User Interface: so maybe we forget about that . It's for one T_V_ oh right okay , sure . And so the last thing I thought w which I quickly mentioned in the other one was maybe a bit of a gimmick to set us apart from other people , like glow-in-the-dark
Project Manager: Mm-hmm .
Marketing: Exactly . Yeah .
User Interface: um which does already e exist but it's not very widely used I don't think .
Project Manager: Yeah .
User Interface: Easy finder with the a whistle function or something ,
Project Manager: Okay .
User Interface: or rechargeable station because it's a pain when you run out of batteries .
Project Manager: Yeah .
User Interface: And I think that , yep , that's it .
Project Manager: That's cool .
Industrial Designer: So uh , I noticed your talk about speech recognition and whistling ,
User Interface: Okay ? Mm-hmm .
Industrial Designer: and uh I was just curious to know , have we done any research into how many people can whistle ? Um , or if Project Manager: User Interface: Industrial Designer: is that a function we want in the remote ?
Project Manager: Um , do you have trouble whistling ?
User Interface: Um , I haven't been able to Industrial Designer: I don't , but I I know a lot of people do right .
Project Manager: Really ?
Industrial Designer: Yeah it just
Project Manager: Ooh . Industrial Designer: I mean it has to be a certain kind of whistle too , right ?
Project Manager: Yeah , I suppose that's true .
User Interface: Mm-hmm , yeah
Project Manager: Well I suppo uh you could y you could have the
User Interface: or some sort of voice Project Manager: you could have the basically um instead of a whistle if it's got the voice recognition you could have it just , you know , where are you ? . Industrial Designer: That's costly though .
User Interface: Yeah .
Marketing: Yeah .
Industrial Designer: Um a much easier thing is just any loud noise like clapping um , shouting , you know ,
Project Manager: Hmm .
User Interface: Mm-hmm .
Marketing: Yeah .
Industrial Designer: uh and then , what would the response be ? It beeps back at you or something ?
Project Manager: Sounds good .
User Interface: Yeah , something .
Industrial Designer: Okay .
User Interface: Industrial Designer: Well , uh let me set this up . So I plug it in , press F_ five ? Function F_ five ?
Project Manager: Function F_ eight for the um the uh Industrial Designer: Or function F_ eight ? Okay .
User Interface: Oh you need to twiddle the thingamibobsy thing .
Industrial Designer: Okay . I think it's uh just to lock it in . It's got it .
Project Manager: Yeah .
User Interface: Okay .
Industrial Designer: Okay .
Project Manager: Industrial Designer: Um . So as the Industrial Designer my job is to take an input from you guys ,
User Interface: Industrial Designer: um so it's good you went first ,
Project Manager: Alright .
Industrial Designer: and I jotted down some notes as to what are the b needs and uh what kind of novel features we can add to differentiate our product from the others .
User Interface: Project Manager: Let's remember that .
Industrial Designer: Um so Raj told us that uh consumers are willing to spend more for fancy products , and um he also mentioned that uh the current products don't always match users' operating behaviour . Um , a lot of the buttons aren't used , and uh he mentioned that they're not fun to use . And uh a novel feature which uh we just brought up was this this automatic speech recognition feature or noise detection feature for when you lose the remote ,
Project Manager: Industrial Designer: there could be a little microphone on it , and any noise over a certain threshold um it'll pick up as a a distress signal um from you and it'll beep back and say you know oh here I am or something of this sort .
Project Manager: Mm-hmm . But sure surely that would have to be um sort of specific rather than above a threshold 'cause if you had a loud movie on you're likely to get it beeping back at you .
User Interface: Mm-hmm .
Industrial Designer: Oh yeah , yeah , that's true .
User Interface: Mm-hmm .
Industrial Designer: Well maybe you could have a um hmm tha that would be a consideration to take into account yes . Um .
Project Manager: Sorry I didn't mean to derail you there . Industrial Designer: Yeah well tha that's uh for later down the road um , and then as for the user interface it should be trendy , um and not computery ,
User Interface: Industrial Designer: right , so more low tech and not too many buttons .
Project Manager: User Interface: Mm-hmm .