The HID standard was adopted primarily to enable innovation in PC input devices and to simplify the process of installing such devices.

Driving simulator devices and flight simulator devices: gear sticks, steering wheels, pedals.

Pointing devices: Mouse, Trackball, Touchpad, Pointing stick, Light pen.

The working group was renamed as the Human Interface Device class at the suggestion of Tom Schmidt of DEC because the proposed standard supported bi-directional communication. The term was coined by Mike Van Flandern of Microsoft when he proposed that the USB committee create a Human Input Device class working group. The term 'HID' most commonly refers to the USB-HID specification.

JSTOR ( September 2014) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)Ī 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.

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