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  • 2019 - ACM Senior Member

Overview

Jacob O. Wobbrock is affiliated with the University of Washington in the United States. Their research is primarily situated within the field of Computer Science, with a focus on several subfields including Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Artificial Intelligence, Human Factors and Ergonomics, and Computer Science Applications.

The main topics covered in their research include Interactive and Immersive Displays, Usability and User Interface Design, Digital Accessibility for Disabilities, Mobile Crowdsensing and Crowdsourcing, Tactile and Sensory Interactions, Innovative Human-Technology Interaction, and Green IT and Sustainability.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Jacob O. Wobbrock include the following:

  • VoxLens: Making Online Data Visualizations Accessible with an Interactive JavaScript Plug-In, 2022, CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
  • An Epidemiology-inspired Large-scale Analysis of Android App Accessibility, 2020, ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing
  • Clarifying Agreement Calculations and Analysis for End-User Elicitation Studies, 2022, ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction
  • TypeAnywhere: A QWERTY-Based Text Entry Solution for Ubiquitous Computing, 2022, CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
  • A Large-Scale Longitudinal Analysis of Missing Label Accessibility Failures in Android Apps, 2022, CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
  • ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing
  • interactions
  • ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction

Among frequent co-authors are Mingrui Ray Zhang, James Fogarty, Mingyuan Zhong, Anne Spencer Ross, and Alexis Hiniker.

Jacob O. Wobbrock was awarded the title of ACM Senior Member in 2019.

Best Publications

  • The aligned rank transform for nonparametric factorial analyses using only anova procedures

    Jacob O. Wobbrock;Leah Findlater;Darren Gergle;James J. Higgins

  • User-defined gestures for surface computing

    Jacob O. Wobbrock;Meredith Ringel Morris;Andrew D. Wilson

  • Gestures without libraries, toolkits or training: a $1 recognizer for user interface prototypes

    Jacob O. Wobbrock;Andrew D. Wilson;Yang Li

  • Recognizing gestures and using gestures for interacting with software applications

    Joel P. Dehlin;Christina Summer Chen;Andrew D. Wilson;Daniel C. Robbins

  • Ability-Based Design: Concept, Principles and Examples

    Jacob O. Wobbrock;Shaun K. Kane;Krzysztof Z. Gajos;Susumu Harada

  • In the shadow of misperception: assistive technology use and social interactions

    Kristen Shinohara;Jacob O. Wobbrock

  • Slide rule: making mobile touch screens accessible to blind people using multi-touch interaction techniques

    Shaun K. Kane;Jeffrey P. Bigham;Jacob O. Wobbrock

  • Maximizing the guessability of symbolic input

    Jacob O. Wobbrock;Htet Htet Aung;Brandon Rothrock;Brad A. Myers

  • EdgeWrite: a stylus-based text entry method designed for high accuracy and stability of motion

    Jacob O. Wobbrock;Brad A. Myers;John A. Kembel

  • Freedom to roam: a study of mobile device adoption and accessibility for people with visual and motor disabilities

    Shaun K. Kane;Chandrika Jayant;Jacob O. Wobbrock;Richard E. Ladner

  • An Aligned Rank Transform Procedure for Multifactor Contrast Tests

    Lisa A. Elkin;Matthew Kay;James J. Higgins;Jacob O. Wobbrock

  • Usable gestures for blind people: understanding preference and performance

    Shaun K. Kane;Jacob O. Wobbrock;Richard E. Ladner

  • Research contributions in human-computer interaction

    Jacob O. Wobbrock;Julie A. Kientz

  • Automatically generating personalized user interfaces with Supple

    Krzysztof Z. Gajos;Daniel S. Weld;Jacob O. Wobbrock

  • Gestures as point clouds: a $P recognizer for user interface prototypes

    Radu-Daniel Vatavu;Lisa Anthony;Jacob O. Wobbrock

  • Understanding users' preferences for surface gestures

    Meredith Ringel Morris;Jacob O. Wobbrock;Andrew D. Wilson

  • Automatically generating user interfaces adapted to users' motor and vision capabilities

    Krzysztof Z. Gajos;Jacob O. Wobbrock;Daniel S. Weld

  • Improving the performance of motor-impaired users with automatically-generated, ability-based interfaces

    Krzysztof Z. Gajos;Jacob O. Wobbrock;Daniel S. Weld

  • WalkType: using accelerometer data to accomodate situational impairments in mobile touch screen text entry

    Mayank Goel;Leah Findlater;Jacob Wobbrock

  • Formalizing Agreement Analysis for Elicitation Studies: New Measures, Significance Test, and Toolkit

    Radu-Daniel Vatavu;Jacob O. Wobbrock

  • A lightweight multistroke recognizer for user interface prototypes

    Lisa Anthony;Jacob O. Wobbrock

  • A user-defined gesture set for surface computing

    Meredith J. Morris;Jacob O. Wobbrock;Andrew David Wilson

Frequent Co-Authors

Brad A. Myers
Brad A. Myers Carnegie Mellon University
Richard E. Ladner
Richard E. Ladner University of Washington
Shaun K. Kane
Shaun K. Kane Google (United States)
Leah Findlater
Leah Findlater University of Washington
Andrew D. Wilson
Andrew D. Wilson Microsoft (United States)
James Fogarty
James Fogarty University of Washington
Krzysztof Z. Gajos
Krzysztof Z. Gajos Harvard University
Meredith Ringel Morris
Meredith Ringel Morris Google (United States)
Eve A. Riskin
Eve A. Riskin University of Washington
James A. Landay
James A. Landay Stanford University

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