Online Audience Response System

Situation

• A software vendor provides presentation enhancement software as a plug-in to Microsoft ® PowerPoint ®
• The software enables running of effective group activities with the audience during a presentation

Challenge

• The customers using the product want a live user experience through an audience response system in both an in-person and online setting
• Traditional audience response systems use custom hardware or software for engaging audience in real-time
• Can the product enable the audience to respond using a wide range of generic computing devices without specialized software?

Harbinger Solution

• The PowerPoint add-in is embedded into the presentation deck of presenter
• The presenter shares questions to the audience from time to time from the respective slides
• The audience uses a web-based interface to respond to the questions in real-time
• The PowerPoint add-in uses secured sockets to communicate information to and from connected users
• The audience sees the collective / individual responses, and the presenter harnesses the responses after the session