Chapter 5 - Input
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| Motion-sensing mouse that, in addition to the typical buttons, allows you to control objects, media players, and slide shows by moving the mouse in predetermined directions through the air. | show 🗑
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| show | Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
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| show | audio input
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| show | automated teller machine (ATM)
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| Identification code consisting of either vertical lines and spaces of different widths or a two-dimensional pattern of dots, squares, and other images that represent a manufacturer and an item. | show 🗑
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| Optical reader that uses laser beams to read bar codes by using light patterns that pass through the bar code lines. See also barcode scanner. | show 🗑
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| show | bar code scanner
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| Device that translates a personal characteristic into a digital code that is compared with a digital code stored in a computer. | show 🗑
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| Physiological or behavioral characteristic, such as fingerprints, hand geometry, facial features, voice, signatures, and eye patterns. | show 🗑
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| show | biometrics
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| show | charge-coupled device
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| show | Click Wheel
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| show | cordless keyboard
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| show | cordless mouse
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| Symbol on a computer screen, usually a blinking vertical bar, that indicates where the next character a user types will appear. See also insertion point. | show 🗑
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| show | dance pad
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| show | data collection device
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| Mobile device that allows users to take pictures and stores the photographed images digitally, instead of on traditional film. | show 🗑
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| Input device that allows users to write or draw on the screen by pressing the pen and issue instructions to a Tablet PC by tapping on the screen. | show 🗑
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| show | digital video (DV) camera
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| show | digitizer
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| show | download
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| show | DVD kiosk
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| Keyboard that has twelve function keys along the top; two Control (CTRL) keys and two Alternate (ALT) keys along the bottom; and a set of keys and additional keys between the typing area and the numeric keypad. | show 🗑
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| Digital camera resolution calculated by a special formula that adds pixels between those generated by optical resolution. | show 🗑
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| show | ergonomic keyboard
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| The science of incorporating comfort, efficiency, and safety into the design of the workplace. | show 🗑
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| show | face recognition system
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| Portable digital camera with many lenses and other attachments. | show 🗑
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| show | fingerprint reader
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| Type of light-sensing input device that scans a document and creates a file of the document in memory instead of a paper copy. | show 🗑
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| show | function keys
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| show | game controller
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| Input device that controls the movement and actions of players or objects in video games or computer games. | show 🗑
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| Keyboard designed specifically for users who enjoy playing games on the computer. | show 🗑
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| Computer’s capability of detecting human motion. | show 🗑
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| show | graphics tablet
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| Biometric device that measures the shape and size of a person’s hand and compares these measurements to stored measurements. | show 🗑
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| show | handwriting recognition software
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| Pointer that is placed on a user’s head and can be used by a physically challenged person. | show 🗑
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| Business practice that consists of capturing, storing, analyzing, displaying, printing, and manipulating images with scanners. | show 🗑
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| show | image processing system
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| Any data and instructions entered into the memory of a computer. | show 🗑
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| show | input device
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| Symbol on a computer screen, usually a blinking vertical bar, that indicates where the next character a user types will appear. See also cursor. | show 🗑
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| Biometric device that uses iris recognition technology to read patterns in the iris of the eye. | show 🗑
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| Handheld vertical lever mounted on a base used to control actions of a simulated vehicle or player. | show 🗑
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| show | keyboard
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| Metal or plastic plate placed over the keyboard that allows users to rest their hands on the keyboard without accidentally pressing any keys. | show 🗑
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| Free-standing computer that usually includes a touch screen. | show 🗑
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| show | laser mouse
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| Input device used in video and computer games to shoot targets and moving objects after you pull the trigger on the weapon. | show 🗑
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| Reading device that reads the magnetic stripe on the back of credit, entertainment, bank, and other similar cards. See also magstripe reader. | show 🗑
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| show | magnetic-ink character recognition
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| show | magstripe reader
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| show | MICR
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| show | MICR reader
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| Touch screen with a 30-inch tabletop display that allows one or more people to interact with the screen using their fingers or hands. | show 🗑
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| show | motion-sensing game controllers
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| Pointing device that fits comfortably under the palm of a user’s hand. | show 🗑
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| Capability that allows users to perform certain operations by holding a mouse button while moving the mouse in a particular pattern. | show 🗑
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| Small symbol displayed on a computer screen whose location and shape changes as a user moves a mouse. | show 🗑
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| show | MP
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| show | multi-touch
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| Software that allows users to record, compose, mix, and edit music and sounds. | show 🗑
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| Software that enables scanners to read and convert text documents into electronic files. | show 🗑
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| Optical character recognition devices that include small optical scanners for reading characters and sophisticated software to analyze what is read. | show 🗑
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| show | on-screen keyboard
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| Optical reader technology that involves reading typewritten, computer-printed, or hand-printed characters from ordinary documents and translating the images to a form that a computer can process. | show 🗑
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| show | optical mark recognition (OMR)
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| show | optical mouse
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| Device that uses a light source to read characters, marks, and codes and then converts them into digital data that a computer can process. | show 🗑
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| The actual photographed resolution at which a digital camera can capture a digital image. | show 🗑
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| show | optical scanner
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| Digital video camera that enables a home or small business user to capture video and still images, send e-mail messages with video attachments, add live images to instant messages, broadcast live images over the Internet, and make video telephone calls. | show 🗑
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| Input method in which you touch a stylus or digital pen on a flat surface to write, draw, and make selections. | show 🗑
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| show | personal identification number (PIN)
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| show | photo scanner
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| show | pixel
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| show | pixels per inch (ppi)
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| Affordable and lightweight camera that provides acceptable quality photographic images for home or small office users. | show 🗑
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| Small symbol displayed on a computer screen whose location and shape changes as a user moves a pointing device. | show 🗑
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| show | pointing device
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| Pressure-sensitive pointing device shaped like a pencil eraser that is positioned between keys on a keyboard and moved by pushing the pointing stick with a finger. | show 🗑
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| show | portable keyboard
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| show | POS terminal
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| show | predictive text input
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| Series of related instructions that tells a computer what tasks to perform and how to perform them. See also software. | show 🗑
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| show | radio frequency identification
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| The number of horizontal and vertical pixels in a display device. | show 🗑
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| show | retinal scanners
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| show | RFID
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| Reading device that reads information on an RFID tag via radio waves. | show 🗑
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| show | scanner
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| Pen input device that captures handwritten signatures with a stylus or pen that is attached to the device. | show 🗑
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| Biometric device that recognizes the shape of a person’s handwritten signature and measures the pressure exerted and the motion used to write the signature. | show 🗑
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| Document that contains the original form of data to be processed. | show 🗑
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| show | speech recognition
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| show | streaming cam
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| Stationary camera used for professional studio work. | show 🗑
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| show | stylus
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| show | terminal
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| Key that switches between two states each time a user presses the key. | show 🗑
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| Touch-sensitive display device with which users interact by touching areas of the screen. | show 🗑
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| Input device that enables users to scroll through and play music, view pictures, watch videos or movies, adjust volume, and/or customize settings. | show 🗑
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| show | touchpad
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| Stationary pointing device with a ball on its top or side. | show 🗑
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| show | turnaround document
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| show | UPC (universal product code)
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| An instruction a user issues by replying to a question displayed by a program. | show 🗑
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| Adapter card that converts an analog video signal to a digital signal that a computer can process. | show 🗑
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| Meeting between two or more geographically separated people who use a network or the Internet to transmit audio and video data. | show 🗑
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| Process of capturing full-motion images and storing them on a computer’s storage medium. | show 🗑
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| Telephone call made using a PC video camera that allows both parties to see each other as they communicate over the Internet. | show 🗑
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| show | voice input
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| Computer’s capability of distinguishing spoken words. See also speech recognition. | show 🗑
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| Biometric device that compares a person’s live speech with his or her stored voice pattern to determine if the person is a legitimate user. | show 🗑
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| show | Web cam
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| Steering-wheel-type input device that is used to simulate driving a vehicle. | show 🗑
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| Video conference feature in which another window on the screen displays notes and drawings simultaneously on all participants’ screens. | show 🗑
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| Nintendo's motion-sensing input device that uses Bluetooth wireless technology to communicate with the Wii game console. | show 🗑
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| Battery-powered keyboard that transmits data using wireless technology, such as radio waves or infrared light waves. See also cordless keyboard. | show 🗑
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| show | wireless mouse
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You may also shuffle the rows of the table by clicking on the "Shuffle" button.
Or sort by any of the columns using the down arrow next to any column heading.
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