Jennifer L. Davidson
Career Objective
I am aspiring to become a human-computer interaction/user experience researcher in industry after obtaining a graduate degree at Oregon State University.
Education and Training
PhD Computer Science, minor in Aging Sciences, GPA: 3.78 September 2009 - Present
Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
Emphasis in human-computer interaction research methods Expected graduation June 2014
BS Computer Science, minor in French, GPA: 3.47 August 2005 - May 2009
Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA
Study Abroad Program December 2009 - January 2010
Rabat, Morocco
Skills
Research: Participatory Design, Empirical Lab Studies, Case Studies, Think-Aloud Studies, Data Analysis, Semi-structured Interviews
Technical: Python, C#, HTML5, Javascript/jQuery, Perl, Java, PHP, Drupal 7, Sharepoint 2010, LaTeX
Peer-Reviewed Publications
Davidson, J. L. and C. Jensen. “What Health Topics Do Older Adults Want to Track: A
Participatory Design Study”. To appear in 15th ACM SIGACCESS International
Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS). 2013.
Davidson, J. L. and C. Jensen. “Participatory Design with Older Adults: An Analysis of Creativity
of the Design of Mobile Healthcare Applications”. 9th ACM Conference on Creativity and
Cognition, ACM, 2013. Overall acceptance rate: 23%.
Forrest, D., C. Jensen, N. Mohan, J. Davidson. “Exploring the Role of Outside Organizations in
Free/Open Source Software Projects”. The 8th International Conference on Open Source
Systems, 2012. Acceptance rate full paper: 24%.
Davidson, J.L., N. Mohan, C. Jensen. “Coping with duplicate bug reports in free/open source
software projects”, IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric
Computing, 2011. Acceptance rate full paper: 34%.
Shah, A.R., J. Davidson, et al. “An Efficient Data Format for Mass Spectrometry-Based
Davidson, J.L., G-A. Amoussou. “Testing To Certify An Embedded Software System”, Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges, Proceeedings of CCSC-SC Conference, 25:4, 2010.
Davidson J.L., M.S. Ragwar, A.E. Smith, J. Eckroth, G-A. Amoussou, S.J. Steinberg. “A
Framework for a Service Oriented Architecture in a Community Information & Referral System”, Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges, Proceedings of CCSC-SW
Conference, 24:4, 2009.
Davidson J. L., R. Zhang, J. Eckroth, G.-A. Amoussou. “Generating Design Knowledge
Through Data Mining”, Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges, Proceedings of
CCSC-SW Conference, 24:4, 2009.
Panel-Reviewed Graduate Consortium Publications
Davidson, J.L. “Involving Older Adults in the Design and Development of Free/Open Source
Software”. To appear VL/HCC 2013.
Davidson, J.L. “Involving Older Adults in the Design and Development of Free/Open Source
Software”. VL/HCC, 2012.
Davidson, J.L. “Involving Older Adults in the Design and Development of Free/Open Source
Software”. Open Access Journal, Open Source Systems, 2012.
Work Experience
Community Manager April 2012 - Present
Priv.ly, Corvallis, OR
Managing developers and communication with the community for an open source project.
Program Manager March 2012 - Present
ChickTech, Portland, OR
Helping an organization to increase the amount of women interested in “high tech”.
Graduate Technical Intern June 2012 - September 2012
Intel Corporation, Hillsboro, OR
Gathered data, designed, and implemented an interactive information visualization (Python, HTML5, Javascript) to determine the risk of using external intellectual property.
Research Assistant September 2010 - September 2011
Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
Conducted two qualitative research studies to evaluate the feasibility of drag and drop interaction for children creating graphs.
Software Designer II October 2010 - April 2011
Hewlett-Packard, Corvallis, OR
Worked on printer applications. Skills include designing test plans, executing test plans, collaborating with external teams.
Intern January 2010 - October 2010
Hewlett-Packard, Corvallis, OR
Worked on printer applications (C#, HTTP, Ruby on Rails). Skills include user experience test plan creation and writing instructional technical documents.
Website Programmer October 2009 - March 2010
Oregon State University Valley Library, Corvallis, OR
Worked with Drupal 5 (including PHP, MySQL, HTML, CSS) to create sophisticated websites for use in a university setting.
Summer Undergraduate Laboratory Intern (SULI) June 2009 - August 2009
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA
Worked in the Bioinformatics group on Proteomics data management (C#).
Professor Assistant/Website Developer August 2008 - May 2009
Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA
Skills include documentation of courses, giving substitute lectures, and website maintenance.
Research Assistant October 2007 - October 2008
Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA
Skills include development and testing of Kanji Characters Alive! software.
NSF Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Intern/Assistant May - July 2008
Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA
Generating Design Knowledge through Data Mining. Skills include researching, writing
technical papers in LaTeX, working in teams, leading fellow interns, and presenting technical information.
NSF Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Intern May - August 2007
Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA
A Framework Using Service-Oriented Architecture in a Community Information and Referral System.
Teaching Experience Teaching Assistant
Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
CS 391 Social and Ethical Issues in Computer Science Fall 2010, Winter 2010, Spring 2011
Duties included grading, office hours
Spring 2010
Duties included preparing and presenting lectures for lab sessions, grading, office hours
CS 352 Introduction to Usability Engineering Winter 2011
Duties included quiz writing, grading, office hours
Tutor October 2009 – June 2010
Inspire Tutoring, Corvallis, OR
Tutored Java and Algebra.
Teaching Assistant August 2007 – May 2008
Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA
Grader/Tutor for Introduction to Programming using C++ and Computer Architecture.
Awards and Honors
Upsilon Pi Epsilon, Computer Science Honors Society April 2012 - Present
Alpha Chapter of Oregon
NSF Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship Sept 2011 - Present
Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
Awarded two years of funding to conduct research in healthy aging.
Computer Science Student of the Year May 2009
Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA
3rd Place Poster Presentation Award October 2007
Consortium for Computer Science in Colleges - Northwest Region
Conferences Graduate/Doctoral Consortia
IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages/Human Centric Computing 2012
Open Source Systems Conference 2012
Full Papers
ACM Conference on Creativity & Cognition 2013
IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages/Human Centric Computing 2011
Consortium for Computer Science in Colleges – South Central 2010
Consortium for Computer Science in Colleges – Southwest 2009
Posters
Computing Research Association-Women Graduate Cohort Workshop 2012
Society for the Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in the Sciences (SACNAS) 2008
Consortium for Computer Science in Colleges – Northwest
2007 Invited Speaker
Guest Lecture for Human-Computer Interaction Course at Pacific University 2013
ACM-Women workshop at Washington State University Vancouver 2012
Attendee
Gerontological Society of America Annual Meeting 2011, 2012
InfoCampPDX 2012
BeaverBarCamp 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013
Grace Hopper Celebration for Women in Computing 2011
Volunteer
Attended Open Source Hackathon
ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2011, 2012 Reviewer
CHI Work-in-Progress (4 papers) 2013
CHI Work-in-Progress (1 paper) 2012
Memberships ACM Student Membership
GSA Student Membership IEEE Student Membership Systers Member
