Development of Poster Vote Format and System for Innovation and Routine to Research Poster Award in Mahidol University Quality Fair

Abstract

         Mahidol University organised the Mahidol University Quality Fair in 2014 to achieve its vision of becoming a learning organisation and followed a strategy to develop a mission sharing centre. The university encourages participation in quality improvement works to be considered for awards and it presented four categories for the fair. For the Innovation and Routine to research poster award, a popular vote is used as the selection criteria from participants. Before 2018, the vote system was paper-based which was energy and resource intensive, created errors, and had a low feedback rate of below 30%. The author therefore developed an online voting system (Google Drive and Quick Response Code) in 2018 and 2019. The feedback rate increased from 26.47% in 2017 to 67.39% in 2018, and then to 75.50% in 2019. This also reduced resource consumption and manpower, while the data could be shown in real-time. The voting period also increased by 2 hours. The system was user friendly for the participants and the objective of the activity was achieved better than before.