Jacob O. Wobbrock
http://faculty.washington.edu/wobbrock/
wobbrock [at] u.washington.edu
Faculty
Information School, Computer Science & Engineering

Jacob O. Wobbrock is an Assistant Professor in the Information School and an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington. His research interests are in user interface technology, human motor performance, input methods and models, accessible and universal design, and mobile user interfaces. Professor Wobbrock directs the AIM Research Group comprising students from information and computer science. Prior to coming to the University of Washington, Professor Wobbrock received his Ph.D. from the Human-Computer Interaction Institute in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. He also received B.S. and M.S. degrees in Symbolic Systems and Computer Science, respectively, from Stanford University.


Professor Wobbrock has won five Best Paper Awards, including three at ACM CHI from 2006-2008, and a CHI Best Paper Nomination in 2009. He won 1st place in the NISH National Scholar Award for Workplace Innovation and Design in 2005. In 2004, he was a National Science Foundation IGERT Fellow. Upon graduating from Carnegie Mellon, his work was honored with the SCS Distinguished Dissertation Award. Professor Wobbrock has held industry positions at Google, DoDots, Microsoft Research, Intel Corporation, and the Intel-Mattel Smart Toy Lab. He enjoys golf, swimming, biking, fiction writing, and spending time with his wife and young son.


See also his faculty web site, or the AIM Research Group web site.

Projects:

Publications:
Exploring the design of accessible goal crossing desktop widgets Exploring the design of accessible goal crossing desktop widgets
Eun Kyoung Choe, Kristen Shinohara, Parmit Chilana, Morgan Dixon and Jacob O. Wobbrock
Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2009. Work in Progress (PDF)
Longitudinal study of people learning to use continuous voice-based cursor control Longitudinal study of people learning to use continuous voice-based cursor control
Susumu Harada, Jacob O. Wobbrock, Jonathan Malkin, Jeff Bilmes and James A. Landay
Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2009. Full Paper (PDF)
The Angle Mouse: Target-agnostic dynamic gain adjustment based on angular deviation The Angle Mouse: Target-agnostic dynamic gain adjustment based on angular deviation
Jacob O. Wobbrock, James Fogarty, Sean S. Liu, Shunichi Kimuro and Susumu Harada
Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2009. Full Paper (PDF)
User-defined gestures for surface computing User-defined gestures for surface computing
Jacob O. Wobbrock, Meredith Ringel Morris and Andrew D. Wilson
Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2009. Full Paper (PDF)
    Best Paper Nominee
Goal crossing with mice and trackballs for people with motor impairments: Performance, submovements, and design directions Goal crossing with mice and trackballs for people with motor impairments: Performance, submovements, and design directions
Jacob O. Wobbrock and Krzysztof Z Gajos
ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing, 2008. Journal Paper (PDF)
Slide Rule: Making Mobile Touch Screens Accessible to Blind People Using Multi-Touch Interaction Techniques Slide Rule: Making Mobile Touch Screens Accessible to Blind People Using Multi-Touch Interaction Techniques
Shaun K. Kane, Jeffrey P. Bigham and Jacob O. Wobbrock
ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Assistive Technologies, 2008. Full Paper (PDF)
VoiceLabel: Using Speech to Label Mobile Sensor Data VoiceLabel: Using Speech to Label Mobile Sensor Data
Susumu Harada, Jonathan Lester, Kayur Patel, T. Scott Saponas, James Fogarty, James A. Landay and Jacob O. Wobbrock
International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces, 2008. Full Paper (PDF)
Getting Off the Treadmill: Evaluating Walking User Interfaces for Mobile Devices in Public Spaces Getting Off the Treadmill: Evaluating Walking User Interfaces for Mobile Devices in Public Spaces
Shaun K. Kane, Jacob O. Wobbrock and Ian Smith
The International Conference Series on Human Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services, 2008. Full Paper (PDF)
    Best Paper Award
An Error Model for Pointing Based on Fitts' Law An Error Model for Pointing Based on Fitts' Law
Jacob O. Wobbrock, Ed Cutrell, Susumu Harada and I. Scott MacKenzie
Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2008. Full Paper (PDF)
    Best Paper Winner
Improving the Performance of Motor-Impaired Users with Automatically-Generated, Ability-Based Interfaces Improving the Performance of Motor-Impaired Users with Automatically-Generated, Ability-Based Interfaces
Krzysztof Z Gajos, Jacob O. Wobbrock and Daniel S. Weld
Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2008. Full Paper (PDF)
    Best Paper Winner
TrueKeys: Identifying and correcting typing errors for people with motor impairments TrueKeys: Identifying and correcting typing errors for people with motor impairments
Shaun K. Kane, Jacob O. Wobbrock, Mark Harniss and Kurt L. Johnson
International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, 2008. Full Paper (PDF)
A comparison of area pointing and goal crossing for people with and without motor impairments A comparison of area pointing and goal crossing for people with and without motor impairments
Jacob O. Wobbrock and Krzysztof Z Gajos
ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Assistive Technologies, 2007. Full Paper (PDF)
Automatically Generating User Interfaces Adapted To User's Motor And Vision Capabilities Automatically Generating User Interfaces Adapted To User's Motor And Vision Capabilities
Krzysztof Z Gajos, Jacob O. Wobbrock and Daniel S. Weld
Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, 2007. Full Paper (PDF)
Barrier Pointing: Using Physical Edges to Assist Target Acquisition on Mobile Device Touch Screens Barrier Pointing: Using Physical Edges to Assist Target Acquisition on Mobile Device Touch Screens
Jon E. Froehlich, Jacob O. Wobbrock and Shaun K. Kane
ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Assistive Technologies, 2007. Full Paper (PDF)
Gestures without libraries, toolkits or training: A $1 recognizer for user interface prototypes Gestures without libraries, toolkits or training: A $1 recognizer for user interface prototypes
Jacob O. Wobbrock, Andrew D. Wilson and Yang Li
Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, 2007. Full Paper (PDF)
VoiceDraw: Hands-Free Voice-Driven Drawing Program for People With Motor Impairments VoiceDraw: Hands-Free Voice-Driven Drawing Program for People With Motor Impairments
Susumu Harada, Jacob O. Wobbrock and James A. Landay
ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Assistive Technologies, 2007. Full Paper (PDF)
WebinSitu: A Comparative Analysis of Blind and Sighted Browsing Behavior WebinSitu: A Comparative Analysis of Blind and Sighted Browsing Behavior
Jeffrey P. Bigham, Anna C. Cavender, Jeremy T. Brudvik, Jacob O. Wobbrock and Richard Ladner
ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Assistive Technologies, 2007. Full Paper (PDF)