Audience Response Systems combine advanced keypad technology with cutting-edge software to create interactive environments
Audience Response hardware and software offer a variety of options to cater to your specific interactive needs. A typical audience response system is comprised of the following components:
- base station (receiver)
- wireless keypads (one for every participant)
- audience response system software
In addition to the above items, a computer will be needed to run the software and hook up to the base station. The computer should also be connected to the projector that is being used for the presentation. Different audience response systems will have different computer requirements, so check with your ARS vendor to determine if your computer meets the minimum requirements.
The system runs like this:
- Audience response system software is loaded onto the presentation machine (i.e. the computer used to facilitate the presentation)
- The base station is hooked up to the presentation machine
- The facilitator presents a question to the audience, as well as a list of possible choices
- Participants use their wireless keypad to select the choice they think is correct
- The base station receives the participant answers and stores them in a database which resides on the presentation machine as part of the audience response software
- The software instantly displays a graph representing the results (e.g. 32% said “yes,” 68% said “no”)
- The data can later be retrieved in a variety of reporting formats