This article is about computer pointing devices. For the measuring tool used to copy sculptures, see Pointing machine.
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A pointing device is a human interface device that allows a user to input spatial (i.e., continuous and multi-dimensional) data to a computer. Graphical user interfaces (GUI) and CAD systems allow the user to control and provide data to the computer using physical gestures by moving a hand-held mouse or similar device across the surface of the physical desktop and activating switches on the mouse. Movements of the pointing device are echoed on the screen by movements of the pointer (or cursor) and other visual changes. Common gestures are point and click and drag and drop.
While the most common pointing device by far is the mouse, many more devices have been developed. However, the term mouse is commonly used as a metaphor for devices that move a computer cursor.
Fitts's law can be used to predict the speed with which users can use a pointing device.
A pointingdevice is a human interface device that allows a user to input spatial (i.e., continuous and multi-dimensional) data to a computer. Graphical...
In computing, a pointingdevice gesture or mouse gesture (or simply gesture) is a way of combining pointingdevice or finger movements and clicks that...
A pointing stick (or trackpoint, also referred to generically as a nub or nipple) is a small analog stick used as a pointingdevice typically mounted...
devices, such as 3D mice, joysticks, or pointing sticks, function by reporting their angle of deflection. Pointingdevices can be classified on: Whether the...
designed and manufactured several models of mice, trackpads, and other pointingdevices, primarily for use with Macintosh computers. Over the years, Apple...
A trackball is a pointingdevice consisting of a ball held by a socket containing sensors to detect a rotation of the ball about two axes—like an upside-down...
images under the direct manipulation of the artist, usually through a pointingdevice such as a graphics tablet or, less commonly, a mouse. It is distinguished...
A computer mouse (plural mice, also mouses) is a hand-held pointingdevice that detects two-dimensional motion relative to a surface. This motion is typically...
(pointing) and then pressing a button on a mouse or other pointingdevice (click). An example of point and click is in hypermedia, where users click on hyperlinks...
touchpad or trackpad is a type of pointingdevice. Its largest component is a tactile sensor: an electronic device with a flat surface, that detects the...
A light gun is a pointingdevice for computers and a control device for arcade and video games, typically shaped to resemble a pistol. The first light...
WIMP style of interaction uses a virtual input device to represent the position of a pointingdevice's interface, most often a mouse, and presents information...
KVM is a computer input/output device offering the combination of a keyboard, video monitor and mouse (pointingdevice). They are typically constructed...
gestures. Types of pointing may be subdivided according to the intention of the person, as well as by the linguistic function it serves. Pointing typically develops...
screen on the inside of the upper lid and an alphanumeric keyboard and pointingdevice on the inside of the lower lid. Most of the computer's internal hardware...
tablet and stylus are used as pointingdevices, such as to replace a mouse. While a mouse is a relative pointingdevice (one uses the mouse to "push the...
graphical user interface, understood as the use of graphic icons and a pointingdevice to control a computer, covers a five-decade span of incremental refinements...
In computer graphical user interfaces, drag and drop is a pointingdevice gesture in which the user selects a virtual object by "grabbing" it and dragging...
recommended to have a second available pointingdevice while the dongle is being updated. The second pointingdevice may be needed to allow the user to select...
usually while also providing connection space for peripherals. mouse A pointingdevice that functions by detecting two-dimensional motion relative to its...
title bar along the top – and keeping the pointingdevice's button pressed, then moving the pointingdevice). A window can be placed in front or behind...
interfaces that uses the keyboard (especially numeric keypad) as a pointingdevice (usually replacing a mouse). Its roots lie in the earliest days of...
keyboard on the rear side to facilitate typing, and be usable as a pointingdevice. Wired and wireless remote control was developed in the latter half...
8088 microprocessor running at 5 MHz and sported a touchpad for a pointingdevice, one of the first computers to do so. The laptop was developed by Manuel...
synthesizing sounds, entering notes via computer keyboard or mouse (or other pointingdevice) or by playing on a MIDI keyboard, and combining the features of trackers...
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Look up device in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A device is usually a constructed tool. Device may also refer to: Appliance, a device for a particular...
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