AMI IS1009c — remote control design: conceptual design

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Are we doing?

Yeah. Good. First,

we're going over the minutes of the last meeting, more or less. Mhmm. In the last meeting, the marketing manager had presented

her method of working, meaning gathering suggestions from everyone to see how she best could market this product at within the budget that was given.

In general, the idea is that it should be something that is not difficult to use.

It's also an item that people lose a lot, so we should address that. And of course, it should be something that is very simple to use. In addition to that, to make it sell, of course, the marketing manager wishes that it be very attractive or like she says, put some sizzle into it in one way or another. So that the people are buying it now because in particular with smaller items, that's a very important fact. Because if they say, well, I go home and think about it, that won't work.

Also mentioned was it should be it should have a very short learning curve,

and maybe it could be sold by using a slogan. Our

technical manager has then said that he feels it should have a chip that has infrared bits and it has an interface controls interface that controls the chip. Therefore, messages, will be controlled in the same manner. There should be extra features like lit buttons, maybe a beep if too many buttons are pressed,

child lock,

and maybe a display clock so that people could

could see the time, you know, what show they want to watch. Also mentioned was maybe different shapes.

So the components of the thing should be button, bulbs, infrared bulbs, battery, chips, wires, and maybe some kind of a holder, for the for the item.

Francina, who is our

Interface designer. Interface designer,

has mentioned that the there, of course, should have an on off button and also has mentioned an interesting feature that it should have maybe a channel lock, particularly with maybe small children that they couldn't watch a channel that is undesirable. It should be compact. Her personal favorite was it should be t shaped and maybe have an alarm clock, and the material should possibly be of nonallergic nature.

The different systems that exist are infrared or radio waves.

Maybe it should have electric electricity saving feature and even possibly a timer to so that people can program their favorite

program on right from the remote. Yes.

Are we all in agreement that that's about what we discussed last time? Yes.

I think that pretty much is it. Okay.

Then we I'm looking for three presentations, and I don't know whether the order matters much. I don't I don't think so. So whoever wants I can start first. Yeah. Okay. Okay.

My slide, please. Slides. Okay.

Oh, come on. Close already.

And that's number two. Right? Three. Three. But it's been three. Yes.

Okay. Now as an interface designer, I would give more emphasis on the interface, how the remote looks like so that it is sellable, it is attractive to customers.

Next, please. Okay. Now the function of a remote is to send messages to television. These messages could be a switch on off message or switch to next channel message or swapping the channels or switching on to a particular channel like can have the numbers one, two, three, four, up to nine.

Nine what? Nine channel switches?

Pardon me? Nine channel switches? Yes. Yeah. Nine numbers. Mhmm. And then you have swapping button by which using which you can swap the channels. If you don't want to see the third channel, you can swap it to the fourth channel or vice versa.

Then it should have a next button next button channel by which you can keep on Mhmm. Scrolling the channels one by one. Next slide, please. Mhmm.

Then you should have a button which should which can which can be used for increasing or decreasing the volume. Mhmm. Then there should be a button which can give subtitles for a particular program which is going on at television. For example, if you're watching a French program and you would like to have subtitles in English, then there should be a channel which can trigger this mechanism in the television so that the user can see the the subtitles on the screen.

Then there should there should be some buttons which can control features like the color color of the picture, the contrast, sharpness, brightness of the picture.

Now there should be a memory switch.

There should be a mute button. Suddenly, if if if a a viewer, he gets a telephone call. And if he want, he doesn't want to switch off the, TV, but he he can reduce the sound. He can bring the volume down, and he can watch. He can, while talking, he can watch the TV. Now the most important feature I would like to have in my remote would be the speech recognition feature. It's an integrated program programmable sample sensor speaker unit.

So remote can be can be, designed which can have the voice recognizes. You can record your own voice

Mhmm. Which can be recognized by as voice recognizer in the television. For example, if you want to see if you want to see the ninth channel, if you say just say ninth channel, the the the, yeah, the remote will automatically it will switch to the ninth channel. Mhmm. So the TV will have some recognizer which will recognize the user's voice, and accordingly, it will change its functionalities. Mhmm. Mhmm. So this is one of the very important feature a remote control can have. So this is one one of the interface which can be created.

Mhmm. A very simple interface which has all that important features.

Then please next slide. Mhmm.

Then these are some of the remotes which are different in shape and color, but they have many buttons. Mhmm. So sometimes the user finds it very difficult to recognize which button is for what function and all that. So you can you can design an interface which is very simple and which is user friendly. Even a kid can use that. Mhmm. So can you go on to the next slide? Yeah. So this is one of the interface or one of the remote which has this voice recognizer. Mhmm. And this has multipurpose use. It can be used for TV. It can be used for cable satellites. It can be used for VCR, DVDs, and audio.

And this has inbuilt voice recognizer. Mhmm.

Can you go on to the next slide? Yeah. Now this is an interface for a child for a remote which a child can use. Mhmm. This is user friendly. It's very attractive, and children can use it as well as they can play with it. And this comes with different colors, different shapes.

Mhmm. And this this, child interface has minimum buttons, and all the important, buttons are there in this small, compact, attractive child interface.

Next slide, please. Now this is a big, oversized remote which cannot be misplaced, or it's impossible to be misplaced. I don't know. You don't know me.

I could lose that in a minute. No. This is a very big you cannot misplace it anywhere. So this is a jumbo universal remote control. It's impossible to misplace or lose. Mhmm. This this is one such interface which can be created.

And the personal preference would be a incorporate speech recognizers, which will respond to user's voice for a particular function. Right. Thank you. That's it. Mhmm.

Okay. Thank you very much. Any comments on her presentation?

Well, looks like we still have quite a choice of things out there.

No suggestion is bad. Yes. But we're gonna have to narrow it down a little more. I don't think that we can get

the t shape is good. The child one is good. The too big to misplace, I think, is just funny. I don't think that's gonna be our impulse purchase at the checkout counter. It's it's gonna be a little bit too long. We will These are her presentations. But as

far as the decision making, we're getting to that after. Okay. But if I just wanted to know whether anybody had any

anything to add to her presentation. Was good, and she really explored all the options. Mhmm. Who wants to go next?

Yeah. Maybe. Okay. And you I'll be sitting too.

Yeah. Okay. The next one. Oops. It's it's the the old movement. One.

The components design. Mhmm. Okay.

Yeah.

This time, I'm I'm going to concentrate more on the components Mhmm. And the technical side of the remote controller design. Can you go on to the next slide, please? I have just briefed down a few components which we require for the remote control construction. The first one is case to keep all the components, like integrated circuit, battery, etcetera, etcetera. Etcetera. It's like it can be a plastic one, hard plastic, so that it can be strong even if you just

you know, if you if it falls down, then it doesn't break. So it should be strong. Mhmm. And there are no harmful materials used in that, and it should be recyclable. Mhmm. And Good point. Yeah. And also using of coloring compound compounds. Like, if we want to have different colors, blue, red, green, so, we have to use, some coloring component component compounds. And, the second important thing is, integrated circuit,

We we can use a highly sophisticated one because it's like the it's like the heart of the remote controller. If it is not efficient, then everything is going to be, like, less less efficient. So it you should we should have a highly sophisticated one, and it should be resistant to high as well as low temperatures. Suppose if it is 38 degrees outside, 40 degrees outside, it should it should be able to resist the temperature high temperature and low temperatures. And it should be with equipped with timer and alarm facility.

And the other component we should we have in the remote controller is a resistor, which is like it is very, very much important for the electricity flow through through through the remote controller and also a capacitor, which is a which is a I think it's it's like a battery capacitor. Can you go to the next slide, please? Mhmm.

A diode, a transistor, a resonator. These are all this technical electro electronic components, which are which we have to use in a remote controller. A battery, I would like to suggest one thing. If we if we will be able to make a re rechargeable battery, then we we need not go for a high performance battery. Mhmm. Even if it is a low performance battery, it it can't it can't charge much. It it it's not a high voltage battery. Then also we can if it is a rechargeable one, then people can use it for a long time. So in that way, we can cut cut the cost, but that

we have to make the battery as rechargeable one. And we we have a circuit board in a remote controller. Can you go to the next slide, please? And how it works, how the remote controller works. When you press a button,

go away. Thank you. When you press a button, when you do that, you complete a specific connection. That means when you when you press a button, there will be a a small circuit underneath the button, and it will send some signals through the wires. And then the chip will sense that connection and knows that which button is pressed. Suppose you have pressed channel one button, number one you have pressed, then the chip will know that the number one button was pressed. It produces a more Morse code line signal specific to that button.

Every button, every individual button has its own Morse code. Suppose the user has pressed button button one, then it will have a the circuit will generate a specific Morse code to that that button, and the transistor will amplify the signal and send them to the LED, which translates the signal into infrared light. Like, you have got a signal by pressing a button. That's Morse code has been generated by the integrated circuit. Now that signal, that Morse code has to be amplified by the transistor. That is the use of transistor. Transistor we which we use in the remote controller. It will amplify the signal, and it will send it to the LED

and which translates the signal into an infrared infrared bits. The sensor in the TV can see the infrared light, and seeing the signal seeing the signal, re it reacts appropriately. That when it sees the amplified Morse code signal, then it will it will know which what what action it has to do. Then it will do the appropriate appropriate action. So this is how the remote controller works. Can

you go to the next slide, please? Yeah. I have few pictures. When you look at the remote controller, it's it's this is a normal remote controller. Mhmm. And to the next slide, please. And we had a few buttons and all. And if you open the remote controller, you have this circuit circuit board Mhmm. And few electronic components. Like, you can see a there Mhmm. Which is having 18 pins and also a a capacitor, three resistors, and also resonator.

Yeah. And the and the diode transistor. Mhmm. The electronic components all of the electronic components have all those things like a chip and diode transistors.

Yeah. The can you you can see the TA11835 labeled Yes. Chip. Yes.

You can also see the the green two green things are these are they they are resistors. And just beside that, you can see a transistor. And the cylinder shape, that one is a capacitor. And, also, there are resistors. Sorry. There there is a diode. Mhmm. Can you go go on to the next slide? So this is the circuit board. The green one is a circuit board. Actually, building a circuit board is pretty, pretty easy, and also it's it's inexpensive. It's it costs less than what you print on a paper. Because when you when you are building some

circuits some circuits and also wires, it's it's better to go for printing because you can build these kind of circuit boards on a on a bulk, and it's just printing. Nothing like you know, you you don't need to use wires and all. It's not exactly wires we are using. It's just printing something on a board. The those prints will act act as wires and circuits. So that green thing is a circuit board. And, also, you can see there are, like, access for buttons. Like, when you press a button, the circuit under the button will be activated.

It will it will get some signals from it, and it will it will send the signal signals to the integrated circuit. Can you go to the next slide, please? So this is these are the circuits an underneath the buttons. Can you see the black round marks? They they are the circuits. Next, please. And, like, we have designed before, we have seen some few things like instead of buttons, we have some scrolls.

But a a push button requires a simple chip underneath it, but whereas a scroll wheel requires normally a regular chip, which is a higher price range. Like, for scrolls, we have to go for a sophisticated and Okay. Full complete chip. And as energy source, we offer a basic battery, more engineers, a hard dynamo, a kinetic provision of energy, modern watches that you shake casually to provide energy. So that also we can have in a battery, or we can use solar cells.

That's interesting. Yeah.

Yeah. The product can be delivered into different cases. Usually, the case is uncarved flat that we see usually a normal remote controller.

Okay. Yeah. And you have more pictures? We have five minutes to the end of the meeting. I have just one more slide, I think.

Like, we can have materials such as plastic, rubber, wood, titanium, but titanium, we can't use. And also for electronics, we can use a simple and regular or an advanced chip on the print. Also, it includes infrared send sender. Yeah. And for the movie, just to develop a sample sensors sample speaker.

Yeah. That's it. That's all for me now. I know. Okay. Well, thank you.

Any particular comments by anybody?

On the scroll and the push button, can you can achieve scrolling by repeatedly pushing a button?

No. No. No. The the the scrolling was different. Like, you can go for switches like buttons or scrolls Mhmm. Which which we used to do before ten ten years before, I think. Now nobody uses it because you need you need a a sophisticated chip and all. So I think it's better we go for

ordinary buttons. We'll just go for push buttons for in interest of cost. Yeah. Okay. We don't have a lot of time left, and we will still have to make a decision at the marketing. Expert has to present her. Okay. You're right with my first my next slide. Okay.

Alright. My method is I'm interested in what the competition is doing and want to see how we can make ourselves different from the competition. So I've really been looking at the press and the ads that are out there for other remote controllers. I I spend a lot of time on the Internet surfing around doing the same thing. And then when I'm out in people's houses or at meetings or anything like that, I try to notice what kind of remote controls people have. And if it's convenient in the conversation, I ask about it. And I would encourage you all to do the same.

And my findings from this is that you know, small is beautiful. People like something that really fits in their hand. Simple is beautiful. They don't want to have to squint at small print. They want buttons whose functions are obvious and they want as few buttons as possible and they don't care for the mode thing. They want each button to do something. And eye catching is important. It's gotta look cute. It's gotta look appealing. Go ahead. I'm trying to finish fast for you.

And our preferences, as far as I'm concerned, are we've gotta get to the market before the competition. Ours has to be look really great and it has to come out before the others so that we have a leg up on time to sell it and push it before other people get out their Christmas item. And we should develop one or two features we can really dwell on in our ad campaign. If we try to tell people it has too many great features, the consumer just gets confused and we don't get anywhere. So we've got to narrow our selection down to two things I think that we're going to say are really great about our new product.

And I've been looking around at what designs every year different things are popular. And in my research this year I found out that fruit and vegetable shapes are really popular. And people are tired of hard plastic and hard metal. They're more back into soft feel, spongy feeling things, things with maybe a little cloth on them. So those are things maybe we wanna look at as far as salability of the item. Mhmm.

Okay.

That concludes the presentation of everyone. And what we really have to decide in this meeting is the concept of the remote.

Mhmm.

And

so what do we think on the concept of the remote?

You wanna try to come back to yours and Yes. I would like to include this feature, which is called as voice recognizer.

Okay. Okay?

Mhmm. Mhmm. So speech recognition is most important as far as you're concerned. This could be one feature which could be syllable. Yeah. That could that could that could be our star feature. That that might be really good. Yeah. Mhmm. I agree with that. But I'm very, very much doubtful how how

far it will work because speech recognizer, like, it it has its own Distance problem? Yeah. It's not distance problem. Recognizing a person's voice. Like, maybe different people will be having different voices. So Okay. Like, it's a everything Well, you you teach. You have to teach. So to get a good recognizing

system, it's a Yeah. It's it's like you're recording all a question already, and then you're expecting an answer from for example, you have a TV system. I'm the user Mhmm. And my family members are the user. I will already record a a question like, good morning, like, around 08:00. I want to see the news Mhmm. In the television. So I'll say just good morning, and the TV will switch on. Mhmm. It will recognize my voice and to switch on. Before Before we get too far off here,

the components of the concept is the energy. What kind of energy do we foresee?

Battery? I think battery is Battery. And I think we all agreed on that. That that's that's gonna be most cost effective and the best thing. Okay. Then chip on print? Yeah. Yes. Okay.

And the case. And I think we all agree on the case. We wanna have something

maybe bright, colorful. Yeah. Bright, colorful, compact. Trendy trendy design. It's trendy design and compact.

Mhmm. Trendy design, compact and strong. Mhmm. Yes.

User interface concept,

interface type supplements.

That will be your area, I think. Right? Yeah.

Like the switches? Like, we use buttons for user interface? Push buttons? Push buttons. I guess for

yeah.

And I'm not sure what they mean by supplements.

Supplements, like, different types of features, buttons. Yeah. Or, like Mute buttons. Or, like, her speech recognition would also be a supplement. Her speech recognition feature would be a supplement. Yes. Okay. So why don't we put down speech recognition if possible, pending some more research from our industrial engineer on how expensive that is? Right.

Okay.

Our next meeting will be in thirty minutes. And the

ID is to this is the individual actions to be taken until then. To have the look and feel design

and the UID is supposed to

come up with the user interface design Mhmm. And the marketing expert with the product evaluation. Okay. In this phase, the two of you, Jana and Francine, have to work together on a prototype using modeling clay. It says here, you will receive specific instructions will be sent to you by your coaches. Okay.

If you have any questions, you know, you you can always contact me or or your coach, I suppose.

Wherever they're hiding.

So I think we conclude the meeting here, and we come back in thirty minutes Okay. According to our time table here.

Thank you very much. Thank you.

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