Input

1. Keyboard

1.1. Wired keyboard

1.1.1. USB port

1.1.2. keyboard port

1.2. Wireless keybard

1.2.1. Bluetooth

1.2.2. IrDA

1.3. Ergonomic keyboard

1.4. Keyboards on mobile

2. Pen Input

2.1. digital pen

3. Game Controllers

3.1. Gamepads

3.2. Joysticks and Wheels

3.3. Light gunsDance

3.4. Dance pads

4. Voice Input

4.1. Audio inputis

4.1.1. Speech

4.1.2. Music

4.1.3. Sound Effects

5. Scanners and Reading Devices

5.1. Flatbed

5.2. Pen or Handheld

5.3. Sheet‐fed

5.4. Drum

5.5. Optical character recognition (OCR)

5.6. Turnaround document

5.7. Optical mark recognition (OMR)

5.8. Bar code reader

5.9. Magnetic stripe card readers

5.9.1. Credit cards

5.9.2. Entertainment cards

5.9.3. Bank cards

5.10. RFID reader

5.11. MICR reader

6. Terminals

6.1. A POS terminalrecords

6.2. An automated teller machine (ATM)

6.3. A DVD kiosk

7. Pointing Devices

7.1. Mouse

7.1.1. wireless

7.1.2. wired

7.2. Trackballis

7.3. Touchpad

7.4. Pointing stick

8. Touch Screens and Touch‐Sensitive Pads

8.1. Touch screen

8.2. Touch‐sensitive pads

8.3. Microsoft Surface

9. Video Input

9.1. Web cam

9.2. Video conference

10. Biometric Input

10.1. Fingerprint readerFace

10.2. Face recognition system

10.3. Hand geometry system

10.4. Voice verification system

10.5. Signature verification system

10.6. Iris recognition system

10.7. Retinal scanners

11. Input Devices for Physically Challenged Users

11.1. Keyguard

11.2. Keyboards with larger keys

11.3. On‐screen keyboard

11.4. Various pointing devices

11.5. Head‐mounted pointer

11.6. Computerized implant devices

11.7. Gesture recognition