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Why Webtoons Work!

Webtoon is a new format for digital comics that is reinvigorating webcomic publishing that libraries should be paying attention to. Its accessibility on mobile devices, and its being…

Designing Supportive Conversational Agents With and For Teens

This co-authored short paper and poster by Pratt Associate Professor Irene Lopatovska and Jessika Davis, MS Museums & Digital Culture ’23, was accepted and presented at the 2023…

QUILT: Queer Intimacies Located in Thread

QUILT is a digital humanities project that merges textile arts, digital mapping, and storytelling. It is a patchwork quilted map of New York City embedded with queer memories…

Significance of Interlibrary loan(ILL) Data in Collection Development

At Pratt Institute Libraries we collected and analyzed Interlibrary Loan data from the year 2020 through 2022.  The objective of the project was to study Interlibrary loan patterns…

Snippets & Credits: Empowering avid listeners to actively support and discover their next favorite artists [Amazon Music Challenge]

Streaming has changed how people listen to music and constitutes 62.1% of the total music industry’s revenue. Gen-Z is an emerging audience that prioritizes short-form content discovery and…

MuDiary: Redefining Music Listening with Memories and Emotions

The demands of everyday life can leave us feeling disconnected from ourselves and our passions. The worst part? It’s so normalized that we often don’t even realize that…

“Harmful to Minors”: How Book Bans Harm Adolescent Development

This presentation discusses the current status of book bans in the United States and the negative implications for adolescent development, particularly for people with marginalized identities. The American…

Dragon Newspaper Oneshot Program

This is an interactive session about news literacy, misinformation, and disinformation. Last night a fire broke out in the hamlet of Denverburg. Several buildings were consumed by the…

WANNA KICKS – Reimagine AR Try On Experience

This project was part of my AR/VR class under the supervision of professor Min Kwak. In this project I envisioned a speculative AR sneaker try-on experience with AI…

Vandalizer – VR break room that encourages users to release aggression through gamified experiences

Vandalizer is a VR-based break room. It provides users a safe space where they can channel their impulses and release tension through gamified experiences. It is a design…

A Modern-Day Tammy Faye: Remediating Televangelism for Social Media

The intersection of evangelical Christianity and media technology has a storied history. In this paper, I analyze the relationship the two have had and how they continue to…

The Integrated Presence of Extremist Ideology on Social Media

This presentation explores the development and proliferation of extremist ideology on interconnected social media platforms. I analyze the structural differences between these platforms and how they enable different…

Never Heard Silence Quite This Loud: How France Has Selectively Silenced Algerian War Archives to Support Political Aspirations and Reinforce National Identity

This paper investigates archival silence in the Franco-Algerian War archives and argues that while the opening of the archives appears to have done away with the silence that…

Design for Deaf Accessibility

Deaf people often feel invisible and voiceless in a hearing world. The constant deluge of demanding visual information is an obstacle in daily life, wearing out the eyes…

Listening modes: Providing users with more control over tailoring their music experience [Amazon Music Challenge]

Humans are complicated. Our music preferences change according to time of a day, situations, emotions, or what we’re doing at the moment. However, the algorithm from music streaming…

Contextualizing AI-Generated Transcripts for Researchers

This past summer, I completed a Data Science Fellowship at the UCSFS’s Industry Documents Library. The UCSF Industry Documents Library is a vast collection of resources encompassing documents, images, videos,…

Analyzing The Implications Of Color Vision Deficiency In A Creative Career

This novel study aims to identify the factors that contribute to developing a creative career, and explore the ways in which CVD can be limiting a professional environment…

Preserving and Restoring LGBTQ+ Archive

  This panel will focus on the work from Pratt MSLIS students over the last two semesters, coming together in conversation to discuss their developments, challenges, outcomes, and…

Restore Film Screening (select portion): Straight Talk about Lesbians

We will present the restored film strip Straight Talk About Lesbians, a 1980 educational film strip by Elizabeth Diamond. The film features women discussing their experiences, histories, and…

Ethics in Video Game UX

Deceptive design, or dark patterns, in user experience has been the target of extensive attention in recent years, especially within the context of video games. Dark patterns are…