yeah okay i g yeah time is it 1426 okay lovely to see you all again it is our conceptual design meeting and it is starting at approximately 1425 and so we have 40 minutes for this one again and so we will go just after 30 clock okay our agenda we are going to do an opening i am going to review the minutes of the last meeting then we will have your 3 presentations and then we will have to make a decision on the remote control concepts and finally we will close okay so opening these are our minutes from r the functional design we decided our target group is the focus on who can afford it because we have international appeal and we said it is for all age groups different functions of it our main objectives were simplicity and fashion and s in specific functions are something to keep the remote from getting lost large buttons for the essential functions a possibility for extra functions like a sliding a sliding piece and a long life battery or a charging station okay now 3 presentations i would like to do it in this order 1st do the conceptual specification of components properties and materials and then the conceptual specification of user interface and finally trend watching that would be me yep alright well kay function f 8 it there we go alright i am very excited by this one actually guys i had a lot of fun doing it components design this is where you look at what does it take to make a remote control and what should we make our specific remote control out of so we need to examine each element separately but we are designing a full thing so you want to keep it integrated as a whole the main elements of remote controls in general and therefore ours as well are the case the buttons the circuit board with the chip and the battery these are all things that we had sort of addressed before but i am going to take each one a little bit separately here as we figure out what they should be made of and what they should look like the case the options that i have gotten from headquarters about what we can do there is there is the shape of a case we could do a flat sh a flat case a curved case or maybe even a double double curved case i have not seen any pictures of what this exactly looks like yet just keep that in mind but these are the options that we have from manufacturing and we can make our case out of plastic the m the main base will be plastic but we have all these sort of fashion and technological elements we can add in wood latex titanium rubber or other colored types of plastic that would be our case buttons for buttons we have pushbuttons which is what real reaction uses the most often but we also have scror scroll wheels which can have integrated pushbuttons or we could go all high tech and have an l l c d screen circuit board and chip we can have a simple one a regular one or an advanced one depending on what our other needs are and then battery i think is where things get most exciting we are talking about long life batteries here we can we can have your sort of basic double a batteries but we also have these options of using a kinetic battery like are used in high tech watches where you just have to move it a little bit to get it to power up so simple movements like pushing buttons would recharge the battery or a solar battery although there are slight complications with solar batteries as in we can not use a latex case if we have a solar battery or something they only described as the type of battery you find in torches from about 50 years ago flashlights not quite sure what that is but that is the description that i received so that is what i am passing on to you so those are our options personal preferences that i was thinking through here is what we have been talking about all through fashion and simplicity so if we are going for fashion in our cases i think that what we are going to want to look at is a curved or a double curved case probably with a variety of design elements maybe titanium maybe some wood we are going to have to investigate that better when i get specifics of the actual materials but that is sort of what i have in mind and we want to go for simplicity probably pushbuttons but i am sort of intrigued by the idea of a scroll scroll wheel if anyone has anything any ideas on that i mean i know the ipods and things right now have touch scroll buttons which are exactly like what they are describing so that might be something we want to look into and i am really intrigued by the idea of a kinetic battery solar i do not think would be such a good idea because how often are you sure that your remote control will get a certain amount of light but this idea of the kinetic that you do not have to replace and that a simple just shaking it around will make it work i think that that m would be a very interesting thing but i think we would also want to go for e a simple chip or regular chip to keep our costs down we really only need a regular or advanced chip t if we are going to start using an l c d so i think we want to be aware of not making things overly t technological if they do not need to be cause that will keep our manufacturing price way down that is what i have for options i would appreciate anyone is input but that is what i am seeing for the future of the the look of this thing is double curved like would be like 2 hands kind of thing i am not sure i have not received any specific okay visuals of this yet cause i am imagining like double curved is like you know like 2 sides that curve and then like one curve would just be like a single vertical ish kind of looking thing but i have no idea this is what i am sort of yeah i am not sure but i will let you know as soon as i get any pictures sounds good yeah i wonder i know if we do have a double curved case it can not have any titanium in it but the titanium they were quite they are marketing quite hard to us as being used in the space program so that could be quite interesting space age remote just all things to keep in mind just an interesting marketing kind of element yeah that is about all i have to do guys i hope i did not go through that too quickly just a real quick question the weight of these different elements have you no idea okay yeah n no idea no idea i am assuming that a kinetic battery is not going to take up that much weight and that a tita titanium is very light i know but other than that is really basic i mean that is all i have gotten so far okay alright any other questions huh do not think so no okay kay i have save this in the shared projects if anyone wants to look and i have c considerable notes on the topic as well thank you perfect thanks if anyone needs any more information if you made notes yourself you can put those on our underneath our 0 in your book then do not worry about that just in my notebook but if anyone has any specific questions do not hesitate to email me or something alright i guess i can kay now we are concepts concepts of user interface yeah this one is so much tighter than the other one i know okay nope there we go here you are jess g 0 geez alright so i am going to describe the the concept of the user interface of this des device we have talked about the 2 essential properties of the user interface we want it to be simple and we want it to be fashionable other we have also got to remember that this is a device that serves as a useful purpose we want people to be able to use it s as a remote control so we need to determine what the essential functions of the d of the device are and make sure that we include that we have included all of those and that we actually end up with a device that is going to be useful to people we have a number of different choices for a design concept and s that is that is something that that i will show you some examples of but essentially we need to choose how how is this device going to work how how what kind of model is there going to be for user interaction with this device once we have chosen a a concept for it we can then design the features around the concept making sure that we get all the essential functions in the device and the extra functions and the more advanced features and of course we also have to make it look cool so basically that is what we do not want m we do not want lots of buttons complicated features we want something that looks nice and simple here is a a fairly simple device this is an an ipod from apple i think the main thing to notice about it is it just has 4 buttons it is very minimalistic in its design you use these 4 buttons to m to move around a range of settings on the small l c d screen the thing i like about this is that it is very very quick to access the main features you can just about make out that the button 3 buttons are previous track next track and play pause they are the main the main features of the ipod the things you will use a all the time then if you want to do anything more advanced you go into the little menu on the l c d screen and you use the buttons just to scroll around and and find the more advanced features that you want so i think that is that is a good a good kind of model that we could have here is a another example this is it is an interesting idea and i think i it looks pretty cool it is certainly got novelty value it is nice and colorful it is nice and bright it is also something that you can kind of feel your way around the buttons are are different shapes and and you can sort of yeah if you are watching t v in the dark or whatever you can work out which button is which and basically yeah it is ith it is fun so i i like i like this idea of just having buttons for the features that you use most often so you would need a few buttons to select your favorite channels i mean most people when they watch t v they have 250 channels on their t v and they watch of bout 4 of them at the most so you have buttons for your favorite channel changing the volume which is something you do all the time when you are watching t v and the button to switch it off in case you get bored other features things like adjusting the brightness tuning the t v i do not know what else you do with a t v but these are these are all necessary functions you can not have a t there is no point having a television that you can not tune or that you can not set the contrast so we need to find a way of including these somehow and one other suggestions i would make is to in is to include in a menu system a bit like on the ipod so we would either have a small l c d display on the device itself or have a dis a menu display that comes up on your television and can b be controlled through the device and that would allow you to access access the advanced features whilst keeping a very small and simple set of buttons for the features that you use most often okay so you would be advocating an l c d then i think that is that is one way to go yes okay i mean there are there are advantages and disadvantages if you if you have an l c d display it is it is nice because it is it it lets you just sort of sit there and saint and control your television from your armchair there are disadvantages an an l c d display would have to be quite small cause we are we are i well we are i assume we are going to be making quite a small device right it would also have to have a kind of backlighting in it cause you 10 you tend to watch t v in the dark but you need to be able to see your l d d l c d display right the alternative is to have a an on screen display on your television that you control through your remote control a bit like a bit like how they have these digital boxes where you you press the buttons and it comes up with your this thing of watch lo what is on each channel i mean that that is also a good idea okay it is it can it does have it is problems as well if you have got a small t v and you are sitting on the other side of a room it is hard to read the little text that comes up but that is a that is a design decision that we can make kay i do think that one of the important features for a remote is seeing a menu and seeing what is on and so like favorite channels is is applicable yeah but i think th that you do need to have some kind of function where it is you have t you can see the title of the show or possibly a description of it well are you are you tak yeah like i i know i use that often enough wait but is that separate from what he was saying yeah well if it if it was a l l c d on th on the remote i do not know that you could f that you would be able to see a no i think i think we are talking menu like contrast and tuning the v c r or something if i have understood you correctly rather than menu as what is on okay yeah that that would be one of the features yes okay but it is it is it is something to bear in mind is that if we put a display on the remote control cause that would be more specifically a digital box the c communication is one way so you can not have the televisions and information back to the remote control at least i do not think you can 0 good point i am not sure yeah okay now we are moving on to market should i plug that in marketing is that going on okay maybe it is just not is it on that should be alright actually ri what f do you have to press 5 8 i just keep pressing lots of em well i do not know how relevant all of this going to be if anything the that they gave me no signal oops it is not plugged in quite in well enough alright there we are oop there we go kay 0 yeah okay so we are going to look a little bit at trend watching basically i was given an executive summary that was a market investigation on remote controls that was recently conducted and then also some fashion watchers in paris and milan commented on some things that are going to be going on this year so 1st they had people they ranked the important aspects of r remote controls and right now i d they are saying that currently there is a functional look and feel preference but that really over the next year it it that is going to be switching to fancy look and feel remotes so that just goes back to the whole desire of our c real reaction company wanting to focus on fashion and so even though we are stressing when we are talking we have all been talking about this like simplicity and easy to use idea they are sort of wanting us to remember that the number one thing for everyone is that it is fancy look and feel and as these are ranked the top one is doubly important to the 2nd one which is doubly important to the 3rd one so just to take that weight into account okay the 2nd thing that was mentioned as important was the technological innovations that would be like if we use something like the space material or the l c d screen things like that and then ease of use was the 3rd most important whi so really no matter what we need to focus the most on fancy look and feel according to this i do not know how much we agree with that and then the fashion watch talks about that this year is top trend for clothes shoes and furniture is fruits and vegetables and tha that there is a preference for spongy tight material s sweet and so that brings us to my personal preferences who wants a spongy remote or one with fruit and vegetable padding personally i do not really think that i want one that is going to go out of style or go stale excuse the pun in a year so even though this is coming from us as you know trend watch market research i do not know how much of it we necessarily want to take away also considering that the d research b has been carried out by real reaction i am a little hesitant as to like how these questions may have been worded and if necessarily this whole fashion to technology y edas ease of use is necessarily the right ranking personally like i might reverse it but if we are working for this company then i guess no matter what we have to stress fashion the most but it does not necessarily need to be a spongy material that there is all kinds of scope for imagination in that one though yeah i do not have a lot of notes to share if you want them that pretty much sums it up so yeah okay do we have any s some questions for this let us see yeah what can i possibly enlighten on do you have any ideas how to possibly use these how to how to use a fruit or vegetable or or the spongy material at all like could we make a s like could we make a spongy remote it would be easier on the hands if it is latex if it is latexy it is kind of and then it we would have to find a way to protect like the chip and all that i dunno mean a kind of thing that an i if th my understanding of a latex case is that it is in fact hard to protect stuff inside but but that it is covered with the latex which is spongier and softer on your hands it is there is something to be said i mean we we got that thing earlier from you about not wanting it to r r repetitive stress injuries and things and and yeah yeah something grippable i mean we do not we do not we do not want to go spongy maybe yeah so something m m instead of a necess yeah grip i am thinking grip more than like sinking into your hands yeah you know i and i think i am envisioning more like yeah yeah you know the material that you have when you sit on like a bicycle so that it does not hurt when you are sitting down for a long time like i am imagining that sort of thing i do not know what th that material is called yeah i think that given the list of materials i w i was forwarded it is that seems doable could we go in fruit and vegetable colors we could color co ordinate them li f for sure or maybe like couple main ones being like i dunno lemons or strawberries or something the buttons could be fruit shaped could they be smelly i is it supposed to be shaped like a vegetable 0 god 0 well it is quite easy to s shape thing like carrot is not it like i dunno like carrots or something i do not know or carrot shaped maybe or or maybe the buttons could be shaped like different fruits like large button that is what i was thinking of yeah what about the idea of like a round remote instead of like a vertical up and down one like in terms of holding it be yeah kind of like a potato like that is a f shape of a fruit yeah it would be harder to f bu buttons i think just to tie it in a little might would you think you you do you think you would be able to hold it cause i think the reason they are long is yeah it would be harder to press button depends harder to push when you when you use a remote do you press the buttons with your thumb usually yeah or your fingers i usually hold it in one hand maybe or maybe you want something that is shaped like a mobile phone so you you hold it in one hand and you press the buttons with your thumb i yeah that is ts how i tend to do it but then the buttons would have to be very small yeah cause otherwise your fingers can not move around do not you think no just thumb sized jus but i like i but i mean in order to get to all of them you know yeah yeah they would have to be within a certain amount of space with each other maybe that is true but if you have only got like 4 or 5 buttons anyway then it is it is not so much a problem perhaps right i when i am when i am pressing buttons on my ipod that is how i do it hold it and press the 4 so you hold it in one hand and you press you press the buttons with your thumb and yeah yeah or in and use my thumb or my pointer finger on the touch scroll wheel and you find that works quite well i love the idea of the wheel like the ipod yeah is that the button on an ipod is it what is it is it just 4 buttons or is it li more like a scroll thing cause th it is like 5 cause there is one in the middle it is a scroll yeah it is a wheel it wel well yeah it would i mean each version of it has been a little bit different but the one i have does not have the 4 on i like around it i do not think 0 yeah you had one of the in between ones when they were not doing that anymore ts and you press the center button that is that is your all purpose select button right there right 0 i see right yeah 0 okay since it is the one in the center that is not marked yeah yeah that is quite a good design i think why it would be good for us is cause like you could have the same wheel sort of effect for like channel flipping and then the other one could be like for volume yeah like just the idea of like those so few buttons for main things but then how you could go back to the menu and like t i dunno if we would want it on the screen there or on the actual t v i kind of am wanting to say on the t v cause if you are changing the brightness do not you want to see it happening kind of yeah yeah yeah and then you could still have that available yeah i think an l c d screen might be good in theory but not as useful in practice i think it could be difficult in practice yeah yeah also z yeah cause you would be z looking down at the l c d screen than back up at your t v and people do not want to do that right okay we have we have about 15 minutes left so i am i am going to 0 we probably have to get going do not we huh continue with my president presentation i have one more slide before we close but in that slide is when we need to make decisions about this these kinds of things kay so i will just bring that up and show you all before we move on if i get any more information of fruits and vegetables i will let you know could could we could we have changeable covers like for your mobile like to make it different fruits in different fruit and vegetable colors yeah yeah it is possible yeah and then like the the covers could be spongy latex wherea but the actual model could be titanium exactly and you could co ordinate with your house or whatever i think maybe th the packaging it should be like a lemon and the the packaging is like the peel all these options so instead of opening the box you just kind of peel it and the remote control is inside ooh well there we go 0 do not know ah the ipod packaging is me like was so that was like half the fun it is like the way it all comes all cute yeah lemons options okay components concept energy chip on print hu 00 yes right i had sort of skipped over that hoping it would not get g be necessary but that is th th this is the agenda they gave me so can you just explain what that is real quick alright so decisions what the okay deci decisions on energy i am thinking is based on the battery i dunno what do people think about this kinetic battery idea i think it is awesome i think it is really cool am i yeah yeah i mean it would t totally take care of our problem of not wanting to change batteries yeah yeah i think it is good as as long as we consider the the cost and the how reliable it is but as far as i know the technology is good right i have not gotten any yeah any more information on cost other than it is more expensive than a regular battery costs but but if we are using a an i a cheaper chip then it will even out i think but over time circuit boards yeah i got a whole bunch of information on how circuit boards are produced they are they are thin fiberglass with copper wires etched on to them and di i think they are quite easily printed on by machine which is chip on print is where the machine prints on the wires and solders it all together for us i do not really know what to tell you as far as decisions i was not really given any options i was just given that this is how they are done okay yeah i can not can not really tell you i can i can tell you a whole lot about how it works but i do not know any decisions on if they are if they are really options yeah i am sorry i did f okay al all circuit boards are pretty much the same i think it is fairly fairly standard yeah okay then we will move on to the case 0 bu i guess maybe if we decided on like a simple a regular or an advanced chip maybe right well okay here is the here is the thing on the chips that i that i got simple regular advanced chip on print the chip on print includes an infrared sensor so we do not have to worry about that kay the pushbutton if we are going to have pushbuttons they require a simple chip but a scroll wheel requires a regular chip and an l c d requires advanced do we want a scroll wheel or do we just want pushbuttons i do not think we ne really need the scroll whe wheel i mean it might be nice for changing the volume 0 it would be nice for changing the volume but i do not know how useful it would be for changing the channel but i do not think it would really work cause you do not have control over numbers or yeah it is a yeah you really need buttons for changing a channel yeah th it would be it would be handy for going through if there was an on screen menu of your channel choices than you can scroll down on the scroll but if you c if you could scroll through the channels and then the volume would just be yeah yeah we have 5 minutes left for the meeting so and the volume would just be like the same way forward and backward as i am just thinking like it would make it much like sleeker sort of looking yeah yeah and otherwise no matter how may buttons we have we are going to have like you know yeah black with red sticking out and th no it is going to inevitably sort of start looking like those group of sort of ugly ones that we saw stacked up yeah so have a scroll for volume f or for all those secret functions f when you get on the on screen menu of all your functions that your remote could do for you without the buttons and you could have a scroll wheel to go through those menus i think yeah i think a scroll wheel would be nice but it is not necessary right so we could either go with a simple or a regular chip depending and maybe we could table that decision for later i do not know i think w well i think when we go on to the une userface we are going to have to decide the interface we are going to have to decide whether we are going to have a scroll or not okay well let us think about that while we talk about the case okay let us do case i am kinda liking the idea of latex if if spongy is the in thing yeah i am a little i am a little hesitant about it because i am worried about protecting the stuff on the inside okay 0 could it be hard and then something around it yeah everything i have yeah i would be more okay with like a titanium actual thing and then maybe like a mobile phone kind of thing n 0 wha what i have what i have seen just not related to this but of latex cases before is that there is like a hard plastic inside and it is just covered with the latex okay not too thick a layer of latex just enough to be grippable like bike handles or or anything that you have seen like that okay the inside is hard i do not think we need to worry about protecting the circuit board i think that that is done for us ge 0 okay kay yeah so we we do want latex yeah yeah okay latex and probably in colors maybe fruity vegetable colors yeah fruity colors okay let us go to the ufe user interface then we will come back to the chip i suppose 0 and we want a curved case yeah or a double curved well we do not really know what the difference is right i am thinking curved of some sort yeah yeah okay yeah we do not really know what the difference okay interface the type and the supplements so push or scroll right yep or both and i think if we want to keep our costs down we should just go for pushbuttons cause then we can have a a simple chip and it is simpler it is it is cheaper to make pushbuttons than it is a scroll button good point so in terms of in terms of economics it is probably better to have pushbuttons and if we had a sc an on screen kind of thing that you could scroll through like you can use your buttons to scroll through things yeah yeah it is it is it is fairly simple i think that yeah for channel surfing i think a scroll an actual like an ipod is kind of scroll thing would be too fast i dunno yeah i say pushbuttons at least unless we get any information but i have no idea how much more expensive a scroll wheel is than than a pushbutton but it has got to be some more expensive so i think it might be better to put our money into the stuff like the kinetic battery and the cool case yeah yeah because is that okay with you interesting how you feeling yeah and let us like see if we get anything else i mean i am not like hard sold on the scroll wheel it is more just to give it a different kind of look but if it is going to be in a latex type thing and that is going to look cool then that is probably going to have a bigger impact than the scroll wheel it might be cool enough yeah okay so we are going to go with type pushbuttons and then supplements how are we going to do that yep what do you mean by supplements exactly i assume that is what else we are going to like h ha the the additional buttons we can use 0 so we are going to have like a menu button so that we can access on screen things then yep yeah okay so we are doing an on screen menu that we can scroll through alright in so what are what are our buttons going to be yeah on off on off volume favorite channels and menu so like one through 5 or yeah yeah about yeah like yeah a bit like radio presets like a radio type sorta situation pre set channels and then we are going to need numbers one through 0 right we would not even need the numbers no i think maybe numbers seems is kind of old fashioned well but in order to pre set a cha 0 i guess you can just hold it down when you get to one when you are scrolling through yeah yeah you can just and you need some kind of i dunno sort of up down kind of button but the volume control could double for that for example yeah up down okay finishing the meeting now our next meeting starts in 30 minutes you each have things to do look and feel design user interface design product evaluation and you 2 are going to work together on a prototype using modeling clay you will get specific instructions from your personal coach ooh cool wow did we decide on a chip let us go with a simple chip simple chip yep okay we are done thank you everyone 0 i di these are already in our shared folder so okay cool clay clay i was not expecting that
i am going to be okay okay okay okay thank you thank you yeah 5 minutes 14 1426 okay lovely to see you all again it is our conceptual design meeting and it is starting at approximately 1425 and so we have 40 minutes for this one again so we will go just after 30 clock okay our agenda we are going to do an opening i am going to review the minutes of the last meeting then we will have your 3 presentations and then we will have to make a decision on the remote concepts finally we will close so opening these are our minutes from the functional design we decided our target group is the focus on who can afford it because we have international appeal and we said it is for all age groups different functions of it our main objectives were simplicity and fashion and in specific functions were something to keep the remote from getting lost large buttons for the essential functions a possibility of for extra functions like a sliding piece and a long life battery or a charging station okay now 3 presentations i would like to do it in this order 1st to the conceptual specification of components properties and materials and then the conceptual specification of user interface and finally trend watching all right okay function f 8 there we go all right i am very excited by this one actually guys i had a lot of fun doing it components design this is where you look at what does it take to make a remote control and what should we make our specific remote control out of so we need to examine each element separately but we are designing a full thing so you want to keep it integrated as a whole the main elements of remote controls in general and therefore ours as well are the case the buttons the circuit board with the chip and the battery these are all things that we had sort of addressed before but i am going to take each one a little bit separately here as we figure out what they should be made of and what they should look like the case the options that i have gotten from headquarters about what we can do there is a shape of a case we could do a flat case a curved case or maybe even a double curved case i have not seen any pictures of what this exactly looks like yet just keep that in mind but these are the options that we have for manufacturing and we can make our case out of plastic the main base will be plastic but we have all these sort of fashion and technological elements we can add in wood latex titanium rubber or other colored types of plastic that would be our case for buttons we have push buttons which is what real reaction uses the most often but we also have scroll wheels which can have integrated push buttons or we could go all high tech and have an l c ectrine cd screen circuit board and chip we can have a simple one a regular one or an advanced one depending on what our other needs are and then battery i think is where things get most exciting we are talking about long life batteries here we can have your sort of basic double a batteries but we also have these options of using a kinetic battery like are used in high tech watches where you just have to move it a little bit to get it to power up so simple movements like pushing buttons would recharge the battery or a solar battery although there are slight complications with solar batteries as in we can not use a latex case if we have a solar battery or something they only described as the type of battery you find in torches from about 50 years ago flashlights not quite sure what that is but that is the description that i received so that is what i am passing on to you so those are our options and personal preferences that i was thinking through here is what we have been talking about all through fashion and simplicity so if we are going for fashion in our cases i think that what we are going to want to look at is a curved or double curved case probably with a variety of design elements maybe titanium maybe some wood we are going to have to investigate that better when i get specifics of the actual materials that is sort of what i have in mind and we want to go for simplicity probably push buttons but i am sort of intrigued by the idea of a scroll wheel if anyone has anything any ideas on that i mean i know the ipods and things right now have touch scroll buttons which are exactly like what they are describing so that might be something we want to look into and i am really intrigued by the idea of a kinetic battery solar i do not think would be such a good idea because how often are you sure that your remote control will get a certain amount of light but this idea of the kinetic that you do not have to replace and that a simple just shaking it around will make it work i think that that would be a very interesting thing but i think we would also want to go for a simple chip or a regular chip to keep our costs down we really only need a regular or advanced chip if we are going to start using an lcd so i think we want to be aware of not making things overly technological if they do not need to be that will keep our manufacturing price way down that is what i have for options i would appreciate anyone is input but that is what i am seeing for the future of the look of this thing it is double curved like would that be like 2 hands kind of thing i am not sure i have not received any specific visuals of this yet so imagine like double curved is like you know like 2 sides that curve and then like one curve would just be like a single verticalish kind of looking thing i am not sure but i will let you know as soon as i get any pictures i wonder i know if we do have a double curbed case it can not have any titanium in it but the titanium they were marketing quite hard to us as being used in the space program so that could be quite interesting space age removal just all things to keep in mind just an interesting marketing kind of element that has been all i have to do guys i hope i did not go through that too quickly just a real quick question the weight of these different elements have you no idea no idea i am assuming that a kinetic battery is not going to take up that much weight and that titanium is very light i know but that is really basic that is all i have gotten so far okay all right any other questions i have saved this in the shared projects if anyone wants to look thank you and i have considerable notes on the topic as well if anyone needs any more information if you made notes yourself you can put those on our underneath our book 0 in your book then do not worry about that but if anyone has any specific questions do not hesitate to email me or something all right okay now we are concepts of user interface this one so much tighter than the other one this one so much tighter than the other one okay nope there we are there you are thanks so i am going to describe the concept of the user interface device device we have talked about the 2 essential properties of the user interface we want it to be simple and we want it to be fashionable however we have also got to remember that this is a device that serves as a useful purpose we want people to be able to use it as a remote control so we need to determine what the essential functions of the device are and make sure that we include that we have included all of those and that we actually end up with a device that is going to be useful to people we have a number of different choices for a design concept and that is something that i will show you some examples of but essentially we need to choose how is this device going to work what kind of model is there going to be the user interaction with this device once we have chosen a concept for it we can then design the features around the concepts making sure that we get all the essential functions in the device and the extra functions functions and the more advanced features and of course we also have to make it look cool so basically that is what we do not want we do not want lots of buttons complicated features we want something that looks nice and simple here is a fairly simple device this is an ipod from apple i think the main thing to notice about it is it just has 4 buttons it is very minimalistic in a different design you use these 4 buttons to move around a range of settings on a small lcd screen the thing i like about this is that it is very very quick to access the main features you can just about make up that the bottom 3 buttons are previous track next track and play pause they are the main features of the ipod the things you will use all the time time then if you want to do anything more advanced you go into the little menu on the lcd screen and you use the buttons just to scroll around and find the more advanced features that you want so i think that is a good kind of model that we could have here is another example this is an interesting idea and i think it looks pretty cool it is certainly got novelty value it is nice and colorful and it is nice and colorful it is nice and and bright it is also something that you can kind of feel your way around the buttons are different shapes and you can sort of yeah if you are watching tv in the dark or whatever you can work out which buttons which and basically yeah it is fun so i like this idea of just having buttons for the features that you use most often so you would need a few buttons to select your favorite channels i mean most people when they watch tv they have 250 channels on their tv and they watch about 4 of them at the most so you have buttons for your favorite channel changing the volume which is something you do all the time when you are watching tv and the button to switch it off in case you get bored other features things like adjusting the brightness tuning the tv i do not know what else you do with the tv but these are these are all necessary functions you can not have a there is no point having a television that you can not tune or that you can not set the contrast so we need to find a way of including these somehow and one of the suggestions i would make is to include them in a menu system a bit like on the ipod so we would either have a small lcd display on the device itself or have a menu display that comes up on your television and can be controlled through the device and that would allow you to access the advanced features whilst keeping a very small and simple set of buttons for the features that you use most often okay so you would be advocating an lcd then i think that is one way to go yes i mean the advantages and disadvantages if you have an lcd display it is it is nice because it lets you just sit there and control your television from your armchair there are disadvantages and an lcd display would have to be quite small because we are well i assume we are going to be making quite a small device it would also have to have a kind of backlighting in it because you tend to watch tv in the dark but you need to be able to see your lcd display the alternative is to have an on screen display on your television that you control through your remote control a bit like how they have these digital boxes where you press the buttons and it comes up with your listing of what is on each channel that is also a good idea it does have its problems as well if you have got a small tv and you are sitting on the other side of a room it is hard to read the little text that comes up but that is a design decision that we can make i do think that one of the important features for a remote is seeing a menu and seeing what is on and so like favorite channels is applicable but i think that you do need to have some kind of function where you can see the title of the show or possibly a description of it i know i use that often is that separate from what he was saying well if it was lcd on the remote i do not know that you could that you would be able to see a i think we are talking menu like contrast and tuning the vcr or something if i have understood you correctly rather than menu as what is on okay because that would be more specifically a digital box if we put a display on the remote control communication is one way so you can not have the television send information back to the remote control 0 good point okay now we are moving on the market marketing i am going to go back i guess you are going to i guess so is that going to go like it what f do you have to 8 just keep pressing multiple well i do not know well i do not know how relevant all of this is going to be anything this is not plugged in all right there we go there we go okay okay so we are going to look okay so we are going to look a little bit at trend watching basically i was given an executive summary that was a market investigation on remote controls that was recently conducted and then also some fashion washers in paris and milan commented on some things that are going to be going on this year so 1st they ranked the important aspects of remote controls and right now they are saying that currently there is a fact that there is a fact that they are a functional look and feel preference but that really over the next year that is going to be switching to fancy look and feel remote so that just goes back to the whole desire of our real reaction company wanting to focus on fashion and so even though we are stressing when we are talking we have all been talking about this like simplicity and easy to use idea they are sort of wanting us to remember that the number one thing for everyone is that it is fancy look and feel and as these are ranked the top one is doubly important to the 2nd one which is doubly important to the 3rd one just to take that weight into account the 2nd thing that was mentioned as important was the technological innovations that would be like if we use something like the space material or the lcd screen things like that and then eads of use was the 3rd most important so really no matter what we need to focus the most on fancy look of view according to this i do not know if you agree with that and then fashion watch talks about that this year is top trend for clothes shoes and furniture is fruits and vegetables and that there is a preference for spongy type material and so that brings us to my personal preferences who wants a spongy remote or one with a fruit and vegetable fat personally i do not really think that i want one that is going to go out of this style or go stale excuse the pun in a year so even though this is coming from us as you know trend watch market research i do not know how much of it would be necessarily want to take away also considering that the research has been carried out by real reaction i am a little hesitant as to like how these questions may have been worded and if necessarily this whole fashion to technology to ease of use is necessarily the right ranking personally like i might reverse it but if we are working for this company then i guess no matter what we have to stress fashion the most but it does not necessarily need to be a spongy material there is all kinds of scope for imagination in that one though yeah i do not have a lot of notes to share if you want them that pretty much sums it up so yeah do we have any some questions for this yeah what can i possibly enlighten on do you have any ideas how to possibly use these how to use a fruit of vegetable or the spongy material at all could we make a spongy remote it would be easier on the hands if it is latexy it is kind of and then it we would have to find a way to protect like the chip and all that i do not know my understanding of a little latex cases that it is in fact hard to protect stuff inside but it is covered with the latex which is spongier and softer on your hands there is something to be said i mean we we got that thing earlier from you about not wanting it to our repetitive stress injuries and things and you know yeah so something something grippable i mean yeah grip i am thinking we do not want to go spondy maybe sinking into your hands i think i am envisioning more like like yeah you know the material that you have when you send on like a bicycle so that it does not hurt you are sitting on for a long time like i am imagining that sort of thing i do not know what that is called given the list of materials i was forwarded that seems doable could we go in fruit and vegetable colors you could color coordinate them or maybe like a couple main ones being like i do not know lemons or strawberries the buttons could be fronated could they be smelly 0 god is it supposed to be shaped like a vegetable i do not know like a carrots or something 0 it is quite easy or maybe the buttons could be shaped like large button that is what i was thinking of yeah what about the idea of like a round remote instead of like a vertical up and down one like in terms of holding it like that is a sheep of a fruit might try it in a little do you think you would be able to hold it because i think the reason they are long is it would be harder to button i think it is harder to press when you use a remote you press the buttons with your thumb usually yeah or your fingers i usually hold it in one hand maybe maybe you want something that is shaped like a mobile phone so you hold it in one hand and you press the button but then the buttons would have to be very small that is how i tend to do it what do you think just thumb sized but i mean in order to get to all of them you know yeah they would have to be within a certain amount of space but if you have only got like 4 or 5 buttons anyway then it is not so much a problem when i am pressing buttons on my ipod that is how i do it hold it and press you hold it in one hand and you press the buttons yeah and use my thumb or my pointer finger on the touch scroll wheel i love the idea of the wheel like 5 pod is the button on an ipod is it what is it is it just 4 buttons or is it it is like 5 because there is one in the middle yeah i mean each version of it has been a little bit different the one i have does not have the 4 on each 0 yeah you have one of the in between ones when they were not doing that anymore and you press the center button that is your all purpose select button right there 0 okay this is the one in the center that is not marked i think why it would be good for us is because like you could have the same wheel sort of effect for like channel flipping and then the other one could be like for volume like just the idea of like those so few buttons for main things but then how you could go back to the menu and like i do not know if we would want it on the screen there on the actual tv i kind of am wanting to say on the tv because if you are changing the brightness do not you want to see it happening kind of yeah yeah and you can still have that available yeah i think an lcd screen might be good in theory but not as useful in practice yeah yeah also yeah because you would be looking down at the lcd screen and like up at your tv okay we have about 15 minutes left so i am going to continue with my presentation i have one more slide before we close but in that slide is when we need to make decisions about this these kinds of things so i will just bring that up and show you all before we move on like any more information on fruits and vegetables could we let you know could we have changeable covers for your mobile in different fruit and vegetable colors yeah yeah and then the covers could be spongy latex where it but the actual model could be tidying and you could coordinate with your house or whatever all these options the packaging it should be like a lemon and the packaging is like the peel so instead of opening the box you just kind of peel it well there you go but i have had packaging as meat like was so that was like half the fun it is like the way it all comes all cute components concept energy chip on print 0 yes right i had sort of skipped over that hoping it would not get be necessary but this is the agenda they gave me so can you just explain what that is real quick decisions what the okay this is not on energy i am thinking is based on the battery i do not know what do people think about this kinetic battery idea i think it is awesome i think it is really cool yeah i mean it would totally take care of our problem of not wanting to change batteries yeah yeah i think it is good as long as we consider the cost and how reliable it is right i have not gotten any more information on cost other than it is more expensive than a regular battery but over time but if we are using a cheaper chip and it will even out i think circuit boards i got a whole bunch of information on how circuit boards are produced they are thin fiberglass with copper wires etched onto them and i think they are quite easily printed on by machine which chip on print is where the machine prints on the wires and solders it all together for us i do not really know what to tell you as far as decisions i was not really given any options i was just given that this is how they are done okay yeah i can not really tell you i can tell you a whole lot about how it works but i do not know any decisions on if there are really options yeah i am sorry okay all circuit boards are pretty much the same i think yeah okay then we will move on to the case i guess maybe if we decided on like a simple a regular or an individual advanced chip maybe okay here is the thing on the chips that i got simple regular advanced chip on print the chip on print includes an infrared sensor so we do not have to worry about that okay the push button if we are going to have push buttons they require a simple chip but a scroll wheel requires a regular chip and an lcd requires advanced do we want a scroll wheel or do we just want push buttons i do not think we really need a scroll real i mean it might be nice for changing the volume it would be nice for changing the volume but i do not know how useful it would be for changing the channel because you do not have control over numbers or yeah you really need buttons for changing your channel it would be handy for going through if there was an on screen menu of your channel choices but if you could scroll through the channels and then the volume would just be we have 5 minutes left with the meeting and the volume would just be like this same way forward and backward is i am just thinking like it would make it much like sleeker sort of looking yeah and otherwise no matter how many buttons we have we are going to have like you know black with red sticking out and it is going to inevitably sort of start looking like those group of sort of ugly ones that we saw stacked up so have a scroll for volume or for all those secret functions when you get on the on screen menu of all your functions that your remote could do for you without the buttons you could have a scroll wheel to go through those menus i think yeah i think a scroll wheel would be nice but it is not necessarily right so we could either go with a simple or a regular chip depending maybe we could table that this for later i do not know i think well i think when we go into the user face we are going to have to decide the interface we are going to have to decide whether we are going to have a scroll or not have a scroll or not well let us think about that while we talk about the case okay let us do case i am kind of liking the idea of latex if spongy is the in thing i am a little i am a little hesitant about it because i am worried about protecting the stuff on the inside okay well could it be hard and then something around there yeah i would be more okay with like a titanium actual thing and then maybe like a mobile phone kind of thing what i have seen just not related to this but of latex cases before is that there is a hard plastic inside and it just covered with the latex okay not too thick a layer of latex just enough to be grippable okay by candles or anything that you have seen like that the inside is hard i do not think we need to worry about protecting the circuit board i think that that is done for us okay so we do want latex yeah okay text and probably in colors maybe fruity vegetable colors yeah fruity colors okay let us go to the user interface then we will come back to the chip i suppose 0 and we want a curved case yeah or a double curved well we do not really know what the difference is right i think in curved of some sort yeah yeah okay we do not really know what the difference okay interface the type and the supplements so push or scroll right yep or both and i think if we want to keep our costs we should just go for push buttons because then we can have a simple chip and it is simpler it is cheaper to make push buttons than it is a scroll button good point so in terms of economics it is a simple and if we had an on screen kind of thing that you could scroll through like you could use your buttons to scroll through things yeah it is i think that for channel surfing i think a scroll an actual like an ipods kind of scroll thing would be too fast yeah i do not know i say push buttons at least unless we get any information i have no idea how much more expensive a scroll wheel is than a push button than a push button but it has got to be some more expensive so i think it might be better to put our money into the stuff like kinetic battery in the cool case is that okay with you yeah and let us see if we get anything else i mean i am not like hard sold on the scroll wheel it is more just to give it a different kind of look but if it is going to be in a latex type thing and that is going to look cool then that is probably going to have a bigger impact than the scroll wheel yeah okay so we are going to go with type push buttons and then supplements how are we going to do that what do you mean by supplements i assume that is what else we are going to like the additional buttons we can use so are we going to have like a menu button so that we can access on screen things then okay so we are doing an on screen menu that we can scroll through so what are our buttons going to be on off off volume favorite channels so like one through 5 like a radio type sort of situation yeah like radio presets and then we are going to need numbers one through 0 right we would not even need numbers i think maybe numbers well but in order to preset a 0 i guess you can just hold it down when you get to one when you are scrolling through and you need some kind of i do not know so up down kind of button yeah up down yeah yeah okay finishing the meeting now our next meeting starts in 30 minutes you each have things to do look and feel design user interface design product evaluation and you 2 are going to work together on a prototype using modeling clay you will get instructions from your personal coach wow did we decide on a chip let us go with a simple chip simple chip okay done thank you everyone i will i these are already in our shared folder okay cool okay okay okay okay