right so so where is the powerpoint presentation sorry microsoft powerpoint right right okay so right okay so we have got so we have got new project requirements so basically we have got 3 things and we have got 40 minutes in which to for this meeting to to discuss the various options 3 presentations we have a i guess we have a presentation each cause i have got one yeah yeah i have got one too i see right that is nice to know one from each of you new project requirements so do we want to do the presentation 1st or do we want to w i i got or or 3 things basically relating to the remote being only for t v we discussed that last time and in actual fact that was pr pretty well what we came up with anyway so in fact it actually f we will not be forestalled in a sense we have got teletext outdated did you get any information on that we did not no no right and the corporate image was the final thing i d i did not personally so i i got that in email form right okay so i guess if we go ahead with the with the 3 presentations so we will start with yourself on the basis that okay that is fine i will just i will grab the wire out the back of this one sorry yep 0 what is it i am not quite sure how it i think you have got to do control f 8 control does not seem to be quite working at the moment shift f 8 alt function f 8 again not doing anything there is usually a little thing in the top right for the 0 hang on it is just coming on 0 ah there it is doing something pressed about 5 times now okay that is me okay i have to go again it going hopefully that should be it this time okay i think we are there that is good okay okay i am going to be looking at the working design of the of the remote control i have just got 3 sections 1st is the research i made on the on the remote control itself and then that involves the components required in it and the systems design of the actual the actual remote so having researched the existing models within the market i found my research off the internet i have established what the components required for the remote control to function actually are and then also the methods in which these components interact together for the remote to actually do what you want it to do and how it connects with the television the basic components are an energy source which i guess in most existing models would be a battery supply whether that will be sort of 2 batteries 4 batteries it may vary we then have the user interface which is basically the like the the buttons on the actual remote okay the various functions used for changing channel channel up and down volume things like that there is also a chip inside the remote which does all the computer type things and then the sender which is usually i have found an infra red device which sends a signal to the actual television and the last part is receiver which is important in the system but is not actually part of the remote itself because that is obviously found in the television i am going to have to actually draw on the board because it was a little tricky on powerpoint to get this working so i will just go through there s do we have a cloth to wipe this down with or 0 i will j i think it is that little there is the rubber on the right i think 0 i see 0 okay i will get rid of the bear it is magic okay that is great okay so we start off with a battery suppl no a power supply which we would probably get it is probably going to be the battery we then have a particular button which may be that is obviously there is lots and lots of different buttons but this is how the basic system works that sends after you press that that sends the message to the chip which then sends it sort of interprets which button you have pressed and then sends the appropriate message to the sender so that is that is the remote in itself that is the components of the remote and how they work together so this is the user interface this is the chip itself which then and that is the that is the infra red sender and then on the separate thing we have on the on the television we have a a receiver and the sender sends a message to the receiver kay so the the top bit is the power source yes ah yes that is the power source going on to personal preferences i have said that battery seems the best option for the actual remote just because of the size you do not want a a cable attached to the remote otherwise it is not it is not really a remote and then the sender and infra red has been used quite successfully if the battery is on reasonable power they always seem to work fairly well you do not have to be point directly at the television itself so the battery is the in the sender yes kay and that is it for the moment okay okay so now more design right thank you mine is not quite as complicated as all that that is what we like to hear did i press function yeah is it control function ei 0 th there you go 0 okay so i am going to talk a bit about the technical functions design i am louisa the user interface designer as you know so the m basic method of this is to send a signal from the remote to the television set so that a desired function is performed an example of the function could be to change the volume up or down so obviously you need 2 different buttons for that to change the channel either by pressing the number that you want or by channel up or down to switch the television on or off maybe a standby button here are 2 example remotes by the look of it they both have kind of play and fast forward rewind functions so i think they incorporate a kind of video function which we will not have to worry about but as you can see the left remote is quite quite busy looking quite complicated whereas the right remote is much simpler it looks much more user friendly so my personal preference would be the right remote so it has got nice big buttons it has got a very limited number of buttons they are nice kinda clearly labeled i like the use of the kind of symbols like the triangles and the squares and the arrows as well as the words on the kind of play functions and all that so it is very very user friendly and it has got a little splash of color could maybe do with some more color well there is a couple of things there we have to remember that we have our own logo and color scheme so basically we would have to we would have to be putting that on the the product do we get to see that i have not as yet no will you be presenting that in a bit but i got i got an email that basically said to make sure that whatever device we come up with at the end of the day had to incorporate the corporate color and slogan so i am guessing that i notice on the bottom there it has got what is that a p 0 g e e that might be the corporate color scheme although the only the only color i can see in that is the red would you be able to get rid of the the extra buttons here the the sort of circular section because that seems to be for a video as well so we could dispense with that little bit as well and just get it down to just the numbers and the volume what do you mean by the circular section possibly like all of that bottom bit j yeah yeah yeah j yeah just this little bit is that i think that is still a video remote part yeah so maybe we could get rid of that as well yeah and i do not really think that you need 9 numbers well b w i mean how often do you use 78 and 9 i think just one to 6 and then channel up and down should be enough well th the on the well for for general television purposes obviously you have channels one to 5 at this point in time like how often do you hit 9 and we would have to have some room for future such channels it is just people are used to seeing that so if we did not have them then they might think it is but but but well possibly but the the other thing is that with the current expansion of channels in the process of taking place certainly the button up and down but i mean how many channels do we have to actual television channels do we have to prepare for i would have thought that it is forever expanding and at the moment we have got although you have onl you have got the 5 standard you have got the b b c have come up with a further 6 and there is i do not know exactly how many channels there are on when you take into account sky and various other various others so i would have thought that we would not you know rather okay if the time of flicking from one to other but presumably it will take a 2nd cause you have to be able to stop it maybe you could have a fast forward on the on the channels that w and then you could dispense with more otherwise y you would want you would want to get fairly quickly to the channel that you wanted some remotes have kind of favorite options where if you always flick from channel one to channel 6 if that is a favorite you just like by pass 2 to 5 yeah i s i suppose in a sense you could have if you have got a 100 channels then if you had sort of an easy way of getting rather than having to go one to a 100 you could go one to one to 10 10 to 20 and then have a 2nd button to get you to the actual channel you want and that would cut down your time anyway but i think a lot of like cable and sky and stuff that would be tuned to one channel and then you would have another remote for all of those channels like to get to 55 and the higher numbers okay yeah whatever yeah okay okay limit the number of buttons user friendly but i suppose 9 is not really excessive i suppose with 9 you have got the the like the last one which makes the 10th means you it is like multiples you can put them together so you can make any number i suppose it does make a good pattern so with that we would kind of by pass any problems with yeah well that is true yeah you could get 50 by 5 and a 0 or whatever that that makes sense yeah yeah cause that facilitates having all the numbers you could ever need yeah does okay so w so what was the circular thing that you were i think that is just for a video so we would not need any of that at all so we could get it down to what if it is just for t v which is what it is at the moment so we get to how many buttons have we got we have just got 101112 th we got 14 that we need i guess which is not really too many that will be quite easy to make a user guide for a 14 button remote well we have we have got that it is remote for t v only otherwise project would become too complex with which would endanger the time to market was one of the considerations kay i am i do not know d did you have that information behind the marketing or was i meant to give you that information i am not sure i had i have had some market information but not from the company no right right okay so basically time to market seems to be important therefore speed of delivery kay we have only got about another 4 hours left okay so is everyone happy with that ah yes yes that seems good okay right well that is the end of my presentation kay i am going to pull this off i think if you just give it a 2nd to maybe catch up yeah i think she said 20 seconds to huh okay i am sure we will have by the end of today i will give it another go yeah there we go right we have done some research into the functional requirements that people want out of their remote control and 1st off we should state that th the remote control is for controlling the t v and how do people use it we asked them sort of which buttons were useful for them how d how does a remote control look and feel for them and what improvements would would they like to remote control and we did that by sort of giving them a questionnaire that we would prepared and asking them to fill in the answers and 3 quarters of them found that remote controls are ugly and that a sort of even higher proportion would spend more for a sort of s a fancier remote control and that of all the buttons on the remote control the sort of setting buttons for sort of the picture picture and brightness and the audio settings they were not used very often at all people concentrated on the channel buttons and the volume buttons and the power buttons we also asked them about speech recognition for remote control and young people were quite receptive to this but as soon as we got sort of over about into a 35 to 40 age 45 age group and older people people were not quite so keen on speech recognition there is a lot more th there is a lot lot more older people who did not know whether they wanted it or not as well we also asked what frustrated people about remote controls and the number one frustration was that the remote was lost somewhere else in the room and that they could not find it and the 2nd 2nd biggest frustration what that if they got a new remote control it was difficult to learn all the buttons and all the functions and to find your way around it okay so my personal preferences from the marketing is that we need to come up with some sort of sleek sort of good looking high high tech a design which looks high tech basically and that we should come up with fewer buttons than most of the controls on the market and we should sort of concentrate on the channels and sort of power and also volume and that sort of thing as as louisa said we could maybe come up with a menu a sort of a an l c d menu for other functions on the remote control that is worth thinking about and maybe we could think about speech recognition as well because sort of young people are perhaps the ones that are going to buy buy our new product if we aim it at sort of you know sort of a high tech design that that might be the market that we are we are looking for and we could maybe think about using speech recogniti recognition as a way to find the remote control if it is lost in a room rather than sort of having it to speech recognition to change the channels cause there is a problem with that in that the television makes noise so it could end up talking to itself and changing its channel okay and that is the end of the slide show that is it cool do a lot of what was that last wee bit there about speech recognition speech recognition right okay yeah but that was only for young people that preferred it older people did not youn young people pref yeah they s they said that they would be interested in a remote control which offered that possibility and as you go up through the age groups people got less and less interested in sort of a a remote control that you could talk to so no what i maybe think is it seems the technology would be quite advanced for that and they might end up costing more than our 1250 budget for yeah well that is right for the speech recognition yeah yeah and possibly the thing about the about the remote being lost we could have you know with your mobile phone you lose that and you can ring it maybe we can have some kind of sensor which is kept somewhere where you can some kind of buzzer system between the 2 yeah so you can press a button which is always kept in one place and then it maybe buzzes to somewhere else wherever the remote actually is huh yeah yeah we would have t that would mean we would have to put 2 products together as well which which again would probably be a bit expensive but that is true yes there is key rings that you kind of whistle at or clap at i can not remember and then they whistle back or something like that yeah sounds reasonable yeah that would probably be really simple they are cheap yeah so i guess it would be something we could like attach to the or like the same technology could be put inside the so well if you are trying to avoid having a 2nd product cause obviously you could have a 2nd product that gave you the right pitch which would set the remote off to say here i am sort of thing inside the remote you know without sound recognition but if you i know i was going to say a sharp noise you know a clapping of hand or whatever you would want to try and av just have the one product that if yeah yeah if we if we could have it in the actual remote like everything in 11 device yeah yeah i dunno talking about vo i mean obviously if you have got voice recognition then you can do it in that way because it will recognize the voice and you can give it a command a set command whatever that happened to be yeah but you have then got the point if if you are not going with voice recognition then you could have an option to turn it off or perhaps yeah so that would solve the problems with the t v kind of speaking to the remote and changing its own channels so any sugges well any conclusions would it take quite a while to sort of develop the speech recognition software in the remote control considering well if it does then we can not yeah it is that simple because we have got th th 3 primary requisites from from and email that was sent to me whereby we had the design logo was one which we have already mentioned we have got the remote was only for the television and not for because that would make it too complex and we have to get it market quickly and the 3rd thing was that teletext as far as the management is concerned is becoming dated due to the popularity of the internet okay so that means that so these are the sort of 3 extra parameters that have been put on this project kay so we are being focused effectively directly at a television and it seems to me that the management is wanting us to go down a narrow path and not opening out yes so anything that is to be added such as voice recognition et cetera has to be very simple and has to be very quick because time to market is is critical has to be simple enough to i suppose if we could get something in which was quite quick and simple that would give us an advantage over the other remotes s it would but probably quick and simple is primary rather than kay added extras added extras would be nice but the primary consideration is to get the project finished within this short time window which effectively now is sort of 4 hours so and if and we have got to get to the end d d i think i think 1st and foremost we have got to get to the end and then get to the end with added extras if possible okay so right okay so i need to right so i do not know how long we have left of our time but we have to make the decisions on the remote control functions about 5 minutes and how we were planning to proceed so that at the next meeting each person that has got a a a task to do is clear from this meeting what that task is yes we will also know w when the next meeting is i so we will know how long we have got to complete that task and then we can report back at the next meeting and say right okay yes we have achieved this or we have not achieved this this is how far we have progressed does that make reasonable sense yes that seems right yeah okay yeah so we have to come effectively to the decision on the remote functions so that you can decide what you are going to be doing and if dur between the time of this meeting finishing and the next meeting starting if you get any additional information that only you have at that point in time you would think would be relevant to other people in terms of their des decision making process then we should communicate that as quickly as possible and not wait until the next meeting do it via the email so that rather than coming you know if you get the information just before the next meeting that is fine okay yep come along with it in the next meeting we can discuss it then and take whatever action is appropriate okay but if you get it well before the next meeting let everybody else know cause that might have an impact on their on what they come up with effectively at the next meeting yeah okay right is there so do we need to decide on the functions now s i would guess so well i think it would be really easy and it would be a big advantage if we did have some sort of kind of whistle back kind of function yeah and cause that will solve kind of the frustration of losing it yeah and that was that was the number one sort of frustration that people said so yep i do not think there is anything else on the market that does that so yeah i do not really know about the voice recognition thing i w well i maybe we should concentrate just on the whistle back function at the moment and if something comes back something simple if if our primary consideration is to get it there in time time is short you want something to meet the major concerns of the consumer so that we can have that as a selling point for the product something that is quick and simple yeah so sounds good and that would not put off the kind of older generation either cause everyone can whistle or clap and they would not have to be kind of scared of this new technology well so maybe a clap rather than a whistle would be on the basis that if we have got if we are catering to the whole age range you want something that is easy to do now something that does not like whis well i i i do not know no not everyone can whistle can they though well if you think that more people can whistle than clap then that is fine then go for that option but if i would have thought that more people could clap rather than whistle so so clap option no clapping i think clapping yeah i would go more yeah f more for clap yeah yeah okay kay we have already decided that we do not need a teletext button have not we is that one of the ef effectively that is what the that is what they are saying that if if people are now using the internet then you do not need teletext taking out teletext okay so so take out teletext did we decide on having the 10 the 10 numbers and then the the little digit next to it which kind of enabled you to put them together right yeah i think so so 0 to 9 i think nowadays you can just get ones where it gives you a sort of a 2nd or 2 to press another number yeah so you can press any 2 and it will sort of put them together okay 10 numbers and then some kind of device to allow yeah i will put delay to allow multiple numbers yeah or multiple digits yeah did we decide anything about the other functions as in setting the audio and tuning it and stuff like that you had an had an idea about the menu we could possibly put an l a sort of a l c d menu in but that again is probably an expense that but just thinking people probably i mean you do not have you only have to probably tune in the t v once but you have to be able to tune it that once yeah so and if finally the t v breaks you get a new one you are going to have to be able to tune it you can not really avoid that no except the new digital markets which do it by themselves yeah so that will be in but the but that is relying on the television market changing to an automatic and if it is at the moment that is fine yes but at the moment it is not so it seems to me that you have to have a device that caters cause otherwise it would make it your device would become inoperable yeah yeah or only operable in certain circumstances and the idea is to have an international market which is and it is also m it is the the product we have got is something that is at the i would have said the lower end of the s of the cost scale yeah yeah yeah so we are not really going for something that is yeah i s i suppose terribly high tech if people are buying remotes then they are probably buying it to replace another remote cause all most tellies come with remotes so possibly i mean we are maybe talking about replacing remotes for slightly older televisions so we maybe need to keep the the tuning function in that is right yeah yeah so how would this menu function work would you maybe have like one menu button then you would use the other buttons maybe the number buttons to actually do the separate functions yeah that would be a good idea yeah yeah like the volume or something okay yeah cause you do need kind of brightness and contrast and everything as well my dad was watching a film the other week and it was too dark so i had to go through it and turn the brightness up we are going to have the the individual numbers and then a menu function and maybe sort of a slightly more advanced instruction booklet to come with it to guide presu i think it would be quite hard just for people to grasp just off like the menu use different buttons you maybe have to have like some better instructions of how that would actually work i am not sure whether the sort of having people have a booklet cause one the 2nd most annoying thing that people found was having to learn the new one right okay so maybe next to each of the buttons you know each of them could have a number and then also a function written next to it so you are basically pressing that also goes back to the original design when we saw those 2 and there was the one on the left hand side which had all like the double functions and stuff which kind of looked too busy and had too much on it right so okay well if we are trying to keep it slee sleek and sexy as well okay well have you seen those remotes where kind of the bottom bit slides down so there is kind of everything else revealed yeah so y ah that is a very good idea so you do not use it that much you do not have to see it all the time but it is all there if you need it that is that is a good idea actually yeah yeah sor sort of a 2nd so you keep right we have got 5 minutes before we wind up this meeting so i have been told like a hidden panel okay i do not know if you have got the same not quite but i guess okay so so keep keep detailed functions hidden at the back keep the other buttons but hide them away and that will be better for the older generation as well cause well my dad does not like anything that you have got to kinda flick through a menu ah but he can pretty much read a button if it is displayed properly so yeah so we are going to have to have to work out what is going to be on these other functions as as well so we are going to have like 2 separate 2 separate lists i guess yeah that is right yeah data functions hidden at back so th the can bring out when needed the detailed ones would be sort of brightness sorta yeah that is right so we are dis so you have got which ones are going to be on the front and which ones are going to be on the back so sh we have to decide should we decide in the next couple of minutes and then yeah i guess so so on the so on front about the number numbers the volume up and down and the volume volume shall we have a mute button as well sorry a mute button as well yeah yeah yeah i think they are handy or and probably a power one as well dunno i know it is probably like not an issue to raise here but the whole thing about not using your standby because of the like waste of electricity have you seen the adverts like if you boil the kettle that is full that is a waste yeah if you leave your telly on standby it powers blackpool for a certain amount of time like we should maybe try to discourage people from standby but then they might not buy it if they have not got one cause people might just be too fickle and not want to change yeah yeah it is maybe too much of a big issue for here yeah so so are you having the stand by on the front then we can send out a flier with the device saying that you should not leave it on stand by 0 danger sign i think you probably should yeah but a little bit smaller okay compromise well are we going to have the channel up and down as well as the number buttons cause yeah the market research said there is quite a lot of people do just zap around and flick so okay so we will have right so we have got 10111213141516 there channel up and down what else have we got what was that 16 numbers is 10 volume is 12 th yeah si one up one down volume button how many volumes right okay on mute and a mute yeah that is 16 is not it yeah is there anything else i do not think so no power button stand by channel up and down so is that it so okay that is 16 buttons you reckon and then at the back you have got brightness and contrast maybe if we are going to run out of time and then one of us should come up with a list of these and then get back at the next meeting just at the start and say what they are going to be okay yeah so on the back it will have brightness contrast anything else there is audio functions you are also going to have the channel tuner as it were yeah so tuner up and down i guess yeah tuner would that have up and down up tune one way tune the 0 i i dunno i dunno possibly i think they normally do okay yeah yeah okay and then maybe sort of an enter button for sort of s you know saying that you want that particular thing tuned in so you go up and down and then it pick it finds something and then you want to press enter to select it yeah 0 yeah and th and a enter button just to select yeah okay i guess we are keeping s it simple we do not really need any other audio funct functions because it is just volume up volume down up volume yeah i would have thought so yeah so i think there is quite a lot of like dolby surround studio surround sort of things yeah okay do they have their own do they have their own controls on their actual products then or do you have to do it via the remote maybe for the younger market i think they have got their own controls in this kind of like hidden panel yeah i suppose if we have got their if they have got their own controls then we can avoid it for ours just to keep it simple yeah yeah 0 no i mean like there is kind of individual buttons for them like on the t v remote 0 okay right but i do not really know what they are for i have never used them i just know they are something to do with dolby maybe unless something comes up then we should i think well you might get some research well shall we look into that and just get back together okay okay right right so i will do the minutes of this meeting right and we will meet back at i am not sure 40 minutes i believe is the time kay okay come on
i am gonnae right so so where is that powerpoint presentation sonny microsoft powerpoint right right so right okay so right okay okay so we have got new project requirements things we have got 40 minutes in which to for this meeting to discuss the various options and 3 presentations we have a i guess we have a presentation i see right that is nice one from each of you and new project requirements and so do we want to do the presentation 1st or do we want to i got 3 things basically relating to remote being only for tv we discussed that last time and an actual fact that was pretty well what we came up with anyway so in fact actually we were to be forestalled in a sense and we have got teletext outdated did you get any information on that we did not no right and the corporate image was the final thing so i got that in email form right okay so i guess if we go ahead with the 3 presentations so we will start with yourself on the basis that i will just mark up the sorry yep i am not quite sure i think you have got to control i feel control i think you do control it seems you do quite working at the moment shift efforts can not be out function i think again not doing anything not doing anything there is usually a little thing in the top right 0 i go it is just a little bit 0 got it so it is about 5 times now okay that is me okay that is me right okay and i am going to go out again okay i am going to be that okay i am going to be looking at okay i am going to be looking at the working design i have the remote control i have just got 3 sections the research i made on the remote control itself and then that involves the components required and the systems of the design of the actual network so having researched the existing models within the market i found my research off the internet i have established what the components required for the remote control function actually are and then also the methods in which these components interact together for the remote to actually do what you wanted to do and how it connects with the television the basic components are an energy source which i guess in most of the system models will be a battery supply whether that would be sort of 2 batteries 4 batteries it may vary we then have a user interface which is basically the buttons on the actual remote of various functions it is all changing channel channel up and down there channel up and down volume things like that there is also a chip inside the remote which does all the computer type things and then a sender which is usually i have found an infrared device which sends a signal to the actual television and the last part is a receiver which is important in the system but it is not actually part of the remote itself because that is obviously found in the television i am going to have to actually draw on the board because it was a little tricky on powerpoint to get it to working so i will just go see do you have a cloth to wipe this down with or there is the rubber on the right i think it is magic okay so we start off with a battery supply no a power supply which is probably going to be the battery we then have a particular button which may be obviously there is lots and lots of different buttons but this is how the basic system works and that sends after you press out send a message to the chip which then sends it sort of interprets which by new breast and then sends the appropriate message to the send there so that is the emotion itself that is the components to the moment how they work together this is the user interface this is the chip itself which then sends the sender that is the infrared and then on the set putting we have on the television we have a receiver and the sender sends a message to the receiver so the top is the power source yes ah yes it is the power source okay screen onto personal preference as i have said the battery seems the best option for the actual remote just because of the size you on a cable attached to the remote not really remote and then the sender in infrared has been used quite successful if the battery is on reasonable power they always seem to work for any way you have to be pointed directly at the television itself so the battery is the in the sender okay and that is it for the moment okay so now more design mine is not quite as complicated as all that that is what we like to hear 0 yeah i will test for you okay okay control functioning 0 there you go okay talk a bit about the technical functions design louisa the user interface designer as you know so the basic method of this is to send a signal from the remote to the television set so that a desired function is performed an example of the function could be to change the volume up or down so obviously you need 2 different buttons for that to change the channel either by pressing the number that you want or by channel up or down by channel up or down to switch the television on or off maybe a standby button here are 2 example remotes by the look of it they both have kind of play and fast forward rewind functions so i think that incorporate a kind of video function which we will not have to worry about but as you can see the left remote is quite busy looking quite complicated whereas the right remote is much simpler it looks much more user friendly so my personal preference would be the right remote so it has got nice big buttons it has got a very limited number of buttons they are nice kind of clearly labeled i like the use of the kind of symbols like the triangles and the squares and the arrows as well as the words on the kind of play functions and all that so it is very user friendly it has got a little splash of color could maybe do with some more color well there is a couple of things there we have to remember that we have our own logo and color scheme so basically we would have to be putting that on the product do we get to see that i have not as yet no but i got an email that basically said to make sure that whatever device we come up with at the end of the day had to incorporate the corporate color and slogan so i am guessing that i notice on the bottom there it has got what is that ap 0 g e that might be corporate color scheme although the only color i can see in that is the red would you be able to get rid of the x ones here the sort of circular section but that seems to be for a video as well so we could dispense with that a little bit as well and just get down to just the numbers and the volume what do you buy the circular section like all of that bottom of it yeah just a little bit is that i think that is still one in my video about parts so maybe we could get with that as well yeah and i do not really think that is like that age well but well but i mean how often do you use 78 and 9 i think just want 6 and then channel up and down should be enough well the only well for general television purposes obviously you have channels one to 5 at this point in time and we would have to have some room for future such channels as people are used to seeing that so we did not have them then they might think well possibly but the other thing is that with the current expansion of channels and the process of taking place certainly the button up and down but i mean how many channels do we have to actual television channels do we have to prepare for i would have thought that the fact i think it is forever expanding and at the moment we have got although you have got the 5 standard you have got the bbc have come up with a further 6 and there is i do not know exactly how many channels there are on when you take into account sky and various others so i would have thought that we would not you know rather than okay if the time of flicking from one to other but presumably it will take a 2nd because you have to be able to stop it maybe you could have a fast forward on the channels and then you could dispense with more otherwise you want to get fairly quickly to the channel that you wanted some remote have kind of favorite options where if you always flip from channel one to channel 6 if that is a favorite you just like bypass 2 to 5 i suppose in a sense you could have if you have got a 100 channels then if you had sort of an easy way of getting rather than having to go one to a 100 you could go one to 1010 to 20 and then have a set and button to get you to the actual channel you want then that would cut down your time anyway but i think a lot of them like cable and sky and stuff that would be 2 one channel and then you would have another remote for all of those channels like to get the 55 and the higher number okay okay limit the number of buttons user friendly but i suppose 9 is not really excessive as is it now you have got the right the last one which makes a 10 means it is like a multiple scene put them together so you can make any number so with that would kind of buy no problems with well that is true yeah you could get 50 by 5 and a 0 or whatever that that makes sense that facilitates having all the numbers you could have a need yeah it does so what was a circular thing that you were i think that is just for a video so we would not need any of that if it is just for tv which is what it is at the moment should we get to honey buns that we got we have got 10 11 12 we have got 14 that we need i guess which is not really too many that would be quite easy to make a user guide for a 14 battery amount well we have got it is remote for tv only otherwise project would become too complex with which we would endanger the time to market it was one of the considerations i do not know did you have that information being the market that information being the marketing or was i meant to give you that information i am not sure i had some market information but not from the company right okay so basically times of market seems to be important therefore speed of delivery we have only got about another 4 hours left okay so is everyone happy with that well that is the end of my presentation i will miss it i think you just give a 2nd to yeah i think she is had 20 seconds to i am sure i will have my ears today i will give it a go yeah there we go right we have done some research into the functional requirements that people want out of their remote control and 1st off we should state that the remote controls were controlling the tv and how do people use it we asked them sort of which buttons were useful for them how does a remote control look and feel for them and what improvements would they like to remote control and we did that by giving them a questionnaire that we prepared and asking them to fill in the answers and 3 quarters of them found that remote controls are ugly and that a sort of even higher proportion would spend more for a fancier remote control and that of all the buttons on the remote control the sort of setting buttons for sort of the picture and brightness and the audio settings they were not used very often at all people concentrated on the channel buttons and the volume buttons and the power buttons we also asked them about speech recognition for remote control and young people were quite receptive to this but as soon as we got sort of over a bit of about into a 35 to 40 age group and older people were quite so keen on speech recognition there is a lot more older people who did not know whether they wanted it or not as well we also asked what frustrated people about remote controls and the number one frustration was that the remote was lost somewhere else in the room and that they could not find it and the 2nd biggest frustration was that if they got a new remote control it was difficult to learn all the buttons and all the functions and to find your way around it okay so personal preferences from the marketing is that we need to come up with some sort of sleek sort of good looking high tech a design which looks high tech basically and that we should come up with fewer buttons than most of the controls on the market and we should concentrate on the channels and power and also volume and that sort of thing as louisa said we could maybe come up with a menu a sort of an lcd menu for other functions on the remote control that is worth thinking about and maybe we could think about speech recognition as well because so young people are perhaps the ones that are going to buy buy our new products if we aim it at sort of a high tech design that might be the market that we are looking for and we could maybe think about using speech recognition as a way to find if it is lost in a room rather than having it to speech recognition to change the channel because there is a problem with that in that the television makes noise so it could end up talking to itself and changing its channels okay and that is the end of the slideshow that is it and was that last wee bit there speech recognition yeah okay but that was only for young people that preferred that older people did not young people yeah they said that they would be interested in remote control which offered that possibility and as you go up through the age groups people have got less and less interested in sort of a remote control that you can talk to i think is and it seems the technology be quite advanced for that and it might end up casting more than i have $1250 budget for speech recognition and possibly the thing about the remote being lost we could have you know your mobile phone you lose that you can ring and maybe have some kind of sensor which has kept somewhere where you can just kind of buzz a system between the 2 yeah so you can press a bell which is always kept in one place and then it buzzes to it somewhere else wherever the remote actually is yeah that would mean we would have to put 2 products together as well which again would be a bit expensive there is key rings that you kind of whistle at or clap back i can not remember and then the whistleback or something like that sounds reasonable that is probably a really simple eh she  so i guess it is something attached to the or like the same technology could put inside the well if you are trying to avoid having a 2nd product because obviously you could have a 2nd product and they gave you the right pitch which would set the remote off to see your arms sort of like you know without sound recognition but if you i know i am going to see a sharp noise you know clapping of hand or whatever you would want to try to just have the one product that if yeah we can have it in the actual remote everything in one yeah i do not know and talking about i mean obviously if you have got voice recognition then you can do it in that way because it will recognize the voice and you can give it a command a set command whatever that happened to be but you have then got a point if you are not going with voice recognition then so you have an option to turn it off or perhaps yeah so i was solved problems with the tv can speak into the remote and changing it so any suggestions any suggestions well any conclusions would it take quite a while to sort of develop this feature recognition software in the remote control well if it does then we can not it is that simple because we have got 3 primary requisites from an email that was sent to me whereby we had the design logo was one which we have already mentioned mentioned we have got the remote was only for the television and not for because that would make it too complex and we have to get it market quickly and the 3rd thing was that teletext as far as the management is concerned has become outdated and due to the popularity of the internet so that means that so these are the sort of 3 extra parameters that have been put on this project so we are being focused effectively directly at a television and it seems to me that the management is wanting us to go down a narrow path and not opening out so anything that is to be added such as voice recognition etc has to be very simple and has to be very quick because time to market is critical get something in which was quite quick and simple that would give us an advantage of other remote it would but probably quick and simple is primary rather than added extras added extras would be nice but the primary considerations to get the project finished within this short time window which effectively now is sort of 4 hours so and we have got to get to the end i think i think 1st and foremost we have got to get to the end and get to the end with some added extras if possible okay my screen is just so then i am bunk on me right okay so i need to right so i do not know how long we have left over time but we have to make the decisions on the remote control functions functions and how we are planning to proceed so that at the next meeting each person that has got a task to do is clear from this meeting what that task is and also know when the next meeting is i so we will know how long we have got to complete that task and then we can report back at the next meeting and say right okay yes we have achieved this or we have not achieved this this is how far we have progressed does that make reasonable sense so we have to come effectively to the decision on the remote functions so that you can decide what you are going to be doing and if between the time of this meeting finishing and the next meeting starting if you get any additional information that only you have at that point in time you would think would be relevant to other people people in terms of their decision making process then we should communicate that as quickly as possible and not wait until the next meeting do it via the email so that rather than coming you know if you get the information just before the next meeting that is fine come along with the next meeting we can discuss it then and take whatever action is appropriate but if you get it well before the next meeting let everybody else know because that might have an impact on what they come up with effectively at the next meeting okay all right is a so do we need to decide on the functions now i would guess so well i think it would be really easy and it would be a big advantage if we did have some sort of kind of whistlebacked kind of function yeah because that will solve kind of the frustration of losing it yeah that was the number one sort of frustration that people said so i do not think there is anything else on the market that does that yeah i do not really know about the voice recognition thing well maybe we should concentrate just in the whistleback something simple if the primary consideration is to get it there in time time short you want something to meet the major concerns of the consumer so that we can have it as a selling point for the product something that is quick and simple yeah and that would not put off the kind of older generation either because everyone can whistle a clap and they would not have to be kind of scared of this new technology so maybe a clap rather than a whistle would be on the basis that if we have got if we are catering to the whole age range you want something that is easy to do you know something that like whist well i do not know well if you think that more people can whistle than clap then that is fine then go for that option but if i would have there more people could clap rather than whistle so clap option okay okay okay we have already decided that we do not need a teletext button have not you effectively that is what they are saying that if people are now using the internet then you do not need teletext so take out teletext do we decide on having the 10 the 10 numbers and then the little digit next to it which can be able to put in scale i think nowadays you can just get ones where it gives you a 2nd or 2 to press another number yeah so you can press any 2 and it all sort of put them together okay 10 numbers and then some kind of device to allow a yeah i put delay to allow multiple numbers or multiple pictures yeah do we decide anything about the other functions as in setting the audio and tuning it and stuff like that you had not an idea about the menu we could possibly put an out the lcd menu in but that again is probably an expense i was just thinking people probably i mean you do not have to put the tv once but you have to be able to tune it that once yeah so in a family tv breaks again you are going to have to be able to tune it going to have to be able to tune it you can not really avoid that except the new digital markets we should do it by themselves but that is relying on the television market changing to an automatic and if it is at the moment that is fine but at the moment it is not so it seems to me that you have to have a device that caters because otherwise it would make it your device would become inoperable or only operable in certain circumstances and the idea is to have an international market which is and it is awesome it is the product we have got is something that is the i would have said the lower end of this of the cost scale so we are not really going for something that is i suppose if people are buying remotes then they are probably buying it to replace another remote possibly most tellies come with remote so that is right we are maybe talking about replacing remotes for slightly older television so we maybe need to keep the tuning function in yeah okay so how would this menu function where you maybe have like one menu button and you use the other buttons or the number of buttons to actually use the type of functions yeah that would be good idea yeah because you do need brightness and contrast to everything as well my dad was watching the film the other week and it was too dark so i had to go through it and turn the brightness up so we are going to have the individual numbers and then a menu function and maybe sort of a slightly more advanced instruction book that to come with it to guide i think it would be quite hard just for people to grasp just off like the menu of the other you and just maybe have to have some better instructions that would actually work i am not sure whether having people have a booklet because the 2nd most annoying thing that people found was something to learn the new one right okay so maybe next to each of the buttons each of them could have a number and then also a function written next to it so you are basically pressing i see but that also goes back to the original design room so there is 2 and there was the one on the left side which had all like double functions and stuff which kind of looked too busy and have so much on it okay well have you seen most of the waterway kind of bottom bit slides down so it is kind of everything that is revealed so you do not need that much you do not have to sync all the types that is a very good idea that is a very actually so you keep right we have got 5 minutes we have got 5 minutes before we wind up this meeting so i have been told i do not know if you have got the same not quite a bit okay so keep detailed functions hidden at the back and that would be better for the older generation as well because my dad does not like you know but you can pretty much read a button displayed probably so we are going to have to have to work out what is going to be on these other functions as well so we are going to have like 2 separate that is right 2 separate lists yeah the detailed functions hidden at back can bring out when needed the detailed ones will be sort of brightness that is right so you have got which ones are going to be on the front which ones are going to be at the back we have to decide should decide the next couple of minutes and then couple minutes and then yeah yeah so on the so on front numbers numbers volume volume if you have a mute button as well sorry and mute button as well yeah yeah or and it is probably a power one as well i am not really like not an issue to read yeah but the whole thing about not using a standby because of the waste of electricity and have not seen that ad with like if you boil the kettle that is full of the way you would be telling on standby it powers black door for something at a lot of times but then they might be by it if they are going yeah it might be too big or no one yeah it is a little fire with the device so are you having the standby on the front then i think you probably should yeah but a little bit smaller commoner well is it a problem are we going to have the channel up and down as well as the number brushes because yeah the market research said there was quite a lot of people do just zap around and flicks so we have got 10000 60 channel up and down what else we got what was that 60 numbers is 10 volume button how many volumes one up one down alright okay on mute yeah that is 16 is it anything else i do not think so power button standby channel up and down so is that it okay that is 16 buttons do you reckon and then at the back you have got brightness and contrast maybe we are going to run out of time one of us come out of the list of these and then get back at the next meeting just at the start and see what it is going to be okay so on the back i love brightness contrast anything else you are also going to have the channel tuner in her as it were yeah so tune up and down i guess yeah tuner would that have up and down yeah or tune one way to you yeah okay and then maybe sort of an enter button for sort of you know saying that you want that particular thing tuned in so you go up and down and then it you find something and then you want to press the enter to select it again i guess we are keeping it simple we do not need any other audio functions because it is just 0 volume yeah i would have that too yeah so i think there is quite a lot of like dogby surround pseudo surround sort of things yeah maybe for the younger market do they have their own controls on their actual product or do you have to do it via the remote i think they have got their own controls in this kind of like hidden panel as we have got their own controls and we can avoid it for us yeah yeah 0 no i mean like there is kind of individual buttons for them 0 okay like on the tv or so but i do not really know what i thought i have never used them maybe unless something comes up then we should have well you might get some research on that well should we look into that and then just get back to the other okay right i will do the minutes of this meeting and we will meet back i am not sure 40 minutes i believe is the time come on you