TeleAbsence: A Vision of Past and Afterlife Telepresence

dc.contributor.authorIshii, Hiroshien
dc.contributor.authorPillis, Danielen
dc.contributor.authorPataranutaporn, Paten
dc.contributor.authorXiao, Xiaoen
dc.contributor.authorNoh, Hayounen
dc.contributor.authorLi, Lucyen
dc.contributor.authorAlgargoosh, Alaaen
dc.contributor.authorLabrune, Jean-Baptisteen
dc.date.accessioned2025-03-10T12:49:17Zen
dc.date.available2025-03-10T12:49:17Zen
dc.date.issued2025-01-16en
dc.description.abstractThis paper presents our vision of TeleAbsence, extending the concept of telepresence to the past and the afterlife to address the vast emotional and temporal distance caused by the memory of loved ones who drifted apart and faded away. Instead of explicit and literal representations of loved ones, TeleAbsence describes poetic encounters with digital and physical traces left by the absence of others. TeleAbsence fosters illusory communications to conjure the feeling of being there with those no longer with us without using synthetic or generative representations and utterances. Our vision is deeply inspired by the Portuguese concept “Saudade”—the “desire for the beloved thing, people, place, and moment, made painful by its absence.” We present our vision through five design principles: presence of absence, illusory communication, the materiality of memory, traces of reflection, and remote time, grounded in historical and cultural contexts. We present exploratory narratives to illustrate these principles and the concept of ambient co-presence using poetry, phone, piano, and pen as mediums. We discuss challenges and opportunities for future work, including representational strategies to depict lost loved ones, ethical issues, and the possible extension of TeleAbsence to historical public figures.en
dc.description.versionPublished versionen
dc.format.extentPages 1-30en
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1162/pres_a_00441en
dc.identifier.eissn1531-3263en
dc.identifier.issn1054-7460en
dc.identifier.orcidAlgargoosh, Alaa Salman A. [0000-0003-4288-8581]en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10919/124829en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherMassachusetts Institute of Technology Pressen
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.titleTeleAbsence: A Vision of Past and Afterlife Telepresenceen
dc.title.serialPresence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environmentsen
dc.typeArticle - Refereeden
dc.type.dcmitypeTexten
dc.type.otherArticleen
dcterms.dateAccepted2024-12-05en
pubs.organisational-groupVirginia Techen
pubs.organisational-groupVirginia Tech/Architecture, Arts, and Designen
pubs.organisational-groupVirginia Tech/Architecture, Arts, and Design/School of Architectureen

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