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9.4 Experimental Prototype
This concept of cloud voting system was implemented by a team of undergraduate
students for their graduating project. During the 1-year duration of their project, five
students proposed and implemented a simple version of cloud voting system for the
2010 Taipei International Flora Exposition (TIFE). This project was part of the
requirements of the creative competition held by Chunghwa Telecom, along with
a full version for using in college classrooms. More details are provided for the
TIFE case because the mobile device is necessary in this setting. The full version,
although more complicated, can be easily incorporated into university-level
e-learning platforms, such as Moodle or Blackboard.
9.4.1 Cloud Voting System for 2010 Taipei International
Flora Exposition
The objective of the TIFE project was to enable the PRS system to be available to
tourists via wireless access to make voting-related activities a more instantaneous
and fun experience. The core process of a cloud voting system for the TIFE
activities, as illustrated in Fig. 9.3 , is summarized as follows:
First, the TIFE-authorized person can log in to the system using a management
account to set up questions and generate URL link for convenient access by tourists.
Second, the voting URL is posted to the public so the tourists can access it from
their own devices and register the ticket series number with their name and phone
number for future identification and contact. Third, in addition to tourist access to
the cloud voting system via the traditional desktop computers or notebook
computers, the voting web pages have functional-oriented designs tailored for
mobile devices for the user to easily submit the selected item to the server. Fourth,
the TIFE office can check the voting results and statistical charts on the web pages
in private or in public. The tourists who have voted can also check the outcomes
after the voting activity ends. Fifth, the TIFE office can randomly draw the prize
winners from those who voted or who voted specific answers.
Several activities can be created to take advantage of this cloud voting system.
These activities could include calls for a prized quiz, quick question and answer,
and the popular flower voting. This cloud voting system will not only save labor
cost, such as tallying the vote statistics, and resource consumption, such as printing
on papers, but can also increase interest and profit through this fresh and innovative
way of interacting with tourists. To make voting convenient and eliminate concerns
for compatibility issue for majority of the tourists, basic HTML approach can be
used, which allows web pages to be downloaded through personal computers,
notebooks, cell phones, PDAs, and other web-enabled mobile devices. To illustrate
how the combination of the cloud voting system with TIFE tourists' own mobile
devices can increase the variety of activities and attention of participants to create
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