Audience Response System (ARS)

EMD is able to vitalise and value add to any program using a Audience Response System. The Audience Response System enables the audience to provide specific feedback during a program by "voting" with a keypad. The public is used to this concept through the "election worm" and the "who wants to be a millionaire" game show.

Key benefits:

	Generates audience participation
	Facilitates discussion
	Participants feel more comfortable using a handset than raising their hand
	Identifiable responses from participants or non identifiable responses from participants
	Paperless
	Instantaneous results
	Spontaneous questions and feedback
	Results can be provided to project manager (if necessary) in raw form (CSV file), graphical reports and data reports

Applications of an Audience Response System

It can be incorporated into your next:

	Training program
	Staff / delegate / committee meeting
	Strategy & Planning session
	Focus Group
	Conference

It can be used in any of the following scenarios, and its application will depend on the specific requirements of the client:

	Fun quiz activity to energise participants.
	To gauge understanding of content.
	To gauge reactions/perceptions/level of agreement/voting on issues.
	To pose spontaneous questions to the audience.
	To identify specific responses from specific participants.

Examples of client application options:

	Participants, questions and seating arrangements can be predefined by the client.
	Where participant's responses don't need to be identified, remotes can be distributed at random. This enables participant confidentiality and more truthful responses when participants know they cannot be identified.
	Spontaneous questions generated during a session requiring responses can be posed to participants.
	Results can be shown to participants after each question and used to facilitate discussion or facilitate changes to the agenda (if necessary).
	Results can be recorded, where necessary, for review at a later date.

For more information about how EMD's Audience Response System can add value to your next group event, please give us a call on +61 2 8399 0011 and ask to speak to one of our consultants.

Alternatively, e-mail us at info@emdgroup.com.au.

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