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Everything about Input device
Device that provides data and signals to a computer
In computing, an input device is a piece of equipment used to enter data and control signals to an information processing system, such as a computer or information appliance. Examples of input devices include keyboards, computer mice, scanners, cameras, joysticks, and microphones. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Input deviceA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Reconfigurable Logic Gates Capable of Device‐Level Parallel Processing Through Multi‐Input Synaptic DeviceInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Engineering haptic devicesThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: The Smart Phone: A Ubiquitous Input DeviceCited 268 times
- Go sideways: Pointing deviceA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Text entry interfaceA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Noun Any of many hardware devices that provide input (from a user or elsewhere) to a computer.
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
The Smart Phone: A Ubiquitous Input Device
The impact of age on computer input device use:
Tangible and modular input device for character articulation
A New Wearable Input Device: SCURRY
Small-device users situationally impaired by input
Handprinting Input device for computer systems
SlideBar: Analysis of a linear input device
Analog input device physical characteristics
🆕 Influential since 2022
Reconfigurable Logic Gates Capable of Device‐Level Parallel Processing Through Multi‐Input Synaptic Device
Experimental Demonstration of Input-Output Indefiniteness in a Single Quantum Device
Mechanical Device or Touchscreen Widget: The Effects of Input Device and Task Size on Data Entry on the Primary Flight Display
High gain interleaved DC-DC converter with ripple-free input current and low device stress
Cochlear Implantation Outcomes in Pediatric Unilateral Hearing Loss: Impact of Device Use and Direct Input
📚 Books worth reading
Engineering haptic devicesThorsten A. Kern · 2009- 📕Getting the Most Out of Your Interactive WhiteboardAmy Buttner · 2010
- 📕Robot Hands and Multi-Fingered Haptic InterfacesHaruhisa Kawasaki · 2015
IBMI/O architecture and virtual storage conceptsJoe Leben, Jim Arnold · 1984- 📕Low-level interfaces for high-level parallel I/ONils Nieuwejaar · 1995
Haptics TechnologiesAbdulmotaleb El Saddik · 2011- 📕Operational specifications for magnetic tape subsystemsUnited States. National Bureau of Standards. · 1980
- 📕Nonlinear Dynamics of Electronic SystemsValeri M. Mladenov, Plamen Ch Ivanov · 2014
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🔗 Related topics
- Pointing device A pointing device is a human interface device that allows a user to input spatial (i.e., continuous and multi-dimensional) data to a computer. Graphical…
- Text entry interface A text entry interface or text entry device is an interface that is used to enter text information in an electronic device. A commonly used device is a…
- Touchpad A touchpad or trackpad is a type of pointing device. Its largest component is a tactile sensor: an electronic device with a flat surface that detects the…
- Digital pen A digital pen is an input device which captures the handwriting or brush strokes of a user and converts handwritten analog information into digital data…
- Trackball A trackball is a pointing device consisting of a ball held by a socket containing sensors to detect a rotation of the ball about two axes—like an upside-down…
- Cirque Corporation Cirque Corporation is an American subsidiary of the Japanese company Alps Alpine, which developed and commercialized the first successful capacitive touchpad…
- Rotational mouse A rotational mouse is a type of computer mouse which attempts to expand traditional mouse functionality. The objective of rotational mice is to facilitate…
- Computer mouse A computer mouse (plural mice; rarely mouses) is a hand-held pointing device that detects two-dimensional motion relative to a surface. This motion is…