This is the research diary of researcher Lisbeth
Klastrup, since february 2001 sharing her thoughts on life, universe, persistent online
worlds, games, interactive stories and internet oddities with you on the www.
I am currently on leave from the IT University
of Copenhagen, and from aug. 2006 - aug. 2007 working as Associate Research Professor at the Center for Design Research Copenhagen, an independant center situated at the School of Architecture. During this year, I will be working on a book about the development of aesthetics, design and interaction on the WWW, together with colleague Ida Engholm.
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The Irish takes the mobile to the grave - about how the Irish are beginning to be burried with their mobile, just in case...
I havent been able to find the original AP release Politiken refers to, but this story from the The Ballyhoo Examiner definitely confirms the story (and Im quoting it here, as Ballyhoo Examiner don't to permalinks and it's ...very Irish):
Mobile Phone Call From The Grave
Deaths - 04 November 2005 - A FUNERAL ceremony in Ballyhoo was interrupted yesterday by the persistent ringing of a mobile phone - in the coffin.
'A lot more people are taking their mobiles and pagers to the grave nowadays,' says Con Coffey of Coffey Funeral Directors. 'It's a dead ancient Irish practice to bury your loved one with some of their personal mementos such as wedding rings, a photograph or a bottle of Black Bush,' he explains. 'Young girls literally live on their mobiles so they feel it's an extension of them. Or they might be frightened to death that they might wake up in the coffin - so they bring along their mobile so they can ring or text a pal from the grave.' Con says the mobile phone call wasn't the most unusual thing to happen at a funeral in recent times. There was the incident with the goat, and two years ago he even had to postpone a funeral after the deceased 'grew a moustache'....
Of course, someone have alreade designed a dedicated mobile phone to go in the coffin: How to stay in touch - even when you're dead.
Death Stories project
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Conferences
ACE 2007
Mobile Media 2007
MobileCHI 07
Perth DAC 2007
DIGRA 2007
AOIR 8.0/2007
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My Ph.D. thesis website:
Towards a Poetics of Virtual Worlds
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Misc
I also used to host & work in a world called StoryMOO.