We are referring here to interactive touchpad systems used to improve group communication in face-to-face meetings. They function to support meeting processes by collecting information from a group to facilitate discussion and decision-making, and to evaluate and prioritize ideas. Meeting participants respond to questions / statements, provide their opinions, and prioritize issues using hand-held touchpads. Response graphs are immediately viewable or saved for later viewing. CompuTouch has been working with various polling products for sixteen years; and we've used them in meetings ranging from only seven participants to 2,000 and more.

CompuTouch represents audience response polling software from two developers:

• Option Technologies Interactive, LLC (OTI) – the world's largest provider of interactive audience participation technology and services
• ppvote limited / CLiKAPAD - a well-established provider of very easy-to-use PowerPoint voting adds-in combined with the smallest, lightest radio frequency touchpad available.

Each of these developers has several software packages:

(CompuTouch can help you select the best product for your polling application.)

1) From OTI –

• OptionFinder – a sophisticated polling product which uses its own graphics engine. OptionFinder is flexible, very dynamic and a true facilitation tool.
• OptionPower – a PowerPoint add-in for presenters with a very short learning curve.

2) From ppvote – All three of the ppvote products run under PowerPoint

• ppvotelite – a simple, easy-to-use entry-point polling product.
• ppvoteprofessional – more powerful that ppvotelite.
• ppvotematrix – a tool for professional workshop facilitators.