The professor recalled that the SPAM work had something similar to acoustic events, auditory events. He also informed the team that Professors Kollmeier and Professor Kleinschmidt will be visiting for six months, and they may know more about this topic.


Hon. Chrystia Freeland suggested that after what it had been learned this week, all options must be on the table when it came to how care for the elders would be provided in Canada in the future. Currently, it is clear to all that root-and-branch reform was necessary. All participants would need to act with speed but not haste, and work with the provincial partners.


Marketing thought Project Manager's system was fairly institutional with a central point of creativity, but the group ought to focus more on the stylish look and technology and make a proper consideration on the budget.


According to the Marketing, the research finding showed that the current users are older than forty, which is to say that they have to aim the consumers at below forty as long as they want a new market. As for the User Interface, he thought an extra function was needed to hide all the features and display a clear menu. Of course, some fashionable functions would also be welcomed. Then the group came to realize that it would be really hard to compromise between the functions and the fashion.


According to Marketing, people were more willing to play with a good-looking remote control when they were watching movies or playing electronic devices. The rest of the team approved of this idea since people tended to have a good design in hand.


Project Manager believed that money spent on the rechargeable units was necessary because other elements of the remote control were just basic. In addition, Project Manager thought it would not cost much if the product was produced in Taiwan. However, it was acknowledged that cost could probably be a concern so he/ she decided to only do that if the cost was fair.


The group mainly talked about the extra deciding of the product at this meeting including the presentation of the prototype assessment, the discussion of the requirements and trends of marketing and the product cost and quotation. Firstly, the Industrial Designer introduced the prototype of the product. It had not only the round basic shape which was made of hard plastics and titanium using different colors, but also the buttons like channel and volumn. Later, the group discussed some details and changes of redesigning the logo, buttons and screens. Next, the Marketing Expert mentioned the exterior of the product, the material attraction, and how easy it was to learn or use the basic functions of the product. Besides, the group discussed some details of the cost of components and made the product cheaper by replacing the titanium by hard plastics with similar color. They finally got an estimate of fourteen point one Euros, which was above the budget. In the end, they discussed the distinction between the product and other devices, and celebrated the completion of the project.


Last run of experiments showed that adding more languages was still severely harming model performance. They noted that normalization of any kind has a good effect on the model, whereas MSG does nothing.


Buttons design was all about volume, channel, power, and some other instant ideas. The team discussed their sizes, big or small, and places, up, center, or down, and also their arrangements, vertical or horizontal, and reached a conclusion that the power button could be on top. They came up with mute button as well but Project Manager didn't think it was important.


According to Kirsty, they had been very impressed with the maturity and forward-planning that had been adopted by all of those institutions and their representative bodies. They had got consistency in the approach and a common desire, and investment in moving towards online support for students. There was still a safety net idea. Colleges had indicated, as with schools, that, for the most vulnerable learners, they would have something in place that might permit attendance on an individual basis. Any Welsh Government support going to stay, whatever the circumstances were. They would do their best to ensure that there would be no disruption to EMA.


The professor initially suggested that not making too much money made taxes easier. He learned that Canada wants taxes from Grad D. He also wanted to know if the same would hold for the coming year.


Industrial Designer gave a very detailed introduction to his drawing of an elephant, including the difference between Indian and African elephants. So Project Manager interrupted him and told group mates they would move on to the next topic because they had limited time for discussion. In addition, Project Manager said there would be an update meeting about elephants next time.


For fear that the exorbitant price of 25 euros of the remote control would shock the potential consumers, Project Manager proposed to trade off some functions for a lower price. Additionally, Project Manager mentioned an American computer electronics store to show that shipping products overseas can also make profits and then added this to the whole plan.


This was the functional design meeting, where the team discussed what functions should be included in the remote and how they should be carried out. User Interface gave a presentation on the design of the remote, offering a complex version and a simple one. Marketing followed with a presentation on the functional requirements of the remote, pointing out that the remote should be both high-tech looking and user-friendly, preferably with fewer buttons, a lost-and-found function and speech recognition. Industrial Designer then presented the working design for the remote, including its power source, chips and the component layout. The team then went into a further in-depth discussion, dealing with the specific points raised in the above presentations. After everyone had shared their ideas, Project Manager closed the meeting by distributing new tasks among the team members for them to work on until their next meeting.


Firstly, the group reached a consensus that material should be plastic with wooden colour as opposed to wood. Then, User Interface brought forward a changeable case as a solution and was unanimously accepted. After that, the group discussed the shape of the control and chose single-curved for the time being. Finally, they drew out a specific case design and roughly determined the position of each button while taking the convenience of left-handed users into account.


There would be nine channel switches and a memory switch. There would be buttons for the next channel, subtitles, increasing and decreasing volume, mute and controlling features like colour, contrast, sharpness, brightness of picture. There also could be a speech recognition feature, which would be an integrated programmable sample sensor speaker unit that had voice recognizers to record the user's voice and change functionalities accordingly. It was agreed that the interface should be simple with important features.


The team discussed the various institutions, like University of Washington and Santa Barbara, that were involved in the transcription task. The team wanted to know how diversity of sound would effect their data. The team also wanted more corpuses and have more students at future meetings.


Industrial Designer suggested the group could keep the design as simple and clear as possible because this would help them to upgrade their technology at a future point of time. Project Manager asked about the cost at this point, however, Industrial Designer had no idea about what each component cost. So Project Manager thought it should be considered because the price would increase if they were using more advanced technology.


Project Manager decided that the remote control should only be used on television and targeted at the biggest size of group. Corporate colour and slogan must be used on the cover. They agreed that a power button, channel switches from zero to nine, volume control, mute should be contained and a small-size menu included.


Industrial Designer first briefly described the components of the remote control, including a battery power supply, a user interface, an array of push buttons or a LCD, an electronic chip, an infrared component, and a UC as the central unit. Subsequent to the brief description, Industrial Designer pointed out the eight-month-long time problem for designing speech recognition, while the designing time for the standard one button was only one month. Moreover, Industrial Designer proposed the idea of configuring remote controls for the expert users and could better fit the market.


The real question was not about communicating the data, but about challenging people on how the data should be used. The data was still available, but it was a challenge to them about how to use the data. Sometimes, how they presented data in the past was lulling some people into a false sense of security about the performance of the system. Therefore, it was about how they used the data. The focus shall be on the more intelligent use and interrogation of the data, and about truly what it was telling us about the system.


The group agreed that the remote had a high score in terms of locatability, so they first thought it was also intuitive. Then, Industrial Designer mentioned that it might be a little more difficult for people to get used to in the beginning because the scroll was a new technology. Marketing thought it was obvious how to use it. Therefore, groupmates agreed to give an average score of five.


The whole meeting was the final meeting of the project for discussion about the final design and project evaluation. Firstly, though Project Manager came late, he efficiently started the prototype presentation, during which Industrial Designer and User Interface presented the final design they worked out together. However, part of the features contained in their design, particularly too many buttons, were effectively rejected in the finance phase to reduce cost. Then, Marketing hosted the product evaluation and calculated a total score for their new remote control. After that, Project Manager guided the process evaluation and led the project to the closing phase.


Speaker mn014  trained the system to identify speech from loud versus quiet speakers. Such pre-segmentation modifications allow the experimenter to specify the minimum length of speech and silence portions desired, and also facilitate the identification of pauses and utterance boundaries.


PhD A wanted to know what exactly the technique did. PhD A inquired into how the histogram may represent energy levels and how histograms could speak to what can be done with the model.


Currently, the government planned to use the remit letter to drive transparency over senior leaders' pay, the gender pay gap within institutions. For instance, it had been a success to use the remit letter and some funding to drive change and some improvements in mental health in the higher education sector. To conclude, Kirsty Williams AM suggested that the new PCET reforms were aimed to create a legislative regime and a regulation regime that encouraged collaboration and co-operation across the sector.


Bethan Owen suggested that maintaining the attractiveness of Welsh universities to students would be a key driven for solving the financial stress. Also, the research portfolio should be heavily invested in, which would also bring economic benefits.


This was the Children, Young People and Education committee, guided by Lynne Neagle. The whole meeting was in the quiz form, in which Carol Shillabeer, the chief executive of Powys Teaching Health Board, answered questions about the Together for Children and Young People programme. To begin with, Shillabeer responded to the progress and shortages of the whole programme, followed by the theme of early help and enhanced support for children and young people. The next topic was the CAMHS framework and its effect in promoting a consistent delivery of care. Furthermore, Shillabeer answered questions about neurodevelopmental services, in-patient care, the workforce issue, looked-after children, and transitional arrangement. In the end, Shillabeer indicated the personal position of legacy that there would be something to handle those problems, no matter what it was.


Project Manager questioned the reason why not to use two batteries and Industrial Designer argued that two batteries would enlarge the size and thus, make the cost rise. Project Manager also questioned the button design.After discussion, they agreed that the menu button will only work on the newer televisions.


The team discussed a marketing survey about remote controls. They agreed to design remote controls with more fancy outlook and less buttons. The remote control should be easier to find and less complicated so users take less time to learn the functionality of it and the team discussed how to implement this function. They also talked about voice recognition and the scroller button. Then they agreed to design a child lock. Users could open child lock by pressing the button with some code. At last they discussed the set of vocabularies for the speech recogniser. They decided to put numbers and words in the vocabulary. But they realized that it would be a challenge to make the speech recogniser distinguish between different voices and deal with noises and they would keep on discussing it.


This was a Children, Young People and Education Committee, and the purpose of the meeting is to undertake stage 2 proceedings on the Children (Abolition of Defense of Reasonable Punishment) Bill. This meeting followed a certain order to dispose of all amendments. It went through amendments in group 1 that related to the duty to promote public awareness, amendments in group 2 that related to the duty to report on the effect of the legislation, amendments in group 3 that related to the regulation-making powers in the Bill, amendments in group 4 that related to the duty to ensure sufficient funding, and finally amendments in group 5 that related to commencement. At the end of each section, they took a vote to decide whether certain amendments should be rejected or accepted.


The deployed model generally decreased error rates, but the extent to which it did so varied based on the language as well as where it was deployed. They learned that similar projects experienced the same challenges. Still, the model was not efficient and likely used too much CPU and memory for the benefit it provided.


Kirsty believed that universities were autonomous institutions - a status that they guarded jealously and they would never want to question. Colleges were in a similar position, looking to do as much as they could to provide continuity of learning via distance learning methods, and the Bill, potentially, did give them more powers of intervention in both the FE and the HE sector.


The team discussed the topic of potential user-friendly features for the old and the young. Marketing mentioned the probable insertion of tracking devices which recognize personal preferences, like voice activator, because people may easily forget the position of the remote controls in the room. However, later the team decided to put aside this idea for budget reasons. Then, Marketing mentioned RSI, or repetitive strain injury, which should be taken into consideration in the process of ergonomic design. Industrial Designer mentioned that this could probably be avoided by touching a button instead of pressing a button.


Project Manager started meeting on the detailed design of the remote control. User Interface and Industrial Designer gave a presentation on the prototype with a banana leaf base station and a hand-sized remote with two scroll wheels, the turbo button, the teletext button, the calling button, the rechargeable-batteries power source, and the speaker regular chip. Next, the group evaluated based on Marketing's list of user requirement criteria. Then, groupmates discussed the cost estimation, including the component production cost. They agreed to use plastic instead of rubber material for the dual chips. Also, they agreed not to use LCD and no button supplements to avoid over budget. Lastly, the group discussed the project process. The group agreed they had creativity, while User Interface suggested that they should find out more target markets. Besides, Project Manager suggested doing a street survey. Also, User Interface suggested that they could simplify the interface and the circuit board.


Project Manager recommended a drawing activity of conferees’ favourite animals with the aim of inspiring and contributing to the design process of the remote control.


The committee members disagreed on the universities' attitudes. Hefin David pointed out that according to the response of an online survey, universities such as Cardiff University refused to consider the baccalaureate as a fair substitute for a full A-Level. However, Kirsty Williams claimed that he had a personal commitment to establishing the recognition of the baccalaureate with the universities and almost all Welsh universities recognized the baccalaureate as a qualification. In the end, despite the ambivalent attitudes of universities, the committee had to admit that the admissions practice was decided by universities and the baccalaureate qualification still required refinement.


The team thought they had a really great team work experience. Everyone had put efforts into the process and gave opinions to design a good remote control. Also, the project manager showed good leadership to control the overall process.


Suzy Davies doubted that teachers might not pay enough attention to students' preparation for the baccalaureate and were prone to "spoon-feed". Kirsty Williams, however, pointed out that this was unlikely to happen, for different from the A-Levels which graded students under the particular syllabus of each subject, the baccalaureate evaluated the personal project and the ability of independent thinking.


It was time for the team to rely on the models they had created so far to fix the system. They were deciding when to fix it. The professor explained that they should do so by Tuesday, and when they get new data later in the week, they need not train on it.


The button was red with a width of three centimeters and a half. As for the function, it could be used as a confirm button for the LCD screen and a power button if the user held it for around two seconds.


When evaluating the cost of the product, the group discussed some details of the components and made some adjustment on the chip, exterior cover material, curve, button and LCD screen. Then they agreed that it could be better changing the titanium to hard a hard kind of plastic looking like titanium than losing the LCD screen. They finally got an estimate of fourteen point one Euros, which was above the budget.


Christine Normandin mentioned that in the past it took a long time for the provinces to negotiate conditions with the federal government. Christine Normandin wanted to know the future situation: whether the federal government would send the money unconditionally.


Kirsty Williams thought Swansea University was quite a good example for them to learn from. During such a dilemma, Swansea University found a solution that provided an attractive curriculum and offered courses that people really wanted to take. They delivered their curriculum in a fashion way, guaranteed good teaching, and had an appealing infrastructure, which all made good use to attract potential applicants. That was exactly what other institutions needed to do at present.


Industrial Designer thought it was impossible to accommodate different TVs on one remote control. Because you can't use a Panasonic remote control on a Philips television. However, Marketing believed that this problem could be solved by a universal remote with code.


The government said that they had carried out a plan of reducing the rent for those individual business to go through the harsh time of the pandemic, however, as Bob Saroya pointed out, not so many people were willing to accept the little fund from the government, which made the plan not effective at all. Mona Fortier, in response to him, promised to follow up and monitor those businessmen and lords, as well as pay more attention to their CMHC support program.


As to have a clear idea about what they had already got, the Project Manager proposed to evaluate finished work first. Then through the review, they found the problem that the joystick might not function as well as they thought before. In addition, in order to keep it innovative, the group decided to add some unique things like fruit logos or make it in a three-D shape. According to the User Interface, they should put the electronics into fashions so the material also needed some discussion. Plastics and rubber were both fine to them for that they were not easy to be destroyed and favored by most youths. After all the discussions, the Marketing offered a questionnaire for them to check whether they made the right decisions.


decision was also made to delegate transcribers with the task of labelling a subset of digits or Switchboard data for fine-grained acoustic-phonetic features. Speaker fe008 will run selected Meeting Recorder data through channelize and determine whether the resulting units are of a sufficient length.


Play-Doh would be used as it was very cheap, edible and chew-proof. The energy source would be kinetic power and electronics would be the simplest. For the case, it would be double curved and made of rubber. The interface was push buttons and they would be in special colours and forms. Considering the cost of the above materials, the remote would be within budget as it cost ten seventy euros a unit.


They wanted it to be original, trendy, user-friendly, durable, creative and characteristic, so it can be very intuitive that people could use the product. In addition, the price, cost and expected profit of the remote control were also determined. In the part of creativity, they pointed out that creativity should have its own characteristics and ensure its fashion without affecting its functionality, so as to truly "introduce fashion into electronics". In terms of function, it is necessary to simplify the switch and guarantee function.


The industrial designer introduced that the product not only had some basic functions, it also had the locator function and provided users with a revolutionary way of zapping. As for the material, the product would be made of plastic and rubber. In addition, the final design was thought to be slightly lighter and smaller than the present model. Later, the group went on to check the controller's paging ability and talked about some details on buttons.


The marketing specialist discovered that since a button would be too troublesome, a large percentage of the public would also like to pay for voice recognition on the remote controls. However, the project manager raised certain limitations of voice recognition function, and it also clashed with the intention of designing a simple product.


First Industrial Designer raised questions like whether their remote control would be universal and should it be programmable or not, because they needed something like a mode to send out a different signal so that the remote can work in this way. Then the size of the remote was also put by Industrial Designer since there were already plenty of technical parts in it and it was quite complex to deal with material problems. But at last Industrial Designer came up with the idea of integration of materials and in this way, the new product would cost less.


After the demo, the focus of research can switch towards purely scientific goals, including issues on ontology, deep semantic constructions, execution engines etc. Moreover, a new system will be designed for the project and at least some parts of it should be built.


The Deputy Minister understood that the impact of this Bill on public services was concerned; however, she said that they had done a thorough and extremely diligent job of considering the potential impacts of the Bill before introduction. She cited several people's sentences, to demonstrate that the Bill was removing a defense to an offence of common assault, which had formed part of the common law of England and Wales for a very long time. This was not a completely new area of costly activity for any of them. The Deputy Minister thought all the evidence had shown that they did not anticipate that there would be a huge increase of a demand for funding, so she encouraged members to reject these amendments, which she thought were not necessary.


The professor explained that Guenter Hirsch had left Ericsson and that Ericsson may withdraw from Aurora altogether. For the past two to three years, he was happily employed at a technical college not too far from Aachen.


Basically, the Children, Young People and Education Committee's meeting was about the current situations and policies regarding schools, students and staff during the COVID-19 pandemic. Dealing with this pandemic was extremely challenging and the government had to make decisions quickly to ensure public safety. The main concern as the education Minister was to protect all staff and pupils in schools and other educational settings. Their belief was that no child shall miss out on any education, unless absolutely necessary. From next week, schools would have a new proposal which would help support those most in need, including people involved in the immediate response to the coronavirus outbreak. The key was that they were looking at supporting and safeguarding the vulnerable and ensuring continuity of learning, which included all of those who benefited from free school meals and children with additional learning needs. What they needed to do now was to do all the work together as they were facing the continuing challenges posed by the coronavirus.


User Interface reiterated that the company would have to sell four million units to make a profit.


Huw Irranca-Davies said the process of early implementer areas had gone well and were encouraged to expand. Two things had been learned during this process by their team. To respond to the questioner, Huw Irranca-Davies then further explained the administrative burden they met and expressed a confident attitude in addressing that. The next question answered was about the spread issue of this project.


The group decided to purchase one additional head-mounted crown microphone. A tentative decision was also made to acquire a hand-held wireless microphone to pass around to additional meeting participants should the installation of more close-talking microphones prove too difficult.


The main points of the discussion are the design goal and price of a new television remote control project. The group first put forward the design goal of remote control. Then they got used to the whiteboard and wrote down everyone's favourite animal and their characteristics. Project manager and Marketing wanted to sell this remote control for twenty five Euro and expected profit will be around two million Euro. Then, the group thought about colour and function features of the new remote controls. In addition, they also believed that the remote control should be safe enough for children to use, and the appearance should be acceptable to them.


Object representations will include an EVA vector. This can be incorporated in the database entry for a particular building or inherited from the ontology of the building type. As the project evolves, further enrichment of the ontology (actions, linguistic features) will be necessary.


The Project Manager planned to include their project process in the presentation. In addition, he thought it would be an interesting experiment to carry out an open mic presentation in which the team members could get out of the roles and share their satisfaction of the room and their creativity freely.


Industrial Designer expressed initial working design about remote control. User Interface suggested that remote control should be user friendly with not too much but clear buttons. Marketing showed us data about functional requirement remote control. Project Manager said that the new requirement about remote control was teletext should be paid less attention as it was outdated. Future customers' age should be focused on forty plus and new design should include corporate colour and slogan.


Dawn Bowden proposed the topic of pay dispute and asked what could be done as a Government to try to get parties back round the table and solve this dispute. Eluned Morgan thought this was about ColegauCymru's negotiation, and they were keeping a close eye on this situation. Eluned Morgan thought it would be fair to wait until they get further along down the line. Then Eluned Morgan had a detailed explanation about what they had done, including listening and speaking to ColegauCymru, and they were aware of what the unions were saying as well. Furthermore, Eluned Morgan said they would wish to see pay equality in relation to teaching, but details in relation to this should be waited until the outcome of the negotiations of ColegauCymru. They were aware of all those situations and they knew they were going to have to deal with it in the future.


Grad C was concerned that the same person acting as the wizard and computer system might not be the best idea. Grad D had some way of making the wizard and computer seem distinct even though both were voiced by the same person and told Grad C that the recording would clarify things.


The first phase of the data collection has finished. There is a new wizard for phase two, during which subjects will be given more complex scenarios. Also finished are the modifications on SmartKom: the remaining glitches will take no more than a day to iron out. A big part of the meeting was covered by the presentation of the PRM of the proposed system.


When there are many buttons on the remote control, it's hard to see each buttons' function and it's hard to press small buttons. Remote control without backlight was inconvenient to use in a dark room. Remote control without a potential-meter for volume control couldn't be used to mute the TV down or make a high volume in a second. When using remote control working with infra-red rays, users should keep it in a specific direction and it's hard to tune.


The group mainly talked about the interface design and price setting of the product. Firstly, the user interface designer gave a presentation on the prototype of the product. They provided the prototypes with a lot of details on the appearances and those details were then further discussed by the group.After that, the marketing expert used a seven-point scale to evaluate the prototype according to the past user requirements and trends analysis. They Cleared some misconceptions and reached a consensus on the targeting group and how they could adapt the product better to suit their needs. Then they discussed the price setting of the product and how many functions needed to be retained or removed. As they were trying very hard to remain the price at twelve and a half Euro, they squabbled over the plus and minus of the functions. In the end, they finalized on the costs and planned a celebration for the closing down of the project.


Members from the opposition party questioned that employers from industry, businesses and community organizations that have been approved in the Canada summer jobs program had not yet received the money they are entitled to. The Minister of Families, Children and Social Development answered that they were putting in strength to reinforce the program and allow it in reaching out to more unemployed students. Members from the opposition party raised their concern towards the weak job market due to the COVID-19, but the Minister argued that they were still tackling obstacles to implement this policy in reality.


When Marketing first touched on the idea of a universal remote, she quickly rebutted herself, arguing that a high-end product was not achievable with a tight budget. However, Project Manager said that the group could make an attempt to provide a basic version of universal control, which could switch between stereo, VC, and TV. Thus, the group agreed to give universal remote a try and see if they could design a cheap one within budget.


The project was finally coming to a conclusion and the team was getting ready to share their results. They achieved an error rate reduction for the task, but the error rate in itself was still significant. The team also had to think about how they could make their model efficient for it to be deployed as they continue with future research. They discussed some new directions and were reminded that while the initial phase was over, much work lied ahead of them.


Speaker C’s efforts to detect speech/non-speech portions in the mixed signal (using an HMM-based detector with Gaussian mixtures) have produced pre-segmentations that facilitate the transcription effort.


The Praat software package was discussed as an alternative transcription tool capable of representing multiple channels of speech. Cross-correlation was discussed as a means of enabling speaker identification, and may be integrated into future work.


When it comes to the cooperation between two levels of government, Bergeron said that Canadian government once promised to offer $14 million to support Quebec and other provinces to go through the difficulty, but only in targeted transfers. Notwithstanding how promising it seemed, under the current situation, what they needed might be an unconditional transfer, especially towards the medical care system. Under the pressure of the people, the government had to reconsider their cooperation of the armed forces in the CHSLDs, as well as their support for Quebeckers.


The Minister of Foreign Affairs suggested the importance of One China agreement but also expressed great gratitudes towards all the donors across the world. The cooperation between every area in the world was welcomed and it would be glad to see global efforts to battle the Covid-19 virus.


A remote control to have some influence on the TV set, both audio and video in a cordless way. User Interface suggested more functions on the remote control so that they could influence more devices like a radio or a video recorder. But the team was not sure whether the new remote control should be basic or multifunctional and they decided to get back to that point later.


Industrial Designer thought that the technology would be quite advanced and they might end up costing more than 25 budgets for speech recognition.


The biggest is that there's an issue about investment. The quality of the research base in Welsh universities and the productivity of that Welsh research base are both good, there's just not enough of them. If they want to be able to play into the UK-wide research funding, the investment has two dimensions. One is having enough researchers playing in larger projects rather than small-scale projects; and the second thing is that, compared to UK-wide research pots, Wales' core research funding is not competitive. Also,  the Welsh sector has not been sufficiently focused on getting in on the conversations with the research councils.


User Interface asked whether they could put an additional mute button on the top of the scroll spinning when discussing the scroll wheel push button. Marketing suggested the spin wheel with the LCD because it would not add much cost. Project Manager mentioned that it already came with the LCD and it's not on their list. The scroll wheel was on the remote side. Marketing agreed on it and group mates thought it was a good idea.


At the technological aspect, Industrial Designer thought the complexity of the phone was higher than the remote control,  the price of these two cannot compare though they looked alike.


Marketing presented on functional requirements, found that 75% of users would like to pay more on a remote with a better look and it might be sensible to make a beeping device because 50% of users lost their controls in the room. Marketing also suggested designing a remote that would be easy to pick up and use. Lastly, Marketing suggested targeting a younger group market, and most young people were keen on LCD and speech recognition.


The team thought the creativity of the team was okay, as they felt that they got chances to express themselves well enough, but there were still some problems in their process of discussion. Then, Industrial Designer gave an example on how to improve the creativeness of the team. The team believed that their team work went well. As for the methods of discussion, Project manager thought that he was still not familiar with the operation of computers.


Huw Irranca-Davies first talked about the registration of grandparents. Next, Huw Irranca-Davies denied the statement that Wales has the most fragile childcare sector in Britain, pointing out that childcare offers can make the section more resilient and robust. To continue, Huw Irranca-Davies mentioned that there would be capacity growth in the next several years to deliver the product.


User Interface argued that the simplicity of the remote control of high importance, which means superfluous functions such as subtitles and mute should be removed from the remote control and be controlled through the menu.


Grad C introduced the topic and explained that the new idea was to allow subjects to generate high level tasks, like going shopping, by themselves. Subjects would also be provided a high level schematic which would give them basic features of the environment. Though, the schematic would not contain detailed information, like a street map, which would be reserved for interactions with the wizard. An instructor would be hired to help subjects navigate the high level tasks.


To follow the trend of fruit and vegetable, there were two options: something in titanium and smelling like fruit, or something spongy and fruity-like. The industrial designer would explore these two choices and he also suggested having two different assemblies, but the project manager said they couldn't have both. The project manager also mentioned another solution - painting the controller to pretend that it was titanium. The group didn't make a final decision.


Before that, the files will be automatically pre-segmented into speech/non-speech bins and the beeps will be inserted.


The team agreed that although the cover was movable, the case design was moderate. Also, the way the device could be held was not attractive and easy for all, since the left-handed people would choose to use it with the other hand, which made it really annoying. When it came to innovation, Industrial Designer believed basically there was no innovation in the first one compared to what existed in the market. However, the second design was extremely innovative as it had incorporated all the scrolling buttons and its automatic speech recognition function. Besides, the two products aimed at the target customers well, with the first standard one for the old group while the second one for those between twenty to forty five. Lastly, the team concluded that they had successfully answered the company's philosophy of having the fashion in electronics.


User Interface thought that the product incorporated elements of fashion to attract buyers because some of the buttons were shaped like cherry and it was spongy.


Firstly, after a short debate, the group reached a consensus that basic layout would be enough for the button design, on which too much emphasis would be unnecessary for the elder generation. Then, the group agreed to implement a docking station as an extra with a positioning function. Also, as opposed to touchscreen or LCD screen, an ordinary small screen and default materials were applauded. Finally, Project Manager proposed to specify the target group as people above 60, which could improve product image as Marketing said.


Industrial Designer thought that they should stick to the idea of traditional television remote control, instead of a multi-functional one.


The group had a heated discussion over the functional design and the market positioning of their new product. First, User Interface introduced the basic components of the remote control and the cost of them. When discussing the user interface design, the group agreed that the product should be good-looking and branded with their company logo. Industrial Designer thought they should keep the functions simple and basic and aimed at the exterior design. Then, the group talked much about the teletext and whether the controller should be only for TV. When it came to the market positioning, the opinion of User Interface differed from Marketing's - the former tended to keep it simple but the latter thought there should be something special about the product to make it exclusive.


Given the fact that for families with children, remote controls were always played or even thrown by kids, Project Manager would prefer the material used in the construction of the product, especially on the outside, to be unbreakable. Project Manager also suggested that the product should be slim and simple. On top of that, it would be better if the remote control could be universal to use for any kind of television.


User Interface proposed that to avoid excessive buttons, a slide button could be used and envisaged that the push button could be added when changing the function of the slider. Project Manager agreed and supposed that three buttons could be put on a slider. Eventually, the team achieved an agreement that they need buttons for channel change, power, menu and volume.


As the translation of the german SmartKom into English moves on, the generation rules may prove difficult to tackle for someone without experience in functional programming, as they are written in LISP.


The translation of SmartKom to english is in its final stages. The synthesis module will be the last one to do, after the english syntax trees are completed. The system is still buggy and unstable, but it will soon be ready for a demonstration.


The user interface designer suggested two options of making the remote control functional. One way was to make it multi-functional, so as to be used for several entertainment devices. Another way was to make it single-functional, which could be used specifically for the television. The entire group preferred the product to be single-functional. It is because making an original design was more obtainable, and it would be more profitable as it would be more simplistic. They had to make it compatible with different brands of devices to sell internationally.


Gareth pierce believed that there were different types of unfairness in different individuals' opinions. It was hard to judge what sort of inequality could be having an impact on young people in therms of achievement. So Gareth Pierce didn't think he could go any further than acknowledging any inequality was unfair.


Marketing did a usability lab-test with a hundred people and found that users disliked the ugly look of current remote controls and the market segmentation includes different attitudes towards new functions. Users felt it hard to learn new functions and they zapped a lot. The channel switch was the most popular function while the power, volume and channel selections buttons were very relevant. The market was to be segmented to different groups and most users were between thirty-six and forty-five years old and young users had different tastes about the LCD compared to the old. The speech recognition features were welcomed by the second largest group, the young but which group they should targeted remained to be discussed. Marketing concluded that less important functions should be discarded and the device should be user friendly.


During a prolonged period of closure, they had to acknowledge was what they were looking at—they would expect school staff—well-being staff, for instance in school—to be doing check-ins—phone check-ins, potentially, or FaceTime check-ins, with students, just to keep in touch with them as we go forward. They would be looking to promote amongst young people a range of online facilities that were available—so, for instance, Meic website—so, looking to use a variety of platforms.


To answer Hefin David AM's question, Dr David Blaney suggested that the government was seeing an increased risk profile in the sector in Wales, and it was mainly about the financial pressures. Since the amount of funding was always going to be under pressure, as there was a demographic dip and there were the other contextual factors, there would be more universities entering the high-risk category. Dr David Blaney concluded that the government would not guarantee 100 per cent accuracy of the process.


User Interface did not like the idea of putting lots of functions in the remote control because younger people were looking for a trendy look rather than multiple functions.


At first marketing thought scroll was not as handy as buttons but Industrial Designer placed the scroll on the side and made it very handy to scroll down. In addition, Industrial Designer thought scroll could control the menu even if the remote control did not fit the screen. User Interface said young people were interested in scrolling. Project Manager thought scroll would make remote control fancier as it was interesting.


For the SmartKom generation module, all the syntax-to-prosody rules are going to be re-written for English. Additionally, OGI can offer a range of synthesiser voices to choose from.


The transcriber pool is making quick progress, and may be used in the future to perform other types of coding, e.g. a more detailed analysis of speaker overlap. Transcribers are coding non-speech gestures, such as audible breaths and laughter, both of which are useful for improving recognition results.


On the topic of teachers' training, Kirsty Williams quoted from the ITE programmes that Teachers should be able to help children and young people to make links across their learning, bringing together different aspects to examine important topics such as citizenship, enterprise, financial capability and sustainability. The shifts in pedagogical principles were expected accordingly.


An idea for future work was suggested during the visit of the german project manager: the possibility to use the same system for language generation. Setting up certain inputs in the Bayes-net would imply certain intentions, which would trigger dialogues. Having a system able to ask questions could contribute significantly to training the belief-net. The possibility of incorporating language generation into the system will have to be discussed further.


The group discussed topics including a potential collaboration with another ICSI member regarding the analysis of inference structures, efforts by speaker mn005 to detect speaker overlap, the current status of recordings and transcriptions, and future efforts to collect meeting data. In addition to weekly meetings by the BMR group, efforts are in progress to record meetings by other ICSI research groups, as well as routine discussions by non-ICSI members.


The team thought that around 250 milliseconds was a good heuristic to detect the end of the utterance. The utterance recognition also had some processing time attached, increasing the delay.


User Interface introduced to use the power button to switch the television on and off. The mute button to switch the volume on and off. The channels buttons, one to nine, or zero to nine. The volume and channel quadrants, from left to right, and up and down arrows, to control the volume and channel. And last, the menu button to manipulate the LCD display. User Interface also suggested that power buttons are usually at the top left or right and the team should decide to choose the right icons, or letters on the buttons.


The participants were skeptical that a two person conversation in the hallway constituted a meeting for their purposes. They thought that it would be okay to include this kind of data in their corpus for future researchers, but they should separate it. The Professor has a strong opinion that these interactions were not actually meetings.


The revised semantic specification and construction formalism are more stable than the previous versions. In the latter, we find both construction types and meaning types along with formal considerations like verb subcategorization, or the ones a "directed motion" construction would dictate.


Marketing suggested building an expert view and a simple view for handy consideration. User Interface suggested that in the menu structure, they could push system properties so that the entire list would pop up for programming. Industrial Designer supplemented that they could build in a back-forward button if someone wanted to watch fewer channels.


The meeting began with the harsh budget problem that the group had to cut down something of the current conceptual remote control, otherwise they would be unable to handle the cost. They talked about reducing the buttons, integrating functions, or using cheaper materials. After the discussion, the Marketing offered a questionnaire for the group to check if they were on the right track. Through the questionnaire, they found that it would be better if they paid more attention to the external design so the Industrial Design embellished the current design on the color and logo. As the last thing left to the meeting, the group reviewed their cooperation and got a general plan of their coming group presentation.


While talking about the official commitments to help the Wales universities to get through the transition period, Suzy Davies compared the two kinds of multi-annual commitments that one was related to revenue and the other to capital. She did not think that either of them would work, however, according to Eluned Morgan, the official commitment related to capital would matter more under such a transition period. Even if most people would focus on the revenue, they should pay attention to the capital for that it is exactly the capital that ensured the institutions to operate well under the dilemma.


Project Manager introduced a new remote control project for television sets, and the team got acquainted with each other and technical devices. The remote control would be priced at 25 Euros and a production cost of 12.5 Euros. Priority will be given to standard features, such as sorting through channels, instead of more advanced internet features.


This part mainly discussed a number of financial questions happening during the pandemic. Those involved the foreign businessmen, veterans, and rural communities, project to widen the road. There followed a series of detailed questions and answers about veterans' compensation and pension.


Gareth Pierce was aware that many websites they referred to in their resources and many case studies were purely in English, while it was the Welsh language that was used in the educational context. Gareth Pierce believed it was very unfortunate for different schools to translate materials independently from each other, concluding that it would be necessary to translate materials in both languages to enable teachers to refer to terms in both languages.


The group was greeting each other at the first meeting. Laura was the Project Manager. David was Industrial Designer and Andrew was Marketing expert. And User Interface was named Craig.


In Huw's opinion, there were lessons that would need to be taken on board. There were established quality assurance and enhancement procedures in institutions to enable the tutors and other supporters to make sure that that material meets their needs. The intention in all of these institutions was that they would complete their course of study. Therefore, they were confident that that system would be robust and would make sure that the students were getting a course of learning that met their needs.


The opposition party stressed that the government needed to present a picture of the economic situation and a picture of its overall emergency measures. The minister explained that they felt that it was very important to consider what that need to do in each phase of the recovery. Thus,they would not announce an overall recovery plan any sooner.


They drew on a body of expertise and emphasized the importance of the approach and skill. They would also assist young people with their engagement with the scholar items and understanding some themes.


The remote control would have a chip in the integrated circuit, taking power from the battery and transforming input from buttons through wires into infrared signals to electronic devices. There will be buttons and underneath them are switches and bulbs. To hold everything in, there should be a case and a remote holder. The material used for the remote should be human friendly so that it will not cause any skin disease or allergy to either children or adults. The frequency of each electronic device is different so it would be very difficult to design a control for multiple devices.


User Interface thought that the team members can't all fairly comment on leadership because Project Manager is the leader, and the other member's experience of leadership wasn't as much as the Project Manager.


Marketing noticed that gaming on TV was getting popular and hoped that the new remote control could become a specialized keypad for game players. Marketing desired buttons that would not get worn out too easily for the new remote control. A bar-code design was desirable as well.


Firstly, the team decided that the target functions of the remote control would just be for the television. Secondly, they removed functions that were previously discussed, such as teletext, LCD screen and voice recognition. Particularly for the teletext function, they were removing it because they were reaching out to an international crowd and some countries did have such things as teletext. They kept the alarm idea because it was not expensive to actualize.


At first, the cost of remote control was eighteen and a half which highly surpassed the company's budget. Group had to change the design and lose functions so that the budget could fill the company's standard. Under this circumstance, the new design changed shape and lost functions such as scroll and microphone until the cost was twelve fifty. In addition, remote control changed to a single curve shape and battery without a solar cell made of rubber material.


Grad B was working with Larry Saul on factorial HMM and doing inference with them. Grad B thought that perhaps modulation spectrum could be used on features and sub-bands to advance this work.


As John Williamson, the member from New Brunswick Southwest mentioned, what Service Canada had done was far from enough. Service Canada should be responsible for helping their people to adjust to the post-pandemic situation more quickly and recovering the national economy. The government members tried to persuade him that the government was doing a lot to make the revenue condition clear to the public, and their support fund was already prepared. Also in terms of the support fund, Bergeron went on to ask for a closer cooperation between Canadian government and Quebec to guarantee the regional development and stability during the pandemic.


The main function is to only control the function of a television at a far off distance. The signal released from the remote through radio waves or infrared can change different functionalities in the television. There should be a timer to set for viewing a particular program or for switching on or off a particular program or lock the television to save electricity according to the user's choice. A child lock system should be added.


The team discussed the material of the remote and the shape of the buttons. They finally made the decision that the case and buttons of the remote should be made of rubber, and the shape of buttons should be as simple as possible.


Basically, they summarized from their daily experience. The project manager pointed out the User Interface only bought the sort of one for all type things. Also, the User Interface and project manager both agreed that a little gimmick was able to make a difference. For example, you could whistle to retrieve lost items.


Grad E volunteered his 18 Gigabyte drive to the group. The drive had 12 gigabytes of memory and he was not using it for anything.


Group mates agreed that the kinetic battery was awesome as long as they considered the cost and the reliability because it was more expensive than a regular battery. Also, groupmates suggested if they could use a cheaper chip, then they could even out the cost of this good kinetic battery technology.


Julie Morgan pointed to the importance of knowing the effect of legislation. To attain this goal, their team has put forward the ongoing monitoring and surveys in terms of the views of the public. In the following steps, ongoing evaluation would be added for independent individuals.


Marketing mainly focused on users' frustrations and expectations for remote controls. Apart from the requirements for a fancier look, shock-resistance, and limited but usable buttons, other expectations were also raised by users, such as the need to be found, to easily use, to light in the dark, and the need of ergonomic design. Moreover, LCD and speech recognition also seemed important, especially for people between 15 and 25 who watched TV a lot. Last but not least, the previous plan for a generic remote control for everything failed due to the imbalance between the long developing time and the timely need to be on the market.


From a marketing perspective, the present function design phase consisted of user requirements. Marketing would mainly do internet research to get users' feedback on existing products. Meanwhile, Marketing would find out the shortcomings of the current remote controls. According to the research results, the team could optimize their design. Marketing added that the team would probably be inspired by early remote control adopters.


They argued that the arrangement of the keys looked like a logo, a compass point, or texting. The simple but different design could be a good feature of the remote control, and made it pop up in common remote controls.


Because that routine of going into school and that normality was one that they had needed and wanted to maintain. They needed to understand, and Kirsty thought that they would also have to recognize, that this support would have to be ongoing once they were back to normal, and they would have to continue to look to support children in the longer term who would have lived through this experience. They were incredibly resilient, and they had been the champions of some of our public health messages. They were so much better and so much more compliant on the whole 'washing your hands' and things like that than even adults have been.


The group decided to produce a mid-sized remote control with a printed circuit board, a medium chip, a transistor, a scroll wheel, a power cradle, a locator, a radio transmitter, an antenna, a speaker, double curves, some LEDs and some buttons. The casing material would be a combination of rubber and plastic.


First of all, whether the Brexit deal might impact adversely on the capacity of the collaborations is still unknown. But we've mentioned playing into Horizon Europe, and being able to continue with that would be an important part of that capacity. Wales should maintain the quality, maintain the impact, and hopefully grow the critical mass. Dr David Blaney thinks that they are already showing dividends in terms of the capacity to win more research funding, and to establish an even stronger presence in the international research market.


The industrial designer recommended to design several simple and perfect shapes so that users could choose the design they like. Also, they should make the colour of the LCD screen changeable to enable users to choose colours for each day depending on their mood.


Industrial Designer thought this remote control was the most useful ever with regular and easy controls. In user Interface's opinion, old people can use speech functions after reading manuals. With speech recognition, channels would be changed easily and elder's questions would be answered. Project Manager agreed the speech function would make remote control easier to use, even for elders.


Darren Millar AM thought it was inappropriate to delay the availability of a textbook that was already late on schedule so that the two language version could be published on the same day. John Griffiths worried that the approach would potentially put English students using the English-language version or Welsh students using the Welsh-language version at a disadvantage.


Transcription checking procedures have been formalized, including a spell check, producing an exhaustive list of forms identified in the data, attributing every utterance to the appropriate speaker ID, glossing spoken forms with their full orthographic counterparts, e.g. 'cuz' and 'because', transcribing acronyms, and encoding comments, i.e. glosses, vocalic and non-vocalic non-speech events, pragmatic cues, and the standardization of spoken forms, e.g. 'mm-hmm'.


The team discussed that the organisation of the intermediate nodes of the belief-net and their properties is almost complete, although no conditional probabilities have been inserted yet. These nodes represent decisions that will function as parameters to action calls in the system. Their values will either be inferred from the user-system interaction, or -as a last resort- requested directly from the user.


The marketing found that trends were quite the same in many areas. Take this year's fruit and vegetable as an example, it applies to everything from clothing to furniture, which meant it was quite general. It might be surprising that people liked products that looked natural and round rather than some futuristic remote control with angles and titanium.


It was a heated debate between the opposition party and the ministers. The members from the opposition parties first pointed out some flaws in the government's current measures in hoping to better implement them. However, some of their suggestions were either not adopted or avoided. The opposition party also addressed their concerns towards fiscal pressure, employment market and production of personal protective equipment in the midst of the pandemic. The ministers listed a roll of policies that was either already in place or going to be. Finally, the opposition party named a few industries in Canada such as agriculture, tourism and fishing that were struck seriously by the pandemic. The ministers promised that more financial support was coming in order to engineer Canada's economy.


As TV was becoming central in most homes, the user interface thought that the design of the remote control should cater to the needs of different kinds of customers, even including that of the disabled people. Besides, the industrial manager thought that lightness is another essential feature of the design.


When discussing the criteria on whether people would change their remote control, User Interface gave a two out of seven on it because of the negative impression the banana brought. In fact, User Interface didn't want a banana on the living room table though the product was handy, unless other twenty-five-Euro remote controls looked ugly. While, User Interface thought it still had the word of its feature at the beginning, so User Interface changed to give four on this criteria question.


In order to make things easier for the transcribers, breathy channels, which are erroneously marked as speech, will be re-classified correctly with other methods.


According to Bill Blair, gun violence in any of the communities was unacceptable, and it was important that governments and communities took steps to prevent guns from getting into the hands of criminals, especially during the special period of the pandemic outbreak. In terms of the gun smuggling, he also said that in order to thoroughly ban the violence, they had to keep an extremely strong attitude and carry out strict laws over the gun issue.


Huw Irranca-Davies mentioned two things that their teams learned from early implementer areas. The first one was how to deal with bureaucracy and the second was about communication with both parents and pilot authorities.


There is potential to make a conference paper out of presenting the current work and the project aspirations within a parsing paradigm. Similarly, as no one could recall some of the points of the conference call, the group will have to meet again and define the exact structure and content of the paper they are going to submit.


Kirsty Williams AM first admitted that it was true that the Bill did not directly address issues around governance in the sector. However, establishing a more direct relationship with chairs of universities, especially one-to-one relationships with them, had been attached much importance and it was crucial to help the government understand each aspect of issues in universities. Moreover, ways to make sure that the governing bodies were diverse and it was able to include both student voice as well as the staff voice in governance going forward would be discussed in the future. Kirsty Williams AM stressed that there were plans to engage with each of the governing bodies since the situation was getting far more complex.


Project Manager asked if people would think that installing a new remote was a technology innovation. Marketing was against it and recommended the voice recognition technology because Marketing found the recurring theme was fashionable and trendy.


Julie Morgan thought there was a need for legislation to ban any physical punishment and this bill aimed at protecting children's rights. To ensure the effectiveness of the bill, there was an implementation group with representatives of the police, the crime commissioner, the Crown Prosecution Service, and the social service. Therefore, Julie Morgan was confident about the implementation of legislation. Furthermore, ongoing monitoring had been used to look for the view of the public and ongoing evaluation would come to practice in the next step.


Kirsty Williams firstly proposed that the main goal he would like to pursue was a healthy, strong and sustainable HE sector. They did not pursue or urge a policy of mergers, but they welcomed the mergers, if this was beneficial for individual institutions. Hefin David proposed that was in contrast with the predecessors, and talked about the situation when Cardiff Metropolitan University was under pressure from the previous Minister to merge with the University of Glamorgan and Newport. Kirsty Williams thought they needed to look at the future instead of looking at the past. They had a strong institution in Cardiff Met now. However, it was obvious that they got to learn some lessons from that process.


The professor noted that a major component in one of the waves was the air conditioner. The team had to be more cognizant about these kind reverberations in the recordings. After a threshold, the reverberations interfered with the recordings. The team thought they could look at spectral slices to further understand the problem.


The guidance was developed and the programme was in the process of evaluation. However, there was still further work to do in terms of audit, making sure to get a systematic approach to deal with those who hadn't had the guidance fully implemented.


The team had gotten a fifty percent improvement on the model. This was significant but left room for further work. They aimed to get a sixty percent improvement from the initial baseline .


The Prime Minister was challenged that a bus driver in Vancouver who had been laid off as a public sector worker, could not access the federal wage subsidy while the opposite result happened to another worker in the airline industry. The Prime Minister explained that the airline industry, like banking, like telecommunications, was a federal area of jurisdiction which could receive the promote wage subsidy. However, under the current situation, the federal government was working hard to ensure equal distribution of the whole nation.


Kirsty Williams said there was a significant geographic spread with their current providers currently. They thought for some students, accessibility was an issue, and that was why they were responding with their part-time PGCE route, which actually would be located neutral. Therefore, if geographical disadvantages were stopping somebody from pursuing a career aspiration to qualify as a teacher, the new part-time PGCE would allow them to do this.


The computer navigation system will work as follows. The subject of the experiment will familiarize themselves with information about a city. Then, they will be introduced to an advanced navigation system through which they can navigate the city, and they will be given several tasks, like buying stamps. The navigation system will crash, and the subject will be connected to a human operator. Then, the human operator will control the system based on the subject's requests as the subject tries to complete their tasks. Both sides, the assistant and the subject, will be recorded for data collection purposes.


Essential workers were thanked for their efforts in saving lives during the ongoing pandemic. It was noted that the week was Paramedic Services Week in appreciation of their work.


Project Manager liked the phone dial shape with their logo in the middle, but User Interface thought the remote would be too wide or the buttons too small. Despite Industrial Designer's proposal for scrolls, the team decided on buttons on the side instead. For their logo, Project Manager suggested putting it on a major button, but User Interface objected that it would wear off. They finally decided on leaving a space on the latex cover for the logo to be always visible. As for the colour for buttons, their decision was blue-based touch buttons with a yellow illumination.


User Interface suggested including the turbo button in scroll wheels and introduced that the turbo button was like a scroll wheel to scroll the past television stations without seeing what's on them. Marketing asked about the speed whether it could be controlled. User Interface explained that users could skip over channels and know it was going fast or whatever. User Interface also suggested switch on and off buttons. Project Manager agreed to add one switch on button.


PhD B thought that a smaller capacitor might help with reverberation. PhD B was also interested in the cutoff frequency to ensure that reverberation does not interfere with speech too much. PhD B thought it was around 20.


The user interface designer pointed out that if they were to go with titanium, there would be limitations in the amount of shapes because it was tough to shape the titanium. Also, wood was not suitable as it seemed anti-technology. Thus, the user interface designer recommended making a thick plastic inner shell and a rubber outer shell which was more durable and felt better.


The general idea for the remote was that it should be easy to use, attractive and electricity saving. People might lose it a lot and it could be sold by using a slogan. For the technical aspect, the remote should have a chip with an interface that controls it, infrared bulbs, battery, wires, buttons and holder. There should be extra features such as timer, lid buttons, on-off button, channel lock and display clock. The remote could be in different shapes, preferably compact and T-shaped. The material should be of non-allergic nature. The different systems that exist were infrared and radio-waves.


First of all, Project Manager launched a discussion about video over-demand, during which User Interface and Industrial Designer mentioned some fancy functions like downloading and streamlining. Then, Project Manager announced that according to the account manager, teletext could be included in the discussion, though its obsolescence incurred doubts over its usability and necessity. After that, Project Manager offered a choice question between television and further recording devices represented by DVDs, VCRs, and hard disk recorders. Finally, to cater for the younger people, User Interface devised big thick keys for RC in imitation of mobile phones, which received positive feedback from other team members.


The use of the LCD screen and the advanced chip cost the team half of the expenditure. Due to the budget limit, the team had to abandon some other designs such as the rubber material and the double-curved structure. The USB connection was not feasible for now as well. For the location function, a transmitter, a receiver and speakers could be incorporated on a TV instead.


The user interface designer presented a good-looking design with few buttons. As for the colour, the user interface designer suggested making a backlight of the LCD screen with different colours, but this was denied due to the high cost. Then the industrial designer recommended changing the colour of the assembly at an extra charge to meet special needs. Light and infrared were also taken into consideration to make the controller glow in the dark. In order to make a smart controller, the group mentioned speech recognition and user identification.


Industrial Designer suggested that the remote control needed to be able to turn the television on and off, control the volume and the menu, change channels, both by directly going to a specific channel or by channel surfing. As for the material used for the construction of the outer case, it needed to be not only flexible and inflatable, but also waterproof. The product itself would be better if it could change in size depending on user preference. In addition, the remote control should be able to respond to the user by sending out an oral cue in order to show that it understood your message correctly.


The project goal was to design an original, trendy and user-friendly remote control for the international market. The project will be divided into three parts - functional, conceptual and detailed design. The selling price and the production cost of the remote should be twenty five Euros and less than twelve fifty euros respectively. The profit aim for the company is fifty million Euros.


The Healthy Child Wales programme and the role of health visitors were really crucial as providing universal service. Based on the bill, they could promote positive parenting by encouraging parents not to use physical punishment. As for people who did not access the Healthy Child Wales programme and the issues regarding coverage, the group would identify the gaps and relative measures with a mapping exercise.


The team would design a speech recogniser in the remote control to help choose the program. It would be small. They would balance the features and the cost when designing it.


The professor asked if the team was happy with their progress. The team thought that they were okay. The professor was insistent that everyone be happy since they were pretty much done.


Because Marketing recommended the group took some features of Mac or iPod and made it a more comfortable type when associating people in terms of texture, shape, and colours. Marketing also suggested they could incorporate gimmicky features that buttons would light up when touching the button.


Infra-red was mentioned by Project Manager along with the multipurpose function. Marketing proposed shock proof. User Interface put forward waterproof. And then Marketing went on to offer battery status display as an optional choice, which he had no idea was a great production cost driver or just a tiny LED.


Following close-talking microphone recognition procedures, it was decided that data from the far-field microphones (or PZMs) should be tested on the recognizer as soon as possible. Speaker mn017 will compare close-talking microphone recognition results with those obtained for downsampled data. The SRI recognizer will be set up at ICSI to enable researchers to run their own variants.


The team agreed that the joystick handle must be easy to operate by one hand, with some ups and downs behind it, so as to be more user-friendly. The remote control needs to be longer to indicate the direction of the remote control. For convenience, the project manager proposed to install sensors at both ends, but the industrial designer thought that the more technology investment, the higher the cost. The numbers and buttons on the remote control can clearly indicate its direction. In addition, he proposed that it should not be too small, or it might be hard to design functions.


Carol Shillabeer introduced Dr. Cath Norton and his group which had a standing start in addressing neurodevelopmental issues under the programme. There had been seven teams across Wales, a national pathway, and a community-of-practice-type environment.


The most important at that time was the long-term work between health and social care in terms of having a much more integrated and joined-up approach for children.


Industrial Designer thought customers would buy a new remote control when they lost or broke the first one. They also bought a new one if they got an older TV. On the other hand, User Interface thought in the future, customers would need remote control with buttons.


As for the LCD screen, the Project Manager considers colored ones are a bit too expensive, so they can just do normal ones, and the shape of the control can be in a bridge shape. As for the materials, Industrial Designers think that a solid and strong appearance is necessary, and Marketing agrees that plastics don't create a strong touching feeling, and as a combination, they decide to have hard plastic for the front and then titanium for the back. As for colors, the group decides to use basic colors with some special patterns.


Industrial Designer indicated rubber was softer than metal, cheaper than titanium that would exceed the budget, and more flexible to color alternatives. Although rubber couldn't work as the interior to protect innards, rubber coating would reduce the impact if the remote control was dropped.


The main focus of the meeting was firstly on the structure of the belief-net, its decision nodes and the parameters that influence them, and secondly, on the design of the data collection tasks. For the latter, there are already 30 subjects lined up and more are expected to be recruited off campus. Finally, as to the semantic and syntactic constructions, work will start with more general and brief descriptions, before moving to exhaustive analysis of at least a subset. Similarly, the construction parser that is to be built within a year is expected to be relatively basic, yet robust.


The group rejected the idea of wind-up because it wasn't suitable for the theme of the remote control, and the idea of solar power because it was inconvenient to use in darkness. Industrial Designer suggested using the kinetic as the source of power. This opinion was accepted by the group because of its convenience, light weight, fancy design and the good selling point of the environment.


Firstly, Industrial Designer presented on working design, identifying a few basic components of the remote. From the functional design perspective, Industrial Designer introduced what exactly the components were and how they worked with each other. Next, User Interface presented on technical functions design and personally suggested a small size of remote, red in colour and easy to use with must-have buttons. Then, Marketing presented on functional requirements and suggested the group aiming at both the functionality and beauty of the remote.


It was agreed that the circuit board would be printed in bulk as it would be cheaper with no wires and both regular and advanced chips could be made on print, including the infrared sender. A scroll wheel, presented as an alternative to push buttons, required a more sophisticated chip, making it more costly than push buttons, which require a regular chip. Hence, the team agreed to have push buttons to save cost. On the other hand, the case would be bright, colourful and strong with a trendy design. The battery was foreseen to be the energy source of the remote.


Marketing firstly took the iPod as an example when illustrating the ease of learning the new remote. However, User Interface mentioned that it would be harder because users had to use the menu system and need to tell it what their favourite channels were. And it was a high learning curve, so User Interface gave four out of seven.


The team initially supposed that the buttons for channel change, power and volume were needed. But then, they came to realize that people might need to change brightness, tint and stuff so they thought a menu button was also needed.


The team was thinking about the best way to incorporate the recording infrastructure in the room. They considered putting tapes in the lip of the table and LEDs to indicate the channel was live. The team also discussed power issues


On a scale of one to seven, with one being true and seven being untrue, the remote scored a one for the look and feel unanimous. For new technology and being easy to use, it was given a mark of three and two respectively as kinetic energy was the only technological innovation and the remote was better geared for right-handed people. Next, the cost was given as it was under budget. Then, one was given for RSI and the amount of buttons as there were only necessary buttons. Finally, it scored a two for getting lost easily.


The meeting kicked off with self-introductions, familiarizing team members and their responsibilities. After stating the scope of the project, which was to design a new remote control, the team tested out the functions of the white board. Then, the team brainstormed about what features they would add to the new remote control, such as being multi-functional and having a light sensor, with the selling price of twenty five euros and production cost of twelve fifty Euros.


Bethan Owen took Cardiff University as an example and he believed that in the short term, the reserves of Cardiff would appear as though they have significant cash balances. However, the investing was much restricted and it could not be a long-term solution towards the serious financial stress. To help with this process as well as monitoring the regulated approaches, the government received forecasts, around five-year forecasts which indicated that, for 2018-19, there would be a sector that was roughly in a break-even position, since the income was not increasing, which was the biggest problem. But luckily, they were not likely to lose any of the universities.


The team thought that they should not have everyone attend meetings on specific topics. For general catchup meetings like this, they thought it would make sense to alternate every two weeks. The team joked around about having a guys meeting, as one of the groups would not have any female members. They were mainly concerned with collecting more data through their own meeting recordings. Though, many of the meetings they were having for that purpose were shorter than they would have liked.


Grad D thought that his tax returns were taking too much time. He had started writing code for his work, however. He was expecting that his taxes would be easier next year, since he would not have to declare his Canadian income.


It was the last meeting of the group and focused on detail design. First, the user interface designer displayed the appearance and the texture of the product with a working prototype. After that, the industrial designer gave some technical specifications on the product. In the product evaluation that included several criteria, the controller got an average score of two point one seven, which implied it was good. When it came to the quotation of product components, the original one was seventeen dot eight dollars, which was apparently over budget. After some discussions about battery and operations on the calculator, the group finally cut the cost down to under twelve dollars. Finally, they did some self-assessment and celebrated the completion of the project.


Approximately 12-13 hours of Meeting Recorder data have been collected, roughly 45 minutes of which have been transcribed. Additional meetings by other ICSI research groups will be recorded. A suggestion was made that multi-channel data also be collected in cooperation with local media broadcasters, and that such events might be recorded live from ICSI.


Firstly, remote control without backlight was inconvenient to use in the dark room. Secondly, the industrial designer preferred a potential-meter for volume control instead of two buttons.


This was the conceptual design meeting for the remote. The first presentation was given by Marketing on trend watching. Marketing pointed out that customers wanted the remote to be technologically innovative and yet simple to use, and that the current fashion trend was fruits and vegetable patterns. Clearly labelled large buttons with the company logo and colour scheme were also preferred. User Interface followed with the presentation on interface concepts, proposing to have a scroll-down design and a distinctly recognizable demographic for specific buttons. Industrial Designer's presentation on component design provided information for the material needed for the remote, and certain restrictions coming with different options. After User Interface's additional thoughts on voice recognition, the team discussed designs of the energy source, the material, and the user interface concept, deciding on latex covers, the gun-metal grey colour, and blue and yellow touch buttons.


In terms of putting fashion into the electronics, this is both their slogan and their design target. Apart from the company colour of black and red, the Project Manager came up with the idea of providing skins for the users. But the members were not in favour of this idea for that the work would be huge, at the same time, they were inspired to add the logo on the boot-up screen and introduce a dormant mode because most people do not want the remote to be flashing when the TV is on.


Basically, the Children, Young People and Education Committee's meeting was about the inquiry on school improvement and raising standards. In this meeting, the Minister for Education, Kirsty and Director of Education, Steve answered many specific questions and expressed their opinions about the current situations. Altogether, they had talked about the school categorization system which has been used right now, the curriculum reform, changes and challenges. Also, they spent lots of time discussing regional consortia services that the way it worked and how they could be improved. Although now they failed to persuade the government to adopt the new model, they were optimistic about the future application.


The voice recognition could deliver advantages to physical disability and people not losing the remote. However, it could make people yell at the control for hours when the function was in trouble. So the group considered whether there was a need to add further advanced incorporation.


Project Manager began a conceptual design meeting with the group, they discussed the components design, interface design at first. In the presentation, material, colour, type and supplement were referred. Then marketing shared the watch trend over the past and future, and thought young and old people's different tastes should be taken into consideration when designed. After that, the group made a discussion about the remote control concept. The final decision about remote control was made by a round shape and green colour with speech recognition and LCD screen to appeal to the target population.


Firstly, the team agreed that only one battery is enough and using kinetic was not a must since it would be too expensive and useless. Secondly, one chip was enough and they were going to choose one from different types of regular chips. However, as the team found out they could incorporate more valuable components, the team decided to use one advanced chip for now. In terms of the material used on the device, the team decided to use a combination of rubber and plastic with one small part used in one special materia, like titanium, as well as a special color. Moreover, the teletext was discarded and the docking station was added. As for the infrared LED, although it was originally presented on Marketing's powerpoint, the team agreed that it was not helpful. Later, the team found that regular chips were enough for the scroll-button and only the LCD display required the advanced ones, so again the team came back for the regular chip and cut some costs. In the end, the team incorporated solar cells for the battery.


The team believed that there were always large and many buttons on the standard remote control. To design its unique device, they decided on a pure color one with arrows to eliminate the number of buttons used. They also planned to incorporate the company logo. Moreover, User Interface suggested a set of buttons with its own color to make it recognizable. But this idea was turned down by Project Manager.


Carol Shillabeer answered a question from Suzy Davies, indicating the intersection between the Together for Children and Young People programme and the Outcomes for Children Group programme. Next, in response to Dawn Bowden, Shillabeer talked about the development of transition guidance and the endeavor to reduce the numbers of transitions and manage them better.


The user interface asked what the project's target was. In response, the project manager emphasized that the target was a TV remote control. Then, the group members voiced out their envision of the product. The user interface suggested that the TV remote control should stick to what people are familiar with. At last, the user interface and industrial manager added usability and lightness as two other essential features of the product.


Marketing first shared the results of their lab tests. It was found that users preferred a fancier but yet simpler remote, and as a result, their product should be high-tech looking but also user-friendly. Since the research found that most users would only use ten percent of the buttons, they decided to only keep the most necessary ones on their remote. Users also claimed that remotes tend to be lost easily. Finally, since speech recognition was popular among users, the remote should have this function as well.


Grad G thought that it would be helpful to let the participants conveniently bleep things out during the meeting. While synchronizing bleeps from during the meeting would require some infrastructure, a faster version could be set up. Though, G did think that the synchronization infrastructure would be a useful addition.


A noted that all participants will have to sign a consent form and read out digits and requested that microphones be kept away from the mouth to minimize breathing sounds. A also mentioned that people will be anonymized in the transcript. A explained that the goal was to eventually be able to query meetings for information.


According to Kirsty Williams,  when it comes to individual interventions, those individual interventions of PDG should only be targeted at those children who are eligible for free school meals; but in some cases, schools may use their PDG funding to provide a universal intervention. One of the things that they've used PDG for is the focus on the concept of growth mindset in school, a universal thing that they've trained all the teachers in.  There are some other ways to drive the potential of talented and able children, like the example of "a window on the world bus" paid for by schools.


The Industrial Designer first proposed to use the shape of a banana. However, the Project Manager thought it might be a little bit childish. Then, the User Interface suggested drawing on the kind of fruits and vegetable shape. After a period of discussion, the team decided to design two or three shapes and had a public survey, letting the public choose what they want.


The group laid their stress on mainly three aspects in terms of dealing with the problem at an official level, which respectively were adding more funding to the universities, implementing a new immigration policy, and asking for the minister's help. With adequate funding, the institutions would be more likely to satisfy the research needs from the students. Similarly, a more robust immigration policy might make it more appealing for those who would like to set down in Wales. Last but not least, making the minister be aware of the serious problem would also be important that the problem would then be brought to national meetings and discussed by more officials.


Meilyr Rowlands agreed that indeed in previous annual reports, the difference between primary and secondary did exist. Nearly three quarters of primary schools were doing well and about half of secondary schools were the same. The reason seemed to be there was a widening of gaps when it moved from primary to secondary, but also it was from foundation phase to key stage 2 to key stage 3 to key stage 4. To conclude, Meilyr Rowlands suggested that a whole range of issues should be considered to help explain what had been identified about the gap.


Grad A thought that the experiments would explain which categories were good for speech recognition. The experiments would do phone recognition with TIMIT and the output would go into a standard recognizer, maybe Chronos.


The Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food promised that under the circumstances, the government was doing its best to make the advance payments. Some of the delays were caused by staff having to work remotely. However, the opposition party suggested that there was policy change that made the eligibility for these loans more difficult during the middle of the pandemic. The minister explained that they were still constantly working with the administrators of the program.


User Interface suggested that remote controls should be comfortable to hold and the buttons could be made concave so that customers could feel them.


The User Interface first pointed out that they did not use the whiteboard at all, neither did they use the pen as well. However, according to Marketing, it was quite understandable that due to the room constraints, such devices were not used. But the worse problem was that they did not receive as many notes as they wanted, the Marketing even received no reply after he wrote his coach.


The group came to an agreement regarding a wooden case with rubber buttons and also determined on using the advanced chip on print which could integrate a sensor and a speaker. They also decided to install a microphone in the device so that the remote control could make sounds when it got lost. The group discussed over cost-efficiency of a display, whose adoption still remained to be decided.


This was a product shaped like a banana, with a standard battery and a wheel. The materials to manufacture this product included a yellow banana shaped case and a rubber. All of these summed up to cost 10.7 Euros, which was within their budget. And they had a price gap of 12.5 Euros, so they set the price at 25 Euros, which was very reasonable and attractive.


One of the reasons  is relative safety, Wales is a comfortable and safe place to be. Then, being part of a UK system is also an important message there as well. Students enjoy a UK-quality system, a UK degree, and the strength of that brand is available in Wales, and they can be safer and more supportive in Wales.


Grad C thought an approach in which the model had to refer to parents seemed inefficient. The model would constantly have to go back. Grad C wanted to completely redo it, even if it meant throwing away what the team had developed thus far.


When discussing the LCD functionality, the group found that it was not necessary to have it because they had the speaker and no need for a talk-back for the remote. Also, the LCD tended to be output as opposed to an input and it would be added to the cost of the remote, so the group agreed not to go for an LCD.


The meeting was about a second-stage idea of the new television remote. The meeting began with individual presentations in which the members shared their personal views towards the design, the target consumers and the functions and so on. Later they also paid attention to the marketing method like how to limit the cost within 12.5 euros and include the multi functions in only one microchip. What is also important, they allocated some time to the issue of putting fashion into the design, for example, using plastic material and carefully choosing the company colour and the slogan on the screen.


Firstly, Industrial Designer presented components based on the target age group's preference for stylish and material, including energy, chip, and LCD. Next, Marketing presented market trends and suggested the group should focus on the main audience and use fresh colours, rubber materials, speech function, and the log-in functionality with the slogan. Then, User Interface presented on interface contents and suggested a big touch screen, a program menu with volume plus and minus.


Project Manager thought titanium was considerable and mentioned several possibilities, such as the complete titanium design that was trendy. User Interface disagreed, pointing out that titanium was used even more than plastic. Other shortages considered included making users' hands a bit sweaty and becoming quite cold in winter.


User Interface initially believed that there would be an emerging market for the touch screen remote control which could be programmed in a sophisticated way. Users could redesign their remote controls to their own needs. Remote controls originally designed for different devices could now be integrated. Project Manager, however, reminded User Interface about the budget issue. User Interface then admitted that a conventional push button would be a better choice than a touch screen.


Project Manager briefed members on a new remote control project. By drawing favourite animals, the team got to know each other. Two complementary remote controls could be designed for a certain object, one having main functions and another with all the special things. And this device was just aimed for television, without video recorder functions on it.