InfoShow26 is the annual showcase and celebration of Pratt School of Information student work, and is part of Pratt Shows. InfoShow26 is taking place Friday, May 15 5:00-7:30pm in-person at Pratt Manhattan on 14th Street, followed by the SI graduation party from 7:30-9:30p.
More information and to RSVP can be found on Pratt.edu.
A PDF version of this program is available here.
Session 1 – 5:05pm – 5:45pm
Room 609 – Museums & UX
Moderator: Dr. Craig MacDonald
Digital Dust (#4)
Nisha Shrinivasan
Designing for MoMA (#5)
Simran Kaur
Finding your way through art— MoMA Product Design Fellowship in search and inspiration (#7)
Shreesa Shrestha
Room 606 – Immersive Media
Moderator: Dr. Rahaf Alharbi
Relive (#1)
Saniya Jain
AnchAR: Spatial Reminders for ADHD Management (#2)
Arnav Sharma
The Met Origins (#76)
Kshitija Tammireddi
Room 610 – Cataloging & Collection Management
Moderator: Prof. Jen Cwiok
The Good, the Important, and the Ugly: Weeding for Collection Improvement at the Center for Fiction (#8)
Anna Hepler
“Ένας Δικός Mας Kατάλογος” (A Catalog of Our Own): Cultural Warrant and a Conceptual Catalog for the Paul Ginis Collection (#6)
Sophie Albanis
Room 704 – Art + Information
Moderator: Dr. Cristina Pattuelli
Terror on Tape: Cataloging Horror Podcasts (#10)
Virginia Day
Where Does Audio Strategy Interconnect with the Art World (#11)
Jordin Price
Industrial Transcendentalists: Preserving Historical Context with Controlled Vocabularies (#12)
Marian St. Laurent
Room 712 – AI Tools
Moderator: Prof. Kat Chiluiza
Menu-B – AI dining assistant for blind users (#13)
Shayla Singh
Suno – Voice first AI health service for rural India (#14)
Krathish Prakash
The Council (#15)
Iris Sun, Sandra Ye, Mengqi Cao, Chole Zhang
Room 714 – Mapping & Geographic Information
Moderator: Dr. John Lauermann
Mapping the Ocean: A Map Series of Seafloor Geomorphology, Extractive Industry, and Ocean Governance (#16)
Caroline Williams
Neighborhood Corridor: Estimating Historical Refugee Routes (#17)
Makeda Tadesse
Legacy of Slavery in Brooklyn (#18)
Maya Davis
Session 2 – 5:55pm – 6:35pm
Room 609 – UX Research
Moderator: Dr. Rahaf Alharbi
Seeing What Analytics Couldn’t: Improving Checkout Conversion with Eye-Tracking Research for Hooked on Phonics (#22)
Claire Jen, Rex Fukuchi, Shriya Chipde
Eye Tracking and AI for Advanced Usability (#23)
Uraiba Zafar, Matthew Thien, Anvita Shah and Myra Chen
NYC Climate Equity Map (#21)
Simran Kaur
Room 606 – Panel
Moderator: Dr. Filipa Calado
Small Language Models (SLMs) in Programming for Cultural Heritage (#19)
Alana Maisel, Ellie Connors and Jace Steiner
Room 610 – Data & Libraries
Moderator: Dr. Rhys Dreeszen Bowman
New Trends in Ottoman Transcription Software: Interventions for Librarians (#24)
Nick Brenner
Academic Libraries & Generative AI: A Text-Analysis of Library Guides on AI (#25)
Samuel Gutman
Room 704 – Youth Engagement
Moderator: Dr. Leanne Bowler
Hello, Friends! Evaluating Techniques and Developing a Personal Story Time Approach at BPL (#27)
Liz von Klemperer
Infodemics on TikTok: How Design and Moderation Choices Affect Our Health (#28)
Mars Nevada
Room 712 – (Re)designs
Moderator: Dr. Shruthi Chivukula
The Less & More: Aligning Information Hierarchy with User Intent for Bank of America (#29)
Yung-Wei (Amy) Chen and Christina Lu
Epicurean Design System: A Recipe for RESY’s Cross-Functional Consistency (#30)
Myra Chen, Shreesa Shrestha and Claire Jen
World Class Venue, Outdated Website: A Redesign of the Forest Hills Stadium Website (#31)
Rosi Hristova and Chloe Dahan
Room 714 – Urban Design
Moderator: Prof. Pamela Pavliscak
WeRoam – decide faster, travel better (#32)
Ammara Fatima, Arpitha Prasad, Alaa Shihab and Marianne Benyamin
High Risk Neighborhoods: The Intersection of Social and Environmental Vulnerabilities in NYC (#33)
Betty Yang
Beyond Gridlocks: Envisioning the Future of Bangalore’s Traffic Culture (#34)
Krishna Kishore Lal
Room 612 – Connecting Information
Moderator: Dr. Cristina Pattuelli
Inside the Semantic Lab (#26)
Alex Dean and Delaney Keck
The Invisible Script: Etiquette and Behavior in the Victorian Era (#70)
Daniella Gravette-Huston
Room 702 – Experience Design for IoT (Internet of Things) Projects
Moderator: Dr. Monica Maceli
Boojie (#71)
Charlene Guo, Lanting Ko, Conor Mack and Youyuan Wang
Pill It (#72)
Zoë Zapata, Carol Bai, Owen Meng and Vincent Allport
Session 3 – 6:45pm – 7:25pm
Room 609 – Digital Products
Moderator: Prof. Diana Pan
echoarchive: Conversational Tech for Emotional and Historical Reflection (#62)
Karla Santamaria
Pratt Student vs ChatGPT (#63)
Shelly Guan
From Intent to Cart: Building Conversational Interfaces for E-commerce (#64)
Manvi Shah, Shanshan Lai and Tony Zhang
Room 714 – Performance
It’s the Same War / All your Tomorrows (#69)
Dmitri Ades-Laurent
Room 704 – Archives
Moderator: Prof. Molly Schoen
Creating Research Guides at the Museum of Modern Art (#65)
Akua Amponsah
Archival Processing at the Brooklyn Museum (#66)
Milan Williams
Room 712 – Data Storytelling Panel
Moderator: Drs. Kathy Carbone and John Lauermann
Neighborhood Resurrection: Reunion Trajectories (#68)
Makeda Tadesse
Mapping Every Chinese Restaurant in the USA (#73)
Jocelyn Fung
Examining Information Gatekeeping in Professional Wine Reviews (#74)
Allen Harris
2nd Floor Lobby and Room 201 – Posters and (Digital) Objects Session (6:45-7:45pm)
Climate Equity NYC (#35)
Simran Kaur
Do You Even Want To Be Offline? (#36)
Ananya Yadav
Challenges in Web Archiving: Insights from a Fellowship (#37)
Alana Maisel
The Getty Research Institute: A Brief Overview of the Standardization of Visual Art Classification (#38)
Frankie Sigman, Delaney Keck, Isaac Gerard and Yonni Hirner
Uncovering Data in the Library of Things (#39)
Yuan Sciscent and Nick Brenner
Beyond the Boroughs: Addressing the Geographic Inequities of NYC’s Foster Care System (#40)
Nisha Shrinivasan
Anuran Audio Classification and Segmentation (#41)
Nisha Shrinivasan, Kelsey Kiantoro and Dhruvi Mehta
Improving accessibility in GLAM spaces using emerging translation tools (#42)
Anisha Vonna, Julie Vo, Anais Olivier
Regulation-Informed Design: Developing Ways to Integrate Legal Knowledge into UX Practices (#43)
Kirsten Segeren and Maanya Agarwal
How Feedback Becomes Ritual: Ethnographic Insights for Building Lasting Innovation Communities for Toyota Group (#44)
Maanya Agarwal, Claire Jen, Rohini Raj Rajan and Youlu Xu
Survival Literature: Lesbian Pulp Novels at the Lesbian Herstory Archives (#45)
Alice Cheng
Systematic Review of Rare Books (#46)
Elijah Spiegel and Brendan O’Hagen
Artificial Intelligence in Mental Healthcare (#48)
Marc Lobo, Debodyuti Biswas, Harleen Kaur and Francois Yap
Blurb: A playful mindful AI prompting guide (#49)
Hridya Nadappattel, Nabhi Shah and Merlyn Koonamparampath
Nebo: An Educational Astronomy Chatbot for Kids! (#50)
Mars Nevada
Critical Cataloging and Indigenous Knowledge Systems (#51)
Rachel Pontious, Andrew Shillingford, Soren Gannholm, Alexandra Arredondo
Reckoning with the Data Center Boom in the U.S. — A Geographic Analysis (#52)
Danielle Stemper
Reference in the Digital Age: A MoMA Library Fellowship Project (#53)
Ellie Connors
A Web Strategy for a Community Organization Born from Resilience (#54)
Roshni Ganesh, Sisira Mondreti, Mariel Go and Chloe Dahan
A Journey of Coffee (#55)
Iris Sun
Mapping Four Decades of Touch (#56)
Jade Sanchez-Ventura
The Intimacy Profile (#57)
Murphy (Yueer) Sun
Does America’s Despair Follow Its Hope? (#58)
Alex Wang
Soma: Bio-Signal Ritual System for Embodied Well-Being (#59)
Arnav Sharma, Nisheta Gupta, Ritika Ramesh and Krathish Prakash
National Gentrification Intensity Map (#61)
Alice Viggiani
On Display at Pratt Manhattan Center
The Invisible Script: Etiquette and Behavior in the Victorian Era (#70)
Daniella Gravette-Huston
6th Floor Lobby between elevators and room 612
Digital Product Walkthroughs: Portfolios and More (#75)
Simran Kaur, Debodyuti Biswas, Krathish Prakash and Nabhi Keyurkumar Shah
TV near room 704
The following exhibitions are not part of InfoShow26 but are on display here at Pratt Manhattan Center. They include:
RugLife
1st Floor Gallery – 11AM to 6pm ONLY
Celebrating the Legacy of Mary McFadden
Hiroko Nakamoto Pratt Manhattan Lobby
Earth Day Poster Exhibition
6th floor lobby between room 609 and 607
Reception and School of Information Graduation Party – 2nd Floor Lobby and Room 201 – 7:30-9:30pm
Awards
Thanks to donors to Fund for Pratt: School of Information, we are able to offer cash Prizes to Best Projects at InfoShow26. These include:
- Best Individual Project – $500
- Best Group Project – $1,000 (divided evenly among group members)
- Best Poster Award – $500
- People’s Choice Award – $500
The winner of the first three awards will be decided by a jury of faculty. The People’s Choice award will be selected by secret ballot by attendees to InfoShow.
Around 8pm we will announce the award winners for best individual and group project, as well as the People’s Choice Award.
Thank you to…
Thank you to the donors to Fund for Pratt: School of Information 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. John Decker, Nancy Smith, and Benjamin Zweig. Thank you to our session moderators for keeping our sessions moving smoothly this evening. Thank you to School of Information staff, including Nene Villalobos and Meredith Brull, as well as staff from across the Institute for their hard work in making this event possible. Thank you to our food staff for serving us this evening from Pixie and the Scout.
Lastly, thank you to all our student presenters and our 2026 graduating class!
To learn more about Pratt Shows and see more Pratt student work, please visit: pratt.edu/prattshows/
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People at Pratt are inquisitive and compassionate community members. We support and uphold freedom of expression, even as we recognize the varied impacts that creative and academic works can have on people and communities. The works presented here, including the ideas, values, and opinions expressed in them, are solely those of the individual students. We welcome suggestions from our campus community and guests that ensure our exhibitions and events remain relevant and inclusive of diverse perspectives. Questions, feedback, or recommendations may be directed to si@pratt.edu.
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