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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 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 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 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 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…

A mobile app designed to facilitate a self-guided tour of Oakland Cemetery in Atlanta, GA. 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 of…

A mobile app designed to facilitate a self-guided tour of Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, NY. 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 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 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 artistic "soundwalk" for Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, NY. It consists of eight audio recordings that are designed to be listened to on-site through a mobile device. Each recording includes some basic verbal directions, plus wordless singing…