Talk:Human interface device

Digitizer
From Windows_CE "The defining characteristics of the pocket pc are the digitizer as the primary Human Interface Device and its extremely portable size." what in tarnation does this mean? Mathiastck 18:07, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

Dunno, but it's gone now! Carl Turner 11:25, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

Cleanup tag
Does anyone agree? This looks like an ugly mess to me! I've tidied up some of the list, and some of the start of the "Most operating systems..." paragraph. Opinions, please. EDIT: And can you have "native hardware"? I've not come across the term before. I've only heard of native software, as in native to the operating system, in that it runs without additional interpreters. I can see how to interpret "native hardware", but is it really defined? --Carl Turner 11:23, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
 * I think that whole last sentence needs an overhaul. While it is true that old computers did not recognize keyboards on USB but did recognize PS/2, almost all of today's computers recognize both USB and PS/2, and even a few only recognize USB and not PS/2.  This last case occurs if the computer did not ship with PS/2 at all and it is unlikely that an add-in PCI board would be recognized by the PC's BIOS. Lathe26 07:00, 6 May 2007 (UTC)
 * I overhauled this sentence which I hope is better. Does this get us closer to getting rid of the cleanup tag? Lathe26 07:03, 12 May 2007 (UTC)


 * I added a "Components of the HID Protocol" section so that more technical people can learn more of the details. Perhaps we should put the more complex items that section as well and let the introduction paragraphs focus more on the high level descriptions to help the reader get orientated. Lathe26 07:05, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

3D motion controller
Was a spam page but has a couple nuggets of viable information. Adam McCormick 19:04, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

Nintendo Power Glove
Does this really belong in the list of HID devices? It is not HID compliant, it's not even USB... I conceede that it is a *device*, that can be used to *interface*, but nostalga aside, it doesn't belong on this list.

216.254.28.72 (talk) 20:12, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

"Innovation"
This article reads like a press release from Microsoft. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.74.190.167 (talk) 13:38, 3 August 2009 (UTC)

Merge with USB human interface device class?
Article overlaps with USB human interface device class —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.206.162.148 (talk) 07:13, 22 March 2011 (UTC)

Shouldn't these two articles be merged? If not, each should refer to the other, and it should be clear why we need 2 articles. DavidMCEddy (talk) 17:42, 13 June 2013 (UTC)

Non-HID Devices
I perceive a need for a section on non-HID devices, as I explained in a section by this title in Talk:USB human interface device class. DavidMCEddy (talk) 17:42, 13 June 2013 (UTC)

HID disambiguation
The disambiguation page on HID says it "may refer to ... Human interface device, a computer device that interacts with humans". This appears to be wrong. Based on what I've learned from this article and the one on USB human interface device class, I believe the disambiguation reference should say it's "a standard for computer devices that interact with humans, and devices that comply with that standard".

This distinction is important, because many computer devices that interact with humans are NOT HID complaint.

I've made this change. If it's wrong, please correct. Thanks. DavidMCEddy (talk) 17:42, 13 June 2013 (UTC)
 * The dab page was correct; as the lede of this article explains "[a] human interface device or HID is a type of computer device that interacts directly with, and most often takes input from, humans and may deliver output to humans." It does say that HID commonly refers to USB-HID, but this is not it's only meaning. This page may get into the specific protocol too much, but you can't assume that an abbreviation used somewhere discounts other uses of that abbreviation. HID can indeed refer to a USB standard, but HID is also an abbreviation for generic devices that humans use to communicate with computers. I'm reverting that change on the DAB and including USB-HID as well, unless the pages get merged. —Ost (talk) 14:46, 17 June 2013 (UTC)

Sensory organs, putative 'wetware' as extensions of conscious volition?
Has it been brought into the 'HID' branding the possible philosophical stance to suppose the body to be an interface itself? Esp. from an immaterialist, metaphysical-ideal e.g. Berkeleyan positing; as it is more than just the apparent/appearence/phenomenal aspect of the senses, but as well a methodology of contingency (the old adage against idealism; how does the body drink and mind not get drunk were it not a prevalence of brain, matter/object; over mind, ideal/subject - doesn't account for senses and stages of consciousness as a manifold of immaterial unrelativistic-Subject infrastructure where precedence is of a subtler sort occluded by a constricted lesser-automatic-sentience with regard to an intuition of material) 66.96.79.217 (talk) 21:42, 1 April 2017 (UTC)

Article focus
The LEDE says: "A human interface device or HID is a type of computer device usually used by humans that takes input from humans and gives output to humans."

But then the article only goes on about USB-HID.

I would like to open a discussion about either merging both articles, or changing the focus of this article to be mainly about HID, and not USB-HID. Uwsi (talk) 02:23, 10 January 2023 (UTC)

Tom Schmidt of DEC
I did a search for "Tom Schmidt of DEC digital". I'm fairly sure I found info on him. Someone, like a journalism major? could read the info and add a ref? I am dyslexic, and I hate reading. I add simple thing like link to Metacritic on film pages. Mkw813 (talk) 04:17, 24 September 2023 (UTC)