dev design development but you are happy to go ahead with the fruit and veg now do you guys need want an idea of how many are you going to come up with casing ideas like f 5 different y yeah yeah 5 what i what i was thinking what do yous think of this having the numbers kind of like not a bunch of grapes but you know like purple and kind of in a triangle like grapes yeah you can have some fun with the buttons it is true like that is kind of fruity or something that is just yeah we can have a look at those ideas yeah yeah i guess what you i ideally you would kind of think of age markets as well so it is a something that will you know appeal to the 15 to 25 year olds yeah something that your granny would want on her remote control and international tastes as well so yeah yeah not easy tricky a lot of things to consider yeah yeah lots of yeah hm okay alright kay we will stick to the fruit and veggie theme then alright and we will reconvene in 30 minutes okay okay kay okay bye thank you i 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i am going to is everyone ready to start yeah okay great well welcome to the 3rd meeting of conceptual design let us get the powerpoint presentation up and running okay okay on the agenda for this particular meeting we will have your 3 presentations on what you have done since our last meeting after we came up with some general ideas of our design and then we have to make some key decisions on our remote control concept and how we are going to make what materials we are going to use and that sort of thing the meeting will be 40 minutes long okay and we will once again have poppy as our 1st presenter okay all right and i will switch up powerpoint thank you okay okay should be just loading okay okay although i can not see it on my screen let us just go here okay i have been doing some research into the different components that we could use what is available to actually make the remote control 1st of all we have to look at how the remote control is actually made and what happens inside the casing which is more your effect while you are a field the main internal feature is a circuit board which contains all the electronics and also the contacts with the power source which is not necessarily a battery is about to see there are several components of the circuit board that we need to consider where we will be getting them from what they will be made of including the integrated circuit which is also known to the chip which is where all the main information is contained diode transistors resonators resistors and capacitors all need to be considered as well and all their positioning in the circuit are they all included mandatorily or are these different options they are all different options they are all separate apart from the chip which we will probably decide whether we buy a simple or regular advance we can go into that later all the other things are individual components that we would have to get in separate and work out the most effective circuit including all the wires and things like that and the led of course that is the light emitting diode so we could so we have got like flexibility with colors and things with that as well okay there are lots of different possibilities for the energy source we could use a basic battery but that brings with it like they need to be recharged and the bulk the size of it as well and they are not so great to dispose of environmentally there is the hand powered dynamo which is the sort of thing that was used for torches 50 years ago a bit out of date kinetic energy is something that has been recently developed what is the hand power dynamo where you manually charge up the power like you wind up something sorry just every once in a while yeah every once in a while i think it would be kind of strange to always be yeah it would be like going a step back in time i do not think it would really be with kind of cutting edge technology no whereas kinetic energy is a new idea that has been used by some watches and other devices where you just shake the device and it gives it to power i mean the kinetic energy is transformed into power to make the circuit work or the solar power which we have been considering inside a building which is where it is going to be used might not be quite so useful but good to look into renewable energy it is always so lots of considerations for the case like what sort of shape it would be curved or flat and that has got a lot to do with the ergonomics i think how it is comfortable and sits in the hand we do not want something that is huge and you can not pick up or too small or too sliding i know i have had a remote control before which you could not tell which was the front and the back the back it had so many buttons on and the shape was so symmetrical that i would be pressing like a volume button instead of the on button because you can not really see what you are around it we also can choose what materials we could use metal we could use rubber which might be more ideal for the anti rsi it is like the same sort of rubber that is using stress balls and things like that so it is very like soft not so stressful on your hands would again stepping back inside we go there i do not think that is quite up to date with what we are looking for here yeah titanium is not going to be possible even though it is just beyond our budget really but would have been maybe for future projects right i have a choice for buttons as well we have developed some we have got some good advances in technology with our research team i have found some new multi multiple options scroll buttons i think that was brought up before they are basically quite a flexible design modern you do not have to use individual buttons you can just slide up and down i am sure we are all quite familiar with those on mobiles or computer laptop pads one thing with the scroll buttons though we would have to have an lcd display yeah that is true display and the glow in dark thing yeah if we have yeah we are going on to that later with the advanced with the lcd that means we need them really advanced chip yeah and it is unlikely that that is going to be in our budget also we have got the integrated push button which is what we are most familiar with it is most straightforward but you can incorporate that with a scroll button as well good good so did you just say there and this is what i was just saying for linkedin to the different depends on what type of buttons we have and the inputs simple would go with the push button regular you could link with the scroll button and the advanced would have to go with a lcd display my personal preferences i think we could go for the kinetic energy source i think that is quite an advanced kind of technology it is not been seen before so it could be quite a novelty factor attractive as well and also energy savings you are producing the energy you do not need an external battery supply or solar panels you just give it a shake yeah sounds brilliant to me rubber casing i think we are probably the best if we are going for the anti r r si and like more choice with esthetics like it could be pretty much any color we want and gives you yeah more flexibility there and probably the regular chip as opposed to the simple and we could possibly have the scroll and the push but no lcd because we probably can not afford that one yeah one concern with the rubber casing is that it would be rubber encapsulating all of these chips and diodes and delicate technology as the exterior this is the one thing that is protecting its innards i think there would be a more internal casing and the rubber would just be what is in contact with the human man another thing is it might be more difficult if it is a rubber exterior we were talking about putting on interchangeable plates yeah i do not see how a rubber plate going on top it would stay there because if it was sort of like a clip on plastic plate it would work that way maybe if the if it was just kind of a more of a rubber coating which was on to a case so it was kind of the whole thing would be removable like plastic with rubber yeah like yeah i can not think of what well there is there is a certain phone that has like a rubber case yeah or like you can get sort of out of casing for ipods and something that is just yeah it is protective as well it stops it i mean it would reduce the impact if it was dropped or something something as well because it would not damage its half so easy all right so maybe a mixture of both there yeah so the actual remote would be hard plastic and then yeah yeah okay and the buttons obviously are rubber yeah yeah yeah that sounds good is it possible to put designs onto this type of rubber as far as i know it should be okay we will just say yeah yeah yes just one yeah yeah yeah all right i like the kinetic energy source idea yeah i do not know when people will be moving remote around a lot but i think that it is worth it kinetic energy source it could make and we could have any kind of style it would not be as heavy or bulky yeah yeah just for environmental reasons yeah i guess it is a bit scary because it has not been done before yeah so it seems we would have to do more research on it or i do not know if you could have a battery pack like as a backup yes there is a one battery because most remotes use 2 batteries i believe so if it was running off of one battery is a yeah it is an alternative just in case right right maybe we could you were saying about solar power maybe not working indoors but a lot of calculates that is true yeah so maybe that could be yeah maybe that could be the backup instead of a battery like solar backup although it needs some light does not it yeah you can not watch tv in the dark then but the thing is it is not you do not need the solar all the time it can be stored it can be like you can have the solar energy and then it can store that energy and use it it just needs to be in light for a certain amount of time per day like a few hours a day i think that might be a little impractical yeah i think sometimes it is just shoved under a cushion that is true it could easily like people do not want to have to worry about that yeah i suppose it would be really annoying if you get to think 0 no i have got to charge my remote today like the kinetic thing i think what is the best about that is that it is instant energy you do not have to you know you can shake it a few times or whatever or just like pick it up when you are going to use it instead of you do not have to like make sure it is in the right place to charge yeah all right cool okay is that the end of your presentation yeah all right thank you there we go it is not on the screen why it was not on mine either i do not know why i think i just use the mouse on there 0 okay yeah i am just going to go through the interface concept with you now 1st of all explain what a user interface is it is the aspects of the computer system which can be seen or otherwise perceived for example perceived for example haired or felt maybe or by the human user and it is also the commands that the user uses to control its operation and to input data there are 2 types of user interfaces there is the graphical user interface which emphasizes the use of pictures for outfit and appointing device device for example a mouse for input control that is sort of like the scroll thing we were talking about 0 okay yeah i am not really sure about the pictures that maybe that is on an lcd screen or maybe it is the buttons of pictures or something yeah so i suppose sometimes because command interface requires you to type textual commands and input at a keyboard so the numbers are sort of like a keyboard you are pressing the numbers for what you want for the graphical user you must need some kind of presentation for the graphics i suppose on some buttons you would have the power would be some kind of symbol and if you wanted to go onto teletext i know we are not having that but i mean a similar thing they have there is a little picture of a screen with lines across it which i suppose it is that sort of thing like the symbol on the button but if we are having a simplified display anyway that we probably will not have to focus so much on that it would be more than the numbers and the volume it would be more command interface so it needs to think of symbols for like the volume display and stuff like that so it is just graphical for the pointing aspect the infrared is that that is considered no i think it is to do with the actual symbols that are on the that is on the buttons of the control and okay so when it says pointing device that does not include well it could be a score thing and something could come up on the screen yeah i think they are talking about lcd type things yeah okay yeah but i think we are going to go with the command interface anyway to make a specific yeah but we could incorporate some of the graphical user points just to make it nicer to look at maybe what do you mean like i can not think of an example but sort of like little pictures smaller than 0 yeah like how the buttons instead of the same volume like a little speaker or something yeah as a button though so it is a keyboard in the shape of it right yeah okay yeah i like that idea the remote we have said it as a command interface with the most of the most of the remote control as it would be less complicated and the controls would be more than the remote control would be cheaper in design so that we would have more money in the budget to target the design area of the interface and we make it more trendy and original we will have no money if they keep it simple yeah i am sure kinetic energy would probably dip into the budget yeah a bit more to do yeah it is quite a new technology we also have to keep in mind when we are designing our more use of my remote control that a lot of interfaces consist of the clutter of buttons that their functions colors and forms are not always helpful yeah that is true yeah like the buttons with all the different like colors for different choices and things that can be a bit yeah and everyone and that all interfaces are different so that does not improve the other products so we need to come up with something that is easy to understand and maybe learn from these decks with all our interfaces that can be too complicated for people to raise   does anyone have any questions do you think that we should keep all the buttons to one same color just to keep it give it a simplistic look  i think if we go with the design plate thing we will have to just because of color clashing and if we want to so we might i mean depending on what comes out of the design we might have to stick to just black buttons but what about the lighting up effect you mean different colors for the lighting well i thought we had decided that we would if you touch one of the buttons they would all light up and so if they were black it would be possible for them to light up 0 i see what you are saying well like if they were white they would glow probably if they were made of rubber 0 so you are picturing the light as coming from the back i kind of pictured it as kind of coming from the side and lighting it up frontwards 0 would the light come from back okay i would seem like an internal like okay yeah that comes through so there would have to have to be some parts maybe transparent around right there is something and well rubber is a more translucent yeah yeah product too so it should be able to have that taken care of in the phone that i was thinking of as well when you change the covers of it the little buttons that actually you know that control yeah are behind the rubber so you can change the buttons when you are changing the faces 0 yeah yeah okay okay i mean i mean we do not have to decide on one color each face could have its own color of buttons well if they are raised up buttons yeah so that you can feel feel them we were talking about it being more a lot more tangible it might be more difficult to do if they are sticking up if it is flat then like on a cell phone or a mobile phone it is like all very flat and you just have to sort of press down on these tiny little buttons but yeah i think it would be possible i do not think it would make that much difference i mean the dimensions of it if it is just constructed in the same way as the front cover of a mobile phone you can take off the hard cover and then there is the like you said the buttons and then you get to the circuit i do not think it would matter that the buttons were bigger through the top casing i am sure you could work it out to fit in the casing without causing too much difficulty i will be fine all right if it is doable you can sounds good to me yes everything is fun okay all right thank you okay is that my turn that yeah you are up alright yeah i have a shorter report for you today it took a while to get this so  you are not plugged in yet 0 that is a very good point basically so we can live up to our purpose of having a very fashionable remote control sorry there i go so just so you know my method was mainly web based research this time around i also spoke with fashion experts in milan new york and paris and i looked at the design reports from previous years here at real remote just so we can work off with them see how fashions have changed so i will list the 3 most important aspects that i have come across and they are each more important and then the one that comes after it the 1st one is that there should be a fancy look and feel instead of the current functional look and feel this should be our priority as we have been saying the 2nd most important aspect is that the remote control should be technologically innovative so i think we have done a lot of talking about that just with lighting and the buttons and the face plates so it looks like we will be able to keep on track with that and the 3rd most important aspect is that the remote control should be easy to use so pretty basic there the recent fashion update according to fashion washers in paris and milan is that fruit and vegetables will be the most important theme for clothes shoes and furniture also in contrast to last year the feel of the material is expected to be spongy again we have already discussed that with rubber versus hard plastic buttons so my personal preferences here of course we have already talked about the personal face plates in this meeting and i would like to stick to that like to stick to that the fruits and vegetable themes i do not know if that is going to work for us it sounds something that you would use on kitchenware i do not know if we want to do it on remotes it could be one of the options maybe for the television that people have in their kitchen the temporary light up idea sounds like going to stick to that and then tying in a trendy look with user friendlyness yeah yeah it is the fruits and vegetables is the only area that i find rather jarring everything else we can really do according to our plans already given the market but fruits and vegetables seems a very strange idea it is a lot of left field but it is everywhere so maybe we have seen a lot of purses with olives on them but i think we stick to tv based you know maybe tv shows or color schemes but they still need to fit into people is decor though i think we could possibly take a more abstract design like look at the basic shapes of different fruits and vegetables and then just really like strip it down to like really basic shapes i mean we do not have to make something in the shape of a strawberry but it could have the curves of a strawberry or a strawberry seed or a leaf you know really make it quite abstract if that fits in more with what we are doing instead of fruits and vegetables just if you look at it straight forward it is a bit yeah it does not quite fit in with the trendy well obviously it does if that is the current team but maybe we could go more directly i do not know but initially i do not know i think if we just sort of tone it down a bit tone it yeah no like photos of fruit yeah on our one thing i was thinking though is i do not know if you will remember from our kickoff meeting we talked about our favorite animals yeah so maybe there could be animal based you know because a lot of people have a house cat or a dog that might be getting too specific and we should see what the success of the 1st faceplates are but it is something to keep in mind  and did you have any questions pretty straightforward yeah  all right given that information we need to start making some making some more specific decisions so i will need to hook up the powerpoint again have you been saving your powerpoint presentations to the i did not for the 1st one have now it is still around right yeah where do you just like project documents i think okay i am just trying to make just trying to make this pop up now all right here we go okay so we have to decide now exactly what we are going to do so energy we owe 0 no i can not write it in when it is in this setting does i do know how to take it out of the power point yeah yeah okay so back to decisions energy we have decided on kinetic right kinetic yeah okay so that is good are we going to have a backup  or do we just but would a backup really be necessary i mean will people just use the battery if there is no i think maybe we could just go for the kinetic energy and be bold and innovative and hope this works and well hope that it works yeah yeah it is like no reason why it would not no right so i think we should just like take advantage of like using this with its full potential yeah it can even be one of our selling points it could be fully kinetic energy yeah environmentally conscious so if it is not working they just have to shake it a bit and that will be right yeah yeah all right the next decision is chip on print i do not exactly know what that means it was whether we went for the simple the regular or the advanced chip and that linked in with what buttons we were going to have right and we were going for more simplistic style right yep so that was without the lcd so that means we are not doing the advance so it depends on whether we wanted the scroll buttons or just the push buttons i think we decided on the push buttons right so that is the simple yeah would we need a more advanced one for the lighting the interior lighting system yeah possibly so it is probably going to be the regular chip that we are going to need so it is a medium so regular chip that is called medium or regular regular sorry okay regular chip 0 is regular and not simple yeah yeah if we because of the lighting that we have decided to put in as well okay and cases so is this is this dependent on shape or what it is made of or what i think this is just going to be that very outer case which we will decide on rubber yeah yeah well i guess plastic and rubber coated in rubber yeah plastic rubber with rubber coating and interchangeable interchangeable yeah we are still going for that yeah yeah okay okay user interface concept this is your time to shine we decided on the component i am sorry i have lost my powerpoint thing so i can not remember what it is called it was called command interface 0 yeah yeah command interface the command interface command line interface yeah do you say it command line yeah okay line interface all right and supplements what is that all about i think that as well we have not really made end decisions about what we are going to do both the cluster of button functions collusion forums and consistent use like what are ideas to combat these problems you know how different interfaces are very different and can be confusing because of the difference and because of the different buttons that they have we have not really decided what to do about that what are our choices here well it is just where shall we locate the buttons what kind of functions shall we have i think we will have the numbers of the channels and we will have power a channel changer and volume and power so just basic yeah i do not know if we should go into adjusting light levels things like that because different televisions will have yeah tone contrast and things that is a bit that was on one of my presentations about how often it was used do you remember that yeah it was minimal well it was not the yeah it was hardly ever used really should i bring it up yeah most televisions will come with a remote yeah and surely that would be like quite specific to the individual television so okay well we know we want numbers the screen settings was used 05 times an hour so twice every once every 2 hours and it was considered a one5 relative events on scale of 10 that is brightness color tone all that i think most of that comes like on the individual television set itself is not i am sure it has yeah it does not it does not necessarily need to have it on remote yeah and different televisions like we i do not know if we can make a remote that will be universal to all the different kinds yeah so we are just going for power channels volume the other one was audio settings monosterosterone i mean i sometimes use that some tvs will have the option of like living room style movie style and that they said that is used 08 times an hour which is actually somewhat high like almost once an hour yeah relevance of 2 0 we have 5 minutes to finish our meeting crap okay let us do this fast well that did not come up on mind should we have audio it only becomes up online usually it would seem silly if we did not have anything else just have an audio button there yeah i do not it is a problem with the international appeal i think if we have audio because we do not know how other televisions work but we know that everyone has this and it is the same yeah i guess it affects the marketing because it is a good sales play to say are not you annoyed with remote controls out of all these buttons yeah that is channel volume yeah that is it we can just go for make it a selling point that is just the basic yeah okay all right brilliant good and okay in closing because we only have 5 minutes we will be meeting again in 30 minutes you will be working probably we will be working on the look and feel design wait a minute is that right  yep and the user interface design so this is where the trendy stuff comes in and you will be evaluating the product poppy and tara will have to work together see modeling clay and your personal coach will give you the rest of the information of what needs to have okay all right so anyone else have something to say i just have one question about the whole fruit and vegetable aspect are we seeing as that was the most popular thing that came up out of your market research i think we should keep to that rather than moving to animals or something because even if that may not seem obvious to us if that is what the survey is brought out i think we should probably go along with that so i suppose that i will come out in our design development but happy to go ahead with the fruit now do you guys want an idea of how many are you going to come up with casing ideas 5 different yeah we are not 5 what i was thinking what do you think of this having the numbers kind of like not a bunch of grapes but you know like purple and kind of in a triangle like grapes yeah you can have some fun with the buttons it is true we can have enough like ideas yeah i guess ideally you would kind of think of age markets as well so it is something that will you know appeal to the 15 to 25 year old something that your granny would want on her remote control yeah and international taste as well so tricky a lot of things to consider lots of all right okay yeah we will stick to the fruit and veggie theme all right and we will reconvene in 30 minutes okay bye thank you i will see you later 0 what i just do 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