Publications

Current Submissions

[?]	Anthony, L. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2008) From $1 to $N: Creating a multi-stroke recognizer from unistroke permutations for algebra symbols. Submitted for publication.

Refereed Journal Articles

[J.7]	Wobbrock, J.O., Myers, B.A. and Aung, H.H. (2008) The performance of hand postures in front- and back-of-device interaction for mobile computing. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies. To appear.
[J.6]	Wobbrock, J.O. and Gajos, K.Z. (2008) Goal crossing with mice and trackballs for people with motor impairments: Performance, submovements, and design directions. ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing 1 (1), pp. 4:1-4:37. [PDF] [ACM]
[J.5]	Wobbrock, J.O. and Myers, B.A. (2008) Enabling devices, empowering people: The design and evaluation of Trackball EdgeWrite. Disability and Rehabilitation: Assistive Technology 3 (1 & 2), pp. 35-56. [Journal]
[J.4]	Wobbrock, J.O. and Myers, B.A. (2006) Analyzing the input stream for character-level errors in unconstrained text entry evaluations. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction 13 (4), pp. 458-489. [PDF] [ACM] [Software]
[J.3]	Wobbrock, J.O., Aung, H.H., Myers, B.A. and LoPresti, E.F. (2005) Integrated text entry from power wheelchairs. Behaviour and Information Technology 24 (3), pp. 187-203. [PDF] [Journal]
[J.2]	Myers, B.A., Nichols, J., Wobbrock, J.O. and Miller, R.C. (2004) Taking handheld devices to the next level. IEEE Computer 36 (12), pp. 36-43. [PDF] [Journal]
[J.1]	Heckman, C.E. and Wobbrock, J.O. (1999) Liability for autonomous agent design (extended). Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems 2 (1), pp. 87-103. [PDF] [Journal]

Refereed Conference Papers (Full)

[C.23]	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 SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '08). Halifax, Nova Scotia (October 13-15, 2008). New York: ACM Press. To appear.
[C.22]	Kane, S.K., Wobbrock, J.O. and Smith, I.E. (2008) Getting off the treadmill: Evaluating walking user interfaces for mobile devices in public spaces. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (MobileHCI '08). Amsterdam, The Netherlands (September 18-20, 2008). New York: ACM Press. To appear. [PDF]
[C.21]	Wobbrock, J.O., Cutrell, E., Harada, S. and MacKenzie, I.S. (2008) An error model for pointing based on Fitts' law. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '08). Florence, Italy (April 5-10, 2008). New York: ACM Press, pp. 1613-1622. Winner of Best Paper Award. [PDF] [ACM]
[C.20]	Gajos, K.Z., Wobbrock, J.O. and Weld, D.S. (2008) Improving the performance of motor-impaired users with automatically-generated, ability-based interfaces. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '08). Florence, Italy (April 5-10, 2008). New York: ACM Press, pp. 1257-1266. Winner of Best Paper Award. [PDF] [ACM]
[C.19]	Wobbrock, J.O., Rubinstein, J., Sawyer, M.W. and Duchowski, A.T. (2008) Longitudinal evaluation of discrete consecutive gaze gestures for text entry. Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Eye Tracking Research and Applications (ETRA ’08). Savannah, Georgia (March 26-28, 2008). New York: ACM Press, pp. 11-18. [PDF] [ACM]
[C.18]	Wobbrock, J.O. and Gajos, K.Z. (2007) A comparison of area pointing and goal crossing for people with and without motor impairments. Proceedings of the ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '07). Tempe, Arizona (October 15-17, 2007). New York: ACM Press, pp. 3-10. [PDF] [ACM]
[C.17]	Froehlich, J., Wobbrock, J.O. and Kane, S.K. (2007) Barrier Pointing: Using physical edges to assist target acquisition on mobile device touch screens. Proceedings of the ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '07). Tempe, Arizona (October 15-17, 2007). New York: ACM Press, pp. 19-26. [PDF] [ACM]
[C.16]	Harada, S., Wobbrock, J.O. and Landay, J.A. (2007) VoiceDraw: A voice-driven hands-free drawing application. Proceedings of the ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '07). Tempe, Arizona (October 15-17, 2007). New York: ACM Press, pp. 27-34. [PDF] [ACM] [Website]
[C.15]	Bigham, J., Cavender, A., Brudvik, J., Wobbrock, J.O. and Ladner, R. (2007) WebinSitu: A comparative analysis of blind and sighted browsing behavior. Proceedings of the ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '07). Tempe, Arizona (October 15-17, 2007). New York: ACM Press, pp. 51-58. [PDF] [ACM]
[C.14]	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. Selected for special presentation at ACM SIGGRAPH 2008. [PDF] [ACM] [Website] [YouTube]
[C.13]	Gajos, K.Z., Wobbrock, J.O. and Weld, D.S. (2007) Automatically generating user interfaces adapted to users' motor and vision capabilities. 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. 231-240. [PDF] [ACM] [Website]
[C.12]	González, I.E., Wobbrock, J.O., Chau, D.H., Faulring, A. and Myers, B.A. (2007) Eyes on the road, hands on the wheel: Thumb-based interaction techniques for input on steering wheels. Proceedings of Graphics Interface (GI '07). Montréal, Québec (May 28-30, 2007). Waterloo, Ontario: Canadian Human-Computer Communications Society, pp. 95-102. [PDF] [ACM]
[C.11]	Wobbrock, J.O., Chau, D.H. and Myers, B.A. (2007) An alternative to push, press, and tap-tap-tap: Gesturing on an isometric joystick for mobile phone text entry. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '07). San Jose, California (April 28-May 3, 2007). New York: ACM Press, pp. 667-676. [PDF] [ACM] [Website]
[C.10]	Wobbrock, J.O. and Myers, B.A. (2006) From letters to words: Efficient stroke-based word completion for trackball text entry. Proceedings of the ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '06). Portland, Oregon (October 23-25, 2006). New York: ACM Press, pp. 2-9. [PDF] [ACM] [Website]
[C.9]	Wobbrock, J.O. and Myers, B.A. (2006) Trackball text entry for people with motor impairments. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '06). Montréal, Québec (April 22-27, 2006). New York: ACM Press, pp. 479-488. Winner of Best Paper Award. [PDF] [ACM] [Website]
[C.8]	Myers, B.A. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2005) Text input to handheld devices for people with physical disabilities. Proceedings of the 11th Int'l Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCI Int'l '05). Las Vegas, Nevada (July 22-27, 2005). Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. [PDF] [Website]
[C.7]	Wobbrock, J.O., Myers, B.A., Aung, H.H. and LoPresti, E.F. (2004) Text entry from power wheelchairs: EdgeWrite for joysticks and touchpads. Proceedings of the ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '04). Atlanta, Georgia (October 18-20, 2004). New York: ACM Press, pp. 110-117. Winner of Best Paper Award. [PDF] [ACM] [Website]
[C.6]	Wobbrock, J.O., Myers, B.A. and Aung, H.H. (2004) Writing with a joystick: A comparison of date stamp, selection keyboard and EdgeWrite. Proceedings of Graphics Interface (GI '04). London, Ontario (May 17-19, 2004). Waterloo, Ontario: Canadian Human-Computer Communications Society, pp. 1-8. [PDF] [ACM] [Website]
[C.5]	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. [PDF] [ACM] [Website]
[C.4]	Myers, B.A., Wobbrock, J.O., Yang, S., Yeung, B., Nichols, J. and Miller, R. (2002) Using handhelds to help people with motor impairments. Proceedings of the ACM SIGCAPH Conference on Assistive Technologies (ASSETS '02). Edinburgh, Scotland (July 8-10, 2002). New York: ACM Press, pp. 89-96. [PDF] [ACM] [Website]
[C.3]	Nichols, J., Wobbrock, J.O., Gergle, D. and Forlizzi, J. (2002) Mediator and medium: Doors as interruption gateways and aesthetic displays. Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS '02). London, England (June 25-28, 2002). New York: ACM Press, pp. 379-386. [PDF] [Poster] [ACM]
[C.2]	Heckman, C.E. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2000) Put your best face forward: Anthropomorphic agents, e-commerce consumers, and the law. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Autonomous Agents (Agents '00). Barcelona, Spain (June 3-7, 2000). New York: ACM Press, pp. 435-442. [PDF] [ACM]
[C.1]	Heckman, C.E. and Wobbrock, J.O. (1998) Liability for autonomous agent design. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Autonomous Agents (Agents '98). Minneapolis, Minnesota (May 10-13, 1998). New York: ACM Press, pp. 392-399. [PDF] [ACM]

Refereed Conference Papers (Notes)

[N.7]	Gajos, K.Z., Weld, D.S. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2008) Decision-theoretic user interface generation. Proceedings of the 23rd AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Nectar Papers Track (AAAI '08). Chicago, Illinois (July 13-17, 2008). Menlo Park, California: AAAI Press. To appear. [PDF]
[N.6]	Kane, S.K., Wobbrock, J.O., Harniss, M. and Johnson, K.L. (2008) TrueKeys: Identifying and correcting typing errors for people with motor impairments. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI '08). Maspalomas, Gran Canaria, Spain (January 13-16, 2008). New York: ACM Press, pp. 349-352. [PDF] [Poster]
[N.5]	Wobbrock, J.O., Myers, B.A. and Chau, D.H. (2006) In-stroke word completion. Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST '06). Montreux, Switzerland (October 15-18, 2006). New York: ACM Press, pp. 333-336. [PDF] [ACM] [Website]
[N.4]	Wobbrock, J.O., Myers, B.A. and Rothrock, B. (2006) Few-key text entry revisited: Mnemonic gestures on four keys. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '06). Montréal, Québec (April 22-27, 2006). New York: ACM Press, pp. 489-492. [PDF] [ACM] [Website]
[N.3]	Wobbrock, J.O. and Myers, B.A. (2005) Gestural text entry on multiple devices. Proceedings of the ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '05). Baltimore, Maryland (October 9-12, 2005). New York: ACM Press, pp. 184-185. [PDF] [ACM] [Website]
[N.2]	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. [PDF] [ACM]
[N.1]	Wobbrock, J.O., Forlizzi, J., Hudson, S.E. and Myers, B.A. (2002) WebThumb: Interaction techniques for small-screen browsers. Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST '02). Paris, France (October 27-30, 2002). New York: ACM Press, pp. 205-208. [PDF] [ACM]

Refereed Papers with Posters

[P.6]	Kane, S.K. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2007) Automatically correcting typing errors for people with motor impairments. Adjunct 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. 59-60. [PDF] [Poster]
[P.5]	Chau, D.H., Wobbrock, J.O., Myers, B.A. and Rothrock, B. (2006) Integrating isometric joysticks into mobile phones for text entry. Extended Abstracts of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '06). Montréal, Québec (April 22-27, 2006). New York: ACM Press, pp. 640-645. [PDF] [Poster] [ACM] [Website]
[P.4]	Wobbrock, J.O. and Myers, B.A. (2005) EdgeWrite: A new text entry technique designed for stability. Proceedings of the RESNA 28th Annual Conference (RESNA '05). Atlanta, Georgia (June 23-27, 2005). Arlington, Virginia: RESNA Press. [PDF] [Poster] [RESNA] [Website]
[P.3]	Wobbrock, J.O., Myers, B.A. and Aung, H.H. (2004) Joystick text entry with date stamp, selection keyboard and EdgeWrite. Extended Abstracts of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '04). Vienna, Austria (April 24-29, 2004). New York: ACM Press, p. 1550. [PDF] [Poster] [ACM] [Website]
[P.2]	Wobbrock, J.O. (2003) The benefits of physical edges in gesture-making: Empirical support for an edge-based unistroke alphabet. Extended Abstracts of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '03). Ft. Lauderdale, Florida (April 5-10, 2003). New York: ACM Press, pp. 942-943. [PDF] [Poster] [ACM]
[P.1]	Wobbrock, J.O. (2002) In your own words: Using full sentences as feedback. Extended Abstracts of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '02). Minneapolis, Minnesota (April 20-25, 2002). New York: ACM Press, pp. 866-867. [PDF] [Poster] [ACM]

Refereed Workshop Papers

[W.5]	Wobbrock, J.O., Rubinstein, J., Sawyer, M. and Duchowski, A.T. (2007) Not typing but writing: Eye-based text entry using letter-like gestures. Proceedings of the 3rd Annual Conference on Communication by Gaze Interaction (COGAIN '07). De Montfort University, Leicester, UK (September 3-4, 2007). IST FP6 European Project, pp. 61-64. [PDF] [COGAIN]
[W.4]	Wobbrock, J.O. (2006) The future of mobile device research in HCI. CHI 2006 Workshop Proceedings: What is the Next Generation of Human-Computer Interaction? Montréal, Québec (April 22-27, 2006). New York: ACM Press, pp. 131-134. [PDF]
[W.3]	Wobbrock, J.O. (2006) A robust design for accessible text entry. Accessibility and Computing: The Newsletter of ACM SIGACCESS (no. 84, January 2006). New York: ACM Press, pp. 48-51. First appeared in the Doctoral Consortium of ACM ASSETS 2005. Baltimore, Maryland (October 9-12, 2005). [PDF] [ACM] [Poster] [Website]
[W.2]	Wobbrock, J.O., Myers, B.A. and Hudson, S.E. (2003) Exploring edge-based input techniques for handheld text entry. Third Int'l Workshop on Smart Appliances and Wearable Computing (IWSAWC '03). In Proceedings of the 23rd IEEE Conference on Distributed Computing Systems Workshops (ICDCSW '03). Providence, Rhode Island (May 19-22, 2003). Los Alamitos, California: IEEE Computer Society, pp. 280-282. [PDF] [IEEE]
[W.1]	Myers, B.A., Nichols, J., Wobbrock, J.O., Litwack, K., Higgins, M., Hughes, J., Harris, T.K., Rosenfeld, R. and Pignol, M. (2003) Handheld devices for control. Human-Computer Interaction Consortium (HCIC '03). Winter Park, Colorado (February 5-9, 2003). [PDF]

Book Chapters

[B.2]	Wobbrock, J.O. (2007) Measures of text entry performance. Chapter 3 in I.S. MacKenzie and K. Tanaka-Ishii (eds.), Text Entry Systems: Mobility, Accessibility, Universality. San Francisco: Morgan Kaufmann, pp. 47-74. [Amazon]
[B.1]	Wobbrock, J.O. and Myers, B.A. (2006) Adding gestural text entry to input devices for people with motor impairments. Chapter 14 in J. Lazar (ed.), Universal Usability: Designing Computer Interfaces for Diverse User Populations. New York: John Wiley & Sons, pp. 421-456. [Amazon]

Technical Reports

[T.1]

Wobbrock, J.O. (2006) EdgeWrite: A versatile design for text entry and control. Technical Report CMU-HCII-06-104, Carnegie Mellon University Dissertation, July 2006. [CMU] [Website]

Patents

[A.2]	Dehlin, J.P., Chen, C.S., Wilson, A.D., Robbins, D.C., Horvitz, E.J., Hinckley, K.P. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2004) Recognizing gestures and using gestures for interacting with software applications. Patent #10/880,167 filed June 28, 2004. [PTO]
[A.1]	Wobbrock, J.O. and Myers, B.A. (2004) Using edges and corners for character input. Patent #10/811,761 filed March 29, 2004. [PTO]

Awards

[D.3]	Harada, S., Wobbrock, J.O. and Landay, J.A. (2008) Hands-free voice-driven drawing and diagram creation method for people with motor impairments. NISH Grassroots Advocacy Training Conference. Washington, D.C. (June 10-13, 2008). Second Place Winner, National Scholar Award for Workplace Innovation & Design. [PDF] [Press]
[D.2]	Wobbrock, J.O. and Myers, B.A. (2005) Accessible handheld and desktop text entry for people with motor impairments. NISH National Training & Achievement Conference. New Orleans, Louisiana (May 22-24, 2005). First Place Winner, National Scholar Award for Workplace Innovation & Design. [PDF] [Press]
[D.1]	Wobbrock, J.O. (1998) The law and policy of autonomous software agents. Honors thesis, 172 pages. Winner of the Robert M. Golden Medal for Excellence in Humanities and Creative Arts. [PDF] [Press]