AuCoS - Audience Collaboration System

Purpose:

    enable a team (whole audience)
    to contribute/participate in the group work or learning/teaching
    by sending text messages
    to the moderator/teacher/lecturer
    to be jointly used

Method:

    audience uses their mobile phones connected to Internet
    they access a web page and enter their text upon request from moderator
    moderator uses all inputs in any computer application (text processor, mind mapper, whiteboard, ….)

Technology:

Two components are required: a web page receiving audience’s input and resending it to the moderator and local application for moderator’s computer receiving input from web application and sending it to any local application.

Web application:

    a page anyone can access with an input field for text to be contributed
    recognizes different participants by cookies sent to their phones
    accepts only first contribution from individual participant, or all or replaces previous input with the next one
    logs all contributions and allows moderator to download them (AuResS style)

Local application:

    a program reading all input from web application, and resending it to local application emulating keyboard inputs
        either to a specific selected application
        or to the currently active application

    the moderator can define text sequences to be sent:
        before the first contribution
        before each contribution
        at the end of each contribution
        at the end of the last contribution

Output: primjerice na: http://www.text2mindmap.com/