Mourning Jewellery (meSch)

Description

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 quietened by a gesture. Its purpose is to provide subtle navigational guidance to the visitor without disrupting the reflective atmosphere of the cemetery.

Creator

meSch project at Sheffield Hallam University

Source

Hornecker, E., Honauer, M., & Ciolfi, L. (2014). Exploring historical cemeteries as a site for technological augmentation. In R. Albatal, J. Doyle, Y. Yang, A. Smeaton, & N. Caprani (Eds.), IHCI 2014: Proceedings of the 8th Irish Human Computer Interaction Conference (pp. 93–96). Dublin City University. http://shura.shu.ac.uk/9496/

Application type

Development status

Files

mourning-jewellery-mesch.JPG

Citation

meSch project at Sheffield Hallam University, “Mourning Jewellery (meSch),” Encyclopedia of Cemetery Technology, accessed March 28, 2024, https://cemeterytech.omeka.net/items/show/17.

Output Formats

Geolocation