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  2. Caret navigation - Wikipedia

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    In this text navigation mode the ‘cursor’, often depicted as a blinking vertical line, appears within the text on-screen. The user can then navigate throughout the text by using the arrow navigation keys to cause the cursor to move; typically changing the cursor's location in increments of character position horizontally and of text line vertically.

  3. Text entry interface - Wikipedia

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    Some tablets are intended as a replacement for the mouse as the primary pointing and navigation device. Graphics tablets can be use with handwriting recognition software to input text, using the graphics tablet to write on the handwriting recognition detects the letters and converts it to digital information.

  4. Virtual keyboard - Wikipedia

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    Virtual keyboards are commonly used as an on-screen input method in devices with no physical keyboard where there is no room for one, such as a pocket computer, personal digital assistant (PDA), tablet computer, or touchscreen-equipped mobile phone. Text is commonly inputted either by tapping a virtual keyboard or finger-tracing. [10]

  5. Pointing device - Wikipedia

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    A computer mouse Touchpad and a pointing stick on an IBM notebook Trackpoint An elder 3D mouse 3D pointing device. 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.

  6. Pointing stick - Wikipedia

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    A pointing stick on a mid-1990s-era Toshiba laptop. The two buttons below the keyboard act as a computer mouse: the top button is used for left-clicking while the bottom button is used for right-clicking. Optical pointing sticks are also used on some Ultrabook tablet hybrids, such as the Sony Duo 11, ThinkPad Tablet and Samsung Ativ Q.

  7. Input device - Wikipedia

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    touchpad or trackpad A flat surface operated by moving a finger across its surface. touch screen A layer placed over a computer screen, used by physically touching it. trackball Similar to a mouse, a trackball has a ball held by a socket. Instead of moving the mouse, the user rolls the ball with their finger. graphics tablet, digitizer, or ...

  8. Pointing device gesture - Wikipedia

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    The mouse gesture for "back" in Opera – the user holds down the right mouse button, moves the mouse left, and releases the right mouse button.. In computing, a pointing device gesture or mouse gesture (or simply gesture) is a way of combining pointing device or finger movements and clicks that the software recognizes as a specific computer event and responds to accordingly.

  9. Mystery meat navigation - Wikipedia

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    Mystery meat navigation (also known as MMN) is a form of web navigation user interface whereby the target of each link is not visible until the user points their cursor at it. Such interfaces lack a user-centered design , emphasizing aesthetic appearance , white space , and the concealment of information over practicality and functionality .