Adaptive clicker technique

摘要

An adaptive clicker technique is described that provides a standardized polling control and a registration system to support mixed types of clickers and integrate the polling data. One embodiment of the adaptive clicker technique operates as follows. User inputs from more than one type of clicker device (e.g., personal interactive response system device) are received. The inputs from the more than one type of clicker device are formatted with a clicker adapter for each type of clicker to adapt user inputs to a common polling controller. The adapted inputs are then processed with the common polling controller to interface the adapted inputs with a personal response system software application to allow user polling data to be collected and assessed.

主权项

1. A computer-implemented process for allowing different types of clicker devices to be used in a personal response system, comprising:
receiving simultaneous inputs from mixed types of personal response system clicker devices in response to a poll conducted by a personal response system software application, each clicker device type having its own type of device driver or service; simultaneously formatting the inputs from each device driver or service from the mixed types of clicker devices with a clicker adapter for the type of clicker device to adapt the simultaneously received inputs from the clicker devices into a common format compatible with a common single polling controller; formatting the adapted received inputs from each of the clicker adapters into a format that is compatible with the personal response system software application using a polling controller, the polling controller having program interfaces for applications to communicate with each other using the simultaneous inputs from the mixed types of clicker devices; simultaneously processing the formatted adapted inputs with the personal response system software application to allow user polling data to be obtained in response to the poll conducted by the personal response data system, wherein the receiving, formatting and processing are performed by at least one processor.