Input Devices

Landon Peterson and William Yancey

DefinitionInput Device - A variety of devices, which allow a human to machine interface. This allows the human to program, control, and simulate the robot. Such devices include programming pendant, computer keyboards, a mouse, joy-sticks, push buttons, operator panel, operator pedestal, scanners, digital cameras, graphics tablets and more.

Our DefinitionInput Device - A device used to put

information into a computer. Also used to control the computer.

MouseA mouse is used to control

what is selected on the computer screen.

KeyboardA keyboard is used to enter

numbers, letters, and other characters into a computer.

History of input device

• Until the advent of stored program computers in the 1950s, punched card machines were the state-of-the-art. Dating back to the U.S. Census of 1890, Hollerith developed a punched card reader that could repeatedly tabulate and sort. The key event that signaled the end of the punched card era was the launch in 1959 of the IBM 1401 computer, which had magnetic tape and disk storage. The keyboard has dominated interactive personal computing and voice input devices have not proven to be reliable. Future hands-free wireless infrared input devices may include a wand with a walk-around button, a ring on the index finger, and a reflective dot that sticks to the user's forehead and signals data by eye movement.

Audience Response device

PRS Receiver

Sources

http://articles.directorym.com/Input_Devices-a42.html#900

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~amulet/papers/uihistory.tr.html