There is increasing popularity of alternative burial methods in the United States. These include but are not limited to cremation, natural, and tree burial. Many resources can aid an individual in selecting the burial method. However, there is no single tool to educate on alternative burial methods, pre-plan, and perform the burial. Challenges include researching available methods, finding legal regulations involved with burial methods, finding locations for these services, and finalizing arrangements.

In this report, we describe our observations and contextual inquiry interviews used to gather data remotely over Zoom, our survey methods and analysis using Qualtrics, and our use of Atlis.ti to perform inductive coding on the transcripts from the observation sessions by creating a codebook for referencing the Attribute, InViVo, and Descriptive codes, in which we coded the responses for the questions associated with our research hypotheses. We describe our performance of statistical analysis in R using the Chi-Square test and Mann-Whitney U to validate our hypotheses, findings, and visual representations using charts, task analysis, persona creation, feature matrix, and experience maps, thus leading to implications for the design of a technology aimed to help people search for burial methods, pre-plan burial services, and educate themselves on alternative burial methods.