Jacob Wobbrock

Jacob Wobbrock

Professor, Information School

University of Washington

Jacob Wobbrock is currently a collaborator with the Makeability Lab. Jacob has collaborated with the lab for 1.7 years and contributed to 2 projects, including ArtInsight and Touchscreen Accessibility. as well as 5 publications.

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Projects

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ArtInsight

2023 – Present

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Touchscreen Accessibility

2007 – 2021

Recent Papers

ArtInsight: Enabling AI-Powered Artwork Engagement for Mixed Visual-Ability Families

IUI 2025

Arnavi Chheda-Kothary, Ritesh Kanchi, Chris Sanders, Kevin Xiao, Aditya Sengupta, Melanie Kneisel, Jacob Wobbrock, Jon E. Froehlich

PDF | doi | Citation | Code | ArtInsight

Engaging with Children’s Artwork in Mixed Visual-Ability Families

ASSETS 2024 | Best Paper Award

Arnavi Chheda-Kothary, Jacob Wobbrock, Jon E. Froehlich

PDF | doi | Citation | ArtInsight

Age-Related Differences in Performance with Touchscreens Compared to Traditional Mouse Input

CHI 2013 | Honorable Mention

Leah Findlater, Jon E. Froehlich, Kays Fattal, Jacob Wobbrock, Tanya Dastyar

PDF | doi | Citation | Touchscreen Accessibility

Videos

ArtInsight: Enabling AI-Powered Artwork Engagement for Mixed Visual-Ability Families

YouTube | Paper | ArtInsight

Talks

Barrier pointing: using physical edges to assist target acquisition on mobile device touch screens

Oct. 15, 2007 | 9th international ACM SIGACCESS conference on Computers and accessibility (Assets '07)

Tempe, Arizona

Jon E. Froehlich, Jacob Wobbrock, Shaun K. Kane

PDF | PPTX | Touchscreen Accessibility

We design, build, and evaluate new interactive tools and techniques to address pressing societal challenges. Makeability refers both to how our technological innovations make new abilities possible for humans as well as our educational mission to help students gain new abilities as they learn and grow through research, invention, and human-centered design.