Pratt Institute Library Website Discovery Service Dashboard Analysis

June 25, 2019 / 0 comments

“The Pratt Institute Libraries mission is to provide outstanding service and access to a resource-rich environment that facilitates critical thinking and creative teaching and learning in the Pratt community.” Therefore an important goal is to provide resources and services in the most effective way possible to their patrons by leveraging their web presence to streamline…

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Usability Testing of Medieval Londoners Website

June 25, 2019 / 0 comments

Medieval Londoners website is dedicated to medieval London and its inhabitants. Website content includes various resources to study the history of medieval London and Londoners such as chronicles, archives, maps, coins, heraldry, wills, religion, finance and taxes, law and more. All the materials are collected from the British History Online website. The main function of…

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Anxiety & Young Instagram Users

June 25, 2019 / 0 comments

When Facebook bought Instagram, it had only 30 million users. Now Instagram has 1billion monthly active users. The United States has 121m users on Instagram. Over 40 billion photos have been shared on the platform. Instagram usage is doubled between June 2016 and 2018. The biggest demographic group are males between 18-24 and 60.4% of…

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Usability Study of the Medieval Londoners Database

June 25, 2019 / 0 comments

Author information Aimen Awan I am a graduate student of Information Experience Design at Pratt Institute. | The post Usability Study of the Medieval Londoners Database appeared first on #infoshow.

Digital Journal for Underserved User Group in Mental Health

June 25, 2019 / 0 comments

A digital journal app designed for black males in the low- income neighborhood as a solution to help with their mental wellbeing. This project aims to bring awareness to design for underserved user groups, and more than often, designing for an underserved groups solves a problem a broader user group experiences. Author information kcha336 I…

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SEO Audit — 5 national museums in Central Europe: Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary

June 23, 2019 / 0 comments

SEO Audit — 5 national museums in Central Europe: Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary In March 2019, I performed SEO audit of the websites of 5 national museums based in Central Europe: Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary. In my analysis, I looked into 5 categories: Search, HTML, Architecture, Content and Social Media. In this blog post,…

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Digital Strategy at The Cooper Hewitt

June 19, 2019 / 0 comments

Cooper Hewitt Logo Since its establishment, the Cooper Hewitt has been committed to educate, inspires and empowers people through design by bringing innovation and successful museum digital strategies. To understand more how the museum approaches its digital strategies, I had the opportunity and pleasure to interview Carolyn Royston, Chief Experience Officer at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum….

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Interview with Old Stone House Executive Director Kimberly Maier

June 10, 2019 / 0 comments

Executive Director Kimberly Maier, Photo from Kimberly Maier When thinking of the Old Stone House, digital is likely not the first thing that comes to mind. Important in many eras of Brooklyn and American history, the building was a focal point in the Battle of Brooklyn, it was the original clubhouse of the Brooklyn Dodgers and…

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“Muse your museum life” — How I Met JiaJia Fei

June 4, 2019 / 0 comments

“My Muse of Museum Life” — How I Met JiaJia Fei https://medium.com/media/543c2d8e25ef1a1b19eff7d8b023ed09/href The following is an interview with JiaJia Fei, Director of Digital at the Jewish Museum, New York City. I met JiaJia on March 14th. But before that, I met her through social media. Every photo she posted was a reflection of her perspective on art, space, and…

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#infoshow19 Program Booklet

May 15, 2019 / 0 comments

Please find the #infoshow19 program booklet, available as a PDF and in print at the show. Author information Student Work | The post #infoshow19 Program Booklet appeared first on #infoshow.

Information visualization for international students in NYC

May 14, 2019 / 0 comments

Introduction In New York, there are more and more international students from all over the world. They come here to gain a higher education. To study and live in such a big city, international students must face more challenges and difficulties than a native student. As an international student in New York, I remembered when……

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“Seeing Through Photographs” – Evaluation of MoMA’s online course

May 13, 2019 / 0 comments

The Museum of Modern Art provides a variety of educational classes to the public available through Coursera, an online provider. Out of the classes offered, we have investigated the digital analytics of “Seeing Through Photographs” course to understand the degrees of participant satisfaction and its influence on learners enrollment, drop-off and course completion. Eventually, we…

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The development of chinese women rights and indian women rights

May 13, 2019 / 0 comments

Introduction On Feb 18, 1997, I was born in a small town in China. It was a joyful event where few of my families were cheerful, because I was a girl. My mom was blamed for my birth as a girl and my grandma rarely hugged me before she was gone. When I was 12,……

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Understanding the impact of military conflicts on the destruction of cultural heritage in the 20th and 21st centuries

May 13, 2019 / 0 comments

Introduction “Cultural heritage” is a broad term that is worth defining before proceeding with this report. According to UNESCO, the United Nations agency tasked with documenting and preserving cultural heritage, the term can be broken down into tangible and intangible cultural heritage. Examples of intangible cultural heritage include performances, rituals, and languages. This project focused……

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League of Legends Data Visualization

May 13, 2019 / 0 comments

Introduction League of Legends (LoL) is a multiplayer online battle arena video game developed and published by Riot Games for Microsoft Windows and macOS. It is a team-oriented 5 vs 5 esports video game. The characters in the game are called champions. In the latest game patch, there are 143 champions for players to choose,……

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Re-design of Seton Hall University Libraries Website

May 12, 2019 / 0 comments

  Project Summary Timeline My Role Goal January – May 2019 I was a UX designer, designing this product end-to-end from research to prototype To completely transform the university library’s website in order to provide help to undergraduate students at their points of need   Problem Statement How Might We make it easier for undergrad…

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SHU Design Story by Armon Burton of Curious Solomon

May 12, 2019 / 0 comments

About the Project Overview: This project involved redesigning the information architecture and improving the user experience of Seton Hall University Libraries website.  The Seton Hall University Libraries support excellence in academic and individual work, enable inquiry, foster intellectual and ethical integrity and respect for diverse points of view through user-focused services and robust collections as the intellectual…

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“Alexa, Tell Me a Joke”: An Analysis of Humor-Based User Interactions with Intelligent Personal Assistants

May 12, 2019 / 0 comments

This study examines humorous interactions with intelligent personal assistants (IPA/IPAs). The respective IPAs include Google Assistant, Amazon Alexa, Microsoft Cortana, and Apple Siri. Many discussions of a wide-ranging review helped to define the goal to classify user utterances, IPA responses, and user ratings of IPA responses.Resulting user ratings and joke descriptions from online diaries and…

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Manhattan’s cartoon food map

May 12, 2019 / 0 comments

Introduction: Do you have an impression about food in Manhattan? Or if you would like to find some great Chinese food, where would you probably look for? You may not know every types of cuisine, but you may know one or two. My map is a combination of those cuisine data and subjective impression in……

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Abortion rights in the united states

May 11, 2019 / 0 comments

by Joanna Thompson & Taylor Norton Introduction Even though the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision legalized access to abortion in the United States, there have been continuous attempts to partially or fully restrict this access. Most recently, the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh, who supports the overturn of Roe v. Wade, as well as the passing……

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