Wobbrock joined the University of Washington faculty in 2006 as an Assistant Professor in the Information School, becoming Associate Professor in 2011 and full Professor in 2017; he also holds a courtesy appointment in Computer Science & Engineering. His research seeks to understand people's performance and experiences with interactive technologies and to design, build, and evaluate new interaction techniques and systems, especially for people with disabilities. His other work on
gesture recognition includes the $1 recognizer, a simple template-based recognizer for rapid prototyping, and the $P recognizer for point-cloud gestures, which later received 10-year lasting impact awards from ACM UIST and ACM ICMI, respectively. In accessible mobile interaction, Wobbrock co-designed the
Slide Rule system, which defined a set of touch and gesture interactions enabling blind people to use touchscreen devices for the first time; in 2008, Slide Rule was one of the first touch-driven screen readers. The work received the 2019 ACM SIGACCESS ASSETS Paper Impact Award. Wobbrock has also contributed to methods and tools in HCI research. His work on end-user elicitation helped formalize how designers derive input vocabularies from user-suggested gestures and commands, and he developed
ARTool, software for conducting nonparametric factorial analyses on Windows and in R. He has co-authored more than 220 publications and 19 patents, receiving 36 paper awards, including multiple best paper and honorable mention awards from the ACM CHI conference and related venues. == Entrepreneurship ==