This project will elaborate a concept and develop a prototype for a remote wireless multimedia computer input device which can be hand-held or strapped to the wrist. The device will incorporate traditional pointing device functionality as well as a neural network-based speech recognition facility capable of interpreting domain-specific vocabularies germane to command and control operations in space-bound research and development environments. The unit will be compact, light-weight, energy efficient, and will contain a cursor position encoding mechanism which can function in zero gravity without relying on friction (roller balls) or requiring users todeal with undesirable reaction forces.Potential commercial applications include multimedia presentations medical and legal information processing and retrieval, and laboratory automation. The device is ideally suited for applications which involve users performing actions away from their computers.multimedia, voice recognition, neural networks, wireless
