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Public voting system - rhapsodize4452 - 10-04-2017 [attachment=15096] ABSTRACT This report presents a proposal for a public voting system to be developed as part of the e-Campus project. This is an important area for development because the opinions of students are pivotal to the future of the university, and such a system can increase awareness of important matters. The aim of this project is to develop an interactive voting system with which users can participate using their mobile phone. The project will involve three phases: the development of a graphical front-end to the voting system; the development of a method of interaction with mobile phones, and the development of a web-based administration tool. The results from the proposed project will be an integrated system capable of receiving input from mobile phones, manipulating the received data and outputting it to users in a graphical form via plasma screens located around the university campus. 1. INTRODUCTION A critical factor in running a university is that the needs and wants of students are catered for. Collecting the opinions of a such a large number of people is not an easy task. A new form of data collection needs to be developed in which large numbers of students can air their views on a range of matters of interest to the university. "Campus is a place cut-off from the rest of the world.. Students are disinterested and often blatantly unaware of what's going on around them.." Graduate Student [1] The rationale behind this work is to increase students interest in events happening around them whether this be in the scope of a campus environment, the UK or worldwide and in maintaining this interest to result in increased awareness of the outside world . The proposed system would accomplish this by publicising a range of events, while also asking for the opinions of students on these matters. Page 2 of 8 Over 75% of adults and 90% of young people currently own a mobile phone [2] and they are an essential part of student life. As they are so common they make an ideal medium for communication with a public voting system. The proposed system will provide an attractive graphical front-end which acts as the main point of interaction with users and will be distributed on plasma screen located around campus. Users will be able to interact with the screen using their mobile phone. The topics on which users can vote can be edited by the student union using a web-based administration tool. The system will be called UniVote and the URL univote.co.uk will be used to access any online elements of the project. This report contains a further four sections. Section 2 gives further background information on technical aspects and structure of the system. Section 3 discusses development of the each stage of project and how such a system would be tested. Section 4 details the tasks required to complete the project, and a timescale to complete them in. Section 5 specifies the hardware and software resources required by this project. The final section lists the references used while writing this report. |