Input

1. Input Devices

1.1. The Key Board

1.1.1. Wired Keyboards

1.1.1.1. Keyboard port

1.1.1.2. USB port

1.1.2. Wireless Keyboards

1.1.2.1. Bluetooth

1.1.2.2. IrDA

1.2. pen input

1.3. Game Controllers

1.3.1. Gamepads

1.3.2. Joysticks and Wheels

1.3.3. Light guns

1.3.4. Dance pads

1.3.5. Motion‐sensing controllers

2. Pointing Devices

2.1. trackball

2.2. touchpad

2.3. mouse

2.4. pointing stick

3. Touch Screens and Touch-Sensitive Pads

3.1. Microsoft Surface

3.2. Touch‐sensitive pads

4. Digital Cameras

4.1. Field cameras

4.2. Studio cameras

4.3. Point‐and‐shoot camera

4.4. Two factors affect the quality of digital camera photos

4.4.1. Resolution

4.4.2. Number of bits stored in each pixel

5. Voice Input

5.1. Voice recognition

5.2. Voice input

5.3. Audio input

5.3.1. Speech

5.3.2. Music

5.3.3. Sound Effects

6. Video Input

6.1. video conferene

6.2. Web cam

7. Scanners and Reading Devices

7.1. Flatbed

7.2. Pen or Handheld

7.3. Sheet‐fed

7.4. Drum

7.5. Optical character recognition (OCR)

7.6. turnaround document

7.7. Optical mark recognition (OMR)

7.8. bar code reader

7.9. RFID (radio frequency identification)

7.10. Magnetic stripe card readers

7.10.1. Credit cards

7.10.2. Entertainment cards

7.10.3. Bank cards

7.10.4. Other similar cards

7.11. MICR (magnetic ink character recognition)

7.12. MICR reader

8. Biometric Input

8.1. Fingerprint reader

8.2. hand geometry system

8.3. iris recognition system

9. Terminals

10. Putting It All Together

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. Gesture recognition

11.6. Head-mounted pointer

11.7. Computerized implant devices