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Electronic voting on-the-fly with mobile devices

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This paper describes a system for electronic voting in the classroom based on mobile devices. There is no need for special hardware. Cellular telephones or iPods with access to the Internet can be used for electronic polling. The system is so flexible, that the questions can be handwritten on the blackboard, on the spot, then generating automatically a web address which can be accessed with the voting device. Electronic voting can be started spontaneously without tedious preparations. This approach can be seamlessly integrated in E-Chalk, our electronic classroom software.

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      cover image ACM SIGCSE Bulletin
      ACM SIGCSE Bulletin  Volume 40, Issue 3
      ITiCSE '08
      September 2008
      362 pages
      ISSN:0097-8418
      DOI:10.1145/1597849
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        ITiCSE '08: Proceedings of the 13th annual conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education
        June 2008
        394 pages
        ISBN:9781605580784
        DOI:10.1145/1384271

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