A mobile app designed to facilitate a self-guided audio tour of the Common Cemetery (Almen Kirkegård) in Aalborg, Denmark. The app displays a map that shows the user's location as determined by GPS, plus walking directions to a series of points of…
An early attempt to create an experience of "talking" to a deceased person at their gravesite, developed in the mid-1970s. The solar-powered interactive tombstone included an analogue speaker system and, later, a video display, which played…
A prototype augmented reality (AR) system for use in a historical cemetery. It is a set of binoculars (handheld or fixed to the ground) that provide a visual AR overlay on specific areas of the cemetery to provide further information about their…
A prototype installation designed to prompt visitors to investigate out-of-the-way paths or landmarks in a cemetery, without giving them specific information or requiring them to look down at their phone. It is a solar-powered box that projects an…
A prototype system for facilitating self-guided tours of a cemetery. The system is composed of two parts. The first part is a "book-like device" that the visitor carries with them as they walk around the cemetery. The second part is a network of…
A piece of wearable jewellery that is associated with one or more persons who are buried at the cemetery. The jewellery piece is designed to be worn by a visitor, and grows warmer as the visitor approaches the site of its associated grave, until…
A sound system designed to play music inside a buried coffin. Speakers embedded in the coffin lid (underground) connect to a computer server embedded in the gravestone (above ground), which displays the song that is currently playing on a small…
A stainless steel or brass plaque that affixes to a gravestone or other monument with a QR code that links to an online memorial page. The memorial page can display text, photos, video and audio recordings.
A customised metal plaque that affixes to a gravestone and features a QR code that links to an online memorial page. The memorial page can display text, photos, video and audio recordings, and a custom Google Map that points to the grave's location.…
A customised metal plaque that affixes to a gravestone and features a QR code that links to an online memorial page. The memorial pages can display text and photos from the deceased person's life. The company's website has been defunct since 2015.