Due to the increasing cost of Ph.D. students, decreasing funding rates, and current size of the ACE Lab, I will not be taking new Ph.D. students until, at the earliest, academic year 2026-2027.
UNIVERSITY of  WASHINGTON Information School Computer Science & Engineering
Jacob O. Wobbrock Professor, The Information School
By courtesy, Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering
  Jacob O. Wobbrock, Ph.D.
The Information School
University of Washington
Box 352840
Seattle, WA 98195-2840   USA

 
 

Publications

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Keynotes and Award Talks

[K.4] Wobbrock, J.O. (2022). Ability-based design: What role might A.I. play? Michigan A.I. Symposium. Ann Arbor, MI (November 5, 2022). University of Michigan. Opening Keynote Address.
[K.3] Wobbrock, J.O. (2020). Hypertext, social media, and civic engagement: How hypertext is ruining the world, and might just save it. Proceedings of the ACM Workshop on Human Factors in Hypertext (HUMAN '20). Virtual Event (December 4, 2020). New York: ACM Press. Article No. 2. Opening Keynote Address.
[K.2] Wobbrock, J.O. (2019). Situationally aware mobile devices for overcoming situational impairments. Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems (EICS '19). Valencia, Spain (June 18-21, 2019). New York: ACM Press. Article No. 1. Opening Keynote Address.
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Wobbrock, J.O. (2017). Ability-based design: Elevating ability over disability in accessible computing. Extended Abstracts of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '17). Denver, Colorado (May 6-11, 2017). New York: ACM Press, pp. 5-7. 2017 SIGCHI Social Impact Award.

Journal Articles

[J.28] Kothari, V., Ho, T.W.W., Cabodevilla, A.G., He, Y., Kramer, F., Shimizu-Albergine, M., Kanter, J.E., Snell-Bergeon, J., Fisher, E.A., Shao, B., Heinecke, J.W., Wobbrock, J.O., Lee, W.L., Goldberg, I.J., Vaisar, T. and Bornfeldt, K.E. (2024). Imbalance of APOB lipoproteins and large HDL in Type 1 diabetes drives atherosclerosis. Circulation Research 135 (2), pp. 335-349.
[J.27] Nolte, A., Wobbrock, J., Volkmann, T. and Jochems, N. (2022). Implementing ability-based design: A systematic approach to conceptual user modeling. ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing 15 (4). Article No. 34.
[J.26] Hiniker, A. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2022). Reclaiming attention: Christianity and HCI. ACM Interactions 29 (4), pp. 40-44.
[J.25] Vatavu, R.-D. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2022). Clarifying agreement calculations and analysis for end-user elicitation studies. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction 29 (1). Article No. 5.
[J.24] Wobbrock, J.O., Hattatoglu, L., Hsu, A.K., Burger, M.A. and Magee, M.J. (2021). The Goldilocks zone: Young adults' credibility perceptions of online news articles based on visual appearance. New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia 27 (1-2), pp. 51-96.
[J.23] Ali, A.X., McAweeney, E. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2021). Anachronism by design: Understanding young adults’ perceptions of computer iconography. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies 151. Article No. 102599.
[J.22] Ali, A.X., Morris, M.R. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2021). Distributed interaction design: Designing human-centered interactions in a time of social distancing. ACM Interactions 28 (2), pp. 82-87.
[J.21] Ross, A.S., Zhang, X., Fogarty, J. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2020). An epidemiology-inspired large-scale analysis of Android app accessibility. ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing 13 (1). Article No. 4.
[J.20] Shinohara, K., Jacobo, N., Pratt, W. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2019). Design for social accessibility method cards: Engaging users and reflecting on social scenarios for accessible design. ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing 12 (4). Article No. 17.
[J.19] Wobbrock, J.O., Gajos, K.Z., Kane, S.K. and Vanderheiden, G.C. (2018). Ability-based design. Communications of the ACM 61 (6), pp. 62-71.
[J.18] Shinohara, K., Bennett, C.L., Pratt, W. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2018). Tenets for social accessibility: Towards humanizing disabled people in design. ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing 11 (1). Article No. 6.
[J.17] Ruan, S., Wobbrock, J.O., Liou, K., Ng, A. and Landay, J.A. (2017). Comparing speech and keyboard text entry for short messages in two languages on touchscreen phones. Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies 1 (4). Article No. 159.
[J.16] Wobbrock, J.O. and Kientz, J.A. (2016). Research contributions in human-computer interaction. ACM Interactions 23 (3), pp. 38-44.
[J.15] Shinohara, K. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2016). Self-conscious or self-confident? A diary study conceptualizing the social accessibility of assistive technology. ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing 8 (2). Article No. 5.
[J.14] Bigham, J.P., Lasecki, W.S. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2015). Target acquisition and the crowd actor. Human Computation 2 (2), pp. 135-154.
[J.13] Tran, J.J., Riskin, E.A., Ladner, R.E. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2015). Evaluating intelligibility and battery drain of mobile sign language video transmitted at low frame rates and bit rates. ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing 7 (3). Article No. 11.
[J.12] Morris, M.R., Danielescu, A., Drucker, S., Fisher, D., Lee, B., schraefel, m.c. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2014). Reducing legacy bias in gesture elicitation studies. ACM Interactions 21 (3), pp. 40-45.
[J.11] Findlater, L. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2012). From plastic to pixels: In search of touch-typing touchscreen keyboards. ACM Interactions 19 (3), pp. 44-49.
[J.10] Wobbrock, J.O., Kane, S.K., Gajos, K.Z., Harada, S. and Froehlich, J. (2011). Ability-based design: Concept, principles and examples. ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing 3 (3). Article No. 9.
[J.9] Gajos, K.Z., Weld, D.S. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2010). Automatically generating personalized user interfaces with Supple. Artificial Intelligence 174 (12-13), pp. 910-950.
[J.8] Wobbrock, J.O., Ko, A.J. and Kientz, J.A. (2009). Reflections on the future of iSchools from inspired junior faculty. ACM Interactions 16 (5), pp. 69-71.
[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 66 (12), pp. 857-875.
[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). Article No. 4.
[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.
[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.
[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.
[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.
[J.1] Heckman, C.E. and Wobbrock, J.O. (1999). Liability for autonomous agent design. Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems 2 (1), pp. 87-103.

Full Conference Papers

[C.121] Sharif, A., Kim, J.G., Xu, J.Z. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2024). Understanding and reducing the challenges faced by creators of accessible online data visualizations. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '24). St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador (October 28-30, 2024). New York: ACM Press. To appear.
[C.120] Zhang, Z., Thompson, J.R., Shah, A., Agrawal, M., Sarikaya, A., Wobbrock, J.O., Cutrell, E. and Lee, B. (2024). ChartA11y: Designing accessible touch experiences of visualizations with blind smartphone users. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '24). St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador (October 28-30, 2024). New York: ACM Press. To appear.
[C.119] Mitchell, C.L. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2024). Characterizing "motor ability" for ability-based design. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '24). St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador (October 28-30, 2024). New York: ACM Press. To appear.
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Chheda-Kothary, A., Wobbrock, J.O. and Froehlich, J.E. (2024). Engaging with children's artwork in mixed visual-ability families. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '24). St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador (October 28-30, 2024). New York: ACM Press. To appear. Best Paper Nominee.
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Kong, J., Zhong, M., Fogarty, J. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2024). The Ability-Based Design Mobile Toolkit (ABD-MT): Developer support for runtime interface adaptation based on users' abilities. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Mobile Human-Computer Interaction (MobileHCI '24). Melbourne, Australia (September 30-October 3, 2024). New York: ACM Press. Article No. 277. Best Paper Winner.
[C.116] Zhang, Z.J., Kim, G.S.-H. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2023). Developing and deploying a real-world solution for accessible slide reading and authoring for blind users. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '23). New York, New York (October 22-25, 2023). New York: ACM Press. Article No. 47.
[C.115] Franz, R.L., Yu, J. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2023). Comparing locomotion techniques in virtual reality for people with upper-body motor impairments. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '23). New York, New York (October 22-25, 2023). New York: ACM Press. Article No. 39.
[C.114] Yamagami, M., Portnova-Fahreeva, A.A., Kong, J., Wobbrock, J.O. and Mankoff, J. (2023). How do people with limited movement personalize upper-body gestures? Considerations for the design of personalized and accessible gesture interfaces. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '23). New York, New York (October 22-25, 2023). New York: ACM Press. Article No. 1.
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Sharif, A., Zhang, A.M., Reinecke, K. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2023). Understanding and improving drilled-down information extraction from online data visualizations for screen-reader users. Proceedings of the International Web for All Conference (W4A '23). Austin, Texas (April 30-May 1, 2023). New York: ACM Press, pp. 18-31. Best Technical Paper.
[C.112] Zhang, Z.J. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2023). A11yBoard: Making digital artboards accessible to blind and low-vision users. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '23). Hamburg, Germany (April 23-28, 2023). New York: ACM Press. Article No. 55.
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Kong, J., Zhong, M., Fogarty, J. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2022). Quantifying touch: New metrics for characterizing what happens during a touch. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '22). Athens, Greece (October 23-26, 2022). New York: ACM Press. Article No. 33. Best Paper Nominee.
[C.110] Sharif, A., Wang, O.H., Muongchan, A.T., Reinecke, K. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2022). VoxLens: Making online data visualizations accessible with an interactive JavaScript plug-in. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '22). New Orleans, Louisiana (April 30-May 5, 2022). New York: ACM Press. Article No. 478.
[C.109] Zhang, M.R., Zhai, S. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2022). TypeAnywhere: A QWERTY-based text entry solution for ubiquitous computing. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '22). New Orleans, Louisiana (April 30-May 5, 2022). New York: ACM Press. Article No. 339.
[C.108] Fok, R., Zhong, M., Ross, A.S., Fogarty, J. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2022). A large-scale longitudinal analysis of missing label accessibility failures in Android apps. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '22). New Orleans, Louisiana (April 30-May 5, 2022). New York: ACM Press. Article No. 461.
[C.107] Zhang, M.R., Zhong, M. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2022). Ga11y: An automated GIF annotation system for visually impaired users. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '22). New Orleans, Louisiana (April 30-May 5, 2022). New York: ACM Press. Article No. 197.
[C.106] Sharif, A., Chintalapati, S.S., Wobbrock, J.O. and Reinecke, K. (2021). Understanding screen-reader users’ experiences with online data visualizations. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '21). Virtual Event (October 18-22, 2021). New York: ACM Press. Article No. 14.
[C.105] Elkin, L.A., Kay, M., Higgins, J.J. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2021). An aligned rank transform procedure for multifactor contrast tests. Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST '21). Virtual Event (October 10-14, 2021). New York: ACM Press, pp. 754-768.
[C.104] Schaadhardt, A., Hiniker, A. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2021). Understanding blind screen-reader users' experiences of digital artboards. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '21). Yokohama, Japan (May 8-13, 2021). New York: ACM Press. Article No. 270.
[C.103] Ali, A.X., Morris, M.R. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2021). "I am Iron Man": Priming improves the learnability and memorability of user-elicited gestures. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '21). Yokohama, Japan (May 8-13, 2021). New York: ACM Press. Article No. 359.
[C.102] Zhang, M.R., Wang, R., Xu, X., Li, Q., Sharif, A. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2021). Voicemoji: Emoji entry using voice for visually impaired people. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '21). Yokohama, Japan (May 8-13, 2021). New York: ACM Press. Article No. 37.
[C.101] Zhang, M.R., Mariakakis, A., Burke, J. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2021). A comparative study of lexical and semantic emoji suggestion systems. Proceedings of iConference 2021. Beijing, China (March 17-31, 2021). Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 12645. Switzerland: Springer, pp. 229-247.
[C.100] Sharif, A., Pao, V., Reinecke, K. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2020). The reliability of Fitts's law as a movement model for people with and without limited fine motor function. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '20). Athens, Greece (October 26-28, 2020). New York: ACM Press. Article No. 16.
[C.99] Cui, W., Zhu, S., Zhang, M.R., Schwartz, A., Wobbrock, J.O. and Bi, X. (2020). JustCorrect: Intelligent post hoc text correction techniques on smartphones. Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST '20). Minneapolis, Minnesota (October 20-23, 2020). New York: ACM Press, pp. 487-499.
[C.98] Villarreal-Narvaez, S., Vanderdonckt, J., Vatavu, R.-D. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2020). A systematic review of gesture elicitation studies: What can we learn from 216 studies? Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS '20). Eindhoven, Netherlands (July 6-10, 2020). New York: ACM Press, pp. 855-872.
[C.97] Franz, R.L., Wobbrock, J.O., Cheng, Y. and Findlater, L. (2019). Perception and adoption of mobile accessibility features by older adults experiencing ability changes. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '19). Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (October 28-30, 2019). New York: ACM Press, pp. 267-278.
[C.96] Chaudhuri, B., Perlmutter, L., Petelka, J., Garrison, P., Fogarty, J., Wobbrock, J.O. and Ladner, R.E. (2019). GestureCalc: An eyes-free calculator for touch screens. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '19). Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (October 28-30, 2019). New York: ACM Press, pp. 112-123.
[C.95] Zhang, M.R., Wen, H. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2019). Type, then correct: Intelligent text correction techniques for mobile text entry using neural networks. Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST '19). New Orleans, Louisiana (October 20-23, 2019). New York: ACM Press, pp. 843-855.
[C.94] Zhang, M.R. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2019). Beyond the input stream: Making text entry evaluations more flexible with transcription sequences. Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST '19). New Orleans, Louisiana (October 20-23, 2019). New York: ACM Press, pp. 831-842.
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Wobbrock, J.O., Hsu, A.K., Burger, M.A. and Magee, M.J. (2019). Isolating the effects of web page visual appearance on the perceived credibility of online news among college students. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media (HT '19). Hof, Germany (September 17-20, 2019). New York: ACM Press, pp. 191-200. Douglas Engelbart Award for Best Paper.
[C.92] Evans, A.C., Davis, K. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2019). Adaptive support for collaboration on tabletop computers. Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL '19), vol. 1. Lyon, France (June 17-21, 2019). International Society of the Learning Sciences, pp. 176-183.
[C.91] Zhang, M.R., Zhai, S. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2019). Text entry throughput: Towards unifying speed and accuracy in a single performance metric. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '19). Glasgow, Scotland (May 4-9, 2019). New York: ACM Press. Paper No. 636.
[C.90] Mott, M.E. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2019). Cluster Touch: Improving smartphone touch accuracy for people with motor and situational impairments. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '19). Glasgow, Scotland (May 4-9, 2019). New York: ACM Press. Paper No. 27.
[C.89] Ali, A.X., Morris, M.R. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2019). Crowdlicit: A system for conducting distributed end-user elicitation and identification studies. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '19). Glasgow, Scotland (May 4-9, 2019). New York: ACM Press. Paper No. 255.
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Ross, A.S., Zhang, X., Fogarty, J. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2018). Examining image-based button labeling for accessibility in Android apps through large-scale analysis. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '18). Galway, Ireland (October 22-24, 2018). New York: ACM Press, pp. 119-130. Best Paper Nominee.
[C.87] Shinohara, K., Wobbrock, J.O. and Pratt, W. (2018). Incorporating social factors in accessible design. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '18). Galway, Ireland (October 22-24, 2018). New York: ACM Press, pp. 149-160.
[C.86] Tung, Y.-C., Goel, M., Zinda, I. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2018). RainCheck: Overcoming capacitive interference caused by rainwater on smartphones. Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI '18). Boulder, Colorado (October 16-20, 2018). New York: ACM Press, pp. 464-471.
[C.85] Ali, A.X., Morris, M.R. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2018). Crowdsourcing similarity judgments for agreement analysis in end-user elicitation studies. Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST '18). Berlin, Germany (October 14-17, 2018). New York: ACM Press, pp. 177-188.
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Vatavu, R.-D., Anthony, L. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2018). $Q: A super-quick, articulation-invariant stroke-gesture recognizer for low-resource devices. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (MobileHCI '18). Barcelona, Spain (September 3-6, 2018). New York: ACM Press. Article No. 23. Honorable Mention Paper.
[C.83] Mariakakis, A., Parsi, S., Patel, S.N. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2018). Drunk user interfaces: Determining blood alcohol level through everyday smartphone tasks. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '18). Montreal, Quebec (April 21-26, 2018). New York: ACM Press. Paper No. 234.
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O'Leary, K., Schueller, S., Wobbrock, J.O. and Pratt, W. (2018). "Suddenly, we got to become therapists for each other": Designing peer support chats for mental health. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '18). Montreal, Quebec (April 21-26, 2018). New York: ACM Press. Paper No. 331. Honorable Mention Paper.
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Ross, A.S., Zhang, X., Fogarty, J. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2017). Epidemiology as a framework for large-scale mobile application accessibility assessment. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '17). Baltimore, Maryland (October 30 – November 1, 2017). New York: ACM Press, pp. 2-11. Best Paper Nominee.
[C.80] Shinohara, K., Bennett, C.L., Wobbrock, J.O. and Pratt, W. (2017). Teaching accessibility in a technology design course. Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL '17), vol. 1. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (June 18-22, 2017). International Society of the Learning Sciences, pp. 239-246.
[C.79] Evans, A.C., Davis, K., Fogarty, J. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2017). Group Touch: Distinguishing tabletop users in group settings via statistical modeling of touch pairs. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '17). Denver, Colorado (May 6-11, 2017). New York: ACM Press, pp. 35-47.
[C.78] Mott, M.E., Williams, S., Wobbrock, J.O. and Morris, M.R. (2017). Improving dwell-based gaze typing with dynamic, cascading dwell times. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '17). Denver, Colorado (May 6-11, 2017). New York: ACM Press, pp. 2558-2570.
[C.77] Zhang, X., Ross, A., Caspi, A., Fogarty, J. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2017). Interaction proxies for runtime repair and enhancement of mobile application accessibility. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '17). Denver, Colorado (May 6-11, 2017). New York: ACM Press, pp. 6024-6037.
[C.76] O'Leary, K., Bhattacharya, A., Munson, S., Wobbrock, J.O. and Pratt, W. (2017). Design opportunities for mental health peer support technologies. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW '17). Portland, Oregon (February 25-March 1, 2017). New York: ACM Press, pp. 1470-1484.
[C.75] Shinohara, K., Bennett, C.L. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2016). How designing for people with and without disabilities shapes student design thinking. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '16). Reno, Nevada (October 24-26, 2016). New York: ACM Press, pp. 229-237.
[C.74] Anthony, L., Stofer, K.A., Luc, A. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2016). Gestures by children and adults on touch tables and touch walls in a public science center. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Interaction Design and Children (IDC '16). Manchester, England (June 21-24, 2016). New York: ACM Press, pp. 344-355.
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Mott, M.E., Vatavu, R.-D., Kane, S.K. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2016). Smart Touch: Improving touch accuracy for people with motor impairments with template matching. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '16). San Jose, California (May 7-12, 2016). New York: ACM Press, pp. 1934-1946. Best Paper Winner.
[C.72] Vatavu, R.-D. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2016). Between-subjects elicitation studies: Formalization and tool support. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '16). San Jose, California (May 7-12, 2016). New York: ACM Press, pp. 3390-3402.
[C.71] Evans, A.C., Wobbrock, J.O. and Davis, K. (2016). Modeling collaboration patterns on an interactive tabletop in a classroom setting. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW '16). San Francisco, California (February 27–March 2, 2016). New York: ACM Press, pp. 860-871.
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Vatavu, R.-D. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2015). Formalizing agreement analysis for elicitation studies: New measures, significance test, and toolkit. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '15). Seoul, Korea (April 18-23, 2015). New York: ACM Press, pp. 1325-1334. Honorable Mention Paper.
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Chilana, P.K., Ko, A.J. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2015). From user-centered to adoption-centered design: A case study of an HCI research innovation becoming a product. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '15). Seoul, Korea (April 18-23, 2015). New York: ACM Press, pp. 1749-1758. Best Paper Winner.
[C.68] Mariakakis, A., Goel, M., Aumi, M.T.I., Patel, S.N. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2015). SwitchBack: Using focus and saccade tracking to guide users' attention for mobile task resumption. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '15). Seoul, Korea (April 18-23, 2015). New York: ACM Press, pp. 2953-2962.
[C.67] Vatavu, R.-D., Anthony, L. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2014). Gesture heatmaps: Understanding gesture performance with colorful visualizations. Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI '14). Istanbul, Turkey (November 12-16, 2014). New York: ACM Press, pp. 172-179.
[C.66] Tran, J.J., Flowers, B., Riskin, E.A., Ladner, R.E. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2014). Analyzing the intelligibility of real-time mobile sign language video transmitted below recommended standards. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '14). Rochester, New York (October 20-22, 2014). New York: ACM Press, pp. 177-184.
[C.65] Mott, M.E. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2014). Beating the bubble: Using kinematic triggering in the Bubble Lens for acquiring small, dense targets. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '14). Toronto, Ontario (April 26-May 1, 2014). New York: ACM Press, pp. 733-742.
[C.64] Pasqual, P.T. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2014). Mouse pointing endpoint prediction using kinematic template matching. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '14). Toronto, Ontario (April 26-May 1, 2014). New York: ACM Press, pp. 743-752.
[C.63] Vatavu, R.-D., Anthony, L. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2013). Relative accuracy measures for stroke gestures. Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI '13). Sydney, Australia (December 9-13, 2013). New York: ACM Press, pp. 279-286.
[C.62] Kane, S.K., Morris, M.R. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2013). Touchplates: Low-cost tactile overlays for visually impaired touch screen users. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '13). Bellevue, Washington (October 21-23, 2013). New York: ACM Press. Article No. 22.
[C.61] Tran, J.J., Rodriguez, R., Riskin, E.A. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2013). A web-based intelligibility evaluation of sign language video transmitted at low frame rates and bitrates. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '13). Bellevue, Washington (October 21-23, 2013). New York: ACM Press. Article No. 2.
[C.60] Dell, N., Breit, N., Wobbrock, J.O. and Borriello, G. (2013). Improving form-based data entry with image snippets. Proceedings of Graphics Interface (GI '13). Regina, Saskatchewan (May 29-31, 2013). Toronto, Ontario: Canadian Information Processing Society, pp. 157-164.
[C.59] Anthony, L., Vatavu, R.-D. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2013). Understanding the consistency of users' pen and finger stroke gesture articulation. Proceedings of Graphics Interface (GI '13). Regina, Saskatchewan (May 29-31, 2013). Toronto, Ontario: Canadian Information Processing Society, pp. 87-94.
[C.58] O'Leary, K., Wobbrock, J.O. and Riskin, E.A. (2013). Q-methodology as a research and design tool for HCI. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '13). Paris, France (April 27-May 2, 2013). New York: ACM Press, pp. 1941-1950.
[C.57] Chilana, P.K., Ko, A.J., Wobbrock, J.O. and Grossman, T. (2013). A multi-site field study of crowdsourced contextual help: Usage and perspectives of end-users and software teams. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '13). Paris, France (April 27-May 2, 2013). New York: ACM Press, pp. 217-226.
[C.56]
Vatavu, R.-D., Anthony, L. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2012). Gestures as point clouds: A $P recognizer for user interface prototypes. Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI '12). Santa Monica, California (October 22-26, 2012). New York: ACM Press, pp. 273-280. Outstanding Paper Winner; ICMI 2022 Ten-Year Technical Impact Award.
[C.55]
 
Azenkot, S., Rector, K., Ladner, R.E. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2012). PassChords: Secure multi-touch authentication for blind people. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '12). Boulder, Colorado (October 22-24, 2012). New York: ACM Press, pp. 159-166. Best Paper Winner.
[C.54] Goel, M., Wobbrock, J.O. and Patel, S.N. (2012). GripSense: Using built-in sensors to detect hand posture and pressure on commodity mobile phones. Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST '12). Cambridge, Massachusetts (October 7-10, 2012). New York: ACM Press, pp. 545-554.
[C.53] Azenkot, S., Wobbrock, J.O., Prasain, S. and Ladner, R.E. (2012). Input Finger Detection for nonvisual touch screen text entry in Perkinput. Proceedings of Graphics Interface (GI '12). Toronto, Ontario (May 28-30, 2012). Toronto, Ontario: Canadian Information Processing Society, pp. 121-129.
[C.52] Levy, D.M., Wobbrock, J.O., Kaszniak, A.W. and Ostergren, M. (2012). The effects of mindfulness meditation training on multitasking in a high-stress information environment. Proceedings of Graphics Interface (GI '12). Toronto, Ontario (May 28-30, 2012). Toronto, Ontario: Canadian Information Processing Society, pp. 45-52.
[C.51] Evans, A.C. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2012). Taming wild behavior: The Input Observer for obtaining text entry and mouse pointing measures from everyday computer use. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '12). Austin, Texas (May 5-10, 2012). New York: ACM Press, pp. 1947-1956.
[C.50]
 
Goel, M., Findlater, L. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2012). WalkType: Using accelerometer data to accommodate situational impairments in mobile touch screen text entry. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '12). Austin, Texas (May 5-10, 2012). New York: ACM Press, pp. 2687-2696. Honorable Mention Paper.
[C.49] Findlater, L. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2012). Personalized input: Improving ten-finger touchscreen typing through automatic adaptation. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '12). Austin, Texas (May 5-10, 2012). New York: ACM Press, pp. 815-824.
[C.48] Chilana, P.K., Ko, A.J. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2012). LemonAid: Selection-based crowdsourced contextual help for web applications. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '12). Austin, Texas (May 5-10, 2012). New York: ACM Press, pp. 1549-1558.
[C.47] Dixon, M., Fogarty, J. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2012). A general-purpose target-aware pointing enhancement using pixel-level analysis of graphical interfaces. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '12). Austin, Texas (May 5-10, 2012). New York: ACM Press, pp. 3167-3176.
[C.46] Tran, J.J., Kim, J., Chon, J., Riskin, E.A., Ladner, R.E. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2011). Evaluating quality and comprehension of real-time sign language video on mobile phones. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '11). Dundee, Scotland (October 24-26, 2011). New York: ACM Press, pp. 115-122.
[C.45] Avrahami, D., Wobbrock, J.O. and Izadi, S. (2011). Portico: Tangible interaction on and around a tablet. Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST '11). Santa Barbara, California (October 16-19, 2011). New York: ACM Press, pp. 347-356.
[C.44] Kane, S.K., Morris, M.R., Perkins, A.Z., Wigdor, D., Ladner, R.E., and Wobbrock, J.O. (2011). Access Overlays: Improving non-visual access to large touch screens for blind users. Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST '11). Santa Barbara, California (October 16-19, 2011). New York: ACM Press, pp. 273-282.
[C.43] Harada, S., Wobbrock, J.O. and Landay, J.A. (2011). Voice Games: Investigation into the use of non-speech voice input for making computer games more accessible. Proceedings of the IFIP TC13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (INTERACT '11). Lisbon, Portugal (September 5-9, 2011). Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 6946/2011. Berlin, Germany: Springer, pp. 11-29.
[C.42] Wobbrock, J.O., Shinohara, K. and Jansen, A. (2011). The effects of task dimensionality, endpoint deviation, throughput calculation, and experiment design on pointing measures and models. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '11). Vancouver, British Columbia (May 7-12, 2011). New York: ACM Press, pp. 1639-1648.
[C.41]
 
Findlater, L., Wobbrock, J.O. and Wigdor, D. (2011). Typing on flat glass: Examining ten-finger expert typing patterns on touch surfaces. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '11). Vancouver, British Columbia (May 7-12, 2011). New York: ACM Press, pp. 2453-2462. Honorable Mention Paper.
[C.40]
 
Shinohara, K. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2011). In the shadow of misperception: Assistive technology use and social interactions. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '11). Vancouver, British Columbia (May 7-12, 2011). New York: ACM Press, pp. 705-714. Best Paper Winner.
[C.39] Azenkot, S., Prasain, S., Borning, A., Fortuna, E., Ladner, R.E. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2011). Enhancing independence and safety for blind and deaf-blind public transit riders. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '11). Vancouver, British Columbia (May 7-12, 2011). New York: ACM Press, pp. 3247-3256.
[C.38]
 
Kane, S.K., Wobbrock, J.O. and Ladner, R.E. (2011). Usable gestures for blind people: Understanding preference and performance. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '11). Vancouver, British Columbia (May 7-12, 2011). New York: ACM Press, pp. 413-422. Best Paper Winner.
[C.37] Tran, J.J., Johnson, T.W., Kim, J., Rodriguez, R., Yin, S., Riskin, E.A., Ladner, R.E. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2010). A web-based user survey for evaluating power saving strategies for deaf users of MobileASL. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '10). Orlando, Florida (October 25-27, 2010). New York: ACM Press, pp. 115-122.
[C.36] Findlater, L., Jansen, A., Shinohara, K., Dixon, M., Kamb, P., Rakita, J. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2010). Enhanced area cursors: Reducing fine-pointing demands for people with motor impairments. Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST '10). New York, NY (October 3-6, 2010). New York: ACM Press, pp. 153-162.
[C.35] Rosenthal, S., Kane, S.K., Wobbrock, J.O. and Avrahami, D. (2010). Augmenting on-screen instructions with micro-projected guides: When it works, and when it fails. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp '10). Copenhagen, Denmark (September 26-29, 2010). New York: ACM Press, pp. 203-212.
[C.34]
 
Ko, A.J. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2010). Cleanroom: Edit-time error detection with the uniqueness heuristic. Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC '10). Madrid, Spain (September 21-25, 2010). Washington, D.C.: IEEE Computer Society, pp. 7-14. Best Paper Winner.
[C.33] Morris, M.R., Wobbrock, J.O. and Wilson, A.D. (2010). Understanding users' preferences for surface gestures. Proceedings of Graphics Interface (GI '10). Ottawa, Ontario (May 31-June 2, 2010). Toronto, Ontario: Canadian Information Processing Society, pp. 261-268.
[C.32] Anthony, L. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2010). A lightweight multistroke recognizer for user interface prototypes. Proceedings of Graphics Interface (GI '10). Ottawa, Ontario (May 31-June 2, 2010). Toronto, Ontario: Canadian Information Processing Society, pp. 245-252.
[C.31] Chilana, P.K., Wobbrock, J.O. and Ko, A.J. (2010). Understanding usability practices in complex domains. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '10). Atlanta, Georgia (April 10-15, 2010). New York: ACM Press, pp. 2337-2346.
[C.30] Kane, S.K., Jayant, C., Wobbrock, J.O. and Ladner, R.E. (2009). Freedom to roam: A study of mobile device adoption and accessibility for people with visual and motor disabilities. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '09). Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (October 25-28, 2009). New York: ACM Press, pp. 115-122.
[C.29] Kane, S.K., Avrahami, D., Wobbrock, J.O., Harrison, B., Rea, A., Philipose, M. and LaMarca, A. (2009). Bonfire: A nomadic system for hybrid laptop-tabletop interaction. Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST '09). Victoria, British Columbia (October 4-7, 2009). New York: ACM Press, pp. 129-138.
[C.28] Cherniavsky, N., Chon, J., Wobbrock, J.O., Ladner, R.E. and Riskin, E.A. (2009). Activity analysis enabling real-time video communication on mobile phones for deaf users. Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST '09). Victoria, British Columbia (October 4-7, 2009). New York: ACM Press, pp. 79-88.
[C.27] Wobbrock, J.O., Fogarty, J., Liu, S., Kimuro, S. and Harada, S. (2009). The Angle Mouse: Target-agnostic dynamic gain adjustment based on angular deviation. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '09). Boston, Massachusetts (April 4-9, 2009). New York: ACM Press, pp. 1401-1410.
[C.26]
 
Wobbrock, J.O., Morris, M.R. and Wilson, A.D. (2009). User-defined gestures for surface computing. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '09). Boston, Massachusetts (April 4-9, 2009). New York: ACM Press, pp. 1083-1092. Best Paper Nominee.
[C.25] Harada, S., Wobbrock, J.O., Malkin, J., Bilmes, J. and Landay, J.A. (2009). Longitudinal study of people learning to use continuous voice-based cursor control. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '09). Boston, Massachusetts (April 4-9, 2009). New York: ACM Press, pp. 347-356.
[C.24] Harada, S., Lester, J., Patel, K., Saponas, T.S., Fogarty, J., Landay, J.A. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2008). VoiceLabel: Using speech to label mobile sensor data. Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces (ICMI '08). Chania, Crete, Greece (October 20-22, 2008). New York: ACM Press, pp. 69-76.
[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 Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '08). Halifax, Nova Scotia (October 13-15, 2008). New York: ACM Press, pp. 73-80. 2019 SIGACCESS ASSETS Paper Impact Award.
[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, Netherlands (September 18-20, 2008). New York: ACM Press, pp. 109-118. Best Paper Winner.
[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. Best Paper Winner.
[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. Best Paper Winner.
[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.
[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 Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '07). Tempe, Arizona (October 15-17, 2007). New York: ACM Press, pp. 3-10.
[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 Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '07). Tempe, Arizona (October 15-17, 2007). New York: ACM Press, pp. 19-26.
[C.16] Harada, S., Wobbrock, J.O. and Landay, J.A. (2007). VoiceDraw: A voice-driven hands-free drawing application. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '07). Tempe, Arizona (October 15-17, 2007). New York: ACM Press, pp. 27-34.
[C.15] Bigham, J.P., Cavender, A.C., Brudvik, J.T., Wobbrock, J.O. and Ladner, R.E. (2007). WebinSitu: A comparative analysis of blind and sighted browsing behavior. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '07). Tempe, Arizona (October 15-17, 2007). New York: ACM Press, pp. 51-58.
[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. Invited for special reprise presentation at SIGGRAPH 2008; UIST 2024 Lasting Impact Award.
[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.
[C.12] Gonzalez, 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). Montreal, Quebec (May 28-30, 2007). Toronto, Ontario: Canadian Information Processing Society, pp. 95-102.
[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.
[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 Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '06). Portland, Oregon (October 23-25, 2006). New York: ACM Press, pp. 2-9.
[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). Montreal, Quebec (April 22-27, 2006). New York: ACM Press, pp. 479-488. Best Paper Winner.
[C.8] Myers, B.A. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2005). Text input to handheld devices for people with physical disabilities. Proceedings of the International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCI Int'l '05). Las Vegas, Nevada (July 22-27, 2005). Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, vol. 4, pp. 1962-1970.
[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 Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '04). Atlanta, Georgia (October 18-20, 2004). New York: ACM Press, pp. 110-117. Best Paper Winner.
[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). Toronto, Ontario: Canadian Information Processing Society, pp. 1-8.
[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.
[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 Conference on Assistive Technologies (ASSETS '02). Edinburgh, Scotland (July 8-10, 2002). New York: ACM Press, pp. 89-96.
[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.
[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.
[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.

Short Conference Papers

[N.20] Zhang, M.R. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2020). Gedit: Keyboard gestures for mobile text editing. Proceedings of Graphics Interface (GI '20). Toronto, Ontario (May 28-29, 2020). Toronto, Ontario: Canadian Information Processing Society, pp. 470-473.
[N.19] Franz, R.L., Findlater, L., Neves, B.B. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2019). Gender and help seeking by older adults when learning new technologies. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '19). Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (October 28-30, 2019). New York: ACM Press, pp. 136-142.
[N.18] Evans, A. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2014). Filling in the gaps: Capturing social regulation in an interactive tabletop learning environment. Proceedings of the International Conference of the Learning Sciences (ICLS '14), vol. 2. Boulder, Colorado (June 23-27, 2014). International Society of the Learning Sciences, pp. 1157-1161.
[N.17] Kay, M., Rector, K., Consolvo, S., Greenstein, B., Wobbrock, J.O., Watson, N.F., Kientz, J.A. (2013). PVT-Touch: Adapting a reaction time test for touchscreen devices. Proceedings of the International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare (PervasiveHealth '13). Venice, Italy (May 5-8, 2013). Washington, D.C.: IEEE Computer Society, pp. 248-251.
[N.16] Goel, M., Jansen, A., Mandel, T., Patel, S.N. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2013). ContextType: Using hand posture information to improve mobile touch screen text entry. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '13). Paris, France (April 27-May 2, 2013). New York: ACM Press, pp. 2795-2798.
[N.15]
 
Findlater, L., Froehlich, J., Fattal, K., Wobbrock, J.O. and Dastyar, T. (2013). Age-related differences in performance with touchscreens compared to traditional mouse input. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '13). Paris, France (April 27-May 2, 2013). New York: ACM Press, pp. 343-346. Honorable Mention Paper.
[N.14] Kane, S.K., Frey, B. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2013). Access Lens: A gesture-based screen reader for real-world documents. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '13). Paris, France (April 27-May 2, 2013). New York: ACM Press, pp. 347-350.
[N.13] Anthony, L. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2012). $N-Protractor: A fast and accurate multistroke recognizer. Proceedings of Graphics Interface (GI '12). Toronto, Ontario (May 28-30, 2012). Toronto, Ontario: Canadian Information Processing Society, pp. 117-120.
[N.12]
 
Findlater, L., Lee, B.Q. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2012). Beyond Qwerty: Augmenting touch screen keyboards with multi-touch gestures for non-alphanumeric input. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '12). Austin, Texas (May 5-10, 2012). New York: ACM Press, pp. 2679-2682. Honorable Mention Paper.
[N.11]
 
Wobbrock, J.O., Findlater, L., Gergle, D. and Higgins, J.J. (2011). The aligned rank transform for nonparametric factorial analyses using only ANOVA procedures. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '11). Vancouver, British Columbia (May 7-12, 2011). New York: ACM Press, pp. 143-146. Honorable Mention Paper.
[N.10] Wobbrock, J.O., Jansen, A. and Shinohara, K. (2011). Modeling and predicting pointing errors in two dimensions. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '11). Vancouver, British Columbia (May 7-12, 2011). New York: ACM Press, pp. 1653-1656.
[N.9] Chilana, P.K., Ko, A.J., Wobbrock, J.O., Grossman, T. and Fitzmaurice, G. (2011). Post-deployment usability: A survey of current practices. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '11). Vancouver, British Columbia (May 7-12, 2011). New York: ACM Press, pp. 2243-2246.
[N.8] Chilana, P.K., Ko, A.J. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2010). Understanding expressions of unwanted behaviors in open bug reporting. Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC '10). Madrid, Spain (September 21-25, 2010). Washington, D.C.: IEEE Computer Society, pp. 203-206.
[N.7] Wobbrock, J.O. (2009). TapSongs: Tapping rhythm-based passwords on a single binary sensor. Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST '09). Victoria, British Columbia (October 4-7, 2009). New York: ACM Press, pp. 93-96.
[N.6] Gajos, K.Z., Weld, D.S. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2008). Decision-theoretic user interface generation. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI '08). Chicago, Illinois (July 13-17, 2008). Menlo Park, California: AAAI Press, pp. 1532-1536.
[N.5] 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.
[N.4] 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.
[N.3] 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). Montreal, Quebec (April 22-27, 2006). New York: ACM Press, pp. 489-492.
[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.
[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.

Conference Papers with Posters/Demos

[P.24] Sharif, A., Potluri, V., Ang, J.R.X., Wobbrock, J.O. and Mankoff, J. (2024). Touchpad Mapper: Examining information consumption from 2D digital content using touchpads by screen-reader users. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '24). St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador (October 28-30, 2024). New York: ACM Press. To appear.
[P.23] Yamagami, M., Portnova-Fahreeva, A., Mitchell, C.L., Kong, J. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2024). Personalized gesture classification for encouraging non-sedentary behavior during technology use in people with motor disabilities. Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC '24). Orlando, Florida (July 15-19, 2024). Piscataway, New Jersey: IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Paper ID 8380.
[P.22] Sharif, A., Potluri, V., Ang, J.R.X., Wobbrock, J.O. and Mankoff, J. (2024). Touchpad Mapper: Exploring non-visual touchpad interactions for screen-reader users. Extended Abstracts of the International Web for All Conference (W4A '24). Singapore (May 13-14, 2024). New York: ACM Press.
[P.21] Sharif, A., Zhang, A.M., Reinecke, K. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2023). Understanding and improving drilled-down information extraction from online data visualizations for screen-reader users. Extended Abstracts of the International Web for All Conference (W4A '23). Austin, Texas (April 30-May 1, 2023). New York: ACM Press, pp. 168-170.
[P.20]
 
Zhang, Z. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2022). A11yBoard: Using multimodal input and output to make digital artboards accessible to blind users. Adjunct Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST '22). Bend, Oregon (October 29-November 2, 2022). New York: ACM Press. Article No. 9. Best Poster Honorable Mention.
[P.19] Sharif, A., Zhang, A.M., Shih, A., Wobbrock, J.O. and Reinecke, K. (2022). Understanding and improving information extraction from online geospatial data visualizations for screen-reader users. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '22). Athens, Greece (October 23-26, 2022). New York: ACM Press. Article No. 61.
[P.18] Kong, J., Zhong, M., Fogarty, J. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2021). New metrics for understanding touch by people with and without limited fine motor function. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '21). Virtual Event (October 18-22, 2021). New York: ACM Press. Article No. 80.
[P.17] Franz, R.L., Findlater, L. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2019). Just ask me: Comparing older and younger individuals' knowledge of their optimal touchscreen target sizes. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '19). Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (October 28-30, 2019). New York: ACM Press, pp. 591-593.
[P.16] Perlmutter, L., Chaudhuri, B., Petelka, J., Garrison, P., Fogarty, J., Wobbrock, J.O. and Ladner, R.E. (2019). Demonstration of GestureCalc: An eyes-free calculator for touch screens. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '19). Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (October 28-30, 2019). New York: ACM Press, pp. 667-669.
[P.15] O'Leary, K., Dixon, M., Toomim, M., Wobbrock, J.O. and Pratt, W. (2016). Peer-to-peer psychotherapy tools. Proceedings of the International Society for Research on Internet Interventions Scientific Meeting (ISRII '16). Seattle, Washington (April 7-9, 2016). Poster No. P3.41.
[P.14] O'Leary, K., Delahunt, C., Dowden, P., Darmansya, I., Heng, J., Riskin, E.A., Ladner, R.E. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2012). Design goals for a system for enhancing AAC with personalized video. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '12). Boulder, Colorado (October 22-24, 2012). New York: ACM Press, pp. 223-224.
[P.13] Azenkot, S., Ladner, R.E. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2011). Smartphone haptic feedback for nonvisual wayfinding. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '11). Dundee, Scotland (October 24-26, 2011). New York: ACM Press, pp. 281-282.
[P.12] Evans, A. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2011). Input Observer: Measuring text entry and pointing performance from naturalistic everyday computer use. Extended Abstracts of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '11). Vancouver, British Columbia (May 7-12, 2011). New York: ACM Press, pp. 1879-1884.
[P.11] Jansen, A., Findlater, L. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2011). From the lab to the world: Lessons from extending a pointing technique for real-world use. Extended Abstracts of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '11). Vancouver, British Columbia (May 7-12, 2011). New York: ACM Press, pp. 1867-1872.
[P.10] Levy, D.M., Wobbrock, J.O., Kaszniak, A.W. and Ostergren, M. (2011). Initial results from a study of the effects of meditation on multitasking performance. Extended Abstracts of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '11). Vancouver, British Columbia (May 7-12, 2011). New York: ACM Press, pp. 2011-2016.
[P.9] Kim, J., Tran, J.J., Johnson, T.W., Ladner, R., Riskin, E. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2011). Effect of MobileASL on communication among deaf users. Extended Abstracts of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '11). Vancouver, British Columbia (May 7-12, 2011). New York: ACM Press, pp. 2185-2190.
[P.8] Choe, E.K., Shinohara, K., Chilana, P.K., Dixon, M. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2009). Exploring the design of accessible goal crossing desktop widgets. Extended Abstracts of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '09). Boston, Massachusetts (April 4-9, 2009). New York: ACM Press, pp. 3733-3738.
[P.7] 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.
[P.6] 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). Montreal, Quebec (April 22-27, 2006). New York: ACM Press, pp. 640-645.
[P.5] Wobbrock, J.O. and Myers, B.A. (2005). Gestural text entry on multiple devices. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '05). Baltimore, Maryland (October 9-12, 2005). New York: ACM Press, pp. 184-185.
[P.4] Wobbrock, J.O. and Myers, B.A. (2005). EdgeWrite: A new text entry technique designed for stability. Proceedings of the RESNA Annual Conference (RESNA '05). Atlanta, Georgia (June 23-27, 2005). Arlington, Virginia: RESNA Press.
[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.
[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.
[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.

Workshop Papers

[W.23] Wobbrock, J.O., Franz, R.L. and Kneitmix, M. (2024). Improving the accessibility of virtual reality for people with motor and visual impairments. Workshop on "Building a Metaverse for All: Opportunities and Challenges for Future Inclusive and Accessible Virtual Environments (Metaverse4All '24)." ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '24). Honolulu, Hawaii (May 11-16, 2024). Paper No. 4.
[W.22] Mitchell, C.L. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2024). Physiological signals for ability-based design. Workshop on "Towards Best Practices for Integrating Physiological Signals in HCI (PhysioCHI '24)." ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '24). Honolulu, Hawaii (May 11-16, 2024). Paper No. 18.
[W.21] Hiniker, A. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2022). Reclaiming attention: A Christian perspective prioritizing relationships in the design of technology. Workshop on "Integrating Religion, Faith, and Spirituality in HCI." ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '22). New Orleans, Louisiana (April 30-May 5, 2022).
[W.20] Tigwell, G., Sarsenbayeva, Z., Gorman, B., Flatla, D., Goncalves, J., Yesilada, Y. and Wobbrock, J. (2020). Future directions for situationally induced impairments and disabilities research. ACM Interactions Blog. October 6, 2020.
[W.19] Tigwell, G.W., Sarsenbayeva, Z., Gorman, B.M., Flatla, D.R., Goncalves, J., Yesilada, Y. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2019). Addressing the challenges of situationally-induced impairments and disabilities in mobile interaction. Extended Abstracts of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '19). Glasgow, Scotland (May 4-9, 2019). New York: ACM Press. Paper No. W30.
[W.18] Franz, R., Findlater, L. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2018). Lost in transition: The importance of conceptualizing aging as a process in accessibility research. Workshop on "Designing Interactions for the Ageing Populations." ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '18). Montreal, Quebec (April 21-26, 2018), pp. 53-58.
[W.17] Wobbrock, J.O. (2017). The relevance of nonparametric and semi-parametric statistics to HCI. Workshop on "Moving Transparent Statistics Forward." ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '17). Denver, Colorado (May 6-11, 2017). Paper No. 2.
[W.16] Tran, J.J., Riskin, E.A., Ladner, R.E. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2013). Human-centered approach evaluating mobile sign language video communication. Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing Conference (GHC '13). Minneapolis, Minnesota (October 2-5, 2013).
[W.15] Azenkot, S., Rector, K., Ladner, R.E. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2013). The need for research on mobile technologies for people with low-vision. Third Mobile Accessibility Workshop (MOBACC '13). ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '13). Paris, France (April 27-May 2, 2013).
[W.14] Tran, J.J., Riskin, E.A., Ladner, R.E. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2013). Increasing mobile sign language video accessibility by relaxing video transmission standards. Third Mobile Accessibility Workshop (MOBACC '13). ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '13). Paris, France (April 27-May 2, 2013).
[W.13] Chilana, P.K., Ko, A.J. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2013). Crowdsourced Q&A-based contextual help for web applications: Challenges and opportunities. Workshop on "Social Media Question Asking." ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW '13). San Antonio, Texas (February 23-27, 2013).
[W.12] Bernstein, M., Cosley, D., DiSalvo, C., Kairam, S., Karger, D., Kriplean, T., Lampe, C., Mackay, W., Terveen, L., Wobbrock, J. and Yardi, S. (2012). Reject me: Peer review and SIGCHI. Extended Abstracts of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '12). Austin, Texas (May 5-10, 2012). New York: ACM Press, pp. 1197-1200.
[W.11] Kristensson, P.O., Clawson, J., Dunlop, M., Isokoski, P., Roark, B., Vertanen, K., Waller, A. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2012). Designing and evaluating text entry methods. Extended Abstracts of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '12). Austin, Texas (May 5-10, 2012). New York: ACM Press, pp. 2747-2750.
[W.10] Wobbrock, J.O. (2011). Practical statistics for human-computer interaction: An independent study combining statistics theory and tool know-how. Annual Workshop of the Human-Computer Interaction Consortium (HCIC '11). Pacific Grove, California (June 14-18, 2011).
[W.9] Chilana, P.K., Ko, A.J. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2011). Using crowdsourcing in the design of context-sensitive help for web applications. Workshop on "Crowdsourcing and Human Computation." ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '11). Vancouver, British Columbia (May 7-12, 2011).
[W.8] Hurst, A., Gajos, K.Z., Findlater, L., Wobbrock, J.O., Sears, A. and Trewin, S. (2011). Dynamic accessibility: Detecting and accommodating differences in ability and situation. Extended Abstracts of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '11). Vancouver, British Columbia (May 7-12, 2011). New York: ACM Press, pp. 41-44.
[W.7] Harada, S., Wobbrock, J.O. and Landay, J.A. (2009). Beyond speech recognition: Improving voice-driven access to computers. Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE-IBM Accessing the Future Conference. Boston, Massachusetts (July 20-21, 2009).
[W.6] Chilana, P.K., Ko, A.J. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2009). Designing software for unfamiliar domains. Workshop on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering (CHASE '09). In Companion of the International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE '09). Vancouver, British Columbia (May 17, 2009). Washington, D.C.: IEEE Computer Society, p. 22.
[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 Annual Conference on Communication by Gaze Interaction (COGAIN '07). Leicester, England (September 3-4, 2007). Frederiksberg, Denmark: The COGAIN Association, pp. 61-64.
[W.4] Wobbrock, J.O. (2006). The future of mobile device research in HCI. Workshop on "What is the Next Generation of Human-Computer Interaction?" ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '06). Montreal, Quebec (April 22-27, 2006), pp. 131-134.
[W.3] Wobbrock, J.O. (2006). A robust design for accessible text entry. 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).
[W.2] Wobbrock, J.O., Myers, B.A. and Hudson, S.E. (2003). Exploring edge-based input techniques for handheld text entry. Third International Workshop on Smart Appliances and Wearable Computing (IWSAWC '03). In Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Distributed Computing Systems Workshops (ICDCSW '03). Providence, Rhode Island (May 19-22, 2003). Washington, D.C.: IEEE Computer Society, pp. 280-282.
[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. Annual Workshop of the Human-Computer Interaction Consortium (HCIC '03). Winter Park, Colorado (February 5-9, 2003).

Book Chapters

[B.9] Zhang, M.R., Wen, H., Cui, W., Zhu, S., Schwartz, H.A., Bi, X. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2021). AI-driven intelligent text correction techniques for mobile text entry. Chapter 5 in Y. Li & O. Hilliges (eds.), Artificial Intelligence for Human Computer Interaction: A Modern Approach. Switzerland: Springer, pp. 131-168.
[B.8] Ko, A.J., Wobbrock, J.O. and Whitmire, E. (2020). User Interface Software and Technology. E-book, 368 pages.
[B.7] Wobbrock, J.O. (2019). Situationally-induced impairments and disabilities. Chapter 5 in Y. Yesilada & S. Harper (eds.), Web Accessibility: A Foundation for Research (2nd ed.). London, England: Springer, pp. 59-92.
[B.6] Franz, R.L., Neves, B.B., Epp, C.D., Baecker, R. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2019). Why and how think-alouds with older adults fail: Recommendations from a study and expert interviews. In S. Sayago (ed.), Perspectives on Human-Computer Interaction Research with Older People. Switzerland: Springer, pp. 217-235.
[B.5] Wobbrock, J.O. and Kay, M. (2016). Nonparametric statistics in human-computer interaction. Chapter 7 in J. Robertson & M.C. Kaptein (eds.), Modern Statistical Methods for HCI. Switzerland: Springer, pp. 135-170.
[B.4] Wobbrock, J.O. (2014). Improving pointing in graphical user interfaces for people with motor impairments through ability-based design. Chapter 8 in G. Kouroupetroglou (ed.), Assistive Technologies and Computer Access for Motor Disabilities. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, pp. 206-253.
[B.3] Hinckley, K., Jacob, R.J.K., Ware, C., Wobbrock, J.O. and Wigdor, D. (2014). Input/output devices and interaction techniques. Chapter 21 in T. Gonzalez, J. Diaz-Herrera & A. Tucker (eds.), Computing Handbook, Third Edition. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, pp. 21-1 – 21-54.
[B.2] Wobbrock, J.O. (2007). Measures of text entry performance. Chapter 3 in I.S. MacKenzie & K. Tanaka-Ishii (eds.), Text Entry Systems: Mobility, Accessibility, Universality. San Francisco, CA: Morgan Kaufmann, pp. 47-74.
[B.1] Wobbrock, J.O. and Myers, B.A. (2007). 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. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, pp. 421-456.

Issued Patents

[IP.19] Goel, M., Wobbrock, J.O., Patel, S.N. and Findlater, L. (2020). Use of hand posture to improve text entry. U.S. Patent #10,540,083. Issued January 21, 2020. Priority date December 11, 2012.
[IP.18] Chilana, P.K., Ko, A.J. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2017). Systems and methods for selection-based contextual help retrieval. U.S. Patent #9,811,583. Issued November 7, 2017. Priority date June 17, 2011.
[IP.17] Kembel, J.A., Kembel, G.A., Kim, D.S., Russell, J., Wobbrock, J., Kembel, G.S., Kembel, J.L., Bella, J.A., Devulkar, S.T. and Wallin, M. (2017). System and methods for creating and authorizing internet content using application media packages. U.S. Patent #9,723,108. Issued August 1, 2017. Priority date April 26, 1999.
[IP.16] Kembel, J.A., Kembel, G.A., Kim, D.S., Russell, J., Wobbrock, J., Kembel, G.S., Kembel, J.L. and Gabbay, L.D. (2016). Methods of obtaining application media packages. U.S. Patent #9,438,467. Issued September 6, 2016. Priority date April 26, 1999.
[IP.15] Kembel, J.A., Kembel, G.A., Kim, D.S., Russell, J., Wobbrock, J., Kembel, G.S., Kembel, J.L., Gabbay, L.D., Malloy, S.J. and Chipkin, A.M. (2016). Apparatus and method for dynamically coordinating the delivery of computer readable media. U.S. Patent #9,426,255. Issued August 23, 2016. Priority date April 26, 1999.
[IP.14] Kembel, J.A., Kembel, G.A., Kim, D.S., Russell, J., Wobbrock, J., Kembel, G.S., Kembel, J.L. and Gabbay, L.D. (2016). Accessing and displaying network content. U.S. Patent #9,369,545. Issued June 14, 2016. Priority date April 26, 1999.
[IP.13] Kembel, J.A., Kembel, G.A., Kim, D.S., Russell, J., Wobbrock, J., Kembel., G.S., Kembel., J.L., Bella, J.A., Devulkar, S.T. and Wallin, M. (2015). Server including components for accessing and displaying internet content and for providing same to a client. U.S. Patent #9,124,665. Issued September 1, 2015. Priority date April 26, 1999.
[IP.12] Kembel, J.A., Kembel, G.A., Kim, D.S., Russell, J., Wobbrock, J., Kembel, G.S., Kembel, J.L. and Gabbay, L.D. (2013). Indexing, sorting, and categorizing application media packages. U.S. Patent #8,621,034. Issued December 31, 2013. Priority date April 26, 1999.
[IP.11] Kembel, J.A., Kembel., G.A., Kim, D.S., Russell, J., Wobbrock, J., Kembel, G.S., Kembel, J.L. and Gabbay, L.D. (2013). System and method for accessing and displaying internet content via an integrated application media package. U.S. Patent #8,521,833. Issued August 27, 2013. Priority date April 26, 1999.
[IP.10] Kembel, J.A., Kembel, G.A., Kim, D.S., Russell, J., Wobbrock, J., Kembel, G.S., Kembel, J.L. and Gabbay, L.D. (2013). Displaying time-varying internet based data using application media packages. U.S. Patent #8,510,407. Issued August 13, 2013. Priority date April 26, 1999.
[IP.9] Kembel, J.A., Kembel, G.A., Kim, D.S., Russell, J., Wobbrock, J., Kembel., G.S., Kembel., J.L. and Gabbay, L.D. (2013). Component for accessing and displaying internet content. U.S. Patent #8,510,406. Issued August 13, 2013. Priority date April 26, 1999.
[IP.8] Kembel, J.A., Kembel, G.A., Kim, D., Russell, J., Wobbrock, J., Kembel, G., Kembel, J., Gabbay, L., Medrano, A., Malloy, S., Bella, J., Devulkar, S. and Wallin, M. (2013). Tracking and tracing user activity with application media packages. U.S. Patent #8,346,887. Issued January 1, 2013. Priority date April 26, 1999.
[IP.7] Kembel, J.A., Kembel, G.A., Kim, D., Russell, J., Wobbrock, J., Kembel, G., Kembel, J., Bella, J., Devulkar, S. and Wallin, M. (2011). System and methods for creating and authoring internet content using application media packages. U.S. Patent #8,020,083. Issued September 13, 2011. Priority date April 26, 1999.
[IP.6] Kembel, J.A., Kembel, G.A., Kim, D.S., Russell, J., Wobbrock, J., Kembel, G.S., Kembel, J.L., Gabbay, L.D., Malloy, S.J. and Chipkin, A.M. (2010). Apparatus and method for dynamically coordinating the delivery of computer readable media. U.S. Patent #7,792,947. Issued September 7, 2010. Priority date April 26, 1999.
[IP.5] Kembel, J.A., Kembel, G.A., Kim, D.S., Russell, J., Wobbrock, J., Kembel, G.S., Kembel, J.L., Bella, J.A., Devulkar, S.T. and Wallin, M. (2010). Apparatus and method of hosting internet content. U.S. Patent #7,756,967. Issued July 13, 2010. Priority date April 26, 1999.
[IP.4] Wobbrock, J.O. and Myers, B.A. (2010). Using edges and corners for character input. U.S. Patent #7,729,542. Issued June 1, 2010. Priority date April 4, 2003.
[IP.3] Kembel, J.A., Kembel, G.A., Kim, D.S., Russell, J., Wobbrock, J., Kembel, G.S., Kembel, J.L. and Gabbay, L.D. (2010). Apparatus and method for interacting with internet content via one or more applications that do not include native web browsing navigation control features. U.S. Patent #7,660,868. Issued February 9, 2010. Priority date April 26, 1999.
[IP.2] Dehlin, J.P., Chen, C.S., Wilson, A.D., Robbins, D.C., Horvitz, E.J., Hinckley, K.P. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2009). Recognizing gestures and using gestures for interacting with software applications. U.S. Patent #7,519,223. Issued April 14, 2009. Priority date June 28, 2004.
[IP.1] Kembel, J.A., Kembel, G.A., Medrano, A.P., Kim, D.S., Russell, J., Wobbrock, J., Kembel, G.S., Kembel, J.L., Gabbay, L.D., Malloy, S.J., Bella, J.A., Devulkar, S.T. and Wallin, M. (2008). Apparatus and method for tracing the distribution of diversely sourced internet content. U.S. Patent #7,356,569. Issued April 8, 2008. Priority date April 26, 1999.

Selected Popular Press

[R.7] Wobbrock, J.O. (2024). Mac at 40: User experience was the innovation that launched a technology revolution. The Conversation, January 19, 2024. (Also translated into Spanish, Portuguese, and French editions.)
[R.6] Wobbrock, J. (2016). Why every innovation can't be the next iPhone. Real Clear Technology, April 27, 2016.
[R.5] Wobbrock, J. (2014). 5 lessons that business leaders could learn from academics. Entrepreneur Magazine, November 7, 2014.
[R.4] Wobbrock, J. (2014). Changing consumer behaviors make self-service growth inevitable. destinationCRM.com, September 26, 2014.
[R.3] Wobbrock, J. (2014). How millennials require us to design the technologies of tomorrow. WIRED, September 5, 2014.
[R.2] Wobbrock, J. (2014). Ivory tower research and startup innovation are two sides of a coin. Entrepreneur Magazine, July 19, 2014.
[R.1] Wobbrock, J. (2014). Power to the people: How to make self-service a priority for your website. Website Magazine, June 19, 2014.

Other Publications & Reports

[O.7] Mankoff, J. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2022). Expanding the pipeline: The Center for Research and Education on Accessible Technology and Experiences (CREATE). Computing Research News 34 (3), pp. 17-19.
[O.6] Ladner, R.E., Lazar, J., Lewis, C. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2021). Accessibility research centers: What they are and how to become involved. Panel at the CMD-IT/ACM Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing Conference (TAPIA '21). Virtual Event (September 14-18, 2021).
[O.5] Mankoff, J. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2021). The center for research and education on accessible technology and experiences (CREATE). The Newsletter of ACM SIGACCESS (no. 130, June 2021). New York: ACM Press.
[O.4] Tung, Y.-C., DiVerdi, S., Hertzmann, A. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2018). Comparing spatial interaction modalities for 2D-widgets in productivity applications in virtual reality. Technical Report UW-CSE-18-10-01. Seattle, WA: University of Washington, 12 pages.
[O.3] Kane, S.K., Shinohara, K.S. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2015). OneView: Enabling collaboration between blind and sighted students. Computer Science Technical Report 1037. Boulder, CO: University of Colorado Boulder, 6 pages.
[O.2]
Wobbrock, J.O. (2006). EdgeWrite: A versatile design for text entry and control. Technical Report CMU-HCII-06-104. Pittsburgh, PA: Carnegie Mellon University, 310 pages. School of Computer Science Distinguished Dissertation Award.
[O.1]
Wobbrock, J.O. (1998). The law and policy of autonomous software agents. Stanford, CA: Stanford University, 172 pages. Robert M. Golden Medal for Excellence in Humanities and Creative Arts.