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Jacob O. Wobbrock is an Associate Professor in the Information School and, by courtesy, in Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington. His research in the field of human-computer interaction involves inventing new user interface technologies and studying people’s interactions with them. He holds an NSF CAREER award, eight best paper awards, and five best paper nominations. He is an alumnus of Carnegie Mellon University (Ph.D. 2006) and Stanford University (B.S. 1998, M.S. 2000).

Jacob O. Wobbrock is an Associate Professor in the Information School and an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington, where he directs the AIM Research Group comprising students from UW's information science and computer science programs. His research in human-computer interaction combines computer science, interaction design, and psychology to explore novel user interface technologies, input and interaction techniques, human performance with computing systems, and accessible, mobile & surface computing interfaces. Many of his contributions are in text entry, pointing, touch, and gesture. He has co-authored eight best paper winners and five best paper nominees, and is a recipient of an NSF CAREER award and three other NSF grants. He obtained his Ph.D. in Human-Computer Interaction from Carnegie Mellon University in 2006 and his B.S. and M.S. from Stanford University in 1998 and 2000, respectively.

Jacob O. Wobbrock is an Associate Professor in the Information School and an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington, where he directs the AIM Research Group comprising students from UW's information science and computer science programs. His research in human-computer interaction combines computer science, interaction design, and psychology to investigate novel user interface technologies, input and interaction techniques, human performance with computing systems, and accessible, mobile & surface computing interfaces. Many of his contributions are in text entry, pointing, touch, and gesture. His research outcomes include the user-defined gesture methodology, the $1 stroke recognizer, the pointing error model, ability-based design, the EdgeWrite text entry system, and gestures for touch screen accessibility, which developed techniques appearing in Apple's VoiceOver for iOS. He has co-authored eight best paper winners, including five from ACM CHI, and five best paper nominees, also from ACM CHI. He is a recipient of an NSF CAREER award and three other NSF grants. He received his Ph.D. in 2006 from the Human-Computer Interaction Institute in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, where his advisor was Brad A. Myers. He also received a B.S. in Symbolic Systems in 1998 and an M.S. in Computer Science in 2000, both from Stanford University, where his advisor was Terry Winograd.