okay yeah that is okay that is okay okay am i starting now anytime 0 sorry kay alright welcome back fro to the 2nd meeting and i hope you had a productive last 30 minutes and i will be taking minutes on this one and being hooked up to the powerpoint for this meeting is not very necessary for myself because it will be more about what you guys are bringing to the meeting today so the 1st presentation we will be looking at is poppy is presentation and so sorry so take it away poppy okay do i need to plugged in it is it is plugged in so f 8 w function f 8 f okay function f 8 sorry about this guys no problem kay is on right okay i will take this time just to apologize i i only received my emails later on cause i was too busy carried away doing my own thing which is not obviously not a very good part of a team working thing but there we go i am sure it is fine so i was looking at how we are going to go about the working design and what we actually need to do and what the remote control needs to do and it needs to allow a person to have a portable desi device so they can control the television from wherever they are they do not need to actually manually touch the television set so it gives them much more flexibility and allows them to be where they want to be from on a functional side of things we found out that wh from our previous meeting we decided that there are certain points that will make our product unique one is the visibility in the dark which was genevieve is idea so we need to think about how we could bring this in technically and we could use illuminated buttons which we are all familiar with when we are using a mobile phone or something fam familiar a automatically lights up at 1st touch or we could use fluorescent materials which would just take in the light during the day and then as soon as they go off they would glow in the dark also we could use an alarm so if we lost the remote control perhaps there could be a button on the television set itself which you could press and then an alarm from the handset would sound where it was hopefully in the room maybe behind a cushion or somewhere so that would work oop go back there another thing i think we d missed out on on the last meeting was the fact that we should consider the environmental impact of our design from previous researches i have carried out on other projects we have learnt about smart materials where specific alloys of metals have a shape memory so they can be heated and and cooled and they change the shape of the metal so for example a screw that is holding something together could expand and it would force all the components apart so the benefits of this for our product would be that when it came to the end of its product life if it was heated everything would spring apart so all the individual components could be easily separated and then some could be reused some could be recycled and i think that would be very important for products now especially cause there is much responsibility for all the companies who are coming up with like new designs cause all we all know that our resources are being limited and we have to be very environmentally conscious right one question yeah this self destructible metal it allows for recycling materials so that someone could have this product for as long as they felt that they wanted it and then once they contribute it then that company can break down the part the parts better and then yeah yeah they would you would make the the product as you normally would apart from the the bits that hold it all together would be made out of this shape memory alloy and that is the part that would allow all the other parts to be separated at the end i mean the user would return the p product to the company cause it is the product is responsibility to get rid of what they have made and then the company could then just use make use of this shape memory alloys to split up the components yeah and then either reuse some bits and other bits which are obviously going to wear out with time or not usable they might be like be able to put into scrap metal something like the case if it is scratched or something you would want to reuse it but you might be able to melt it down and reuse it again somewhere else would we be the company that would break down these or metals or would we contribute to another group you could we could probably empl em employ a a side company or something to do that for us but it would be our responsibility to get that done and to dispose of the products that we made for a certain percentage at least alright not every not a 100% of everything we produce but okay this sounds like a really great idea one thing we have to consider is our 100% turnover goal that we have for our financial sector yeah yeah so we will have to investigate how much that will cost us cost the company cause it sounds very labor intensive yeah you would have to hire a number of people and it might be more expensive well i the fact of the shape memory alloys is that they they do not need to be manually de deconstructed like you do not have to individually unscrew all the screws because of this their properties are smart material all you need is just the heat so they self destruct themselves alright so i suppose it does need like high contact yeah you know high quality machinery and very specific machinery but we will still have to investigate the financial implications alright i like the environmental approach we will have to see if that can meet our financial goals as well yeah okay also there is components this will be how it will actually work but i have not put this plan together yet i am sorry could you those were there we go sorry should i go back this would actually show the circuit diagram although i have not come up with the final circuit yet okay so i just put all those components in so those are what we will c construct the remote those are all the yeah i it just shows what sort of energy source it could be a battery like rechargeable probably an yeah well how the infrared will actually be sent through the chip to be received by the chip on the television set itself alright great okay so now is it f 8 again to escape or escape there we go okay alright thank you very much thank you and the next presenter will be tara there you go tara thanks can you see 0 do you think is it function 8 yeah function f 8 yeah function f 8 function f 8 sorry the one at the top 0 right okay that looks right yeah okay i am the user user interface designer the technical functions design of the apparatus is the effect the apparatus should have in this case it is the function of the remote control which is to send messages to the television television set by taking inspiration from other similar designs we will try and come up with an original trendy remote control which is sellable international there are 2 functional design options a multifunctional remote control which can be used for several entertainment devices and a single function remote control used specifically for the television i am sorry what was that last one multifunctional and sorry a single function just for the television itself ch 0 i see yeah multifunctional controls can be difficult to use as the multitude of buttons can be confusing a single function remote control is simpler to use but it means you have to have other remote controls for your other entertainment devices kay i think that a single function remote control would be preferable because it is easier to use it would be more compatible with a range of television sets making it more internationally sellable it will make an original design more obtainable as we have less functional necessities to include in the design and it would be more profitable as it would be more simplistic and less functions would have to be included so it would be cheaper to make and probably more sellable just because it is more compatible with a r a wider range of devices does anyone have any questions so as far as we know a single function television remote control is us usable internationally well it is just that when we are creating it we are we have to make it compatible with different brands of devices right and it would be easier to make it compatible with just different brands of television devices rather than other ent yeah other entertainment devices d v d s and v c r okay right does everyone agree with this does anyone object and and find the multifunctional might be a better way to go i was just wondering about the what what genevieve said before about having like some hidden controls like having the outer casing and that would probably i d well well what you said before about it being a more profitable simplistic design i suppose having that would complicate it a lot more yeah yeah and limit the design do you think yeah i think i agree with the single design thing for now because we are trying to do so much that if we are trying to make a unique user friendly dadada and it is also multi also multifunctional we are going to go over budget for one thing yeah so yeah yeah that is true yeah yeah and with this we will have more room in the budget probably to make a more original design yeah we will have more money to go into the design side of it yeah okay yeah alright sounds great kay alright well are you ready for your presentation genevieve yes i am fabulous except you are not hooked up to the great 0 i am not hooked up but other than that completely ready okay okay 0 i just lost my microphone no problem we can just a moment okay so i will be discussing the functional requirements of this remote control and i will give you a little briefing on what that means exactly if you all remember from the email we got before our very 1st kick off meeting with the coffee machine the functional requirements of that was to produce hot coffee quickly so what i will be talking about now is the equivalent for a remote control so basically what needs and desires are to be fulfilled i have done some marketing research a lot of interviews with remote control users and some internet research and i will show you my findings 0 and firstly i wanted to remind you about our company motto and purpose so we believe in providing international market with fashionable products hence our motto we put the fashion in electronics so i think that should be our priority here and we should also be looking to trends in clothing and interior design not just in electronic fashion so that it is something that fits in the household i am sorry what was that last thing that you just said we should be looking towards trends in both clothing and interior design any trends that are going on in in the public even media you know who is famous what t v shows are being watched to influence our remote control yeah okay so the findings 75% of users of remote controls find them ugly which is a quite a significant number the other 25% did not specify if they love them or found them you know neutral 80% of users would spend more money when a remote control would look fancy current remote controls do not match well the operating behavior of the user i am sorry that 80% of users would spend more money when a remote control would look fancy you mean that they would spend more money on a fancy looking remote control yeah they are willing they are willing to spend money on a remote control with personality as opposed to your basic you know oval black all same size button remote control okay yeah so it is something that people care about it is not it is not ignored in the household 75% of remote control users said that they zap a lot zapping meaning they go through channels a lot they are you know thumb masters and 50% of users say they only use 10% of the buttons that a very small amount thought that was interesting alright so it might be very appealing if we have very concise buttons the single function and another thing with lots of surfing we would probably have to work on something that could be a lot more durable yeah because i find with channel changers that a lot of the numbers get rubbed down if they are printed on the button yes yeah yeah that is a good point yeah and actually to go with that i am going to give you some statistics on the relevancy of the buttons how much they are used and how important the users find them so the power button obviously in an hour is only used once hopefully the person is not turning on and off the t v but the relevance of that button is 9 out of 10 so people want to be able to turn on the t v with the remote control as opposed to standing up and turning on the television set channel selection is used a 168 times on average per hour that is a huge amount this is the most important button so obviously when commercials come on they are changing it so as you said we want a durable button that is not going to run down relevance of that button our users found was 1010 out of 10 ditto for volume selection so 10 out of 10 and it is used on average 4 times an hour not as much as channel selection but still significant audio settings is used on average 08 times an hour relevance is 2 screen settings which means brightness color etcetera 05 times an hour and relevance of one5 we are getting to specific statistics here teletext now i am not too clear on what that is i do not know if you can help me flipping pages is that it is it is like the news or like information it has t v has like information it has information on holidays the news entertainment yeah the and what is on so like a running banner underneath it is no it is a button that you press and then you like a menu pops up no li yeah yeah i have not used it before but 0 it is like and you have page numbers like for the menu and you press the page numbers with your remote and it it will come up okay it is like very basic internet very basic internet yeah sort of okay but you have yeah like tells you the weather and okay but you have no interaction back with it you know like the internet you can send emails and you have no interaction yeah it is just information that like television timetables what is on what is on now what is on next on every channel and right yeah alright well i guess i am not with it because i was not but it is it is being used 14 times an hour and has a r a high relevance of 65 so it looks like something that we are going to want to do some research on and include on our remote control yeah yeah channel settings 001 times an hour relevance of 3 channel settings probably just tuning in the channels would it be p sorry changing the channels tuning them in at the very start you know if you get a new t v set you tune in all the channels do you th do you think 0 okay to get the right reception and picture i suppose yeah yeah yeah okay so it is not used very often but people still find it relevant okay biggest frustrations of the people that we interviewed remote controls are often lost somewhere so that was already discussed by poppy how we could have a an alarm system so that people can find it takes too much time to learn how to use a new remote control so it should be very user friendly you know people know what to do very quickly remote controls are bad for r s i repetitive strain injury repeti ah i think is that what it is people with arthritis and such that is rather sad maybe our 0 i am guessing that is what it is yeah yeah i am not i think it is designers can look into that buttons that do not require you know very firm pushing if they respond yeah but we will have to also avoid you know buttons responding to the slightest touch as well that is a problem yeah it is okay did you guys get that one down yep okay here is some ideas for you a large percentage of the public would pay for voice recognition on the remote controls so i will show you some numbers here so the youngest age group 15 to 25 912% said that they would pay extra money to have voice recogni voice recognition included on their remote control and you can see that number decreases a bit with ol s interestingly enough 25 to 35 is the lowest amount that would are willing to pay extra so i guess we are going to have to figure out what age group we are we are targeting and if and if voice recognition is something we want to look into and if we have the budget for it if we are targeting young adults it looks like something that would pay off seeing as 90% over 90% would pay for it i agree with if we are targeting young adults then it would be something we should look into financially and and functionally and especially if we are trying to be trendy go with fashions things like that ages like from 35 to 65 which show lower numbers probably will not be as concerned so that that is a whole other field of research i do not know if it would be if we would still have a remote or if you are talking to your television and saying change channel and depending on how many members you have in households yeah so it m it may be too complicated for us but it is something to keep in mind anyway yeah and something that might further complicate it is that the t v makes noise itself right wonder if it would have yeah and if there was conversation in the room at the same time although in theory it does not tend to be when you are watching television yeah but could be very difficult to get the specific design yeah if we are looking for a simplistic design if we need to decide if that is our intention is is a simplistic design yeah because if if it is then i think voice voice activated it looks like yeah and that would sort of negate the whole remote control thing because if people can activate the television with their voice then they will not be using a they will not be talking into a remote i am sure it would be like the ultimate remote okay and th the last thing here was a an l c d screen so i mean voice recognition might be a little too extreme for us not practical an l c d screen though might be something that you know you can shift through pages kind of li the way this powerpoint is working yeah so that you do not have so many buttons to deal with i do not know what an l c d screen is 0 sorry just just a screen like a computer screen s or like mobile phone yeah yeah or like an alarm clock you would have an l c d versus just a a normal clock what what would appear on the screen i have no idea still i am sorry 0 just like an electronic screen as opposed to just buttons there would be like a little like on yeah 0 on the remote okay like on the top of a cellphone the the little l c d screen yeah now that is i i dunno exactly what exactly we would put on there i guess the channel that you are on the v the volume setting yeah could it it it would be good if it had the actual program that was on and what was next but that would probably be like linked in with the teletext or sort of like an yeah that would be good yeah teletext at your fingers without having to access that through the television yeah might be quite expensive to do that though yeah could be well i guess that is something we can all take back to our respective research right and finally whoops my personal preferences and thoughts i think our priority really should be unique design we want something that people want in their home every remote control looks the same so in my opinion it should be user friendly and unique so the other stuff might be a little too a little too gadgety for some people yeah i th myself voice recognition kind of scares me off so if we are if we are aiming to make this an international university universally accepted product and for all the other thing is like age market i mean if we wanted to concentrate on 15 to 25 years olds we could go for the fancy stuff but if we want to make 50000000 and have everyone want this remote control we should maybe stick to the basics and we should keep in mind that 15 to 25 year olds might not have €25 to spend on a remote control like their priorities might not be a fancy remote control when they are just starting out and yeah right and we have to keep in mind the the reliability of our research i mean you know a 16 year old boy would say yeah i would pay extra for voice recognition until they realize that is 3 months allowance yeah so i i think i think the older generations we should be catering to a bit more yeah early 20s that is the kind of age group yeah and if one of the largest or most complained about thing is that it takes so long to get to know how to use a remote control 20s yeah yeah i am sure that something like an l c d screen or remote control would be just furthering that problem yeah yep complicated jus complicating things even fo yeah yeah alright okay okay that is it for the market research okay before we go into more discussion on we want this design to look like i have received some information from the management that will affect some of our decisions for one thing because having controls with d v d v c r that sort of thing would really complicate the design of the remote control we have decided not to include them and make it a specific just a specific television function which is good as as we have sort of decided that we would like to go with that anyway for many reasons so we have that decision sort of made for us another thing that might affect other decisions is that the management feels that teletext is outdated because more people are using the internet now and so we will not concern ourselves with navigating the teletext option can i just interrupt yep would you like to plug in your have you got a powerpoint or not yeah maybe we can do the okay sure yeah i do i am looking at looking at it right now okay thanks there you go thank you 0 come back screen were they was the management suggesting use of the internet rather than teletext or just avoiding both altogether well i mean we do not have the resources or or possibility of using the internet with the remote control yeah yeah but they were just pretty much saying that the teletext would not be used okay yeah okay alright and another thing this is for the design the design of the product is that we want to create more of a sense that people know that this is from our company so all the remote controls must have our we will incorporate our logo and color in in some way right yeah yeah so perhaps our logo on the bottom or wherever you feel like it would look good okay it does not have to be the color of our of our company but another thing is that just we need to we probably would have to have that color and and logo decided upon i am assuming that we already have one but for the purposes of this meeting i i was not offered a like a type of logo or color so if that could be somewhere on the design so that we can be recognizable okay work on that it is probably r r r in yellow yeah yeah the little r r yellow thing okay yeah i think yeah real reaction okay yes those are the changes so now we need to discuss and come to a decision on our remote control functions of of how this is going to be i am just going to look at my notes for a 2nd we have to decide on a target group and the functions of the remote control so we already know that it will just be for the television okay it will it will not have teletext but you know we could discuss those other options that you brought up genevieve okay so i are we going to write off the l c d option yeah is that how most people feel about that yeah yeah yeah okay okay so no l c d no teletext and no voice recognition i think it would be annoying though if i do not use teletext that much but if it was on your t v you would want to be able to use it if yeah but another thing is that if we are reaching an international crowd you would yeah i know for one that in north america there is no such thing as teletext so it would be really superfluous yeah so is it just okay never heard of it yeah alright yeah right i do not know about other countries besides the u k do you know if anywhere else has it i do not know i do not know i do not know more research required i think alright but if was it a management decision that we are having okay it was a management decision so it is it is pretty much out of our hands at this point yeah so okay okay then kay so i guess we are looking at something rather simple well i guess just from my findings it looks like we want to minimize buttons kay minimal and the what was the word they used f findability is important yeah i think we should definitely go ahead with the alarm system idea that you had yeah okay yeah cause i am sure that could be inex inexpensive because we could use the same kind of infrared yeah the same signaling the same signal through that and it could just like make a little beeping noise i mean it is not that expensive to do or vibrate just the same as a mobile phone like you just a a buzz or something yeah yeah yeah okay i like that idea would you be able to put the little device anywhere cause is not our remote control for all t v s so if do you mean the the link between the well if the button was actually on you would ha yeah with the button that you pressed yeah the button 0 yeah 0 yeah c cause then it would only be a applicable to one t v set so it would need to be something that you could stick somewhere or something minor detail there maybe yeah yeah maybe something adhesive that you could like stick onto the back of any set that would be yeah not very obtrusive yeah it would have t yeah obviously something small that is yeah that is a good point yeah yeah then it would not it probably would not be able to use it would be able to use the same reception on the remote c control i guess but the actual device would have to have its own infrared signaller yeah yeah okay yeah okay would it need a battery then maybe pr probably probably i mean unless it could be okay that is your department you will have to sort that out unless some way it could have some universal connection to like the socket the same socket that the t v is supplied from i mean the power for the t v yeah so more research into that one yeah you will have to yeah you will have to investi do some research on that alright yeah great alright and i am sure that the glow in the dark fluorescent whatever system is a go ahead is everyone interested in that y on the buttons i i like the light up suggestion i think that would be better yeah cause you know the way fluorescent lights lose their brightness after certain time so yeah yeah yeah yeah it does not it could it could be a tactile thing as well yeah i would go for right if w if we are minimizing buttons we might be able to make them actually larger and there is something on it s you know like up arrow down arrow for for volume like a raised and i do not know what we could do for for channels s well just the numbers could be embossed could not it like raised the numbers themselves yeah but then the like up button and down button for the channel channel changing could be raised just little arrows that you could feel maybe yeah yeah i just thought that it it might be sucking more battery power if there if it is a light up i am not sure yeah that is true yeah and also y heather you mentioned before like how it should be accessible to everybody but i mean yeah so like big b buttons for people you are visually impaired yeah the glow in the dark or light up will not make any difference anyway so like you say tactile might be better because it would be more available to everybody that i think that is good yeah yeah could we somehow we could may possibly sorry incorporate them both so that the buttons could maybe be in the shape of the numbers themselves and be made out of some glow in the dark material yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah cause i d i do not think that glow in the dark material like the actual soft plastic costs that much more than other colors no i would not say so no it is not these days i mean it is quite easily accessible yeah i guess the other option referring to the battery thing is you know how cellphones will t light up for 15 seconds or something yeah when you are s and then it goes so if if you are like changing the volume during a movie that is good yeah that a good idea yeah i know i am thinking of mostly when you are watching a movie you turn all the lights off right yeah yeah and you do not want to turn on the lights to turn it down because there is suddenly an explosion and it is going to wake up the baby yeah yeah so if you touch the button it kind of reactivates it it lights up for that yeah that is a good idea yeah yeah on self timer so self timed lighting yeah alright we have 5 minutes left i for the meeting but i think we should discuss this light subject a little bit more before we close what was i missed the last moment reading that what were you talking about with the lighting up buttons 0 just if it was kinda the same way that a cell you know how a cellphone will light up for about 10 15 seconds when you touch a button after having not touched it for a while yeah yeah if instead of a constant light up on the on the remote control if it lights up for 10 seconds when it is touched again so it could be any button that would be pressed yeah yeah and you you touch it and it just kind of lights up a bit and it gives a faint glow so self timed so if you have all the lights off in your living room you will you will temporarily see it yeah because usually you are not fooling around for it for more than what 10 seconds yeah yeah okay so that is probably feasible so yeah so do you think that we should do the lighting up thing and the glow in the dark thing and the shape of the numbers do we have to kind of decide what we are going to do with this i think the shape of the numbers is a really good idea yeah yeah okay and i think that is un unique as well for visually impaired yeah i mean i have not seen that yeah and as you are saying like numbers can wear off if they are just sort of like painted on you know printed yeah yeah and it could if it is that softer rubber material it will be maybe better for people with els no what is it called r s i what was it that we were talking about durable 0 yeah yeah 0 right the yeah yeah yeah repetitive strain injury yeah instead of like hard buttons okay did we want to go for the glow in the dark look or did we want to go for the lighting up instantly if like should we do both or we can have one or the other because it might for for our design purposes i mean the lighting up thing might be better because glow in the dark material has a funny kinda color i was going to say and it might not go with different like face plates that we might come up with exactly yeah it the it might be perceived as tacky glow in the dark it is kind of like 80s neon style yeah yeah and we could yeah there are now like loads whereas we are trying to be trendy and fashionable so or a huge range of different colors that it could light up in as well which could like link in with the company colors like it could be blue or green or yellow or like we have just limited t with the just ordinary phosphorescent so right right alright so we have decided on lighting up things i was thinking though if it was glow in the dark you could put the real reaction symbol as glow in the dark and then it would be constantly advertised yeah every time the that it lit up you c that could light up as well yeah yeah or or the whate yeah yeah but with the same thing i mean that is true if you touch the button and then it could be it could be lit up as well yeah yeah okay is are you okay with that yeah okay cool alright so i think that is that completes most of our our more practical decisions and now it is up to designing and making sure that this can be feasible what 0 sorry and do you have anything do you have anything to say yeah well i was just going to throw out there the thought about personalizing the remote control it you cause you mentioned face plates so i i dunno if there is something that diff you know like 5 different face plates i dunno if this will start making it more complicated but it could increase the popularity of the of the remote okay 0 yeah like you can have changeable mobile covers or something interchangeable thing yeah like an ipod or something that would be good exactly like an ipod yeah or okay okay yeah exactly or or like mobile ph like a cellphone yeah and i dunno if we would want to go with like t v show themes or something like a bart simpson faceplate yeah and then that would be more profitable like as a sideline to the remote as well but yeah y could buy extra accessories exactly you could start out with 3 and if if we hit it big then we can add some on person yeah yeah well that is great that is a good idea yeah yeah i think that we should incorporate that interchangeable als cause that would not be very expensive at all you would just get one mold no yeah interchan throw some plastic in it you know and also possible i mean we could gain out of that by advertising certain t v shows or 0 yeah yeah well that might be com problematic with copyright issues right yeah so if it takes off then we will we will we will try that out but if we there is yeah if w we could the environmental factor we did not bring that up again right right we will have to do more research like as of yet that has nothing to do with the way it will look yeah does it need to be reached a de do we need to reach a decision on that right now i have because we need to investigate the financial implications okay okay let us is it does it need to be decided on now or should we i think we could probably leave that til later on then okay good alright then anyone else have anything more to say before we close no no alright well let us have lunch and we will discuss this later okay okay alright thank you
this is a great yes okay just remember it is not real yeah you are going to be the 1st one on powerpoint i will just like cook you up with that am i starting now any time 0 sorry okay all right welcome back to the 2nd meeting and i hope you had a productive last 30 minutes and i will be taking minutes on this one and being hooked up to the powerpoint for this meeting is not very necessary for myself because it will be more about what you guys are bringing to the meeting today so the 1st presentation we will be looking at is poppy is presentation and so sorry so take it away poppy okay it is it is plugged in so okay okay thank you next thing sorry about this guy you are wrong okay nice you know all right right okay i will take this time just to apologize i only received my emails later on because i was too busy carried away doing my own thing which is obviously not a very good part of a team working thing but there we go i am sure it is fine so i was looking at how we are going to go about the working design and what we actually need to do and what the remote control needs to do and it needs to allow a person to have a portable device so they can control the television from wherever they are they do not need to actually manually touch the television set so it gives them much more flexibility and it allows them to be where they want to be from on the functional side of things we found out that well from our previous meeting we decided that the certain points that will make our project unique one is the visibility in the dark which is genevieve is ideas so we need to think about how we could bring this in technically and we could use illuminated buttons which we are all familiar with when we are using a mobile phone or something familiar automatically lights up at 1st touch or we could use fluorescent materials which would just take in the light during the day and then as soon as they go off they would glow in the dark also we could use an alarm so if we lost the remote control perhaps there could be a button on the television set itself which you could press and then alarm from the hand set would sound where it was hopefully in the room maybe behind a cushion or somewhere that would work 0 go back there another thing i think we missed out on on the last meeting was the fact that we should consider the environmental impact of our design from previous research that i have carried out another project we have learnt about smart materials where specific alloys of metals have a shape memory so they can be heated and cooled and they change the shape of the shape of the shape of the shape of the shape of the shape of the design of the design of metal so for example a screw that is holding something together could expand and it would force all the components apart so the benefits of this for our product would be but when it came to the end of its product life if it was heated everything would spring apart so all the individual components could be easily separated and then some could be reused some could be recycled and i think that would be very important for products now especially because there is so much a responsibility for all the the companies who are coming up with new designs because we all know that are the results of being limited and you have to be very environmentally conscious right one question this self destructible metal it allows for recycling materials so that someone could have this product for as long as they felt that they wanted it and then once they contributed then that company can break down the parts better yeah they would you would make the product as you normally would apart from the bits that hold it all together would be made out of the shape memory alloy and that is the part that would allow all the other parts to be separated at the end i mean the user would return the product to the company because it is a product is responsibility to get rid of what they have made and then the company could then just make use of this shape memory alloys to split up the components and then either reuse some bits and other bits which are obviously going to wear out with time or not usable they might be able to put into scrap metal or something like the case if it is scratched or something you would not want to reuse it but you might be able to melt it down and reuse it again somewhere else would we be the company that would break down these or medals or would we contribute to the group we could employ a side company or something to do that for us but it would be our responsibility to get that done and to dispose of the products that we made for a certain percentage at least not 100% of everything we could do this sounds like a really great idea one thing we have to consider is our 100% turnover goal that we have for our financial sector so we will have to investigate how much that will cost us cost the company because it sounds very labor intensive you would have to hire a number of people and it might be more expensive well the fact of the shape memory alloys is that they do not need to be manually deconstructed like you do not have to individually unscrew all the screws because of this property the smart material all you need is just the heat self destruct themselves all right so i suppose it does need the financial implications you know high quality machinery and very specific machinery all right i like the environmental approach we will have to see if that can meet our financial goals as well also there is some components this will be how it will actually work but i have not put this plan together yet i am sorry could you sorry should i go back this would actually show the circuit diagram although i have not come up with the final circuit yet okay so i just do not would put all those components in so those are what will construct the remote yeah it just shows what sort of energy source it could be a battery rechargeable probably and how the infrared will actually be sent through the chip to be received by the chip on television all right great okay so now is it okay okay all right thank you very much and the next presenter will be tara thank you is it a function 8 yeah function f 8 sorry all right okay yeah okay i am the user user interface designer the technical function design of the apparatus is the effect the apparatus you have in this case it is the function of remote control which is to send messages to the television test by taking inspiration from other similar designs you will try and come up with an original trend of remote control which is sellable international there are 2 functional design options a multifunctional mood control which can be used for several entertainment devices and a single function of move control used specifically for the television sorry was that last one multi functional and a single function just for the television 0 i see yeah multi function controls can be difficult to use as the multitude of buttons can be confusing a single function remote control is simpler to use but it means you have to have other remote controls for your other entertainment devices i think that a single function remote control would be preferable because it is easier to use it be more compatible with the range of television sets making it more internationally sellable it will make an original design more attainable as they have less functional necessities to include in the design and it would be more profitable as it would be more simplistic and less functions would have to be included so it would be cheaper to make and probably more sellable just because it is more compatible with a wider range of devices does anyone have any questions so as far as we know a single function television remote controls usable international well it is just that when we are creating it we have to make it compatible with different brands of devices and it would be easy to make it compatible with just different brands of television devices rather than other yeah right does everyone agree with this does anyone object and and find the multifunctional might be a better way to go i was just something about what generally said before about having some hidden controls like having the outer cases that would probably well what you said before about it being a more profitable simplistic design as opposed to having that would complicate it a lot more yeah yeah yeah i think i agree with the single design thing for now because we are trying to do so much that if we are trying to make a unique user friendly and it is also multifunctional we are going to go over a budget yeah that is true and with this we will have more room in the budget probably to make more original design we will have more money to go under the design side of it all right sounds great all right well are you ready for your presentation yes i am i am badness except you are not hooked up to the i am not hooked up but i am absolutely ready great 0 i just lost my microphone all right no problem okay so i will be discussing the functional requirements of this remote control i will give you a little briefing on what that means exactly if you will remember from the email we got before our very 1st kickoff meeting with the coffee machine the functional requirements of that was to produce hot coffee quickly so what i will be talking about now is the equivalent for remote control so basically what needs and desires her to be fulfilled i have done some marketing research a lot of interviews with remote control users and some internet research i will show you my findings 0 and firstly i wanted to remind you about our company model and purpose so we believe in providing international market with fashionable products hence our motto we put the fashion in electronics so i think that should be our priority here and we should also be looking to trends in clothing and interior design not just in electronic fashion so that it is something that fits in the household i am sorry what was that last thing that you just said we should be looking towards trends in both clothing and interior design any trends that are going on in the public even media you know who is famous what tv shows are being watched to influence our remote control okay so the findings 75% of users of remote controls find them ugly which is quite a significant number the other 25% did not specify if they loved them or found them you know neutral 80% of users would spend more money when a remote control would look fancy current remote controls do not match well the operating behavior of the user i am sorry the 80% of users would spend more money when a remote control would look fancy you mean that they would spend more money on a fancy looking remote control they are willing to spend money on a remote control personality as opposed to your basic you know oval black all same size button remote control so it is something that people care about it is not it is not ignored in the household 75% of remote control users said that they zap a lot zapping meaning they go through channels a lot you know thumb masters and 50% of users say they only use 10% of the buttons that is a very small amount i thought that was interesting all right so it might be very appealing if we have very concise buttons and another thing with lots of surfing we probably have to work on something that could be a lot more durable because i find with channel changes that a lot of the numbers get rubbed down if they are printed on the button and actually to go with that i am going to give you some statistics on the relevancy of each of the buttons how much they are used and how important the users find them so the power button obviously in an hour is only used once hopefully the person is not turning on and off the tv but the relevance of that button is 9 out of 10 so people want to be able to turn on the tv with a remote control as opposed to signing up and turning on a television set channel selection is used 168 times on average per hour that is a huge amount this is the most important button so obviously when commercials come on they are changing it so as you said we want a durable button that is not going to run down relevance of that button our users found was 10 10 out of 10 ditto for volume selection it is a 10 out of 10 and it is used on average 4 times an hour not as much as channel selection but still significant audio settings is used on average 08 times an hour relevance is 2 screen settings which means brightness color etc 05 times an hour and relevance of one5 we are getting to specific statistics here teletext now i am not too clear on what that is i do not know if you can help me flipping pages it has tv like information it has information on holidays the news entertainment so like a running banner no it is a button that you press and then you like a menu pops up i have not used it before but and you have page numbers like for the menu and you press the page numbers with your remote okay it is a very basic internet very basic internet yeah okay like tells you the weather and yeah okay you have no interaction back with it you know like you can send emails yeah right there is no interaction information that on television timetables what is on now what is the next on every channel all right well i guess i am not with it because i was not but it is being used 14 times an hour and has a high relevance in 65 so it looks like something that we are going to want to do some research on and include on our remote control channel settings 001 times an hour relevance of 3 channel settings probably just churning in the channels sorry changing the channels chiming the memet but i start getting your tv set you are tuning all the channels 0 okay yeah yeah yeah okay so it is not used very often but people still find it relevant okay biggest frustrations of the people that we interviewed remote controls are often lost somewhere so that was already discussed by poppy how we can have an alarm system system so that people can find it takes too much time to learn how to use a new remote control so it should be very user friendly you know people know what to do very quickly remote controls are bad for rsi is that what it is people with arthritis and such that is rather sad maybe our designers can look into that buttons that do not require very firm pushing if they respond but we will have to also avoid you know buttons responding to the slightest touch as well that is a problem okay did you guys get that one down yep okay here is some ideas for you a large percentage of the public would pay for voice recognition on the remote controls so i will show you some numbers here so the youngest age group 15 to 25 912% said that they would pay extra money to have voice recognition included on their remote control you can see that number decreases a bit interestingly enough 25 to 35 is the lowest amount that are willing to pay extra so i guess we are going to have to figure out what age group we are targeting and if voice recognition is something we want to look into and if we have the budget for it if we are targeting young adults it looks like something that would pay for it it looks like something that would pay off seeing as 90% would pay for it i agree with if we are targeting young adults then it would be something we should look into financially and functionally and especially if we are trying to be trendy go with fashions things like that ages like from 35 to 65 that show lower numbers probably will not be as concerned so that is a whole other field of research i do not know if you would still have a remote or if you are talking to your television and saying change channel and depending on how many members you have in a household so it may be too complicated for us but it is something to keep in mind anyway and something that might further complicated is that the tv makes noise itself right i wonder if it would have and if there was conversation in the room at the same time yeah although i am still it does not tend to me when you are watching television but it would be very difficult to get the specific yeah if we are looking for a simplistic design if we need to decide if that is our intention is is a simplistic design because if if it is then i think voice was it looks like yeah and that would sort of negate the whole remote control thing because if people can activate the television with their voice and they will be using it will not be talking into remote i am sure okay and the last thing here was an lcd screen so i mean voice recognition might be a little too extreme for us not practical an lcd screen though might be something that you know you can shift through pages kind of the way this powerpoint is working so that you do not have so many buttons to deal with i do not know what an lcd screen is 0 sorry just a screen like a computer screen so or like mobile yeah like an alarm clock you would have an lcd versus just a what what would be it on the screen i have no idea still 0 just like an electronic screen as opposed to just buttons there would be like a little 0 on the remote yeah okay like on the top of a cell phone the low locity screen i do not know what exactly we put on there i guess the channel that you are on what volume setting could it it would be good if it had the actual program that was on and what was next but that would probably be like linkedin with the tele yeah that was like in yeah telling that just being different without having to access that through the television it might be quite extensive to do that too yeah okay right i guess that is something we can all take back to our respective research and finally whoops my personal preferences and thoughts i think our priority really should be unique design we want something that people want in their home every remote control looks the same so in my opinion it should be user friendly and unique so the other stuff might be a little too gadgety for some people my self voice recognition kind of scares me off so if we are aiming to make this an international university universally accepted product and the other thing is age market i mean if we wanted to concentrate on 50 to 25 year olds we could go with the fancy stuff but if we want to make 50000000 and have everyone want this remote control we should maybe stick to the basics and we should keep in mind that 1525 years might not have 25 years to stand in a remote control like their priorities might not be a fancy remote control then they are just starting out right and we had to keep in mind the reliability of our research i mean you know a 16 year old boy would say yeah i would pay extra per boy or 2nd next to until they realize that is 3 months allowance so i think the older generations we should be catering to a bit more early 20 yeah and if one of the largest or most complained about things is that it takes so long to get to know how to use remote control i am sure that something like an lcd screen or remote control would be furthering that problem yeah all right okay that is it for the market research okay before we go into more discussion on and we want this design to look like i have received some information from the management that will affect some of our decisions for one thing because having controls with dvd vcr that sort of thing would really complicate the design of the remote control we have decided not to include them and make it a specific just a specific television function which is good as we have sort of decided that we would like to go with that anyway for many reasons so we have that decision sort of made for us another thing that might affect other decisions is that the management feels that teletext is outdated because more people are using the internet now and so we will not concern ourselves with navigating the teletext option can i just enter it yep you would like to plug in yeah maybe we will okay sure have you got a powerpoint yeah i do i am looking at it right now there you go thank you i will come back to me was the management suggesting use of the internet rather than teletext or just avoiding both altogether well i mean we do not have the resources or a possibility of using the internet with the remote control but they were just pretty much saying that the teletext would not be used and another thing this is for the design the design of the product is that that we want to create more of a sense that people know that this is from our company so all the remote controls must have our we will incorporate our logo and color in some way so perhaps our logo on the bottom or wherever you feel like it would look good it does not have to be the color of our company but another thing is that we need to we probably would have to have that color and logo decided upon i am assuming that we already have one but for the purposes of this meeting i was not offered a type of logo or color so if that could be somewhere on the design so it can be recognizable it is probably our rr and yellow yeah the little rr yellow thing okay real reaction okay yes those are the changes so now we need to discuss and come to a decision on our remote control functions of how this is going to be i am just going to look at my notes for a 2nd we have to decide on a target group and the functions of the remote control so we already know that it will just be for the television it will not have teletext teletext but you know we could discuss some those other options that you brought up genevieve okay so are we going to write off the lcd option is that how most people feel about that yeah okay so no lcd no teletext and no voice recognition i think it would be annoying i do not use teletext that much but if it was on your tv you would want to be able to use it if but another thing is that if we are reaching an international crowd i know for one that in north america there is no such thing as teletext so it would be really superfluous yeah i do not know about other countries besides the uk do you know if anywhere else has it a bit more research required i think all right was it a management decision that we have it was a management decision so it is pretty much out of our hands at this point okay okay so i guess we are looking at something rather simple well i guess just from my findings it looks like we want to minimize buttons okay and what was the word they use findability is important yeah i think we should definitely go ahead with the alarm system idea that you had because i am sure that could be inexpensive because we could use the same kind of infrared yeah the same signal the same signal through that through that and it could just like make a little beeping noise it is not that expensive to do right just the same as a mobile phone yeah yeah okay i like that idea would you be able to put the little device anywhere because as a remote control for all to use so if do you mean the link between the yeah the button was actually on minor detail there i would like i will do one tv set so it would need to be something like it sticks in yeah yeah maybe something adhesive that you could like stick onto the back of any set that would be yeah yeah not very obtrusive obviously something small that is yeah that is good thing yeah then it would not it probably would not be able to use it would be able to use the same reception on the remote control i guess but the actual device would have to have its own yeah infrared signal okay would not need a battery then maybe probably probably i mean that is your department you will have sort that out okay unless some way it could have some universal connection to like the socket the same socket that the tv is supplied from i mean the power for the tv yeah you have to invest in that one do some research on that right great all right and i am sure that the glow in the dark fluorescent whatever system is to go ahead does everyone interest in that i like the light up suggestion i think that would be better because you are like fluorescent lights and leaves the bright yeah yeah yeah it does not it could be a tactile thing as well right if we are minimizing button we might be able to make them actually larger and there is something on it you know like a raise up arrow down arrow for volume and i do not know what we could do for channels well just numbers could be embossed could not it like raised the numbers themselves but then the up button and down button for the channel channel changing just that a lot yeah i just thought that it might be sucking more battery power if it is a light up i am not sure yeah that is true and also heather you mentioned before like how it should be accessible to everybody yeah and so like big buttons maybe for people who are visually impaired glow in the dark or light will not make any difference anyway so like you said tactile might be better because it would be more available to everybody could we somehow we could maybe possibly sorry incorporate them both so that the buttons could maybe be in the shape of the numbers themselves and be made out of some sort of glow in the dark material i do not think that glow in the dark material like the actual soft plastic costs that much more than other colors not these days and it is quite yeah i guess the other option referring to the battery thing is you know how cell phones will light up for 15 seconds or something yeah yeah that is good idea so if you are like changing the volume during a movie i know i am thinking of most of you watching a movie you turn all the lights off right yeah you do not turn on the lights to turn it down because it is suddenly an explosion it is going to wake up the baby so if you touch the button it kind of reactivates it it lights up for it that is a good idea on self timed it is a self timed lighting all right we have 5 minutes left for the meeting but i think we should discuss this light subject a little bit more before we close what was i missed the last moment reading that what were you talking about with the lighting up 0 just if it was kind of the same way that a cell phone will light up for about 10 15 seconds when you touch a button after having not touched it for a while yeah if instead of a constant light up on the remote control if it lights up for 10 seconds when it is touched again so it could be any button that would be pressed yeah you just kind of lights up a bit and it gives a faint glow so if you have all the lights off in your living room you will temporarily see it because usually you are not fiddling around with it for more than what 10 seconds yeah okay so that is probably feasible so do you think that we should do the lighting up thing and the glow in the dark thing and the shape of the numbers you have to kind of decide what we are going to do with this i think the shape of the numbers is a really good idea and i think that is unique as well i mean i have not seen that and as you are saying like numbers can wear off if they are just painted off and it could be your most if it is that softer rubber material it will be better for people with else no what is it called rsi what was it that way 0 yeah yeah instead of like hard buttons okay did we want to go for the glow in the dark look or did we want to go for the lighting up instantly like should we do both or we can have one or the other because it might for design purposes i mean the lighting up thing might be better because glow in the dark material has a funny kind of color and it might not go with different face plates that we might come up with exactly it might be perceived as tacky glow in the dark it is kind of like 80s neon style whereas we are trying to be trendy and fashionable yeah they are not like loads a huge range of different colors that it could light up in as well which could like link in with the company colors blue or green or yellow or right like we are just limited with the just ordinary all right so we have just started on lighting up i was thinking if it was going in the dark you could put the real reaction symbol as going to dark and then it would be constantly advertise yeah every time the lit up that could light up as well but with the same but with the same thing i mean if you touch the button and then it could be it could be lit up as well is are you okay with that okay cool all right so i think that that completes most of our our more practical decisions and now it is up to designing and making sure that this can be feasible and do you have anything to say yeah well i am just going to throw it there the thought about personalizing the remote control because you mentioned faceplates so i do not know if there is something that you know like 5 different faceplates i do not know if this would start making it more complicated but it could increase the popularity of the remote okay like you can have changeable mobile cameras like an ipod or something exactly like a mobile exactly or like a mobile like a cell phone yeah and i do not know if we would want to go with you know tv show themes or something like a bart simpson faceplate yeah and then that would be more profitable like as a sideline to the remote yeah exactly you could start out with 3 and if we hit it big then we can add so long yeah that is great yeah i think that we should incorporate that into change and because that would not be very expensive at all you just get one mold yeah throw some plastic in it you know and also possible i mean we could gain out of that by advertising certain tv shows that might be problematic with copyright issues yeah so if it takes off then we will try that out the environmental fact we did not bring that up again right we will have to do more research like as of yet that has nothing to do with the way to look yeah does it need to be reached do we need to reach a decision on that right now because we need to investigate the financial implications okay okay does it need to be decided on now i think we can probably leave that till later on okay good all right then anyone else have anything more to say before we close no all right well let us have lunch and we will discuss this later okay all right thank you