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Audience Response Systems and
Electronic Audience Voting Systems:
Learn about Audience Response
Systems and Electronic Audience Voting System technologies, software, how
to buy them, and the issues of ownership.
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Audience Response Systems and Electronic Audience Voting Systems:
Learn about Audience Response Systems and Electronic Audience Voting
System technologies, software,
how to buy them, and the issues of ownership.
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Shopping for an
Electronic Audience Voting System can be a daunting task, littered with pitfalls for the
inexperienced. The investment in time and money can be substantial, which calls
for due diligence in the earliest stages of your purchase decision.
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| Here you'll learn about the various wireless audience response voting technologies,
and about the software that you'll need to make your presentation
interactive. We also touch on complementary systems such as
cellular and PDA based surveying. |
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| Don't forget to check our
support page for discussion of ongoing
maintenance, upgrades, and issues of ownership. This will help
flush out longer term costs and get you thinking about exactly who
in the organization will be responsible for the care of your new
voting system. |
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| And before you make a final decision, be sure to
try it out.
You need to make sure that the people who will use your new Audience Response
System are
comfortable with it, and that they buy into the concept of
interaction.
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| Step 1: Get others involved from the
start. |
| We will assume that you wont be the only one in
your organization who will use the system. So, it is best
to get the others involved in the process from the start. Put
the word out that you'll be buying an Audience Response System. Ask if they
are interested in sharing it, and whether they can help with the
cost. Then get together with those who are interested,
form a team, and be sure to do a needs analysis. |
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| Step 2: Doing a
"needs" analysis. |
| There are many mainstream applications for audience response. They include: general
opinion polling
for presentation support, employee surveys, customer surveys,
training, market research, learning though game shows, and
parliamentary type electronic voting. |
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| Discuss these with the team. List the
three most important applications to your organization. Do
not take on more than three initially. Once you've purchased
a system and have experience with it, then you can roll it
into other areas of the company. |
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| You should then define the 'average' number of
people in each of your top three
meeting types, and the likelihood of simultaneous usage. The
goal is to decide whether one large system, versus two or
three smaller systems is best. |
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| Know that in most cases, a single presenter can
connect 2 or 3 small systems to a single computer in
order to service a larger audience. Most radio based
hardware platforms (more info on the technologies page) can be purchased tuned to a specific
channel. You would ideally order each system assigned to a
different channel.
Each system will connect to a serial port on the notebook,
or desktop computer. (There are USB devices that add
serial ports if needed.) So, using multiple systems is
usually only a matter of having enough serial ports. The
software takes care of the rest. |
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| You should also know that most
radio based
systems allow you to change the channel of the keypad
quite easily. So, if you need just a few extra for a given
system on a given day, you could borrow them from another
system. Just be sure you change them back to original
channel when you return them. Otherwise, your coworker is
not going to be too happy with you. |
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| With a good understanding of the number of
hardware systems you will need, the number of keypads per
system, and the top three uses for the systems, you are ready to
choose between radio and infrared technologies. |
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