Projects

In Spring 2016, a team of students from my Usability Theory & Practice course (LIS 644) at Pratt Institute conducted a usability study of the Greenpoint-Williamsburg ToxiCity Map, a project collaboration between Neighbors for Allied Growth (NAG) and Pratt Institute’s Spatial

In Spring 2016, a team of students from my Usability Theory & Practice course (LIS 644) at Pratt Institute conducted a usability study of the NYC Open Data portal (https://nycopendata.socrata.com/). Student Team: John Chagaris, Charles Dellebovi, Nishant Goyani, Molly Reese-Lerner Download Full Report:

In Spring 2016, a team of students from my Usability Theory & Practice course (LIS 644) at Pratt Institute conducted a usability study of the Columbia Libraries website (http://library.columbia.edu/). Student Team: Keneil Buchanon, Margaret Daly, Megan De Armond, Leah McGowan Download Full

The Concept Our Streets, Our Stories is an ongoing oral history project run by the Brooklyn Public Library. The program aims to collect the personal stories of community residents throughout Brooklyn neighborhoods through recorded interviews. As an Our Streets, Our Stories volunteer responsible for conducting interviews, I initially set out to design a web-based solution

iSo Tones is a mobile music app for students, instructors, and music enthusiasts. It isolates and plays back the different layers of a track. The app also allows users to record themselves singing, or playing, whatever a particular layer and send that recording to friends and instructors for feedback. Initial Research: User Groups After conducting

ARTinerary: A Case Study ARTinerary is a unique resource for art critics, students, tourists as well as gallery and museum staff that enables the user to create an itinerary of gallery exhibitions from our extensive directory in New York City.  Offering a variety of pathways to search, there is also a discoverability element to ARTinerary

In Fall 2015, a team of students from my Usability Theory & Practice course (LIS 644) at Pratt Institute conducted a usability study of the website of Sojourner Truth Library at SUNY-New Paltz (http://library.newpaltz.edu/). Student Team: Kaitlin Kehnemuyi, Elizabeth McDonald, Marlee Walters Download

In Fall 2015, a team of students from my Usability Theory & Practice course (LIS 644) at Pratt Institute conducted a usability study of the SVA Library website (http://library.sva.edu/). Student Team: Carlos Acevedo, Bowon Chung, Cassandra Hickman, Andrew Wong-Crocitto Download Full Report:

In Fall 2015, a team of students from my Usability Theory & Practice course (LIS 644) at Pratt Institute conducted a usability study of the Morgan Library & Museum website (http://www.themorgan.org/). Student Team: Sarah Hatoum, Chantal Lee, Zinia Rahman, Ruojing Zhang