What are Input devices?
Computer input devices are components/devices that enable a user to enter/feed data and instructions into a computer for processing.
Computer input refers to any data and instructions entered/fed into a computer for processing.
The two types of computer input are:
- Data
- Commands
Examples of Input devices
1) Keyboard
2) Mouse
3) Touchpad
4) Trackball
5) Stylus and graphics tablet
6) Joystick
7) Microphone
8) Light pen
9) Pointing stick
10) Scanner
11) MIDI device
12) Remote sensor
13) Digital camera
14) Barcode reader
15) Digital video camera
16) Web camera
17) PC camera
18) Magnetic stripe reader
19) Optical mark recognition (OMR) reader
20) Magnetic ink character recognition (MICR) reader
21) Optical character recognition (OCR) reader
22) Touch screen
According to the type of data they input, the above input devices can be grouped into the following.
- Text input devices
- Pointing input devices
- Imaging input devices
- Gaming input devices
- Audio input devices
- Biometric input devices
- Other specialised input devices