Jacob O. Wobbrock

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Jacob O. Wobbrock
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Wobbrock in 2016
Born (1976-01-15) January 15, 1976 (age 49)
Alma mater Stanford University (B.S., M.S.), Carnegie Mellon University (Ph.D.)
Scientific career
Fields Human-computer interaction, mobile computing, computer accessibility
Institutions University of Washington
Doctoral advisor Brad A. Myers (Ph.D.)
Other academic advisors Terry Winograd (M.S.), Thomas Wasow (B.S.)
Website faculty.washington.edu/wobbrock/

Jacob O. Wobbrock is an American researcher and professor of information at the University of Washington. [1] Wobbrock is specialised in human-computer interaction (HCI). Wobbrock's research concerns input and interaction techniques, human performance measurement and modeling, HCI research and design methods, virtual reality, mobile computing, and accessible computing.[ citation needed ]

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Biography

Wobbrock was raised in Lake Oswego, Oregon and graduated from Lake Oswego High School. He attended Stanford University, where he received his undergraduate degree in Symbolic Systems in 1998, as well as his master's degree in Computer Science in 2000.[ citation needed ] He obtained his Ph.D. in Human-Computer Interaction from Carnegie Mellon University in 2006. During his studies at Stanford University and Carnegie Mellon University, Wobbrock worked at Silicon Valley startups DoDots and Google. [2]

Career

Wobbrock was the co-founder of the software company AnswerDash, along with fellow professor Amy J. Ko and then-Ph.D. student Parmit Chilana, where he served as CEO from 2012 to 2015. After leaving AnswerDash, Wobbrock returned to his academic position at the University of Washington but remained an AnswerDash Board Observer. [3]

Wobbrock is currently director of the Advanced Computing Experiences Laboratory (ACE Lab), an associate director and founding Co-Director Emeritus of the Center for Research and Education on Accessible Technology and Experiences (CREATE) research center, and a founding member of the DUB Group as well as the MHCI+D degree program at the University of Washington. [4]

Personal life

Wobbrock lives in Seattle, Washington and is married to Alison Wobbrock (née Pawluskiewicz), niece of Polish composer Jan Kanty Pawluśkiewicz.[ citation needed ]

Awards and honors

References

  1. ↑ "Meet Jacob O. Wobbrock | An Entrepreneur Focused On Interactive Solutions That Improve The User And Customer Experience". HuffPost. 2016-12-06. Retrieved 2025-06-17.
  2. ↑ "DoDots". Stanford Graduate School of Business. Retrieved 2025-05-28.
  3. ↑ Wobbrock, Jacob O. "Curriculum Vitae" (PDF). Retrieved 22 May 2025.
  4. ↑ Wobbrock, Jacob O. "Welcome!". University of Washington. Retrieved 22 May 2025.
  5. ↑ "iSchool's Wobbrock honored with Lasting Impact Award". ischool.uw.edu. Retrieved 2025-05-28.
  6. ↑ Wobbrock, Jacob O.; Wilson, Andrew D.; Li, Yang (2007-10-07). "Gestures without libraries, toolkits or training: A $1 recognizer for user interface prototypes". Proceedings of the 20th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology. UIST '07. New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery. pp. 159–168. doi:10.1145/1294211.1294238. ISBN   978-1-59593-679-0.
  7. ↑ Vatavu, Radu-Daniel; Anthony, Lisa; Wobbrock, Jacob O. (2012-10-22). "Gestures as point clouds: A $P recognizer for user interface prototypes". Proceedings of the 14th ACM international conference on Multimodal interaction. ICMI '12. New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery. pp. 273–280. doi:10.1145/2388676.2388732. ISBN   978-1-4503-1467-1.
  8. ↑ "2021 ACM Names 71 Fellows for Computing Advances that are Driving Innovation". www.acm.org. Retrieved 2025-05-28.
  9. ↑ Kane, Shaun K.; Bigham, Jeffrey P.; Wobbrock, Jacob O. (2008-10-13). "Slide rule: Making mobile touch screens accessible to blind people using multi-touch interaction techniques". Proceedings of the 10th international ACM SIGACCESS conference on Computers and accessibility. Assets '08. New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery. pp. 73–80. doi:10.1145/1414471.1414487. ISBN   978-1-59593-976-0.
  10. ↑ "Award Recipients". sigchi.org. Retrieved 2025-05-28.
  11. ↑ "2017 SIGCHI Awards – ACM SIGCHI" . Retrieved 2025-05-28.
  12. ↑ "NSF Award Search: Award # 0952786". www.nsf.gov.
  13. ↑ "SCS STUDENT AWARDS". www.scs.cmu.edu.
  14. ↑ "Contavespi, V. (2005). NISH Announces Winners of 2004-2005 National Scholar Awards for Workplace Innovation and Design" (PDF).
  15. ↑ "Stanford Honors Thesis Prizes - Symbolic Systems Recipients | Symbolic Systems Program". symsys.stanford.edu.
  16. ↑ "Wobbrock, J.O. (1998). The law and policy of autonomous software agents. Stanford, CA: Stanford University, 172 pages" (PDF).
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