Transforming the Personal Response System to a Cloud Voting Service - IT Enabled Services - page 145

Fig. 9.4 Functional chart of the cloud voting system for the Taipei International Flora Exposition
role includes searching system records, screening the rank of incoming tourist time
stamps, and drawing prizes.
The system development environment is depicted in Fig. 9.5 . The server used is
MySQL database under WinServer 2003. The application software used are PHP
Web program language, Flash, XHTML, and JQuery. The application software
used for mobile devices is limited to PHP and XHTML.
The following screen captures illustrate how the cell phone can complete a
voting activity in the TIFE. The English translation is labeled next to the Chinese
version to assist the reader in understanding these illustrations. The assumption is
that any tourist with a ticket can register in the voting system because the ticket
serial number is unique, as seen in Fig. 9.6 . However, in reality, the TIFE did not
design a serial number on the ticket, which has been officially criticized by several
municipal councilmen. However, this condition does not affect the design of the
application of this IRS@cloud system because there would have been a ticket serial
number if this system was adopted by the TIFE Office in the beginning.
To confirm the identity of a prize winner, all voting participants are required to
log in to the system, as seen in Fig. 9.7a . The participant should enter the activity
serial number bound to the activity in any format accessible to the tourists, as seen
in Fig. 9.7b .
In principle, all voting activities are multiple choice questions so the tourists can
easily and quickly click one option and submit the answer back to the IRS@cloud