Jacob O. Wobbrock
"Jacob Wobbrock"
Personal Homepage:
faculty.washington.edu/wobbrock/
Current place of employment:
University of Washington
Jacob O. Wobbrock is a professor in The Information School at the University of Washington. He also holds an adjunct appointment in Computer Science and Engineering. His research interests are input techniques, interaction design, human performance with computing systems, assistive technology, universal design, mobile user interfaces, and other areas of human-computer interaction (HCI). He received his Ph.D. from the Human-Computer Interaction Institute in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University in 2006.
Publications by Jacob O. Wobbrock (bibliography)
» 2008 «
Gajos, Krzysztof Z., Wobbrock, Jacob O. and Weld, Daniel S. (2008): Improving the performance of motor-impaired users with automatically-generated, ability-based interfaces. In: Proceedings of ACM CHI 2008 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems April 5-10, 2008. pp. 1257-1266. Available online
Wobbrock, Jacob O., Cutrell, Edward, Harada, Susumu and MacKenzie, I. Scott (2008): An error model for pointing based on Fitts' law. In: Proceedings of ACM CHI 2008 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems April 5-10, 2008. pp. 1613-1622. Available online
» 2007 «
Wobbrock, Jacob O., Chau, Duen Horng and Myers, Brad A. (2007): An alternative to push, press, and tap-tap-tap: gesturing on an isometric joystick for mobile phone text entry. In: Proceedings of ACM CHI 2007 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2007. pp. 667-676. Available online
González, Iván E., Wobbrock, Jacob O., Chau, Duen Horng, Faulring, Andrew and Myers, Brad A. (2007): Eyes on the road, hands on the wheel: thumb-based interaction techniques for input on steering wheels. In: Proceedings of the 2007 Conference on Graphics Interface 2007. pp. 95-102. Available online
Wobbrock, Jacob O. and Gajos, Krzysztof Z. (2007): A comparison of area pointing and goal crossing for people with and without motor impairments. In: Ninth Annual ACM Conference on Assistive Technologies 2007. pp. 3-10. Available online
Froehlich, Jon, Wobbrock, Jacob O. and Kane, Shaun K. (2007): Barrier pointing: using physical ed. In: Ninth Annual ACM Conference on Assistive Technologies 2007. pp. 19-26. Available online
Harada, Susumu, Wobbrock, Jacob O. and Landay, James A. (2007): Voicedraw: a hands-free voice-driven drawing application for people with motor impairments. In: Ninth Annual ACM Conference on Assistive Technologies 2007. pp. 27-34. Available online
Bigham, Jeffrey P., Cavender, Anna C., Brudvik, Jeremy T., Wobbrock, Jacob O. and Lander, Richard E. (2007): WebinSitu: a comparative analysis of blind and sighted browsing behavior. In: Ninth Annual ACM Conference on Assistive Technologies 2007. pp. 51-58. Available online
Wobbrock, Jacob O., Wilson, Andrew D. and Li, Yang (2007): Gestures without libraries, toolkits or training: a $1 recognizer for user interface prototypes. In: Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology October 7-10, 2007, Newport, Rhode Island, USA. pp. 159-168. Available online
Gajos, Krzysztof Z., Wobbrock, Jacob O. and Weld, Daniel S. (2007): Automatically generating user interfaces adapted to users' motor and vision capabilities. In: Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology October 7-10, 2007, Newport, Rhode Island, USA. pp. 231-240. Available online
» 2006 «
Wobbrock, Jacob O. and Myers, Brad A. (2006): Trackball text entry for people with motor impairments. In: Proceedings of ACM CHI 2006 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2006. pp. 479-488. Available online
Wobbrock, Jacob O., Myers, Brad A. and Rothrock, Brandon (2006): Few-key text entry revisited: mnemonic gestures on four keys. In: Proceedings of ACM CHI 2006 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2006. pp. 489-492. Available online
Wobbrock, Jacob O. and Myers, Brad A. (2006): From letters to words: efficient stroke-based word completion for trackball text entry. In: Eighth Annual ACM Conference on Assistive Technologies 2006. pp. 2-9. Available online
Wobbrock, Jacob O. and Myers, Brad A. (2006): Analyzing the input stream for character-level errors in unconstrained text entry evaluations. In ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, 13 (4) pp. 458-489489
Wobbrock, Jacob O., Myers, Brad A. and Chau, Duen Horng (2006): In-stroke word completion. In: Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology 2006. pp. 333-336. Available online
» 2005 «
Wobbrock, Jacob O. and Myers, Brad A. (2005): Gestural text entry on multiple devices. In: Seventh Annual ACM Conference on Assistive Technologies 2005. pp. 184-185. Available online
Wobbrock, Jacob O., Aung, Htet Htet, Rothrock, Brandon and Myers, Brad A. (2005): Maximizing the guessability of symbolic input. In: Proceedings of ACM CHI 2005 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2005. pp. 1869-1872. Available online
» 2004 «
Wobbrock, Jacob O., Myers, Brad A., Aung, Htet Htet and LoPresti, Edmund F. (2004): Text entry from power wheelchairs: edgewrite for joysticks and touchpads. In: Sixth Annual ACM Conference on Assistive Technologies 2004. pp. 110-117. Available online
Wobbrock, Jacob O., Myers, Brad A. and Aung, Htet Htet (2004): Writing with a joystick: a comparison of date stamp, selection keyboard, and EdgeWrite. In: Graphics Interface 2004 May 17-19, 2004, London, Ontario, Canada. pp. 1-8. Available online
» 2003 «
Wobbrock, Jacob O., Myers, Brad A. and Kembel, John A. (2003): EdgeWrite: a stylus-based text entry method designed for high accuracy and stability of motion. In: Proceedings of the 16th annural ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology November, 2-5, 2003, Vancouver, Canada. pp. 61-70. Available online
» 2002 «
Wobbrock, Jacob O., Forlizzi, Jodi, Hudson, Scott E. and Myers, Brad A. (2002): WebThumb: interaction techniques for small-screen browsers. In: Beaudouin-Lafon, Michel (ed.) Proceedings of the 15th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology October 27-30, 2002, Paris, France. pp. 205-208. Available online
Myers, Brad A., Wobbrock, Jacob O., Yang, Sunny, Yeung, Brian, Nichols, Jeffrey and Miller, Robert (2002): Using handhelds to help people with motor impairments. In: Fifth Annual ACM Conference on Assistive Technologies 2002. pp. 89-96. Available online
Nichols, Jeffrey, Wobbrock, Jacob O., Gergle, Darren and Forlizzi, Jodi (2002): Mediator and medium: doors as interruption gateways and aesthetic displays. In: Proceedings of DIS02: Designing Interactive Systems: Processes, Practices, Methods, & Techniques 2002. pp. 379-386. Available online
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Publication statistics
Publication period:2002-2008
Publication count:23
Number of co-authors:29
Productive colleagues
Jacob O. Wobbrock's 3 most productive colleagues in number of publications:
Brad A. Myers:98Scott E. Hudson:76
I. Scott MacKenzie:50
Collaboration count
Number of publications with 3 favourite co-authors:
Brad A. Myers:14Htet Htet Aung:3
Krzysztof Z. Gajos:3
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