Katharine Uvick

• Types of Input Devices

• Brief History of Input Devices
• Recent Input Device Development
– Suma Mouse Prototype
– Tobii REX
– Displair
– SixthSense
– Luminae TransluSense Keyboard
– MIseeTX
– Intellect Motion Devices
– Disney's Botanicus Interactius
• Any peripheral used to provide data or control a
information processing system, a computer
• Classified by:
– Modality of input
– Discrete or continuous input
– Degrees of freedom
• Types of input:
– Keyboards
– Pointing devices
– High-degree of freedom input devices
– Composite devices
– Image and video input devices
– Audio input devices
• Herman Hollerith – 80 column
punch cards, for 1890 Census
• John Jones (1852), Christopher
Sholes (1867) – typewriters
• IBM's Selectric electromechanical
typewriter (1961)
• Douglas Engelbart and Bill English
(1963) – the mouse
• Graphics tablet and stylus-based
input (1950s)
• Palm Pilot PDA (1997) – Graffiti,
detect stylized characters
• Apple iPhone & iPad – multi- IBM Model 026 Keypunch
touch capacitive screen
• Gesture and voice input
• Squeezable mouse for 3D
control
• Deformable foam surrounding
a sensor core
• Interior actuators used to
detect pressure and changes
in movement
• Orientation dependent
• Software within device
interprets signals and forwards
them to another software on
the computer
• Shape independent
• Application in medical field
during stroke therapy
• Combination of eye movement
and keys
• “Improved” Pupil Centre Corneal
Reflection (PCCR)
– Use infrared illumination
– Calculate vector between cornea
and pupil reflections
– Image processing algorithms and
3D model of eye used to determine
position of eye and point of gaze
– Two cameras, minimal head
movement impact
• Raw eye movement data (x,y)
collected every 16.6 or 8.3 ms
– Reduces data, points within
minimum distance
• Interactive multi-touch projection
onto cold water vapor
– Extremely small water particles,
stable after physical contact
– Exist between −50°С and +50°С
– Uses cavitation
• Infrared depth sensors and
motion camera used to interpret
gestures
• 0.2 seconds lag between input
and reaction
• 1 cm accuracy
• Can manage up to 1500 touches
at once
– Multiple users
– Complex gestures
• “Wearable” multi-touch
interface with camera, mirror,
and projector
• Computing device can be
stored in pocket
• Camera tracks hand gestures
and physical objects
• Processes video, tracks colored
markers
• Computer-vision techniques
• Gestures used as controls,
similar to multi-touch systems
• Can project addition
information about objects in
surroundings
• Glass keyboard
• Visible LEDs
– Light pipes transfer light to
glass surface
– Reflects inside glass until
touched
– Reflected light back into
cameras in base
• Programmable keyboard
skins
• Bluetooth connection to
other devices
• Input and output
built into device
– Virtual keyboard
and mouse
– Webcam and
microphone
– Touch screen
– Projector
• A wide variety of
connection ports
• GameCube
– Harness hung from frame,
supported by elastic tubing
– Detect effects of gravity on body
• SMotion
– Device uses LEDs on belt to track
body position
• PMotion
– Platform that detects shifts in
center of gravity
– Applies force feedback
• Electrode placed in soil
turns plant into an
interactive device
– Uses “Swept Frequency
Capacitive Sensing”
• Can detect different
gestures and locations on
the plant
– Can map gestures to controls
– Detects proximity and
amount of touch
• Treats plant as an electrical
circuit
• Input comes in a variety of types (e.g., audio,
video, etc.)
• The history of input finds its origins in punch
cards, and has come a long way
• Many modern input devices take advantage of
multiple ways of gathering data (e.g., using
cameras and buttons)
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