A: Good morning , again .
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A: Let's see what we can find here .
A: Okay .
A: A very warm welcome again to everyone .
B: A: Um here we are already at our uh functional design meeting .
A: Um and this is what we are going to do .
A: The opening , which we are doing now , um and the special note ,
A: I'm project manager but on the meetings I'm also the secretary ,
A: which means I will make uh minutes
A: as I did of the previous meeting .
C: A: And uh I also put these as fast as possible in the uh project folder ,
A: so you can see them
A: and review what we have discussed .
A: Um if I'm right , there are three presentations ,
A: I guess each one of you has prepared one ?
B: Yes .
A: Good .
A: And um we will also take a look at new project requirements , um if you haven't heard about them yet .
A: And then of course we have to take a decision on the remote control functions
A: and we have some more time , forty minutes .
A: But I think we will need it .
A: Um well I don't know who wants to go first with his presentation .
C: I'll go first . Okay . I'll go first yeah .
D: Yeah .
B: Well .
A: You can go first , okay .
D: Well ,
D: shall I go first with the users ?
B: Well D: I think D: well
D: okay no problem . A: Is there an order ?
B: everybody already has his presentation ,
A: I haven't D: Ja precies , ja precies , ja precies
B: so you can adjust it . C: So .
C: Huh ?
C: Okay , um A: And one question ,
A: uh your name Denni , is it with a
D: E_I_E_ .
A: I_E_ E_I_E_ , okay .
B: A: Thank you .
C: Okay , um
C: I wanted to explain the working design of the remote control .
C: It's possibly very handy if you want to uh design one of those . Um
C: well so
C: it basically works uh as I uh uh r wrote down uh in this uh little uh summary .
C: Uh when you press a button , uh that's when you do pr for example when you uh want to turn up the volume , um a little connection is made
C: uh the the rubber uh button just presses on a
D: A: Sorry . C: on a little print plate
B: C: uh which uh makes uh uh a connection
C: that uh
C: gives the chips ,
C: uh which is uh mounted beneath those uh that plastic of a rubber button .
C: Uh senses that a connection has been made ,
C: and know
C: and knows what button you pressed , becau uh for example the the volume up or volume down button .
C: Um uh the the chip uh makes a Morse code uh like uh signal
C: which uh then is si uh signalled to uh several transistors
C: which makes
C: uh which sends the signal to a little let .
C: You know what a let is ?
B: Yeah .
C: Okay . C: And that makes uh the the infra-red lights signal
C: which is sent to the television set .
C: Uh which has a sensor in it to uh sense uh the signal of the infra-red .
C: That's basically uh how it works .
C: Um the findings uh uh that I found uh searching up some uh detailed information about the remote controls , are that uh they are very easy to produce ,
C: uh it is pis
C: uh it's possible to uh make them in mass production
C: because it is as eas it is as easy as uh printing a page ,
C: uh just uh fibreglass plate um is b uh is uh covered with uh some uh coatings and uh uh and chips .
B: C: Uh and the technology's already available ,
C: we don't have to find out how remote controls uh have to work
C: or uh how that how uh to make some chips that are possible to uh to to transmit those uh signals .
C: Uh I made a little uh uh animation of about how a tran our uh remote controller works .
B: D: B: Oh right .
D: Animation . B: C: we tel
B: There is something turning .
C: There .
A: Yeah ,
A: it's a little bug
A: it's in the in the smart board . C: Okay . Uh well
B: C: the sub-component , I suppose that you understand what a sub-component is , is f in this example it's the button .
C: Uh when it is pressed down , um , the switch is ter is uh is switched on ,
C: so with uh the wire is sent to the to the chip in uh co-operation with the battery of course ,
C: because to make uh a a signal possible you have to have some sort of uh
C: li uh a d ad uh electronic uh B: D: Infrared light .
C: Yes ,
C: uh , okay . Um
C: w
C: after it's being composed by the chip uh the signal uh is transported uh to the infra-red bulb ,
C: and from there it signals a Morse code-like signal to the to the b to the bulb in uh in the television set .
C: Okay .
C: S
C: Uh I wrote down some personal preferences about uh the remote control .
C: Of course it is very handy if the remote control is hand held ,
C: so you don't have to uh uh wind it up or something ,
C: or just is it's it's very light to uh to make uh to use it .
C: Uh I personally uh pref prefer that uh it would be p uh come available in the various colours , and uh easy to use buttons .
C: But I suppose that the one of the other team members uh uh thought of that uh too . B: Yeah ,
B: I've got it there too . B: C: And it is possible for several designs and um easy to use b uh sorry , easy to use buttons .
C: Perhaps soft touch , uh touch screen uh buttons
C: because uh the rubber buttons are always uh uh they uh slightly uh they can be slightly damaged ,
D: C: uh so the numbers on the buttons are not possible uh to read anymore .
C: And uh well as I said uh before th uh we can uh make several designs . B: Yeah .
C: Okay , well ,
C: that's my contribution to this meeting ,
C: and uh
D: To this meeting . A: Okay ,
B: C: two of these this meeting . So .
A: thank you .
B: Shall I go uh next ?
A: Yep .
B: 'Kay .
A: Please .
B: So .
D: D: Smoking .
B: Well uh ,
B: my name's ,
B: and I looked at uh technical functions design of the remote .
B: Uh I did this by uh looking at examples of other remote controls , of how they uh they look , and information from the web that I found .
B: Um well what I found was that uh th the actual use of the remote control is to send messages to television set ,
B: how you uh d
B: what you described uh just early .
B: And this can be all sorts of medsa messages ,
B: turn it on ,
B: turn it off ,
B: uh change the channel ,
B: adjust volume , that kind of thing .
B: Uh play video , teletext ,
B: but also t uh play C_D_
B: if you use it your C_D_ player the remote control will that one .
B: There are some uh examples of remote controls .
B: You can see they are very different .
B: The one has got all the functions that you could possibly need and an lot of uh buttons etcetera .
B: And the other is uh more user friendly , little with big buttons .
B: And uh not n all the the the the stuff you can do with it ,
B: but uh the the essential stuff is there .
B: Um I guess you could better y you should look at a a user centred uh approach ,
B: because the customers have to use them
B: and
B: and if they don't think it's usable they won't uh buy it .
B: A lot of buttons they may think from I don't need s as much as that .
B: Uh , well
B: perf
B: personal preferences is is uh a simple remote , with uh the basic functions that you can need that you could use .
B: But uh keep in mind the new functions of T_V_ what we discussed earlier ,
B: split screen and uh is that a function that you should have ?
B: Because all the T_V_s will have them .
B: Or because of only a few and isn't really necessary .
B: And then uh make it I would make so that you can could uh use it on more than one appliance .
B: If you have one that uh uh does with the vi the the video , it could also work with uh with the stereo ,
B: because play is play and stop stop and that sort of thing .
B: The shu c
B: you could reuse the buttons
B: so that you don't have to have a lot of buttons for uh anything .
B: And it should be a user friendly , clear buttons , and not too much .
B: And that is my presentation .
A: Okay ,
C: Okay . A: thank you .
D: 'Kay . Check . C: B: You must still have it open .
D: Kijke D: 'Kay , so .
D: We're going to j discuss the functional requirements of the remote ,
D: that m
D: that means that functions user n want to have on the remote control ,
D: or just D: Yeah , and the users , actually .
C: D: The methods I I prefer is we're going to look which section of the users we are going to focus a l on more .
D: Are the younger people going to buy the remote control or the elderly people ?
D: And then tho that section we're going to focus
D: and adjust the remote more to that section than the whole user section .
D: Okay .
D: Some data .
D: Younger people , from sixteen to thir forty five um years are more interested in fj features like L_C_D_ screens , speech recognition e etcetera .
D: And we possess about two third of the market from in that range of age .
D: The elderly people , from forty five years to sixty five years are not that much interested in features ,
D: and we possess less than two third , that's two fifth , of the market share in that area .
D: Goed so .
C: Hmm .
A: D: 'Kay .
D: Findings .
D: Fifty percent of the users lose their remote often .
C: D: So we don't have to make it very small , like uh like a mobile phone or something ,
B: Yeah .
D: but some somewhat bi bigger than small ,
D: so you don't lose it that much anymore .
D: Seventy five percent of the users also find it ugly ,
C: Mm .
D: and fif seventy five of the users zap a lot ,
D: so the buttons sh should be that small ,
D: or shouldn't be that complex
D: because we have to search for the buttons , which one are you going to use .
D: Next .
D: Important issues about the remote .
D: I think it would be better with a personal reference , but okay .
D: Remote control has to have to have a low power usage ,
D: because s w seventy five percent of the users only zap one time an hour ,
D: so the power usage is also one one time an hour , or so ,
D: with a high power usage we would use a lot of but batteries .
D: The volume button and the channel buttons are the two most important buttons on the remote control ,
D: so those they those have to h be find very easily .
D: And have to be somewhat like bigger etcetera .
D: It has also be have to find easily when the label is gone .
D: My colleague also announced it that labels should be scratched off
C: Mm .
B: Hmm .
D: or would be s uh
D: senden B: D: okay . So uh
D: if that's k uh if that's the problem , you also have to find it easily
D: on the remote .
D: Buttons . Like what all colleagues said , have to have to be minimalized .
D: or should be covered ,
D: or in L_C_D_ screen .
D: L_C_D_ screen is easy
D: because we have the L_C_D_ screen , we have the various options .
D: Put one option
D: and then you have the all the buttons of that options ,
D: so the other options would be gone .
D: And you don't see the buttons .
D: So L_C_D_ screens should be easy ,
D: but an L_C_D_ screen , the problem with the L_ sc L_C_D_ screen is that elderly people fr from forty five to for sixty five years don't use the L_C_D_ screen a lot .
D: So we have to that keep that in mind that if you're going to implement L_C_D_ screen , you don't have to make it that hard to learn or to use .
C: Uh L_C_D_ screen as in uh touch screen ?
D: Yeah , touch screen , yeah .
C: Okay .
D: The last but not least , younger people are more critical about the features .
D: Because they use the remote control often more often ,
D: and are more technical than the ol older people .
D: And the older people spend more money , and easily on a remote control .
B: Mm .
C: 'Kay .
D: So we have to keep in mind to to focus not a lot not that much on the younger pep younger people ,
D: but also somewhat on the elderly people .
D: And on my personal preferences , I don't have any mo more time to come with that ,
B:  D: but like I said , L_C_D_ screen is easily to use
C: D: because you have you can implement a lot of buttons in one remote with not that much buttons .
D: And it should be easy to use . Especially the volume buttons , the channel buttes buttons and the number buttons to zap through the channels .
D: And that is it .
C: Okay . A: Okay ,
B: Oh right . A: thank you .
A: Um , well
A: thank you all , huh .
B: No . Res I did not .
A: I dunno uh did everyone receive an email with uh the new project requirements ?
A: No ?
A: Well ,
C: No .
B: Perhaps the rest ?
A: then I think it's a good thing that I made a separate slide of them
D: Ja , A: so you can
A: all read them .
A: Oh , well not in this presentation . Hmm
B: A: Should be in there .
A: Well ,
A: I can tell you them uh from my laptop .
A: Um teletext does has become outdated since the popularity of the internet .
B: Oh . Mm .
A: So that's uh the first thing we I think we should pay less attention to uh teletext .
A: Uh the remote control should only be used for the television ,
A: otherwise the project becomes more complex ,
A: which endangers the time to market ,
A: and of course would make it more costly , I think .
A: Um our current customers are within the age group of forty plus ,
A: and new product should reach a new market with customers that are younger than forty ,
A: and you talked about that before .
A: And uh a last point , but also very important , our corporate image should stay recognisable in our products ,
A: which means that our uh corporate colour and slogan must be implemented in the new design .
A: So we have to keep that in mind .
A: Um well uh
A: according to our agenda it's then time to take a decision on the remote control functions .
A: So ,
A: who has any idea about what should be on it , and what shouldn't ?
B: Well
B: you said it should only uh work with one appliance ?
D: Be
D: television .
B: Or with one uh d che only the T_V_ ?
A: Yeah . Only be used for television .
C: Yeah .
B: And the video also , or not uh ? D: Only the television .
A: Well
A: it says only for television here , huh .
B: Oh . Alright . Okay . A: Makes it a lot easier ,
A: huh ? B: Yeah .
C: Mm .
D: So
D: yeah , then you can yeah .
D: Requirements ,
D: no ?
D: Functions .
A: Mm-hmm .
B: Then it should have uh on , off ,
C: Yeah
C: for D: Yeah ,
C: Standby options ,
B: and uh D: the basics then by a volume , channel , one till two zero numbers on it ,
C: yeah ?
C: Uh yeah .
B: Yeah .
B: And per perhaps uh D: oh teletext doesn't have to be ?
B: No .
D: Um other functions .
B: Well uh uh
B: yes yes s sh
D: Yeah
B: A button where you can uh change from one number to two numbers .
D: I had C: Two s two
D: Yeah , yeah .
C: two digits ,
C: oh okay .
B: Can you  B: Don't know if that's got a name ,
C: Yeah
C: I understand what you mean . Yeah .
D: I think it's
B: but  D: I think it's easy to implement a button with a s s what which especially do that ,
D: because some T_V_s , if you press the t one and then the two , it be between five secs it make twelve ,
C: It makes it twelve , yeah .
B: Yeah .
D: and that's that's not relaxed
C: Indeed . Okay .
B: S
C: Well ,
C: not really D: to user .
C: And
C: and there are some models that don't uh accommodate that function .
D: Yeah .
C: So
C: d uh wh
C: the Philip's television makes it possible in that indeed to uh press one and then two to make uh the uh tj to reach channel twelve .
D: So that it easy and fast .
B: Yeah .
C: But uh all the television makes uh use of those button where you first press that button and then press two digits to uh to get
D: Yeah .
B: Yeah .
B: Yeah ,
B: so you should have that one on .
C: Uh yeah , think so .
D: Our main targets' age are ? were ? Forty five plus , or ?
B: Mute misschien also .
C: Mm .
A: Uh well
A: new product should reach a market with customers that are younger than forty ,
A: and now we have current customers uh of forty plus .
D: Forties , okay
D: because because younger people as
D: Uh younger people have now , sixteen till to twenty five age , are f eighty one percent interested in L_C_D_ screen .
D: From twenty six to thirty five have sixty six percent ,
D: and thirty six to forty five , fifty five percent ,
D: so I think to um D: Because on most recog remote controls um the print plate will be broken how much , two years .
D: You have to press h very hard to go to the next channel .
C: Mm-hmm .
A: Mm-hmm .
D: With the L_C_D_ screen it's easier
D: because you only have to wipe the screen to uh for fingerprint ,
C: Yeah ,
C: we
C: we could yeah .
D: and then you can use it again .
C: But I think that uh that collides with our mission to make it very cheap .
C: Because L_C_D_ screens are very expensive .
D: Yeah , okay .
D: Yeah
D: but a you don't know C: A touch screen uh probably uh even more .
B: An
C: So ,
D: True .
C: true , true .
D: B: C: But uh C: Well um
C: is it possible to make an L_C_D_ screen uh ,
C: how was the information ?
D: Yeah ,
D: it only says that this perce percentage like L_C_D_ screen .
D: Because , yeah and it says that younger age between sixteen and forty five highly interesting features more critical .
C: So
D: And if the only f
C: perhaps we should we should focus on that L_C_D_ screen .
D: Yeah ,
D: because our target is sixteen to forty five .
B: But ,
C: Yeah
C: but uh will we not uh exceed our uh our uh production uh B: do you D: Yeah
D: you don't know how much it costs .
D: Yeah ,
D: you don't know how much it costs , the L_C_D_ screen .
C: Is it possible to find out , anyway ?
D: No ,
D: I don't have any costs here ,
C: You know ?
D: I only have percentages .
B: But if you would do an L_C_D_ screen do we have don don't you have any buttons ?
B: Or because if it only directs at the T_V_ , then you only have uh I don't know what you want to do with the L_C_D_ screen .
D: Yeah .
C: No ,
C: an L_C_D_ screen's just like uh like a drawn here .
C: Um just uh displays several buttons ,
B: Yeah ?
C: for example um if you wanted the minimal uh use b uh buttons , such as channel and volume , you just h uh displays four buttons on the screen
B: Oh right ,
C: and it's possible to p uh press them down , just like a touch screen .
B: so you can B: Oh , yeah alright .
B: So
B: you can adjust which buttons you want on that s screen .
D: Yeah ,
D: if you want to adjust , like for example , adjust the audio settings , you press audio on the touchscreen
C: Yeah , we can make it possible to do that , yeah .
D: and you get the buttons for audio settings ,
C: Yeah yeah .
B: Yeah alright , oh right .
D: so the other buttons are gone .
B: Yeah .
C: Yeah , yeah .
A: So
A: we're going for an L_C_D_ screen ?
B: Yeah .
D: I think it's the most easier thing ,
B: Would be yeah .
C: That's my uh D: yeah .
A: And hoping that when we produce a lot it won't be too expensive .
B: D: No .
C: Yeah .
B: Well
B: we had twelve fifty , I guess , for uh production ?