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Jacob O. Wobbrock
Born (1976-01-15) January 15, 1976 (age 49)
Citizenship United States
Alma materStanford University (B.S., M.S.), Carnegie Mellon University (Ph.D.)
Scientific career
FieldsHuman-Computer Interaction, Mobile computing, Computer accessibility
InstitutionsUniversity of Washington
Doctoral advisorBrad A. Myers (Ph.D.)
Other academic advisorsTerry Winograd (M.S.), Thomas Wasow (B.S.)
Websitefaculty.washington.edu/wobbrock/

Jacob O. Wobbrock is a researcher in the field of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). He is a Professor in the University of Washington Information School and, by courtesy, in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington. He is Director of the ACE Lab, Associate Director and founding Co-Director Emeritus of the CREATE research center, and a founding member of the DUB Group and the MHCI+D degree program, which he chairs.

Wobbrock's research and teaching focuses on input and interaction techniques (e.g., text entry, pointing, touch, gesture), human performance measurement and modeling, HCI research and design methods, virtual reality, mobile computing, and accessible computing. Wobbrock has co-authored over 200 peer-reviewed papers.[1]

Education

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Wobbrock grew up in Lake Oswego, Oregon and graduated with academic and athletic recognitions from Lake Oswego High School. He attended Stanford University, where he received his B.S. with Honors in Symbolic Systems (1998) and his M.S. in Computer Science (2000). In both degrees, he had a formal specialization in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). After working in Silicon Valley startups for a few years, he attended the Human-Computer Interaction Institute in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, where he earned his Ph.D. (2006).

Research

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Wobbrock's work seeks to scientifically understand people's experiences with interactive technologies, and to improve those experiences by designing, building, and evaluating new techniques and systems, especially for people with disabilities. Some of his notable research projects are the $-family gesture recognizers,[2][3] the end-user elicitation design method,[4][5] the Slide Rule design for accessible touchscreen gestures[6] (which some authors have noted might have influenced Apple's VoiceOver accessibility software design[7]), the ARTool statistics tool[8][9] for nonparametric ANOVA-type analyses, the Pointing Magnifier assistive pointing and visual aid,[10][11] and the versatile EdgeWrite text-entry system.[12] Wobbrock is also known for his formulation of Ability-Based Design,[13][14] which scrutinizes technologies for their ability assumptions and insists that technologies accommodate people, rather than the other way around, often through interface adaptation.

Teaching

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Wobbrock teaches both technical and design topics within human-computer interaction (HCI), and courses on research methods and statistics. He has developed courses on experience design, interactive technology design, input and interaction techniques, and quantitative research methods. In February 2016, he launched Designing, Running, and Analyzing Experiments on the Coursera platform. This massive open online course (MOOC) focuses on experiment design and data analysis in the R programming language for formal HCI studies.

Industry

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As an entrepreneur, Wobbrock was the venture-backed co-founder and CEO of AnswerDash from 2012 to 2015. AnswerDash was acquired by CloudEngage in June 2020.[15] His co-founders were fellow professor Amy J. Ko and then-Ph.D. student Parmit Chilana, now a professor at Simon Fraser University. After running AnswerDash from 2012 to 2015, Wobbrock returned to his academic position at the University of Washington but remained an AnswerDash Board Observer and its Chief Experience Officer.

Between graduating from Stanford University and starting his Ph.D. at Carnegie Mellon University in 2001, Wobbrock worked at Silicon Valley startups DoDots[16] and Google. While in college, he held two technical internships at Intel.

Awards and honors

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Personal life

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Wobbrock lives in Seattle, Washington and is married to Alison Wobbrock (née Pawluskiewicz), a daughter of Polish emigrants from Nowy Targ, Poland and the niece of celebrated Polish composer Jan Kanty Pawluskiewicz.

References

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  1. ^ dblp: Jacob O. Wobbrock
  2. ^ a b Wobbrock, J.O., Wilson, A.D. and Li, Y. (2007). Gestures without libraries, toolkits or training: A $1 recognizer for user interface prototypes. Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST '07). Newport, Rhode Island (October 7-10, 2007). New York: ACM Press, pp. 159-168. http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1294211.1294238
  3. ^ a b Vatavu, R.-D., Anthony, L. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2012). Gestures as point clouds: A $P recognizer for user interface prototypes. Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI '12). Santa Monica, California (October 22-26, 2012). New York: ACM Press, pp. 273-280. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2388676.2388732
  4. ^ Wobbrock, J.O., Aung, H.H., Rothrock, B. and Myers, B.A. (2005). Maximizing the guessability of symbolic input. Extended Abstracts of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '05). Portland, Oregon (April 2–7, 2005). New York: ACM Press, pp. 1869-1872. http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=1056808.1057043
  5. ^ Wobbrock, J.O., Morris, M.R. and Wilson, A.D. (2009). User-defined gestures for surface computing. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '09). Boston, Massachusetts (April 4–9, 2009). New York: ACM Press, pp. 1083-1092. http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1518701.1518866
  6. ^ a b Kane, S.K., Bigham, J.P. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2008). Slide Rule: Making mobile touch screens accessible to blind people using multi-touch interaction techniques. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '08). Halifax, Nova Scotia (October 13-15, 2008). New York: ACM Press, pp. 73-80. http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1414487
  7. ^ Lazar, J., Goldstein, D. and Taylor, A. (2015). Ensuring digital accessibility through process and policy. Waltham, MA: Morgan Kaufmann, pp. 35-36.
  8. ^ Wobbrock, J.O., Findlater, L., Gergle, D. and Higgins, J.J. (2011). The Aligned Rank Transform for nonparametric factorial analyses using only ANOVA procedures. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '11). Vancouver, British Columbia (May 7–12, 2011). New York: ACM Press, pp. 143-146. http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1978963
  9. ^ Elkin, L.A., Kay, M., Higgins, J. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2021). An aligned rank transform procedure for multifactor contrast tests. Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST '21). Virtual Event (October 10–14, 2021). New York: ACM Press, pp. 754-768. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3472749.3474784
  10. ^ Findlater, L., Jansen, A., Shinohara, K., Dixon, M., Kamb, P., Rakita, J. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2010). Enhanced area cursors: Reducing fine-pointing demands for people with motor impairments. Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST '10). New York, NY (October 3–6, 2010). New York: ACM Press, pp. 153-162. http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1866029.1866055
  11. ^ Jansen, A., Findlater, L. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2011). From the lab to the world: Lessons from extending a pointing technique for real-world use. Extended Abstracts of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '11). Vancouver, British Columbia (May 7–12, 2011). New York: ACM Press, pp. 1867-1872. http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1979888
  12. ^ Wobbrock, J.O., Myers, B.A. and Kembel, J.A. (2003). EdgeWrite: A stylus-based text entry method designed for high accuracy and stability of motion. Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST '03). Vancouver, British Columbia (November 2–5, 2003). New York: ACM Press, pp. 61-70. http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=964703
  13. ^ Wobbrock, J.O., Kane, S.K., Gajos, K.Z., Harada, S. and Froehlich, J. (2011). Ability-based design: Concept, principles and examples. ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing 3 (3). Article No. 9. http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1952384
  14. ^ Wobbrock, J.O., Gajos, K.Z., Kane, S.K. and Vanderheiden, G.C. (2018). Ability-Based Design. Communications of the ACM 61 (6), June 2018, pp. 62-71. https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3148051
  15. ^ Taylor Soper. UW spinout AnswerDash, a contextual Q&A service for customer support, acquired by CloudEngage. GeekWire, June 23, 2020.
  16. ^ Glynn, J. and Sigg, K. (2000). DoDots. Stanford Graduate School of Business Case Study. https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/faculty-research/case-studies/dodots
  17. ^ Nielsen, C. (2024). iSchool's Wobbrock honored with lasting impact award. University of Washington Information School News, December 6, 2024.
  18. ^ Staff. (2022). ACM Names 71 Fellows for Computing Advances that are Driving Innovation. January 19, 2022.
  19. ^ https://sigchi.org/people/award-recipients/
  20. ^ https://archive.sigchi.org/awards/sigchi-award-recipients/2017-sigchi-awards/
  21. ^ Wobbrock, J.O. (2010). Advancing Accessible Computing with Tools for Ability-Based Design. NSF CAREER Award #0952786.
  22. ^ SCS Student Awards, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
  23. ^ Contavespi, V. (2005). NISH Announces Winners of 2004-2005 National Scholar Awards for Workplace Innovation and Design.
  24. ^ Stanford Honors Thesis Prizes - Symbolic Systems Recipients
  25. ^ Wobbrock, J.O. (1998). The law and policy of autonomous software agents. Stanford, CA: Stanford University, 172 pages.
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