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MorePhone: an actuated shape changing flexible smartphone

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Flexible Technology will enable computing devices to become mutable in terms of shape, behavior and movement, allowing them to form a more dynamic relationship with the environment. We present MorePhone, a prototype flexible smartphone that uses shape deformations as its primary means of both haptic and visual notifications. To inform the design of a flexible smartphone that uses shape changes to convey notifications, we conducted a participatory study to determine how users associate urgency and notification type with full screen, 1 corner, 2 corner and 3 corner actuations of the smartphone. Results suggested that urgent notifications (e.g. alarms, voice calls) were best matched with actuation of the entire display surface, while less urgent notifications, (e.g. app notifications) were best matched to individual corner bends.

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    CHI EA '13: CHI '13 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
    April 2013
    3360 pages
    ISBN:9781450319522
    DOI:10.1145/2468356
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    1. actuation
    2. flexible displays
    3. notification
    4. organic user interfaces.
    5. shape changing interfaces

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