Janet Davis

Biographic Data

ID3989056
NAMEJanet Davis
GIVEN NAMESJanet
FAMILY NAMEDavis
SIGNATUREDAVIS J
AFFILIATIONSGrinnell College
ORCID0000-0001-7957-8515
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS5
AUTHOR COUNT6
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1993
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX2

  • Students Provide Community Breast Health Education

    Open AccessAngela Schooley, Janet M Davis et al.ARTICLEJournal of Nursing Education2023

  • HCI public policy activities in 2012

    Open AccessJonathan Lazar, Julio Abascal et al.ARTICLEinteractions2012

    Public policy increasingly plays a role in influencing the work that we do as HCI researchers, interaction designers, and practitioners. "Public policy" is a broad term that includes both government policy and policy within non-governmental organizations, such as standards bodies. The Interacting with Public Policy forum focuses on topics at the intersection of human-computer interaction and public policy. Jonathan Lazar, Editor

  • Envisioning persuasion profiles

    Open AccessMaurits Kaptein, Dean Eckles et al.ARTICLEinteractions2011

    Public policy increasingly plays a role in influencing the work that we do as HCI researchers, interaction designers, and practitioners. "Public policy" is a broad term that includes both government policy and policy within non-governmental organizations, such as standards bodies. The Interacting with Public Policy forum focuses on topics at the intersection of human-computer interaction and public policy. Jonathan Lazar, Editor

  • Public participation and value advocacy in information design and sharing

    Open AccessAlan Borning, Batya Friedman et al.ARTICLEInformation Polity2009Cited by: 2

    Supporting public participation is often a key goal in the design of digital government systems. However, years of work may be required before a complex system, such as the UrbanSim urban simulation system, is deployed and ready for such participation. In this paper, we investigate laying the foundations for public participation in information design and sharing in advance of wide-scale public deployment, with the goal of having interaction desig…

  • Sigcas, CAS, HCI & sustainability

    Open AccessJanet DavisARTICLEACM SIGCAS Computers and Society2008

    Greetings from 35,000 feet! I am en route from my home in Grinnell, Iowa to Sydney, Australia to participate in a workshop on---oddly enough---environmental sustainability. Reducing negative environmental impacts is a current hot topic in my field of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI); indeed, so much so that I've seen at least one researcher (Bill Tomlinson of UC Irvine) reduce his carbon footprint by using iChat to remotely present a conference p…

  • Spectacles of South Asia at the American circus, 1890-1940

    Janet DavisARTICLEVisual Anthropology1993Cited by: 3References: 5

    This article examines how racial and gendered images of South Asia were played out in performance at the American circus around 1900. These representations reinforced the Anglo‐American construct of a racial hierarchy in which South Asians were depicted to be static, and unable to keep pace with the Anglo‐American “race”. American circus spectacles featuring Indian subjects glorified British imperialism and helped to popularize the common colonia…