MGS 101 Information Technology: Working of Talent Show Voting System

In relation to software engineering, explain how does the talent show voting systems works (what happens when participants “viewers” click on the buttons) and what are the requirement models that need to establish such a system.

Answer:

Introduction

In the modern times, the Talen Shows make use of Text based voting systems or SMS Polling systems. These systems allow a person to vote based on a text message.

Working of Talent Show Voting System 

The voting systems within talent shows is based on the responses provided by the audience. This is a form of interaction is based on association based on the responses of the audiences. The different Audience Response System (ARS) are composed of software and hardware systems. This form of software would have similarity to presentation software. These kinds of devices are similar to the remote controls of television, which send infrared signals to a receiver (Redden 2016). This receiver is attached to the computer of the presenter. The software system present within the computer records and thus is able to display the responses gathered from each audience.  

Tracking of Responses by ARS

The audiences within the talent shows are provided with clickers or keypads. These devices are embedded with receivers that are able to transmit signals. The responses that are sent by the audiences. The devices are registered to a particular device. Whenever the user would send a response, the information would get stored within a database.

Display of Results

Based on the polling results, the ARS includes the use of software that runs on the computer of the presenter. The responses are tabulated in the form of a bar chart and are displayed on a projector screen.

Hardware and Software

The ARS requires the use of wireless hardware. The primary technologies that are used are radio frequency (RF) and infrared (IR), Bluetooth or Wireless Fidelity (Wi-Fi) technologies for communication with the reciever. The ARS systems helps the presenter for collection of data, display polling results and export data based on reporting and collection of analytics (Kühbeck, Engelhardt and Sarikas 2014). The other requirement models that are required are Mentimeter, or a form of plug-in such as Keynote or PowerPoint.

Conclusion

Hence, from the discussion it could be concluded that these devices are extremely useful for collection of responses from the audiences.

References

Kühbeck, F., Engelhardt, S. and Sarikas, A., 2014. OnlineTED. com− a novel web-based audience response system for higher education. A pilot study to evaluate user acceptance. GMS Zeitschrift für Medizinische Ausbildung, 31(1).

Redden, G., 2016. Making over the talent show. In Exposing Lifestyle Television (pp. 139-154). Routledge.