Jacob O. Wobbrock

18.4k total citations · 4 hit papers
211 papers, 12.3k citations indexed

About

Jacob O. Wobbrock is a scholar working on Human-Computer Interaction, Cognitive Neuroscience and Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. According to data from OpenAlex, Jacob O. Wobbrock has authored 211 papers receiving a total of 12.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 143 papers in Human-Computer Interaction, 121 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience and 35 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. Recurrent topics in Jacob O. Wobbrock's work include Tactile and Sensory Interactions (115 papers), Interactive and Immersive Displays (107 papers) and Gaze Tracking and Assistive Technology (39 papers). Jacob O. Wobbrock is often cited by papers focused on Tactile and Sensory Interactions (115 papers), Interactive and Immersive Displays (107 papers) and Gaze Tracking and Assistive Technology (39 papers). Jacob O. Wobbrock collaborates with scholars based in United States, Romania and Canada. Jacob O. Wobbrock's co-authors include Leah Findlater, Andrew D. Wilson, Shaun K. Kane, Darren Gergle, James J. Higgins, Meredith Ringel Morris, Brad A. Myers, Kristen Shinohara, Krzysztof Z. Gajos and Richard E. Ladner and has published in prestigious journals such as Circulation Research, Communications of the ACM and Artificial Intelligence.

In The Last Decade

Jacob O. Wobbrock

204 papers receiving 11.9k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

The aligned rank transform for nonparametric factorial analyses using only anova procedures

2011 1.8k citations Jacob O. Wobbrock et al. profile →
User-defined gestures for surface computing

2009 792 citations Jacob O. Wobbrock, Meredith Ringel Morris et al. profile →
Gestures without libraries, toolkits or training: a $1 recognizer for user interface prototypes

2007 544 citations Jacob O. Wobbrock, Andrew D. Wilson et al. profile →
In the shadow of misperception

2011 355 citations Kristen Shinohara, Jacob O. Wobbrock profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Jacob O. Wobbrock United States	55	8.0k	6.3k	2.1k	1.4k	974	211	12.3k
Stephen Brewster United Kingdom	56	6.3k 0.8×	6.1k 1.0×	1.7k 0.8×	412 0.3×	2.4k 2.5×	433	11.1k
I. Scott MacKenzie Canada	44	7.5k 0.9×	6.1k 1.0×	1.6k 0.8×	336 0.2×	986 1.0×	168	9.5k
Leah Findlater United States	40	3.1k 0.4×	2.2k 0.4×	1.0k 0.5×	376 0.3×	653 0.7×	143	7.0k
Jennifer Mankoff United States	48	3.8k 0.5×	1.6k 0.3×	1.3k 0.6×	539 0.4×	424 0.4×	229	7.5k
Shaun K. Kane United States	39	2.6k 0.3×	2.4k 0.4×	653 0.3×	974 0.7×	308 0.3×	103	4.8k
Scott E. Hudson United States	58	6.1k 0.8×	3.2k 0.5×	2.9k 1.4×	130 0.1×	713 0.7×	262	10.4k
Jon E. Froehlich United States	40	3.1k 0.4×	1.1k 0.2×	1.3k 0.6×	237 0.2×	251 0.3×	152	7.2k
Gregory D. Abowd United States	63	5.1k 0.6×	2.0k 0.3×	6.8k 3.3×	144 0.1×	612 0.6×	343	16.8k
Krzysztof Z. Gajos United States	40	1.6k 0.2×	925 0.1×	1.1k 0.5×	270 0.2×	609 0.6×	134	5.5k
James A. Landay United States	62	7.1k 0.9×	1.7k 0.3×	3.8k 1.8×	114 0.1×	991 1.0×	254	14.4k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Wobbrock, Jacob O., et al.. (2025). Supporting Mobile Reading While Walking with Automatic and Customized Font Size Adaptations. 1–13. 1 indexed citations

Yu, Chun, Mingming Fan, Angus G. Forbes, et al.. (2025). A11yShape: AI-Assisted 3-D Modeling for Blind and Low-Vision Programmers. ArXiv.org. 1–20.

Kothari, Vishal, Ainara G. Cabodevilla, Yi He, et al.. (2024). Imbalance of APOB Lipoproteins and Large HDL in Type 1 Diabetes Drives Atherosclerosis. Circulation Research. 135(2). 335–349. 5 indexed citations

Fogarty, James, et al.. (2024). The Ability-Based Design Mobile Toolkit (ABD-MT): Developer Support for Runtime Interface Adaptation Based on Users' Abilities. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction. 8(MHCI). 1–26.

Sharif, Ather, et al.. (2020). The Reliability of Fitts’s Law as a Movement Model for People with and without Limited Fine Motor Function. 1–15. 7 indexed citations

Davis, Katie, et al.. (2019). Adaptive Support for Collaboration on Tabletop Computers.. Computer Supported Collaborative Learning. 1 indexed citations

Davis, Katie, et al.. (2017). Group Touch: Distinguishing Tabletop Users in Group Settings Via Statistical Modeling of Touch Pairs. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations

Shinohara, Kristen, Cynthia L. Bennett, Jacob O. Wobbrock, & Wanda Pratt. (2017). Teaching Accessibility in a Technology Design Course. Computer Supported Collaborative Learning. 9 indexed citations

Bigham, Jeffrey P., Jacob O. Wobbrock, & Walter S. Lasecki. (2015). Target Acquisition and the Crowd Actor. 2(2). 3 indexed citations

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Anthony, Lisa, Radu-Daniel Vatavu, & Jacob O. Wobbrock. (2013). Understanding the consistency of users' pen and finger stroke gesture articulation. Graphics Interface. 87–94. 44 indexed citations

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Kay, Matthew, Kyle Rector, Sunny Consolvo, et al.. (2013). PVT-Touch: Adapting a Reaction Time Test for Touchscreen Devices. 43 indexed citations

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Dell, Nicola, Nathan Breit, Jacob O. Wobbrock, & Gaetano Borriello. (2013). Improving form-based data entry with image snippets. Graphics Interface. 157–164. 6 indexed citations

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Azenkot, Shiri, et al.. (2012). Input finger detection for nonvisual touch screen text entry in Perkinput. Graphics Interface. 121–129. 80 indexed citations

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Levy, David M., et al.. (2012). The effects of mindfulness meditation training on multitasking in a high-stress information environment. Graphics Interface. 45–52. 31 indexed citations

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Anthony, Lisa & Jacob O. Wobbrock. (2012). $N-protractor: a fast and accurate multistroke recognizer. Graphics Interface. 117–120. 78 indexed citations

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Kristensson, Per Ola, James Clawson, Mark Dunlop, et al.. (2012). Designing and evaluating text entry methods. Discovery Research Portal (University of Dundee). 2747–2750. 8 indexed citations

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Morris, Meredith Ringel, Jacob O. Wobbrock, & Andrew D. Wilson. (2010). Understanding users' preferences for surface gestures. Graphics Interface. 261–268. 149 indexed citations

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Anthony, Lisa & Jacob O. Wobbrock. (2010). A lightweight multistroke recognizer for user interface prototypes. Graphics Interface. 245–252. 118 indexed citations

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Gajos, Krzysztof Z., Daniel S. Weld, & Jacob O. Wobbrock. (2008). Decision-theoretic user interface generation. National Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 1532–1536. 24 indexed citations

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Wobbrock, Jacob O., Brad A. Myers, Htet Htet Aung, & Edmund LoPresti. (2003). Text entry from power wheelchairs: edgewrite for joysticks and touchpads. 110–117. 50 indexed citations

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