Project Manager: G good morning.User Interface: Good morning, Flores. Marketing Expert.Project Manager: Oh yeah.User Interface: Right.Project Manager: Are you ready You should put the laptop uh right into the square.User Interface: {vocalsound}Project Manager: For i for the cameras, yes.User Interface: For the cameras Alright.Project Manager: Good morning, Sebastian.Industrial Designer: Good morning, {vocalsound} Mister P_M_.User Interface: {vocalsound}Project Manager: {gap} {disfmarker} I'm fine.Industrial Designer: {vocalsound} How are you today How was your business trip to Boston {vocalsound}Project Manager: Um well, actually I didn't go, didn't feel like it.User Interface: {vocalsound} {vocalsound} Geez.Project Manager: So {disfmarker} Do you want to open it as read-only.User Interface: {vocalsound}Project Manager: Um I guess I should close it here.User Interface: You have the same message of uh Windows cannot umMarketing: {gap}User Interface: sen oh stand-by. Close the the window.Marketing: {vocalsound} Okay.Project Manager: Okay, the waiting is for our Marketing Expert, Ruud.User Interface: So {disfmarker} That's right. Ruud.Project Manager: Um project kick-off.Industrial Designer: Is there a schedule for this meetingProject Manager: Yes, there is actually. Um I will li list the agenda for today. For this meeting. Good morning, Ruud.Marketing: Good morning. {vocalsound}User Interface: {vocalsound}Project Manager: {vocalsound} Uh it's important um {disfmarker}Industrial Designer: I shall close the door.Project Manager: yeah, great. It's important that the laptops are um exactly on the square, um for the cameras. Okay. Okay. Um we're here to develop uh a new product.User Interface: {vocalsound}Project Manager: Um I'm sure you've had a mail from our account manager about it.User Interface: Mm-hmm.Project Manager: Um {vocalsound} and um this is the first meeting to to generate some uh uh some ideas about it. Um you are here in a specific role. Uh Ruud is here as the Marketing Expert, Roo is here as the User Interface Designer and Sebastian is here uh in the role of Industrial Designer. Is that correctIndustrial Designer: That's correct.Project Manager: Okay.User Interface: Mm-hmm.Project Manager: Um {vocalsound} we're going to do um uh uh a little tool training uh for the tools we are going to use uh during uh the meetings we are going to have here. Um then I will tell you a little bit about my idea of the project plan, uh and we will have a discussion. Uh this meeting should take no more than twenty five minutes, so we should keep that in mind.User Interface: Alright.Industrial Designer: Okay. Um is there any room for a little presentation Uh maybe during the discussion uh sectionProject Manager: There is Yeah, there is.Industrial Designer: Okay.Project Manager: {vocalsound} No problem.User Interface: {vocalsound}Project Manager: Um okay, this new product we are are g are going to develop, um it's a remote control, a television remote control. Um and first of all it should be original, it should be trendy and user-friendly. Those are kind of easy um uh uh goals, um and I'm sure we can find more goals for the for the product we are going to develop. {vocalsound} Um we will discuss uh later on more ideas about uh how the remote should look and how it sh it should function and all those kind of things.User Interface: Okay.Project Manager: The market, we should have a look at the market. Um {vocalsound} we are going to use a a pred a project method uh during uh this development, um which consists of three different design stages. Uh the functional design, the conceptual design and the detailed design, um all of these stages um um mean that we do some individual work, prepare, and then uh meet to discuss our uh uh the {gap} {disfmarker} the the progressions, yes.User Interface: Progressions. {vocalsound}Project Manager: Um the first stage, the functional design um we are going to search for the user requirements, and we will um make a specific {disfmarker} uh specification of that. Um {vocalsound} the second is the technical functional design, um what effect should the remote have Well in this case control t the the television I think.User Interface: It's for the vision. Yeah.Project Manager: Um and the last one is the working design. How exactly does it work in the technical sense. Um the other design stages, uh we will discuss that later. So we'll kop it {disfmarker} keep it with the functional design. {vocalsound} Okay, um before we think about remote control we will um work with some of the tools we have uh here. Um as you see now I can give a presentation. {vocalsound} Um it's also possible to use this one as well. You can uh uh display pr uh two presentations if you want to. Um {vocalsound} to um presentate, to show us uh a file you'll need to uh place it in your project documents folder, which is on your desktop, at least it should be. Um then we have this electronic white-board system. {vocalsound} Um yeah, I will show that now. Um you can draw on the board using this pen. There are little um uhUser Interface: Sensors.Project Manager: sensors, so do not grab it here, but a lit more a little bit more to the uh to the end. Um well, it {disfmarker} it's on the um eraser now, so we click the pen button. Okay, so not too fast writing. Um {vocalsound} you can insert a new um slide or or white-board uh uh file um by either using the insert function or by clicking the next button or the blank button. It's quite the same. Um all our um whi um uh SMARTboard um notes should be kept in the same file. So do not m make a new file. Just use this one uh during the day. {vocalsound} Um you can use the eraser to make something go away.User Interface: But we all use the same white-board fileProject Manager: Yes.User Interface: So we can work together on it while we're {disfmarker}Project Manager: Yeah.User Interface: or should we only use it in the in the meetingsProject Manager: Yeah, in the meetings, only in the meetings.User Interface: Yeah, okay.Project Manager: It's really like like a regu regular whiteboard.User Interface: Yeah, alright. Yep.Project Manager: Um you can choose the format, um {disfmarker} sorry. Uh {disfmarker} Let me see. Um {disfmarker} Well {disfmarker} {vocalsound} I guess it's maybe because I'm not s uh pen selected. Yep. Current colour, you can choose another colour. And um for example black, and you c I can choose the line width. Um so now I d have a different line width and uh colour. Okay. Quite easy, if you uh do have any questions, just c ask me. Um {vocalsound} to um {disfmarker} oh well, I'm {disfmarker} I wrote down the documents uh should be in the project documents folder if you want to uh discuss it with us. Um as a little training {vocalsound} um I will ask Ruud first to draw uh uh your own animal on a new slide uh with uh a different colour and a different line width than the one uh now selected. {vocalsound}Marketing: Okay. Um green.User Interface: {vocalsound}Marketing: An animal. Okay. Um {disfmarker}Industrial Designer: {vocalsound}Marketing: Uh a wee rabbit.User Interface: It's a bunny. {vocalsound}Industrial Designer: {vocalsound}Project Manager: A rabbit. Okay, well great.Industrial Designer: Alright.Marketing: {vocalsound}Project Manager: Um Roo, could you do the same please But a different animal with a different colour and a different line width.User Interface: But of course, Flores.Marketing: {vocalsound}User Interface: Blank.Project Manager: Sebastian is thinking about the animal.Industrial Designer: I'm just uh guessing what should be my favourite animal. {vocalsound}Project Manager: Okay.User Interface: Yeah, I'm think about it too. {vocalsound} Format {gap}. Well, it looked more than a bunny than a cat, but {vocalsound} it works,Industrial Designer: {vocalsound} Well, I'll give it a try. {vocalsound}Marketing: {vocalsound} Yeah.Project Manager: It it should be a cat.User Interface: rightProject Manager: OkayUser Interface: {vocalsound}Industrial Designer: {vocalsound} Mm.Project Manager: {vocalsound} I'm guessing a horse.User Interface: {vocalsound}Industrial Designer: Very good. {vocalsound}User Interface: With a very small {vocalsound} legs. {vocalsound}Project Manager: {vocalsound}Industrial Designer: {vocalsound} I was very good in drawing. {vocalsound}User Interface: You should feed that uh that animal. {vocalsound}Project Manager: {vocalsound}Industrial Designer: {vocalsound} Well, I guess you uh get the idea. {vocalsound}Project Manager: Yes, okay. {vocalsound} Beautiful.Industrial Designer: Beautiful.User Interface: {vocalsound}Project Manager: Okay, so um you can use this at any time during the presentation if you want to. Um any questions {disfmarker} well, just just let me know. Um okay, back to our project. Um {vocalsound} the remote control we are going to develop um will have a selling price of about twenty five Euros. Uh the profit we are looking for for this product is fifty million Euros, which is quite a number. {vocalsound} UmUser Interface: {vocalsound}Industrial Designer: {vocalsound}Marketing: {vocalsound}Project Manager: we uh we will focus this internationally, so the product will be sold um, if there is market uh interest, uh in in more than one country. And um the production costs should not be more than uh twelve Euro fifty, so we should keep that in mind by uh w w during the development, {vocalsound} um because uh, well, those are important numbers. Um then the discussion, maybe the time for Sebastian to show his presentation.Industrial Designer: Yes, um I have some technical uh issues which I would like to present to you uh before we start the discussion, because uh there might be some uhProject Manager: Limitations.Industrial Designer: influations influences.Project Manager: Okay.User Interface: Okay.Project Manager: Okay, great.Industrial Designer: Okay {vocalsound} Okay. Um first about my role, role of the Industrial Designer. I would like to think about uh the implementation of uh of things, and the technical possibilities and impossibilities. So if someone of you comes up with uh ideas, uh I'll try to translate them in technical functions, but uh there might be some impossibilities. So that's one. {vocalsound} Uh I also will propose some uh um uh some implementations for that, but {disfmarker} well, these are quite the same. Sorry about that. Um and I also will remind people of some new technical possibilities which are available and which might be interesting to implement in our product.User Interface: Okay.Industrial Designer: I have some uh initial ideas about some things um which are maybe nice to take with you in the upcoming uh discussion. One thing about uh interopera operability. Um I think a modern uh remote control should uh control a device {disfmarker} diverse subset of equipment. Uh for instance, uh D_V_D_ players, cell phones, video and audio equipment. So one re uh one remote control for all your equipment.User Interface: And for a cell phoneIndustrial Designer: Well, there should be some interoperabi interoperability between them.User Interface: Yeah, okay. Yeah.Industrial Designer: I think it could come in handy. We should discuss that. Um and we should think about the way how these things uh should communicate with each other. We're not uh living in the uh nineteen eighties anymore, so infrared is not uhProject Manager: {vocalsound}Industrial Designer: is not really uh hot uh technical stuff anymore. But you should uh think about the things like uh Bluetooth.User Interface: But {disfmarker} Yeah, but the infrared, it's uh, well, a little bit old-fashioned, if you would call it like that.Industrial Designer: Mm-hmm.User Interface: But all the T_V_s are uh equipped with infrared, soIndustrial Designer: But it's cost-effective. Yes. Mm-hmm. Well, not all, not all.User Interface: y you you can {disfmarker} Most of them.Industrial Designer: So that's the point.User Interface: Or you shou sh use a {disfmarker}Industrial Designer: So {disfmarker}Marketing: {vocalsound}User Interface: you should equip infrared and Bluetooth together in one remote.Industrial Designer: Maybe, but that's uh something we should discussUser Interface: Yeah.Industrial Designer: and uh about every everybody should think about it. So that's just my role, I'll just uh give you uh everybody some technical input, and I think now the time is to have a little discussion about what uh the product should be and how it should look,Project Manager: Yeah.Industrial Designer: but take these things into account when you start the discussion.Project Manager: Okay, so the the main por uh the main points you are uh telling us are focus on the inter uh operability,Industrial Designer: Yes,Project Manager: and {disfmarker}Industrial Designer: so one thing uh one remote control should uh control one or more uh pieces of equipment,Project Manager: Okay, and and uh {disfmarker}Industrial Designer: and the way of communicating with these equipments.Project Manager: Okay. Okay, good.Industrial Designer: Okay.Project Manager: Um {vocalsound} that was your presentation Okay, okay.Industrial Designer: That's it.Project Manager: Um {vocalsound} okay. Great. Um {vocalsound} I'll go back to my own presentation. Um {disfmarker} Mm. Okay. Um I I do think it's time now to to discuss uh mm some things.Industrial Designer: {vocalsound}Project Manager: Um Sebastian told us a few things about the technical implemen uh implications. Um there are other things like um {vocalsound} how to make it trendy, which is I think uh um most uh Ru uh Ruud's uh role. Um the way how it should be controlled by the user, which is uh Roo uh r uh during this part. Um so let's start with you.User Interface: Mm-hmm.Project Manager: H how do you think the remote should um function for the userUser Interface: Well, I had a few uh things in mind. Um well, the interoperability, just like uh Sebastian said, um the remote should work on different T_V_s or even different uh um {disfmarker} Yeah uh, what is it, devicesProject Manager: Yep.User Interface: {vocalsound} Um so i i I think it's a universal remote control for customers to buy just new in uh a store.Industrial Designer: Yes, I think it should be something like that.User Interface: It's not for uh for uh for uh Philips or whatever to buy our remote for their own product,Project Manager: Okay, so we're we're going business to consumer,User Interface: rightProject Manager: not {disfmarker} we're we're {disfmarker} it's not a {disfmarker}User Interface: Yeah, I do I don't know that. It's no I have uh {disfmarker} don't have the information for it.Industrial Designer: We're not developing this product for a specific vendor, are weProject Manager: No. No.Industrial Designer: No,User Interface: No, okay.Industrial Designer: we're just developing this product, and we want to sell it to a very broad uh public, so it should fit to every device.Project Manager: Yeah.User Interface: Yeah.Project Manager: Uh Ruud, y do you agreeMarketing: Yeah, I think I think they're right, yeah.Project Manager: Okay. Okay.User Interface: {vocalsound} Um {disfmarker} Well, the techni fu technical function uh {gap} {disfmarker} what you said is just by pressing the button you should change the state of the T_V_. That's just the basic f technical function.Project Manager: Yeah.User Interface: So that was my {disfmarker} really my part for uh this session. Um {disfmarker}Project Manager: So is that ease of use or uh is that more like um {disfmarker}Industrial Designer: Yeah. {vocalsound} {vocalsound}User Interface: Well, that's just the fu the technical function is {vocalsound} pure what should the remote control do, wh what is his task uh as an uh as an uh device.Industrial Designer: Mm-hmm.User Interface: It just should change the T_V_'s state.Project Manager: Okay.User Interface: So that's it. Um but furthermore {disfmarker}Industrial Designer: And you you see uh the buttons as a as a means of doing thisUser Interface: Yeah. Yeah, with buttons.Industrial Designer: Or are there any o other controlsUser Interface: Yeah, or maybe you want a touch-screen or {disfmarker}Industrial Designer: Are there only {disfmarker} any other cont Well, {vocalsound}User Interface: But {disfmarker}Industrial Designer: I I've seen these remote controls with uh this little stick uh which you can move forward, sidewords.User Interface: Yeah.Project Manager: Uh-huh.Industrial Designer: You know these things. And um it's very easy for a user to to switch {disfmarker}User Interface: They're very vu vulnerable.Industrial Designer: w yes,User Interface: Yeah.Industrial Designer: to to switch b uh between uh channels or uh change uh between tracks on a on a C_D_, on on a chapters, you know, on a D_V_D_ player. So maybe that's an idea,User Interface: Yeah.Industrial Designer: I don't know.User Interface: And for other user interface I had um, well, it's more industrial thing. Uh point at a T_V_, I think it's it's quite disturbing when you always have to point directly to the T_V_,Industrial Designer: Mm-hmm.User Interface: so you must {vocalsound} point everywhere, so maybe infrared is {disfmarker}Industrial Designer: Okay.Project Manager: Maybe not even pointed. Yeah.User Interface: Yeah, just don't even point it, so in that case infrared should uh maybe uh be restriction to that.Project Manager: OkayIndustrial Designer: Mm-hmm.Project Manager: {disfmarker} Uh {disfmarker}Industrial Designer: Uh is that uh {disfmarker} are there restriction for the range, the operating range too So when you're not able to point at the device um the range is very limited.User Interface: Yeah, if you g if you go to radio or or {disfmarker} yeah. For T_V_, you're always in in the neighbourhood of a T_V_, so I don't think think the range should be a problem to that,Industrial Designer: Mm-hmm.User Interface: but if you want to uh get it working with a radio, and you're in {disfmarker} outside your garden with just one uh speaker, then maybe the range should be uh {disfmarker}Industrial Designer: Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.Project Manager: Okay, gentlemen, um uh just a reminder, we d we have five minutes left for this meetingIndustrial Designer: Okay.User Interface: But {disfmarker} Yeah.Industrial Designer: Okay.Project Manager: um {disfmarker}User Interface: Two more things.Project Manager: okay.User Interface: Um You should able to feel the buttons without uh it mis um {disfmarker} {vocalsound} you have to know what you do without looking at the buttons, so it should be as user interface um for feeling should be uh good to understand.Project Manager: Okay, s yeah.User Interface: You must feel the buttons for volume or whatever, I think.Project Manager: Yeah.User Interface: And of course you don't always know where all buttons are, so it should be visible al um {vocalsound} in dark too.Project Manager: Okay.User Interface: So when it's dark {disfmarker}Project Manager: {vocalsound}User Interface: Those are two really uh user interface {disfmarker}Project Manager: Uh I'll write down glow in the dark. Is tha {vocalsound}User Interface: Yeah. {gap} {disfmarker} That's perfect. {vocalsound}Industrial Designer: {vocalsound}Project Manager: Okay.Industrial Designer: Okay.Project Manager: Okay, um uh I just want to hear uh Ruud's um input for this meeting.Industrial Designer: Do do you {disfmarker}Project Manager: Um do you have anything already w um ab idea about how the market uh will respond to the {disfmarker} such a product Or what we should take um in account when developing such a productMarketing: Uh I think most most things have already been said, like uh control multiple devices.Project Manager: Mm-hmm.Marketing: And uh, yeah, infrared might be an issue.Project Manager: BecauseMarketing: Uh well, he said about n abo what he said about pointing.Project Manager: Mm-hmm.Marketing: But uh lots of devices already use infrared. So {disfmarker} we'll probably have to implement that.Project Manager: Okay. Okay. Okay, Sebastian, did you have any other ideasIndustrial Designer: Um well yes, I had, uh about three minutes ago,Project Manager: {vocalsound}User Interface: {vocalsound}Industrial Designer: but I've seem to forget them {disfmarker} {vocalsound} forgot them. Um {disfmarker} oh yes, I remember. Um you said something about visibility in the dark.User Interface: Yeah.Industrial Designer: Um uh would it be nice for a user to have display on this uh remote control, on which you can see functions Which makes it easier to operate it.User Interface: Yeah. Well, maybe I um {disfmarker} but it it can be quite simple,Industrial Designer: I I don't know.User Interface: you can just have white buttons with a black mark on it.Industrial Designer: Mm-hmm. Okay.User Interface: The uh the the digits in black.Industrial Designer: Mm-hmm.User Interface: Uh then it's already visible in dark. So it it don't have to be a lightning or or a fancyIndustrial Designer: Okay.Project Manager: {vocalsound}User Interface: {disfmarker} well, it can be for design, of course.Project Manager: Okay.Industrial Designer: Okay.Project Manager: Yeah, yeah, okay, because because we wa we want to develop a trendy product. So {disfmarker}Industrial Designer: Yes, but there's a cost limitation too.Project Manager: Yeah,Industrial Designer: Well, that's more {disfmarker}Project Manager: twelve Euro fifty, yeah.Marketing: Yeah.Industrial Designer: So that's a big problem, I think. I think the the financial part of this project uh implicates that it's not going to be a high high-end product.Project Manager: Okay.Industrial Designer: The cost price is very low.User Interface: Just remind something.Industrial Designer: Um {disfmarker}User Interface: The digits of uh the the painting on the buttons should not fade.Project Manager: Okay, okay.User Interface: You have a m uh {disfmarker}Industrial Designer: Okay. Very good point. Yeah.User Interface: Always have s the soft buttons, always uh clear the the the paint on it. The marks.Industrial Designer: Okay.Project Manager: Okay, um I ha I have one point f um which which comes in mind now. Um uh d I think the device should either be rechargeable very easilyIndustrial Designer: Mm-hmm. Okay.Project Manager: um or it should not consume too much um power. Because it's very annoying if you need to change the batteries every s uh uh every other week.User Interface: Yeah.Industrial Designer: Okay.Project Manager: {vocalsound} So um maybe we could um for example uh only light the buttons that are um uh applicable at that moment or {disfmarker}User Interface: But um {disfmarker} Necessary, yeah.Project Manager: yeah. I dunno, it's uh {disfmarker} {vocalsound} that's more Sebastian's uh um {disfmarker}User Interface: Yeah. But then Bluetooth uh might be problem.Industrial Designer: Hmm.User Interface:'Cause I think Bluetooth uh {disfmarker}Industrial Designer: {vocalsound} It's use uh a lot of uh {disfmarker}Project Manager: Well does itUser Interface: Yeah, I know it from the cell phone.Industrial Designer: well {disfmarker}Project Manager: I'm not sure. Uh {disfmarker}Industrial Designer: Well, cell phones have uh integrated Bluetooth also and, well, it's {disfmarker} it seems to work uh quite okay.Project Manager: Yeah.Industrial Designer: So uh technically it will be possible.User Interface: But you can't you can't use Bluetooth all the time, twenty four hours a day.Project Manager: Okay. Gentlemen, I'm afraid we do not have any more time.User Interface: Does it {disfmarker}Industrial Designer: No, you cannot.User Interface: {vocalsound} It's overIndustrial Designer: {vocalsound} Okay.Marketing: {vocalsound}Project Manager: UmIndustrial Designer: Okay.Project Manager: {vocalsound} so we will go back to our own uh work. Um next meeting starts in thirty minutes and um, well, you know your o your individual actions or your personal coach will probably email you about th it. Um so this was it.User Interface: Okay.Project Manager: See you in thirty minutes.User Interface: Great.
This is the kick-off meeting of the new television remote control project. The team got acquainted with each other and Project Manager described the scope of the project. Industrial Designer claimed that he could support any practical ideas technically and proposed that they could make an interoperable remote control. User Interface agreed and pointed out that people changed the state of the TV by pressing the button. Then he proposed that people should be able to feel the buttons without having to look at them and the buttons should be visible in dark. In terms of the way to connect the remote control to the TV, Industrial Designer suggested that infrared could be substituted by Bluetooth.
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