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Allison Woodruff is a researcher affiliated with Google in the United States. Their work primarily spans the fields of Computer Science and Social Sciences, with specific emphasis on Safety Research, Artificial Intelligence, Health Informatics, Human-Computer Interaction, and Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition.

The central topics addressed in Woodruff's research include Ethics and Social Impacts of AI, Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI), Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education, Innovative Human-Technology Interaction, AI in Service Interactions, Adversarial Robustness in Machine Learning, and Visual Attention and Saliency Detection.

Woodruff's recent papers include:

  • How Knowledge Workers Think Generative AI Will (Not) Transform Their Industries (2023, arXiv (Cornell University))
  • Advancing Explainability Through AI Literacy and Design Resources (2023, interactions)
  • Explainability Case Studies (2020, arXiv (Cornell University))
  • "A cold, technical decision-maker": Can AI provide explainability, negotiability, and humanity? (2020, arXiv (Cornell University))

Woodruff frequently collaborates with several coauthors, including Patrick Gage Kelley, Yasmin Asare Anderson, Katherine Jameson Armstrong, Marina Gkiza, and Jay Jennings.

The researcher's publications have appeared predominantly in venues such as arXiv (Cornell University), interactions, Proceedings of the AAAI/ACM Conference on AI Ethics and Society, and Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction.

Best Publications

  • Guidelines for using multiple views in information visualization

    Michelle Q. Wang Baldonado;Allison Woodruff;Allan Kuchinsky

  • Common Sense: participatory urban sensing using a network of handheld air quality monitors

    Prabal Dutta;Paul M. Aoki;Neil Kumar;Alan Mainwaring

  • Navigation methods, systems, and computer program products for virtual three-dimensional books

    Stuart Kent Card;Richard Carl Gossweiler;Allison Gyle Woodruff;Jock Douglas MacKinlay

  • Supporting fine-grained data lineage in a database visualization environment

    A. Woodruff;M. Stonebraker

  • Sotto voce: exploring the interplay of conversation and mobile audio spaces

    Paul M. Aoki;Rebecca E. Grinter;Amy Hurst;Margaret H. Szymanski

  • Computer-implemented system and method for enhancing visual representation to individuals participating in a conversation

    Paul M. Aoki;Margaret H. Szymanski;James Thornton;Daniel H. Wilson

  • Feedback mechanism for use with visual selection methods

    Paul M. Aoki;Richard R. Burton;Amy K. Hurst;Allison G. Woodruff

  • Using thumbnails to search the Web

    Allison Woodruff;Andrew Faulring;Ruth Rosenholtz;Julie Morrsion

  • Revisiting the visit: understanding how technology can shape the museum visit

    Rebecca E. Grinter;Paul M. Aoki;Margaret H. Szymanski;James D. Thornton

  • Environmental sustainability and interaction

    Jennifer C. Mankoff;Eli Blevis;Alan Borning;Batya Friedman

  • A vehicle for research: using street sweepers to explore the landscape of environmental community action

    Paul M. Aoki;R. J. Honicky;Alan Mainwaring;Chris Myers

  • A bright green perspective on sustainable choices

    Allison Woodruff;Jay Hasbrouck;Sally Augustin

  • Making space for stories: ambiguity in the design of personal communication systems

    Paul M. Aoki;Allison Woodruff

  • Sabbath day home automation: "it's like mixing technology and religion"

    Allison Woodruff;Sally Augustin;Brooke Foucault

  • An investigation of documents from the World Wide Web

    Allison Woodruff;Paul M. Aoki;Eric Brewer;Paul Gauthier

  • Electronic Guidebooks and Visitor Attention.

    Allison Woodruff;Paul M. Aoki;Amy Hurst;Margaret H. Szymanski

  • Putting Fairness Principles into Practice: Challenges, Metrics, and Improvements

    Alex Beutel;Jilin Chen;Tulsee Doshi;Hai Qian

  • Tioga-2: a direct manipulation database visualization environment

    A. Aiken;J. Chen;M. Stonebraker;A. Woodruff

  • GIPSY: automated geographic indexing of text documents

    Allison Gyle Woodruff;Christian Plaunt

  • Common sense community: scaffolding mobile sensing and analysis for novice users

    Wesley Willett;Paul Aoki;Neil Kumar;Sushmita Subramanian

  • System And Method For Providing Multimedia Content Between A Plurality Of User Terminals

    James Douglass Thornton;Rebecca Elizabeth Grinter;Paul Masami Aoki;Allison Gyle Woodruff

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul M. Aoki
Paul M. Aoki Google (United States)
Amy Hurst
Amy Hurst New York University
Rebecca E. Grinter
Rebecca E. Grinter Georgia Institute of Technology
Alex Aiken
Alex Aiken Stanford University
James A. Landay
James A. Landay Stanford University
Stuart K. Card
Stuart K. Card Stanford University
Jennifer Mankoff
Jennifer Mankoff University of Washington
Chen Yu
Chen Yu The University of Texas at Austin

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