Assignment 1 - TV Remote for 10,000 ChannelsIn 1990 (when I was a student!), we had a total of 2 TV channels. Today we have 86 (in Kandivali). Back then, we had a round big knob on our B/W TV. If you turned it, you could tune to either channel. Today, we can automatically tune our TV and then select a channel by a 2 digit number. By 2015 (by the time some of you will be my age) we might easily have 1000+ TV channels (and hopefully there will be something worth watching on TV). Design the interaction of channel surfing when there are 1000+ TV channels. One way of doing this is to allow the user to group all channels into meaningful groups. For example news channels, movie channels, music channels, sports channels, kids channels, nature channels, agricultural channels, saans-bahu serial channels etc. There could be alternative grouping. For example husband's favorite channels, wife's favorite channels, kids favorite channels, most favorite channels in the house, most favorite channels in the city / country, least favorite channels in the house / city / building etc. Design the interaction with a TV remote control that will allow users to:
Can you make it happen without adding too many devices to the current TV remote? Submission on Thursday, Jan 6th by 5.00 pm. |
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