Input Devices

Input Devices

1. Mouse

   • The pointing and inputting device

2. Key board

   • use to enter text

3. Game Controller

   • Used to enter text

4. Webcam

   • used to input visual data
   • peripheral or inbuilt

5. Touch Screen

   • input device controlled by finger or stylus.

6. Microphone

   • used to input audio data
   • peripheral or inbuilt

7. Joystick

   • used for gaming
   • used to control devices
   • e.g CCTV camera, robots

8. Graphic tablet

   • used to input drawings.

9. scanner

   • digitises printed documents
   • optical character recognition
   • (OCR0) can turn text into an editable format

10. Touch-Sensitive joy dial

    • used for simple actions like skipping a song