Videos

MHCI+D graduation speech 2026

Wobbrock, J.O. (2026). Graduation speech given to the Master of Human-Computer Interaction + Design class of 2026. University of Washington (August 21, 2026).

Adapting in-car touchscreens

Hwang, S., Shen, X., Filipowicz, A.L.S., Best, A., Costa, J., Carter, S., Fogarty, J. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2026). A framework for adapting in-car touchscreen interfaces to driver behaviors, perception, and cognition. Proceedings of CHI '26. New York, NY: ACM Press. Article No. 505.

MHCI+D vs. M.S. in HCDE

Kientz, J.A. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2026). MHCI+D vs. HCDE Masters Programs: Key Differences Explained. Video produced by Dukes Wooters, Communications & Outreach Manager, Master of Human-Computer Interaction and Design Program, University of Washington.

KOMO Morning News

Shen, X., Hwang, S., Kong, J., Filipowicz, A.L.S., Best, A., Costa, J., Carter, S., Fogarty, J. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2025). Touchscreens in motion: Quantifying the impact of cognitive load on distracted drivers. Proceedings of UIST '25. New York, NY: ACM Press. Article No. 74.

A11yShape

Zhang, Z.J., Li, H., Yu, C.M., Faruqi, F., Xie, J., Kim, G.S.-H., Fan, M., Forbes, A.G., Wobbrock, J.O., Guo, A. and He, L. (2025). A11yShape: AI-assisted 3-D modeling for blind and low-vision programmers. Proceedings of ASSETS '25. New York, NY: ACM Press. Article No. 84.

KIRO Newsradio 97.3 FM

Shen, X., Hwang, S., Kong, J., Filipowicz, A.L.S., Best, A., Costa, J., Carter, S., Fogarty, J. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2025). Touchscreens in motion: Quantifying the impact of cognitive load on distracted drivers. Proceedings of UIST '25. New York, NY: ACM Press. Article No. 74.

Touchscreens in motion

Shen, X., Hwang, S., Kong, J., Filipowicz, A.L.S., Best, A., Costa, J., Carter, S., Fogarty, J. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2025). Touchscreens in motion: Quantifying the impact of cognitive load on distracted drivers. Proceedings of UIST '25. New York, NY: ACM Press. Article No. 74.

ScreenAudit

Zhong, M., Chen, R., Chen, X., Fogarty, J. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2025). ScreenAudit: Detecting screen reader accessibility errors in mobile apps using large language models. Proceedings of CHI '25. New York, NY: ACM Press. Article No. 1163.

Mobile reading while walking

Kong, J., Wobbrock, J.O., Cai, T. and Bylinskii, Z. (2025). Supporting mobile reading while walking with automatic and customized font size adaptations. Proceedings of CHI '25. New York, NY: ACM Press. Article No. 1007.

ArtInsight

Chheda-Kothary, A., Kanchi, R., Sanders, C., Xiao, K., Sengupta, A., Kneitmix, M., Wobbrock, J.O. and Froehlich, J.E. (2025). ArtInsight: Enabling AI-powered artwork engagement for mixed visual-ability families. Proceedings of IUI '25. New York, NY: ACM Press, pp. 190-210.

Challenges faced by accessible visualization creators

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 ASSETS '24. New York, NY: ACM Press. Article No. 56.

ChartA11y

Zhang, Z.J., 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 ASSETS '24. New York, NY: ACM Press. Article No. 55.

Characterizing "motor ability"

Mitchell, C.L. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2024). Characterizing "motor ability" for ability-based design. Proceedings of ASSETS '24. New York, NY: ACM Press. Article No. 49.

Children's artwork in mixed-ability families

Chheda-Kothary, A., Wobbrock, J.O. and Froehlich, J.E. (2024). Engaging with children's artwork in mixed visual-ability families. Proceedings of ASSETS '24. New York, NY: ACM Press. Article No. 3.

Touchpad Mapper

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 ASSETS '24. New York, NY: ACM Press. Article No. 128.

UIST 2024 Lasting Impact Award: "Making Possible Things Easy"

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 UIST '07. New York, NY: ACM Press, pp. 159-168.

Ability-Based Design Mobile Toolkit (ABD-MT)

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 MobileHCI '24. New York, NY: ACM Press. Article No. 277.

I am CSE: Ather Sharif

ACE Lab Ph.D. student Ather Sharif explains his work on VoxLens.

A11yBoard

Zhang, Z.J. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2023). A11yBoard: Making digital artboards accessible to blind and low-vision users. Proceedings of CHI '23. New York, NY: ACM Press. Article No. 55.

Keynote: Michigan A.I. Symposium

Wobbrock, J.O. (2022). Ability-based design: What role might A.I. play? Opening Keynote, University of Michigan.

New touch metrics

Kong, J., Zhong, M., Fogarty, J. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2022). Quantifying touch: New metrics for characterizing what happens during a touch. Proceedings of ASSETS '22. New York, NY: ACM Press. Article No. 33.

VoxLens

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 CHI '22. New York, NY: ACM Press. Article No. 478.

TypeAnywhere

Zhang, M.R., Zhai, S. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2022). TypeAnywhere: A QWERTY-based text entry solution for ubiquitous computing. Proceedings of CHI '22. New York, NY: ACM Press. Article No. 339.

Longitudinal analysis of mobile app accessibility

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 CHI '22. New York, NY: ACM Press. Article No. 461.

Ga11y

Zhang, M.R., Zhong, M. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2022). Ga11y: An automated GIF annotation system for visually impaired users. Proceedings of CHI '22. New York, NY: ACM Press. Article No. 197.

Elicitation study agreement calculations

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 5.

Accessibility of data visualizations

Sharif, A., Chintalapati, S.S., Wobbrock, J.O. and Reinecke, K. (2021). Understanding screen-reader users' experiences with online data visualizations. Proceedings of ASSETS '21. New York, NY: ACM Press. Article No. 14.

Touch with limited fine motor function

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 ASSETS '21. New York, NY: ACM Press. Article No. 80.

ART contrasts (ART-C)

Elkin, L.A., Kay, M., Higgins, J. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2021). An aligned rank transform procedure for multifactor contrast tests. Proceedings of UIST '21. New York, NY: ACM Press, pp. 754-768.

Accessibility of digital artboards

Schaadhardt, A., Hiniker, A. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2021). Understanding blind screen-reader users' experiences of digital artboards. Proceedings of CHI '21. New York, NY: ACM Press. Article No. 270.

"I am Iron Man"

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 CHI '21. New York, NY: ACM Press. Article No. 359.

Voicemoji

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 CHI '21. New York, NY: ACM Press. Article No. 37.

Lexical vs. semantic emojis

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. Cham, Switzerland: Springer, pp. 229-247.

JustCorrect

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 UIST '20. New York, NY: ACM Press, pp. 487-499.

Keynote: HUMAN 2020

Wobbrock, J.O. (2020). Hypertext, social media, and civic engagement: How hypertext is ruining the world, and might just save it. Proceedings of HUMAN '20. New York, NY: ACM Press. Article No. 2.

Reliability of Fitts's law

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 ASSETS '20. New York, NY: ACM Press. Article No. 16.

Survey of gesture elicitation studies

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 DIS '20. New York, NY: ACM Press, pp. 855-872.

Gedit talk

Zhang, M.R. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2020). Gedit: Keyboard gestures for mobile text editing. Proceedings of GI '20. Toronto: CIPS. Article No. 45.

Gedit demo

Zhang, M.R. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2020). Gedit: Keyboard gestures for mobile text editing. Proceedings of GI '20. Toronto: CIPS. Article No. 45.

Type, Then Correct (TTC)

Zhang, M.R., Wen, H. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2019). Intelligent text correction techniques for mobile text entry using neural networks. Proceedings of UIST '19. New York, NY: ACM Press, pp. 843-855.

Transcription sequences

Zhang, M.R. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2019). Making text entry evaluations more flexible with transcription sequences. Proceedings of UIST '19. New York, NY: ACM Press, pp. 831-842.

Addressing situational impairments in mobile HCI

Talk given on February 15, 2019 at Stanford University's Seminar on People, Computers, and Design.

Crowdsourcing similarity judgments

Ali, A.X., Morris, M.R. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2018). Crowdsourcing similarity judgments for agreement analysis in end-user elicitation studies. Proceedings of UIST '18. New York, NY: ACM Press, pp. 177-188.

2017 ACM SIGCHI Social Impact Award

Wobbrock, J.O. (2017). Ability-based design: Elevating ability over disability in accessible computing. Extended Abstracts of CHI '17. New York, NY: ACM Press, pp. 5-7.

Group Touch

Evans, A.C., Davis, K., Fogarty, J. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2017). Distinguishing tabletop users in group settings via statistical modeling of touch pairs. Proceedings of CHI '17. New York, NY: ACM Press, pp. 35-47.

Dwell-based gaze typing

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 CHI '17. New York, NY: ACM Press, pp. 2558-2570.

Interaction proxies

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 CHI '17. New York, NY: ACM Press, pp. 6024-6037.

Slide to Unlock

Featuring our work on Smart Touch. Part of an interactive feature for the University of Washington Be Boundless Campaign (April 3, 2017).

Smart Touch

Mott, M.E., Vatavu, R.-D., Kane, S.K. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2016). Improving touch accuracy for people with motor impairments with template matching. Proceedings of CHI '16. New York, NY: ACM Press, pp. 1934-1946.

Gesture elicitation agreement

Vatavu, R.-D. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2016). Between-subjects elicitation studies: Formalization and tool support. Proceedings of CHI '16. New York, NY: ACM Press, pp. 3390-3402.

Vatavu, R.-D. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2015). Formalizing agreement analysis for elicitation studies: New measures, significance test, and toolkit. Proceedings of CHI '15. New York, NY: ACM Press, pp. 1325-1334.

SwitchBack

Mariakakis, A., Goel, M., Aumi, M.T.I., Patel, S.N. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2015). Using focus and saccade tracking to guide users' attention for mobile task resumption. Proceedings of CHI '15. New York, NY: ACM Press, pp. 2953-2962.

Adoption-centered design

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 CHI '15. New York, NY: ACM Press, pp. 1749-1758.

Gesture heatmaps

Vatavu, R.-D., Anthony, L. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2014). Understanding gesture performance with colorful visualizations. Proceedings of ICMI '14. New York, NY: ACM Press, pp. 172-179.

MobileASL

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 ASSETS '14. New York, NY: ACM Press, pp. 177-184.

Sound Startups

Featuring AnswerDash at 10:53 – 12:10, a startup based on our work on LemonAid. AnswerDash was acquired in 2020 by CloudEngage.

Bubble Lens

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 CHI '14. New York, NY: ACM Press, pp. 733-742.

Pointing endpoint prediction

Pasqual, P.T. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2014). Mouse pointing endpoint prediction using kinematic template matching. Proceedings of CHI '14. New York, NY: ACM Press, pp. 743-752.

Gesture accuracy measures

Vatavu, R.-D., Anthony, L. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2013). Relative accuracy measures for stroke gestures. Proceedings of ICMI '13. New York, NY: ACM Press, pp. 279-286.

Gesture clustering

Anthony, L., Vatavu, R.-D. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2013). Understanding the consistency of users' pen and finger stroke gesture articulation. Proceedings of GI '13. Toronto: CIPS, pp. 87-94.

Access Lens

Kane, S.K., Frey, B. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2013). A gesture-based screen reader for real-world documents. Proceedings of CHI '13. New York, NY: ACM Press, pp. 347-350.

Q-methodology for HCI

O'Leary, K., Wobbrock, J.O. and Riskin, E.A. (2013). Q-methodology as a research and design tool for HCI. Proceedings of CHI '13. New York, NY: ACM Press, pp. 1941-1950.

Older adults & touchscreens

Findlater, L., Froehlich, J., Fattal, K., Wobbrock, J.O. and Dastyar, T. (2013). Age-related differences in performance with touchscreens compared to mouse input. Proceedings of CHI '13. New York, NY: ACM Press, pp. 343-346.

"iOn the Future"

Featuring our work on the Angle Mouse and the Pointing Magnifier (see 20:56-25:36).

$P gesture recognizer

Vatavu, R.-D., Anthony, L. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2012). Gestures as point clouds: A $P recognizer for UI prototypes. Proceedings of ICMI '12. New York, NY: ACM Press, pp. 273-280.

GripSense

Goel, M., Wobbrock, J.O. and Patel, S.N. (2012). Using built-in sensors to detect hand posture and pressure on phones. Proceedings of UIST '12. New York, NY: ACM Press, pp. 545-554.

From plastic to pixels

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.

Perkinput

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 GI '12. Toronto: CIPS, pp. 121-129.

Gesture-Augmented Keyboards

Findlater, L., Lee, B.Q. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2012). Augmenting touch keyboards with multi-touch gestures. Proceedings of CHI '12. New York, NY: ACM Press, pp. 2679-2682.

LemonAid

Chilana, P.K., Ko, A.J. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2012). Selection-based crowdsourced contextual help for web apps. Proceedings of CHI '12. New York, NY: ACM Press, pp. 1549-1558.

The Prefab bubble cursor

Dixon, M., Fogarty, J. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2012). A target-aware pointing enhancement using pixel-level analysis. Proceedings of CHI '12. New York, NY: ACM Press, pp. 3167-3176.

Accessible pointing techniques

Featuring our work on the Angle Mouse and the Pointing Magnifier.

Portico

Avrahami, D., Wobbrock, J.O. and Izadi, S. (2011). Tangible interaction on and around a tablet. Proceedings of UIST '11. New York, NY: ACM Press, pp. 347-356.

Access Overlays

Kane, S.K., Morris, M.R., Perkins, A.Z., Wigdor, D., Ladner, R.E., and Wobbrock, J.O. (2011). Improving non-visual access to large touch screens for blind users. Proceedings of UIST '11. New York, NY: ACM Press, pp. 273-282.

VoiceGames

Harada, S., Wobbrock, J.O. and Landay, J.A. (2011). Investigation into non-speech voice input for accessible games. Proceedings of INTERACT '11. Berlin, Germany: Springer-Verlag, pp. 11-29.

Typing on touch screens

Findlater, L., Wobbrock, J.O. and Wigdor, D. (2011). Examining ten-finger expert typing patterns on touch surfaces. Proceedings of CHI '11. New York, NY: ACM Press, pp. 2453-2462.

Enhanced area cursors

Findlater, L., Jansen, A., Shinohara, K., Dixon, M., Kamb, P., Rakita, J. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2010). Reducing fine-pointing demands for people with motor impairments. Proceedings of UIST '10. New York, NY: ACM Press, pp. 153-162.

Micro-projected guides

Rosenthal, S., Kane, S.K., Wobbrock, J.O. and Avrahami, D. (2010). Augmenting on-screen instructions with micro-projected guides. Proceedings of Ubicomp '10. New York, NY: ACM Press, pp. 203-212.

Bonfire

Kane, S.K., Avrahami, D., Wobbrock, J.O., Harrison, B., Rea, A., Philipose, M. and LaMarca, A. (2009). A nomadic system for hybrid laptop-tabletop interaction. Proceedings of UIST '09. New York, NY: ACM Press, pp. 129-138.

Angle Mouse

Wobbrock, J.O., Fogarty, J.A., Liu, S., Kimuro, S. and Harada, S. (2009). Target-agnostic dynamic gain adjustment based on angular deviation. Proceedings of CHI '09. New York, NY: ACM Press, pp. 1401-1410.

Slide Rule

Kane, S.K., Bigham, J.P. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2008). Making mobile touch screens accessible to blind people. Proceedings of ASSETS '08. New York, NY: ACM Press, pp. 73-80.

Supple

Gajos, K.Z., Wobbrock, J.O. and Weld, D.S. (2008). Improving performance of motor-impaired users with automatically-generated, ability-based interfaces. Proceedings of CHI '08. New York, NY: ACM Press, pp. 1257-1266.

EyeWrite

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 ETRA '08. New York, NY: ACM Press, pp. 11-18.

Barrier Pointing

Froehlich, J., Wobbrock, J.O. and Kane, S.K. (2007). Using physical edges to assist target acquisition on mobile touch screens. Proceedings of ASSETS '07. New York, NY: ACM Press, pp. 19-26.

"Speaking in Pictures"

Featuring our work on VoiceDraw.

VoiceDraw

Harada, S., Wobbrock, J.O. and Landay, J.A. (2007). A voice-driven hands-free drawing application. Proceedings of ASSETS '07. New York, NY: ACM Press, pp. 27-34.

Steering wheel text entry

Gonzalez, I.E., Wobbrock, J.O., Chau, D.H., Faulring, A. and Myers, B.A. (2007). Thumb-based interaction techniques for input on steering wheels. Proceedings of GI '07. Toronto: CIPS, pp. 95-102.

Hi-Tech Typing

Featuring our work on Trackball EdgeWrite.

Trackball EdgeWrite

Wobbrock, J.O. and Myers, B.A. (2006). Trackball text entry for people with motor impairments. Proceedings of CHI '06. New York, NY: ACM Press, pp. 479-488.

EdgeWrite

Wobbrock, J.O., Myers, B.A. and Kembel, J.A. (2003). A stylus-based text entry method for high accuracy and stability. Proceedings of UIST '03. New York, NY: ACM Press, pp. 61-70.

WebThumb

Wobbrock, J.O., Forlizzi, J., Hudson, S.E. and Myers, B.A. (2002). Interaction techniques for small-screen browsers. Proceedings of UIST '02. New York, NY: ACM Press, pp. 205-208.