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Give every
member of your audience a keypad.
Project the question you want answered onto a screen,
together with a few possible options. Ask the audience to push the appropriate
button of their choice and "hey presto" a histogram comes up
immediately on screen showing their collective response.
Having bought you audience to life you are now set-up to record every button pressed, the sequence of presses and the time taken to press, by individual keypad.
The GRS of itself will not of course enliven any audience. It is the creative application of this exciting and novel medium that will realise the benefits you are looking for, which will in turn be determined by the objectives of each meeting. Although the requirements of any conference will be unique, there are certain basic approaches which have successfully been used on a large number of occasions that serve to demonstrate some possible uses of the GRS and some particular advantages to you.
Counter revolutionOne of the fundamental attributes of the GRS is its ability to "profile" an audience, identifying such characteristics like gender, age, educational background, newspaper readership, nationality, knowledge of a topic, whatever.
Armed with this knowledge, speakers can adapt their presentations to meet the needs of their audience.