20 May, 2008: T-ResQ Wireless Audience Response System launched at CeBIT Australia

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Visitors at the CeBIT ICT tradefair at Sydney Exhibition Centre will be able to tell the organisers exactly what they think when they visit Response Education Services (RES) at the South Australian Stand.

RES will conduct simultaneous surveys using T-ResQ, the company’s real-time wireless multi-site audience polling system.

RES director Dr David Morris says that T-ResQ was initially designed for medical training but has since found a growing demand across the training and education sector, for board meetings, workshops and all forms of remote conferencing. T-ResQ is compliant with the ubiquitous Reply IQ device and fully integrated with Microsoft PowerPoint.

“Before now, there has been no way for Reply IQ users to conduct simultaneous real-time polling for audiences of any size across remote locations, “ Dr Morris said.

Applications include medical training, mining and board meetings – anywhere that there’s a need for multisite meetings or workshops.

RES has completed a feasibility study for T-ResQ at Adelaide University’s Medical School and is now trialing the system with medical students based at Adelaide University and the Spencer Gulf Rural Health School at sites including Port Lincoln, Port Pirie, Port Augusta and Whyalla.

A Fellow of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) and the Royal Australia and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RANZCOG), Dr Morris has spent the past 10 years developing an innovative medical training system, initially focused on electronic fetal heart monitoring (EFM).

Over that time, the need for a multisite system for audience response soon became apparent, leading to the development of T-ResQ.

“Rural medical schools are a typical example of the applications for T-ResQ,” Dr Morris said. “Rural medical students need to have continuous interaction with city-based medical schools. T-ResQ enables all kinds of feedback, multiple choice examinations and surveys, all in real-time.”

About the Spencer Gulf Rural Health School

The Spencer Gulf Rural Health School is a regional multi-disciplinary school of health science created as a joint initiative of the University of Adelaide and the University of South Australia. SGRHS is supported by the Australian federal government’s Department of Health and Ageing through the Rural Clinical Schools program (RCS), the University Department of Rural Health program (UDRH), the Rural Undergraduate Support and Coordination program (RUSC) and the Primary Health Care Research Evaluation and Development program (PHC_RED). The SGRHS Videoconferencing system was funded a separate Information Technology grant from the Department of Health and Ageing .

T-ResQ was developed in conjunction with Better Software Pty Ltd.