KR20020075332A - Two-Sides Seminar Progressing System and The Transmitting Device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: An interactive seminar progressing system and a transmitting device for the same are provided to collect opinions of participators in real time and make the participators and a chairman progress a seminar through a dialogue when the seminar is progressed. CONSTITUTION: A managing computer(10) stores a seminar related question and loads a seminar result analysis program. A receiver(30) transmits a selection value of a participator to the managing computer(10). A plurality of transmitters(20) transmits a selection value selected by responding to a question displayed on an output unit connected to the managing computer(10) to the receiver(30) by wireless. The managing computer(10) is operated by a program including a data receiving module to be received the selection value, an analysis module for calculating a frequency of the received selection value, a data managing module for storing the received selection value, and an output module for displaying a question to be received the selection value and a selection value analysis result.

Description

Two-Sides Seminar Progressing System and The Transmitting Device

The present invention relates to a two-way seminar progress system and a transmission apparatus, and more particularly, it is possible to collect the opinions of participants in real time during the course of the seminar, the interactive seminar proceeding to allow participants and moderators to conduct the seminar in a conversational format A system and its transmission apparatus.

Originally, the meaning of the seminar was to refer to the research activities that all members discuss based on the teaching method or the research presentations of several members nominated at the conference, etc., which students jointly discuss and study under the guidance of professors in higher education institutions.

However, the seminar here is not only in higher education institutions or academic societies, but also in one organization where one person gives a presentation and the others listen to the content or an unspecified number of people as participants. Used to include all forms.

In the existing seminars, the presenter took the form of unilaterally conducting the seminar by himself, and failed to induce the interest of the participants because the seminar did not proceed according to the participants' understanding of the contents presented by the presenter.

In addition, it is not possible to collect the opinions of the participants on the seminar, so it is not an effective seminar for the participants, and there is no record of the questions and answers ritually conducted at the end of the seminar. For example, they were uncomfortable with not being able to obtain the satisfaction with the seminar or the result of some kind of survey related to the seminar topic.

The present invention has been made in view of the above points, and an object thereof is to provide an interactive seminar progress system and a transmission apparatus thereof.

Other objects and advantages of the invention will be described below and will be appreciated by the practice of the invention. In addition, the objects and advantages of the present invention can be realized by means and combinations indicated in the claims.

The following drawings attached to this specification are illustrative of preferred embodiments of the present invention, and together with the detailed description of the invention to serve to further understand the technical spirit of the present invention, the present invention is a matter described in such drawings It should not be construed as limited to

1 is a system configuration according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention,

2 is an external configuration and an internal functional configuration of a transmitter according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention;

3 is an internal functional diagram of a receiver according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention;

4 is a functional diagram of a computer interior according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention;

5 is a flowchart illustrating a process of an interactive seminar according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention;

6A to 6C are user interface screens of a seminar result analysis program implemented according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

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10: management computer 20: transmitter 30: receiver

40: wireless RF communication 50: RS232 communication cable

One preferred embodiment of the present invention for achieving the above object relates to a two-way seminar progress system, a management computer that stores a question related to a seminar and is loaded with a seminar result analysis program; A receiver for communicating a selection value of the participant to the management computer; And a plurality of transmitters for wirelessly delivering the selected selection values to the receiver in accordance with a query presented to an output coupled to the management computer.

In addition, the present invention wirelessly transmits the selected value to the receiver in response to a question appearing in the output unit connected to the computer main body loaded with a seminar result analysis program for receiving and analyzing the selection value of the participants for the seminar-related questions already stored It includes a transmitter for transmitting.

Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. Prior to this, terms or words used in the specification and claims should not be construed as having a conventional or dictionary meaning, and the inventors should properly explain the concept of terms in order to best explain their own invention. Based on the principle that it can be defined, it should be interpreted as meaning and concept corresponding to the technical idea of the present invention. Therefore, the embodiments described in the specification and the drawings shown in the drawings are only one of the most preferred embodiments of the present invention and do not represent all of the technical idea of the present invention, various modifications that can be replaced at the time of the present application It should be understood that there may be equivalents and variations.

First, Figure 1 is a system configuration according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

The system of the present invention comprises a plurality of transmitters 20 for delivering a selection value selected by the participant; A receiver 30 connected to the transmitter 20 through a wireless RF communication method 40 and receiving a selection value stored in the transmitter; And a management computer 10 which is connected to a receiver by an RS232 communication cable 50 and analyzes the received selection value and outputs the result to an output unit.

The transmitter 20 selects all the electrical devices involved in the process from which the information signal is radiated to the radio wave from the transmitting antenna, and the receiver 30 selects only the necessary radio waves from the myriad of radio waves flowing in the space and stores the information contained therein. It is defined as any electrical device that is needed to find it again.

The data communication method of the transmitter 20 and the receiver 30 is a wireless RF communication method, which is easier to install than the wired method.

In addition, in this embodiment, the number of participants in the seminar should be designed to anticipate up to about 200 to 400 people, and thus there is a limitation in the existing frequency division scheme that the transmitter unilaterally transmits to the receiver.

Therefore, in the present embodiment, as one of the methods in which the receiver controls the transmission of a plurality of transmitters, a polling method in which the receiver sequentially asks the transmitter whether there is a transmission request and permits transmission to the requesting transmitter is selected. Doing.

RF is a general term for wireless equipment stage using electromagnetic waves.

The term RF refers to a frequency of less than 1Ghz as a dictionary frequency definition, and microwave refers to electromagnetic waves of 300Mhz to 30Ghz.

Electromagnetic wave refers to high frequency band frequency that is mainly applied to wireless communication, and RF generally refers to the concept of radio equipment / engineering using such high frequency. After all, RF generally refers to high frequency wireless communication of about 100 ~ 300Mhz or more. And it can be summarized as a term referring to the whole equipment design, research engineering using high frequency. Here, the common frequency of 424-433Mhz is preferably used, and the communication distance is suitably 50-80m.

In general, when exchanging information with a device in a computer, a high speed communication speed is usually required, and a parallel communication method that can process a lot of information at a time is mainly used. However, due to the limited communication distance, technical difficulties in implementation, and cost, the parallel communication method cannot be used in all cases.

Therefore, when the computer communicates with the outside, the serial communication method is often used. The serial communication method is a method of transmitting and receiving data bits in one bit unit to the outside and is easy to implement, and can be far away. It is easy to use a furnace (such as a telephone line), which has the advantage of reducing costs. Typical examples of serial communication are modem, LAN, RS232 and X.25.

RS232 communication method has the disadvantage of slower communication speed and shorter communication distance than RS422 and RS485, but it has the advantage of cost saving because one transmission line is required for one signal transmission.

Thus, in this case, the receiver 30 and the computer are connected to each other via an RS232 communication cable to transmit and receive data in an RS232 communication method. However, the present invention is not limited thereto, and any serial communication such as RS422 or RS485 may be used.

Next, with reference to Figure 2 looks at the external configuration and internal functional configuration of the transmitter 20 according to the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 2, the transmitter 20 functionally includes a control unit 21, a memory unit 23, a keypad unit 24, and a transceiver unit 25.

The transmitter also includes a plurality of input buttons 26 and antennas, LEDs, and the like.

The keypad unit 24 has a number button 26 for selecting a number according to a question displayed on an output unit connected to the computer main body, a character button 26 for selecting whether or not to be selected, and a button first pressed for a question. It consists of a letter button 26 that will be used to give the first responder a chance to answer.

In choosing whether or not, you can use a predefined number button, for example 1 for a positive answer and 2 for a negative answer. The same is true for a character button that will be used to give a chance to answer only the first person who pressed the button for a question.

The participant may operate a light emitting device such as an LED provided at each input button at the same time to select the button selected by the participant.

The memory unit 23 stores the selection value selected by the keypad unit 24.

The transceiver 25 transmits a selection value stored in the memory unit 23 to the receiver 30.

At this time, not only the selection value but also the transmitter identification code may be transmitted together so that it is possible to know which selection value has been selected from which specific transmitter.

Transmitting and receiving methods of a transmitter and a receiver are based on an RF wireless communication method. Compared to the wired method, wireless communication is less constrained by location selection within a certain space and is convenient for its installation. Therefore, it is preferable to require a certain space such as a seminar.

In addition, in this embodiment, the number of participants in the seminar should be designed to anticipate up to about 200 to 400 people, and thus there is a limitation in the existing frequency division scheme that the transmitter unilaterally transmits to the receiver.

Therefore, in the present embodiment, as one of the methods in which the receiver controls the transmission of a plurality of transmitters, a polling method in which the receiver sequentially asks the transmitter whether there is a transmission request and permits transmission to the requesting transmitter is selected. Doing.

The controller 21 controls the components as a whole.

Next, with reference to Figure 3 looks at the internal functional configuration of the receiver 30 according to the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 3, the receiver 30 functionally includes a first transmitter / receiver 31, a second transmitter / receiver 32, and a controller 33.

The first transmitter / receiver 31 is connected to the transmitter by a wireless RF communication method and functions to receive a selection value stored in a memory unit within the transmitter.

The second transmitter / receiver 32 is directly connected to the computer main body 10 via an RS232 communication cable, and functions to transfer a selection value stored in a memory unit within the transmitter to the computer main body.

The controller 33 controls the components as a whole.

Next, a functional configuration in the management computer 10 will be described with reference to FIG.

The management computer is composed of a data receiving module 41, an analysis module 42, a data management module 43, a transmitter management module 44 and an output module 45.

In addition, it may further include an input module (not shown) for providing an interface screen for the convenience of inputting a question to be viewed by the participant.

This question may be stored as a seminar topic, question number, question content, etc. in a question DB which is a database in the computer main body 10.

The data receiving module 41 functions to receive these data from a receiver that delivers selection values received from multiple transmitters.

The data may include a transmitter identification code and a selection value.

The analysis module 42 functions to analyze data in a form desired by the presenter, the participant, or a third party to view the selection values received from the plurality of transmitters.

Basically, it can provide the function to make statistics by selection value at the same time as selection.

The data management module 43 functions to store selection values received from a plurality of transmitters.

It can store seminar topics, question numbers, transmitter identifiers, and selections in a result database, a database in the computer.

The data management module may also operate concurrently with the analysis module.

The transmitter management module 44 checks whether there is an error in the transmitter and deletes a selection value stored in a memory unit in the transmitter.

This provides a reset function that clears the selections stored in the memory section of the transmitter before moving on to the next question.

The output module 45 outputs data in a form desired by the presenter, the participant, or a third party to view the selection values received from the plurality of transmitters.

That is, it functions to output a pre-populated question to an output connected to a management computer, or to output a result of analysis of received selection values in a desired format, for example, a table or graph.

Since the output should be clearly seen by all the participants in the seminar, in the case of using the OHP film, it may be any screen that is the size of the projected screen.

In addition, when the same seminar content is executed several times against different groups of participants, the results of the selected values are statistically analyzed and the results are stored in the statistics DB so that the results can be compared and analyzed for each participant group or individual. Can be.

That is, the statistics DB stores seminar topics, episodes, company or participant groups, venues, question numbers, statistical values for each selection value, and the like.

Through the program, which is a functional module in the management computer, the seminar host asks questions related to the seminar during the seminar, induces the interest of the participants. By giving them a chance to help facilitate the seminar.

In addition, if you run the same seminar content multiple times against different groups of participants by storing a record of the seminar-related questions and their selection values throughout the seminar, you can use these saved values to plan better seminars in future seminars. It will be possible to obtain data that can or can be compared.

Hereinafter, with reference to Figure 5 will be described with respect to the process in which the seminar proceeds in accordance with a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

First, questions about participants' responses during the seminar, questions about satisfaction with the seminar, or questions about the topic of the seminar are stored in the database. For example, prepare a computer loaded with a program that has been input in advance for display in a table or a graph (S500).

For questions, the seminar topic, question number, and question contents are stored in the question database, and the questions are read one by one from this database and used for the seminar.

The question is output to the output unit connected to the computer main body at the point in time where the reaction is desired during the seminar.

The participant who sees the question appearing in the output section selects the answer of the format required by the question and presses the corresponding input button in the transmitter (S520).

The selected selection value is stored in the memory unit 23 in the transmitter (S530).

The transmitter extracts the selection value stored in the memory unit in the transmitter or simultaneously transmits the selection value to the receiver in a wireless RF communication method (S540).

The receiver, which has received the selection value, transfers it to the data receiving module in the management computer through RS232 communication (S550).

The selection values received from the plurality of transmitters are analyzed at the same time of reception or at the time when the moderator's key input or timer is activated (S560) and output to the output unit in a pre-programmed format (S570).

The analysis in this embodiment is basically statistics by selection values, which are operated in real time, and the output is operated simultaneously with the analysis.

However, the present invention is not limited thereto, and statistical processing and output may be performed at the time when selection of all participants is completed.

In addition to the above analysis and storage, the selection value statistics for each question in the seminar is stored in a statistical DB containing the contents of the seminar topics, events, groups of companies or participants, places, question numbers, and selection values.

The information on the company or participant group and place is read from the participant information previously entered in the participant DB before loading the program.

These seminar-wide statistics are intended to leave a record for future use in comparing and analyzing the results of other participants' seminars.

Next, a user interface screen of the seminar result analysis program implemented according to the preferred embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. 6A to 6C.

Figure 6a is a screen output by analyzing the selection value for the question that should select a number from 1 to 4 according to the degree of understanding or response to the seminar or questions related to seminar topics.

FIG. 6B is a screen output of analyzing a selection value for a question to be determined whether or not to understand or respond to a seminar or questions related to seminar topics.

FIG. 6C is a screen output of analyzing a selection value for a question requiring a certain answer to a seminar topic related question and giving a chance of answer only to the person who first pressed the button.

As described above, although the present invention has been described with reference to the accompanying drawings, the present invention is not limited by this and the technical idea of the present invention by those skilled in the art to which the present invention belongs Of course, various modifications and variations are possible within the scope of equivalents of the claims to be described below.

According to the interactive seminar progress system and the transmission apparatus of the present invention, it is possible to obtain a response of the participants immediately during the seminar, the seminar proceeds according to the degree of understanding of the participants to draw the interest of the participants, and the opinions of the participants about the seminar Convergence can be an effective seminar for participants, and a record of questions and answers during the seminar will be helpful for the smooth running of the seminar.

Claims (8)

A management computer having stored seminar related questions and loaded with a seminar result analysis program; A receiver for communicating a selection value of the participant to the management computer; A plurality of transmitters for wirelessly delivering a selected selection value to the receiver in response to a question presented to an output coupled to the management computer; Interactive seminar system consisting of, The management computer A data receiving module to receive the selection value; An analysis module for calculating a frequency of the received selection value; A data management module for storing the received selection value; And a program comprising an output module showing a question to receive the selection value and a result of the selection value analysis. The method of claim 1, And the management computer is also operated by a program for storing the frequency of the selection value for each question of the seminar. The method according to claim 1 or 2, And the management computer is also operated by a program for checking a participant's abnormality and deleting a selection value stored in the transmitter. The method according to claim 1 or 2, And the management computer is also operated by a program that outputs the frequency of the selection value per question for one or more seminars. Transmitter that transmits the selected selection value wirelessly to the receiver in response to a question appearing on the output connected to the management computer loaded with the seminar result analysis program. The method of claim 5, The transmitter includes a keypad unit for inputting a selection value, a memory unit for storing the selection value, a transceiver for transmitting the selection value, and a control unit for controlling them. The method of claim 6, The transmitter is connected to the keypad unit, characterized in that it further comprises an input button including a character pair for determining whether or not, such as Y or N, and numbers from 1 to 5. The method of claim 7, wherein The transmitter further comprises a button-specific light emitting element for identifying the selected button.