Your Interactive Guide To The Digital World

Chapter 5
Understanding Input
Discovering
Computers 2012
Your Interactive Guide to the
Digital World
Objectives Overview
Identify the keys and buttons

commonly found on desktop
Define input and differentiate computer keyboards, and
Describe different mouse types
among a program, command, and describe how keyboards for
and explain how to use a mouse
user response mobile computers and devices
differ from desktop computer
keyboards
Describe various types of touch Describe various types of pen

Summarize the purpose of various
screens and explain how a touch- input, and identify other types of
game controllers
sensitive pad works input for smart phones
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Discovering Computers 2012: Chapter 5
for Detailed Objectives
Objectives Overview
Explain how resolution Describe the uses of

Discuss how various
affects the quality of a voice recognition, Web
scanners and reading
picture captured on a cams, and video
devices work
digital camera conferencing
Discuss how POS Identify alternative

Summarize the various terminals, automated input devices for
biometric devices teller machines, and physically challenged
DVD kiosks work users
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for Detailed Objectives
What Is Input?
• Input is any data and instructions entered into the

memory of a computer
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Figure 5-1
What Are Input Devices
An input device
is any hardware
component that
allows users to
enter data and
instructions into
a computer
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The Keyboard
• A keyboard is an input device that contains keys

users press to enter data and instructions into a
computer
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Figure 5-2
The Keyboard
• Most desktop computer keyboards have…
Function keys,
A numeric keypad
Between 101 and CTRL keys, ALT
on the right side of
105 keys keys, and arrow
the keyboard
keys
WINDOWS key APPLICATION key Toggle keys
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The Keyboard
Wired Wireless
Keyboards Keyboards
USB port Bluetooth
IrDA
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The Keyboard
• An ergonomic keyboard has a design that reduces

the chance of wrist and hand injuries
• Ergonomics incorporates comfort, efficiency, and
safety into the design of the workplace
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Figure 5-4
The Keyboard
• Keyboards on mobile devices typically are smaller

and/or have fewer keys
• Some phones have predictive text input, which
saves time when entering text using the phone’s
keypad
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Figure 5-5
Pointing Devices
A pointer is a small
A pointing device is an
symbol on the screen
input device that allows
whose location and
a user to control a
shape change as a user
pointer on the screen
moves a pointing device
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Mouse
• A mouse is a pointing device that fits under the

palm of your hand comfortably
– Most widely used pointing device on desktop
computers
• A mouse can be wired or wireless
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Figures 5-6 and 5-7
Other Pointing Devices
Pointing Stick
Trackball
Touchpad
• A trackball is a • A touchpad is • A pointing
stationary a small, flat, stick is a
pointing rectangular pressure-
device with a pointing sensitive
ball on its top device that is pointing
or side sensitive to device shaped
pressure and like a pencil
motion eraser that is
positioned
between keys
on a keyboard
Pages 265 – 266 13

Figures 5-9 – 5-11
Touch Screens and Touch-Sensitive Pads
• A touch screen is a touch-sensitive display device
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Figures 5-12 – 5-13
Touch Screens and Touch-Sensitive Pads
Touch-sensitive pads
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Figures 5-14 – 5-15
Pen Input
• With pen input, you touch a stylus or digital pen on a flat

surface to write, draw, or make selections
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Figure 5-16
Game Controllers
• Video games and computer games use a game controller

as the input device that directs movements and actions
of on-screen objects
Joysticks and
Gamepads Light guns
Wheels
Motion-
Dance pads sensing
controllers
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Figure 5-19
Digital Cameras
• A digital camera is a mobile device that allows

users to take pictures and store them digitally
Studio cameras
Field cameras
Point-and-shoot camera
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Digital Cameras
• Two factors affect the quality of digital camera photos:

• Resolution is the number of horizontal
and vertical pixels in a display device
Resolution • A pixel is the smallest element in an
electronic display
Number of • Each pixel consists of one or more bits of

data
bits stored in • The more bits used to represent a pixel,
the more colors and shades of gray that
each pixel can be represented
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Voice Input
• Voice input is the

process of entering
input by speaking into a
microphone
• Voice recognition is the
computer’s capability of
distinguishing spoken
words
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Figure 5-22
Voice Input
• Audio input is the process of entering any sound

into the computer
Speech
Music
Sound Effects
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Voice Input
• Music production software allows users to record,

compose, mix, and edit music and sounds
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Figure 5-23
Video Input
• Video input is the process of capturing full-motion images and
storing them on a computer’s storage medium
Record video on a digital video (DV) camera or use a video

capture card to convert analog signals to digital
Connect the camera to a port on the system unit
Transfer video and images
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Figure 5-24
Video Input
• A Web cam is a type of digital video camera that

enables a user to:
Send e-mail
Capture video and Add live images to
messages with
still images instant messages
video attachments
Broadcast live
Make video
images over the
telephone calls
Internet
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Video Input
• A video conference is a meeting between two or

more geographically separated people
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Figures 5-25 – 5-26
Scanners and Reading Devices
Flatbed
Pen or Handheld
Sheet-fed
Drum
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Figure 5-27
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Figure 5-28
• Optical character recognition (OCR) involves reading

characters from ordinary documents
• A turnaround document is a document you return to the
company that creates and sends it
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Figures 5-29 – 5-30
• Optical mark
recognition (OMR)
reads hand-drawn
marks such as small
circles or rectangles
• An OMR device scans
the documents and
matches the patterns of
light
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Figure 5-31
• A bar code reader, also

called a bar code
scanner uses laser
beams to read bar
codes
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Figure 5-32
• RFID (radio frequency identification) uses radio signals to
communicate with a tag placed in or attached to an object
• An RFID reader reads information on the tag via radio waves
• RFID can track:
Tracking times of
Tracking location Employee Checking lift
runners in a Airline baggage
of soldiers wardrobes tickets of skiers
marathon
Gauging pressure
Managing Checking out Tracking toll
and temperature
inventory library books payments
of tires
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• Magnetic stripe card readers read the magnetic

stripe on the back of cards such as:
Credit cards
Entertainment cards
Bank cards
Other similar cards

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Figure 5-34
• MICR (magnetic ink character recognition) devices read text
printed with magnetized ink
• An MICR reader converts MICR characters into a form the
computer can process
• Banking industry uses MICR for check processing
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Figure 5-35
• Data collection devices

obtain data directly at the
location where the
transaction or event takes
place
• Used in:
– Restaurants
– Grocery stores
– Factories
– Warehouses
– The outdoors
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Figure 5-36
Biometric Input
• Biometrics authenticates a person’s identity by

verifying a personal characteristic
Face Hand
Fingerprint
recognition geometry
reader
system system
Voice Signature
Iris recognition
verification verification
system
system system
Retinal
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Biometric Input
hand geometry
system
iris
recognition
system
fingerprint
reader
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Figures 5-37 – 5-39
Summary
Various techniques of entering Several commonly used input

input devices
Keyboard, mouse, and other

pointing devices; touch screens,
pen input, other input for smart
phones, game controllers, digital
cameras, voice input, video input,
scanners and reading devices,
biometric input, and terminals
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Understanding Input
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Computers 2012
Your Interactive Guide to the
Digital World
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Chapter 5

Identify the keys and buttons

Describe various types of touch Describe various types of pen

See Page 257 2

Explain how resolution Describe the uses of

Discuss how POS Identify alternative

See Page 257 3

• Input is any data and instructions entered into the

Pages 258 – 259 4

• A keyboard is an input device that contains keys

• Most desktop computer keyboards have…

WINDOWS key APPLICATION key Toggle keys

Pages 260 - 261 7

USB port Bluetooth

• An ergonomic keyboard has a design that reduces

• Keyboards on mobile devices typically are smaller

Pages 262 – 263 10

• A mouse is a pointing device that fits under the

Pages 263 – 264 12

Pages 265 – 266 13

• A touch screen is a touch-sensitive display device

• With pen input, you touch a stylus or digital pen on a flat

• Video games and computer games use a game controller

• A digital camera is a mobile device that allows

• Two factors affect the quality of digital camera photos:

Number of • Each pixel consists of one or more bits of

• Voice input is the

• Audio input is the process of entering any sound

• Music production software allows users to record,

Record video on a digital video (DV) camera or use a video

Connect the camera to a port on the system unit

Transfer video and images

• A Web cam is a type of digital video camera that

Pages 275 - 276 26

• A video conference is a meeting between two or

Pages 276 – 277 27

• Optical character recognition (OCR) involves reading

• A bar code reader, also

• Magnetic stripe card readers read the magnetic

Other similar cards

• Data collection devices

• Biometrics authenticates a person’s identity by

Pages 282 – 283 38

Various techniques of entering Several commonly used input

Keyboard, mouse, and other

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