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| Audience
Response Systems |
| A complete system consisting of keypads
(wired or wireless) a base station, a computer, and
software that is specifically designed to read voting data
from the base station, tabulate the results, and display a
graph. |
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Group Response Systems |
| A Group Response System is
simply another name for audience response systems. |
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Classroom Response Systems |
| Yet
another name for an audience response system, except
that when used in a classroom, it is typically referred
to as a classroom response system or student response
system. |
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Interactive Audience
Response Systems |
| An Interactive Audience
Response System is yet another name for audience response
systems. |
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| Audience
Voting |
| The specific act of entering a number on
a keypad and sending that number to the base station which
gathers votes from all keypads. Some keypads require
that user press a send key, but many types of keypads
automatically send and number that was pressed. Many
keypads allow the user to send a letter, rather than a
number. |
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| Audience
Polling |
| The action by a base station
when it is accepting votes from keypads in the audience.
This would be the time when an interactive question is
being displayed. |
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| Audio
Response System |
| This is a misnomer.
There is no such thing as an audio response system
in this industry.
Because an audience response system is generally viewed as
being part of the audio visual equipment that is on site,
and because many people are simply unfamiliar with the
correct term, it is sometimes called an audio response
system. Also, because Interactive Voice Response
Systems use the audio channel, they too are sometimes
referred to as audio response systems. |
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| Interface |
| The device that connects
between keypads and the computer, thereby acting as an
interface. It takes commands from the computer and
controls the keypads telling them when they can send a
vote, and when to stop sending votes, among other things.
It is also called a base station, controller, or
transceiver. |
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| Base Station |
| An interface (see above) that
is typically associated with a radio technology audience
response system, rather than an infrared audience response
system. Most radio devices (walkie talkies, CB
radios, marine radios, police radios, and so on)
communicate with a base station. |
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| Transceiver |
| A transceiver (as it pertain
to audience response systems) is another name for a base
station. It transmits and receives, therefore it is
a transceiver. |
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| Keypads |
| Handheld devices with buttons
labeled as numbers, or letters, or both, that are used for
inputting and sending a vote. They can utilize
either radio or infrared technology. Keypads are
sometime called handhelds, handsets, or even clickers. |
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Handhelds or Handsets |
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Handhelds and handsets are simply another name for audience
response keypads. |
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Clickers or Remotes |
| Slang for keypads (see
above). |
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ARS or GRS |
| ARS is an acronym for
Audience Response System, and GRS is an acronym for Group
Response System. |
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Interactive Presentation |
| An Interactive Presentation
is any presentation that utilizes an audience response
system, thereby making the audience a part of the
presentation itself. |
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Interactive Meeting |
| An Interactive Meeting is any
meeting that includes at least one Interactive
Presentation. |
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