FlexCase: Enhancing Mobile Interaction with a Flexible Sensing and Display Cover

@article{Rendl2016FlexCaseEM,
  title={FlexCase: Enhancing Mobile Interaction with a Flexible Sensing and Display Cover},
  author={Christian Rendl and David Kim and Patrick Parzer and S. Fanello and Martin Zirkl and Gregor Scheipl and Michael Haller and Shahram Izadi},
  journal={Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems},
  year={2016}
}
FlexCase is a novel flip cover for smartphones, which brings flexible input and output capabilities to existing mobile phones. It combines an e-paper display with a pressure- and bend-sensitive input sensor to augment the capabilities of a phone. Due to the form factor, FlexCase can be easily transformed into several different configurations, each with different interaction possibilities. Users can use FlexCase to perform a variety of touch, pressure, grip and bend gestures in a natural manner… 
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