Interactive Voting Systems
Audience participation is a very important part of corporate
presentations these days. Allowing audience members to vote
using the latest technology can be an efficient and convenient way
of making an event fully interactive. This is why electronic
interactive voting systems have become so popular.
Interactive voting is important during events
such as annual general meetings and in some TV game shows.
However many other events can also benefit from interactive voting
systems. During a presentation a speaker can make sure that
their audience is kept alert by occasionally asking for audience
members to take a vote on a specific
topic.
The technology needed for a working
interactive response system, as interactive voting systems are also
known, is fairly simple and does not need to be expensive or
difficult to install. The system consists of a receiver,
computer software, and interactive keypads which function as the
voting devices. Whenever the audience is asked to vote on a
particular issue they access the interactive response system by
entering their choice in the keypad.
Advantages of interactive
response systems compared to voting by a show of hands
or by marking a paper are several. One of the most important
benefits of interactive voting is that the votes can be tallied
almost instantaneously which enhances the interactive experience:
presenters can feed back the voting results as and when needed.
In addition an interactive voting system is an
easy way of making sure that voters have completely anonymity,
interactive voting occurs electronically so none of the audience
members nor the presenter are aware of the individual voting
choices.