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Web usage mining: automatic discovery of patterns in clickstreams and associated data collected or generated as a result of user interactions with one or more Web sites. This paper describes web usage mining for our college log files to…

Databases · Computer Science 2013-10-10 Dhanamma Jagli , Sangeeta Oswal

Detecting user interface (UI) controls from software screenshots is a critical task for automated testing, accessibility, and software analytics, yet it remains challenging due to visual ambiguities, design variability, and the lack of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Milad Moradi , Ke Yan , David Colwell , Matthias Samwald , Rhona Asgari

With the servitization of business, understanding how users experience services becomes a crucial success factor for companies. Therefore, there is a need to include feedback from user experiences in the software engineering process.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Paul Kobialka , Andrea Pferscher , Bernhard K. Aichernig , Einar Broch Johnsen , Silvia Lizeth Tapia Tarifa

Researchers got success in mining the Web usage data effectively and efficiently. But representation of the mined patterns is often not in a form suitable for direct human consumption. Hence mechanisms and tools that can represent mined…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2009-09-01 Ratnesh Kumar Jain , Dr. Suresh Jain , Dr. R. S. Kasana

Screen recordings of mobile applications are easy to obtain and capture a wealth of information pertinent to software developers (e.g., bugs or feature requests), making them a popular mechanism for crowdsourced app feedback. Thus, these…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-05-20 Carlos Bernal-Cárdenas , Nathan Cooper , Kevin Moran , Oscar Chaparro , Andrian Marcus , Denys Poshyvanyk

Conformance checking is a major function of process mining, which allows organizations to identify and alleviate potential deviations from the intended process behavior. To fully leverage its benefits, it is important that conformance…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-09-21 Jana-Rebecca Rehse , Luise Pufahl , Michael Grohs , Lisa-Marie Klein

Monitoring techniques can extract accurate data about the behavior of software systems. When used in the field, they can reveal how applications behave in real-world contexts and how programs are actually exercised by their users.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-05-19 Oscar Cornejo , Daniela Briola , Daniela Micucci , Leonardo Mariani

This paper describes a system to support the visual exploration of Open Data. During his/her interactive experience with the graphics, the user can easily store the current complete state of the visualization application (called a…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2012-05-14 Benoît Otjacques , Mickaël Stefas , Maël Cornil , Fernand Feltz

This paper presents an approach to the study of cognitive activities in collaborative software development. This approach has been developed by a multidisciplinary team made up of software engineers and cognitive psychologists. The basis of…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2016-08-14 Pierre Robillard , Patrick D'Astous , Françoise Détienne , Willemien Visser

System logs perform a critical function in software-intensive systems as logs record the state of the system and significant events in the system at important points in time. Unfortunately, log entries are typically created in an ad-hoc,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-01-30 Nathan Bosch , Jan Bosch

In agile software development, test code can considerably contribute to the overall source code size. Being a valuable asset both in terms of verification and documentation, the composition of a test suite needs to be well understood in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2007-11-06 Bart Van Rompaey , Serge Demeyer

Bug reports play a critical role in software maintenance by helping users convey encountered issues to developers. Recently, GUI screen capture videos have gained popularity as a bug reporting artifact due to their ease of use and ability…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Sidong Feng , Dingbang Wang , Nikola Tomic , Tingting Yu , Aldeida Aleti , Chunyang Chen

Requirements engineering provides several practices to analyze how a user wants to interact with a future software. Mockups, prototypes, and scenarios are suitable to understand usability issues and user requirements early. Nevertheless,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-08-02 Oliver Karras , Carolin Unger-Windeler , Lennart Glauer , Kurt Schneider

The use-case diagram is a software artifact. Thus, as with any software artifact, the use-case diagrams change across time through the software development life cycle. Therefore, several versions of the same diagram are existed at distinct…

Software security visualization is an interdisciplinary field that combines the technical complexity of cybersecurity, including threat intelligence and compliance monitoring, with visual analytics, transforming complex security data into…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Ishara Devendra , Chaman Wijesiriwardana , Prasad Wimalaratne

Beyond self-report data, we lack reliable and non-intrusive methods for identifying flow. However, taking a step back and acknowledging that flow occurs during periods of focus gives us the opportunity to make progress towards measuring…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Adam Brown , Sarah D'Angelo , Ben Holtz , Ciera Jaspen , Collin Green

User experience research often uses surveys and interviews, which may miss subconscious user interactions. This study explores eye-tracking and biometric feedback as tools to assess user engagement and cognitive load in digital interfaces.…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Aaditya Shankar Majumder

Understanding user interface (UI) functionality is a useful yet challenging task for both machines and people. In this paper, we investigate a machine learning approach for screen correspondence, which allows reasoning about UIs by mapping…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-01-23 Jason Wu , Amanda Swearngin , Xiaoyi Zhang , Jeffrey Nichols , Jeffrey P. Bigham

User interface (UI) design is a difficult yet important task for ensuring the usability, accessibility, and aesthetic qualities of applications. In our paper, we develop a machine-learned model, UIClip, for assessing the design quality and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Jason Wu , Yi-Hao Peng , Amanda Li , Amanda Swearngin , Jeffrey P. Bigham , Jeffrey Nichols

Extracting semantic representations from mobile user interfaces (UI) and using the representations for designers' decision-making processes have shown the potential to be effective computational design support tools. Current approaches rely…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-09-20 Seokhyeon Park , Wonjae Kim , Young-Ho Kim , Jinwook Seo