Remote Control Project Kick Off

Speaker B

Hi I'm chiara I'm the um marketing expert um would you like me to talk about my aims at the moment or would you like me to just say my name and then we can talk about business later

Speaker A

I think we'll get around to that yeah

Speaker B

We'll get round to that later

Speaker A

So this is just introductions yeah

Speaker B

My name is chiara and I'm the marketing expert

Speaker A

Okay I forgot to s say I'm the project manager but I figured you all knew that already um so

Speaker C

I'm stephanie and I am the user interface designer

Speaker D

I'm krista and I'm the industrial designer

Speaker A

Okay um so f here's our agenda for today um we're gonna do some tool training project plan and discuss then close um so so our aim is to produce a remote control that is original trendy and user friendly and to do this we have to um there's certain things we have to consider about functional aspects and conceptual design of the thing so we'll get to that oh there it is right functional design conceptual design and detailed design so throughout our next couple of meetings we'll we'll be covering these things um so we're gonna try out our white board

Speaker C

So you want us to draw it and then talk about it

Speaker A

Okay

Speaker C

Or just draw it

Speaker B

I think both

Speaker C

Okay

Speaker A

Yeah

Speaker C

Why don't we do both

Speaker A

Both yeah

Speaker B

Who starts

Speaker C

Right

Speaker B

We ought to decide who starts and all that no

Speaker A

Any volunteers

Speaker B

Uh-huh

Speaker A

Does anyone know what they wanna draw

Speaker C

Mm I gotta think about it for a second like uh

Speaker A

I don't think so

Speaker C

Um

Speaker A

A dolphin

Speaker C

Yeah it's

Speaker A

's like playing pictionary

Speaker C

Yeah I guess it has a fin on top too yeah

Speaker A

So what characteristics do you like about your animal

Speaker C

I like its tail um no I think dolphins are really uh I dunno they're smart and they they're cute and they like swimming and that's cool like they're graceful yeah and they're so

Speaker A

They're graceful

Speaker C

Yeah they're sleek and they look intelligent and I don't know they're I guess it's the whole like binocular vision thing

Speaker A

I don't know how intelligent that one looks

Speaker C

Yeah he he doesn't look that smart he's a I dunno um they're I think it's cool the the um the interaction that or the th things that the reasons people seem to like you know you get ex you know people are sitting on the beach and p they're like oh look there's dolphins and it's kinda like but they're you know they jump around in the water and they're happy and they're mammals but they swim

Speaker A

Yes does anybody else wanna draw their animal

Speaker D

Suppose I can draw an animal yeah

Speaker A

Uh oh there goes the ten

Speaker D

Yeah

Speaker A

It's a cat

Speaker D

I don't know they sleep all day they're easy to draw

Speaker A

Do you wanna anything

Speaker B

Uh yeah

Speaker A

I dunno if the the ah

Speaker B

Well I had the cat as well but uh I've got a spare one

Speaker D

I think the pen is running out of

Speaker B

So I'll use the spare one um but it's harder to draw um

Speaker C

And the pen's dying

Speaker B

Um

Speaker A

A horse

Speaker B

Uh

Speaker C

Horse

Speaker B

Um I don't really know how the legs go but anyway I will do that

Speaker A

That's very good

Speaker B

Um and the main reason is they're pretty I think they're very pretty and they go well with the environment and I like the way they run and I used to do horse riding and they're just very sort of sturdy and nice animals and I like the way um they feel sort of under under the hand I think that's pretty much it um

Speaker A

Yeah

Speaker C

And furry

Speaker A

This is yeah well like a cat you know soft yeah

Speaker C

Textile tactile tactile remote control

Speaker A

Although uh I'll just put there right

Speaker C

You're dragging a you have a tail

Speaker A

Oh my gosh this is disastrous

Speaker C

Sorry can you just say that what's the what are our price goals again

Speaker A

Um selling price is twenty five euro

Speaker C

Okay

Speaker A

Profit aim fifty million euro

Speaker B

How many should we sell then um a lot two two two million two mi no more f four million

Speaker A

Anyone a mathematician

Speaker D

Two million

Speaker B

Four million and it well it's the profit so if a profit for each is twelve fifty that'll do four million

Speaker D

Oh yeah

Speaker B

It is a lot uh

Speaker A

So f that's a fifty percent um uh um I don't know what these mean because I didn't actually make the slide show experience with remote control so I guess we have to reflect on our experiences with remote controls to decide what um we would like to see in a convenient practical nice remote control um so do we have any initial ideas for uh how this remote control should be designed or formatted or the the buttons it should have

Speaker B

Um I think one thing is that it should be easy to find bec yeah bec

Speaker C

I was thinking that too

Speaker A

Yeah

Speaker C

I think we should design something that has like a so you can like somehow like you I mean you always know where your t. v. is so just have a call button I've always wanted that

Speaker B

Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah

Speaker C

So like you can push a button on your t. v. yeah yeah yeah yeah

Speaker A

Yeah I mean you have it for the portable phone so why not yeah

Speaker C

So you should have a call button on your television to be able to find your remote control

Speaker B

Yeah and even I think a little light um or even a maybe a vib a vibrating thing I dunno but someth because it's usually under the sofa

Speaker C

Yeah

Speaker B

In which case you're going to be l but if it has a sort of signal which isn't any sound I don't know if it's expensive maybe to

Speaker C

Yeah

Speaker B

Maybe call is enough but yeah

Speaker C

It can light up and make noise and I dunno

Speaker B

Yeah

Speaker A

What if it had something like um just like a magnet on the back of it and you could I mean j just to have some place to put it besides like a base

Speaker C

Yeah

Speaker A

You know like a portable phone has a base like just to have a home for it

Speaker C

Yeah or if it had a yeah

Speaker B

Yeah yeah yeah yeah

Speaker C

Yeah I mean

Speaker A

'cause people just stick it on top of their t. v. but the point of having a remote is not to have to walk over to the t. v. so

Speaker D

Well that's why it's always in the couch

Speaker C

Yeah

Speaker A

Yeah

Speaker C

Yeah in in the couch I dunno it seems like though that that would be hard 'cause you not you're not gonna be lazy anyway and

Speaker A

Yeah maybe we should design couches that have the remote control in the side arm

Speaker C

Yeah so we the project is now couches and remote controls

Speaker B

But even just a thing to attach it to the w you know if you had a thing a pretty object attached to the wall but that would really make it more expensive

Speaker C

Yeah

Speaker B

But it's only a plastic thing r really the thing on the wall

Speaker C

Yeah

Speaker A

Yeah

Speaker B

Something like that and the other thing is

Speaker A

Do you think it needs to be bigger to not lose or does that not factor in

Speaker C

Bigger

Speaker B

Not well it needs to be sort of

Speaker A

Like hand hand held size yeah

Speaker C

Hand sized

Speaker B

Yeah I don't think you need a

Speaker A

Not not huge but

Speaker B

But definitely not well I don't know

Speaker C

It can't be that hard to put some kind of a noise on it

Speaker B

No it can't be uh uh

Speaker D

No it really wouldn't be

Speaker C

Or like or like a light thing

Speaker A

Huh

Speaker C

You know

Speaker B

Like spaceship

Speaker C

I dunno yeah

Speaker B

Right um

Speaker C

Or make it mobile so it runs around and comes come find you yeah that would be really I'm sure we could do that for twenty five euros a pop

Speaker A

Little homing device

Speaker C

Yeah uh

Speaker A

Um okay so what do we think this remote control should five minutes

Speaker B

Oh dear

Speaker A

Till the meeting oh right this is what we have left

Speaker C

I also think though that it shouldn't have too many buttons

Speaker A

Um oh we just

Speaker C

'cause I hate that when they have too many buttons and I mean I know it has to have enough functions but like

Speaker D

Yeah I agree b. button and the f. button they don't do anything

Speaker B

Yeah yeah yeah

Speaker A

Yeah

Speaker C

I don't know you just have like eight thousand buttons and you're like no you never use half of them

Speaker A

You what if um may be a little fancy but what if it had like a little screen

Speaker C

So

Speaker A

So it has less buttons but it still has all the functions

Speaker C

That would be cool

Speaker A

Like the way a mobile phone does

Speaker B

Yeah

Speaker C

Yeah I mean it just seems like yeah

Speaker A

So you could like um like if you have I dunno if you have satellite if you have a hundred channels you can the way you do it on your radio is that you uh what do you call it s y yeah but you can programme

Speaker B

Select uh

Speaker A

So you can programme like your favourite channels so like if you had a s

Speaker B

But would you have the screen on the thing or would you have it on the telly transmitting the screen

Speaker A

That's something we could decide

Speaker C

I guess they would go together somehow

Speaker B

Because

Speaker A

Mm

Speaker C

I dunno

Speaker B

Because I don't know if it's I think it's e expensive if you have if you use the telly screen 'cause the telly's already a screen

Speaker A

Yeah

Speaker B

Then you can pro sort of have a programming function really easy sort of arrow up and down on the remote and then use the telly as a screen

Speaker A

Yeah

Speaker B

But um

Speaker C

I'm thinking kind of

Speaker B

But yeah for sure something like not it's not on the button but it's telling you what to do is that what you mean

Speaker A

Yeah yeah

Speaker B

Right mm

Speaker C

Or like you h you see those you know people I'm thinking of like celebrity cribs kind of things when like they have all those these things that at their house you know their their entire house is so electronic and they have like this one master control that and it's like a hand held like turns on everything sort of control and it has like a screen and like so I think it should be possible to have some kind of a screen I don't know if it must be it would probably must be ex too expensive though t like I dunno

Speaker B

Yeah

Speaker A

Mm

Speaker C

Yeah yeah yeah that's true

Speaker A

Yeah I mean we have to remember our budget is twelve point twelve fifty for to actually make the device

Speaker B

Yeah

Speaker C

Mm

Speaker A

Um but it's something to think about yeah

Speaker C

Well I guess we have to get to that later yeah

Speaker A

I mean we'll have to see how much that would be

Speaker B

Or some it I we can find out probably on the internet how much it's

Speaker A

Yeah

Speaker B

Um yeah and the other thing you said that thing about robust and water um what was the word

Speaker C

Furry

Speaker B

Water resistant

Speaker A

Oh I was just

Speaker B

No but it's I thought ah spot on good feel tact tactile good tactile feel maybe something didn doesn't make your hands sweat lot

Speaker A

Yeah

Speaker C

Yeah mm mm

Speaker B

That's quite annoying

Speaker A

Maybe um just like a simple thing to have a clip on it like so you can clip it to your like that's another

Speaker C

Yeah

Speaker B

Yeah clip ooh um

Speaker A

Um we should probably start wrapping up um we've got some initial ideas that we can all look into um and come up with some new ones for the next meeting which will be in another thirty minutes um so yeah the industrial designer what does that stand for I. d. yeah um is going to be looking more into the working design

Speaker D

Yeah I think so

Speaker A

So I guess you'd be looking at lots of the things we discussed about screen and um that sort of thing the something what is the u. I.

Speaker D

User

Speaker C

That's me

Speaker A

Yeah what does it stand for again

Speaker C

Uh user interface design

Speaker A

User interface designer so that's gonna be

Speaker C

So technical function

Speaker D

The working design is the structure

Speaker A

Yeah yeah

Speaker C

What is technical functions exactl I I don't really know what

Speaker A

Um I guess you'd have to find out

Speaker B

It says on that email but it

Speaker D

Um it was in the email

Speaker C

It does but it I just don't really

Speaker D

I wrote down what mine were

Speaker B

It said um

Speaker C

Yeah

Speaker B

It said

Speaker C

What effect should the thing ha should it have okay alright

Speaker B

Yeah like

Speaker C

And working design okay

Speaker B

Be a medium between you and the telly I think that's uh

Speaker C

Yeah yeah

Speaker A

Mm

Speaker C

Alright and how it works okay right I'm I'm on task

Speaker A

And the m. e. what does that stand for m

Speaker D

Marketing

Speaker A

Marketing right

Speaker B

Marketing oh it's written here but um

Speaker A

Um

Speaker B

Okay

Speaker A

So I guess that wraps it up I'll see you all in thirty minutes