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The document discusses various input devices used with computers including keyboards, mice, touchpads, scanners, digital cameras, microphones, and analog sensors. It provides examples of common uses for each type of input device.

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Input Devices. Disdvantages. Complete

The document discusses various input devices used with computers including keyboards, mice, touchpads, scanners, digital cameras, microphones, and analog sensors. It provides examples of common uses for each type of input device.

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Input devices: An input device is hardware

that allows a user to interact with a


computer and also allows the computer to
collect data. The following table lists a
number of input devices together with
some of their uses as well as their
advantages and disadvantages:

USES OF
INPUT
INPUT
DEVICE
DEVICE
Keyboard • Entering data manually
into a computer
• Typing in commands to a
computer !e.g. PrtScrn,
Ctrl+P and so on)

Numeric • At ATMs to key in PIN to


obtain money
keypad • At POS terminals in case
the barcode on an item
fails to scan properly
• When using chip and PIN
devices to make a card
payment
Pointing • Controls the position of
an on-screen pointer to
device: allow selections. open/
close files and so on
mouse

• Similar to mouse but


Pointing uses a flat panel below
the keyboard on a laptop
device: computer

touchpad

Pointing • Used in control rooms


where desk space is at a
device: premium land has more
accurate control than a
trackerball mouse)
• Used in luxury cars
to select functions
such as operating the
Global Positioning
System, allowing use of
smartphone and so on

Remote control • Used to control functions on


televisions, Blu-ray players, hi-fi
equipment and so on
Pointing devices: • Both are used as input
devices to many gaming
joystick and consoles or simulators (e.g.
flight simulator or car driving
driving wheel simulator) to mimic actual
controls

Touchscreen • Self-service tills !e.g. at a


petrol station)
• ATMs to enter PIN, amount of
money required and so on
• Public information kiosks (e.g.
at an airport)
• Mobile phones and tablets
• Computer-based training

Scanner • Scanning in paper documents


and photos to be saved in
electronic format on a
computer
• Archiving of valuable old
manuscripts
• Used to scan in barcodes at a
POS using laser or LED
scanners
• When used to read barcodes,

Digital camera • Taking photographs or videos


• A data capture device (e.g.
reading of QR codes or a
reversing aid in a vehicle)
• In dentistry to photograph
teeth for later dental work
• Creation of virtual tours
around buildings, industrial
plants and so on
Microphone • Input speech/sound to be
used in presentations, special
effects, music sampling and so
on
• As a sensor to pick up sounds
(e.g. in an intruder alert system,
detection of liquid dripping
from pipes)
• In video conferencing
• Input device for people with
disabilities

Analogue • Measure physical data from


the environment and send it to
sensors a computer
• Many sensors exist:
- temperature (greenhouse
environment)
- pressure (intruder alert
system)
- light (control of street lighting)
- sound (intruder alert system)
- humidity (monitor the
atmosphere in a chip
manufacturing process)
- pH !monitor acidity
levels in a chemical
process)

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