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Education
- Ph.D in Human-Centric Artificial Intelligence, TU Delft, 2021 - Present
- M.S. in Computer Science, Boise State University, 2020 - 2021
- B.S. in Computer Science, Boise State University, 2012 - 2020
Work experience
- May 2020 - December 2021: Graduate Research Assistant
- Collaborated with an interdisciplinary research team developing the Child Adaptive Search Tool (CAST)
- Researched and developed Information Retrieval tools for the educational domain
- January 2020 - May 2020: Undergraduate Research Assistant
- Participated in development of the Child Adaptive Search Tool (CAST)
- Experienced the research process through re-implementing past works
- July 2019 - May 2020: Software Developer at Aska Lokal
- Traced and repaired bugs in application
- Developed expansions to the API supporting the mobile application
- May 2017 - January 2020: Software Engineer at Art of Visuals
- Developed, managed, and maintained Postgres databases, EC2 instances, S3 buckets, Django REST APIs and documentation
- March 2015 - March 2018: Software Engineer at ReplyPro
- Developed, managed, and maintained a Postgres database, a Django Rest API, as well as mobile & web applications
Publications
Ashlee Milton, Levesson Batista, Garrett Allen, Siqi Gao, Yiu-Kai D Ng, and Maria Soledad Pera. 2020. "Don't Judge a Book by it's Cover": Exploring Book Traits Children Favor. In Proceedings of the Fourteenth ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys '20). ACM, 6 pp.
Garrett Allen, Brody Downs, Aprajita Shukla, Casey Kennington, Jerry Alan Fails, Katherine Landau Wright, and Maria Soledad Pera. 2021. "BiG-BERT: Classifying Educational Web Resources for Kindergarten-12th Grades". In Proceedings of the 43rd European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR '21). ACM, pp 176-184.
Garrett Allen, Katherine Landau Wright, Jerry Alan Fails, Casey Kennington, and Maria Soledad Pera. 2021. "CASTing a Net: Supporting Teachers with Search Technology". In Proceedings of the 5th International and Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Children and Recommender and Information Retrieval Systems: Search and Recommendation Technology through the Lens of a Teacher (KidRec 2021), co-located with ACM IDC 2021.
Ashlee Milton, Garrett Allen, and Maria Soledad Pera. 2021. "To Infinity and Beyond! Accessibility is the Future for Kids' Search Engines". In Proceedings of the IR for Children 2000-2020: Where Are We Now? Workshop co-located with the 44th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval.
Garrett Allen, Benjamin L Peterson, Dhanush kumar Ratakonda, Mostofa Najmus Sakib, Jerry Alan Fails, Casey Kennington, Katherine Landau Wright, and Maria Soledad Pera. 2021. "Engage!: Co-designing Search Engine Result Pages to Foster Interactions". In Proceedings of Interaction Design and Children (IDC '21). ACM, pp 583-587.
Lawrence Spear, Ashlee Milton, Garrett Allen, Amifa Raj, Michael Green, Michael D. Ekstrand, and Maria Soledad Pera. 2021. "Baby Shark to Barracuda: Analyzing Children's Music Listening Behavior". In Proceedings of the 15th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2021 Late-Breaking Results).
Garrett Allen, Jie Yang, Maria Soledad Pera and Ujwal Gadiraju. 2021. "Using Conversational Artificial Intelligence to Support Children's Search in the Classroom". Presented at CUI@CSCW '21 Workshop.
Garrett Allen, Ashlee Milton, Katherine Landau Wright, Jerry Alan Fails, Casey Kennington, and Maria Soledad Pera. 2022. "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious: Why Using the "Right" Readability Formula in Children's Web Search Matters". In Proceedings of the 44th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR '22). ACM, pp 3-18.
Garrett Allen, Andrea Hu, and Ujwal Gadiraju. 2022. "Gesticulate for Health's Sake! Understanding the Use of Gestures as an Input Modality for Microtask Crowdsourcing". In Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcings
Garrett Allen, Andrea Hu, and Ujwal Gadiraju. 2023. "What You Show is What You Get! Gestures For Microtask Crowdsourcing". Open Science Track of the 28th Annual Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces
Garrett Allen, Gaole He, and Ujwal Gadiraju. 2023. "🍄 Power-up! What Can Generative Models Do for Human Computation Workflows?". Presented at the Generative AI and HCI Workshop at CHI'23: ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Garrett Allen, Mike Beijen, David Maxwell, and Ujwal Gadiraju. 2023. "In a Hurry: How Time Constraints and the Presentation of Web Search Results Affect User Behaviour and Experience". Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Web Engineering
Garrett Allen, Katherine Landau Wright, Jerry Alan Fails, Casey Kennington, and Maria Soledad Pera. 2023. "Multi-Perspective Learning to Rank to Support Children's Information Seeking in the Classroom". Proceedings of the 22nd IEEE/WIC International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology
Garrett Allen. 2023. "Training Wheels for Web Search: Multi-Perspective Learning to Rank to Support Children's Information Seeking in the Classroom". Master's Thesis at Boise State University