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Curriculum Vitae
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.
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