Generating the Presence of Remote Mourners: a Case Study of Funeral Webcasting in Japan

Uriu, Daisuke; Toshima, Kenta; Manabe, Minori; Yazaki, Takeru; Funatsu, Takeshi; Izumihara, Atsushi; Kashino, Zendai; Hiyama, Atsushi; İnami, Masahiko

doi:10.1145/3411764.3445617

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“…In the management of crisis-related funerals, therefore, the social worker has to address the needs of the families and mediate their interaction with the funeral home to facilitate a smooth operation and responsive service. What is more, the application of technology plays an essential role during the pandemic as organizing remote funeral ceremonies and providing online services become primary alternatives to address people’s needs and ensure their safety (Uriu et al, 2021; Zhao et al, 2022).…”

Section: Funeral Social Work Practices In Chinamentioning

confidence: 99%

Social work and funeral service: A proposed framework for practice

Tan

Tsang

Jing³

et al. 2023

International Social Work

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Funeral services are related to the vital interests of human beings and are supposed to meet people’s social, psychological and spiritual needs. More and more people from the funeral service industry have realized the importance of bringing helping professionals into the funeral service industry to fill in service gaps. Based on the Strategies and Skills Learning and Development system, a practice framework for funeral social work is proposed. The framework incorporates services in direct service, education and training, administrative management and research development. It targets families, relatives and other related people of the deceased, staff and management and local communities.

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Section: Funeral Social Work Practices In Chinamentioning

confidence: 99%

Social work and funeral service: A proposed framework for practice

Tan

Tsang

Jing³

et al. 2023

International Social Work

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“…Whereas there is research on using 360-degree cameras as streaming devices during the COVID-19 pandemic to stream, for example, a funeral [58], there is a limited amount of research on using an HMD for face-to-face communication between telepresent and local people. Much work regarding an HMD in communication instead focuses on shared experiences, such as an HMD user "riding along" with another [21,56].…”

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Augmenting Immersive Telepresence Experience with a Virtual Body

Arora,

Suomalainen,

Pouke

et al. 2022

Preprint

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We propose augmenting immersive telepresence by adding a virtual body, representing the user's own arm motions, as realized through a head-mounted display and a 360-degree camera. Previous research has shown the effectiveness of having a virtual body in simulated environments; however, research on whether seeing one's own virtual arms increases presence or preference for the user in an immersive telepresence setup is limited. We conducted a study where a host introduced a research lab while participants wore a head-mounted display which allowed them to be telepresent at the host's physical location via a 360-degree camera, either with or without a virtual body. We first conducted a pilot study of 20 participants, followed by a pre-registered 62 participant confirmatory study. Whereas the pilot study showed greater presence and preference when the virtual body was present, the confirmatory study failed to replicate these results, with only behavioral measures suggesting an increase in presence. After analyzing the qualitative data and modeling interactions, we suspect that the quality and style of the virtual arms, and the contrast between animation and video, led to individual differences in reactions to the virtual body which subsequently moderated feelings of presence.

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“…They simultaneously manifested as remote-access versions of something occurring in the material space and were experientially disconnected from it. The disconnect appears to have to do with expectations that are firmly tied to material space as a setting, with vivid examples including remote participation in ceremonial events such as mourning the dead (Li, 2020; Uriu et al, 2021).…”

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Transforming the Doctoral Defence: Remote-Access Technologies and Social Space

Lehtiniemi

Trifuljesko

2022

Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Med

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Lockdowns and social distancing measures in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic have made remote participation a necessity for a wide range of social situations. This article examines one example: the abrupt transformation of the Finnish doctoral defence into a remote-access experience facilitated by video-conferencing technologies. The event is regularly centred on a formal public academic debate, rife with local academic ritual and ceremonial formality and firmly tied to the assumption of physical co-presence in the material space. Following the tradition of spatial conceptualisations of the digital, we draw inspiration from Henri Lefebvre’s theory on the production of space, particularly the analytical framework of the spatial triad, which enables regarding the doctoral defence as a social space made up of relations between things. As remote-access tools are introduced, new actants enter the field; the relations they mediate are affected, as is the social space that the relations constitute. This facilitates the examination of the effects that remote-access technologies have on conceiving, perceiving and living the doctoral defence, and ultimately on the social space as holistically understood. Our analysis is based on observations of remote-access defences and interviews with doctoral candidates who defended their doctoral theses remotely. Our findings highlight how the social space of the defence is both curtailed and broadened by remote-access technologies; some relations that make up space are narrowed while others stretch sufficiently to be included. As a result, the remote-access defence conceptually counts as the real thing in our material, but it remains unsatisfactory as an experience. This finding suggests how to mediate social space without reducing it: focusing on the lived experience and ensuring that it is not inadvertently distorted.

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Generating the Presence of Remote Mourners: a Case Study of Funeral Webcasting in Japan

Cited by 21 publications

References 49 publications

Social work and funeral service: A proposed framework for practice

Social work and funeral service: A proposed framework for practice

Augmenting Immersive Telepresence Experience with a Virtual Body

Transforming the Doctoral Defence: Remote-Access Technologies and Social Space

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