The document describes Presemo, a live participation platform developed by researchers at Aalto University. It summarizes previous related work using live audience interaction tools. It then details the development of Presemo over time from initial SMS wall experiments in 2007-2008 to the current fully web-based Presemo Mixer platform released in 2013. The document concludes by outlining future work areas including expanding interaction models, studying audience and presenter practices, and developing the platform's distribution and ecosystem.

1. Presemo – a live
participation platform
Matti Nelimarkka, Kai Kuikkaniemi, Jukka
Reitmaa, Petri Lievonen
Helsinki Institute for Information Technology
HIIT
Aalto University
http://lead.aalto.fi

2. Structure
• Live participation platforms in education
• Presemo: the story
• Next steps

3. Previous work…
McCarthy & boyd (2005)
Yardi (2006)
They were used and considered useful
by the participants, however:
“wait, I was distracted, can you summarize
his question for me?

4. Previous work…
Harry et al. (2009): backchan.nl
– Voting per anonymous message
Du et al. (2009): ClassCommons
– Moderation of messages
Bergstrom et al. (2011): The Fragmented Social
Mirror
– Anonymous dialogue with teacher
Harry et al. (2012): Tin Can
– Voting on named ideas

5. Presemo story
SMS Wall Presemo @ Presemo Slides & Mixer
Experiments Emokeitai Groups Polls Platform
2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013

6. SMS Wall Experiments
First audience interaction trials with Esa Saarinen’s lectures 2007-8

7. SMS Wall generator
Developing tool for SMS Wall Generation

8. Presemo
Research project around group interaction with mobiles and biosignals

9. Presemo Groups
New version of the system with support for group formation and
Google Docs integration

10. Slides & Polls
First commercial version sold in Mac Appstore for web-based
audience interaction. Sold in over 20 countries.

11. Presemo Mixer
All-web version of the system that is extendable and control
is distributed

12. Future work
• More interaction models
- Multimodality, different functionalities
- Content and topic integration
• Practices
- Audience practices and audience experience
- Creation, control and presenter practices
• Distribution & Ecosystem
- How to deliver to schools? How to deliver in
events?
- What is the total ecosystem? With whom to
partner?
- Ecosystem usability

13. http://lead.aalto.fi
CBTec
Matti Nelimarkka Digita Lessons Finland
Gemilo
matti.nelimarkka@hiit.fi Mediamaisteri
Wanha Satama
@matnel
City of Hämeenlinna
LeGroup, Aalto University
Kai Kuikkaniemi TRIM, University of Tampere
HIIT, Aalto University
kai.kuikkaniemi@hiit.fi