Announcements / Administrivia

• Poll: Field Trip to Van Alen Institute? This would be a 25-minute walk, further south along the Gowanus Canal, in late October.
  • Feel free to use any of the walking tours as the basis of a research paper (e.g. on urban or infrastructure technology). Contact me if you have questions.
  • Van Alen Placemaking Evaluation Fellowship: email them by TOMORROW if you’re interested
• NYU LEARN Event: Data Literacy in the 21st Century, Oct 6
• Follow-up on Gowanus Walking Tour
  • For Public Housing Residents After Sandy, ‘A Slow-Motion Katrina’ (HuffPost)

Agenda: Community Partner Talks

• NYU Prison Education Program: Caitlin Noss, Executive DIrector
  • How Corporations Turned Prison Tablets Into a Predatory Scheme (Dissent Magazine)
  • PEP Research Lab
• Kennedy Krieger Institute: Alexander Wright III, Assistant Manager of Outpatient Medical Operations
  • AI & healthcare: algorithmic bias, implicit bias
  • developmental disability: nature and/or nurture
  • children and minors
• The Great TIt is a Bird (TGTIAB) & avatar-animating tools
  • Autodesk Maya, Autodesk Character Generator
  • Turbosquid
  • ReadyPlayer.me
  • FaceCap
  • Mixamo
  • The FreeMocap Project
  • VRoidStudio
• This Wednesday, 9/28: class in person. One of our guest speakers will visit the classroom for more discussion on TGTIAB.

Assignment: 300 more words!

• If you haven’t already, build that bibliography! I’ll expect to see at least 10 scholarly sources for the full draft.
• Start drafting your Intro/Background and Problem/Significance. If you feel stumped, just list out bullet points.
  • Be sure to address diversity by CLEARLY defining the marginalized populations, identities, and demographics you’re researching. Go back to the diversity style guides we’ve studied–and let them guide you!
  • Be sure to address technology by describing the technologies you’re researching as specifically as you can.
    • For example, “TikTok” is more specific than “Social Media,” which is more specific than the “Internet.”
    • Another example: “Deep Learning Applications for Autonomous Vehicles” is more specific than “Deep Learning,” which is more specific than “AI.”
• You should have 600 original words (total) in your doc by Thursday.