Infoshow23 is the annual showcase and celebration of Pratt School of Information student work, and is part of Pratt Shows. InfoShow is taking place on Thursday, May 11th from 5:30-7:45pm, followed by the School of Information Graduation Party from 7:45-9:45pm.
More information and to RSVP can be found on Pratt.edu.
A PDF version of this program is available here.
Welcome – 5:30-5:35pm
The InfoShow print program will be available for pickup on Ground Floor Lobby or 6th Floor of Pratt Manhattan Center. Inside your program, please find a ballot for the People’s Choice Award ($500) which will be selected by attendees of InfoShow. To participate, please submit your ballot by 7:45pm to the ballot box in the 2nd floor lobby.
Session 1 – 5:35pm – 6:15pm
Room 606 – Data, Visualization and Policy
Moderator: Dr. John Lauermann
Data Privacy Laws in the U.S. and the Effect on Americans (S1R606a)
Courtney Beesch
Indigenous Data Sovereignty & Open Data: Conflicts and Resolutions (S1R606b)
Tk Cram
Manhattan Helicopter map (S1R606c)
Ziqi Wang and Jiacheng Chen
Room 609 – UX Design
Moderator: Dr. Craig MacDonald
Ethics in Video Game UX (S1R609a)
Arthi Sundararajan
Transportation Alternatives (S1R609b)
Daniel Meagher, Eva Chen and Marc Molta
Seamless Music Discovery on Wearables (S1R609c)
Shan Chang, Cathy Hu, Sharon Tao and Guillermo Ramirez
Room 610 – LGBTQ+ Archives
Moderator: Asst. Dean Quinn Lai
Preserving and Restoring LGBTQ+ Archive (S1R610a)
Rachel Brenner, Alex Austin, Sunni Wong, Simone Levy, Dylan Granger, June Bendich
Restored Film Screening (select portion): Straight Talk about Lesbians (S1R610b)
Trale Tevis
Room 612 – Love, Games and Music
Moderator: Dr. Rachel Daniell
A More Sustainable Approach to Music Touring (S1R612a)
Alyce Currier
Virtual “Gayborhoods” and the Ethics of Queer Technologies (S1R612b)
Philip Garip
Gamification in Human-Computer Interaction (S1R612c)
Gatha Ashishkumar Bhakta
Room 613 – Library, Archive & Museum Fellowship Projects
Moderator: Dr. Irene Lopatovska
Tracking Archival Collections Use at the Center for Brooklyn History (S1R613a)
Althea Meer
Linked Open Data Fellowship at the MoMA (S1R613b)
Elly Leonard
WatsOnline at Watson: a Year at the Met (S1R613c)
Ever Sugarman and Carol Choi
Room 704 – Augmented Reality and Mobile
Moderator: Dr. Nancy Smith
Hinge Connect (S1R704a)
Sara Shahnoosh, Sacchit Vartak and Johna Shi
WANNA KICKS – Reimagine AR Try On Experience (S1R704b)
Johna Shi
Vandalizer – VR break room that encourages users to release aggression through gamified experiences (S1R704c)
Johna Shi, Brooke Shapiro and Venera Zaripova
Room 714 – Youth and Libraries
Moderator: Dr. Leanne Bowler
An Argument for Graphic Novel Collections in Libraries (S1R714a)
Alessandra O’Brien
Now Your’e Collecting My Language: Collection Development in Brooklyn Public Library’s Youth Wing (S1R714b)
Brianna Stamm
“Harmful to Minors”: How Book Bans Harm Adolescent Development (S1R714c)
Grace Pickering
Break 6:15-6:20pm
Session 2 – 6:20-7:00pm
Room 606 – Politics and Information
Moderator: Dr. John Lauermann
The Integrated Presence of Extremist Ideology on Social Media (S2R606a)
Dylan Granger
Never Heard Silence Quite This Loud: How France Has Selectively Silenced Algerian War Archives to Support Political Aspirations and Reinforce National Identity (S2R606b)
Maia Hirschler
A Modern-Day Tammy Faye: Remediating Televangelism for Social Media (S2R606c)
Simone Levy
Room 609 – Amazon Music Challenge
Moderator: Dr. Craig MacDonald
MuDiary: Redefining Music Listening with Memories and Emotions (Amazon Music Challenge) (S2R609a)
Carolyn Yu and Amanda Yee
Listening modes: Providing users with more control over tailoring their music experience (S2R609b)
Hailee Luong, Jennifer Kyungeun Lee, Nishi Chitale and Ruhee Shah
Snippets & Credits: Empowering avid listeners to actively support and discover their next favorite artists (S2R609c)
Katie Im, John Kellejian, Stacey O’Carroll and Shubanghi Singh
Room 610 – Art and LAMs (Libraries, Archives & Museums)
Moderator: Asst. Dean Quinn Lai
A Year at the Franklin Furnace Archive (S2R610a)
Anna Jacobson
Pushing Past the Envelope: Visualizing the Mail-Art Network (S2R610b)
Nicole Rosengurt
Room 611 – Visualization and Visual Culture
Moderator: Dr. Chris Alen Sula
Making the Desert Island Discs Dataset: Data Visceralization and How We Don’t Know What We Know (S2R611a)
Lubov McKone, Jessika Davis, Carol Choi and Ava Kaplan
Black Built Environment: an ALA-funded LibGuide project (S2R611b)
Carol Choi
Climate Change’s Effect on Tree Communities (S2R611c)
Jolie Leung
Room 612 – Demos of Digital Tools
Login to a computer and be guided by students through a selection of digital tools (Unmoderated).
A Research Guide / LibGuide on Information & Human Rights (S2R612a)
Althea Meer, Alfredo Gutierrez and Maddie Lane
Endless Possibili-Teas (S2R612b)
Bhavna Paikattil
NYC Greenspaces Map (S2R612c)
Marc Molta
Room 613 – Digital Archives
Moderator: Dr. Irene Lopatovska
The Never Ending Catalog of Obsolete Media (S2R613a)
Aisha Khan and Sam Irwin
Spiritual Technology (S2R613b)
Meina Naeymirad
Preserving Born Digital Artwork Made in Procreate (S2R613c)
Sara Sarmiento
Room 705A – Interactive
Dragon Newspaper Oneshot Program (S2R705a)
June Bendich, Katie Rigney and Chris Jacobs
Room 714 – Food and Technology
Moderator: Prof. Rebecca Evanhoe
Cooking as Conversation: Embracing Embodied Knowledge and Oral History in Culinary Information Systems (S2R714a)
Alyse Delaney
Parsnip – The operating system for the home kitchen (S2R714b)
Sharon Tao
Break 7:00-7:05PM
Session 3 – 7:05-7:45pm
Room 610 – Accessibility and Education
Moderator: Asst. Director Meredith Brull
Analyzing The Implications Of Color Vision Deficiency In A Creative Career (S3R610a)
Medhaswi Paturu
Design for Deaf Accessibility (S3R610b)
Radhika Mehra
How to Help Good: Lessons From an Award Winning Tutor (S3R610c)
Tk Cram
Room 613 – UX Design and Research
Moderator: Dr. Monica Maceli
Data-Driven Personas (S3R613a)
Jolie Leung
Evaluating the Digital Experience at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (S3R613b)
Tereza Chanaki, Alyse Delaney and Riley Tirst
Responsible Food Waste Reduction (S2R613c)
Nehal Sharma, Hoa Luong, Sehyun Jeon and Tanmaya Srija Jyothula
Room 201 – Poster Session
Death Plan (S3R201a)
Abbey Hurst
Mapping History Underfoot in Paris: Discovering Roman Lutetia and Medieval Paris today through the power of open data (S3R201b)
Anna Feldman
Archiving the Ephemeral (S3R201c)
Celia Coan and Grace Volinsky
Capturing Impermanence: How & Why to Archive Your Website (S3R201d)
Ellis Mikelić and Anna Collins
QUILT: Queer Intimacies Located in Thread (S3R201e)
Gabriella Evergreen
What is Mine is Yours, but is It Ours? (S3R201f)
Hannah Rothfield
Significance of interlibrary loan data in collection development poster (S3R201g)
Harsh Taggar
Community Archives and Preservation (CAP) Project at the LGBT Center Archive (S3R201h)
Jacs Rodriguez
Designing Supportive Conversational Agents With and For Teens (S3R201i)
Jessika Davis
Why Webtoons Work! (S3R201j)
June Bendich
Establishing Formal Processes for Handling Harmful or Explicit Material in Digital Collections: A Focus on Protecting Donor Privacy (S3R201k)
Kc Stanziano
Processing the Samuel Kahn MD Papers at the Oskar Diethelm Library (S3R201l)
Lily Susman
Contextualizing AI-Generated Transcripts for Researchers (S3R201m)
Lubov McKone
Women & Revolution: Unveiling the struggles of Women’s Rights to Life and Freedom in Iran (S3R201n)
Meina Naeymirad
QEMU x Mac OS 9.2: Configuring an emulator for Rhizome’s Digital Preservation Program (S3R201o)
Samie Konet
My fellowship at Pratt Center for Community Engagement (S3R201p)
Ziqi Wang
School of Information Graduation Party – 2nd Floor Lobby and Room 201 – 7:45-9:45pm
Around 8pm we will announce the award winners for best individual and group project, as well as the People’s Choice Award.
Prof. Debbie Rabina is retiring! We have a notebook at the party where you can sign and leave her a message.
Also on Display at Pratt Manhattan Center
- Room 602 – Photos of work from the Conservation Lab course
- 2nd Floor Lobby – Associate’s Degree Department Graduating Student Exhibition
- 1st Floor Gallery – 11AM to 6PM only – Driving Creative: Pratt Institute, General Motors, and the Foundation of Industrial Design
Thank you to…
Thank you to the Estate of Robertina Campbell (MSLIS ’66) for making possible the awards. Thank you to our faculty for nominating and shepherding student work all the way through InfoShow and to graduation. A special thank you to our awards jury: Profs. Chris Sula, Leanne Bowler, Nancy Smith and John Lauermann, and to Assistant Dean Quinn Lai for tallying the People’s Choice Award. Thank you to our session moderators for keeping our sessions moving smoothly this evening. Thank you to School of Information staff, including Vinette Thomas and Meredith Brull, as well as staff from across the Institute for their hard work in making this event possible, and to Dish Food and Events for serving us this evening.
Lastly, thank you to all our student presenters and our 2023 graduating class!
To learn more about Pratt Shows and see more Pratt student work, please visit: pratt.edu/pratt-shows/
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