Professor Janet Davis

Past affiliations

Founding Computer Scientist, Whitman College, 2015 - 2026.

Asst/Assoc Professor of Computer Science, Grinnell College, 2006 - 2015.

Graduate student, UW CSE, 1999 - 2006.

Undergraduate student, Harvey Mudd College, 1995 - 1999.

Current projects

SIGCSE Virtual working group leader, Essential Computing Concepts (ECC)

Consultant, Mission Aligned Programs in Computer Science (MAP-CS)

Professional presence

Curriculum vitae [pdf]

ORCID

Google Scholar

ACM Digital Library

Blog

Counting from zero: Building a liberal arts CS program in the age of ubiquity

Social media

Past and current students are encouraged to connect with me on LinkedIn.

On Facebook, I accept friend requests from alumni but not current students.

Selected Teaching Publications and Presentations

• Amanda Holland-Minkley, Jakob E. Barnard, Valerie Barr, Grant Braught, Janet Davis, David Reed, Karl Schmitt, Andrea Tartaro, and James D. Teresco. 2025. CS2023: Computer Science Curriculum Guidelines: A New Liberal Arts Perspective. ACM Inroads 16, 1 (March 2025), 40-52.
• Janet Davis, Andrea Tartaro, and Tammy VanDeGrift. Demystifying the Tenure-Track Faculty Search in Computer Science at Primarily Undergraduate Institutions: A Handbook of Advice for Job Seekers. In Proceedings of the 52nd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE '21).
• Janet Davis. 5 Ways to Welcome Women to Computer Science. The Chronicle of Higher Education, November 18, 2019.
• Janet Davis and Samuel A. Rebelsky. Developing Soft and Technical Skills Through Multi-Semester, Remotely Mentored, Community-Service Projects. In Proceedings of the 50th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, March 2019.
  
• Janet Davis and Christine Alvarado. 2017. Supporting undergraduates to make the most of conferences. ACM Inroads 8, 3 (September 2017), 32-35.
• Janet Davis. 2017. Liberal arts academia wants YOU! Communications of the ACM  60, 2 (February 2017), 12-13.
  
• Janet Davis, Jeannie Albrecht, Christine Alvarado, Tzu-Yi Chen, and Sohie Lee. Faculty careers at liberal arts colleges: Myths and reality. Panel presented at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing (GHC 2013), Minneapolis, October 2-5, 2013. [proposal]
• Samuel A. Rebelsky, Janet Davis, and Jerod Weinman. Building knowledge and confidence with mediascripting: A successful interdisciplinary approach to CS1. In Proceedings of the 44th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, March 2013.
  
• Chase Felker*, Radka Slamova*, and Janet Davis. Integrating UX with Scrum in an Undergraduate Software Development Project. In Proceedings of the 43rd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, March 2012.
  
• Janet Davis and Henry Walker. Incorporating Social Issues of Computing in a Small, Liberal Arts College: A Case Study. In Proceedings of the 42nd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, March 2011.
• Samuel Mann, Logan Muller, Janet Davis, Claudia Roda, and Alison Young. Computing and Sustainability: Evaluating Resources for Educators. ACM SIGCSE Bulletin 41(4):144-155, January 2010.
• Janet Davis. Experiences with Just-in-Time Teaching in Systems and Design Courses. In Proceedings of the SIGCSE 2009 Annual Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, March 2009. [slides]
• Janet Davis and Samuel A. Rebelsky. Food-first CS: Starting the First Course Right with PB&J. SIGCSE 2007.
• Janet Davis and Tammy VanDeGrift. The Journey to a Teaching-Oriented Faculty Career: A Handbook of Advice for Graduate Students.  In Proceedings of the 2006 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, June 2006.

Selected HCI Research Publications and Presentations

• Janet Davis and Buyaki Nyatichi*. Values and Politics of a Behavior Change Support System. Societal Challenges in the Smart Society (ETHICOMP 2020), ed. Mario Arias-Oliva, Jorge Pelegrin-Borondo, Kiyoshi Murata, and Ana Maria Lara Palma, pp. 299-313.
• Emma Twersky* and Janet Davis. "Don't say that!" An analysis of persuasive systems in the wild. In de Vries, P.W., Oinas-Kukkonen, H., Siemons, L., Beerlage-de Jong, N., van Gemert-Pijnen, L. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Persuasive Technology (PERSUASIVE 2017), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, April 4-6, 2017. Springer, LNCS 10171, pages 215-226.
  
• Bran Knowles and Janet Davis. Is Sustainability a Special Case for Persuasion? Interacting with Computers, February 2016.
  
• Janet Davis and Lisa P. Nathan. Value Sensitive Design: Applications, Adaptations, and Critiques. I. van de Poel, P. Vermaas, & J. van den Hoven (Eds.), Ethics and Values in Technological Design, Springer Reference Works, January 2015. [manuscript]
  
• Nediyana Daskalova**, Nathalie Ford**, Ann Hu**, Kyle Moorehead**, Benjamin Wagnon**, and Janet Davis (2014). "Informing Design of Suggestion and Self-Monitoring Tools through Participatory Experience Prototypes." In Anna Spagnolli, Luca Chittaro, Luciano Gamberini (Ed.) The 9th International Conference on Persuasive Technology (PERSUASIVE 2014), 8462, Springer, 68-79. [local PDF]
  
• Janet Davis. Early Experiences with Participation in Persuasive Technology Design. In Proceedings of the 12th Participatory Design Conference: Research Papers - Volume 1 (PDC 2012), Roskilde, Denmark, August 12-16, 2012. [local PDF]
  
• Janet Davis. Generating Directions for Persuasive Technology Design with the Inspiration Card Workshop. In Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Persuasive Technology (PERSUASIVE 2010), Thomas Ploug, Per Hasle, Harri Oinas-Kukkonen (Eds.), LNCS, vol. 6137, pp. 262-273, Copenhagen, Denmark, June 7-10, 2010. [local PDF] [slides]
• Janet Davis. Design Methods for Ethical Persuasive Technology. In Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Persuasive Technology (PERSUASIVE 2009), Claremont, CA, April 28-30, 2009.
• Timothy M. Miller**, Patrick Rich**, and Janet Davis. ADAPT: Audience Design of Ambient Persuasive Technology. In Extended Abstracts of the 27th International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2009), Boston, MA, April 2009.
• Janet Davis. Engaging and informing citizens with household indicators. In Proceedings of the Hawai'i International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-41), January 2008, Waikoloa, Hawaii.
• Janet Davis, Peyina Lin, Alan Borning, Batya Friedman, Peter H. Kahn, Jr., and Paul Waddell, Simulations for Urban Planning: Design for Human Values. IEEE Computer 39(9): 66-72, September 2006.
• Alan Borning, Batya Friedman, Janet Davis, and Peyina Lin. Informing Public Deliberation: Value Sensitive Design of Indicators for a Large-Scale Urban Simulation.  Proceedings of the 9th European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work, Paris, September 2005.
• A.J. Brush, Morgan Ames, and Janet Davis. A Comparison of Synchronous Remote and Local Usability Studies for an Expert Interface. In Extended Abstracts of CHI 2004, ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pages 1179-1182. ACM Press, April 2004.
• Robert Grimm, Janet Davis, Eric Lemar, Adam MacBeth, Steven Swanson, Thomas Anderson, Brian Bershad, Gaetano Borriello, Steven Gribble, and David Wetherall. System support for pervasive applications (PDF, 1,777 KB). ACM Transactions on Computer Systems, 22(4):421-486, November 2004.
• Janet Davis. REP: A communication mechanism for pervasive computing (PDF, 218 KB). Technical report, May 2001.
• B. Barden, J. Davis, R. Libeskind-Hadas, and W. Williams. On Edge-Disjoint Spanning Trees in Hypercubes. Information Processing Letters, 70(1):13-16, April 16, 1999.