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A business in Tokyo, Japan, that hires out workers to perform maintenance upon a grave. Maintenance tasks include cleaning, tidying, weeding, arranging flowers and lighting incense. The worker records the maintenance using using a 360-degree camera,…

A service that provides mobile apps for cemeteries. Through the app, individual grave locations are plotted on a map, and each grave can have an associated online memorial page with media about the deceased person's life. Cemetery navigation and…

A service that creates explorable virtual recreations of a funeral service using 360 degree photography (otherwise known as VR photography). Marketed towards US military veterans and their families, for those who are unable to attend a veteran's…

A video panel designed to be installed in a gravestone, which plays video tributes to the deceased person. The system is powered by a battery charged from a solar panel that covers the screen when it is not in use.

An interactive museum installation that recreates the experience of talking to a Holocaust survivor about their experiences. A large display screen shows a video recording of a Holocaust survivor, sitting in a chair. Visitors can ask the survivor…

The US National Cemetery Administration registry of graves of military veterans and their families. The provides a search function to look up burial records, drawn from various government sources, and locate the corresponding gravesite.

A website and mobile app that provides the user with a detailed map of Arlington National Cemetery, the United States military cemetery. The map is composited from satellite photography overlaid with a street map. Users may search for a specific…

A memorial website that records the names and details of the 10,608 people who were buried at Balmain Cemetery in Sydney between 1868 and 1912, before the cemetery was demolished and converted into a public park (Pioneer Memorial Park).

A temporary networked system that was set up at a legacy cemetery in Cambridge, UK, to encourage visitors to engage with the cemetery in new ways. The system comprised indoor and outdoor components. The outdoor components were mobile devices given…

A mobile app designed to facilitate a self-guided tour of Nashville City Cemetery in Nashville, TN. The app displays a map that shows the user's location as determined by GPS plus the location of points of interest within the cemetery. For each point…