@inproceedings{f4c4476d94464f5988cb2535fb6a0273,
title = "From Remote Space to Remote Time",
abstract = "We explore a design vision that reimagines human connection not only across distance but also across time, extending even beyond physical lifespans. While Telepresence was developed to connect remote spaces, this panel shifts the focus to remote time-the desire to be remembered, to reconnect with the past, and to speculate on possible futures. We bring together perspectives from generative AI, cultural heritage, and HCI to examine how connection across time can be mediated and reinterpreted. AI researchers develop synthetic agents {"}ghost bots{"} that reconstruct identities from fragmented data. Scholars in archaeological heritage investigate how artifacts carry memory across centuries, offering insight into how cultural traces become embodied knowledge. HCI researchers study interactive systems that honor the presence of absence. Together, this interdisciplinary dialogue across digital reconstruction, archaeological preservation, and practices of cherishing material traces raises broader philosophical questions about how emerging technologies shape relationships across past, present, and future.",
keywords = "afterlife, cultural heritage, grief, material traces, memory, remembrance, synthetic presence, teleabsence, telepresence, wellbeing",
author = "Hiroshi Ishii and Youn, \{Hye Jun\} and Jie Li and Xiao Xiao and Eugene Ch'Ng and Brubaker, \{Jed R.\} and Jayne Wallace and Pat Pataranutaporn",
year = "2026",
month = apr,
day = "13",
doi = "10.1145/3772363.3790071",
language = "English",
series = "Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings",
publisher = "ACM",
pages = "1--5",
editor = "Nuria Oliver and Shamma, \{David A.\} and Heloisa Candello and Pablo Cesar and Pedro Lopes and Valentino Artizzu and Fiona Draxler and Gustavo Lopez and Reinschluessel, \{Anke V.\} and Xin Tong and \{Toups Dugas\}, \{Phoebe O.\}",
booktitle = "CHI 2026 - Extended Abtracts of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems",
address = "United States",
note = "Extended Abtracts of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2026 ; Conference date: 13-04-2026 Through 17-04-2026",
}