Project Manager: Okay . Thanks . Um . Okay , I'll give the floor . So you are User Interface guy . So you're three ?
User Interface: Okay . Yeah .
Project Manager: And it's this one .
User Interface: Yep .
Project Manager: Go for it .
User Interface: Yep . Okay . So . S next uh slide . Okay . So I received an email um around lunchtime letting me know that the brilliant minds at our technology division had developed an integrated programmable sample sensor sample speaker unit , um which is a way for you to have a conversation with your coffee machine and or remote control .
Industrial Designer: But it's just a speaker right ?
User Interface: It's no , what it is , it's it's very Industrial Designer: It's not a microphone .
User Interface: It has a has a microphone , has a speaker , it's got a little chip and it allows you t
Industrial Designer: Mm-hmm . Actually I'm not reading microphone there , so that's why you can all have conversation , it just to speak to you .
User Interface: Well , it's a sample sensor sample speaker . Sample sensor sample speaker . It means that it can recognize , it can do like a match on a on a certain phrase that you speak and then can play back a phrase in response to that .
Industrial Designer: Mm-hmm . Mm-hmm . Mm-hmm . Mm-hmm , mm-hmm .
User Interface: But uh there's no kind of um understanding of the phrase . So , I mean , you know ,
Industrial Designer: Okay .
User Interface: I guess you could build that in , you could you could link the the recognition of a certain phrase to some function on on the remote control .
Industrial Designer: Mm-hmm , mm-hmm , mm-hmm .
User Interface: But basically the thing is , we have this technology available
Industrial Designer: In-house .
User Interface: in-house . So , um
Industrial Designer: Mm-hmm .
User Interface: but the thing is obviously there's still gonna be a cost if you decided to integrate that because you still have to pay for the c production of the components ,
Industrial Designer: Mm-hmm , mm-hmm .
User Interface: so um it it but it basically means we c we can kind of consider this from uh you know uh a theoretical or usability kind of viewpoint without worrying too much about you know how to develop it because we have this already done .
Industrial Designer: Mm-hmm , mm-hmm .
User Interface: Whilst you know , some people might get annoyed if we uh if we just dump it ,  Project Manager: I there's something that I unclear really understanding . Is this a technology that recognize keywords speech keywords ?
User Interface: It's it it's no , well , it's it'll recognize uh I guess keywords , but you know keywords in a certain order like a phrase . You train it for a certain uh , for a certain phrase , you say the the example they said that they have uh up and running with their prototype is um well they've actually integrated into the into the the coffee machine that uh that we're producing is , you can say good morning to the coffee machine and it can recognize that phrase and it'll playback good morning , how would you like your coffee ?
Project Manager: And it's just to , it's just to playback something ?
User Interface: Yeah . So actually that was a bad example , 'cause it doesn't actually ask how do you want your coffee because it can't really understand the response , so .
Project Manager: Yeah yeah . So this is not s really to do to to do control .
User Interface: Only , like , only in the sense that it it can recognize a set a set target kind of word an
Project Manager: Yeah . This is just more like a poi pois yeah .
User Interface: It's designed it's designed as a fun kind of thing ,
Project Manager: Yeah yeah .
User Interface: but I guess you could use it as uh as a way to implement uh Project Manager: So it it's c uh it it
Marketing: Yeah but you can u
Project Manager: it is a uh uh easy uh a fancy thing that you you can bring to we can bring to the remote control that will not have any uh
User Interface: Completely pointless yeah .
Project Manager: yeah comp completely pointless for the inter for from the interaction point of v point of view .
User Interface: Yeah . Yeah , unless you know , you like having conversation with your remote control .
Project Manager: Okay .
User Interface: Marketing: Yeah but the can we use it for saying okay , channel fifty , channel twenty ?
User Interface: Well yeah , that's the thing , if you can but you have to pro though I think it's a fairly simple design so you would have to record into the device every possible combination , you have to s tr train it to l to learn channel fifteen , that whole thing , not just the word channel and the word fifteen , it doesn't have that kind of logic in it .
Project Manager: Yeah yeah . So this is so this is this is much more than tak taking this technology , bringing it to the remote control and using it .
User Interface: So Industrial Designer: Mm-hmm .
User Interface: Yeah , that would be some development work .
Project Manager: So this is out of discussion . So if if if it is something that you can we can bring easily and to put it into the banana remote control User Interface: Yeah .
Marketing: M Mando .
User Interface: Banana-mando .
Project Manager: No this is mm banana-bando , yeah .
User Interface: Banana-man Marketing: Banana-mando yeah .
Project Manager: Uh then it could be cool yeah .
Marketing: Project Manager: User Interface: Industrial Designer: Yeah okay , let's go ahead .
Project Manager: Okay .
User Interface: I uh I I I don't think it's worth it though , I think it doesn't really add much to the functional design and it's it's it's not mature enough to use as a speech recognition engine , so Project Manager: Okay .
User Interface: Um , yeah . So if we can just move on to the next slide , I've just done a quick mock-up of uh uh some of the features of our potential funky-looking uh remote control Marketing: Project Manager: It doesn't look like a banana at all .
User Interface: Well , you see , I was I was unaware at this point of th of the fruit focus ,
Project Manager: Yeah .
User Interface: um , so at the moment it's more of a box focus .
Project Manager: But you you can fit i you're saying now you can fit it to Marketing: Looks like a tr look likes a a tro a tropical fruit .
Project Manager: Yeah .
User Interface: Yeah , well , this is actu this could be a genetically engineered fruit that's designed to be you know square so that it packs tighter in the boxes .
Marketing: Yeah . User Interface: But um , I've just indicated here , we could have actually two scroll wheels , 'cause I think the scroll wheel is a fairly um key part of , you know ,
Industrial Designer: Stable thing , that's right . To have ,
User Interface: I think everyone has has agreed that it's that it could be quite a useful um thing , so .
Industrial Designer: mm-hmm , mm-hmm .
User Interface: But I think it's important , you know , to have two scroll wheels because , you know , you want one for for the channel , but you also want one for for the volume ,
Project Manager: Mm .
User Interface: because it's it's the volume i it's , you know it's very handy for it to have uh instant kind of uh feedback uh and response , so .
Industrial Designer: Mm-hmm , mm-hmm .
User Interface: But um , I've also included this turbo button because I think , you know , every design should have a turbo button , and well Marketing: What's a turbo button ?
User Interface: so this is you know , a unique problem with with televisions is that if you have this scro this scroll wheel for the television , the uh the tuner on the T_V_ is not gonna be able to to switch between stations as fast as you can scroll , so you know , the th the person might want to have a uh Might want to be able to scroll past television stations without seeing what's on them , in which case it just waits until you stop scrolling and then , you know , displays that station . Or they might want to scroll and and have a quick glimpse of it , even if it lags behind what they're doing .
Marketing: It con it controls the speed ?
User Interface: Yeah , so with this turbo button you can , say , skip over t channels if uh , you know , if I'm if I'm going if I'm scrolling past them and you know , it's um , you could have a little red light that comes up when they press it so they feel you know it's really going fast or whatever .
Project Manager:  User Interface: So yeah , that's um , those are the two important uh features I think we need on the remote ,
Industrial Designer: Mm-hmm .
User Interface: but I mean we can discuss about what other kind of buttons we need , um . You know , i it could be , you know , if we if we wanna have like a very cheap kind of device , I mean , we could either consider that maybe we want to sell this as a very , if it's gonna be a banana , you know that's a pretty gimmicky kind of thing that doesn't have that much functionality , it's just you know a couple of scroll wheels and a button cause it's hard to get so many buttons on a banana
Project Manager: It's enough .
User Interface: and it's still very it may even be for most for some people more functional than their current remote , but if they have these scroll wheels , so , um you know , what other buttons do we want ?
Industrial Designer: Mm-hmm .
User Interface: I mean we could have well , I guess you need an on and off switch ,
Project Manager: Switch on . Yeah .
User Interface: but you could you could o you could turn it turn it on by taking the top off the banana maybe , you know , it's kind of like a spy kind of flick thing .
Marketing: Yeah . So sounds crazy . I like crazy ideas .
User Interface: That's why you're a marketing guru . Industrial Designer: Project Manager: Okay .
Marketing: Yeah , of course . Project Manager: So i it looks like we're going completely to forget about the L_C_D_ thing .
User Interface: Well , that's the thing , as have we decided that we can only spend , uh , twenty five Euro ?
Project Manager: I think that User Interface: Well not spend , but you know , charge twenty five Euro .
Marketing: I I think we could use somehow the s coffee machine dialogue interface or so .
Project Manager: No we can we can't use that .
Marketing: You we can ? We can't .
Project Manager: We can't use that to to comman co communicate ,
Industrial Designer: Communicate .
Project Manager: it's just a thing Marketing: Yeah , but we can say channel twenty five .
Industrial Designer: It's one way .
Project Manager: No .
Marketing: No ?
User Interface: But then you have to have a template for every channel , for a hundred channels , you have to be able to to recognize Industrial Designer: Mm-hmm .
Marketing: It's not a lot one hundred templates ,
User Interface: Mm . Well , I f I think it's probably more than , than our can handle because it's designed for a coffee machine , you know , to say hello in the morning .
Marketing: it's not Project Manager: Yeah .
Marketing: Ah , it's designed for a cof okay . Is it design for a coffee machine ?
User Interface: Well that's its current application , I would presume that it's kind of , they wouldn't design it to handle a hundred things th so .
Marketing: Okay . Yeah . Maybe you could ask your the you could ask the engineering department if we can Project Manager: Yeah . A good good good thing .
Industrial Designer: Mm-hmm .
Project Manager: You want to g to move to your slides ?
User Interface: But uh Industrial Designer: Yeah , that's right , yeah .
Project Manager: You're finished ?
User Interface: Well I just I just made the point , I don't I don't know if that speech recognition is , you know , even if we can do it , I think it's not really appropriate for uh television environment .
Project Manager: Yeah I think so .
User Interface: But um I did have one thing from a previous meeting , you were talking about um being able to find the remote control
Marketing: Yeah .
User Interface: and I was talking about extendin being able to extend the remote control by having you know , a base station that can control other things as well .
Project Manager: Mm-hmm .
User Interface: It might be useful to have some kind of base station , even if it's just you press on a button on it and uh and the remote control starts beeping , you know , this is a way of finding the remote .
Project Manager: Mm .
User Interface: Y in that case maybe the maybe the speech recognition the speech thing could be useful just to say I'm here
Project Manager: Exactly yeah .
User Interface: but uh it's probably a bit of overkill if you could just have a a beeping Industrial Designer: So it's a speech synthesis kind of thing ,
User Interface: It's speech Industrial Designer: something has been uh stored and it's just uh spoken out .
User Interface: It's it's speech synthesis and s it's speech kind of , not really speech recognition , but kind of pattern matching , yeah
Industrial Designer: Mm-hmm .
Project Manager: Oh , good idea .
Industrial Designer: Yeah . That's right .
Project Manager: Very good .
User Interface: yeah .