IEEE Technology and Society Magazine - March 2022 - 32

Feature
A¯ tea Presence-
Enabling Virtual
Storytelling, Presence,
and Tele-Co-Presence in
an Indigenous Setting
Holger Regenbrecht, Noel Park,
Stuart Duncan, Steven Mills, Rosa Lutz,
Laurie Lloyd-Jones, and Claudia Ott
University of Otago, Dunedin 9054, New Zealand
Bubba Thompson and Dean Whaanga
Te Rau Aroha Marae, Bluff 9814, New Zealand
Robert W. Lindeman, Kris Tong, and
Rory Clifford
University of Canterbury, Christchurch 8140,
New Zealand
 Developing, evaluating, anD disseminating
IT research prototypes for and with indigenous partners
is both challenging and rewarding. In conjunction
with our domain expert collaborators, Te Rau
Aroha Marae [Bluff, Aotearoa/New Zealand (NZ)]
and our academic colleagues at the Universities
of Waikato and Canterbury, we are implementing
a mixed reality telepresence system to connect a
diasporic Ma¯ori community to their historical, cultural,
and geographic ma¯tauranga (knowledge). In
this article, we describe our project, A¯tea Presence,
which is guided by the principles of partnership, participation,
and protection. We describe the design
and evaluation of the system developed, the collaborative
process we undertook with Te Rau Aroha
Marae, and our Ma¯ori academic colleagues and
report on lessons learned along the way.
Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MTS.2022.3147525
Date of current version: 9 March 2022.
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Background
Ma¯ori are the indigenous people of Aotearoa/
NZ; descended from the Polynesians who arrived in
Aotearoa/NZ during the 13th and 14th centuries-
some 500 years before European arrival. For Ma¯ori,
the marae (recognizable as a complex of buildings
and outdoor spaces) is a focal space for the community.
The marae is used as a communal, social,
cultural, and spiritual space and place to greet,
meet, eat, celebrate and debate, and to host visitors.
In more recent times, the urbanization and shift of
Ma¯ori to large cities and overseas has increased the
size of the diaspora, with more than 80% of Ma¯ori living
outside of their tribal areas. The impact of colonization
and the increased physical distance for many
Ma¯ori who live outside their tribal (iwi) boundaries
has also created a situation where there is a growing
number of Ma¯ori seeking various ways to interact
and connect to their geographical and cultural
associations.
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Nadia Jones, Paora Mato, and
Te Taka Keegan
University of Waikato, Hamilton 3240,
New Zealand
He¯mi Whaanga
Te Rau Aroha Marae, Bluff 9814, New Zealand
University of Waikato, Hamilton 3240,
New Zealand

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