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How to Help Good: Lessons From a year in tutoring

Mentorship can be a key part of many senior roles, and knowing how to explain what you know in understandable ways, and how to guide people through their…

A More Sustainable Approach to Music Touring

Not every music event is as disastrous as Woodstock ‘99, but there are a number of problem areas for sustainability in music… and opportunities for sustainable design. For…

Data Privacy Laws in the U.S. and the Effect on Americans

The United States has not created any meaningful legislation to protect American’s data privacy or usage since the 1970s, despite a bipartisan agreement of the need for such…

Mapping History Underfoot: A Methodology for Discovering Remnants of Ancient and Medieval Paris through Open Data and Spatial Data Analysis Tools

A research project in three parts, showing how the layering of multiple datasets over both the present-day map of Paris and selected historical maps can illuminate the timeline…

Virtual “Gayborhoods” and the Ethics of Queer Technologies

Through the lens of MSM-centered apps like Grindr and SCRUFF, I examine the origins of queer mobile dating applications to find out how they have helped and hindered…

Community Archives and Preservation (CAP) Project at the LGBT Center Archive

My fellowship for the 2022-2023 school year was at the LGBT Center archive, working on a Mellon grant funded Community Archiving and Preservation (CAP) project focused on working…

Seamless Music Discovery on Wearables

Have you ever heard a very catchy song playing at the cafe or at the mall? Have you found it difficult trying to get Shazam working on Snapchat…

What is Mine is Yours, but is It Ours?

When does a prop become an artifact, when does an artifact become a prop? When is it okay for a person to take an historic object and use…

My fellowship at Pratt Center for Community Engagement

This poster records the different challenges that I faced during my fellowship with Pratt Center and how I resolve them with my own knowledge of the subject, what…

Hinge Connect

Hinge Connect is the ultimate solution for those seeking meaningful in-person dating experiences. By promoting public spaces and emphasizing the importance of face-to-face interaction, we’re improving the existing…

Parsnip – The operating system for the home kitchen

Parsnip is a cooking learning app that uses a tech tree of cooking skills to give beginners a place to start, the Duolingo style of learning cooking gamified…

Gamification in Human-Computer Interaction

In this paper, I delve into the world of gamification within the realm of human-computer interaction, with a particular emphasis on user experience. I am excited to share…

A Year at the Franklin Furnace Archive

I will be talking about my experience working as Franklin Furnace’s Archive Fellow. I would like to talk about working in a small arts archive, cataloging vertical file…

Making the Desert Island Discs Dataset: Data Visceralization and How We Don’t Know What We Know

This collaborative project served as the capstone for our certificate in the Digital Humanities at Pratt Institute. We generated a collection of “data visceralizations,” including physical objects, sound…

Manhattan Helicopter map

Zigi Wang and Jiacheng Chen decided to take an incomplete idea from a summer internship and try to make it happen. They were primarily interested in producing a…

QEMU x Mac OS 9.2: Configuring an emulator for Rhizome’s Digital Preservation Program

My practicum project centered on expanding Rhizome’s software emulation framework by building and configuring a Mac OS 9.2.1 emulation environment using the open-source emulator software, QEMU, to support…

Indigenous Data Sovereignty & Open Data: Conflicts and Resolutions

Exploring two key movements within modern data discourse, the presentation will give an introduction to both sides, examine how they may come into conflict, and explore possible ways…

WatsOnline at Watson: a Year at the Met’s library

We will be presenting on our fellowship at the Thomas J. Watson Library at the Metropolitan Museum of Art including projects we contributed to, lessons learned, and some…

Death Plan

“Death Plan” is an approachable picture book for adults that uses rhyming text and whimsical watercolor illustrations to mimic the style of a children’s nursery rhyme or picture…

Capturing Impermanence: How & Why to Archive Your Website

As the two Web Archiving Fellows for The Frick Reference Library & NYARC, Anna Collins and Ellis Mikelić present a poster on how web archiving is a critical…