Toward the effective use of voting machines in physics lectures

American Journal of Physics

Volumn 73, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 554-558

  Reay, Neville W ^a   Bao, Lei ^a   Li, Pengfei ^a   Warnakulasooriya, Rasil ^a   Baugh, Gordon ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 21244504323     PISSN: 00029505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1119/1.1862638     Document Type: Article

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1. Examples include the Personal Response System manufactured by GTCO CalComp, 〈http://www.gtcocalcomp.com/interwriteprs.htm〉. The voting system used at The Ohio State University, which has two-way communication capability, was designed by Lei Bao and its construction was sub-contracted. It is not yet commercially available.
2. Voting systems are discussed at 〈http://celt.ust.hk/ideas/prs/ exp_share.htm〉.
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