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  2. Touchpad - Wikipedia

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    Closeup of a touchpad on an Acer CB5-311 laptop Closeup of a touchpad on a MacBook 2015 laptop. A touchpad or trackpad is a type of pointing device.Its largest component is a tactile sensor: an electronic device with a flat surface, that detects the motion and position of a user's fingers, and translates them to 2D motion, to control a pointer in a graphical user interface on a computer screen.

  3. 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.

  4. Touchscreen - Wikipedia

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    A user can give input or control the information processing system through simple or multi-touch gestures by touching the screen with a special stylus or one or more fingers. [1] Some touchscreens use ordinary or specially coated gloves to work, while others may only work using a special stylus or pen.

  5. Multi-touch - Wikipedia

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    In computing, multi-touch is technology which enables a touchpad or touchscreen to recognize more than one [7] [8] or more than two [9] points of contact with the surface. Apple popularized the term "multi-touch" in 2007 with which it implemented additional functionality, such as pinch to zoom or to activate certain subroutines attached to predefined gestures.

  6. Use Face, Fingerprint or PIN to sign in to AOL

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    The option to enable biometrics as a sign-in method may not yet be available for you. If you see the option to enable it when you sign in, follow the prompts to complete the process. Don't see a biometrics option? If you aren't prompted to set up biometrics, please contact your device's manufacturer.

  7. Gesture-enhanced single-touch - Wikipedia

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    A very common application of gesture-enhanced single-touch technology is the pinch-to-zoom gesture, which allows the user to zoom in or out by moving two fingers farther apart or closer together while touching the display.

  8. Pointing device - Wikipedia

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    a computer mouse is an indirect, relative, isotonic, position-control, translational input device with two degrees of freedom (x, y position) and two states (tracking, dragging). a touch screen is a direct , absolute , isometric , position-control input device with two or more degrees of freedom (x, y position and optionally pressure) and two ...

  9. User interface - Wikipedia

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    Gesture interfaces are graphical user interfaces which accept input in a form of hand gestures, or mouse gestures sketched with a computer mouse or a stylus. Graphical user interfaces (GUI) accept input via devices such as a computer keyboard and mouse and provide articulated graphical output on the computer monitor. [25]