Cemetales
Description
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 interest marked on the map. When the user comes within 20 metres of a point of interest, an audio recording plays. The user can also tap the point of interest on the map to see a written description and replay the audio recording. Some points of interest are hidden on the map, and so their audio recording plays unexpectedly. The audio recordings include historical information, emotional stories, poetry, music and atmospheric soundscapes.
Creator
Jakob Borrits Sabra
Hans Jørgen Andersen
Kasper Rodil
Source
Sabra, J. B., Andersen, H. J., & Rodil, K. (2015). Hybrid Cemetery Culture: Making Death Matter in Cultural Heritage Using Smart Mobile Technologies. 2015 International Conference on Culture and Computing (Culture Computing), 167–174. https://doi.org/10.1109/Culture.and.Computing.2015.16
Development status
Citation
Jakob Borrits Sabra, Hans Jørgen Andersen, and Kasper Rodil, “Cemetales,” Encyclopedia of Cemetery Technology, accessed March 29, 2024, https://cemeterytech.omeka.net/items/show/8.