of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, where he earned his Ph.D. (2006). At graduation, he was honored with CMU's School of Computer Science Distinguished Dissertation Award. Research Wobbrock's research seeks to scientifically understand people's experiences of computers and information, and to improve those experiences by inventing new interactive technologies, especially for people with disabilities. His research topics include input and interaction techniques, human performance measurement and modeling, HCI research and design methods, mobile computing, and accessible computing. Some of his notable research projects are the $-family gesture recognizers, the end-user elicitation design method, the Slide Rule design for accessible touchscreen gestures (which some have noted might have influenced Apple’s VoiceOver accessibility software design), the ARTool statistics tool for nonparametric ANOVA-type analyses, the Pointing Magnifier assistive pointing and visual aid, and the versatile EdgeWrite text-entry system. Wobbrock is also known for his formulation of Ability-Based Design, which scrutinizes technologies for their ability assumptions and insists that technologies accommodate people, rather than the other way around. Teaching Wobbrock teaches technical and design-oriented Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) subjects, and courses on research methods, statistics, and research design. He has also developed courses on experience design, interactive technology design, and input and interaction techniques. In February 2016, he launched Designing, Running, and Analyzing Experiments on the Coursera platform. This massive open online course (MOOC) focuses on experiment design and data analysis in the R programming language for formal Human-Computer Interaction studies. Industry Wobbrock was the venture-backed cofounder and CEO of AnswerDash, a SaaS startup that provides intelligent in-context help to websites and mobile apps. His co-founders were fellow professor Amy J. Ko and then-Ph.D. student Parmit Chilana, now a professor at Simon Fraser University. After running AnswerDash from 2012–2015, Wobbrock returned to his full-time academic position at the University of Washington. AnswerDash was acquired by CloudEngage in June 2020. Between graduating from Stanford University and starting his Ph.D. at Carnegie Mellon University in 2001, Wobbrock worked at Silicon Valley startups DoDots and Google. While in college, he held two technical internships at Intel. Personal life Wobbrock lives in Seattle, Washington and is married to Alison Wobbrock (née Pawluskiewicz), a daughter of Polish emigrants from Nowy Targ, Poland and the niece of celebrated Polish composer Jan Kanty Pawluskiewicz. References American computer scientists Human–computer interaction researchers Living people 1976 births