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With this can reconstruct complex deformations without the need for any external sensing, such as cameras. Done in collaboration with Media Interaction Lab, Hagenberg, Austria, and the Institute of Surface Technologies and Photonics, Joanneum Research, FlexSense provides a fully self-contained setup which improves mobility and is not affected from occlusions.

Using only a sparse set of sensors, printed on the periphery of the surface substrate they devised two new algorithms to fully reconstruct the complex deformations of the sheet, using only these sparse sensor measurements.

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The film developed by a team from the Fraunhofer Institute for Silicate Research (ISC) renders flexible polymer films sensitive to deformation. Electronic pressure sensors can then be printed on them.

Sensitive flexible film for touch displays. Courtesy of Joanneum Research.

The film was developed under the European Flashed Project, which began in 2013, and has led to the creation of Flex Sense film by a team from ISC, Joanneum Research, and the Media Interaction Lab of the University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria, Plastic Logic and Microsoft Research.