From: "participant3" <participant3@ami>
To: <HeadOfDept@ami>
Subject: Re: Please summarise the last meeting
Date: 15 December 2004 11:29

For the documentation of the design project, you and all of your colleages are asked to fill out a short questionnaire after e
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: HeadOfDept@ami 
  To: participant3@ami 
  Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2004 11:18 AM
  Subject: Please summarise the last meeting


  Dear Colleague,

   

  Would you be so kind to report to me on the past meeting? Please hit the reply button and fill in the questions below, then click send. Please keep in mind that your notes are part of the project documentation - among other things, they will be used by myself and other staff to stay informed about the state of the project. It is therefore essential that your notes - though kept short - are of high quality. In particular:

   

    a.. Do not use any abbreviations. 
    b.. Write notes that are understandable for somebody who was not present during the meeting 
   

  The head of your department

   

   

  [ABSTRACT]   Write one paragraph of coherent text to summarize the meeting as a whole from your role's perspective.

   

   The meeting served to introduce the team members to one another and throw up some basic design ideas for the remote control. After and Icebreaking excercise, which also served to introduce us to the new whiteboard, we outlined some preliminary design ideas.

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

  [DECISIONS]   Name all decisions that were made during the meeting. Mark those decisions that you consider of high importance for your role with a *. Write fragmented notes.



   Three ideas to be incorporated into the remote;

  integrated control of multiple devices, with macro functionality. 

  Multi-use as games controller,

  barcode reader for programming vcr

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

  [PROBLEMS/ISSUES] Name the problems or difficulties that occurred during the meeting. Mark those that you consider of high importance for your role with a *. Write fragmented notes.



   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

  [ACTIONS]  Name the next steps that each member will take until the next meeting. Write fragmented notes.



  Funtional design stage; - what the remote is supposed to do and how it's going to do it.

  My role is to delineate the what the device is to actually do.
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