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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…

Cemetery management software that provides visitors with an explorable orthophotographic map of the cemetery with a grave search function.

A design for a gravesite holographic projection system, filed to the United States Patent and Trademark Office in September 2003. The patent described the system as follows: "A system for conveying information about a deceased individual. The system…

A prototype media installation designed to create the appearance of a stone gravestone with moving imagery on its face. The prototype was made out of a wooden frame and transparent acrylic sheet painted to look like stone, with imagery back-projected…

A tombstone with a large embedded digital display that displays content about the deceased person when approached by a cemetery visitor using proximity sensors. The media content may be scrolling text, video or audio.

A porcelain plaque that affixes to a gravestone or other monument and features a built-in near field communication (NFC) chip that links to an online memorial page when scanned by a smartphone. The memorial page can display text, photos and video…

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 prototype augmented reality (AR) application designed for use at Bukit Brown Cemetery in Singapore. The app runs on an Android mobile device and is designed to recognise landmarks such as tombstones when they are presented to the camera, using a…