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Input. Devices. Keyboard. Application Word-Processing. Keyboard is used to type text. Application: Games Paint Almost for everything. Controls the movement of the cursor on the monitor. Mouse. Application: Games Paint Almost everything.
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Input Devices
Keyboard • Application • Word-Processing Keyboard is used to type text
Application: Games Paint Almost for everything Controls the movement of the cursor on the monitor Mouse
Application: Games Paint Almost everything It is like the mouse but instead the marble is on the mouse not under it Trackball
An input device that utilizes a light-sensitive detector to select objects on a screen Application : Computer Assisted Drawing Light Pen
Application: Fast-food menu selection The screen is made up of a number of icons, representing various processes, it can be selected by touching the icon on the screen Touch Screen
Application: Desktop publishing This is a device, which scans a document (much similar to a photocopier) and translates graphical image or document into data readable for the computer Scanner
Application: Take pictures High-resolution pictures can be taken and stored in specially designed memory (memory stick and floppy disks) it can be even connected with the computer Digital Camera
Application: Point of Sale The bar code reader, reads the code on the bottom of the product, these codes contain where the product was made and other information Bar Code Reader
Application: Correction of multiple-choice questions A device that reads marks in predetermined places on specially prepared cards. They are typically used in multiple choice Optical Mark reader (OMR)
Application: Cheque processing Used by banks to read cheque numbers On the bottom pf cheques, there is a sequence of funnily-shaped number, this reads those numbers to see if the cheque is real or not. Magnetic Ink Character Reader (MICR)
Application: Business papers computerisation To read text from paper to the computer In operation, an OCR system is a bar code reader but it is used to read documents in the computer Optical Character Reader (OCR)
Application: Virtual Technology Used to give instructions and information This is the ultimate goal for many computer scientists – being able to speak to the computer to give instructions and even to dictate information Speech Reader
Application: Surveying These terminals are similar to enhanced data bank calculators . They allow offsite entry of information and the ability to transfer the data directly to the mains computers and mains sites by attaching a suitable connection Hand Held Terminals
Application : Architectural walkthroughs Sophisticated 3D games These add up being involved in the system as part of 3D games Special gear
Hand writing recognition A device which you can use to write on a computer screen and the computer translate your hand writing as he could understand Application: Used instead of a keyboard
Pen Computing • A computer that utilizes an electronicpen Instead of a keyboard
The End Luke Grech Michael Sultana Input Devices