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Introduction
The AIM Research Group at the University of Washington comprises Ph.D. students in information science and computer science working with Dr. Jacob O. Wobbrock on accessible, interactive, and mobile Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). We are active members of the DUB Group, the multi-departmental HCI and Design group on campus.
Objective
To create effective and useful interactive technologies that improve people's access to and interaction with computers and information, particularly for impaired users or users in impairing situations.
Themes
- Accessible: We create software not to "remedy" disability but
to take full advantage of ability, moving the burden of access from users to
designers and systems.
- Interactive: We adopt a highly iterative, prototype-driven interaction
design process to invent new interactive technologies. We also study human performance with
interactive technologies, providing the science essential to support design.
- Mobile: We view mobile interaction as an accessibility issue;
we study and develop mobile user interfaces for people with physical impairments or
for people experiencing "situational impairments" while on the go.
Contact
Dr. Jacob O. Wobbrock
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We have 2 papers at the upcoming
Graphics Interface 2012 conference
(May 28-30, 2012),
one on
the effects of meditation on multitasking performance, and
one on
a system for touch screen text entry for blind users. (PDFs forthcoming.)
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We have 6 papers at the upcoming CHI 2012 conference
(May 5-10, 2012), including papers on measuring text entry and pointing in the wild,
using accelerometers for improving mobile text entry on touch screens,
adaptive touch-typists' keyboards for Microsoft Surface,
and a system for crowdsourced contextualized help,
among others. (PDFs forthcoming.)
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iSchool Ph.D. candidate Jeff Huang named Facebook Fellow for 2012-2013!
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Our work on downloadable accessible pointing techniques (the
Pointing Magnifier and the
Angle Mouse) has appeared on
Slashdot and in
PC World,
among other venues.
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Dr. Wobbrock is interviewed by Voice of America.
[local mp3]
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