Bridging Generations: Augmented Reality for Japanese Wartime Oral History

Abstract

In this position paper, the author presents a process artifact that aims to serve as an archival and educational tool that revitalizes World War II oral histories in Japan. First, the author introduces the historical background and how the work is informed by the positionality of the author. Then, the author presents features of the artifact using references to interview footage of the author's grandmother and grandaunt sharing their firsthand accounts of the 1945 Tokyo Air Raids. The affordances and barriers of this application of augmented reality is discussed and a included is a list of questions to be posed at the workshop.