Developing a Real-Time Web Questionnaire System for Interactive Presentations

Conducting presentations with bidirectional communication requires extended presentation systems with sophisticated expressions and real-time feedback gathering. We aim to develop an interactive presentation system to enhance presentations with bidirectional communication during presentations. We employed a hybrid approach of a traditional presentation supporting system (PowerPoint) and a Web application to realize the interactive presentation system. The audience can provide direct feedback on delivered slides using the Web applications; then, the feedback is synchronized to the presenter’s slides. Specifically, the presenter collects opinions using our real-time questionnaire function. The questionnaire results are displayed on the slide in real time, which can help presenters to grasp opinions about their presentation. Because users can make their questionnaires in PowerPoint, doing so is quite easy. This paper explains the development of the system and demonstrates that the real-time questionnaire system has high performance and scalability. Keywords—Interactive presentation; real-time Web questionnaire; collaborative tools; communication aids; information sharing; Web services