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Arlington National Cemetery Explorer
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…
BillionGraves
A crowdsourced online database of graves with GPS locations. Users upload details about each grave including its location, basic biographical details of the deceased, a transcription of the headstone and photographs of the gravesite. Mobile app…
Cemetales
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…
Vanitas
An artwork based around a mobile app that is designed to be used at a cemetery. The cemetery in question changes as the artwork must be set up for a particular site. Vanitas presents the user with a combination of text, images and audio recordings…
Binoculars (meSch)
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…
Bird Box (meSch)
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…
Companion Novel (meSch)
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…
Mourning Jewellery (meSch)
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…
Canadian Headstones
A crowdsourced online database of graves in Canada. Users upload details about each grave including its location, basic biographical details of the deceased, a transcription of the headstone and photographs of the gravesite.