The Smart Board interactive whiteboard is an interactive whiteboard that uses touch detection for user input – e.g., scrolling, right mouse-click – in the same way normal PC input devices, such as a mouse or keyboard, detect input. A projector is used to display a computer’s video output on the interactive whiteboard, which then acts as a large touch screen. The Smart Board typically comes with 4 digital pens, which use digital ink and replace traditional whiteboard markers. Most Smart Board interactive whiteboards register only one touch at a time however, in June 2009, Smart Technologies introduced their first dual-touch interactive whiteboard. The dual-touch Smart Board accepts two simultaneous touches, however only on two separate sides of the interactive whiteboard surface.
The Smart Board interactive whiteboard operates as part of a system that includes the interactive whiteboard, a computer, a projector and white boarding software called Smart Notebook collaborative learning software. The components are connected wirelessly, via USB or serial cables. A projector connected to the computer displays the computer’s desktop image on the interactive whiteboard. The interactive whiteboard accepts touch input from a finger, pen or other solid object. Each contact with the Smart Board interactive whiteboard is interpreted as a left-click from the mouse. Smart Board interactive whiteboards are also available as a front-projection flat-panel display – interactive surfaces that fit over plasma or LCD display panels.
- CSE has Smart Boards in Shambhu Upadhyaya's research lab in Davis 301C.
- The latest Smartboard software and Product Key are located on: \\tomcat\support$\smartboard. The product key can be used to activate unlimited # of software uses and it supports Windows 7.
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_board
- http://smarttech.com/us
- http://www.audiovideocorp.com/
- http://www.avsolutionsny.com/
- http://www.garrykrause.com/
